[STOCK][ODIN][GB][Bell] To revert back to stock for OTA ICS in May (hopefully...) - AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717

Good morning!
These are Odin-flashable .tars of the stock Bell system, boot, recovery, and radios and can be used to revert to stock for he upcoming OTA update of Ice Cream Sandwich. I've been using DAGr8's ICS alpha 2 for a while now and have found that some Canadian-specific apps will not install, and although his ROM is excellent, I'd like to try the stock Bell ICS when it comes out.
Files Available
NB: All files are zipped to save space. Please extract the .tar before flashing via Odin.
pda-odin-bell-stock.zip - This .tar contains stock system.img.ext4, stock recovery.img, and stock boot.img and can be used to mostly restore your Note to stock by flashing it via Odin's pda option. However, flashing this .tar via Odin will increase your flash counter so if you're interested in resetting the counter, check out the next file.
pda-odin-bell-stock-system-boot.zip - This .tar contains the stock system.img.ext4 and stock boot.img and can be used to assist in resetting your flash counter using braway's method. Flash it via Odin's pda option. The recovery.img has been removed to preserve CWM if you've already flashed it to your phone. Once your flash counter has been reset, you can then return recovery to stock via this method using just the recovery.img file in the archive here.
phone-odin-bell-stock-radio.zip - This .tar contains the stock Bell modem/radio and is flashed via Odin's phone option. Not working correctly. Working on fix. My apologies.
Bell-Modem-CWM.zip - This .zip is made by pterry30 from the modem/radio files in my .tar and works perfectly. Just flash via Clockworkmod recovery. I'll keep working on a way to get the Odin .tar to work though.
SkyDrive Folder containing all Bell Files - All above Bell files can now be found in this SkyDrive folder. Provider changed since my public DropBox links keep being suspended to due to excessive bandwidth traffic.
The stock Bell kernel can be obtained from this thread thanks to Da_G. Flash via Odin's pda option.
Disclaimer
I am in no way responsible for any damages caused to your Note by anything you flashed. These files are provided as is to help Bell Note owners return to stock after whatever they've done to their phones.
History
These stock files were pulled from two different Bell Notes so we could get everything we were looking for unmodified. marshals pulled the system.img.ext4, boot.img, and radio files from his Note after replacing recovery with CWM. I pulled the recovery.img and flash counter data from my Note after flashing a rooted AT&T kernel. The files were then prepared in an Ubuntu Virualbox into .tar, then checked in Odin for errors by loading them into the program. No errors were reported. These files have not yet been flashed to a Note as I'm still playing with DAGr8's ICS alpha 2 and only have the one device.
Special Thanks
marshals for pulling the system.img.ext4, boot.img, and radios from his Note.
braway for taking my constant questions and providing much needed guidance in my first developer-ish project as well as for the flash counter reset.
Da_G for the stock Bell kernel, instructions on using Odin, and indirectly showing me how to use the Linux terminal.
pterry30 for packaging the stock modem/radio files into a CWM-flashable .zip.
Please post your experiences with these stock Bell files below and if you have any questions, I'll do my best to help. Enjoy!!
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The easiest way to do it for me on att note was to just flash the bootloader and flash a GB ROM in ClockWork Recovery
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I717 using xda premium

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thatruth132 said:
The easiest way to do it for me on att note was to just flash the bootloader and flash a GB ROM in ClockWork Recovery
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I717 using xda premium
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Sounds easy enough, but would that allow us Bell Note owners to get OTA updates from Bell?

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Great thread!......Would like to see a thread like this for our Telus i717D Note's !

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crielstar said:
Great thread!......Would like to see a thread like this for our Telus i717D Note's !
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If you know at least one person with an unmodified Telus Note, I would be more than happy to do the same for you. Two people would be better, but we can get most from one.

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I can provide the telus stock recovery, stock modem and stock kernel, all cwm zips
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I have a stock rom that is rooted, I am working on removing the root to make a totally stock odin flash, Braway is helping me out with that.

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Just PM me a link to these files and I'll see what I can do about making them Odin-flashable. Would love to be able to make it easier for people to revert back to stock if they want. Also, if you need any help with the stock system.img, don't hesitate to ask.

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This helps a lot thanks!
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I717 using XDA

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I do not know how more people have not said thanks to this!! This is amazing, thank you so much for your contributions. God bless.

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Just wondering if the stock Bell radios above are the same ones as in your original thread? I carrier unlocked my phone after I rooted it. Don't know if that might have had any bearing on why I couldn't get the radios to flash with Odin. Everything else flashed back to stock and has been working fine - great work as I said before! And for all I know, I may still have the stock radios already on my Note. I can't say whether anything that I may have flashed in rooting/unrooting it would have replaced them and I'm not sure how to check. Anyone know?
Looking forward to OTA ICS soon, thanks again!

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Will we need a 0 flash count,and stock recovery for the OTA update?
Sent from my SGH-I717D using XDA

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So surprised
Its shocking that the stock image of the Telus Galaxy Note isn't anywhere on this site. Kinda has me worried ... Where are all the Canadian developers?

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adv1sory said:
Its shocking that the stock image of the Telus Galaxy Note isn't anywhere on this site. Kinda has me worried ... Where are all the Canadian developers?
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From what I understand this gets you most of the way, with the extra steps in the thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1585440&highlight=telus+rooted+system

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I understand that a thread like this just needs to be done, but I'm having trouble understanding why people would do this?
I mean, if you're switching back then you're obviously rooted and you probably like to use custom roms, why not wait till someone comes out with a solid, stable, better custom version of ics based on the official release?
Unless you're trying to resell or don't trust the rom's security integrity, why not wait?
Sent from the Galaxy!

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Afishl1 said:
I understand that a thread like this just needs to be done, but I'm having trouble understanding why people would do this?
I mean, if you're switching back then you're obviously rooted and you probably like to use custom roms, why not wait till someone comes out with a solid, stable, better custom version of ics based on the official release?
Unless you're trying to resell or don't trust the rom's security integrity, why not wait?
Sent from the Galaxy!
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I did it as a safety net for myself in case I messed something up. Additionally, the ROMs available currently are all based off AT&T software, and I wanted the option to return to Bell stock to get ICS OTA when it is released. I've been using DAGr8's ICS alpha II on my Note for a while now, but today I returned to stock because I was having too many FC's, too much lag, and problems downloading some Canadian specific apps. His ROM was excellent, but based off leaked AT&T code.
I guess I did this for my own benefit and for those who wish to return to stock at any given time. If you don't want or need it, you don't have to use it, but some people are very appreciative to have these files and I am happy to have helped them.

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Afishl1 said:
Unless you're trying to resell or don't trust the rom's security integrity, why not wait?
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Because some of us don't like waiting.
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MrJoran said:
If you know at least one person with an unmodified Telus Note, I would be more than happy to do the same for you. Two people would be better, but we can get most from one.
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Damn, I just bought my TELUS Note a couple of days ago. First thing I did was root it and restore most of my apps from my Desire Z Titanium backup. I do have a CWM backup right after I rooted it, though. Would that help?

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Tearrek said:
From what I understand this gets you most of the way, with the extra steps in the thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1585440&highlight=telus+rooted+system
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Still a rooted image. Not what we need in the event of returning the device or reselling.
Now look. A Rogers thread for a stock.img! Come on!

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adv1sory said:
Still a rooted image. Not what we need in the event of returning the device or reselling.
Now look. A Rogers thread for a stock.img! Come on!
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Ignore this post. Thought I was replying to someone else, lol

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adv1sory said:
Still a rooted image. Not what we need in the event of returning the device or reselling.
Now look. A Rogers thread for a stock.img! Come on!
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Install SuperSU;
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.chainfire.supersu
Settings > Full Unroot

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adv1sory said:
Its shocking that the stock image of the Telus Galaxy Note isn't anywhere on this site. Kinda has me worried ... Where are all the Canadian developers?
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Hello stock Telus Note! Check out this thread.