[Q] Possible Corrupted EFS File? - Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III

Hello folks. So yesterday I was tinkering around with my phone in an attempt to load the jelly bean ROM. I am new to the world of ROM's and things, so I made sure I did my research before going into the new ROM. I got everything backed up (so I thought), and flashed the jelly bean ROM. The screen just sat there doing nothing until I got rid of it and restored my backup from CWM.
Now every time I boot, I get a screen that says "Unfortunately, Factory Test has stopped" and it cancels out wifi and I have no lock screen/power off menu. I found a solution on XDA that said to look in the EFS file for a certain folder, but when I went into my /efs folder, this is what I saw.
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So there is nothing in my EFS file unless I'm reading this wrong. And I was stupid enough to save my original absolutely clean version from EFS Pro on the internal memory which I wiped. I have another backup which I think might also be corrupted on my computer from the Galaxy s3 toolkit.
The strange thing is that from what I've read, EFS corruption leads to the phone being useless with no functionality. Mine is almost totally functional, minus the Factory Test coming up.
Help please?!!

Bump. Any help would be GREATLY appreciated. Any ideas to shoot around at all.

bump. Im having the same issue

psychojv said:
bump. Im having the same issue
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If your /efs folder is missing/empty try this:
Get back to stock
Open Dialer
type ##72786#
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Yeah thats kinda what I said... hahaha
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Ah bummer!
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Hi, I tried to install X-Rome 3.2, everything was ok but I had no signal.
I tried to restart / reinstall / change modem and then I installed Moon Rom.
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EIkocaro said:
Hi, I tried to install X-Rome 3.2, everything was ok but I had no signal.
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Hey, I found myself in the exact situation. My SIM was fine, my phone worked normally, then only today I realised I could not sen texts or make calls.
3-4 days ago i installed X-Note ROM, not sure if the ROM did something or not. But I restored my stock nandroid image and problem persiste - no service
Would really appreciate any advice form our experts
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So I ended up restoring my EFS image (glad I backed it up) and that sorted my phone out. Nothing else had helped. I thought maybe it was modem related but nope.
If you can't find your IMEI data you may be screwed. Good luck.

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First of all apologies - I know this isn't dev but I wanted to post in here hoping that someone will see this and reply quickly.
I've just purchased a new nexus 5 and was about to sell my GNEX (literally later today) but have somehow managed to corrupt my <naughty word> efs partition.
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Ah balls Looks like I figured how how to restore my backup of the files but it still has the generic IMEI
sykomaniac said:
Ah balls Looks like I figured how how to restore my backup of the files but it still has the generic IMEI
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Odin to stock. Or...if u have any any working nandroids at all simply restore that partition only.
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using Tapatalk 2
I've tried odin to stock but it didn't fix the generic IMEI issue - I used odin files from here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2065470
I did select the PIT file
Should this have fixed the issue?
Efs.img in my gnex was in
/Dev/block/platform/omap/omap_hsmmc.0/by-name
I sold my gnex, but I can ask for screenshots of factory folder if you want
I will post as sono as possible
EDIT:
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Cheers for that. Can't get it to work ?.
Have to make sue I back up the efs on my nexus 5 now!

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Happened to me too, I think I fixed it by clearing data on download manager. If that doesn't do it try clearing data on Play store (not play services).
My wife has exact problem on hers.
Edit; clearing old downloads WORKS! Thx.
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Yup, cleaning the downloads did it! Thank you, Sir! Much appreciated... :good::cyclops:

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