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[Q] "urgent" Restore IMEI method?

Hello,
I bought a broken screen T989 from ebay. I needed the motherboard from the device. However, upon receiving device, i swapped motherboards no problem. However, i have an "Unknown" imei and baseband number.
I know there is a way to restore the IMEI from scratch on my galaxy S III (T999) but i am not sure if that method will work on the SII (Also quite afraid to as it most likely may brick it)
Does anyone know the manual method for restoring it?
Also, google lead to a bunch of promissing looking threads about the I9100 (International version) but from what i have read the T989 uses a different partition for the EFS stuff.
Thanks everyone!!

Do you know the imei number by any chance?
Don't type it btw just answer yes or no lol
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Wolfygang said:
Do you know the imei number by any chance?
Don't type it btw just answer yes or no lol
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yes i do know the IMEI number. Its on the sticker of the case.

THis is urgent...

elesbb said:
THis is urgent...
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Another bump.. Seriously NOBODY has ANY clue?

elesbb said:
Another bump.. Seriously NOBODY has ANY clue?
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Please don't do this...
elesbb said:
THis is urgent...
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Seriously...
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ArianaGrande said:
Please don't do this...
Seriously...
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Lol I have too. I miss feeling like a n00b.
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flash the zip from my thread here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1611796
and flash a different radio that is supported by android version u are using

icenight89 said:
flash the zip from my thread here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1611796
and flash a different radio that is supported by android version u are using
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No way. So I just flash the efsfix.zip and then a radio?! Sex. If this works I'll love you forever I also cannot use Odin cause the seller failed to mention the USB port doesn't work except for charging. -.- ugh fml
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Yeah this was a no go...

elesbb said:
Yeah this was a no go...
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Did you ever fix it? If so do share please.

the-Mike_D said:
Did you ever fix it? If so do share please.
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Nope i never did. Everything i ever found lead to using a Jtag box. Which costs about 100 bucks xD And i don't know anyone who has one.

elesbb said:
Nope i never did. Everything i ever found lead to using a Jtag box. Which costs about 100 bucks xD And i don't know anyone who has one.
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I got my T-989 fixed about 30 minutes after posting my question to you. I'm just not sure which one of the steps I took was the actual bullet. But I'll post what I did here in the same order.
1. Downloaded and put onto the phone's sd card these files for future flashing back to back. They are. the "efsfix.zip" file from here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1611796. Also, this rom which comes with it's own modem. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1818305. That's it. Now maybe the trick is in the steps though?
So what I did was boot into clockworkmod recovery "latest one for this phone." Used the factory reset option. Next went to mount the phone to usb option so I could access the internal memory card's files and deleted them all. I had a suspicion that maybe there's something corrupt in the data files or whatever. Really this might be silly but whatever, I did it. I still had my 2 files from before on the external sd card so no worries. Next I unmounted and disconnected from the pc. Then cleared cache again, then cleared dalvic again (I do these two steps a lot when flashing stuff back to back). Then flashed the efsfix.zip. Then clear cach, dalvic again. Then flashed the rom shown above which installed everything in one swoop like kernel, modem, system files, ect. After that finished I cleared cache, dalvic one last time. Then let it reboot.
So, it boots normally but upon the first "What is your name" screen it loads with a funky keyboard. It's a lol factor. Apparently a goof of the rom that happens sometimes. Just skip it all or figure out how to choose the T9 by using the menu key. Anyway, after changing my keyboard from inside the working settings menu to the samsung one I realized that I was so distracted by the keyboard issue that I I was just now noticing that I had a working baseband and it was connected to the network (T-Mobile) again as usual. Problem solved. Now as a last precautionary step I reboot into recovery (clockwordmod) again and use the option to backup efs folder to external sd card just for good measure. Then finally make nandroid backup of the whole working rom as well. You could probably flash any rom you want after this though. Anyway, something in there made it work so I hope it might work for you too.

[Q] HELP!! No Data? AOKP/Cyan10

So for several months I been just floating around on a rooted stock rom, and honestly no troubles there what so ever.
I decided to flip back over to Cyan/Aokp to see what the new updates were all about, upon doing this I installed Cyan mod just like any other day.
Wipe Data/Caches/Dalvik/System Format etc etc.
Boot up Cyan, all works great. But can't connect to my network. At this time I figure ya know it's just the file, I wipe and give er a go with AOKP.
Same results!!!
What am I missing here people?! :S

Have you checked you IMEI ?
Could have lost that or maybe a re-flash is needed. What ROM did you specifically try ?

hednik said:
Have you checked you IMEI ?
Could have lost that or maybe a re-flash is needed. What ROM did you specifically try ?
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There you are, hednik. I was wondering where you'd been.
If you flashed the carrier-appropriate rom, check your APN settings too.

hednik said:
Have you checked you IMEI ?
Could have lost that or maybe a re-flash is needed. What ROM did you specifically try ?
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Hey!
Thank you so much for the quick reply.
I Flashed to the lastest Cyan10, and after not having using my data I flashed to AOKP also the most current. Using the newest GAPPS and Clockwork Mod for flashing purposes.
IMEI is that where you dial *XXXX#? if that is the case, I am unable to make any dialing commands due to the network loss.

xBeerdroiDx said:
There you are, hednik. I was wondering where you'd been.
If you flashed the carrier-appropriate rom, check your APN settings too.
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I went into the Mobile Network settings and tried to find my Networking manually/automatic and nothing came up.
I've flashed the correct AT&T rom to my Bell Galaxy S3 Device.
I apologize, I also went into APN and selected PDA.Bell.ca and nothing.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1801997
You'll find your imei under settings in the about phone > status and about half way down is imei.
If your imei is 0 you'll need to do the steps on the page above to restore it.
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KorGuy123 said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1801997
You'll find your imei under settings in the about phone > status and about half way down is imei.
If your imei is 0 you'll need to do the steps on the page above to restore it.
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Awesome dude,
My IMEI is set to 0, so I'll go through those steps to resolve.
Thanks so much guys cheers.

DeeSlivers said:
Awesome dude,
My IMEI is set to 0, so I'll go through those steps to resolve.
Thanks so much guys cheers.
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NP. I think there is a YouTube video with a step by step on how to do it also.
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KorGuy123 said:
NP. I think there is a YouTube video with a step by step on how to do it also.
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question!
I got everything downloaded/ready to go.
I boot up RF NV Manager. -> Settings - Comport = Empty list ?
It should read COM4. as it does in Odin no?

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I've never had to restore my imei so I'm not fluent on this.
You need to be running a stock ROM for this as far as I know. You need to go into a service menu and enable modem before the phone can talk to the program to reinject your imei.
Someone please correct me if on wrong. I know I had to flash the stock ROM to backup my imei.
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Maybe that's the dealio!!
I'm looking for the service menu to enable modem and not seeing anything.
Any idea if I can flash rooted stock for this to be okay?

DeeSlivers said:
Maybe that's the dealio!!
I'm looking for the service menu to enable modem and not seeing anything.
Any idea if I can flash rooted stock for this to be okay?
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The service menu is after flashing stock and entering the dialer code.
Unfortunately flashing stock will not restore your imei
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Did you make sure you followed the steps for at&t to set up usb
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hednik said:
Did you make sure you followed the steps for at&t to set up usb
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Can you please further elaborate?

Bump still need help!

Good night bump in hopes someone has a solution for me tomorrow!!!
Day #3 No Service

DeeSlivers said:
Good night bump in hopes someone has a solution for me tomorrow!!!
Day #3 No Service
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follow this step:
AT&T and TMO Phones (or any variant thereof)
Option1:Using the stock dialer dial *#7284#
and
Put phone into RMNET + DM + MODEM mode
and follow the steps in this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1801997

hednik said:
follow this step:
AT&T and TMO Phones (or any variant thereof)
Option1:Using the stock dialer dial *#7284#
and
Put phone into RMNET + DM + MODEM mode
and follow the steps in this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1801997
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Hey, I reinjected my IMEI number. it says I have one bar of service and lists my number but doesn't give me any actual connection?

DeeSlivers said:
Hey, I reinjected my IMEI number. it says I have one bar of service and lists my number but doesn't give me any actual connection?
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Is you IMEI listed in about phone ? Is it correct to the one behind your battery ?
Did you go back to stock and do a factory reset ?
What are you on right now ?
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DeeSlivers said:
Hey, I reinjected my IMEI number. it says I have one bar of service and lists my number but doesn't give me any actual connection?
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Is you IMEI listed in about phone ? Is it correct to the one behind your battery ?
Did you go back to stock and do a factory reset ?
What are you on right now ?
did you try this as well ?:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=29461950&postcount=3
Its the step after if your data isn't correct after you reinject your IMEI i.e. no LTE or just on EDGE

All hope lost after incorrect flash?

Hello everyone, firstly I'd like to apologize in advance if this has been answered before. I searched and could not find a resource to help me with my problem. Here goes, I recently purchased a SGH-T889 Galaxy Note II. I managed to unlock the device and popped in a AT&T sim card. All was well until I decided to flash the AT&T varient stock firmware on it and that's when everything went wrong. Odin failed at the very end of the flash and the phone would not boot. I flashed back to TMobile stock and the phone boots into the OS fine but now the IMEI is blank, the baseband is unknown, and it says there is no SIM inserted. I also noticed when the phone is connected via USB the internal storage is not accesible, says there is 0 space. After searching around and reading up a bit it seems I have screwed up my EFS partition. Being the extreme noob that I am unfortunately a backup was not made prior to flashing. Am I screwed? I've tried reflashing different versions of the stock but I still get the same results. Is it possible to use a EFS backup from a different phone and insert the IMEI from my phone? Any help will greatly be appreciated.
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(Please forgive me if you are an advanced user) Are you sure that you are following the step-by-step instructions for flashing that are available here on the forum? I have resolved many problems myself by reading from the list of steps as I flash rather than relying on memory.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2145967
Nailed it!!!!!!!!! My 4g is back again
See if that helps u
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bellator7 said:
(Please forgive me if you are an advanced user) Are you sure that you are following the step-by-step instructions for flashing that are available here on the forum? I have resolved many problems myself by reading from the list of steps as I flash rather than relying on memory.
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Hi bellator7, I have followed the flash back to stock directions exactly with different variations of the stock rom the phone has available since release.

cbper66 said:
Hi bellator7, I have followed the flash back to stock directions exactly with different variations of the stock rom the phone has available since release.
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Flashing to stock is not your problem. If you're booting you're fine. You will need to restore your imei now. There is a guide in development (edit I actually didn't find it when I just checked, but that guide above should work). I'm sure you realize this now, but never Odin something not made for your phone.
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moabizzi said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2145967
Nailed it!!!!!!!!! My 4g is back again
See if that helps u
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Thanks for the links. I don't have the phone on me at the moment but will give this a try and hopefully this will fix the issue. When this happened to you were you able to see any internal storage from your PC and or the phone itself? When I went into the storage area under settings it displayed how much space was being used by the apps but it also said 0 was available.

kintwofan said:
Flashing to stock is not your problem. If you're booting you're fine. You will need to restore your imei now. There is a guide in development. I'm sure you realize this now, but never Odin something not made for your phone.
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Oh believe me I've learned my lesson. I will never flash without making a full backup first and stay away from roms not made for the device. I hope I can get this fixed otherwise it will be a very expensive music player

cbper66 said:
Oh believe me I've learned my lesson. I will never flash without making a full backup first and stay away from roms not made for the device. I hope I can get this fixed otherwise it will be a very expensive music player
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I think you'll get it. If it's booting and showing life there's a way to fix it. It may just take a lot of work. When you get the phone check out that link above. It should fix you up.
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try this i backed up my imei.... Also i fixed my borked imei on the s3 http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1804117 .. If you need help let me know btw the imei generator program link doesn't work in thread i Have it in my dropbox... Here's a youtube video demonstrating.
http://bit.ly/ZCHWMI
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deeznutz1977 said:
try this i backed up my imei.... Also i fixed my borked imei on the s3 http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1804117 .. If you need help let me know btw the imei generator program link doesn't work in thread i Have it in my dropbox... Here's a youtube video demonstrating.
http://bit.ly/ZCHWMI
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Very cool, I will try this when I get home. Thanks for the links. Since the phone is booting ok into the OS I'm hoping these options will bring this will do good

cbper66 said:
Very cool, I will try this when I get home. Thanks for the links. Since the phone is booting ok into the OS I'm hoping these options will bring this will do good
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I believe it Will let me know when you do I'll help you along if you need,,
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So I was able to generate my IMEI file with my phones number but I cannot write it to the device. The only way I can get my phone to communicate with my PC is if its in download mode. I really screwed up my partition along with the EFS.

cbper66 said:
So I was able to generate my IMEI file with my phones number but I cannot write it to the device. The only way I can get my phone to communicate with my PC is if its in download mode. I really screwed up my partition along with the EFS.
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Did you watch the youtube video,. i told you the program you need is in my dropbox
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deeznutz1977 said:
Did you watch the youtube video,. i told you the program you need is in my dropbox
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When I dial *#7284# there is no Qualcomm USB settings option. Only UART modem\pda and USB modem\pda. (save and reset)

cbper66 said:
When I dial *#7284# there is no Qualcomm USB settings option. Only UART modem\pda and USB modem\pda. (save and reset)
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Try again.... What rom are you on

deeznutz1977 said:
Try again.... What rom are you on
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Stock T889UVBMB4

cbper66 said:
Stock T889UVBMB4
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And it doesn't show like it did in my pic
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deeznutz1977 said:
And it doesn't show like it did in my pic
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No it doesn't. Only the settings I mentioned are shown

[Q] Invalid imei / corrupted efs file.

Hello, I need serious help :/
After flashing Paranoid 3.6 into my device, I lost mobile network. So I came back to stock 4.1.2.
I wasn't backup efs file before flashing. As you can see, it displays wrong imei/serial number and etc.
I can not find EFS backup in my device using this method - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2356658

Look around mate, there is a guide in this section named (GUIDE) EFS/.....
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nitol said:
Look around mate, there is a guide in this section named (GUIDE) EFS/.....
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That guide isn't work for me, I have tried.

MantasLTU said:
That guide isn't work for me, I have tried.
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Did you search your entire device for the folder efs_Backup? It should create automatically. If you don't find that. Use note2 toolkit and restock.
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Hi.. Exactly the same as my problem.. Even changed imei is the same.. Which recovery do you use? I use twrp recovery and it backup efs. I just restore imei with twrp and everything went fine..
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MantasLTU said:
Hello, I need serious help :/
After flashing Paranoid 3.6 into my device, I lost mobile network. So I came back to stock 4.1.2.
I wasn't backup efs file before flashing. As you can see, it displays wrong imei/serial number and etc.
I can not find EFS backup in my device using this method - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2356658
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Hi,
Exactly the same issue, my imei number went to same as yours ending with 0000. I don't have efs backup and i am a newbie too. but still i have tried restocking the rom using ODIN but didn't help. any help on this will be much appreciated. I can't access network due to serial number is corrupted.

szquadri said:
Hi,
Exactly the same issue, my imei number went to same as yours ending with 0000. I don't have efs backup and i am a newbie too. but still i have tried restocking the rom using ODIN but didn't help. any help on this will be much appreciated. I can't access network due to serial number is corrupted.
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number 1 rule, to do backup before flashing anything.
there is sticky guide in general.
flash new modem and bootloader, it should fix it

yaro666 said:
number 1 rule, to do backup before flashing anything.
there is sticky guide in general.
flash new modem and bootloader, it should fix it
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I have a phone backup not the EFS backup. The Imei got corrupted all of a sudden. Next time i'll keep a EFS backup. i have few stock roms but i don't have Modem / recovery Roms and i found this thread " http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=31986738&postcount=6 " but the links are dead. You got any links to download stock ROMS along with Modem / Recovery / Bootloader , then please do share. Also, ROM links are slow if you can provide fast meta link that would help.

szquadri said:
I have a phone backup not the EFS backup. The Imei got corrupted all of a sudden. Next time i'll keep a EFS backup. i have few stock roms but i don't have Modem / recovery Roms and i found this thread " http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=31986738&postcount=6 " but the links are dead. You got any links to download stock ROMS along with Modem / Recovery / Bootloader , then please do share. Also, ROM links are slow if you can provide fast meta link that would help.
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use sammobile, the newest modem is OE1 or sth like that. bootloader is somewhere hetr. thetr is sticky bootloader guide thread

[Q] LS980 keeps booting into recovery

Hi dear xda members,
My phone was rooted out of the box when i purchased it via amazon, i went ahead and downloaded FreeGee and installed CWM. everything went smoothly but on the next reboot, the phone booted into recovery and i was happy to see the CWM their, but now, its stuck on recovery. No matter what i do it keeps booting into recovery.
Pushing files via ADB works, i tried to flash cm11 with ZV8 radio, but still it boots into recovery.
Did any of you guys had any experience like this ? is my device bricked ?
Thank you.

magicapps said:
Hi dear xda members,
My phone was rooted out of the box when i purchased it via amazon, i went ahead and downloaded FreeGee and installed CWM. everything went smoothly but on the next reboot, the phone booted into recovery and i was happy to see the CWM their, but now, its stuck on recovery. No matter what i do it keeps booting into recovery.
Pushing files via ADB works, i tried to flash cm11 with ZV8 radio, but still it boots into recovery.
Did any of you guys had any experience like this ? is my device bricked ?
Thank you.
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Did you make a backup of your previous Rom?, of you did, try restoring your backup and see if your phone will boot normally.
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TechGirl90 said:
Did you make a backup of your previous Rom?, of you did, try restoring your backup and see if your phone will boot normally.
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Nope i couldn't backup the previous rom, I accidentally wiped the sdcard

magicapps said:
Nope i couldn't backup the previous rom, I accidentally wiped the sdcard
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OH NO! THAT'S NOT GOOD!, I'm sorry to read that., I know you may not want to do this, but I'm afraid this is the only way to get your device working again, try to do this method.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=51557219
follow the instructions VERY CAREFULLY
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Thank you so much.,
TechGirl90 said:
OH NO! THAT'S NOT GOOD!, I'm sorry to read that., I know you may not want to do this, but I'm afraid this is the only way to get your device working again, try to do this method.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=51557219
follow the instructions VERY CAREFULLY
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I also found a guide here , it seems to be well put up together.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2656275
I also need this to be GSM unlcoked, will doing this make any difficulties for me to unlock this device ?
Thank you,

magicapps said:
I also found a guide here , it seems to be well put up together.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2656275
I also need this to be GSM unlcoked, will doing this make any difficulties for me to unlock this device ?
Thank you,
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I'm not sure, I never tried to GSM unlock my LS980, because I don't know if it'll damage my phone let alone my service with Sprint and the plan I'm with.
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TechGirl90 said:
I'm not sure, I never tried to GSM unlock my LS980, because I don't know if it'll damage my phone let alone my service with Sprint and the plan I'm with.
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Followed the guide, Got the phone back to work. Installed CM11
GSM unlocked. Pure awesomeness .......
Thanks alot, you saved my life :fingers-crossed:

magicapps said:
Followed the guide, Got the phone back to work. Installed CM11
GSM unlocked. Pure awesomeness .......
Thanks alot, you saved my life :fingers-crossed:
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What steps did you take to get GSM Unlocked?
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TechGirl90 said:
What steps did you take to get GSM Unlocked?
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I downloaded a OTA update today and now my rooted lg g2 is stuck in recovery...will this work for me as well?

xsmokinx said:
I downloaded a OTA update today and now my rooted lg g2 is stuck in recovery...will this work for me as well?
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If you made a backup of your Stock Rom, you should be ok.[emoji4][emoji4]
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