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With the ongoing issues surrounding lost IMEI's and lost phone functionality due to a lost IMEI. It may be in all of our interests to backup the NV Data to our phones. I have provided in this thread information on how to do so. Hope it helps =)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1801997
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Thanks for the guide. I got as far as starting the backup in QPST, but got an error.
SPC given could not unlock the phone. The phone will not respond for 10 seconds.
Guess I need to try on an insecure kernel, but can't find one for our phone. The two that used to be on samsung-updates.com are dead links as of right now.
I got the same SPC lock error.
I believe that is because you need the MSL. This should work for you phone credit to shiftr182 for this guide.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1745888
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Peoplearmy said:
I believe that is because you need the MSL. This should work for you phone credit to shiftr182 for this guide.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1745888
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Thanks. Got a little further. It starts the backup, but now fails at 16% with "Roaming Lists could not be read."
Tried on both stock and insecure kernel. Tried PRL/Profile update + reboot for kicks, no change. Not sure what else to try, googling doesn't help.
edit: Do you know of anyone on Verizon that has successfully backed up? I checked their forum and they only have a guide for doing the IMEI injection. I'm assuming the 7 successful Verizon restores you have listed in your original thread are restores by injection and not from a backup?
Philosuffer said:
Thanks. Got a little further. It starts the backup, but now fails at 16% with "Roaming Lists could not be read."
Tried on both stock and insecure kernel. Tried PRL/Profile update + reboot for kicks, no change. Not sure what else to try, googling doesn't help.
edit: Do you know of anyone on Verizon that has successfully backed up? I checked their forum and they only have a guide for doing the IMEI injection. I'm assuming the 7 successful Verizon restores you have listed in your original thread are restores by injection and not from a backup?
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That is correct 6 were through injection 1 was through a backup. There are however plenty of Verizon folks who were able to do the backup without any problems. They also however didn't need their MSIL and were able to use the default spc of 000000. I will have to dig a bit deeper for Sprint. I prefer us all safe and not just 3 carriers. Thank you for your efforts
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Are there any reports of this happening to sprint users? Jw
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did anyone try...
The option in mskips toolkit. Cant say wheather it works(as I haven't had to restore it) but it does a efs backup now. I know the imei isn't there anymore (don't know that I necessarily believe that) but don't hurt to try.
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Are there any reports of this happening to sprint users? Jw
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Haven't seen any with this phone. Have seen cases on other sprint phones tho, so I'd definitely say it can
Backup work for me with the default 000000, but that being said the only way i was able to get my MSL was an app "Get My MSL" from google play
this guilde didn't work for me http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1745888
credit goes to hofs1 for post in guilde above
with "Get My MSL" if it doesn't work at first for you do these steps
1. run get my MSL app
2. hit home button to not close app
3. go to dialer type ##DATA#
4. select edit
5. type any code
6. rerun get my MSL app
you should be gtg
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Backup work for me with the default 000000, but that being said the only way i was able to get my MSL was an app "Get My MSL" from google play
this guilde didn't work for me http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1745888
with "Get My MSL" if it doesnt work at first for you do these steps
1. run get my MSL app
2. hit home button to not close app
3. go to dialer type ##DATA#
4. select edit
5. type any code
6. rerun get my MSL app
you should be gtg
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How exactly did that guide "not work for you" but your repeating the the instructions almost to a T here? Dont get it
billard412 said:
How exactly did that guide "not work for you" but your repeating the the instructions almost to a T here? Dont get it
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getprop ril.MSL in terminal and / or adding /system/bin/msl and running getprop ril.MSL is not the same thing as downloading an app from the market
I am not going to go into anymore in detail about this for you cause we will be getting off topic
edit: ok found hofs1 post further in thanks "hofs1"
If "get my msl" fails to return a number ho to the dialer an ##3282# select edit and enter any Number. Press home and run get my msl again.
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If "get my msl" fails to return a number ho to the dialer an ##3282# select edit and enter any Number. Press home and run get my msl again.
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It worked perfectly for me!
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Thanks. Got a little further. It starts the backup, but now fails at 16% with "Roaming Lists could not be
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I realize this is the Sprint forum and I have a US Cellular phone my Google search landed me here. I am getting this exact message and was wondering if you have been able to get past this and get a complete backup of your IMEI. If so could you describe how you did it hopefully the info would be helpful for us USCC users.
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how are people loosing their imei in the first place
Roaming Lists could not be read.
I put in my correct MSL. Is there a fix for this?
When attempting to do the AWS mod I get:
Could not Communicate in Diagnostic Mode
I now have a bricked modem due to some sort of lock. I'll flash a modem and see what happens.
I flashed a ROM and my ICCID is now listed as "unknown". Any fix for that?
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I have a SPRINT SPH-L710 (Galaxy S3) with stock Rom and it is NOT rooted.
I have not lost my IMEI i just want to make a regular backup.
I have followed the directions in the first post perfeclyt and i can see my phone in backup section and under Port (it shows my phone)
I enter my SPC and hit "Start Button" to start backup procedure and it unlocks phone and starts to read phone and backing up.
it makes it to 47% every time and says
Status = Memory Backup Failed
Errors = Received an invalid command from the phone
thanks
just wanted to add i have now rooted phone and installed CWM and it still does same exact thing
Let me start by saying I've read through several other threads with a similar issue, but they all have a common connectivity problem that I'm NOT experiencing so I thought I'd ask this in a new thread. I was using AOKP build 5, and I decided to try out a more TW stock rom to see how devs have modified it. I chose Intergalactic v 2.8, wiped data/cache and installed like ya do. Almost immediately I got the pop up saying, "Unfortunately, Factory Test has stopped." I didn't think much of it, even though I had never seen it before. I restored my app data via Titanium Backup and starting fiddling with my settings. Made a couple calls, a few texts. Put my phone down to go about my morning. Later when I went to unlock my phone I realized I don't have a lockscreen. Thought that was funny so I went to boot into recovery but punching the power button just turned the phone off; So I investigated and I realize I'm in factory mode. and I can't seem to get out of it. I've tried running the terminal commands to turn it off, but that didn't work. It looks like my ESF folder is empty or doesn't exist.
So here's what I know after all of my research: My IMEI somehow seems to be intact since I can make calls and get on the network, but because my ESF is empty or gone can't turn off factory mode, which is causing all kinds of other buggy issues such as no lockscreen, no power menu, and the annoying Factory Test pop-up. If there is a thread out there that had a similar problem, I apologize that I couldn't find it. is there any way to recover this info, since the IMEI is still intact? Thanks.
Flash a stock rom
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did that, no dice
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Flash a stock rom
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Tried to restore the stock JB with Odin and it didn't fix the problem. I'm attempting to flash the stock ICS, then attempt an OTA update to see if that does the trick. Will keep you posted.
So I flashed ics and then allowed AT&T to push my JB update to me OTA. Still in factory mode. I guess I'll just have to investigate this more thoroughly. I'm using widget locker as a work around for my lockscreen, but still no power menu and the popups are still showing up every now and then. Super annoying, but at least my phone is still functioning. If anyone has any other ideas I'd greatly appreciate it. Thanks.
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So I flashed ics and then allowed AT&T to push my JB update to me OTA. Still in factory mode. I guess I'll just have to investigate this more thoroughly. I'm using widget locker as a work around for my lockscreen, but still no power menu and the popups are still showing up every now and then. Super annoying, but at least my phone is still functioning. If anyone has any other ideas I'd greatly appreciate it. Thanks.
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Try taking and EFS folder from a stock ROM and push it to your current ROM and see if that helps
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Try taking and EFS folder from a stock ROM and push it to your current ROM and see if that helps
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How would I extract it from the EFS folder from the stock image? I figured I would need to do with through ADB, but I have no idea what commands I would have to execute.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1801997
Would this not work for you ?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1801997
Would this not work for you ?
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Is your efs folder completely gone ?
hednik said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1801997
Would this not work for you ?
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Is your efs folder completely gone ?
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I saw this fix, but frankly, I'm skittish to try it as my IMEI is still intact and I'm afraid of making the problem worse. My EFS folder is there, but it's empty.
drunkenscholar said:
I saw this fix, but frankly, I'm skittish to try it as my IMEI is still intact and I'm afraid of making the problem worse. My EFS folder is there, but it's empty.
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Don't be skittish. It really and truly is the only way to get everything back to how it should be. Ton's of people have tried it and this allows you to push the IMEI back into your phone the way it came from the factory. It's not for spoffing or doing anything illegal.
Now its usually for replacng a lost IMEI from flashing a ROM. Sometimes happens when going from a non-stock type ROM (i.e. CM or AOKP) to stock type ROM (i.e TW)
Search on how to push files with ADB and you should be good to go
BE CAREFUL though and don't skip steps or go fast.
I meant to ask...can you use your phone ? does data work ? Have you tried to get into download mode ?
If you can then download good manager and select reboot into recovery or any other number of apps that let you boot into recovery without having a power menu
hednik said:
Don't be skittish. It really and truly is the only way to get everything back to how it should be. Ton's of people have tried it and this allows you to push the IMEI back into your phone the way it came from the factory. It's not for spoffing or doing anything illegal.
Now its usually for replacng a lost IMEI from flashing a ROM. Sometimes happens when going from a non-stock type ROM (i.e. CM or AOKP) to stock type ROM (i.e TW)
Search on how to push files with ADB and you should be good to go
BE CAREFUL though and don't skip steps or go fast.
I meant to ask...can you use your phone ? does data work ? Have you tried to get into download mode ?
If you can then download good manager and select reboot into recovery or any other number of apps that let you boot into recovery without having a power menu
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Yeah, the phone works perfectly other than a lack of lock screen, no power menu, and the pop ups that annoyingly show every once in a while. Download mode works, and I pushed stock back to my device using ODIN. It now occurs me me to wonder if I might have had a different result if I had flashed my stock rom using ADB.
drunkenscholar said:
Yeah, the phone works perfectly other than a lack of lock screen, no power menu, and the pop ups that annoyingly show every once in a while. Download mode works, and I pushed stock back to my device using ODIN. It now occurs me me to wonder if I might have had a different result if I had flashed my stock rom using ADB.
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I hate to ask but did yo factory reset the phone...like in stock recovery ?
drunkenscholar said:
Yeah, the phone works perfectly other than a lack of lock screen, no power menu, and the pop ups that annoyingly show every once in a while. Download mode works, and I pushed stock back to my device using ODIN. It now occurs me me to wonder if I might have had a different result if I had flashed my stock rom using ADB.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1703175
check out post #8
the user restored the backed up EFS folder with Root Explorer and his device is fixed now.
xBeerdroiDx said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1703175
check out post #8
the user restored the backed up EFS folder with Root Explorer and his device is fixed now.
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Beer,
I'm not thinking he has a backup of his EFS though
Try his first but this might do the trick as well:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1703175&page=2
post #14
Odia said:
# echo -n ON > /efs/FactoryApp/factorymode
(and yes ON is the correct setting to turn it off)
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hednik said:
Beer,
I'm not thinking he has a backup of his EFS though
Try his first but this might do the trick as well:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1703175&page=2
post #14
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you are correct. i looked back over the thread. i had thought he posted something yesterday about having an EFS backup.
your find seems like it should do the trick
hednik said:
I hate to ask but did yo factory reset the phone...like in stock recovery ?
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Yessir. When the phone booted back up it didn't go through the setup process. Just goes straight to the homescreen. Also when I boot into restore mode I see this under the menu options:
E:failed to mount /efs (Invalid Argument)
E:failed to mount /efs (Invalid Argument)
# MANUAL MODE #
--Applying Multi-CSC...
Applied CSC-code : unknown
Successfully applied multi-CSC.
I tried turning it off with terminal emulator at one point last night, but it didn't seem to work, I THINK because the EFS folder is empty. I'll have to re-root tonight and try it again since I've restored my stock firmware.
It may seem like I'm shooting down every suggestion you guys throw at me, but I really appreciate the input. XDA is a big place and I tried to be very thorough when searcing for a solution before posting this thread, but I'm sure there's something out there I've missed. Thank you for your efforts.
I think I found something that will allow me to restore a generic EFS here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=39523753&postcount=4
Asked the originator if it will work to restore my files. If so, gonna try it when I get off work tonight.
drunkenscholar said:
I think I found something that will allow me to restore a generic EFS here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=39523753&postcount=4
Asked the originator if it will work to restore my files. If so, gonna try it when I get off work tonight.
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Ah exactly what I have been looking for on this one for you. I found a few that explained how to push your old EFS folder with ADB but none about making another. How crazy it was yesterday it popped up on a post. That looks like your best shot as you folder seems to be corrupted and although IMEI is intact you need a new one folder that is intact. Let us know how it turns out
Can you hit me with the stuff you found about pushing it through ADB? My efforts have been less than fruitful on that front. I'd rather be armed with as much information as possible.
drunkenscholar said:
Can you hit me with the stuff you found about pushing it through ADB? My efforts have been less than fruitful on that front. I'd rather be armed with as much information as possible.
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Here is one I had found earlier:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1169805
xaurion said:
[/COLOR]Problem fixed!! give read write permissions for user/group/others to the keystr file.[/QUOT
Have you looked at this ? (or is this just the same thing as turning it off)
- One more thing, what file explorer are you looking at the efs folder with ?
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Hello,
Obviously from my posts I'm new posting, however, I've been reading the forums for a while now and have been a huge fan at the massive support of devs and other helpful people. My question, and I've tried searching hi and lo on this site and others to get an answer:
I rooted my phone about 2 months ago and kept ROM, kernel, etc. stock until about 1 month ago when I flashed CM 10.1. Everything was awesome, loved the layout and the customization of the ROM. About 2 weeks ago, I lost 4G/H+ coverage, and voice service was sometimes spottier than usual. Wifi was and is still fine, but anytime I left and wifi network, I was immediately given EDGE speeds. I ran speedtest.net and the display is accurate.
I tried searching a couple of sites and I read that flashing a different ROM could fix the issue. I flashed Wicked which again was a great layout, but didn't fix the 4G issue. Lastly, today I followed an unroot thread and unrooted my phone. I didn't reset my counter with triangle away because I didn't think that was an issue in the lack of 4G. And I didn't want to dig myself any deeper on possibly bricking my phone. So now, my phone is stock (minus the counter) with ROM, kernel, and recovery. Any tips or suggestions?
Something to note: When I tried flashing CM10.1 the very first time, I received an error 7 message on CWM recovery. After reading a couple of posts on here, it looked like the workaround was to remove the first line of code on the updater-script file in the zip. Doing so made the ROM flash without any hiccups. Or were there?
Again thanks in advance for taking the time to read my post.
Go to settings> about phone> status
Look under imei, is it still there or is it 0.
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Dakine,
Thanks for the reply. It says 0. Doesn't sound good based on the two options you said it could be.
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keeeoh said:
Dakine,
Thanks for the reply. It says 0. Doesn't sound good based on the two options you said it could be.
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Its not really bad, but its not great. It means you lost your imei, it just happens randomly when flashing a ROM (no one knows why, it just rarely happens). Its not the ROMs fault, it just happens.
If you haven't made a backup of your imei, then you'll have to restore/inject the imei so that you can use 4g again. I'll have to look for the threads that explain how to do that and I'll post them for you.
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keeeoh said:
Dakine,
Thanks for the reply. It says 0. Doesn't sound good based on the two options you said it could be.
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Da Kine said:
Its not really bad, but its not great. It means you lost your imei, it just happens randomly when flashing a ROM (no one knows why, it just rarely happens). Its not the ROMs fault, it just happens.
If you haven't made a backup of your imei, then you'll have to restore/inject the imei so that you can use 4g again. I'll have to look for the threads that explain how to do that and I'll post them for you.
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I wouldn't worry bout it. Unless you get lucky it can take a lot of searching and piecing info together to find all that's needed. Imei restoration can still be found, but a lot isn't too clear. Data restore after imei restoration is not so easy.
Also, one or two of the important threads are gone. If you ever need help with this issue, you can just pm me.
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Da Kine said:
This video will help you restore your imei, download links are in the video description.
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Huge help! Thanks for locating this. About to read up on restoring my imei. Thanks again, especially for the quick reply.
DocHoliday77 said:
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I wouldn't worry bout it. Unless you get lucky it can take a lot of searching and piecing info together to find all that's needed. Imei restoration can still be found, but a lot isn't too clear. Data restore after imei restoration is not so easy.
Also, one or two of the important threads are gone. If you ever need help with this issue, you can just pm me.
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And thank you too Doc! I'll post my results in case anyone else has this problem. I'm certain this will work. Thanks for the future reach-out invite as well.
Hey Doc, does everything in the video I posted restore 4g or does it just restore the imei? If it doesn't restore 4g, could you please post here or pm what steps are needed to get 4g going again?
I would just like to have a copy of everything just in case something goes wrong with my imei backup, If I end up losing my imei.
Edit: Hey keeeoh I removed the video (thank you Doc for the heads up). If you need the link to it, just let me know and I'll pm it to you. Once again, thank you Doc for letting me know.
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Da Kine said:
Hey Doc, does everything in the video I posted restore 4g or does it just restore the imei? If it doesn't restore 4g, could you please post here or pm what steps are needed to get 4g going again?
I would just like to have a copy of everything just in case something goes wrong with my imei backup, If I end up losing my imei.
Edit: Hey keeeoh I removed the video (thank you Doc for the heads up). If you need the link to it, just let me know and I'll pm it to you. Once again, thank you Doc for letting me know.
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Well, Success!!! Needed to do a couple more things but both of you were able to get me back up and running on 4G.
Dakine - Already got the video, so thank you anyways.
Doc - Finished those steps, for some reason I can't PM you so if you can PM me again to let me know what I need to do avoid this in the future, as I'd love to go back to a rooted phone.
Thanks again guys!
keeeoh said:
Well, Success!!! Needed to do a couple more things but both of you were able to get me back up and running on 4G.
Dakine - Already got the video, so thank you anyways.
Doc - Finished those steps, for some reason I can't PM you so if you can PM me again to let me know what I need to do avoid this in the future, as I'd love to go back to a rooted phone.
Thanks again guys!
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Awesome! Glad you got it working again.
Next thing is to create s n on-device backup of your nv data. This should only need to be done once, as you can't delete or overwrite it with common methods. It is also preventative so you shouldn't ever see this issue again.
Two methods
1. Install Andromizer and backup nv data
2. Install and open Terminal Emulator and enter this:
su
reboot nvbackup
That's it. Your phone will reboot and create the back up. If you do ever need to restore just enter this:
su
reboot nvrestore
Note: you cannot make copies of this as its stored across several partitions that are not easily accessible.
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keeeoh said:
Well, Success!!! Needed to do a couple more things but both of you were able to get me back up and running on 4G.
Dakine - Already got the video, so thank you anyways.
Doc - Finished those steps, for some reason I can't PM you so if you can PM me again to let me know what I need to do avoid this in the future, as I'd love to go back to a rooted phone.
Thanks again guys!
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What were the "couple more things"? My IMEI was wiped when I installed CWM and I had no signal showing at all. I have restored my IMEI and it now connects to Edge but it does not connect to 4G as it did. My wife's phone still gets a good 4G connection so I think it is the phone. I have tried wiping it, installing Cyanogen and have now reverted to Samsung factory UVDMD5. Everything about the phone seems to work great except it has no 4G. Tried changing APN type and forcing WCDMA -- no luck
Thanks!
touchsw said:
What were the "couple more things"? My IMEI was wiped when I installed CWM and I had no signal showing at all. I have restored my IMEI and it now connects to Edge but it does not connect to 4G as it did. My wife's phone still gets a good 4G connection so I think it is the phone. I have tried wiping it, installing Cyanogen and have now reverted to Samsung factory UVDMD5. Everything about the phone seems to work great except it has no 4G. Tried changing APN type and forcing WCDMA -- no luck
Thanks!
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Low 2g and 3g but no 4g
I also can never get 4G in the metro. Even right next to somebody with the exact same phone and same T-mobile service who gets it fine.. I had flashed Synergy ROM and now S3Rx (stock kernel) but no improvement. My IMEI is valid, the Mobile Network type is shown as: GPRS:1. It shows the APN as T-Mobile USA (epc.tmobile.com). Baseband version is: T999UVDMD5.
I don't know anything else to check. Sure would like some ideas.
Test with someone else's SIM card. Or call T-Mobile as it sounds like it may be an account issue. Odin back to stock. If it still continues, it could also be hardware.
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Test with someone else's SIM card. Or call T-Mobile as it sounds like it may be an account issue. Odin back to stock. If it still continues, it could also be hardware.
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Do you know where I can find the stock ROM for this phone?
Firmware thread. In my Sig. Stickied in development.
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Missing IMEI I could not find other way to reach you but to post here
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Hello Doc, I tried to pm you, but never received a reply, maybe my message is blocked.
I hope you can help me find cure for my phone!
After regular update of CM 10.2. using CWM my phone stopped connecting to 3g and 4g, I checked with T-Mobile and no problems on their end. I thought it was a failed upgrade reinstalled CM 10.2, didn't help. Then I totally reformatted Internal Storage and Installed LiquidSmooth 2.3.7, same thing, only EDGE data. Then I thought maybe I have to unroot and go back to Stock, and this time unrooted, upgraded baseband to the latest version, then installed Stock JB 4.3 but it didn't fix my problem. Then I came across this info about missing IMEIs, and there it was IMEI was showing Unknown at one point and now it is showing 0. I tried to follow some guides about nv_data.bin but my EFS folder doesn't seem to contain that file, it actually doesn't have more than that when compared to other user's screenshots.
At this point I rooted my phone again using TWRP with SU and De-knox and installed CM 10.2.0. Still EDGE only and IMEI showing 0.
Please, help! I can email screenshot of About Phone Status Page and EFS folder if you need.
Thanks!
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Having same issue, could you help me??
DocHoliday77 said:
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Doc,
I just purchased a T999 on eBay with this same problem. When I got the phone, it had CM installed on it and had no IMEI (IMEI=0). I put it back to stock 4.1.2, still no IMEI. I did IMEI repair using Z3X box which worked, now IMEI is normal. Problem is that it always stays on EDGE network. I'm sure this is something to to with the phone and not something else. I have a couple of other T999's available to use to test SIM card, location, etc. and all other T999's I've tried work just fine. Only this one that I had to restore IMEI.
Can you please give me some advice?
Hey all, I was wondering if anyone could provide me with any help with my phone. Earlier this week, I woke up to shut off the alarm on my phone but was seeing a bunch of google processes failing. After about a minute of hitting okay, I finally managed to turn off my alarm. It was at that point that I decided to reboot my phone only to see the Demigod Kernel Crash screen and I haven't been able to boot up since then. I went into recovery mode to see if I could just flash another ROM but it's unable to mount the sd card. "Alright," I thought "I'll just use LGNPST again (I've used it before) and restore it that way." Well, it fails early in the beginning, earlier than it's "supposed to." Something about a Masterbin error. I've tried redownloading everything, drivers, lgnpst, .bins, but I keep getting that same bin error. Someone in the irc suggested a virtual box but that gave me a headache just trying to figure that out. So my question is am I left with any options other than sending it in to have someone jtag it? Any help would be much appreciated.
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Hey all, I was wondering if anyone could provide me with any help with my phone. Earlier this week, I woke up to shut off the alarm on my phone but was seeing a bunch of google processes failing. After about a minute of hitting okay, I finally managed to turn off my alarm. It was at that point that I decided to reboot my phone only to see the Demigod Kernel Crash screen and I haven't been able to boot up since then. I went into recovery mode to see if I could just flash another ROM but it's unable to mount the sd card. "Alright," I thought "I'll just use LGNPST again (I've used it before) and restore it that way." Well, it fails early in the beginning, earlier than it's "supposed to." Something about a Masterbin error. I've tried redownloading everything, drivers, lgnpst, .bins, but I keep getting that same bin error. Someone in the irc suggested a virtual box but that gave me a headache just trying to figure that out. So my question is am I left with any options other than sending it in to have someone jtag it? Any help would be much appreciated.
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Did you try wiping everything? SD included.
Did you uninstall, then reinstall LGNPST.
Last option I have is try LGFlashTool. It has is own thread in Development.
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Yeah, I wiped everything after LGNPST didn't work for me. I'll try reinstalling it one more time and, if that fails, I'll use the LG Flash Tool. Thanks for your reply; will report back if it works.
The LG flash tool is (I believe) what sprint repair techs use to fix any software issues. It resets every position taking it back to 'out of the box' including hands free activation
Resets every partition, even >_<
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AFschizoid said:
Resets every partition, even >_<
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That may be what I need seeing as how the error I see whenever I try to use LGNPST says it fails to write partition during the Masterbin download. Unfortunately, the link I found in the LG Flash Tool thread is down. I asked the OP there to rehost it but he hasn't replied yet.
Urgh, this past week without a phone has been tough.
Umm... I have it but it would take a while to upload since I have no Internet besides usb tether
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mrdrprofjeremy said:
That may be what I need seeing as how the error I see whenever I try to use LGNPST says it fails to write partition during the Masterbin download. Unfortunately, the link I found in the LG Flash Tool thread is down. I asked the OP there to rehost it but he hasn't replied yet.
Urgh, this past week without a phone has been tough.
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Just use the bin in the root guide and I'll see if I can find the DLL.
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Deleted- wrong file
Edit: WOW. I read this all wrong. You need the tool. Guess I need a nap
Haha, well, who couldn't use a nap? If either of you could possibly host the flash tool somewhere, I'd greatly appreciate it. Thanks again for your help.
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Haha, well, who couldn't use a nap? If either of you could possibly host the flash tool somewhere, I'd greatly appreciate it. Thanks again for your help.
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I can. I just need to know which version
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i'm currently uploading it on my G Drive, i'll pm the link to whoever needs it. idk if LG had the zip that was hosted on androidfilehost taken down or if tommy removed it or what
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i also don't know how long it will take, since i'm uploading with my comp tethered to my phone (only net i have atm lol)
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i'm currently uploading it on my G Drive, i'll pm the link to whoever needs it. idk if LG had the zip that was hosted on androidfilehost taken down or if tommy removed it or what
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i also don't know how long it will take, since i'm uploading with my comp tethered to my phone (only net i have atm lol)
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The few Downloads I found for 1.5.10 were down also.
AFschzoid to the rescue!!!!
I may as well leave.
engine95 said:
The few Downloads I found for 1.5.10 were down also.
AFschzoid to the rescue!!!!
I may as well leave.
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Lol whatever. I'm up to 12% uploaded. It'll get there (if nobody calls haha)
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AFschizoid said:
Lol whatever. I'm up to 12% uploaded. It'll get there (if nobody calls haha)
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Ha, well, I've already gone a week without a phone. What's a few more hours? Thanks again, man.
20% lol
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Just a heads up, the OP of the LG Flash Tool finally reuploaded and fixed the link.
I saw. I'm still going to upload it in case it gets taken down again
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Good idea. Wouldn't hurt to have that lying around somewhere.
Hey guys, so the problem is as follows....
I rooted my T-mobile Samsung Galaxy S4 and installed Titanium Backup to delete bloatware apps. Now I've done this process countless times on other android phones in which I BACKUP first then start deleting apps. The problem is that this time I accidently forgot to do the backup and went straight into uninstalling apps. I didn't do many, most likely around 5-6. No problems were detected till i restarted my phone and noticed my lock screen. The clock and personal message had disappeared. Everything else is fine, just no sign of clock and personal message, the highlighted box is there but there is nothing there. My pattern lock and lock screen background picture is there just the clock and personal message is gone. Any suggestions?? It can be anywhere from downloading a apk file to restore the change to restoring the phone completely, thanks in advance.
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Hey guys, so the problem is as follows...
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If your not too far along, which by your post I'm assuming your not, prob best just to start over fresh. You might be able to find the right apk but the time involved in tracking it down then getting it is the trade off.
also maybe you've done this / know about it, just a suggestion...use the freeze option before deleting, if I'm getting rid of something I make a back-up or get the full stock so I have it on hand, then just freeze stuff for a couple days before deleting. Found it's saved me lots of headaches from this type of thing. Then if somethings messed up just unfreeze.
Good Luck
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If your not too far along, which by your post I'm assuming your not, prob best just to start over fresh. You might be able to find the right apk but the time involved in tracking it down then getting it is the trade off.
also maybe you've done this / know about it, just a suggestion...use the freeze option before deleting, if I'm getting rid of something I make a back-up or get the full stock so I have it on hand, then just freeze stuff for a couple days before deleting. Found it's saved me lots of headaches from this type of thing. Then if somethings messed up just unfreeze.
Good Luck
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By start fresh you mean factory restoring my phone? And/or flashing stock rom? Thanks for the reply btw, you are correct, im not that far off
I think he means using Odin to flash the stock image. You can get it from sammobile.com.
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http://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/
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Android_Monsters said:
I think he means using Odin to flash the stock image. You can get it from sammobile.com.
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oh alright thanks, i will try it out and post back the result here.
Thanks guys, I used Factory Reset first to clear all the data followed by flashing the stock image using Odin and that seems to have solved my problem, thanks once again.
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