Hi, I stupidly went back to stock and lost my imei number without making a efs backup, when I used aroma it asked if I wanted to make an efs backup and I said yes.
Would that backup help me in returning fully to stock rom? If so, where would that backup be stored in my phone?
Hope someone can help
Thanks a lot
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I must add that I didnt back up on the stock rom, I was already on a custom rom, if that helps.
Many thanks
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dazza_84 said:
Hi, I stupidly went back to stock and lost my imei number without making a efs backup, when I used aroma it asked if I wanted to make an efs backup and I said yes.
Would that backup help me in returning fully to stock rom? If so, where would that backup be stored in my phone?
Hope someone can help
Thanks a lot
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The backup you made will be no good cause it will contain the efs of the new rom you installed.. you can check though. The efs backup will be on your sd card..
Sdcard/EFS
In efs theres folders inc imei wifi bluetooth etc
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Do I have to be rooted to see that folder? As its not in my sd card, the only way I can see that folder is in root explorer but im not rooted at the moment.
Can I ask one more question? If I were to put stock rom back on my phone and use newer modem, my imei and network will come back, would I be able to get ota updates? Because when ive tried to search for an update, it would just hang on searching.
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Ive had a look in the efs folder and all I have is a list of files which include nv.data.bak and nv data.bak md5? Is tjat any help? Would I need those files to restore
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dazza_84 said:
Ive had a look in the efs folder and all I have is a list of files which include nv.data.bak and nv data.bak md5? Is tjat any help? Would I need those files to restore
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Yes. Copy them to your pc under efs backup aswell for safe keeping. There are guides on here of how to restore your efs with 4.1.2 roms but you will need root.
As you have efs backup I found this for you. Make sure you read and understand before doing anything..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=37816367
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right well I backed up my efs through efs pro, it saved as a tar.gz file now ive tried to restore the efs in efs pro but it doesn't show in the restore older?
is there anyway I can flash the tar.gz file of my efs backup somehow?
also the link u gave me was for a zip file but no instructions of how to do anything.
thanks for any help
dazza_84 said:
right well I backed up my efs through efs pro, it saved as a tar.gz file now ive tried to restore the efs in efs pro but it doesn't show in the restore older?
is there anyway I can flash the tar.gz file of my efs backup somehow?
also the link u gave me was for a zip file but no instructions of how to do anything.
thanks for any help
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That zip file in the link is a app. Download install.. if you backed up the efs on the stock rom before flashing the new rom it will work..
The only other thing to do is flash this modem via cwm recovery.
It says it fixes the problem
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=42802840
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I think ive messed my phone up!!! ive somehow deleted everything in my efs folder.
I still have a back up from efs pro? can I use that to restore my efs? if so how??
please help, im screwed
You've backed up the new modified efs folder which is only compatible with the new firmwares. You can restore from that backup, in fact you need to, but there is no going back to old firmware now. You can achieve stock if you download and flash a stock rom of version DME6 or newer, but you can never use anything older again.
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You've backed up the new modified efs folder which is only compatible with the new firmwares. You can restore from that backup, in fact you need to, but there is no going back to old firmware now. You can achieve stock if you download and flash a stock rom of version DME6 or newer, but you can never use anything older again.
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How would I go about restoring that backup from efs pro? As when I am trying to select it in the restore section of efs pro it can not be seen in drop down box?
It is in tar format, there is a pit file with it but I guess as I wiped everything out of my actual efs folder through root explorer it might not work.
Also I have a pop up on my screen with loads of different information like an error pop up? I cant screen shot it other wise I would show u
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dazza_84 said:
How would I go about restoring that backup from efs pro? As when I am trying to select it in the restore section of efs pro it can not be seen in drop down box?
It is in tar format, there is a pit file with it but I guess as I wiped everything out of my actual efs folder through root explorer it might not work.
Also I have a pop up on my screen with loads of different information like an error pop up? I cant screen shot it other wise I would show u
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You're in factory mode. I can't help you restore as I don't use efs pro.
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as its in tar format cant I just use that in odin to flash in pda bit? also would flashing a df1 modem help restore my efs? im so tired of this I was up until 6 in the morning trying to fix it :-0
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Hello.
Sorry for language mistakes, I don't learn english too much
About 2 months ago I missed imei by flashing custom rom. I thought that warranty is missed too, but service repaired my phone (at least I thought like that).
Now I want to backup efs folder, but it isn't existing . I searched with root explorer and it didn't show any efs folder.
It is surprise, that after typing *#06# phone show correct imei.
How can I create efs folder or backup imei without efs?
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U cant access efs through ur phone(i mean using root explorer u cant backup efs folder) U will need to use ADB to backup although it is not needed to backup efs because custom rom only flashes the modifed firmware it does not flash baseband,imei etc. Only thing is u need to be careful with doing this kind of things.
Press thanks if helped.
That's it.
You can use EFS Backup. I strongly recommend it.
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batman38102 said:
U cant access efs through ur phone(i mean using root explorer u cant backup efs folder) U will need to use ADB to backup although it is not needed to backup efs because custom rom only flashes the modifed firmware it does not flash baseband,imei etc. Only thing is u need to be careful with doing this kind of things.
Press thanks if helped.
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I know that custom rom doesnt change or remove imei, but what will I do if imei is corrupted like it happened few months ago?
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That's it.
You can use EFS Backup. I strongly recommend it.
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Do you mean Efs Pro? I tried to use efs pro but as I said programme didnt find any files to backup.
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Walentyn15 said:
I know that custom rom doesnt change or remove imei, but what will I do if imei is corrupted like it happened few months ago?
Do you mean Efs Pro? I tried to use efs pro but as I said programme didnt find any files to backup.
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I do.
Hi, ive accidently wiped my efs files through root explorer, now my phone has no imei or serial number, im in factory mode as well.
I do have a backup of my efs in tar format which I done through efs pro, but when im trying to restore it in efs pro its not locating the file?
Ive tried numerous things to rectify this, ive flashed the tar file in odin that didnt work.
I honestly dont know what to do???
I hope someone can please help me fix this as I have no phone
Thanks very much
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Hi, ive accidently wiped my efs files through root explorer, now my phone has no imei or serial number, im in factory mode as well.
I do have a backup of my efs in tar format which I done through efs pro, but when im trying to restore it in efs pro its not locating the file?
Ive tried numerous things to rectify this, ive flashed the tar file in odin that didnt work.
I honestly dont know what to do???
I hope someone can please help me fix this as I have no phone
Thanks very much
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Try unpacking the tar.gz, copy the the efs map to the root with the original name ofcourse(With Root Explorer AND WITH READ WRITE PERMISSION!), then reboot. I've had the same situation as you do, this was the only fix for me.
Thanks for reply, I got efs pro to work in the end but my phone is still ****ed it has no imei or serial number? Ive been looking for a solution all day.
Its also still in factory mode it says h/w not active and rf cal date unknown.
I also tried what u said and it says theres not enough space in the folder when I copy it? Its an efs.img file? And its 20mb in size. I swear if I get this sorted im never rooting my phone again.
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dazza_84 said:
I also tried what u said and it says theres not enough space in the folder when I copy it? Its an efs.img file? And its 20mb in size. I swear if I get this sorted im never rooting my phone again.
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You might need to repartition the phone using a PIT file if you completely removed the folder (and not just the contents).
Reinstall your stock rom using a PIT file in ODIN and after the restoration is done try to restore your EFS again. It should work now!
Cheers!
vladeco said:
You might need to repartition the phone using a PIT file if you completely removed the folder (and not just the contents).
Reinstall your stock rom using a PIT file in ODIN and after the restoration is done try to restore your EFS again. It should work now!
Cheers!
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I tried what u said but that didn't work, my imei is still 400000? Im not sure if I fixed my serial number though cos it was 0000000 , I changed it in root explorer and it stuck! it hasnt changed back to 000000 so now I think I just need to change my imei back but how do I do that if obviously it seems like my efs backup is corrupt as well?
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Armazia said:
Try unpacking the tar.gz, copy the the efs map to the root with the original name ofcourse(With Root Explorer AND WITH READ WRITE PERMISSION!), then reboot. I've had the same situation as you do, this was the only fix for me.
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I'm having almost the exact same problem as OP. 2 questions. When you say "copy the efs map" what do you mean by that? All the contents of my unpacked efs .tar.gz backup file? Also, what do you mean by "with the original name"? Thanks!
After restoring the rom with a pit file, did you try restoring the EFS using EFSPro? You should be able to do it just using the restore option in that app, although you should be rooted to be able to restore it.
And what do you mean by "put it back using root explorer?"
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vladeco said:
After restoring the rom with a pit file, did you try restoring the EFS using EFSPro? You should be able to do it just using the restore option in that app, although you should be rooted to be able to restore it.
And what do you mean by "put it back using root explorer?"
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Yeah after flashin a stock rom with pit file I used efs pro to restore the backup but that didnt work, I can only assume that the back up is corrupt as well? Basically I deleted everything in my efs folder so that I wiped my imei and serial number, my imei is 4000000 and serial number is 0000000, so what I done was change my serial number in root explorer from 0000000 to my actual serial number which is behind my battery, ive rebooted and flashed another stock rom since then and it hasnt changed, but my imei is still ending with 400000.
So if my backup is corrupt? I have no idea what my options are? Ive had nothing but a headache the last 2 days trying to fix it.
Many thanks
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dazza_84 said:
Yeah after flashin a stock rom with pit file I used efs pro to restore the backup but that didnt work, I can only assume that the back up is corrupt as well? Basically I deleted everything in my efs folder so that I wiped my imei and serial number, my imei is 4000000 and serial number is 0000000, so what I done was change my serial number in root explorer from 0000000 to my actual serial number which is behind my battery, ive rebooted and flashed another stock rom since then and it hasnt changed, but my imei is still ending with 400000.
So if my backup is corrupt? I have no idea what my options are? Ive had nothing but a headache the last 2 days trying to fix it.
Many thanks
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Did you root after restoring the backup? And did you also enable USB debugging? As I recall, EFSPro requires those to work optimally. And one last thing: did you use the latest version?
I rooted before I restored on efs pro, also what do mean by using latest version? If u mean stock rom? I used DMC3-BTU, thats the only one I had on my computer at the time, I flashed that with a pit file dated 2/11/2012?? Then I rooted and tried to restore the phone but it didnt work? I then thought as the firmware was old I would put a DF1 modem on it but that still didnt work either? Am I doing something wrong? Im going out my mind trying to sort this out!
Thanks alot
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Oh also I restored on old version of efs pro I think it was version 1.93 or summink, as that is the only version that will locate the backup file in the drop down menu?? I just tried the version in the link u gave me but still same? It recognises my phone but when I use the restore drop down bit it is blank? I try to refresh but still blank?? I think it might have something to do with the restore file not being in tar.gz format? I somehow unzipped it and now its just a tar file? I dont know how to rezip the file? Any ideas please would be great.
Thanks
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What are the contents of the tar.gz? I mean: if you open it with winrar / 7z, etc, what do you see?
For instance, when I open my EFS tar.gz backup, I see a single file called efs.img:
If you have that as well, you could try restoring your EFS using DD by putting the EFS.img in the root of your SD card and typing the following commands on ADB Shell:
Code:
adb shell su -c "dd if=/sdcard/efs.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p3 bs=4096"
Well ive repackaged the tar file to tar.gz and now efs pro has located the file but I click restore and a pop up comes onto the screen saying *you must select one partition to restore???? I dont know what that means??
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dazza_84 said:
Well ive repackaged the tar file to tar.gz and now efs pro has located the file but I click restore and a pop up comes onto the screen saying *you must select one partition to restore???? I dont know what that means??
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Just breathe and select the checkbox on the left:
Yeah mines the same in the tar file is a efs.img file, but im so close with efs pro I just dont get what *you must select at least one partition to restore* means?
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Theres nothing in that box to select and if u see on the right drop down box your file says device, mine says PC?
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dazza_84 said:
Theres nothing in that box to select and if u see on the right drop down box your file says device, mine says PC?
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That means where the backup is located. Mine is on my phone's memory, yours is in your PC's hard drive.
It worked!!! Cant thank you enough for helping me out, really appreciate it, thank you so much.
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dazza_84 said:
It worked!!! Cant thank you enough for helping me out, really appreciate it, thank you so much.
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Great! Happy for you, buddy! Cheers!
Armazia said:
Try unpacking the tar.gz, copy the the efs map to the root with the original name ofcourse(With Root Explorer AND WITH READ WRITE PERMISSION!), then reboot. I've had the same situation as you do, this was the only fix for me.
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I had the exact same problem and couldn´t get it to work.so I tried what you described and it worked.
I got my IMEI back but i couldn´t get the phone to connect to a cellular network.
So I rebooted ion to revocery and did a "fix Permissions". it took forever but after that my phone worked lika new again.
A million thanks to you.
Can someone please help me out I have multiple efs back ups in tar.gz but what app do I need to restore those backups
Thanks in advance
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same problem here
EFS Pro can restore it from your computer
just have to replace the drivers installed by samsung with theirs and you should be able to backup and restore your EFS, just use 2 different usb ports, 1 where the device is connected as is so it works with kies and one where it has the other drivers installed so it works with EFS Pro
also, i think TWRP recovery has the ability to restore the EFS
Simple terminal command can also restore efs, if you have img file.
Search efs without pc in android development section, thread by me.
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baseband unknown and imei null
dr.ketan said:
Simple terminal command can also restore efs, if you have img file.
Search efs without pc in android development section, thread by me.
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Dear Dr Ketan i've a gti9300 and flashed resurrection remix rom and had a rom back up done via cwm and efs back up via efs pro.
after flashing the mobile network was absent so i flashed back to stock 4.1.2 but two problems:-
1) baseband vesrion -unknown
2) imei -unknown,imei sv-unknown
3)network-unknown
4)mobile network type-unknown
i tried restoring efs via efs pro and it said restore successful but still the same problem.another point while restoring efs i used the file on my pc whereas i had one file on my phone also.
i can see the efs folder in my root explorer.
plz help,thanks in advance
Refresh same rom from where you took backup, then restore.
Once everything fine, just update latest rom.
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contramundi said:
EFS Pro can restore it from your computer
just have to replace the drivers installed by samsung with theirs and you should be able to backup and restore your EFS, just use 2 different usb ports, 1 where the device is connected as is so it works with kies and one where it has the other drivers installed so it works with EFS Pro
also, i think TWRP recovery has the ability to restore the EFS
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i didn't get it plz elaborate i did restore efs via efs pro but same result and what do you mean by two usb ports...plz tell in details
thanks in advance
dr.ketan said:
Refresh same rom from where you took backup, then restore.
Once everything fine, just update latest rom.
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Dear dr ketan i had taken back up of efs on stock rom 4.1.2 and i'm now on stock only and restored efs via efs pro on stock rom only still it shwos baseband version as unknown. I have an EFS folder in the normal file manager but that is empty and when i use root explorer i can see an EFS folder with almost 18 files in it.
plz tell me as to should i transfer the EFS folder contents on root explorer in the empty EFS folder in normal file manager
or whatever to be done plz let me know thanks in advance
dr.ketan said:
Simple terminal command can also restore efs, if you have img file.
Search efs without pc in android development section, thread by me.
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I jave your tool to restore from img but that img was done after me6. The tar.gz backups where taken before. By my understanding from what I've read I need to restore one of those to be able to use any 4.3 rom
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taz44410 said:
Can someone please help me out I have multiple efs back ups in tar.gz but what app do I need to restore those backups
Thanks in advance
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If you have EFS backup in tar.gz format, then follow following steps :
1) Make sure that your device is rooted and USB Debugging is enabled
2) Go to this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1922473
3) There you will see a file SAMSUNG_N7100_EFS_BACKUP.zip . Download it and extract on your PC.
3) Rename your backed up efs tar.gz file to EFS.tar.gz and copy it to the root of your internal storage.
4) Now execute the file "EFS_Backup.bat" on your PC from where you extracted the SAMSUNG_N7100_EFS_BACKUP.zip specified on point 3
5) A command prompt window will open giving you many options. Press 4 (TAR.GZ Restore)
6) Wait for the command to execute. If Superuser asks to grant permission on your phone, press "Grant". Otherwise process will not continue.
If it finds EFS.tar.gz file on your internal sd and root permissions are granted, process will execute successfully. Once it is done, reboot the phone.
Thank you very much for this I will try when I get home from work today
Thanks
Taz44410
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Can I use the EFS from a different phone if it's the same model and carrier I use?
Thank you so much!
@AlanDS
Your instructions helped me to find a solution related to restore a "problematic" backup made with a different software. I had been one entire year with my phone lacking its imei and your post led me to the last straw to solve that problem. I 've just registered in xda to thank you :victory:
hi guys,
i have an sgh-m919 and i need to backup my efs folder in case i lost my IMEI to be able to recover it ?
my device on jelly bean 4.2.2
build : JDQ39.M919UVUAMDL
and it is rooted...
Make a backup with CWM or TWRP recovery.
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Please use Andromizer Pro . in tools section you will see IMEI BACKUP OR use TWRP. i use both to be on safe side because i lost IMEI one time .
inder07 said:
Please use Andromizer Pro . in tools section you will see IMEI BACKUP OR use TWRP. i use both to be on safe side because i lost IMEI one time .
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When I try to use TWRP it says 0MB backed up. Then the recovery file it creates is like 300kb
Is that right?
Skipjacks said:
When I try to use TWRP it says 0MB backed up. Then the recovery file it creates is like 300kb
Is that right?
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Same here but mine only show 92kb. It does show 3 files in the folder.
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milan guy said:
hi guys,
i have an sgh-m919 and i need to backup my efs folder in case i lost my IMEI to be able to recover it ?
my device on jelly bean 4.2.2
build : JDQ39.M919UVUAMDL
and it is rooted...
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You can use CWM, TWRP, Andromizer Pro, or EFS Pro. Quickest method is EFS Pro. Good luck.
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baseballfanz said:
Same here but mine only show 92kb. It does show 3 files in the folder.
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So that is correct? I have properly backed it up? And if I ever break it I cam just restore that backup file in recovery and it'll work?
Sent from your phone. You should be more careful where you leave that thing.
Skipjacks said:
So that is correct? I have properly backed it up? And if I ever break it I cam just restore that backup file in recovery and it'll work?
Sent from your phone. You should be more careful where you leave that thing.
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I'm not 100% sure as I've never had to restored it. When I was using Philz recovery the efs backup was like 50kb. Might try one of the other tool and compare.
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Hey guys,
I'm about to flash my first rom and so far I made a System Data and User App backup using Tintanium.
Now I read somewhere that for Samsungs we need to backup IMEI info as well...Does Titanium do that?
Thanks!
PlagasX said:
Hey guys,
I'm about to flash my first rom and so far I made a System Data and User App backup using Tintanium.
Now I read somewhere that for Samsungs we need to backup IMEI info as well...Does Titanium do that?
Thanks!
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No it doesnt, u need to backup your efs using another tool such as efsPRO, search on Google
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ahac85 said:
No it doesnt, u need to backup your efs using another tool such as efsPRO, search on Google
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I have TWRP recovery and I noticed that it copied a folder EFS during backup...does that mean I'm good?
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I have TWRP recovery and I noticed that it copied a folder EFS during backup...does that mean I'm good?
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Yes thats ok, but I wouldn't know how to restore that, I highly recommend efspro, ive lost my imei a few times and its never let me down
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You could backup/restore the efs folder with TWRP or CWM. There's a how to thread somewhere around here.
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