I have been tinkering with my Epic 4g sph d700 and for whatever reason, despite flashing it using a tar file as well as the pit, using Odin, I cannot get a darn mobile signal, it fades constantly in and out of an O with a line through it (like the NO symbol) and If the bars pop up I don't even have 1 signal bar.
I literally have NO data whatsoever. Any idea what could be causing this?
Should I use Heimdall instead and does anyone know of an FC09 or FC19 Heimdall latest full stock file can be found? 99.99% of the links I've found are no longer valid and believe me I've googled for a couple of hours as well as searched XDA.
Thanks!
ANY help or suggestions would be appreciated. It's stock, FC09 right now, Android debugging checked. Ready to flash away, but I have no data at all unless I am on WiFi.
I did not have this issue when I was on CM10 yet I went back to stock and now, nothing but zero mobile data issues.
Here is a link to the FC19 tar.
Try giving fresh slate another go.
Have you tried updating your PRL/Profile?
Jessooca said:
NOPE nothing new has changed, still NO data. Is there any other way to force prl/profile update?
I know in the Optimus G you can use tiny bin to fix issues similar to this, anyone know of what I am speaking of or any other suggestions???
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When you go into Settings->About what do you see as your baseband version?
Is it blank?
There is a way to update PRL manually, but it's outdated and I can't really recommended.
Try flashing this modem and wiping data/cache 3x.
Try this as well. Just let me know what happens.
Jessooca said:
Sad thing is this phone was picked up in dec 2013 and has a sticker inside it showing it was made in sept 2013. I didn't think sammy even made these anymore, perhaps they do.
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I don't know how but you may want to confirm they still make them. Possibly this is a counterfeit phone and that is the reason for the poor signal strength/quality? There have been counterfeit Samsung S3s/Note 3s/S4s showing up (see Youtube).
Download a stock tar with pit, odin it with efs clear. This will clear everything and I do mean everything. Your phone will be completely wiped. Keep in mind when you do this it will pop up with sprint activation wanting you to activate. If that don't work then maybe a antenna is loose internaly or maybe its just plain broke.
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Hey guys,
This may sound weird but I can't seem to pretty much flash anything thru Odin. I have no clue as to what could be the issue. I tried multiple usb ports and nothing. It's so weird. Any ideas as to what is happening?
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Hey guys,
This may sound weird but I can't seem to pretty much flash anything thru Odin. I have no clue as to what could be the issue. I tried multiple usb ports and nothing. It's so weird. Any ideas as to what is happening?
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Did you just try flashing one file or multiple files?
If you just tried one file, it could be a bad download. Just re-download the file and try again.
If you've tried multiple files and they all can't be flashed, then I'm not sure what's going on? What does ODIN say when you try to flash?
You do have the Samsung drivers installed, right? Is this a sudden issue? Has it worked in the past? Try loading the Samsung drivers and Odin on a different computer.
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You do have the Samsung drivers installed, right? Is this a sudden issue? Has it worked in the past? Try loading the Samsung drivers and Odin on a different computer.
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Thanks for the replies guys. Yeah this seems sudden not sure why, and in the past it has worked when I rooted it. Last night I tried Odin-ing back to full stock to get stock recovery, but the odin said it failed. Now after i rebooted the phone, I wasn't getting 4g, I was getting Edge. i wonder if i broke my 4g signal as well. You guys think I should try the mobile odin?
Edit: Alright, I used mobile odin and that worked, however, I still don't get 4g network, and now every time I connect my phone to Kies on PC it says "Your device does not support software upgrading via kies" when I happened to be ALL stock. These a little issues I never had before, it's weird.
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Thanks for the replies guys. Yeah this seems sudden not sure why, and in the past it has worked when I rooted it. Last night I tried Odin-ing back to full stock to get stock recovery, but the odin said it failed. Now after i rebooted the phone, I wasn't getting 4g, I was getting Edge. i wonder if i broke my 4g signal as well. You guys think I should try the mobile odin?
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Getting edge only? your IMEI still intact?
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Getting edge only? your IMEI still intact?
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what should it read exactly? because mine says 0/06, could that be it?
makavelicruz said:
what should it read exactly? because mine says 0/06, could that be it?
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DING DING DING! We have a wiener!
This thread should help
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1804123
wow you guys rock, I never would've thought it was the IMEI. It turns out the IMEI on the phone got completely lost, my guess during the bad Odin flashes. Why you guys think that happened though? Thanks for the link stevessvt. I followed the thread, but some of its download links were not working, so I was lead to another similar thread with links working properly http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1801997 and I managed to restore my IMEI back into the phone. I wish I would've seen your post a lot sooner, I even went to T-mobile to see if it was a sim card malfunction or a 4g outage in the area, but they couldn't figure it out so they are sending me a new phone tomorrow...damn now I gotta return this one.
I wonder why this happened though?? All I was trying to do was flash back to stock so I can get stock recovery back, but like I said earlier it failed me like three times.
Thanks you guys for leading me to the right direction.
rooted, but now sprint network (call/data) no connection :/
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1997150 mot sure if this what you are talking about?
well damm, nothing good in that thread lol
I guess is that time tomorrow to head back to bestbuy
Check your baseband ? It may say unknown if so flash radio using twrp or Odin . If that's not it connect to WiFi and update profile and prl
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downlink for tar file modem/radio
Epix4G said:
Check your baseband ? It may say unknown if so flash radio using twrp or Odin . If that's not it connect to WiFi and update profile and prl
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sir u have downlink for modem/radio odintar ext..??? via recovery operation aborted status 7...thanks....
I'm having the same problem now. Need help I have no data!
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not that I will have an answer or solution, but others who might would likely want a bit more information, like:
are you on a custom ROM, or stock? which version of stock? or did you use that leak?
if custom, how did you get there? (ie: method used to flash/odin, stock recovery/twrp)
if you're just rooted stock, how do you achieve that? which method for rooting, or was it a rooted rom/oneclick/etc?)
did you do anything just previous to the problem? or "out of the blue"? (it is also vaguely possible it Is a network problem on Sprints end...)
if you're going back to BustBuy, are you unrooted now? do you know how to get back to unrooted? (they may not honor your warr if you are)
the more info you give us, the more likely we will have advice. just saying.
You might want to try resetting sprint login data by ##72786# to see if it helps.
Thank you for the quick response but I finally figured it out. I just reinstalled stock Rom and started fresh.
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Thank you for the quick response but I finally figured it out. I just reinstalled stock Rom and started fresh.
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how exactly did you reinstall stock? i just got this problem after a reboot. i was on viperboy's stock K8 and just did a reboot and found my phone no longer has any network. i had twrp installed, the multi window mod, and the reboot option mod prior to this. i odined back to viperboy's stock J1 and had no resolution. i then went on to odin back to viperboy's stock JC, still nothing. i tried doing a restore from twrp off of J1, JC, and K8. after i reset everything and went back to stock i took the phone into sprint who had no way to fix it and could only offer to order me a refurbished replacement unit for whatever the price was. i have insurance from a third party but more then anything i need to know what exactly caused this and how to repair it. i noticed enough posts about this particular issue that i am hesitant to even think about rooting my next phone. when i do finally get a new one off insurance i of course would like to prevent this issue. however, using insurance after a month of owing my phone for this sort of issue really was not why i got the insurance.
Try this its the 3rd post down posted by garwynn. Flash ur rom and then flash the l900errfixljc.zip. hope this works http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=36181746#post36181746
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Try this its the 3rd post down posted by garwynn. Flash ur rom and then flash the l900errfixljc.zip. hope this works http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=36181746#post36181746
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thanks again, that solved my problem. i still wonder what in the world had my phone acting up in the first place. i believe i was one of the only people who had this just happen on a reboot without moving roms.
Thank you all for this thread. I just recovered from no mobile network as I accidentally flashed the wrong ROM. :good:
The process I had a failed flash that scared the @)*$& out of me. But i believe it flashed the modem.bin before it failed.
Then i flashed CWM again and all was good.
I have a Galaxy Note 2 on the sprint network. Yesterday someone sent me a text and i tried to sent them a text back but my phone didn't have a signal. It reset itself a bunch of times. It stopped resetting and now there is no signal to the tower. I looked on my phone and Baseband version, network, mobile network type say unknown. service state is out of service, username is unavailable. mobile network state is disconnected, my phone number is unknown, min unknown, prl version unknown, meid unknown, imei unknown, iccid unknown. device status modified.
I rooted my phone when i first got it with the method that doesn't make your flash counter go up. I had super user installed and had the OTA survival mode checked and did the OTA update for multiwindow and then lost root. This wasn't a big deal to me so I just left it alone, everything worked. Its been a couple of months and then this happened. I reflashed a stock rom on the phone and that didn't fix anything. I rooted it with the Samsung Note 2 toolkit and that went well. But it somehow got stuck on the boot screen again after a while so i just reflashed to stock.
I downloaded QPST and entered my IMEI into the nv line 550 and clicked the write NV block and returned an error. Im stuck. I have insurance and I've only had the phone a couple of months. What the heck happened? Was it somekind of wipe? I have been working on this all day and I'm going to bed now, but can someone help me out?
I would not have been so quick to start messing with qpst.In most cases where ive seen this the imei and related numbers were fine and it was a system screw up. That said,This happened to me recently and even odin wouldnt fix it. I ran THIS and it brought me back so I would try that first.
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I would not have been so quick to start messing with qpst.In most cases where ive seen this the imei and related numbers were fine and it was a system screw up. That said,This happened to me recently and even odin wouldnt fix it. I ran THIS and it brought me back so I would try that first.
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thanks. I am downloading that now and will try it and let you know. I didn't want to start messing with qpst but i saw a tutorial that you can enter your imei back into your phone with it. i got my numbers off the box and went to work. but qpst would not write the values into my phone.
when i plug the usb into the phone a flag pops up in windows and says hardware id is missing as well.
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I would not have been so quick to start messing with qpst.In most cases where ive seen this the imei and related numbers were fine and it was a system screw up. That said,This happened to me recently and even odin wouldnt fix it. I ran THIS and it brought me back so I would try that first.
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i went to the link. i downloaded the file. it was a zip file so i put it on an sdcard and slapped it in my phone. i used the vol up, home key, and pwr key and then i used the update from zip file on external storage. it did some stuff and rebooted. i checked my flash counter and it went up and said i was running custom, custom.
i didn't see any instructions with your post that you linked and I probably didn't use that file the way it was supposed to be used. how exactly do you use it? and when i turned my phone on it still said baseband unknown.
thanks again for helping me with this.
dd807 said:
i went to the link. i downloaded the file. it was a zip file so i put it on an sdcard and slapped it in my phone. i used the vol up, home key, and pwr key and then i used the update from zip file on external storage. it did some stuff and rebooted. i checked my flash counter and it went up and said i was running custom, custom.
i didn't see any instructions with your post that you linked and I probably didn't use that file the way it was supposed to be used. how exactly do you use it? and when i turned my phone on it still said baseband unknown.
thanks again for helping me with this.
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Do you have Root Explorer? If baseband is showing unknown makes me wonder if build.prop is there and complete...?
It needed flashed in a custom recovery. Did u use twrp or cwm to flash it? If so, you did it right. Is it only the baseband thats unknown or everything still? Did you try a ##72786# dialer code reset?
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Do you have Root Explorer? If baseband is showing unknown makes me wonder if build.prop is there and complete...?
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I don't have root explorer on here right now because I was trying to return the phone back to stock for a return to the sprint store.
I used the stock rom that you download from the samsung note 2 tool kit. how do i check what your talking about?
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It needed flashed in a custom recovery. Did u use twrp or cwm to flash it? If so, you did it right. Is it only the baseband thats unknown or everything still? Did you try a ##72786# dialer code reset?
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everything is still unknown.
when i dial ##72786# it goes to a meny labeled SCRTN but is blank with no options.
at this point I used triangle away and flashed the stock rom on my phone, it keeps randomly resetting. in the setttings it still has baseband unknown. i did the ota update and the build number is JROO3C.L900VPALJC
under status, everything is unknown and at the botton it says device modified.
when i put it into download mode right now it says custum binary: no ; current binary: samsung official; system status: custom
this started when the phone just started resetting a bunch after my buddy texted me and then it didn't have service and all the values were wiped, i just want to take it back to sprint because ive only had it for a couple of months. will the above values be ok for a trip to the sprint store?
billard412 said:
It needed flashed in a custom recovery. Did u use twrp or cwm to flash it? If so, you did it right. Is it only the baseband thats unknown or everything still? Did you try a ##72786# dialer code reset?
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i didnt use twrp or cwm to flash it. just used the factory recovery to. i will use twrp to do it now. thanks man.
billard412 said:
It needed flashed in a custom recovery. Did u use twrp or cwm to flash it? If so, you did it right. Is it only the baseband thats unknown or everything still? Did you try a ##72786# dialer code reset?
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i think i have a corrupted EFS. can anyone help?
I had this happen to me when I first got the phone and rooted. Scariest first day of ownership thought I was going to have to go in to sprint. Thankfully I flashed the full stock tar and my phone came back to life. Maybe you should try flashing it and see how it turns out for you.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2035566
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RayTrue04 said:
I had this happen to me when I first got the phone and rooted. Scariest first day of ownership thought I was going to have to go in to sprint. Thankfully I flashed the full stock tar and my phone came back to life. Maybe you should try flashing it and see how it turns out for you.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2035566
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I went back to full stock with :http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2086769
i also went baclk to full stock using the samsung note 2 toolkit and triangle away.
both methods left me with custom binary as no and current binary as samsung offical, but system status says custom.
both ways.
and the screenshots that i posted earlier are the same.
i found this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1611796
and i think i have a corrupt EFS.
as it is, does the spring store take your phone back if system status is custom and device says modified?
b.) if i can fix it, it would be better than taking it back. everything on the phone still works, but it obviously cant see a cell phone tower or make calls. data on wifi only type deal.
thanks for any help...
dd807 said:
I went back to full stock with :http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2086769
i also went baclk to full stock using the samsung note 2 toolkit and triangle away.
both methods left me with custom binary as no and current binary as samsung offical, but system status says custom.
both ways.
and the screenshots that i posted earlier are the same.
i found this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1611796
and i think i have a corrupt EFS.
as it is, does the spring store take your phone back if system status is custom and device says modified?
b.) if i can fix it, it would be better than taking it back. everything on the phone still works, but it obviously cant see a cell phone tower or make calls. data on wifi only type deal.
thanks for any help...
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I'm not familiar with that EFS issue since I've never read about it. However I would try that tar I posted as a last resort since the stock zip didn't do anything for you. The issue you're describing is the exact same thing that happened to me and that tar brought me back. And about being custom/modified it all depends on the Sprint Rep you get. Some are cool about it some are not.
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i just downloaded root explorer.
i think im having some efs issues. i downloaded efs pro to help with it but it says my phone is not perm rooted. but i do have root right now.
btw- the galaxy note 2 tool kit is friggin awesome- totally donating.
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I'm not familiar with that EFS issue since I've never read about it. However I would try that tar I posted as a last resort since the stock zip didn't do anything for you. The issue you're describing is the exact same thing that happened to me and that tar brought me back. And about being custom/modified it all depends on the Sprint Rep you get. Some are cool about it some are not.
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thanks, ill try it. i mean- whats one more flash right? could fix it. fingers crossed. thanks for your help man.
ill let you know.
also to everyone helping, i made a backup of all my system settings with my backup pro app before all this happened. i was wondering if it backs up your efs data anywhere and if it does, how could i get it back on my phone?
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RayTrue04 said:
I had this happen to me when I first got the phone and rooted. Scariest first day of ownership thought I was going to have to go in to sprint. Thankfully I flashed the full stock tar and my phone came back to life. Maybe you should try flashing it and see how it turns out for you.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2035566
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flashed the sextape back to stock rom and it didn't work. i think my efs is corrupted- gunna take something more than flashing- like editing some files to put my meid and other info and pushing it back to my phone.
looking at this right now:http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2060085
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flashed the sextape back to stock rom and it didn't work. i think my efs is corrupted- gunna take something more than flashing- like editing some files to put my meid and other info and pushing it back to my phone.
looking at this right now:http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2060085
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Damn that sucks! I really thought it might bring you back since it worked for me. Good luck!
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my phone is screwed. i got the MSL and put it in my phone and nothing happens. i have to take it back and get a new one.even though all the hardware works, just cant program the info back in the phone for meid, baseband, username, icc id, etc. etc. so no voice calls.
the bummer is that this all happened randomly. i wasn't messing with my phone at all and it was running great then it reset a bunch of times and then wiped everything. i don't know if it would have helped, but i highly reccomend everyone backing up their EFS. because you never know when this will happen to you.
take care, thanks for the help everyone.
So running the latest version of Darthstalker for close to a week, all of a sudden I had no radio. No wifi, no signal, nothing. I came home and downloaded the stock odin, and nothing happened. I wiped phone and factory reset, did it again, nothing. Then I did the samsung official odin, and now I only have wifi. I re-rooted and put Frosty on my phone and installed ktoonz kernel to see if this made any difference, and it didn't. I still only have wifi. I still have my imei # in settings, so i didnt lose it like i did on my note 2. I really don't know what to do at this point. Im sure it's fixable, and I've seen other people with the problem, but all people say to do is odin. I used both odin files in the odin thread and I still only have wifi. I need signal for this phone, so many people for work etc. Can anybody help me? thanks in advance.
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So running the latest version of Darthstalker for close to a week, all of a sudden I had no radio. No wifi, no signal, nothing. I came home and downloaded the stock odin, and nothing happened. I wiped phone and factory reset, did it again, nothing. Then I did the samsung official odin, and now I only have wifi. I re-rooted and put Frosty on my phone and installed ktoonz kernel to see if this made any difference, and it didn't. I still only have wifi. I still have my imei # in settings, so i didnt lose it like i did on my note 2. I really don't know what to do at this point. Im sure it's fixable, and I've seen other people with the problem, but all people say to do is odin. I used both odin files in the odin thread and I still only have wifi. I need signal for this phone, so many people for work etc. Can anybody help me? thanks in advance.
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Ok, I'll send you a message.
Bump. Still can't use phone.
Check apn?
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have you made sure sure apn is there and the setting correct as well as the apn being enabled( having the green dot)
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Bump. Still can't use phone.
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Even further when u odin again, see if u see the modem.bin being flashed
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Even further when u odin again, see if u see the modem.bin being flashed
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Thread closed, turned out guy committed insurance fraud and got another handset and my imei # is now blacklisted
That's not real unless u think it is.
Id be livid if i was you.
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So far Ive had nothing but issues with this phone... rooting went fine, but after flashing carbon rom i stopped connecting to 4g. Tried a port of aosp as well, same happened. So i used the flashable zip located here to return to stock, and got an error after the reboot saying "could not mount /preload", but it seemed to finish successfully. Once booted, still no 4g. So i decided to use an odin one click from here but it failed at sboot.bin. now it wont boot... Ive been working with android for a while, never had this many issues (except trying to get jb on the infuse... that was fun . So i guess my goal now is just to get it fully functional again (including 4g), and if possible a TW based rom with working 4g...
On a side note, all of my flashes were clean, and i was using the stock kernel most of the time (tried to use plasma but kept getting phone FCs...) and Im 99% sure all the files i used were for this phone varient (L900, right)
Any help guys?
EDIT: I also realize after hours of reading that 4g WAS an issue with recent builds due to the new RIL blobs, but that doesnt explain why stock wont connect...???
Maybe a bad download? A couple of those one click files have been wanky for me in the past. Which one did you use?
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Having the same issue here. Good to know its not me. Recently went back to stock/unrooted after having issues with PATB's latest release. Noticed when I got back to stock, I had no 4G. So, I've since rooted and loaded Synergy's latest build. ROM is great, but still no 4G. I've tried updating PRL, FIRMWARE and making sure I'm on CDMA/LTE. I wouldn't think its a bad DL since its 3 different ROMS doing the same thing... Looking for help too
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Maybe a bad download? A couple of those one click files have been wanky for me in the past. Which one did you use?
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Are the links not clickable? The link for both files should be in my first post. As far as a bad DL, it passed the md5, so im not sure why it failed... does anyone have a working tar of the LJC stock? This isnt even my phone, my friend needs it back before work tomorrow. Thats what happens when you get cocky. You think youve got things down pat then things end up broken :/ just shows how careful you need to be i guess...
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got it back working! turns out the bootloader wont write if your on the updated stock rom, so i used one that doesnt need to write the BL. also, this tar.md5 completely restored functionality, including 4g! so if your having issues, use the tar.md5 from here . its an older version of stock, but it works!
there is also a one click file, but i cannot verify if it works or not.
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Are the links not clickable? The link for both files should be in my first post. As far as a bad DL, it passed the md5, so im not sure why it failed... does anyone have a working tar of the LJC stock? This isnt even my phone, my friend needs it back before work tomorrow. Thats what happens when you get cocky. You think youve got things down pat then things end up broken :/ just shows how careful you need to be i guess...
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got it back working! turns out the bootloader wont write if your on the updated stock rom, so i used one that doesnt need to write the BL. also, this tar.md5 completely restored functionality, including 4g! so if your having issues, use the tar.md5 from here . its an older version of stock, but it works!
there is also a one click file, but i cannot verify if it works or not.
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I won't recommend this one as it was a build based on an update zip. Please use MC2 instead or Billard412's Back to LJC stock zip if needed.
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