My note 2 is less than a month old. i had a bad flashing experience after flashing MIUI Rom for my phone on the note 2 android development thread.This was my first rom flashing on the phone. I luckily backed up my EFS.img before flashing. After flashing the rom i lost my IMEI...i had another issues with the rom hence restored nandroid backup of my phone using CWM. & since then after restoring my EFS.img each time i will get my IMEI back but if i reboot my phone for any reason the IMEI is wiped out. I have tried restoring using the command from the elevated Terminal emulator & using EFS pro tool.
Still the same...each time i have to restart my phone i will lose my IMEI.
is there any way of keeping my EFS partition or IMEI intact after each reboot . I am on stock ROM but i didnt flash it back using ODIN as i mentioned earlier i restored my nandroid backup.
Any help will be greatly appreciated...Please help
rohit83 said:
My note 2 is less than a month old. i had a bad flashing experience after flashing MIUI Rom for my phone on the note 2 android development thread.This was my first rom flashing on the phone. I luckily backed up my EFS.img before flashing. After flashing the rom i lost my IMEI...i had another issues with the rom hence restored nandroid backup of my phone using CWM. & since then after restoring my EFS.img each time i will get my IMEI back but if i reboot my phone for any reason the IMEI is wiped out. I have tried restoring using the command from the elevated Terminal emulator & using EFS pro tool.
Still the same...each time i have to restart my phone i will lose my IMEI.
is there any way of keeping my EFS partition or IMEI intact after each reboot . I am on stock ROM but i didnt flash it back using ODIN as i mentioned earlier i restored my nandroid backup.
Any help will be greatly appreciated...Please help
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it seems that the backup u created u must have left your efs in selecting while backup thus the recovery backup is not giving your imei back rather u are doing it manually so once u get it done , I would suggest to flash fresh using odin
shhbz said:
it seems that the backup u created u must have left your efs in selecting while backup thus the recovery backup is not giving your imei back rather u are doing it manually so once u get it done , I would suggest to flash fresh using odin
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Thanks for your reply...tried that but flashing stock rom using odin didnt help ...still the IMEI is wiped after each restart of the phone..
any other suggestions please...
rohit83 said:
Thanks for your reply...tried that but flashing stock rom using odin didnt help ...still the IMEI is wiped after each restart of the phone..
any other suggestions please...
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flash the pit partition first using odin and then the stock it should solve the issue permanently if not take it to service center
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=31801134&postcount=4
download pit from here and then flash the stock rom
if you dont want to take risk just go stock completely and use triangle away and get your status normal and count zero and give it to ss saying that the imei gets off. let them solve
shhbz said:
flash the pit partition first using odin and then the stock it should solve the issue permanently if not take it to service center
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=31801134&postcount=4
download pit from here and then flash the stock rom
if you dont want to take risk just go stock completely and use triangle away and get your status normal and count zero and give it to ss saying that the imei gets off. let them solve
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thanks again for your time & reply...before flashing the pit partition i would like to know what are the risks involved in flashing pit...do i need to backup my data on internal memory..i flashed pit on my samsung galaxy s advance a few months back to recover the complete storage space on it as it was reduced to 4 gb from 16 gb after flashing jellybean update from sammobile.com..so tell me what are the risks involved & what does flashing pit actually does on the phone..
looking forward for your reply
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rohit83 said:
thanks again for your time & reply...before flashing the pit partition i would like to know what are the risks involved in flashing pit...do i need to backup my data on internal memory..i flashed pit on my samsung galaxy s advance a few months back to recover the complete storage space on it as it was reduced to 4 gb from 16 gb after flashing jellybean update from sammobile.com..so tell me what are the risks involved & what does flashing pit actually does on the phone..
looking forward for your reply
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btw...before installing stock rom via ODIN i put the phone in the download mode & as it had to restart to go into download mode the IMEI was wiped automatically as that was the issue...but i flashed stock firmware via ODIN & as the phone booted up IMEI was not there & hence i restored i using EFS pro again & i now i have checked it the IMEI stays after the phone restart...so the issue is fixed...thanks a ton for your reply & help :good::good:
I wanted to get all of your opinion on backing up the IMEI.
My situation is, I had rooted last year with the s3 toolkit. 1st rom I flashed was paranoid android then now i'm always flashing Task's AOKP. I'm currently on an older release of his rom (5-21-13) and i've probably flashed it a dozen times without any problems.
My question is, should I continue flashing this rom even though I have not backed up my IMEI or EFS folder or should I flash back to stock right away then, backup IMEI/EFS and continue flashing task's rom? Are the chances high of losing IMEI even though i've flashed the same rom for at least a year now?
I have an AT&T SGH-I747 with baseband DLK3.
In addition, if I were to flash back to stock, can I just use this? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2161667
Unfortunately the download link is no longer there so would anyone have a copy?
Also, would this be the best / easiest way to backup the IMEI as of right now? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1804117
Thank you!:cyclops:
promidgetmafia said:
I wanted to get all of your opinion on backing up the IMEI.
My situation is, I had rooted last year with the s3 toolkit. 1st rom I flashed was paranoid android then now i'm always flashing Task's AOKP. I'm currently on an older release of his rom (5-21-13) and i've probably flashed it a dozen times without any problems.
My question is, should I continue flashing this rom even though I have not backed up my IMEI or EFS folder or should I flash back to stock right away then, backup IMEI/EFS and continue flashing task's rom? Are the chances high of losing IMEI even though i've flashed the same rom for at least a year now?
I have an AT&T SGH-I747 with baseband DLK3.
In addition, if I were to flash back to stock, can I just use this? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2161667
Unfortunately the download link is no longer there so would anyone have a copy?
Also, would this be the best / easiest way to backup the IMEI as of right now? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1804117
Thank you!:cyclops:
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I don't know about backing up your IMEI but if you want to switch back to stock 4.1.1 I recommend using this instead: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2363882
It worked like a charm when I was on LK3
always have a backup... as for me i have a copy in my 2 emails, dropbox, work hdd and home hdd... fixing qualcomm imei its much easy and anyone could fix them, in exynos cpu the history its diferent...
backup it with EFSpro, even the tool have option to fix qualcomm imei... read about them, its easy...
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carlosm15 said:
always have a backup... as for me i have a copy in my 2 emails, dropbox, work hdd and home hdd... fixing qualcomm imei its much easy and anyone could fix them, in exynos cpu the history its diferent...
backup it with EFSpro, even the tool have option to fix qualcomm imei... read about them, its easy...
Sent from my GT-I9500 using xda app-developers app
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Unfortunately EFSpro will only let me do the option under backup on EFS Professional to backup the tz, efs, modemst1, and modemst2. Qualcomm crashes due to me currently being on AOSP. Looks like you must be on stock in order to use that. Any tools that will work for other roms besides stock?
carlosm15 said:
always have a backup... as for me i have a copy in my 2 emails, dropbox, work hdd and home hdd... fixing qualcomm imei its much easy and anyone could fix them, in exynos cpu the history its diferent...
backup it with EFSpro, even the tool have option to fix qualcomm imei... read about them, its easy...
Sent from my GT-I9500 using xda app-developers app
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AshishPyala said:
I don't know about backing up your IMEI but if you want to switch back to stock 4.1.1 I recommend using this instead: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2363882
It worked like a charm when I was on LK3
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If I were to go back to stock it would simply be to backup the IMEI then flash back to AOSP right away. It looks like that restores stock everything (stock kernel, stock rom, and stock recovery)
I would like to keep my recovery but flash stock rom for AT&T S3 through TWRP so I can keep my recovery.
I backed up my imei because the more posts I read, the more it seemed like having a backup would be crucial if you wanted to restore and be successful.
Since that stock rom that I linked to was no longer active, I searched my old backups and found a stock CWM nandroid backup I made after I rooted. I was on TWRP so I flashed the recovery back to CWM via rom manager. Restore the stock nandroid I made then backed up my IMEI.
Switched back to TWRP and made a nandroid backup of the stock rom with twrp so I don't have to mess with recoveries in the future.
Flashed my 5-21 nandroid that was Task's AOSP then just updated to his latest 9-10 release.
All is great and I have a full NV backup.
Thank you all for the suggestions.
promidgetmafia said:
I backed up my imei because the more posts I read, the more it seemed like having a backup would be crucial if you wanted to restore and be successful.
Since that stock rom that I linked to was no longer active, I searched my old backups and found a stock CWM nandroid backup I made after I rooted. I was on TWRP so I flashed the recovery back to CWM via rom manager. Restore the stock nandroid I made then backed up my IMEI.
Switched back to TWRP and made a nandroid backup of the stock rom with twrp so I don't have to mess with recoveries in the future.
Flashed my 5-21 nandroid that was Task's AOSP then just updated to his latest 9-10 release.
All is great and I have a full NV backup.
Thank you all for the suggestions.
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Could you walk me through on how to have a full NV backup? Also how would I restore it if I ever needed to? I wanna know just in case I ever lose my imei.
AshishPyala said:
Could you walk me through on how to have a full NV backup? Also how would I restore it if I ever needed to? I wanna know just in case I ever lose my imei.
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Download a terminal app(root required one) then type su enter reboot nvbackup.
To restore it's su reboot nvrestore.
!!!!!!DO NOT RESTORE BEFORE YOU BACKUP!!!! You will overwrite nv with empty data possibly losing imei forever.
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thepoetlives89 said:
Download a terminal app(root required one) then type su enter reboot nvbackup.
To restore it's su reboot nvrestore.
!!!!!!DO NOT RESTORE BEFORE YOU BACKUP!!!! You will overwrite nv with empty data possibly losing imei forever.
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Thanks homie!
So this is the situation,
I have SPH-l710 Rooted with CWM, I THOUGHT I made a backup of my stock system.....It made a image.zip and an image directory. SOOOO I flashed the phone with CM121...........In light of all the issues I could not get my camera to work with any app, them CM121 updated, Google play got stuck in a error force close loop that could only be avoided by logging into a separate user account on lollipop. Which is where the camera began to work oddly enough. Anyways I use my camera constantly and wanted to revert back to my 4.4.2 kitkat. SOOOO I booted into recovery and when I selected restore it couldnt find anything. So I installed from the image.zip and everything appeared to be fine EXECPT I couldnt get passed the second samsung logo right after the animation. Just stuck........How can I restore my poor phone back to my system image I have saved?
I tried this multiple times, then just reloaded CM121. PLEASE HELP!!!!!
the wipe/factory reset
wipe cache
wipe dalvik x 3
You could Odin back to stock. What modem are you on? (Ex. nj3, nd8, etc)
Powered_By_Linux said:
You could Odin back to stock. What modem are you on? (Ex. nj3, nd8, etc)
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L710VPUCNJ3
I did find an image.zip and an image directory with my full phone backup i assume minus the damn splash screen that started this whole thing in the first place. Would I just use odin to flash the image.zip file to restore my original os or would I use CMW and install from zip and use the image.zip file?
And thank you for replying, it's hard to get anyone to help sometimes.
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I did find an image.zip and an image directory with my full phone backup i assume minus the damn splash screen that started this whole thing in the first place. Would I just use odin to flash the image.zip file to restore my original os or would I use CMW and install from zip and use the image.zip file?
And thank you for replying, it's hard to get anyone to help sometimes.
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If you Odin to stock, you need a computer. You download the program (sadly Odin is leaked software so it's pretty shady; you could give Heimdall a shot but it didn't work for me, also Odin is Windows only and Heimdall is cross-platform) and then you download a .tar of a stock image and you plug your phone in in download mode and flash it.
However, there is no nj3 modem so you need to use an older one. Is your phone sprint, Virgin Mobile, boost, etc?
Edit: give this thread a look for info on stock .tars http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=3121212
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Here's a good thread on instructions for flashing the ndc modem. If you use sprint, flashing nj2 should be the same process, just a different .tar. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2774333
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If you Odin to stock, you need a computer. You download the program (sadly Odin is leaked software so it's pretty shady; you could give Heimdall a shot but it didn't work for me, also Odin is Windows only and Heimdall is cross-platform) and then you download a .tar of a stock image and you plug your phone in in download mode and flash it.
However, there is no nj3 modem so you need to use an older one. Is your phone sprint, Virgin Mobile, boost, etc?
Edit: give this thread a look for info on stock .tars http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=3121212
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I have Odin already from when I flashed cmw 6+ to the phone, but before I installed cm12.1 I used clockworkmod and made a backup image. It created a image.zip file, will this contain my original stock but rooted image?
aanddink said:
I have Odin already from when I flashed cmw 6+ to the phone, but before I installed cm12.1 I used clockworkmod and made a backup image. It created a image.zip file, will this contain my original stock but rooted image?
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I would assume so, however, I'm not sure. I've only used TWRP and a little Philz for recovery. Afraid I can't help you there, but someone else (or Google lol) might know
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I would assume so, however, I'm not sure. I've only used TWRP and a little Philz for recovery. Afraid I can't help you there, but someone else (or Google lol) might know
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OK I understand thanks, one more thing if I assume its a full backup of the phone would Odin be better to restore with or use whatever software created the backup?
aanddink said:
OK I understand thanks, one more thing if I assume its a full backup of the phone would Odin be better to restore with or use whatever software created the backup?
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I think Odin can only flash tars. Ideally, you'd want to restore the backup with the software that made it.
aanddink said:
I have Odin already from when I flashed cmw 6+ to the phone, but before I installed cm12.1 I used clockworkmod and made a backup image. It created a image.zip file, will this contain my original stock but rooted image?
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Cwm recovery does not create zip files. If you made a full backup in cwm it should contain system, data, and boot img files. Restore it in cwm recovery.
But to go back to KitKat from lollipop you must wipe internal storage in clockworkmod recovery first .(if that's the recovery you are using).
By the way cwm is pretty crappy. After you fix it, install twrp recovery.
madbat99 said:
Cwm recovery does not create zip files. If you made a full backup in cwm it should contain system, data, and boot img files. Restore it in cwm recovery.
But to go back to KitKat from lollipop you must wipe internal storage in clockworkmod recovery first .(if that's the recovery you are using).
By the way cwm is pretty crappy. After you fix it, install twrp recovery.
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Thanks for the reply, been tryin to get help for a while. So my version of CMW has the option to create an image backup & also create the same backup in zip format. Inside the zip and inside the image directory they have the boot img files and the system data and ect. I have 2 questions, 1 is what part of the internal storage needs to be wiped? I assume you mean format the system directory? which would wipe the os out at that point? And second since I have cmw installed if I wanted to put twrp on and not wipe the system yet would I need to just use odin and flash it to overwrite cmw? I installed cmw with odin to root the phone originally, cmw is not restoring my backups at all correctly so I would love something that would really work.
aanddink said:
Thanks for the reply, been tryin to get help for a while. So my version of CMW has the option to create an image backup & also create the same backup in zip format. Inside the zip and inside the image directory they have the boot img files and the system data and ect. I have 2 questions, 1 is what part of the internal storage needs to be wiped? I assume you mean format the system directory? which would wipe the os out at that point? And second since I have cmw installed if I wanted to put twrp on and not wipe the system yet would I need to just use odin and flash it to overwrite cmw? I installed cmw with odin to root the phone originally, cmw is not restoring my backups at all correctly so I would love something that would really work.
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By wiping internal storage, I mean internal sd card (data/media) not system.
If you cannot restore your backup, and are not worried about losing your data, I would recommend using odin to flash the whole stock .tar and starting fresh from scratch. Then re root by using odin to install twrp.
If you are on boost or virgin Mobile use the ndc tar.
madbat99 said:
By wiping internal storage, I mean internal sd card (data/media) not system.
If you cannot restore your backup, and are not worried about losing your data, I would recommend using odin to flash the whole stock .tar and starting fresh from scratch. Then re root by using odin to install twrp.
If you are on boost or virgin Mobile use the ndc tar.
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Thanks for the info, I will look into the tar I just need to make sure it's compatible with NJ3 and I am on Virgin mobile. I attached a snapshot of the file cmw created, Im pretty sure I saw a post on how to convert that into a flash-able tar file by combining them into one. That backup is clean except for a screwy boot splash screen and being rooted but besides that it was the first backup. Do you know if twrp has any issues with CM12.1? If I can flash my backup and un-root I would be able to start from scratch and do it the right way this time. I attached the snapshot just for your opinion on if I can use my backup from my phone if you dont mind, also to install twrp if I can use my backup I would need to unroot then re-root with twrp correct? Any thanks so much for the responses
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Thanks for the info, I will look into the tar I just need to make sure it's compatible with NJ3 and I am on Virgin mobile. I attached a snapshot of the file cmw created, Im pretty sure I saw a post on how to convert that into a flash-able tar file by combining them into one. That backup is clean except for a screwy boot splash screen and being rooted but besides that it was the first backup. Do you know if twrp has any issues with CM12.1? If I can flash my backup and un-root I would be able to start from scratch and do it the right way this time. I attached the snapshot just for your opinion on if I can use my backup from my phone if you dont mind, also to install twrp if I can use my backup I would need to unroot then re-root with twrp correct? Any thanks so much for the responses
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If you put that back on your phone in the clockworkmod folder just restore it? If you flash the ndc tar in odin you will be stock unrooted. Ndc is the build before nj3. There is no nj3 tar so ndc is fine. If you manage to restore your backup and get going, you can just get the app flashify from the play store to install twrp. Get the image file of twrp 2.8.7.0 for sprint (d2spr) and install in flashify. Get it from twrp website.
Your backup only has system in it, it has no data. Next time do a full backup. System, data, and boot. You're trying to go from cm12.1 lollipop to KitKat touchwiz without a data wipe and restore. Won't work.
Honestly dude, you seem to have limited knowledge on this. Don't take that the wrong way at all. To save us both some time and get your phone working, just follow this
It's fine to flash over nj3. I'm on virgin Mobile and I've done it a couple times. Also do a factory reset to wipe data. Also wipe internal storage (data/media).
madbat99 said:
If you put that back on your phone in the clockworkmod folder just restore it? If you flash the ndc tar in odin you will be stock unrooted. Ndc is the build before nj3. There is no nj3 tar so ndc is fine. If you manage to restore your backup and get going, you can just get the app flashify from the play store to install twrp. Get the image file of twrp 2.8.7.0 for sprint (d2spr) and install in flashify. Get it from twrp website.
Your backup only has system in it, it has no data. Next time do a full backup. System, data, and boot. You're trying to go from cm12.1 lollipop to KitKat touchwiz without a data wipe and restore. Won't work.
Honestly dude, you seem to have limited knowledge on this. Don't take that the wrong way at all. To save us both some time and get your phone working, just follow this
It's fine to flash over nj3. I'm on virgin Mobile and I've done it a couple times. Also do a factory reset to wipe data. Also wipe internal storage (data/media).
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Not taken the wrong way, I am limited knowledge on the subject and that's why I ended up with problems. I appreciate the help since I could not get anyone to respond.
madbat99 said:
If you put that back on your phone in the clockworkmod folder just restore it? If you flash the ndc tar in odin you will be stock unrooted. Ndc is the build before nj3. There is no nj3 tar so ndc is fine. If you manage to restore your backup and get going, you can just get the app flashify from the play store to install twrp. Get the image file of twrp 2.8.7.0 for sprint (d2spr) and install in flashify. Get it from twrp website.
Your backup only has system in it, it has no data. Next time do a full backup. System, data, and boot. You're trying to go from cm12.1 lollipop to KitKat touchwiz without a data wipe and restore. Won't work.
Honestly dude, you seem to have limited knowledge on this. Don't take that the wrong way at all. To save us both some time and get your phone working, just follow this
It's fine to flash over nj3. I'm on virgin Mobile and I've done it a couple times. Also do a factory reset to wipe data. Also wipe internal storage (data/media).
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I appreciate the link, understand the process. Just wondering the link to the .tar file is broken (at least for the moment) I will continue to try it, do you know if the zip file from samsung-updates " L710VPUDND8 firmware version for Galaxy S 3 LTE (Sprint) "
will work also?
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I appreciate the link, understand the process. Just wondering the link to the .tar file is broken (at least for the moment) I will continue to try it, do you know if the zip file from samsung-updates " L710VPUDND8 firmware version for Galaxy S 3 LTE (Sprint) "
will work also?
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Nd8 will work, however nj2 is the sprint equivalent to nj3 (latest update). It works fine. It's the last one I used. You may need to do the dialer activation code to get service working after you flash. I think it's ##72786# . I'll check.
here is nj2.
I was on stock rooted NK2. My home button broke and I sent the phone to Samsung. Before I did I did a Nandroid backup in TWRP on to my SD card and pulled it before I sent it in. When the phone returned it booted fine I went into TWRP to restore. After restoring it bootlooped. I tried wiping and restoring several more times with same result. I then tried to flash in ODIN the same stock NK2 tar I started with originally and it failed several times. I went back to TWRP and wiped everthing again to start over. The internal storage is now unaccessable. I can see the phone through the file manager when I am in TWRP but cannot add a file. Now when I try to restore the original backup I get this message "No partitions selected for restore". I am lost and cannot find a relevant thread to help. Has anyone seen this? Thanks for the help
Also when the phone returned from Samsung I did not check to see what firmware it was on. I am thinking they updated that while it was there.
I bet you that they did update to OE1 or OF5, at which point you cannot go back to anything earlier like NK2. I think your only choice is to Odin OF5 and you'll have to start all over with your apps/data. Unless you did a TitaniumBackup.
I did a titanium backup but nothing will ODIN I have not tried OE5. Is that what you suggest? Do you have a link to the stock TAR it can't hurt to try at this point.
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I did a titanium backup but nothing will ODIN I have not tried OE5. Is that what you suggest? Do you have a link to the stock TAR it can't hurt to try at this point.
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OF5 stock Tar
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=61877147&postcount=1