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[Q] Network problem

I have network problems, i have the correct imei, serial number and baseband but in the phone status says "network unknown"i don't have an efs backup, and my actual efs folder doesn't have any of the nv files, another thing is that the phone has signal bars even without the sim card, i have done a lot of factory resets, flashes thru odin but nothing works, can anybody help me to solve my issue please? Sorry if my english isn't good since is not my native language...thanks in advance

Wrong modem.

Thanks for your reply but I don't think that is a modem problem because I've flashed all the possible modems and still the same way, another thing is that I entered to the secret menu and did a erase of efs 1 2 3 or something, is there a way to recover or fix that problem? Please help me I am desperate

if you erased your "efs", your phone is toast

wase4711 said:
if you erased your "efs", your phone is toast
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So there isn't any way to restore it?

well, I assume you made a back up of everything before you started flashing and installing all sorts of files on your phone...

wase4711 said:
well, I assume you made a back up of everything before you started flashing and installing all sorts of files on your phone...
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I didn't do any backup, so I'm screwed right?

[RESOLVED] Formatted Factory - Lost IMEI - Please Help!

Hi, apparently some genius developing CWM decided it would be fun to allow the factory partition to be formatted with the newest versions of CWM (I'm on 6.0.4.6). Well guess what, I managed to format it on my GNex (it's quite easy to do actually).
Anyways, I've lost my IMEI data and unable to access mobile network (data connectivity is fine, however, surprisingly). Somebody please help me restore my IMEI because I don't have a nandroid backup either.
Thanks a lot!

Deleted, did a search on IMEI and found a bunch of threads. Reading them now...

pherder said:
Deleted, did a search on IMEI and found a bunch of threads. Reading them now...
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Paul how did you manage to mess up your phone? Was it the same way I did? The thing is, all is not lost, I'm absolutely certain of that. It's not a brick until it absolutely and completely refuses to power up...
@osm0sis, can you please help me out here? I know there was even an IMEI changing tool but most probably considered illegal or something by the "powers that be" and hence removed most likely. I just need my original phone IMEI back, that's all. Thanks a lot!

rahimali said:
Paul how did you manage to mess up your phone? Was it the same way I did? The thing is, all is not lost, I'm absolutely certain of that. It's not a brick until it absolutely and completely refuses to power up...
@osm0sis, can you please help me out here? I know there was even an IMEI changing tool but most probably considered illegal or something by the "powers that be" and hence removed most likely. I just need my original phone IMEI back, that's all. Thanks a lot!
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I think I screwed up and flashed my phone with the wrong image (LTE instead of CDMA) that wiped the factory info and all the attempts I have tried do not do anything to get the phone back. I have a nice tablet that just upgraded to 4.3 via WiFi since it isn't on the Verizon network.
Paul

pherder said:
I think I screwed up and flashed my phone with the wrong image (LTE instead of CDMA) that wiped the factory info and all the attempts I have tried do not do anything to get the phone back. I have a nice tablet that just upgraded to 4.3 via WiFi since it isn't on the Verizon network.
Paul
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My maguro CWM thread has all the info you need explained several times. Check it out.

osm0sis said:
My maguro CWM thread has all the info you need explained several times. Check it out.
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i have gone through your cwm thread. it's suggested taking it to a shop and getting it fixed with spt box or something. unfortunately, i can't do that because nobody in my location has anything even remotely similar to one of those. apart from that, i've done everything i could think of, flashed radios, flashed stock samsung rom, flashed google factory images. what else would you suggest?
i don't have a prior nandroid either

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Problem solved. Took it to repair shop and got it fixed. Everyone that helped or tried to help, thanks a lot! Mods please close thread, thanks!

I was thinking more along the lines of restoring a backup and grabbing what you need to fix Factory from Radio, which was detailed a couple of times.
Glad you got it fixed, nonetheless. :good:

rahimali said:
Problem solved. Took it to repair shop and got it fixed. Everyone that helped or tried to help, thanks a lot! Mods please close thread, thanks!
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Did you ask them how they fixed it?? we need to know so we can help others..:--))

osm0sis said:
I was thinking more along the lines of restoring a backup and grabbing what you need to fix Factory from Radio, which was detailed a couple of times.
Glad you got it fixed, nonetheless. :good:
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i didn't have a nandroid, nothing in factory since i had wiped it accidentally via the new cwm's new ""feature". i didn't like twrp until now but i ain't budging from it now that cwm has screwed me up so bad!
buhohitr said:
Did you ask them how they fixed it?? we need to know so we can help others..:--))
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the guy connected it to a couple of external devices which in turn were connected to his pc, i guess one of them was something along the lines of an spt box, the other thing looked like a miniature spaceship, so maybe ET was involved in fixing it as well...

Not CWM's fault, though I definitely understand your sentiment. But "with great power.."
I make damn sure I know what I'm pressing Yes on when I'm wiping.

osm0sis said:
Not CWM's fault, though I definitely understand your sentiment. But "with great power.."
I make damn sure I know what I'm pressing Yes on when I'm wiping.
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with great power comes great tragedy
anyways, I was just browsing through my phone with root explorer and with twrp's file manager and surprisingly there's no efs folder there! is that normal?
i've taken a twrp nandroid backup to include efs as well but i'm thinking to take a raw backup as well as described here. i've also copied the /factory and /data/radio folders.
i was wondering whether flashing a stock samsung ROM might result in the creation of the efs folder? on yakju 4.2.2 stock google image right now...

Nah efs is the partition but it's mounted to /factory :good:

osm0sis said:
Nah efs is the partition but it's mounted to /factory :good:
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That's great thanks!., I'll clean flash 4.3 yakju in a day or two and see if the IMEI sticks after the wipes. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to backup using EFS Commander or the terminal/shell commands (got error both ways) so I'm hoping the TWRP backup (without MD5) and manual file copy should be sufficient insurance...

IMEI

Guys im haveing some F***ed up problem
i lost my imei ..so i tried to get it back from the back of the phone under the Battery
358665450367773
this is it..but everywhere i check the site says it should be 358665450367774 (last number is 4 not 3)
and even thou..it says that the device is unknown :\

Help me out guys !

PHOENIX-9 said:
Help me out guys !
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Have you tried flashing stock rom?

Gervin said:
In there defense though, the threads have been fairly stale for a while. No harm in someone asking if there is still a pulse.
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Restore your recent efs backup if you have it. If you don't have efs backup,service center is the only option left for you.

erljayp said:
Have you tried flashing stock rom?
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Yup..

mannyvinny said:
Restore your recent efs backup if you have it. If you don't have efs backup,service center is the only option left for you.
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We don't have them here
just to make sure..I'm having a massive problem with the sleep and power..is it related to the imei??
Or just the network

PHOENIX-9 said:
is it related to the imei??
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Afaik, a wrong IMEI affects the network connectivity of the device. I've read that flashing a stock rom then restoring efs backup can help repair it.

erljayp said:
Afaik, a wrong IMEI affects the network connectivity of the device. I've read that flashing a stock rom then restoring efs backup can help repair it.
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Okay..will try it
so it's not related to the power issues !?

PHOENIX-9 said:
so it's not related to the power issues !?
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What do you mean by power issues?

PHOENIX-9 said:
We don't have them here
just to make sure..I'm having a massive problem with the sleep and power..is it related to the imei??
Or just the network
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If your efs is corrupted,your power button won't behave normally.

erljayp said:
What do you mean by power issues?
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@mannyvinny
when i press power or the screen turns off
the phone stuck there..i can only remove the battery or hold the power button for few minutes
what i noticed after the reboot that the Battery History says that my screen was on :\

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[Q] Sudden Wifi and Bluetooth Radios Won't Turn On

Hello,
I have a rooted Tab S 10.5 Wifi that i've had for several months without any issues. I recently took a trip east and at some point over night after playing some netflix, my device's wifi and bluetooth radios have failed to turn on. I have factory reset, completely wiped everything and went to lolipop to no avail. The radios go to turn on, stall for about 1 minute then default back to off. I was running Ironman 1.9 before the sudden fail.
What am i missing? Is there something corrupt beyond the firmware? Is flashing a modem the answer and if so, where do i get them?
Thank you ahead of time for the help

I hope you made a backup of your EFS partition which you can flash before flashing any custom software?
If not you can try EFS Professional and try and repair the efs partition. Select repair NV data.

ashyx said:
I hope you made a backup of your EFS partition which you can flash before flashing any custom software?
If not you can try EFS Professional and try and repair the efs partition. Select repair NV data.
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I did not. I didn't even know that was such a thing at the time. I did download EFS Pro and tried the NV data repair but it says it's not available for my device. The program reports my baseband as blank.

ReverendMilk said:
I did not. I didn't even know that was such a thing at the time. I did download EFS Pro and tried the NV data repair but it says it's not available for my device. The program reports my baseband as blank.
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You selected it under the Samsung tools tab?

ashyx said:
You selected it under the Samsung tools tab?
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I did. the menu on the right side

ReverendMilk said:
I did. the menu on the right side
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Is your efs partition mountable in twrp?

Hi, did you ever find a solution to the wifi and bluetooth radio problem. I have the same exact problem in my Tab S 10.5.

Deleted EFS folder.

Hi everyone,
I'm fairly new to the android section and I recently received a phone from a friend who deleted his EFS folder. This phone is a Samsung Galaxy Note II. I have tried various different software to restore the efs folder and unfortunately no success. Is there any possible way to restore it without sending it to Samsung?
Edit: Yes, i have flashed the stock ROM, still no luck!

TGXclusive said:
Hi everyone,
I'm fairly new to the android section and I recently received a phone from a friend who deleted his EFS folder. This phone is a Samsung Galaxy Note II. I have tried various different software to restore the efs folder and unfortunately no success. Is there any possible way to restore it without sending it to Samsung?
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Have you tried flashing a stock rom. It might recreate efs folder.

vishal1286 said:
Have you tried flashing a stock rom. It might recreate efs folder.
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Yes, i have flashed the stock rom, still no luck.

Flash the Modem/Baseband. Search for it !

ishtiak02 said:
Flash the Modem/Baseband. Search for it !
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Done that, no luck.

Also have this problem on my Note 10.1 3G although I did not remove the efs partition. It just randomly started bootlooping while it was charging and I was gone and the recovery said it couldn't mount /efs from that day on. Kinda sucks since I now have a generic IMEI and the battery is draining from cell stand by, even when it's in airplane mode.

Bro I could hv done smthing f i ws dere. So nw i suggest you is flash philz recovery, go to factory reset and do a wipe to install new rom. Now install stock rom of your region from Odin. Then send it to the service center.
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PowerValue said:
Also have this problem on my Note 10.1 3G although I did not remove the efs partition. It just randomly started bootlooping while it was charging and I was gone and the recovery said it couldn't mount /efs from that day on. Kinda sucks since I now have a generic IMEI and the battery is draining from cell stand by, even when it's in airplane mode.
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aw man that sucks! I'm probably going to send it to Samsung, tried absolutely everything to repair mine and no success. Hope you get your problem fixed mate!

So what brand are you using ? N7100/N7105 or anything else?