[Q] Too Many Reflashes - "SIM NETWORK UNLOCK PIN"? - Galaxy S 4 Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Ok, I give up.
I throw my hands in the air and pray to the tech lords here.
I have reflashed my phone probably 50 times in the past two weeks. And short of a Wifi-only phone at this point, I'm really needing to back track and understand what it is I'm doing (or not doing) right or wrong.
Here's a brief history of my living hell the past two weeks:
1. Get brand-new SGS4 Mini (GT-I9195)
2. Commence to screwing it up royally
Actual Detailed History
1. Get brand-new SGS4 Mini (GT-I9195)
2. Play with it a day
3. Root
4. CWM
5. Install Cyanogen 11
6. Enjoy a bit
7. Decide I need to flash it back to stock
(cue dark and menacing music)
8. 50 Flashes and several near-soft-bricks later
9. I am back on a stock ROM
10. The stock ROM seems like it works just fine
However...
Each and every time I power up the phone and enter my SIM pin (4 digits, normal pin to use the chip), I get:
SIM NETWORK UNLOCK PIN
History of this phone is a new purchase from Movistar, Costa Rica. It was delivered unlocked new, out of the box, and had no restrictions whatsoever. At the point I first got it (day one), it worked on both KOLBI and MOVISTAR SIM chips. Now, only Movistar.
My theory is that I believe, somewhere, somehow, in the series of 25-30 mad flashes I performed over the past several weeks, I have managed to screw up the combination of REGION and/or MODEM and/or CSC to the point that this phone simply is very confused.
DESIRED RESULT: Please get me back to a network-unlocked state.

you ever got this fixeD?

Reset your APN Settings
Why you have flashed 50 Times your ROM ?

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No Service Selected network (AT&T) unavailable! No Signal

I flashed in JB AOKP was working fine all of last night. I also entered my SIM Pin or unlock code. The first time I put in an 8 digit unlock code I have. Second time it prompted me I skipped it. I'm pretty sure it was the security pin and not the network unlock. I don't have any other phone's micro SIM I can insert into my phone and a local phone store's T Mobile SIM produced no different of a result except for replacing AT&T with T-Mobile (I have not however put my microSIM into another phone...because I don't have another micro sim phone). Reboot phone this morning and it's no longer working. Tried to enable 2g. Nothing. Tried a battery pull with the phone on, pulling the SIM (same message with SIM pulled out),
Wifi works
This sucks big time ;(
Note: I am pretty sure I did not network lock the phone or anything because the SIM prompt that came up when I flashed JB did not ask me for my unlock or network code (I would have known). The first time I entered that code was 'just in case it's asking me to unlock" but why would it ask me a second time then? So I doubt it was prompting me for a network unlock code. The prompt from youtube videos was different too.
Also APN is empty, but I think that's becasue I'm not connected to any network
Pressing Available networks brings up AT&T AT&T AT&T T-Mobile T-Mobile "311660" pressing any of them you get a quick window connect "too fast" goes back to/stays in available networks screen and says "Can't connect to this network right now. Try again later."
So I added the AOKP and Corresponding kernel yesterday and I mean it was working fine with 4g... apparently this thread says that you need to flash a new radio in some cases when you change kernels?
http://miuiandroid.com/community/threads/no-service-galaxy-s.6529/page-2
zetsui said:
I flashed in JB AOKP was working fine all of last night. I also entered my SIM Pin or unlock code. The first time I put in an 8 digit unlock code I have. Second time it prompted me I skipped it. I'm pretty sure it was the security pin and not the network unlock. I don't have any other phone's micro SIM I can insert into my phone and a local phone store's T Mobile SIM produced no different of a result except for replacing AT&T with T-Mobile (I have not however put my microSIM into another phone...because I don't have another micro sim phone). Reboot phone this morning and it's no longer working. Tried to enable 2g. Nothing. Tried a battery pull with the phone on, pulling the SIM (same message with SIM pulled out),
Wifi works
This sucks big time ;(
Note: I am pretty sure I did not network lock the phone or anything because the SIM prompt that came up when I flashed JB did not ask me for my unlock or network code (I would have known). The first time I entered that code was 'just in case it's asking me to unlock" but why would it ask me a second time then? So I doubt it was prompting me for a network unlock code. The prompt from youtube videos was different too.
Also APN is empty, but I think that's becasue I'm not connected to any network
Pressing Available networks brings up AT&T AT&T AT&T T-Mobile T-Mobile "311660" pressing any of them you get a quick window connect "too fast" goes back to/stays in available networks screen and says "Can't connect to this network right now. Try again later."
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Pardon my newbness if I'm way off base, but lost IMEI? sounds like the same symptoms I was getting a couple days ago when I flashed CM10.
Kostazu said:
Pardon my newbness if I'm way off base, but lost IMEI? sounds like the same symptoms I was getting a couple days ago when I flashed CM10.
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...what are you talking about. My IMEI isn't mentioned once in that post. In fact now that you mention it, since people's IMEI changed...nothing like that my phone still has its IMEI
I also did not get a "phone frozen" from entering the wrong code too many times...so I doubt its locked like that. There was a random reboot that I WOKE UP to, but nothing weird...it rebooted randomly but worked finely after that
zetsui said:
...what are you talking about. My IMEI isn't mentioned once in that post. In fact now that you mention it, since people's IMEI changed...nothing like that my phone still has its IMEI
I also did not get a "phone frozen" from entering the wrong code too many times...so I doubt its locked like that. There was a random reboot that I WOKE UP to, but nothing weird...it rebooted randomly but worked finely after that
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I was proposing the theory that you may have lost your IMEI, since the symptoms you report were very similar to what I was experiencing when I lost mine, however since you still have yours, must be something else, eh?
Kostazu said:
I was proposing the theory that you may have lost your IMEI, since the symptoms you report were very similar to what I was experiencing when I lost mine, however since you still have yours, must be something else, eh?
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Just flashed an old version of the same rom...still nothing, although this version had 4g lte working for sure gonna try one more flash of the same rom with only some system settings moved around.. I actually need this phone to travel to Europe ;( ffs worst time
Kostazu what was the fix for you?
Ok just flashed Nostalgia which is the stock rom minus bloatware and I get No SIM Insert SIM card (it is in) and when I try to make a call "not registered on network"
zetsui said:
Just flashed an old version of the same rom...still nothing, although this version had 4g lte working for sure gonna try one more flash of the same rom with only some system settings moved around.. I actually need this phone to travel to Europe ;( ffs worst time
Kostazu what was the fix for you?
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Well, mine was definitely due to a lost imei that happened sometime when flashing.
I did get the network unlock warning thingy twice, and then had no cellular connectivity, which is why I mentioned the lost imei. I restored my nandroid back to stock, then used the method here with a little driver tapdancing to reinject my imei, and that solved my issues, but sounds like you have something else going on.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1801997
If I flash back to stock and no longer have the stock kernel, what is the steps for flashing back then?
1. flash stock kernel
2 fix partitions
3. factory rest/cache/davlik
reboot into oden and flash new image?
Long story short, Don't cut your own microsd..the sim pins on this phone are VERY sensitive and hard to fix/see. Don't bend em.
I am having the same problems right now, I keep on getting " NO SERVICE" - SELECTED NETWORK UNAVAILABLE" Error.
Rebooting doesnt help, flashing modem through CWM doesnt help. I know for a fact that the simcard it good because other apps that I install can read the sim with no problem, and my WIFI is working like a charm.
Someone got a solution for this? This is already like 4 days ongoing, please any help will be appreciated !!
Im having the same no service selected network issue. I can search and find att and the mobile but when I try to have it connect to att that's the error I get. I have an att SIM card in the phone. Sph l720 SIM unlocked, it didn't ask me for an unlock code or anything like that but I also don't get the invalid SIM card error. I've added the main apn from the att website but that doesn't help and the phone is current set to gsm/umts. If anyone has a fix please let me know, thank you.

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I have tried to flash any Rom, and so far I have tried at least 15 (currently have Speedwizz Cent 2.1). The only one that works is the one that I found for the Telecom provider the phone was with (Olleh in Korea). Is there a possibility I can't flash a new rom, I have no idea what version was there prior. The one that will flash has no modem, and has apk's in Korean. It's of little use if I can't get the sim to work.
I have tried a number of the suggestions here, including wiping dalvik, data and using the XDLL7 recovery.tar. Seems to make little difference. Either the unit boots and then sits in logo mode, or the screen goes blank after a while. So far, I have always been able to get to Recovery or Odin mode.
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With time my phone started to get laggy and buggy, so I decided to reset to factory, and while I was at it, I decided to update to the most current official android version available to the phone: Android 6.0.1
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Restoring efs/imei - no network (did something yesterday,worked until power cycled)

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I rooted my A70 a few weeks back and installed LineageOS and HavocOS, when I went back to stock firmware I found that I couldn't get any network - Just had the little circles for both sims - I posted about it here : https://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-a70/help/a70-network-service-root-twrp-lineageos-t3983635
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So....I thought I'd 'fixed' it (more like 'f*cked it more lol), powered off and swapped my primary sim back and.... low and behold, back to square one. No network.. Swapped SIMS back, still no go.
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Got phone registered on the network! Too scared to power off, what to do?

Hey All,
So I've had issues with my phone where I rooted it and messed it up to the point where it no longer registered on any networks (tried several providers here in the UK). A few days back trying to get it up and running I managed to get it registered on the network (this after reloading various software versions, some failing some not). After powering it off and back on again with my primary sim, I was back to no network (I have two A70s). Swapped SIMS back (powered phone off) and again, no network.
This morning, I started again (Installing TWRP and was planning to root again):
- Flashed stock firmware using ODIN.
- Unlocked bootloader.
- Flashed vbmeta.tar (v3.3.1-5 from Grarak).
- Rebooted, wiped data/cache
- Rebooted, started going through the setup and noticed it was on the network! (have not flashed TWRP recovery).
​I'm reluctant to power off again and wondered if there's anything I can do now whilst it's working and registered, making calls etc. The reason being, I've got 5 days before I can return the other A70, if not, I'll be stuck with 3 O2 contracts
Besides the usual backup (Google/Samsung/) - is there anything I should do via ADB? It's not rooted and TWRP is not installed, I've literally just flashed vbmeta.tar from Grarak's TWRP post....
did you try installing a custom rom. i am on havoc os n i own A70FN. i believe havoc works on A70F/FN/Q. the only issue it has is of fingerprint and volte but since i don't lock my phone that's not a problem for me.
other than that the rom is stable no reboots no crashes or anything. so maybe try a custom rom just make sure ur model is supported. n besides even if u r afraid of rebooting there's bound to be a day that the phone would need a reboot.
So i say go ahead root it, install a custom rom.
also i remember having this sim issue myself. my sim worked in all the sets at my home except the A70.
i had to get a new sim n it just started working.
Try some other sim in your A70.
Also rooting shouldn't cause such a problem. from my experience i believe its something else.
i have rooted several phones n never got a network issue. i even messed up the the rooting process on the A70 n either ended up with a bootloop or occasional system crash but no network issue

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