EDIT: ISSUE RESOLVED. THIS IS A HARDWARE PROBLEM. SEE POST #16
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Hey folks, so my friend didn't wait for my flashing skills and flashed his g/f's phone on his own.
Phone was already on some very old version of SlimROM AOSP and an older TWRP of some version or other.
I emailed him TWRP 7.1.X zip and a 4.1.2 stock rooted ROM zip.
He flashed them both at the same time, without rebooting in between.
And got a boot loop.
I had him flash just the TWRP and reboot to recovery. Then flash the ROM zip.
Now his phone suddenly does not detect the SIM card any longer? It did before all this.
The IMEI is fine. And I tried my very old AT&T SIM card, but it didn't detect my SIM either.
I then ODIN'd back to stock 4.1.2 and had same problem.
So I then rooted and flashed a custom 4.1.2 that came with a custom kernel, and still had the same problem.
So then I ODIN'd back to a stock ICS and STILL have the same problem.
Any suggestions?
CZ Eddie said:
Hey folks, so my friend didn't wait for my flashing skills and flashed his g/f's phone on his own.
Phone was already on some very old version of SlimROM AOSP and an older TWRP of some version or other.
I emailed him TWRP 7.1.X zip and a 4.1.2 stock rooted ROM zip.
He flashed them both at the same time, without rebooting in between.
And got a boot loop.
I had him flash just the TWRP and reboot to recovery. Then flash the ROM zip.
Now his phone suddenly does not detect the SIM card any longer? It did before all this.
The IMEI is fine. And I tried my very old AT&T SIM card, but it didn't detect my SIM either.
I then ODIN'd back to stock 4.1.2 and had same problem.
So I then rooted and flashed a custom 4.1.2 that came with a custom kernel, and still had the same problem.
So then I ODIN'd back to a stock ICS and STILL have the same problem.
Any suggestions?
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Which S2 model? This is the T-Mobile forum and you said ATT sim. ATT sim won't work in a TMobile phone without it being unlocked.
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jrc2 said:
Which S2 model? This is the T-Mobile forum and you said ATT sim. ATT sim won't work in a TMobile phone without it being unlocked.
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SGH-T989 is the phone. The Hercules. Her SIM is a T-Mobile "isis" micro SIM with the little adapter thing. She says it worked fine before the update.
CZ Eddie said:
SGH-T989 is the phone. The Hercules. Her SIM is a T-Mobile "isis" micro SIM with the little adapter thing. She says it worked fine before the update.
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When you tried a clean flash in Odin, did you/she wipe data, cache, and Dalvik before flashing stock?
Have a good evening,
jrc2
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jrc2 said:
When you tried a clean flash in Odin, did you/she wipe data, cache, and Dalvik before flashing stock?
Have a good evening,
jrc2
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Yes, wiped system and everything except internal SD.
CZ Eddie said:
Phone was already on some very old version of SlimROM AOSP and an older TWRP of some version or other.
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And.... that's why the SIM card worked before the "update" to stock TouchWiz. LOL
Turns out the SIM card she was using is the newer "Isis" version and it's not compatible with the 4.1.2 TouchWiz. And since 4.1.2 is the newest TouchWiz available for the Hercules, I just flashed to the newest AOSP 4.4 and now SIM is recognized again. I guess the really old Slim AOSP ROM was still somehow newer than the 4.1.2.
Dang, it sucks that Samsung hasn't even given you guys 4.2 yet. Sheesh.
Thanks for the help though.
CZ Eddie said:
And.... that's why the SIM card worked before the "update" to stock TouchWiz. LOL
Turns out the SIM card she was using is the newer "Isis" version and it's not compatible with the 4.1.2 TouchWiz. And since 4.1.2 is the newest TouchWiz available for the Hercules, I just flashed to the newest AOSP 4.4 and now SIM is recognized again. I guess the really old Slim AOSP ROM was still somehow newer than the 4.1.2.
Dang, it sucks that Samsung hasn't even given you guys 4.2 yet. Sheesh.
Thanks for the help though.
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Glad you got it working again! Part of it is Samsung is now on the S5, and they want people to buy it so they don't update the S2. The other problem is TouchWiz is so inefficient that some if their phones with 1gb if ram can't run TouchWiz KitKat, even though KK is designed for 512 mb of RAM and up. That's why every Samsung phone or tablet I've ever owned has been rooted once it is out of warranty (about when they stop updating if you buy new.)
If I can help you with anything else, please reply to this post.
Have a good night!
jrc2
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UPDATE: BROKEN AGAIN
Well I just don't understand this one. The phone and SIM were working fine last night. I gave the phone back to the owner. This morning she brings it back to me because once again, the SIM is not working. She didn't do anything to the phone, so we're not sure what caused this.
And for the life of me, I can't get the SIM card to work again, after re-doing everything I did last night to fix it.
So I went to T-Mobile store and got her the old style SIM specifically for this phone model. And the phone doesn't see that SIM either. The T-Mobile guy was perplexed.
Especially so, because the phone recognizes my AT&T SIM and asks for an unlock code. It see's my Mom's AT&T SIM also. Asks for an unlock code.
So WTF. It see's AT&T SIM's but can't see any TMO SIM.
Most.Perplexing.
Already tried ODIN to stock and flashed AOSP 4.4. Nothing working.
Full wipes in between flashes.
IMEI is still showing up fine and TMO agent didn't find any locks on the IMEI in his system.
CZ Eddie said:
UPDATE: BROKEN AGAIN
Well I just don't understand this one. The phone and SIM were working fine last night. I gave the phone back to the owner. This morning she brings it back to me because once again, the SIM is not working. She didn't do anything to the phone, so we're not sure what caused this.
And for the life of me, I can't get the SIM card to work again, after re-doing everything I did last night to fix it.
So I went to T-Mobile store and got her the old style SIM specifically for this phone model. And the phone doesn't see that SIM either. The T-Mobile guy was perplexed.
Especially so, because the phone recognizes my AT&T SIM and asks for an unlock code. It see's my Mom's AT&T SIM also. Asks for an unlock code.
So WTF. It see's AT&T SIM's but can't see any TMO SIM.
Most.Perplexing.
Already tried ODIN to stock and flashed AOSP 4.4. Nothing working.
Full wipes in between flashes.
IMEI is still showing up fine and TMO agent didn't find any locks on the IMEI in his system.
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When you are on stock, does the sim work then?
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jrc2 said:
When you are on stock, does the sim work then?
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Nope. Tried ODIN to ICS and JB and neither see the SIM.
Gahh, just flashed the 4.4 wild kernel and a EMC6 (?) modem. Whatever the latest modem is.
No dice.
@CZ Eddie
Have you tried flashing the latest radio?
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jrc2 said:
@CZ Eddie
Have you tried flashing the latest radio?
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Yup, modem=radio.
I ODIN'd the older 4.0.X ROM found at SamMobile: T989UVLH1_T989TMBLH1_TMB
Then I ODIN'd root.
Then I flashed the older radio: sgh-t989_uvle1_radio
I followed the directions in this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2024514
This unlocked the phone for my AT&T SIM to use. And dammit, the phone see's my AT&T SIM and is making calls just fine.
BUT IT STILL REFUSES TO ACKNOWLEDGE ANY T-MOBILE SIM.
WTF WTF WTF. LOL. :silly:
Okay, I got things figured out.
This is a HARDWARE issue.
If the AT&T SIM is inserted properly, it works fine.
If either T-Mobile SIM is inserted properly, it does not work.
If the T-Mobile micro SIM is inserted properly, then slid out 1/8", then it works.
I can't get the T-Mobile normal SIM to work in any position, but then it's bigger, so it's harder to get it to "slide around" in the slot they way I need it to.
Could you please send me the link or ICS stock rom file, all link I found already die.
snake2001vn said:
Could you please send me the link or ICS stock rom file, all link I found already die.
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Here you go. http://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/3/?download=10961
You will need a Sam Mobile account to download the file.
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CZ Eddie said:
Phone was already on some very old version of SlimROM AOSP and an older TWRP of some version or other.
I emailed him TWRP 7.1.X zip and a 4.1.2 stock rooted ROM zip.
He flashed them both at the same time, without rebooting in between.
And got a boot loop.
I had him flash just the TWRP and reboot to recovery. Then flash the ROM zip.
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I am not in a similar situation, I just bought an unlocked ATT Skyrocket using T-mobile SIM. And I hope to find a ROM supports ISIS/Softcard now. I think it would probably be a T-mobile stock ROM.
I ran through I727 and T989 forums, yet got a bit confused with all types of methods.
So, what's your latest suggested steps? Thanks,
Hi.
Yesterday i tried to use my old S3 i747 which i hadn't used for a long time, and it didn't see any sim card ("no sim card installed").
Before i put the device on the shell about 6 months ago, it had worked ok and saw exactly the same sim card. On that moment it had Jelly Bean installed on it.
I decided to install custom ROM, and have just installed custom ROM [5.0] CM12 D2att Alpha Builds [12/25] and updated my bootloader and modem to NE4.
It still couldn't see any sim card, so i am wondering - is it software or mechanical problem? Is there any possible way to check this?
P.s. I am noob in flashing ROMS, but as i figured out, because of my upgrading to NE4, the only ROMs i can install on my device are CM12 (also tried Cyanide L build). I tried to install 10.2.1 and it failed with "Error 7". So there is no way for me (at least which is known to me) to check any other ROMs.
Try flashing the latest CM11 but for the d2lte. Status 7 errors can be caused by using an outdated recovery.
So i started with DN4 and ended up flashing a stock 4.3 in order to downgrade to 4.1.2, then again to 4.1.1 so i could do the sim unlock which worked perfectly. I have been able to get back to a stock 4.3 rom, but if i flash DN4 the phone stops recognizing the sim card and shows the "insert usim" message when trying to change apn settings. Am i stuck with stock 4.3 or am i just doing something wrong/flashed too many roms? Thanks for any help
94cuttyvert said:
So i started with DN4 and ended up flashing a stock 4.3 in order to downgrade to 4.1.2, then again to 4.1.1 so i could do the sim unlock which worked perfectly. I have been able to get back to a stock 4.3 rom, but if i flash DN4 the phone stops recognizing the sim card and shows the "insert usim" message when trying to change apn settings. Am i stuck with stock 4.3 or am i just doing something wrong/flashed too many roms? Thanks for any help
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I too am having trouble! I have the t889 and, using odin, flashed Resurrection Remix 6.0.1. Works great but I am still stuck with the t889 modem/csc. My phone now claims its a gt-n7105 but with t889 modem. I tried flashing new modem for a gt-n7105 but it bricked my phone. As I now live in the Philippines, I need baseband for here. I love Resurrection Remix and don't want to lose it. Can anyone help?
hey all, i'v searched a bit but i could not find any ROM for S4 mini (serranolte) no LTE, no dual sim, eurpe version.. i tryed to flash lineageOS serranoltexx but it's not working (error 7, serranoltexx is not for serranolte). Also I am wondering why there is serranolte, because i have no LTE/4G option in system i recently flashed.. phone was wiped completely due to company policities, so maybe I flashed non LTE version of stock rom with ODIN? Is that possible?
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I don't notice that TWRP is not working with lineageOS. clockworkmod works.
lapeno022 said:
hey all, i'v searched a bit but i could not find any ROM for S4 mini (serranolte) no LTE, no dual sim, eurpe version.. i tryed to flash lineageOS serranoltexx but it's not working (error 7, serranoltexx is not for serranolte). Also I am wondering why there is serranolte, because i have no LTE/4G option in system i recently flashed.. phone was wiped completely due to company policities, so maybe I flashed non LTE version of stock rom with ODIN? Is that possible?
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I don't notice that TWRP is not working with lineageOS. clockworkmod works.
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I think you may have flashed the wrong ROM (or your company did), error 7 normally means it has failed when checking you have a compatible ROM for your phone model.
You say "ROM for S4 mini (serranolte) no LTE" but as the name serranoLTE implies it IS for LTE version, LTE =i9195. If your phone only has 3g then you need the serrano3gxx ROM not the LTE, 3g variant is the I9190 (there are other s also). So something is wrong, not sure if it is you or your company that is wrong. You need to check model number shown under battery and flash the correct ROM, if it's the wrong ROM you may get lots of errors, or heat, short battery life etc
TWRP does work and is the preferred recovery as it is actively supported while CWM is no longer supported, maybe that's why it may have allowed you to flash wrong ROM or maybe TWRP thought the phone was the other model as your company had already flashed wrong ROM so gave you the error when it checked compatibility even though you tried to flash he correct ROM.
If your phone is the 3g version then even though you flashed the LTE ROM you will not have LTE as your phone does not have the LTE hardware. Someone did this before, I think they said it does not even show the option in settings, but I could be wrong.
NOTE: flashing the wrong ROM can brick your phone! (though as they are so similar it's unlikely but possible, you are probably the first to flash the wrong version of LinageOS, if that is indeed what you/your co. have done!. So unknown risk.)
Hello, so I got myself in a kind of a big problem here.
I have a note 2 that was originally running tph 4.4.2 which had this modem N7105XXUFNE3 originally.
I got bored of the stock rom and I installed lineage os official 7.1.2., the installation ran without any issues whatsoever and I was really loving it, the phone was working perfectly with just minor bugs.
The rom provided an updater that allowed the users to choose which updates to download and install (all nightly).
I installed a couple manually via TWRP and it was all good but after one update whenever I turned on my phone it would ask me to write down the sim network unlock code which I found really weird. I thought it was a bug and I rebooted the phone but to no aveil.
after that I figured that the most recent updates to that rom would eventually fix the problem so I kept installing the updates to a point where my phone was stuck loading linease OS.
Somehow in the process of using apps2SD I forgot I had stored my backups in the sd card and I partitioned it...
Now I cameback to the stock rom which I've downloaded from a website which is not sammobile because sammobile's website is bugging and wont let me download the firmware. The rom is suposed to be TPH and comes packed with the same N7105XXUFNE3 moded of the 4.4.2 stock rom, but it still asks me to write down the sim network unlock code...
I don't understand why the hell is it locked if it's suposed to be a TPH rom, I also tried with another ROM (also tph) but I get the same problem, I've also tried to flush a different moded but it's still the same and I don't know what to do anymore.
I would really apreaciate if you could point me in the right direction to sort this problem out.
Much apreaciated in advance.
PS: this has made my work a lot difficult since my phone was a really important basis of my communication in regards to my job and I really need it to be functioning but ran out of ideas.