corrupted efs folder, how to recover? - T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4

I rooted my phone, flashed twrp as the recovery, then proceeded to flash cm12. Something went horribly wrong, and I had to flash back to factory stock to get it out of its boot loop. Now tho, the baseband is unknown and the imei is null/null. I do not have a nand backup of any sort. Is there a way I can recover the efs folder to make the phone a phone again instead of a small tablet? Wifi/BT still work just fine. Never had this happen with any android phone before. Thanks

Just Odin back to stock.....everything will be fine

THanks, had to flash it twice with odin for it come back to a working state. Dont know whats up with it still as mms still doesnt work even tho all my settings are correct. Off to the local cell office, but at least I got cm12 flashed, and the gps, sms, calls, cell data all work.

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Lost Data completely after Rooting/Flashing

I rooted and flashed my phone and everything worked great but my data package stopped working Completly. I restored the phone back to stock ROM using Odin but still no data (wifi still works). I checked my IMEI number and it appears fine.
The instructions i followed to root the phone was the one where you do not tripp the flash counter, and I backed up IMEI using the NV reader, and the ROM i installed was the Sonic Rom. The only thing I think I could have done wrong is when I went to use the NV reader I accidentally started backing up the entire array of numbers and I canceled the operation midway through. I then just backed up just the IMEI and installed the ROM.
Is it possible I corrupted something when I hit cancel? And please does anyone know how I can get my data working? I was on the phone with tmobile for over an hour today and they were zero help.
thanks.
alg111 said:
I rooted and flashed my phone and everything worked great but my data package stopped working Completly. I restored the phone back to stock ROM using Odin but still no data (wifi still works). I checked my IMEI number and it appears fine.
The instructions i followed to root the phone was the one where you do not tripp the flash counter, and I backed up IMEI using the NV reader, and the ROM i installed was the Sonic Rom. The only thing I think I could have done wrong is when I went to use the NV reader I accidentally started backing up the entire array of numbers and I canceled the operation midway through. I then just backed up just the IMEI and installed the ROM.
Is it possible I corrupted something when I hit cancel? And please does anyone know how I can get my data working? I was on the phone with tmobile for over an hour today and they were zero help.
thanks.
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Exact same thing happened to me..I used PeopleArmy's method and tried re-injecting the correct IMEI back into the phone for a couple hours, then suddenly, my data started working again out of nowhere. Really weird, but it fixed my issue..good luck to you!
shinigenEddy said:
Exact same thing happened to me..I used PeopleArmy's method and tried re-injecting the correct IMEI back into the phone for a couple hours, then suddenly, my data started working again out of nowhere. Really weird, but it fixed my issue..good luck to you!
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Thanks for the reply. did you use PeopleArmy method to recover a lost IMEI number? My issue is a little different. I still have IMEI numbers but I have no data signal working on the phone at all.
I did not get many many replies, maybe my original post was hard to understand...
My H+ and 3G indicator lights blink as if they are working but my phone is completly unable to use any data services. WiFi works, Cellular Voice works but no data.
When I first got the phone everything worked great but after I rooted and flashed it started showing a screen on my browser indicating that my data plan was not compatible with my handset. Tmobile could not help,since I have the correct data plan, my previous phone is the awesome HD2. Please let me know what I can do to fix the phone.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1801997
Check out the 3rd post it might help

sim card not detected

whenever i flash anything even to root it when i boot back up it says sim not detected , says imei is null,and baseband unknown.my phone is unlocked but it just started being a problem recently .so i have been trying to do different things but always have to restore from back up.i am a flashaholic and i havent had any problems ever on this till now.
brentsalinas714 said:
whenever i flash anything even to root it when i boot back up it says sim not detected , says imei is null,and baseband unknown.my phone is unlocked but it just started being a problem recently .so i have been trying to do different things but always have to restore from back up.i am a flashaholic and i havent had any problems ever on this till now.
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It would help to get more info on what you flashed and how you flashed it. Perhaps it's one of those wipe things or what not? Or restoring an app?
I get 'baseband unknown' on a few ROMs that I test flashed. I got it on JMT when I flashed it recently.
So you have to restore from the NAND backup just to get the phone working?

restoring efs with nvtools/qpst

hi guys, i flashed the lte modem on my phone and it seems that its wiped out my efs folders, ive been trying to restore my efs folder with nvtools and qpst, neither seems to work since somehow dm mode is not responding to them
any solns? ty in advance for any help
a couple of things:
ive already odin'd back to stock, no luck on restoring efs(perhaps im doing something wrong?) i dialed *#7284# and put it into the RNDIS+DM+MODEM mode, nvtools says phone failed to answer while QPST says that comm7(the samsung serial port) is not a phone
its pretty had to do this since the phone is rebooting itself every other minute
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FNM
Been there, sucks. For me to get out of the constant restarts I had to flash the lte modem again. Flash stock (odin) flashed cwm (odin), put the modem on my external sd card and flashed that.At least that way I could work on it a little. And below is basically what I did to finally get it to work. Hard to say all my steps as I was trying everything.
Well I dont really know how I got mine back to life, tried all the standard stuff from the threads,got my imei back but had no network,network type,service nothing helped. last resort I said whatever ill try anything now. Came across this
http://galaxynote2root.com/galaxy-n...3g4g-aws-bands-on-att-galaxy-note-2-sgh-i317/
whatever it did it restored everything (cold see carrier,network,etc)but corrupted imei, next i followed this guide
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1804117
If you need this is a complete no imei nv backup I used before flashing my imei with the generator
http://db.tt/4hunZ7qy
used the imei generator, then the writer (link on post does not work for the imei generator,so found it here
http://d-h.st/vVV
Wrote my imei back and presto, back in action. Fully functional again, including 4G
Like I said this was a last resort, but worked
AznDud333 said:
hi guys, i flashed the lte modem on my phone and it seems that its wiped out my efs folders, ive been trying to restore my efs folder with nvtools and qpst, neither seems to work since somehow dm mode is not responding to them
any solns? ty in advance for any help
a couple of things:
ive already odin'd back to stock, no luck on restoring efs(perhaps im doing something wrong?) i dialed *#7284# and put it into the RNDIS+DM+MODEM mode, nvtools says phone failed to answer while QPST says that comm7(the samsung serial port) is not a phone
its pretty had to do this since the phone is rebooting itself every other minute
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Let me guess. You've git a Canadian phone
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got it fixed on friday, was so tired that i went to sleep
basically i followed someone's post on the forum(forgot name) and flashed the tmo modem, since the mct one always gave me the bootloop, then i enabled DM mode and finally got nv tools/qpst to recognize my phone, it appears that the issue was that the drivers does not recognize the new modems..
anyway, once i was done restoring nv, i flashed the tmo lte modem and paranoid android
now i have my imei back and i can use lte
although my bluetooth address still says unknown..not sure if normal
My bluetooth also says unavailable, I would think if you are not hooked up to bluetooth then it should say unavailable. Im to scared to flash the tmo lte modem again...

Network Data Hosed

I've gotten my phone into a state where I see signal bars, I can make calls and send texts, but no LTE or H+ is displayed and if I try do anything involving the internet it says there's no network connection. Wifi works just fine.
Here's how I got into the predicament. I should have learned my lesson from last time I flashed a Verizon ROM, but I didn't, and I flashed SkyNote RC9Z-3.9.1. Data works just fine in THAT ROM, but any subsequent ROM flashed after that... the network data is completely HOSED. I've tried enabling and disabling network data in settings. I've tried flashing the Devil kernel. I've tried restoring several different ROMS from nandroid backups. All restore fine and all have completely non-working network data. Last time I ran into this I had to flash the stock image in Odin to fiz the issue. This time however, that didn't work. The images flashed successfully, but upon reboot all I got was a a welcome screen bootloop of the samsung swirly logo and the T-Mobile logo.
I'm guessing this has something to do with the 4.3 bootloader? I'm downloading T889UVUCMK7_T889TMBCMK7_TMB.zip from SamMobile site and boy is it taking FOREVER! 7 hours left on the download. My thinking thoug is that If I unzip this new 4.3 firmware and flash it with Odin (or Kies if I absolutle have to) my device will start behaving again, and Network data will work, and I can go about ROM flashing and hopping again (though I'm gonna stay away from those Verizon ROMs let met tell you!).
Does anyone else have any other suggestions on what I can do to get my data back or to patch my bootloader to the 4.3 version? I was looking at this thread and wondering if it's safe to follow this procedure for patching once I have installed the 4.3 stock image:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2500823
Any help is appreciated.
ddi you check your APN settings?
Probably your apn like iamsixnine said
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[Q] Losing IMEI when flashing Philz Recovery

Much has been written about the loss of IMEI when flashing a ROM. But I am stumped by my experience in recent days.
I live in China and have a rooted Galaxy Note II. It is the China Mobile version (N7108), but I was able to root it, deknox it, and add google apps which are not normally part of the Chinese version. It worked fine for months. Then I got on a plane to the US and forgot to turn the phone off. It had the dreaded circle with the slash. When I entered *#06#, it gave null/null. I did not alter a thing on the flight.
I waited a day, rebooting it often in hopes that it would work. But it has not.
The only thing that fixes the problem is to flash the phone with the latest Samsung firmware. But, as soon as I follow this up with flashing Philz recovery which I had before, the IMEI is lost again. I can't figure out how flashing the recovery image is altering the EFS or IMEI. The challenge I have is that I don't know how to backup the EFS without custom recovery and root. But adding root and recovery loses the IMEI.
Any ideas???

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