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[Q] Help... MEID, BASEBAND version, etc unknown.

I have a Galaxy Note 2 on the sprint network. Yesterday someone sent me a text and i tried to sent them a text back but my phone didn't have a signal. It reset itself a bunch of times. It stopped resetting and now there is no signal to the tower. I looked on my phone and Baseband version, network, mobile network type say unknown. service state is out of service, username is unavailable. mobile network state is disconnected, my phone number is unknown, min unknown, prl version unknown, meid unknown, imei unknown, iccid unknown. device status modified.
I rooted my phone when i first got it with the method that doesn't make your flash counter go up. I had super user installed and had the OTA survival mode checked and did the OTA update for multiwindow and then lost root. This wasn't a big deal to me so I just left it alone, everything worked. Its been a couple of months and then this happened. I reflashed a stock rom on the phone and that didn't fix anything. I rooted it with the Samsung Note 2 toolkit and that went well. But it somehow got stuck on the boot screen again after a while so i just reflashed to stock.
I downloaded QPST and entered my IMEI into the nv line 550 and clicked the write NV block and returned an error. Im stuck. I have insurance and I've only had the phone a couple of months. What the heck happened? Was it somekind of wipe? I have been working on this all day and I'm going to bed now, but can someone help me out?

I would not have been so quick to start messing with qpst.In most cases where ive seen this the imei and related numbers were fine and it was a system screw up. That said,This happened to me recently and even odin wouldnt fix it. I ran THIS and it brought me back so I would try that first.

billard412 said:
I would not have been so quick to start messing with qpst.In most cases where ive seen this the imei and related numbers were fine and it was a system screw up. That said,This happened to me recently and even odin wouldnt fix it. I ran THIS and it brought me back so I would try that first.
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thanks. I am downloading that now and will try it and let you know. I didn't want to start messing with qpst but i saw a tutorial that you can enter your imei back into your phone with it. i got my numbers off the box and went to work. but qpst would not write the values into my phone.
when i plug the usb into the phone a flag pops up in windows and says hardware id is missing as well.

billard412 said:
I would not have been so quick to start messing with qpst.In most cases where ive seen this the imei and related numbers were fine and it was a system screw up. That said,This happened to me recently and even odin wouldnt fix it. I ran THIS and it brought me back so I would try that first.
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i went to the link. i downloaded the file. it was a zip file so i put it on an sdcard and slapped it in my phone. i used the vol up, home key, and pwr key and then i used the update from zip file on external storage. it did some stuff and rebooted. i checked my flash counter and it went up and said i was running custom, custom.
i didn't see any instructions with your post that you linked and I probably didn't use that file the way it was supposed to be used. how exactly do you use it? and when i turned my phone on it still said baseband unknown.
thanks again for helping me with this.

dd807 said:
i went to the link. i downloaded the file. it was a zip file so i put it on an sdcard and slapped it in my phone. i used the vol up, home key, and pwr key and then i used the update from zip file on external storage. it did some stuff and rebooted. i checked my flash counter and it went up and said i was running custom, custom.
i didn't see any instructions with your post that you linked and I probably didn't use that file the way it was supposed to be used. how exactly do you use it? and when i turned my phone on it still said baseband unknown.
thanks again for helping me with this.
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Do you have Root Explorer? If baseband is showing unknown makes me wonder if build.prop is there and complete...?

It needed flashed in a custom recovery. Did u use twrp or cwm to flash it? If so, you did it right. Is it only the baseband thats unknown or everything still? Did you try a ##72786# dialer code reset?

garwynn said:
Do you have Root Explorer? If baseband is showing unknown makes me wonder if build.prop is there and complete...?
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I don't have root explorer on here right now because I was trying to return the phone back to stock for a return to the sprint store.
I used the stock rom that you download from the samsung note 2 tool kit. how do i check what your talking about?

billard412 said:
It needed flashed in a custom recovery. Did u use twrp or cwm to flash it? If so, you did it right. Is it only the baseband thats unknown or everything still? Did you try a ##72786# dialer code reset?
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everything is still unknown.
when i dial ##72786# it goes to a meny labeled SCRTN but is blank with no options.
at this point I used triangle away and flashed the stock rom on my phone, it keeps randomly resetting. in the setttings it still has baseband unknown. i did the ota update and the build number is JROO3C.L900VPALJC
under status, everything is unknown and at the botton it says device modified.
when i put it into download mode right now it says custum binary: no ; current binary: samsung official; system status: custom
this started when the phone just started resetting a bunch after my buddy texted me and then it didn't have service and all the values were wiped, i just want to take it back to sprint because ive only had it for a couple of months. will the above values be ok for a trip to the sprint store?

billard412 said:
It needed flashed in a custom recovery. Did u use twrp or cwm to flash it? If so, you did it right. Is it only the baseband thats unknown or everything still? Did you try a ##72786# dialer code reset?
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i didnt use twrp or cwm to flash it. just used the factory recovery to. i will use twrp to do it now. thanks man.

billard412 said:
It needed flashed in a custom recovery. Did u use twrp or cwm to flash it? If so, you did it right. Is it only the baseband thats unknown or everything still? Did you try a ##72786# dialer code reset?
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i think i have a corrupted EFS. can anyone help?

I had this happen to me when I first got the phone and rooted. Scariest first day of ownership thought I was going to have to go in to sprint. Thankfully I flashed the full stock tar and my phone came back to life. Maybe you should try flashing it and see how it turns out for you.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2035566
Sent from my SPH-L900 using xda app-developers app

RayTrue04 said:
I had this happen to me when I first got the phone and rooted. Scariest first day of ownership thought I was going to have to go in to sprint. Thankfully I flashed the full stock tar and my phone came back to life. Maybe you should try flashing it and see how it turns out for you.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2035566
Sent from my SPH-L900 using xda app-developers app
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I went back to full stock with :http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2086769
i also went baclk to full stock using the samsung note 2 toolkit and triangle away.
both methods left me with custom binary as no and current binary as samsung offical, but system status says custom.
both ways.
and the screenshots that i posted earlier are the same.
i found this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1611796
and i think i have a corrupt EFS.
as it is, does the spring store take your phone back if system status is custom and device says modified?
b.) if i can fix it, it would be better than taking it back. everything on the phone still works, but it obviously cant see a cell phone tower or make calls. data on wifi only type deal.
thanks for any help...

dd807 said:
I went back to full stock with :http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2086769
i also went baclk to full stock using the samsung note 2 toolkit and triangle away.
both methods left me with custom binary as no and current binary as samsung offical, but system status says custom.
both ways.
and the screenshots that i posted earlier are the same.
i found this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1611796
and i think i have a corrupt EFS.
as it is, does the spring store take your phone back if system status is custom and device says modified?
b.) if i can fix it, it would be better than taking it back. everything on the phone still works, but it obviously cant see a cell phone tower or make calls. data on wifi only type deal.
thanks for any help...
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I'm not familiar with that EFS issue since I've never read about it. However I would try that tar I posted as a last resort since the stock zip didn't do anything for you. The issue you're describing is the exact same thing that happened to me and that tar brought me back. And about being custom/modified it all depends on the Sprint Rep you get. Some are cool about it some are not.
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garwynn said:
Do you have Root Explorer? If baseband is showing unknown makes me wonder if build.prop is there and complete...?
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i just downloaded root explorer.
i think im having some efs issues. i downloaded efs pro to help with it but it says my phone is not perm rooted. but i do have root right now.
btw- the galaxy note 2 tool kit is friggin awesome- totally donating.

RayTrue04 said:
I'm not familiar with that EFS issue since I've never read about it. However I would try that tar I posted as a last resort since the stock zip didn't do anything for you. The issue you're describing is the exact same thing that happened to me and that tar brought me back. And about being custom/modified it all depends on the Sprint Rep you get. Some are cool about it some are not.
Sent from my SPH-L900 using xda app-developers app
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thanks, ill try it. i mean- whats one more flash right? could fix it. fingers crossed. thanks for your help man.
ill let you know.

also to everyone helping, i made a backup of all my system settings with my backup pro app before all this happened. i was wondering if it backs up your efs data anywhere and if it does, how could i get it back on my phone?

Sent you a pm
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RayTrue04 said:
I had this happen to me when I first got the phone and rooted. Scariest first day of ownership thought I was going to have to go in to sprint. Thankfully I flashed the full stock tar and my phone came back to life. Maybe you should try flashing it and see how it turns out for you.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2035566
Sent from my SPH-L900 using xda app-developers app
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flashed the sextape back to stock rom and it didn't work. i think my efs is corrupted- gunna take something more than flashing- like editing some files to put my meid and other info and pushing it back to my phone.
looking at this right now:http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2060085

dd807 said:
flashed the sextape back to stock rom and it didn't work. i think my efs is corrupted- gunna take something more than flashing- like editing some files to put my meid and other info and pushing it back to my phone.
looking at this right now:http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2060085
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Damn that sucks! I really thought it might bring you back since it worked for me. Good luck!
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Update-
my phone is screwed. i got the MSL and put it in my phone and nothing happens. i have to take it back and get a new one.even though all the hardware works, just cant program the info back in the phone for meid, baseband, username, icc id, etc. etc. so no voice calls.
the bummer is that this all happened randomly. i wasn't messing with my phone at all and it was running great then it reset a bunch of times and then wiped everything. i don't know if it would have helped, but i highly reccomend everyone backing up their EFS. because you never know when this will happen to you.
take care, thanks for the help everyone.

CM 11 unknown baseband

I came over from the stock TW rom, I could not get signal. Baseband and IMEI information was null - despite using the clockworkmod recovery, I also have tried the modified TWRP version. I then tested the cm10.1, same issue. anyone has any ideas as to why this is happening?

That's because you didn't backup your efs!!! When you install a custom or whatever ROM you should backup your efs, which is the imei and WiFi and those.. When the efs is damaged by flashing a ROM, you can restore the efs backup you had and everything will come back to normal. I'm not sure how to recover your efs if u don't have a backup.. Research
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firechaos said:
I came over from the stock TW rom, I could not get signal. Baseband and IMEI information was null - despite using the clockworkmod recovery, I also have tried the modified TWRP version. I then tested the cm10.1, same issue. anyone has any ideas as to why this is happening?
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i have the same issue with newly flashed stock rom. i also posted Q but no one was really helpful. still looking for some repair. if u find a way to sort it out, plz let me know,

kaleem11 said:
i have the same issue with newly flashed stock rom. i also posted Q but no one was really helpful. still looking for some repair. if u find a way to sort it out, plz let me know,
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This probably might help you guys.
Let people know if it helps!

firechaos said:
I came over from the stock TW rom, I could not get signal. Baseband and IMEI information was null - despite using the clockworkmod recovery, I also have tried the modified TWRP version. I then tested the cm10.1, same issue. anyone has any ideas as to why this is happening?
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maybe this will help.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2567862&nocache=1
"Just sharing my experience in solving this issue. Hopefully it will help solve those who have similar issues.
I flashed a file which messed up my EFS partition. I had a backup and tried to use the available programs to restore my EFS using my backup. None worked. I even brought it to the samsung store, but they said they would change the motherboard and reprogram, and replacement and service would cost more than half the cost of a new N7105. I purchased the phone in another country. The people who had stores to repair phones gave up on my phone. They also offered to replace the motherboard for US$175.00.
My phone was originally under a DMB2 rom (from Singapore I think). I flashed a DMC3 rom, and used this for five months, until i encountered the problem.
I initially gave up and got a note 3. But i could not believe the phone was junk and people in XDA (as I observed) do not seem to give up.
After two weeks, i found the solution below, which brought my phone to working condition.
1. I flashed the stock rom N7105ZHDMI2_N7105ZZHDMI2_TGY from sammobile.
2. I flashed a pit file using Odin. The pit file is found here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=2137008
This restored the baseband. But IMEI was no longer NULL. However, it was still 0.
3. I downloaded and used the EFS Pro from this link:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1308546
Before using EFS Pro, make sure you dial *#7284# and change the setting of Qualcomm USB Settings to
"RMNET + DM + MODEM"
I will not hurt your phone if you do, but EFS Pro will just not work. If you don't do this, the EFS Pro will display "Phone not responding" or something similar.
NOTE: I couldn't find the option with RMNET, but i used the option that also had an "RM*** + DM + MODEM".
After the phone is read, change back the IMEI to what it was originally.
Dial *#7284# again to change back to "MTP+ADB".
It's all working now.
Hope this is able to help someone. Now i have two working versions of Note.
Thanks to the authors of the program i used, and the people who uploaded the files used.
Cheers!

karlonicolas said:
maybe this will help.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2567862&nocache=1
"Just sharing my experience in solving this issue. Hopefully it will help solve those who have similar issues.
I flashed a file which messed up my EFS partition. I had a backup and tried to use the available programs to restore my EFS using my backup. None worked. I even brought it to the samsung store, but they said they would change the motherboard and reprogram, and replacement and service would cost more than half the cost of a new N7105. I purchased the phone in another country. The people who had stores to repair phones gave up on my phone. They also offered to replace the motherboard for US$175.00.
My phone was originally under a DMB2 rom (from Singapore I think). I flashed a DMC3 rom, and used this for five months, until i encountered the problem.
I initially gave up and got a note 3. But i could not believe the phone was junk and people in XDA (as I observed) do not seem to give up.
After two weeks, i found the solution below, which brought my phone to working condition.
1. I flashed the stock rom N7105ZHDMI2_N7105ZZHDMI2_TGY from sammobile.
2. I flashed a pit file using Odin. The pit file is found here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=2137008
This restored the baseband. But IMEI was no longer NULL. However, it was still 0.
3. I downloaded and used the EFS Pro from this link:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1308546
Before using EFS Pro, make sure you dial *#7284# and change the setting of Qualcomm USB Settings to
"RMNET + DM + MODEM"
I will not hurt your phone if you do, but EFS Pro will just not work. If you don't do this, the EFS Pro will display "Phone not responding" or something similar.
NOTE: I couldn't find the option with RMNET, but i used the option that also had an "RM*** + DM + MODEM".
After the phone is read, change back the IMEI to what it was originally.
Dial *#7284# again to change back to "MTP+ADB".
It's all working now.
Hope this is able to help someone. Now i have two working versions of Note.
Thanks to the authors of the program i used, and the people who uploaded the files used.
Cheers!
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i have got exynos chipset. so ur solution is not applicable. anyways, thanks for help anyway.

ysrini said:
This probably might help you guys.
Let people know if it helps!
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THIS IS THE SOLUTION!
SELinux enforced mode stops radio signal from working.
No matter how many times i restored EFS, it wouldnt work.

part of what i did above was taken from this post:
http://forum.gsmhosting.com/vbb/f777/tutorial-galaxy-s3-backup-restore-imei-without-root-1513909/
take note of the following line:
*If you are running a aosp rom (cm9,cm10,aokp etc) you can use the diag method described HERE"
this might help you also because you are using CM.

Galaxy Note 2 SGH-T889V Null IMEI and Unknown Baseband

Hello everyone,
I was messing around with my phone yesterday, and installed EZKat ROM from this thread (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2747733). The phone couldn't connect to the network, so I flashed the T-mobile modem included in the thread, then the phone started showing 'Unknown' under the Baseband version under the about menu. So I decided to restore the phone back to the way it was through the TWRP backup, however, it still had the same problem (no connection, unknown baseband) and I just discovered that the IMEI is unknown (null) as well. The phone also keeps rebooting every 2 mins or so. I tried restoring the phone through KIES, but it didnt fix anything. Tried restoring it by flashing the original firmware through ODIN, still no luck. I tried following the instructions in this thread (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2145967) however, QPST shows my phone as unavailable, and when I try to go to *#9090# it shows me a blank screen with "service mode" written on top. Is there anything I can do to fix it? I have tried to restore just the EFS by itself from the TWRP recovery, and it didnt work. Is the phone gone for good?
Thanks in advance for any help

I'm not sure this can help, but did you try to flash the correct modem (T889VVLUDNH2) for T889V ? Drop me a PM if you can't find it and I will send you a copy.

mana4.com said:
I'm not sure this can help, but did you try to flash the correct modem (T889VVLUDNH2) for T889V ? Drop me a PM if you can't find it and I will send you a copy.
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I've tried flashing the whole T889VVLUDNH2 firmware, but it still didn't work. I haven't tried flashing the individual modem though. I just pm'd you. Thanks.

i have the same issue
madmajd said:
I've tried flashing the whole T889VVLUDNH2 firmware, but it still didn't work. I haven't tried flashing the individual modem though. I just pm'd you. Thanks.
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flashed a wifi fix for another phone now have unknown imei etc already flashed a modem zip too

madmajd said:
I've tried flashing the whole T889VVLUDNH2 firmware, but it still didn't work. I haven't tried flashing the individual modem though. I just pm'd you. Thanks.
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@madmajd : If you've flashed the whole T889V firmware through Odin and the problem didn't sort itself out, then your NV items have probably been corrupted.
Have a look at my LTE guide, most everything you need to restore service should be there or linked to. You might be able to fix it with the T889V modem, or you might need to use T-Mobile USA T889 modems going forward, it's hard to tell at this point.
Good luck,
Darkshado

No sound No baseband also no IMEI Help please !

I root and flash my phone to Clockmod(file name cm-12.1-20150829-NIGHTLY-d2att) however when it booted back up my phone had no sound and no services(talk Txt etc) when i open my setting i saw that my baseband and imei both says unknow
The wifi works and the bluetooth however still no sound
Also when i tried to flash back with odin with the stock rom its say aboot and my phone says SW REV CHECK FAIL : [aboot] Fused 3 > Binary 2

Do you have the i747 or i747m?
I recommend you flash the latest cm11 to your phone and see what happens. If it works, you may need to update your bootloader and modem before cm12.1 will work.

Same problem...
I recently bought a galaxy edge, so I decided to mess around a bit with my old Galaxy S3 and maybe turn it into just an MP3 player (I like being able to switch sd cards and stuff). But I am at the same point now where there it says Unknown for baseband, IMEI and there is no volume of any type. Like not even that little beep when I press the volume up and down buttons. I also tried a piano app just to make sure, and still no volume. This is just frustrating to me because I've spent like 25 hours trying to figure out what to do. This is actually my first post asking for help because usually i've been able to figure this stuff out. Sound is the only thing i want from this phone now and its not working anymore. I have a feeling its something that I messed up with the EFS folder, but I don't really know what that folder is supposed to be for, I've just read a lot about how important it is. I hope someone has an idea of how to fix this.

The first thing you need to do is flash back to full stock, including the firmware. For that you need to know what build you are currently running though.
Open terminal emulator and enter:
getprop ro.bootloader
Let us know what it returns and we can tell you what you can safely flash.
It would also be helpful to know how this all happened. What were you doing when sound and baseband were lost? Did you flash something? If so, what and how? And what exactly have you already done to the EFS folder? It used to be important in regards to the imei, but it's mostly for drm type stuff now. (Still important though).
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DocHoliday77 said:
It would also be helpful to know how this all happened. What were you doing when sound and baseband were lost? Did you flash something? If so, what and how? And what exactly have you already done to the EFS folder? It used to be important in regards to the imei, but it's mostly for drm type stuff now. (Still important though).
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Well, the first place I messed up was when I tried installing TWRP through a terminal emulator. I didn't know about things like flashify, so I used
su
dd if=/sdcard/twrp.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p18
which was listed as a way to install TWRP manually. I must have misspelled something because that actually bricked the device and I had to use a debrick image on an SD card to bring it back. I was able to get the phone to boot up properly again without having the debrick sd card in there, so i decided to install CM 12.1. This was about 2 weeks ago so its kind of difficult to remember the exact order. But at some point I noticed the sound wasnt working, so i flashed a stock rom at attempted to make sure the bootloaders matched. When I turned the phone on, I was stuck in factory mode. I found some threads explaining that to fix this I needed to go to the FactoryApp folder inside my EFS folder and find the FactoryApp and Keystr files and change the text inside these files to ON. When i checked inside my EFS folder the first time, I did not find any FactoryApp folder, and instead I found a FactoryApp text file with a string of random letters and numbers. Another forum post had explained that if this scenario occurs, it is possible to just delete that and do a reset through TWRP or whatever recovery. So I did that and was able to get out of factory mode. This is the reason I felt like the problem was rooted in some corruption in my EFS folder. I've tried many things though... so i might be leaving something out. Anyways currently I have restored from a NAND backup that i did from TWRP.
The bootloader I have installed currently is I747UCUFNE4 however i have JSS15J.I747UCUEMJB android 4.3 installed... Maybe this is the problem? I'm really sorry for the wall of text lol.

Ok, thanks for the extra info. I have a feeling that this may be primarily a modem related issue. It's been a while, but I'm pretty sure I have the NE4 modem available in a thread in the General section. Either flash that, or reflash the NE4 bootloader/modem package from enewman17. (Do not try to flash the updated NJ1 or NJ2 bootloaders yet. Only NE4)
Depending on the result, I would also flash the NE4 system (also from enewman17). Just so everything is stock and matching. MJB should run just fine on your ne4 bootloader though, but just in case....
The thing that's got me most confused though is your efs folder. From what you said, it sounds like the contents are quite different from what I've seen on every other S3 I've worked on. This is why I am thinking it's a modem issue though. I've seen some items missing before, but only when the wrong modem is used. Still, yours sounds a bit different from those that I've seen, so it may or may not be the case here.
I have no idea if the sound will be helped by any of this or not, but maybe you'll get lucky! :fingers-crossed:
(BTW, you didn't happen to make a back up copy of that efs file you deleted, did you?)
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DocHoliday77 said:
Ok, thanks for the extra info. I have a feeling that this may be primarily a modem related issue. It's been a while, but I'm pretty sure I have the NE4 modem available in a thread in the General section. Either flash that, or reflash the NE4 bootloader/modem package from enewman17. (Do not try to flash the updated NJ1 or NJ2 bootloaders yet. Only NE4)
Depending on the result, I would also flash the NE4 system (also from enewman17). Just so everything is stock and matching. MJB should run just fine on your ne4 bootloader though, but just in case....
The thing that's got me most confused though is your efs folder. From what you said, it sounds like the contents are quite different from what I've seen on every other S3 I've worked on. This is why I am thinking it's a modem issue though. I've seen some items missing before, but only when the wrong modem is used. Still, yours sounds a bit different from those that I've seen, so it may or may not be the case here.
I have no idea if the sound will be helped by any of this or not, but maybe you'll get lucky! :fingers-crossed:
(BTW, you didn't happen to make a back up copy of that efs file you deleted, did you?)
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OH MY GOD. FLASHING NE4 MODEM YOU HAD POSTED BROUGHT THE SOUND AND BASEBAND VERSION BACK. I HAD JUST ABOUT GIVEN UP AND YOU SAVED ME. YOU'RE THE ABSOLUTE BEST.
Sorry for capslock, but I am excited. Now I just wanted to ask, do you know if everything would still work fine if I flashed CM 12.1 again?

It should work just fine.
Glad to hear you got it working again and I'm glad I could help!
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sorry to bring back an old thread from the dead but im having the same error that OP is having, i cant flash my stock rom back on my galaxy s5 at all and ive been scouring the internet for 3 weeks now for a fix, in odin it fails and the device says "SW REV CHECK FAIL : [aboot] Fused 3 > Binary 2" what does this mean and how do i fix it? im puling my hair out here

I believe XDA has a separate forum for the Samsung s5. It's also important to post the phone's exact model # as Samsung made several versions of the S5 for sale.

Having trouble with the service.

My problem started some months ago, when a friend tried to root my phone, he told me that he rooted it but every app that checks for root told me that it wasn't rooted and i couldn't use apps that needed root also, the downside to all this is that i couldn't use apps that do not allow root, like the banking app, or Pokemon Go, but i used the phone like that for some months until last week when i decided to try and fix it. I thought that if i flash a stock firmware everything should be fine and the phone should be as new. On the phone, it says that the model is SM-N910F(behind the battery), in the settings it also said SM-N910F, so i tried flashing a rom for this model at first and it kept failing with me not knowing why. After trying different thing and googleing some time, i finally noticed that in "Fast Download", it says that the phone's model is SM-N910P, so i started searching about this, i didn;t understand why there were 2 different models on my phone, then i found out about searching my IMEI on imei.info, so i tried it and here it was SM-N910C, i had no idea what all this meant, but at this time i already got stuck into bootloop. Eventually, i found this thread: https://forum.xda-developers.com/note-4/help/help-sm-n910f-sm-n910p-bootloader-t3299285 and did what cam_bob22 said, it worked, i finally flashed the firmware on my phone and it worked, i could use the bank app, pokemon go, everything was fine except the fact that i couldn't select or change my mobile operator, when going to mobile networks, the mobile operators options was greyed out and couldn't be pressed(i want to mention that i did have service and that data worked but the internet would work only in roaming and i couldn't get 4G). So i tried updating the software from 5.1.1 to 6.0.1 like it was said in the instructions and hopping that this update would fix the issue, but unfortunately for me after the update i somehow lost service completely, the signal sign was in the shape of a triangle with no bars, and the mobile operators setting was exactly as before.
So far i tried going back to 5.1.1 but besides the Hands Free activation that i can't make to go away, i still can't use the mobile operators setting and my data only works with roaming activated and doesn't get 4g. One thing that i forgot to mention is that the IMEI with the 5.1.1 firmware was of a samasung Galaxy S5 not a note 4, i checked it on imei.info.
I was wondering if there is any way for me to go back to the OS i had before my friend tried to root my phone, when it said in the settings that it was SM-N910F and everything worked as it should have.
Thank you for reading and i really hope someone can help me.

@robert11arad
There is no way to go back unless he made a backup. Which is why you should always do this before you flash anything.
I'm not sure if this will help but you could try flashing a international custom Rom after you have correct firmware. But if your phone is a Sprint version, you'll have to use a special data fix and kernel.
What firmware did you end up using to flash? Was it Sprint? If so, and you use gsm service, try flashing my Gsm stock Rom for Sprint phones. It's in post 2.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/no...t/05-15-17-debloated-deodexed-rooted-t3607029
You'll first need to be on current marshmallow firmware. So flash firmware with Odin first, then install Twrp with Odin. Then install Rom with Twrp.

aaron74 said:
@robert11arad
There is no way to go back unless he made a backup. Which is why you should always do this before you flash anything.
I'm not sure if this will help but you could try flashing a international custom Rom after you have correct firmware. But if your phone is a Sprint version, you'll have to use a special data fix and kernel.
What firmware did you end up using to flash? Was it Sprint? If so, and you use gsm service, try flashing my Gsm stock Rom for Sprint phones. It's in post 2.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/no...t/05-15-17-debloated-deodexed-rooted-t3607029
You'll first need to be on current marshmallow firmware. So flash firmware with Odin first, then install Twrp with Odin. Then install Rom with Twrp.
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Thank you for the reply, i wanted to say that with the Sprint firmware i used, after doing all the updates it unlocked the mobile operators option, but it couldn't find any.

robert11arad said:
Thank you for the reply, i wanted to say that with the Sprint firmware i used, after doing all the updates it unlocked the mobile operators option, but it couldn't find any.
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Oh ok. So do you have service?

aaron74 said:
Oh ok. So do you have service?
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No, the network operators is unlocked but there's still no service, when i try scanning for an operator it just stops with no message, and nothing happens.
I forgot to mention this, but before all this happened, I made a back-up of the phone with smart switch, is it possible to get back to how it was using that? And another thing is that when using the backup, it only restores music and photos, no contacts, no apps.(From what i've noticed so far)

robert11arad said:
No, the network operators is unlocked but there's still no service, when i try scanning for an operator it just stops with no message, and nothing happens.
I forgot to mention this, but before all this happened, I made a back-up of the phone with smart switch, is it possible to get back to how it was using that? And another thing is that when using the backup, it only restores music and photos, no contacts, no apps.(From what i've noticed so far)
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You would have needed a system backup with twrp.
What country you in? What network you on? What firmware you on?

aaron74 said:
You would have needed a system backup with twrp.
What country you in? What network you on? What firmware you on?
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I live in the UK, i'm on giffgaff and the firmware is N910PVPU4COG5_N910PSPT4COG5_N910PVPU4COG5

robert11arad said:
I live in the UK, i'm on giffgaff and the firmware is N910PVPU4COG5_N910PSPT4COG5_N910PVPU4COG5
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Ok. About the best advice i can give is, because your on pure Sprint Rom, something is messing up with csc or something.
All i can suggest, is maybe try updating to QC1 with Odin and then try flashing my gsm Rom. Which is essentially just a tmobile rom.
And if that don't give you the function you you need. Then maybe try an international Rom.
It's hard to say what the last person did to the phone.

robert11arad said:
I live in the UK, i'm on giffgaff and the firmware is N910PVPU4COG5_N910PSPT4COG5_N910PVPU4COG5
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Also. You stated your phone first showed as a 910f. So maybe flashing a international F rom, will provide the correct csc settings for your phone to work. Only problem your gonna have, is because it's Sprint hardware, you'll have to pair the Rom with a kernel that'll work and some lib files for data.
I can help you by putting together some files to flash. But the main question would be, Do you want a stock note 4 Rom?
Also before any of this happened, do you know what firmware you were on? Marshmallow? Lollipop?

aaron74 said:
Also. You stated your phone first showed as a 910f. So maybe flashing a international F rom, will provide the correct csc settings for your phone to work. Only problem your gonna have, is because it's Sprint hardware, you'll have to pair the Rom with a kernel that'll work and some lib files for data.
I can help you by putting together some files to flash. But the main question would be, Do you want a stock note 4 Rom?
Also before any of this happened, do you know what firmware you were on? Marshmallow? Lollipop?
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I would really appreciate if you helped me put the files together cause i have no idea how any of this works, i'm new. But i wanted to ask, is there any chance for thia to brick my phone?
When it had sm-n910f on it i couldn't update it after 5.1.1, when i pressed update it wouldn't do anything.
And yes, if possible i would like it to be a stock firmware, but if it is not possible i don't mind using something else as long as it works properly.
Thank you for all your help, i don't know what i would do otherwise.

robert11arad said:
I would really appreciate if you helped me put the files together cause i have no idea how any of this works, i'm new. But i wanted to ask, is there any chance for thia to brick my phone?
When it had sm-n910f on it i couldn't update it after 5.1.1, when i pressed update it wouldn't do anything.
And yes, if possible i would like it to be a stock firmware, but if it is not possible i don't mind using something else as long as it works properly.
Thank you for all your help, i don't know what i would do otherwise.
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Well, first, let me state,about bricking device. I have to state that it's not impossible to brick. But after hundreds of flashes never had problem. These devices are hard to brick. What hard bricks a device is messing with boot loader and partitions that shouldn't be messed with, like trying to unlock lte bands. But just flashing roms is fine unless you flash a Rom not for your phone and it over writes wrong partition.
All snap Dragon note 4s have the same layout so all you need is correct kernel, csc, and some ril lib files to get data working.
Now, mine main worry is that the phone is still unlocked,because I don't know what possible changes were made to it.
But with all that being said,I'll move on. With another post.
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@robert11arad
Before we go too deep into this and upgrade and stuff. I'd like to just test a custom Rom on your phone and see what works.
So what firmware are you on right now?
5.01, 5.1.1, or 6.0.1?
I'm gonna take a guess and move on. You last stated you were on OG5 which it's 5.1.1. So if that's true, let's try the following.
First I'm gonna assume you already used Odin to flash that firmware. So now we need to flash Twrp. So download this on pc https://eu.dl.twrp.me/trlte/twrp-3.1.1-0-trlte.img.tar
1 . Put phone in download mode. Open Odin and plug in phone.
2. In Odin options make sure everything is unticked except Reset Flash Counter.
3. Now click on AP and select the Twrp file.
4. Flash it. Let it flash until it states it's completed. Once done. Unplug phone. Pull out battery. Put back in and boot to recovery by holding power+home+vol.up
5. Now you should have Twrp. Just reboot phone so we can continue to next post.

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@robert11arad
Ok, here you go. If your where we left off, you should be on stock QC1 and have Twrp installed.
Just download this file, boot into recovery, and install. This file will delete dalvick/cache, so phone will take a few minutes to boot up.
I actually recommend before flashing, you do a factory reset in recovery then install.
Anyhow here you go. Let me know if it fixes what your looking for. If not, my only others option is to install a custom n910f Rom. I'll gladly walk you through if need be. But try this first.

aaron74 said:
@robert11arad
Ok, here you go. If your where we left off, you should be on stock QC1 and have Twrp installed.
Just download this file, boot into recovery, and install. This file will delete dalvick/cache, so phone will take a few minutes to boot up.
I actually recommend before flashing, you do a factory reset in recovery then install.
Anyhow here you go. Let me know if it fixes what your looking for. If not, my only others option is to install a custom n910f Rom. I'll gladly walk you through if need be. But try this first.
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Alright so i just tried it and when starting my phone, i can't even set it up because i keep getting a message that com.android.phone has stopped. After about half an hour of trying to start it, i finally managed to get to setting and to app manager, there i looked for com.android.phone and it was nowhere to be found. Apart from this i noticed a N with some signal bars where my phone signal should've been and i didn;t get the hands free activation anymore, but that's all...

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Alright so i just tried it and when starting my phone, i can't even set it up because i keep getting a message that com.android.phone has stopped. After about half an hour of trying to start it, i finally managed to get to setting and to app manager, there i looked for com.android.phone and it was nowhere to be found. Apart from this i noticed a N with some signal bars where my phone signal should've been and i didn;t get the hands free activation anymore, but that's all...
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Ok. I must have forgot something in csc. Sorry. I'll get back with you.