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Unlocking from TMobile UK

Hi
I'm probably a bit dumb but I cant seem to find much info on unlocking my Defy from TMOBILE, is it possible for free? If not any recommendations where to get it unlocked.

dealstokie said:
Hi
I'm probably a bit dumb but I cant seem to find much info on unlocking my Defy from TMOBILE, is it possible for free? If not any recommendations where to get it unlocked.
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http://modmymobile.com/forums/637-motorola-defy-general/563414-soft-unlock-motodefy-motofan-ru.html

Hi
Thanks for the reply, can you give me a breakdown on how to do this? What to install first ect?
Come over form Win Mobile, can unlock that side of things but I'm still getting my head around android !

please translate this page for more information..
http://forum.motofan.ru/index.php?showtopic=1728077&st=80
you need to use cm7 custom rom first..

tegezan said:
please translate this page for more information..
http://forum.motofan.ru/index.php?showtopic=1728077&st=80
you need to use cm7 custom rom first..
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Hi
Do you have to buy rootexplorer from the market?
Got as far as cm7 so far

You can use free root explorers like Yaffs Explorer made by one of Defy CM7 devs, or Super Manager. Both are available for free on Android Market.

Hi ok downloaded yaffs.
Download the software and put the system folder into my root of the sd card what do I do next?

Can anyone help still stuck....

Hi mate. You need to put them in the system on your phone not SD card. Put them in the directories exactly the same as the zip file. Ie copy paste to those directories
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Jakethepeg said:
Hi mate. You need to put them in the system on your phone not SD card. Put them in the directories exactly the same as the zip file. Ie copy paste to those directories
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Thanks for that !
However still not working I open the system file on my sd card , copy bootmenue file, then go to system on phone then mark the original bootmenue file and paste , did that for both files but still asking me for a code to use another sim card !

What I did was copying just the specific files inside of the folders:
init.mapphone_umts from 2nd-init from bootmenu
and
bp_ptc from bin
Now make sure to press Mount R/W in the top of the android file system.
Hope it helps...

dealstokie I suggest to wait someone more experienced to do it and test it otherwise you might softbrick your Defy. Meanwhile you can look for alternate (not free) methods to unlock your Defy as this might be cheaper than buying a new Defy.
I'm lucky and I have an unlocked Defy therefore I'm not so eager to try it, but maybe you are lucky too and there will be someone brave enough to do it.

7gismo said:
What I did was copying just the specific files inside of the folders:
init.mapphone_umts from 2nd-init from bootmenu
and
bp_ptc from bin
Now make sure to press Mount R/W in the top of the android file system.
Hope it helps...
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Thanks for your help, ive done the files but the mount r/w - I don't know where that is ! Using yaffs explorer btw
I don't think I will soft brick but if I do I can just reinstall?

dealstokie said:
Thanks for your help, ive done the files but the mount r/w - I don't know where that is ! Using yaffs explorer btw
I don't think I will soft brick but if I do I can just reinstall?
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Here's a screenshot of a Root explorer I used for the soft unlock method:
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Note the Mount R/W in the white rectangle...press that button, so you'll get Mounted as r/w looking like this:
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the pictures were taken from my SGS2 though, not the Defy one, so just don't get confused by it

7gismo said:
Here's a screenshot of a Root explorer I used for the soft unlock method:
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Note the Mount R/W in the white rectangle...press that button, so you'll get Mounted as r/w looking like this:
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What root explorer did you use? - worked that out by screen shot.
So here's what Ive done - Replaced the 2 files with the 2 new files in there correct folders, to do that I had to change mount r/w to mount r/o it let me place the files there then I exit then turn off change sim card and still not working !

dealstokie said:
What root explorer did you use?
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https://market.android.com/details?id=com.speedsoftware.rootexplorer&feature=search_result:)

Done all that, done the mount think and still not working ! do you have to press mount again AFTER you have pasted the files?

dealstokie said:
Done all that, done the mount think and still not working ! do you have to press mount again AFTER you have pasted the files?
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Man, I don't know why it isn't working for you
I mean, I just followed instructions from that russian website (translated by google) and it worked the first time...unless your defy is kind of cursed
All I can do is wish you good luck and good night (I'm tired now, really).
P.S.: try repeating same copy/paste steps with the same locked sim card inserted while turning the phone on/off say two times in a row and see what happens, might help, dunno...

[INFO] Save Your EFS Folder !!! (not yet T989 compatible)

[ATTENTION] Before Changes In Rom With Odin, Kies (Update Firmware) Or Flashing Save Your EFS Folder
Its Always Better To Save Your EFS Folder, Just To Be SAFE...
Why?
If You Lose Your IMEI # You Can't Download Apps Through Market Or Etc. In Turn Making You Spend Money At A Samsung Repair Center...
What If I Already Odined, Used Kies (Update Firmware) Or Flashed A Rom?
As Long As Your IMEI # In Settings And The One Under The Battery Match Your Fine...
How Do I Get My IMEI # Back If It Ever Changes?
As Long As Your Device Is Rooted Replace Backup With Root Explorer Or Use The App To Repair...
Must Be Rooted And Have Busybox...
Use This App:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1308546
Remember Its Really Important...
App Thanks To Lyriquidperfection...

I Dunno If T-Mobile GS II Needs To Do This But Its Always Better To Be Safe...

it doesn't work on the T989
Samsung made changes to the EFS folder, the bin files are not there anymore
they are just redirect links to some hidden locations in the FS dagentooboy is still trying to crack the case

AllGamer said:
it doesn't work on the T989
Samsung made changes to the EFS folder, the bin files are not there anymore
they are just redirect links to some hidden locations in the FS dagentooboy is still trying to crack the case
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Hey I Got An Alternative Use Root Explorer Go To Root Find EFS And Press And Hold It When Menu Pops Up Press Copy, Go To SD Card And Press Paste... There Should Be A Copy Of It Now On The SD Card Plus The Original....
Edit:
I Found That Its Exactally The Same As The Tar From The Tool I Refered Everyone To, All The Files Match Up...
Also If You Look In Etc/Firmware/Misc_mdm/Image You Find 3 EFS MBN Files, I Didn't See Anything In FS... So Im Guessing Its In The Rest Is In Firmware...

Still no update on where the nv-data.bin or nv-data.bak files are, huh? The i9100 has them in the efs folder but still cannot locate them for t989.
I'm having these same issues with an unknown IMEI, IMEI SV, and baseband.

[Q] Backup one galaxy nexus to another?

Hi all:
I got a new galaxy nexus that i'd like to use as my main phone, but I don't want to go through the trouble of setting it up again, my current gnex is just perfectly setup. They both have the same version of android (4.0.4).
I was going to to a clockwork mod backup of the current phone, move it to the new phone and restore there, but I think I'll mess up the IMEI if I do that?
What additional steps do I need to carry out to preserve the phone's IMEI?
Thanks in advance.

pcbroch said:
Hi all:
I got a new galaxy nexus that i'd like to use as my main phone, but I don't want to go through the trouble of setting it up again, my current gnex is just perfectly setup. They both have the same version of android (4.0.4).
I was going to to a clockwork mod backup of the current phone, move it to the new phone and restore there, but I think I'll mess up the IMEI if I do that?
What additional steps do I need to carry out to preserve the phone's IMEI?
Thanks in advance.
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If both have absolutely the same ROM, restore just the data backup, not the system backup, and you should be fine.

You can copy the IMEI on the original nexus to the other? Wouldnt that be best?
Is so follow these steps (it may look much, but i dont think it would take long if u want to keep your original imei number!
You must have:
-Root
-Root explorer for copying files to and from EFS folder
-Android SDK for the ADB tools or Terminal in your phone.
IMEI is stored in ".nv_data" file in ORIGINAL SHIPPED EFS folder too, so you just have to do these:
1) make a copy of your EFS folder to your sdcard using root explorer and then make a backup of the folder to your computer [ to have another copy if you had to format sd card sometime ]
2) delete the EFS folder (BE SURE YOU HAVE BACKED IT UP IN A SAFE PLACE AS SAID IN STEP 1) from the root of your phone using root explorer.
3) reset the phone, after that, go to the root, and you can see that the EFS folder is still there, don't make any mistake, this EFS folder is new and generated by the android OS.
4) go to EFS folder using root explorer, and delete "nv_data.bin", "nv_data.bin.md5".
5) go to your backed up EFS folder on your sdcard, copy the "imei" folder to the EFS folder at the root of your phone, then again go to the backed up EFS folder at yout sdcard and copy the " .nv_data " file to your EFS folder at the root of your phone using root explorer, NOTE: the dot in first of nv_data is not a mistake, copy the ".nv_data" file.
6) make another copy of the ".nv_data" file in EFS folder in your phone, so you would have 2 copies of ".nv_data" in EFS folder
7) rename one of ".nv_data" files to "nv_data.bin" and another one to "nv_data.bin.bak"
8) at your PC open CMD at the ADB tool path, or run Terminal at your phone enter these commands:
adb shell ( use this command of you use ADB, if you're using terminal, skip this line )
su ( ALLOW THE MESSAGE CAME AT YOUR PHONE's DISPLAY BY SUPERUSER PROGRAM )
chown 1001:radio /efs/nv_data.bin
9) reset your phone.... after that you have your original IMEI. you can check your IMEI by dialing *#06#.
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HinotoriBR said:
If both have absolutely the same ROM, restore just the data backup, not the system backup, and you should be fine.
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Thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to work, my IMEI gets clobbered to some generic IMEI when I do this.
Off to trying try sikiduck's suggestion.

Sikiduck said:
IMEI is stored in ".nv_data" file in ORIGINAL SHIPPED EFS folder too, so you just have to do these
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Stupid question... there is no efs folder. Do you mean /factory? There are nv_data files in /data/radio as well.
I'll play with these a bit and see.

You got root?

Sikiduck said:
You got root?
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Yes, I do. I tried playing with the nv_data files, but I can't get the original IMEI to come back no matter what I do.

[Q] Can't Rename Copy or Write files to External SD card

Hi guys, my issue is that I've put a new sd card in 64Gb microSD. I've tried moving files across from internal to external and it just fails every time.
I've tried creating a folder separately on the external card, but once it's created I can't delete it, I can't rename it and I can't put any files in there. Can't even copy files into the sd card in general.
I did format the card on the phone itself. Also, now when I connect my device to the computer it doesn't even show up as a device in explorer.
All this seems to have happened after the 10g update.
Anyone know why this is happening or how to get around it, please? (This is happening with ES File Explorer)

SD Fix in Play Store.

Bad4ss said:
Hi guys, my issue is that I've put a new sd card in 64Gb microSD. I've tried moving files across from internal to external and it just fails every time.
I've tried creating a folder separately on the external card, but once it's created I can't delete it, I can't rename it and I can't put any files in there. Can't even copy files into the sd card in general.
I did format the card on the phone itself. Also, now when I connect my device to the computer it doesn't even show up as a device in explorer.
All this seems to have happened after the 10g update.
Anyone know why this is happening or how to get around it, please? (This is happening with ES File Explorer)
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If you're rooted there's an easy manual fix here:
http://www.droidviews.com/restore-write-capability-to-external-sd-card-on-kitkat-manually/

I don't think that you should have to root your phone just to change files on your SD card. I had a G2 and I had to take it back for warranty fixes two times and they had a big sign at the front of the LG warranty repair center, rooting your phone voids your warranty . I don't think that you should have to root your phone just to have write access to the files on your SD card but it looks like I will keep plugging my phone into my PC to keep changing them.

Moving Files works with the LG File Explorer that comes with the phone.
I've read its a problem created by Google, so a lot of the File Explorers do not work.
Not ideal, but the on board one does the job.
Cheers!

HKPete said:
Moving Files works with the LG File Explorer that comes with the phone.
I've read its a problem created by Google, so a lot of the File Explorers do not work.
Not ideal, but the on board one does the job.
Cheers!
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Thanks for the info HKPete, I had just used my favorite file manager and didn't think to try the one that came with the phone. I can copy, delete, rename, etc. all of the things that I want to do with the one that comes with the phone.

SamStone said:
Thanks for the info HKPete, I had just used my favorite file manager and didn't think to try the one that came with the phone. I can copy, delete, rename, etc. all of the things that I want to do with the one that comes with the phone.
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Yeah, haha, same problem here. Tried for quite a while to get it working with ES File Explorer.
No worries,
Cheers!

SamStone said:
I don't think that you should have to root your phone just to change files on your SD card.
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You do. Unless you only use the limited stock file manager possibly.

SamStone said:
I don't think that you should have to root your phone just to change files on your SD card. I had a G2 and I had to take it back for warranty fixes two times and they had a big sign at the front of the LG warranty repair center, rooting your phone voids your warranty . I don't think that you should have to root your phone just to have write access to the files on your SD card but it looks like I will keep plugging my phone into my PC to keep changing them.
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Most of us root our phones for other reasons but I agree that it's a backward step from Google

saitch76 said:
Most of us root our phones for other reasons but I agree that it's a backward step from Google
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It certainly is a backwards step by Google, what are they trying to achieve? The stock browser is ok for some tasks, but for batch work, batch moving files etc. it's very awkward to use the stock browser.
I hope they damn well put the access back in the next release.

Bad4ss said:
It certainly is a backwards step by Google, what are they trying to achieve? The stock browser is ok for some tasks, but for batch work, batch moving files etc. it's very awkward to use the stock browser.
I hope they damn well put the access back in the next release.
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Try using a file manager to move things around :angel:

HKPete said:
Moving Files works with the LG File Explorer that comes with the phone.
I've read its a problem created by Google, so a lot of the File Explorers do not work.
Not ideal, but the on board one does the job.
Cheers!
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I just bought an LG G3 which came with KK 4.3.x and upgraded to KK 4.4.2. I am using the LG File Explorer that comes with the phone to move music and pictures from internal storage to the SD card. After the upgrade to KK 4.4.2 it doesn't work using the same file manager. Pre-upgrade it worked just fine. Tried Delete, Move and Copy functions and none seem to work. Deleting a picture file only seems to work from the Gallery app.
I'm a little frustrated as it seems it should work even with the restrictions of KK 4.4.2 for SD cards since its the pre-installed file manager that came with the phone and other seem to have success with it AND using the Gallery app to delete works. I can read from the SD card fine (File Manager sees the files, played music in the standard music app, view photos fine) so I don't think its a bad card already. (I just bought the card too).
Any thoughts on why the default file manager won't copy/move/delete files on the SD?
Regards,
Nemo4902

[Q] Why cant i sign in to google? on my SM-T700

I've reset my device and everything but can't sign in to googleplay/gmail/google! Why? Is it a temporary problem or anything wrong with the device? Can or Will you fix it?*
It *says *that COULD NOT CONNECT TO SERVER and change your connection or whatever! Why is this so? I need it fixed! I can't fiND the answer anywhere
Or is it a location problem?
And ive unrooted my Device now! So no Root methods!
Kindly give me a step to step reply of making it work! Please. Waiting for reply

angerfist962 said:
Hi mate, i had the same problem on my s4 after i bought it... I jsut had to format my phone and everything was fixed
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Thanks!
And the format means to backup and reset device right?!

These problems usually happen because of the wrong hosts file includings so you should delete the hosts file and reboot your device but i am sorry cause you need root. To do it use es file explorer in root explorer mode or any other root explorers you know then switch to the root directory of your phone go to system/etc/ and then you can find a file named hosts.txt there then delete that file and reboot. It should do the trick.

Monstercat007 said:
Thanks!
And the format means to backup and reset device right?!
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yea... in the options there is option to format, in the storage place u know

Rooted....... Now?
Now I've rooted so now tell me someway through which I can delete the hosts file? Ed file Explorer... I know it... but what to do in it? Anger fist...

Thread move to Galaxy Tab S Q&A

Bro i think i gave the whole instruction i attach some pictures you can see how to find that hosts file if you enabled root explorer in es tools section in fast access bar you will be able to delete that file and then reboot. It should do it i had that problem 3 months with my sgs3 and then i find this way and fixed it. GL

My problem is solved ! I deleted host file and I can access my google account
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These problems usually happen because of the wrong hosts file includings so you should delete the hosts file and reboot your device but i am sorry cause you need root. To do it use es file explorer in root explorer mode or any other root explorers you know then switch to the root directory of your phone go to system/etc/ and then you can find a file named hosts.txt there then delete that file and reboot. It should do the trick.
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My problem is solved ! I deleted host file and I can created/access my google account from my tablet Galaxy Tab S 8,4' Thank You !
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