Hi, i backed up my efs using twrp anyway and only did the firmware, used the phone only for a week and now the baseband is gone out of blue.
no imei.
i have tried million ways however now i think i've only two options. either i go to some profession (hard to find) to use some "boxes" and fix it for me, i play with nv-data hex file or the imei folder's to make something work!
is it possible? it might be illegal in some countries to touch the nvdata file however, if i'm only replacing my imei, i wouldn't really care if its illegal.
hope someone can help.
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Hi Guys,
Some time ago my SGH-i927 turned off and refused to come back on, it was sent to a couple of repair specialists who confirmed it was dead; an ex SGH-i927; it was no more, it had shuffled off it's mortal coil......e.t.c.
....now I have splashed out on a 'for spares showing extreme wear' handset from a well know auction site, supposedly it switches on but because of a broken screen is otherwise unusable. My hope is to swap the innards of the spares into my old phone which has a decent screen in a desperate attempt to achieve a single working handset.
I have backups both NANDROID and EFS from my old phone before it passed away. I've searched on restoring the NANDROID and this would seem to be a workable proposition, however, I have found little on restoring EFS to a 'repaired' phone. There were hints that this might over write the IMEI of the donor with the IMEI of my old phone. The legalities of this would appear to be somewhat dubious. As I presumably own the rights to both IMEI's and there will still only be one phone with it, what are your thoughts ?
My old phone was network unlocked using an unlocking code based on it's IMEI - which of the 'Backups' contains this setting (I'm guessing EFS) ?,
If I just restore the NANDROID would the unlocked status be preserved or would I need the EFS too?
What other issues might I encounter if I try to restore the EFS ?
Your help with these questions would be gratefully received.
requiem_mortis said:
Hi Guys,
Some time ago my SGH-i927 turned off and refused to come back on, it was sent to a couple of repair specialists who confirmed it was dead; an ex SGH-i927; it was no more, it had shuffled off it's mortal coil......e.t.c.
....now I have splashed out on a 'for spares showing extreme wear' handset from a well know auction site, supposedly it switches on but because of a broken screen is otherwise unusable. My hope is to swap the innards of the spares into my old phone which has a decent screen in a desperate attempt to achieve a single working handset.
I have backups both NANDROID and EFS from my old phone before it passed away. I've searched on restoring the NANDROID and this would seem to be a workable proposition, however, I have found little on restoring EFS to a 'repaired' phone. There were hints that this might over write the IMEI of the donor with the IMEI of my old phone. The legalities of this would appear to be somewhat dubious. As I presumably own the rights to both IMEI's and there will still only be one phone with it, what are your thoughts ?
My old phone was network unlocked using an unlocking code based on it's IMEI - which of the 'Backups' contains this setting (I'm guessing EFS) ?,
If I just restore the NANDROID would the unlocked status be preserved or would I need the EFS too?
What other issues might I encounter if I try to restore the EFS ?
Your help with these questions would be gratefully received.
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AS i know it would preserv. if not, you wil lbe able to use old unlock code with old imei.
Be sure to backup OLD and NEW efs.
Laws here perevent to mess with radio things, and that means you are forbidden to change your imei.
Manipulating the efs may brick your phone. I would start backup efs, and restore old one, and see what happens.
bubor thankyou for your response, may I ask for clarification
Laws here perevent to mess with radio things, and that means you are forbidden to change your imei.
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Would restoring my Old 'EFS' to the transplanted / replacement motherboard constitute 'messing with radio things' ?
I ask so as to avoid breaking the law ...UK LAW
Please PM me if you do not wish to publish an answer
Further research would indicate that the WiFi MAC address may also be stored in the EFS folder, if I overwrite the EFS of the donor MOBO with my backup file would the WiFi still work ?
Can anyone confirm if the WiFi component would still work with a transplanted EFS ?
All thoughts gratefully received.
I have network problems with my phone, I have done a lot of researches and those issues may be a result of corrupt efs, I didn't do a backup so what I wanted to do is that someone share a full efs backup, I know that it contains the imei so it will be illegal but I saw that we can remove that number from a qcn backup (made with qpst) with efs professional.
What Im trying to do may help a lot of users who have the same problem as me that didn't do an efs backup, but the problem is that I don't know if it will work and if the efs backup contain more info that will make it illegal to share.
I have been like 3 months now trying to fix my phone but I can't, it has signal problems, before I flash the qcn from here that enables aws bands I had no signal at all but after I flashed it I have some signal but in some places, i think that may be that only some bands are enabled, the aws bands, I think that I screwed the efs folder because when I bought the phone the signal was incredible where I live, I had the 5 signal bars and know only 3, 2,1 and zero signal, my info of the phone is fine, I have the correct one number just the serial number is 00000000000, I restored the imei with qpst but can't do the same with the s/n.
Well I hope that you or something else can help me with my problem and think about the efs backup that I was looking for I'm not an expert but I think it could work, thanks in advance and sorry about my English since is not my native language.
If I'm asking for something illegal just erase the post.
If you are asking for an EFS folder copy from another device...then you are asking for someone to help you break the law...
It is "ILLEGAL" for anyone to give you an EFS file from a device....
Send your phone to mobiletechvideos.com
This may get expensive if sending the device from areas outside of the United States...and you would have to contact them to make arrangements...
They will JTAG your phone...
A new EFS folder will be generated....and they will repair it to contain "YOUR" IMEI number by entering it from the information found under the battery....
Please don't ask the community to give you an EFS folder....
You won't get one...
And XDA won't allow it anyway....(big violation)....
I am sorry....but backups of the folder are your responsibility....and you are obligated to understand what you are doing "BEFORE" flashing or changing your device...
Breaking the law is not what XDA is about...
Best of luck....g
Sent from my NOTE 2.750...
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gregsarg said:
If you are asking for an EFS folder copy from another device...then you are asking for someone to help you break the law...
It is "ILLEGAL" for anyone to give you an EFS file from a device....
Send your phone to mobiletechvideos.com
This may get expensive if sending the device from areas outside of the United States...and you would have to contact them to make arrangements...
They will JTAG your phone...
A new EFS folder will be generated....and they will repair it to contain "YOUR" IMEI number by entering it from the information found under the battery....
Please don't ask the community to give you an EFS folder....
You won't get one...
And XDA won't allow it anyway....(big violation)....
I am sorry....but backups of the folder are your responsibility....and you are obligated to understand what you are doing "BEFORE" flashing or changing your device...
Breaking the law is not what XDA is about...
Best of luck....g
Sent from my NOTE 2.750...
Courtesy of our amazing developers...
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Thanks for let me know that, I didn't know that thing of mobiletechvideos.com, and I apologyze for what I asked.
Hey all!
I have a Canadian S4 (SGH-M919V) from WIND Mobile that my friend gave to me, broken.
I have already tried just about everything I can think of, and everything I read online to repair it.
It has a NULL IMEI (as verified by doing *#06#), and when I enter the Service Mode menu via *#0011#, the menu screen comes up but is just black and blank. The Baseband version displays as "Unknown".
I have tried flashing a few different stock roms (via Odin) for that particular phone, and have even tried AOSP roms (via TWRP), to no avail.
I have followed guides for restoring a blank IMEI, however, all the methods I tried required a working Service Mode, which I do not have.
At this point I'm thinking the problem is either hardware, or, it needs to have the IMEI reset via the JTAG, and I don't have the stuff to do that.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks in advance!
ess.boyer said:
Hey all!
I have a Canadian S4 (SGH-M919V) from WIND Mobile that my friend gave to me, broken.
I have already tried just about everything I can think of, and everything I read online to repair it.
It has a NULL IMEI (as verified by doing *#06#), and when I enter the Service Mode menu via *#0011#, the menu screen comes up but is just black and blank. The Baseband version displays as "Unknown".
I have tried flashing a few different stock roms (via Odin) for that particular phone, and have even tried AOSP roms (via TWRP), to no avail.
I have followed guides for restoring a blank IMEI, however, all the methods I tried required a working Service Mode, which I do not have.
At this point I'm thinking the problem is either hardware, or, it needs to have the IMEI reset via the JTAG, and I don't have the stuff to do that.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks in advance!
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Unfortunately you are going to have to get your information on fixing this elsewhere.
Discussion about changing the IMEI (even from 0 to a working value) are forbidden on XDA as making changes to an IMEI is illegal in most places in the world. And people use that info to make it easier to steal phones, so we don't discuss it here.
The only thing that I can advise you on is to restore the EFS backup, which includes that devices original IMEI, if one was made and saved to the device. If not, that's no help at all.
I can say that you're on the right track though as far as fixing it. But you need to find your answers somewhere else.
Skipjacks said:
Unfortunately you are going to have to get your information on fixing this elsewhere.
Discussion about changing the IMEI (even from 0 to a working value) are forbidden on XDA as making changes to an IMEI is illegal in most places in the world. And people use that info to make it easier to steal phones, so we don't discuss it here.
The only thing that I can advise you on is to restore the EFS backup, which includes that devices original IMEI, if one was made and saved to the device. If not, that's no help at all.
I can say that you're on the right track though as far as fixing it. But you need to find your answers somewhere else.
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Thanks for the reply. I realize the issues surrounding changing the IMEI, so I wasn't looking for help with that necessarily (though I would be open to doing so as the phone does have it's own perfectly legal and valid IMEI which I would be using).
I was hoping that perhaps all that was wrong was a corrupt modem, or something along those lines. I have tried to do an EFS restore, but to no avail. Some guides suggest doing a backup of the presumably corrupt EFS and then restoring it, but that didn't help either.
I am probably just going to have to chalk this up to "unfixable", as it most likely is indeed hardware damage.
So unless anyone else has any ideas...
ess.boyer said:
Thanks for the reply. I realize the issues surrounding changing the IMEI, so I wasn't looking for help with that necessarily (though I would be open to doing so as the phone does have it's own perfectly legal and valid IMEI which I would be using).
I was hoping that perhaps all that was wrong was a corrupt modem, or something along those lines. I have tried to do an EFS restore, but to no avail. Some guides suggest doing a backup of the presumably corrupt EFS and then restoring it, but that didn't help either.
I am probably just going to have to chalk this up to "unfixable", as it most likely is indeed hardware damage.
So unless anyone else has any ideas...
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If you have the valid IMEI that is confirmed good it is fixable. But it just can't be discussed here. I wouldn't throw the phone out. (If nothing else it's a GREAT tiny tablet for wifi use.)
Google will help you out.
Skipjacks said:
If you have the valid IMEI that is confirmed good it is fixable. But it just can't be discussed here. I wouldn't throw the phone out. (If nothing else it's a GREAT tiny tablet for wifi use.)
Google will help you out.
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Thanks again. I have an authorized Samsung repair place in town, so I will bring it by there first and see if they can handle it. If not, I'll ask my old buddy Google where to take it from there.
Hello Everyone,
I have a T989 in which the EFS has been wiped, I'm offering $100.00 US via paypal to anyone that can properly generate me EFS1, EFS2 And Dev_Enc Bin files using a donor phone. I need someone with Daseul access to recreate my EFS. I can supply all the original details, NCK, SNR, Wifi, Imei, Nand Unique, Etc And A photo of the original imei sticker. im not trying to change anything just restore it back to the way it was... if someone can generate the mentioned files I can push them back using dd if commands. im trying to get this phone back to 100% stock....
I Am Also Looking For Firmware For An Old Audiovox CDM-8900 For Telus, Preferably T095TEDM01_0 but any telus verion will do. Same deal applies 100.00 to the first to e-mail it to me
That 100 you are offering would likely be more than enough, less probably, to have a repair shop fix it. ?
No Repair Shops In My Province Unfortunatly, Closest One In Quebec And They Say if efs is erased they cannot fix it, which I find hard to believe. I know it can be done with daseul but now you need to create a ticket in order to login to daseul
Well, a Samsung losing its efs folder is usually doom. And a repair shop is usually the cure. Hopefully.
If you flash stock firmware and it's still gone, not a lot more your can do.
I've bought used N910A phone and the EFS parition was corrupted, so it had to be wiped in service mode. The rest is working fine and after ODIN with stock rom + temporary root I can access to EFS partition, but it doesn't include anything so I need to put there content. The best way could be if somebody will give me the EFS partition backup then I will change IMEI and certificate for original one.
Thanks in advance for this. It will save my life!
You can PM to me if you don't want to share this EFS on the forum.
zencooler said:
I've bought used N910A phone and the EFS parition was corrupted, so it had to be wiped in service mode. The rest is working fine and after ODIN with stock rom + temporary root I can access to EFS partition, but it doesn't include anything so I need to put there content. The best way could be if somebody will give me the EFS partition backup then I will change IMEI and certificate for original one.
Thanks in advance for this. It will save my life!
You can PM to me if you don't want to share this EFS on the forum.
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Can anybody help in this, please? It is very simply help, so any support will be appreciated.
Thanks in advance!
Doubt anyone here wants to share EFS files. When you talk about altering EFS and IMEI, you're getting into legal issues with phones.
jack man said:
Doubt anyone here wants to share EFS files. When you talk about altering EFS and IMEI, you're getting into legal issues with phones.
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I whole heartedly agree. If you messed the phone up that bad you should mostlilely not be messing with it or take it to some place to service it for you.
And just an FYI i have seen alot of not so well english speakers askong for different parts of firmware or code of devices so the could build clones. I have been in the software and devices running linux code for over 10 years starting out with FTA (free to air) and we had a company out of south korea build our units and we did the code to make the set top boxes work. We many of our units cloned and our software stolen reversed and rebuilt to make it look like theirs. Thats why i got out of that business.
So thats why you are going to have a real hard time finding someone to share their efs partition. And you should always backup your device before doing anything to it ever and never ever aquire one with a missine imei or efs
giga8547 said:
I whole heartedly agree. If you messed the phone up that bad you should mostlilely not be messing with it or take it to some place to service it for you.
And just an FYI i have seen alot of not so well english speakers askong for different parts of firmware or code of devices so the could build clones. I have been in the software and devices running linux code for over 10 years starting out with FTA (free to air) and we had a company out of south korea build our units and we did the code to make the set top boxes work. We many of our units cloned and our software stolen reversed and rebuilt to make it look like theirs. Thats why i got out of that business.
So thats why you are going to have a real hard time finding someone to share their efs partition. And you should always backup your device before doing anything to it ever and never ever aquire one with a missine imei or efs
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Of course I fully agree with you. I am android user since first android comercial impementation (on HTC G1), and of course I always make nandroid backup and EFS backup. This time it is completely different story. As I said I've bought phone with corrupted EFS partition, but full information about IMEI is available. So the only way to make this phone running is to get any EFS partition and change settings. For people having doubts: you can get rid IMEI from settings from the EFS partition. I just need the content to set up the rest.
Thanks in advance. Please PM to me if you can help me. Once again: thanks.