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I am on stock firmware. I can no longer use buttons to boot to recovery ir download mode and when im in GB, holding the power button no longer gives me a menu to shut off of restart. It just shuts down. Any ideas?
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potatoman83 said:
I am on stock firmware. I can no longer use buttons to boot to recovery ir download mode and when im in GB, holding the power button no longer gives me a menu to shut off of restart. It just shuts down. Any ideas?
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It look like you haven't backup your efs. When on GB do you have a lockscreen or it only get on the home screen? If you don't have any lockscreen then you probably lost your efs. Wich rom have you flashed, CM9 for the 4.0? If you did maybe you still have your efs backup on your sd card. Look if you have a file called efs.tar. If you got this you can probably restore it but you would need to ask to the devs how because I don't know. Maybe just unpacking it in the efs partition would do it but I'm not sure.
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It look like you haven't backup your efs. When on GB do you have a lockscreen or it only get on the home screen? If you don't have any lockscreen then you probably lost your efs. Wich rom have you flashed, CM9 for the 4.0? If you did maybe you still have your efs backup on your sd card. Look if you have a file called efs.tar. If you got this you can probably restore it but you would need to ask to the devs how because I don't know. Maybe just unpacking it in the efs partition would do it but I'm not sure.
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There is no lockscreen either. I do not have an efs.tar. Is there a stock version of this file that can be installed?
potatoman83 said:
There is no lockscreen either. I do not have an efs.tar. Is there a stock version of this file that can be installed?
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If by stock you mean a backup that is available on xda the answer is no as this file contain uinque identification. So you need to use the one you have.
welp then i guess im done for..i dont got one. Oh well. Time to sell it.
potatoman83 said:
welp then i guess im done for..i dont got one. Oh well. Time to sell it.
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Are you sure you don't have any efs.tar on your sdcard, the same place where you have music and download. When you flash cm9 it automatically do an efs backup. If you really don't have this file then you can take a chance and ask a dev if they have something. I've heard somewhere of a generic efs that just got the not unique thing but I'm not sure. But even if you don't have it the device should be usable. But you should have done an efs backup before flashing as it is mentionned to do in the nebula thread.
Thanks. Just went ahead and sold it. Appreciate the help!
And this is why you read the instructions before flashing, or at least my signature for pity sake! Come on people, it takes a matter of seconds to backup the efs, and saves you and others hours of headache later on, JUST DO IT!
I don't get how this same thing can happen to dozens of people, and yet people still don't bother to take care to backup before flashing.
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Good night everyone I wanna return to stock my optimus g I used lgnpst but the phone freeze in AT&T logo if somebody help me that will be great
Sorry for my bad english its not my language Im still learning
Instructions say if it freezes at boot, then you have to let it restore to 100%, not just at the 68% when phone reboots.
Or you can just flash a nandroid, unless you want to remove toot and relock it? I have a TWRP nandroid of OTA I might be able to upload, its a big file.
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thanks for helping me i have a nandroid but TWRP doesnt restore it always says failed if you can upload your nandroid that will be great , by the way wich version of TWRP do you use
solanomes said:
thanks for helping me i have a nandroid but TWRP doesnt restore it always says failed if you can upload your nandroid that will be great , by the way wich version of TWRP do you use
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Doing a factory reset when it hangs on boot after lgnpst usually works. It will wipe your though, any apps, photos, music, etc you have stored there. If you want try that power off phone then press volume down and power and hold both. It may take a few tries but a menu will come up for reset.
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Doing a factory reset when it hangs on boot after lgnpst usually works. It will wipe your though, any apps, photos, music, etc you have stored there. If you want try that power off phone then press volume down and power and hold both. It may take a few tries but a menu will come up for reset.
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To expand on what to expect if you use stock/factory recovery. When wiping data/factory reset from stock recovery (vol down + pwr), you will just get a black & white ATT screen with factory reset/wipe data being your only option. Press volume up or down to exit or pwr button to wipe/restore.
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Thanks all for the help i really appreciated for now I will keep with the custom rom i wiil back to stock on weekend
Edit: I just lgnpst and follow your advices and everything went well thanks all
solanomes said:
Thanks all for the help i really appreciated for now I will keep with the custom rom i wiil back to stock on weekend
Edit: I just lgnpst and follow your advices and everything went well thanks all
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Did you need to factory reset to get it to boot?
adfurgerson said:
Did you need to factory reset to get it to boot?
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Yes i did a factory reset and know I have a new problem i did a backup days ago with helium and i coppied the carbon folder but know it doesnt restore it says no backups found
solanomes said:
Yes i did a factory reset and know I have a new problem i did a backup days ago with helium and i coppied the carbon folder but know it doesnt restore it says no backups found
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I have not used helium. Where did you copy it to? I was trying to state in my earlier post that "internal storage" would bewiped. I now see that I must have forgotten to type that part, for which I aapologize.
Its ok i understood that i copied to my laptop and now that I want to restore doesnt recognize
I sorry if i make mistakes Im still learning the language
solanomes said:
Its ok i understood that i copied to my laptop and now that I want to restore doesnt recognize
I sorry if i make mistakes Im still learning the language
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Your English is fine. Maybe if you made a new backup with helium you would be able to see where it is stored on your phone. Then copy your old backup to that location.
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Your English is fine. Maybe if you made a new backup with helium you would be able to see where it is stored on your phone. Then copy your old backup to that location.
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Already did that but doesnt recognize I will start over but thanks for the help :good:
Curious if anyone has tried this on the Sprint version with/without success (it backs up your EFS to your internal storage). I'd be careful if you want to try it though, my Note is bricked and I don't know if that caused it (it looked like it was successful) or when I was enabling/disabling KNOX notifications for an app I released. Granted, it could have been a coincidence and unrelated to both, but I doubt it.
I was unable to use Odin to restore the phone. I can get into Download mode, but I've tried numerous combination of using Garwynn's .pit file, the official Samsung stock tar, formatting data/cache in stock recovery, and enabling Nand Erase All option in Odin. The phone just comes up and says "Process system is not responding", reboots, and does the same thing over and over. Current binary shows Samsung Official, system status says custom. If anyone has any ideas on that, I'd love to hear it
But I'm really curious if anyone tried adb reboot nvflash this before on the Sprint version.
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Curious if anyone has tried this on the Sprint version with/without success (it backs up your EFS to your internal storage). I'd be careful if you want to try it though, my Note is bricked and I don't know if that caused it (it looked like it was successful) or when I was enabling/disabling KNOX notifications for an app I released. Granted, it could have been a coincidence and unrelated to both, but I doubt it.
I was unable to use Odin to restore the phone. I can get into Download mode, but I've tried numerous combination of using Garwynn's .pit file, the official Samsung stock tar, formatting data/cache in stock recovery, and enabling Nand Erase All option in Odin. The phone just comes up and says "Process system is not responding", reboots, and does the same thing over and over. Current binary shows Samsung Official, system status says custom. If anyone has any ideas on that, I'd love to hear it
But I'm really curious if anyone tried adb reboot nvflash this before on the Sprint version.
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Have you tried this? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2471421
gerald410 said:
Have you tried this? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2471421
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Thanks for the link, but it didn't work. On the Sprint version, efs is mmcblk0p11 (12 is modem1) but no go. Seems like the issue was directly related to backing up the efs, I guess KNOX thinks that someone might be trying to pull some info from the phone that it wants to keep secure? Very silly that it would let you run that command without any warning. I ran that the other day on a friends GS3 and that's how I found out about it.
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Thanks for the link, but it didn't work. On the Sprint version, efs is mmcblk0p11 (12 is modem1) but no go. Seems like the issue was directly related to backing up the efs, I guess KNOX thinks that someone might be trying to pull some info from the phone that it wants to keep secure? Very silly that it would let you run that command without any warning. I ran that the other day on a friends GS3 and that's how I found out about it.
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I wish you luck Viper!
gerald410 said:
I wish you luck Viper!
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Thanks man, I will go get the phone exchanged at Best Buy tomorrow. I'm home for the weekend and they wouldn't exchange it last night at the store here (used to work there) cause I didn't have the box. Apparently, they need that to get credit for phone returns now or they get hit with the full cost of the phone. I was kinda ticked off about that, but I do still have the box back up at school, so I'll get it replaced tomorrow. The thing that really ticks me off is what if I didn't have the box? You think you can deny a return within 14 days if I don't have the box? I would have fought it at that point, but I figure why cause an issue if I can just handle it tomorrow.
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Curious if anyone has tried this on the Sprint version with/without success (it backs up your EFS to your internal storage). I'd be careful if you want to try it though, my Note is bricked and I don't know if that caused it (it looked like it was successful) or when I was enabling/disabling KNOX notifications for an app I released. Granted, it could have been a coincidence and unrelated to both, but I doubt it.
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So, to be clear, you suspect issuing that command, caused the problem? If so, there shouldn't be an issue backing up EFS, via other means (like TWRP recovery). Does that sound reasonable, or am I way off?
By the way, thanks for all you do for the community.
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Curious if anyone has tried this on the Sprint version with/without success (it backs up your EFS to your internal storage). I'd be careful if you want to try it though, my Note is bricked and I don't know if that caused it (it looked like it was successful) or when I was enabling/disabling KNOX notifications for an app I released. Granted, it could have been a coincidence and unrelated to both, but I doubt it.
I was unable to use Odin to restore the phone. I can get into Download mode, but I've tried numerous combination of using Garwynn's .pit file, the official Samsung stock tar, formatting data/cache in stock recovery, and enabling Nand Erase All option in Odin. The phone just comes up and says "Process system is not responding", reboots, and does the same thing over and over. Current binary shows Samsung Official, system status says custom. If anyone has any ideas on that, I'd love to hear it
But I'm really curious if anyone tried adb reboot nvflash this before on the Sprint version.
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EXACT SAME THING happened to me. I was able to return it though bc my buddy works for an official retailer. Im just going to flash ONE custom ROM and deal w it UNTIL the whole SE-Linux issue is figured out. Its sorta my ONE FREE CHANCE I know this offers up absolutely NO help-lol-but indeed-the same exact situation happened to me but ONLY after using a TWRP restore that I had only a few hours before, created as a fail-safe. After that point, I tried every single thing you had mentioned-only 3or4x over! DO NOT RESTORE A NANDROID BACKUP is the prime lesson learned
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EXACT SAME THING happened to me. I was able to return it though bc my buddy works for an official retailer. Im just going to flash ONE custom ROM and deal w it UNTIL the whole SE-Linux issue is figured out. Its sorta my ONE FREE CHANCE I know this offers up absolutely NO help-lol-but indeed-the same exact situation happened to me but ONLY after using a TWRP restore that I had only a few hours before, created as a fail-safe. After that point, I tried every single thing you had mentioned-only 3or4x over! DO NOT RESTORE A NANDROID BACKUP is the prime lesson learned
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Wow, really? I've restored nandroids, at least 10 times, in the 4 days I've had the phone. Maybe I'm just lucky. Thanks for the info, though.
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LMMT said:
So, to be clear, you suspect issuing that command, caused the problem? If so, there shouldn't be an issue backing up EFS, via other means (like TWRP recovery). Does that sound reasonable, or am I way off?
By the way, thanks for all you do for the community.
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Yes, I believe that to be the issue. I don't want to test it again though lol I hope to have a solution soon for backing up EFS in a safe way
milton007 said:
EXACT SAME THING happened to me. I was able to return it though bc my buddy works for an official retailer. Im just going to flash ONE custom ROM and deal w it UNTIL the whole SE-Linux issue is figured out. Its sorta my ONE FREE CHANCE I know this offers up absolutely NO help-lol-but indeed-the same exact situation happened to me but ONLY after using a TWRP restore that I had only a few hours before, created as a fail-safe. After that point, I tried every single thing you had mentioned-only 3or4x over! DO NOT RESTORE A NANDROID BACKUP is the prime lesson learned
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LMMT said:
Wow, really? I've restored nandroids, at least 10 times, in the 4 days I've had the phone. Maybe I'm just lucky. Thanks for the info, though.
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Restoring won't cause the issue I had, if anything, you'll get FCs and knox warnings that can either be fixed with my TB Restore Fixer app or using a kernel that is SELinux permissive.
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I made a backup of my phone with LOS16 on twrp. I backed.up "boot, system and data", then when I go to restore I load it up and the phone restarts to the "pocophone" startup screen. After waiting the phone goes to fastboot mode.
How. Do I take a proper backup on POCO with twrp so I can switch rims easily?
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I made a backup of my phone with LOS16 on twrp. I backed.up "boot, system and data", then when I go to restore I load it up and the phone restarts to the "pocophone" startup screen. After waiting the phone goes to fastboot mode.
How. Do I take a proper backup on POCO with twrp so I can switch rims easily?
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My solution: flash rom - Los16 (kernel,magisk if you used etc.) and restor only DATA
mikussj3 said:
My solution: flash rom - Los16 (kernel,magisk if you used etc.) and restor only DATA
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I's there something I missed or it was just a fluke?
Mooatreides said:
I's there something I missed or it was just a fluke?
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I had a problem with miui10 backup and this solution helped. someone on this forum advised me. works with you?
mikussj3 said:
I had a problem with miui10 backup and this solution helped. someone on this forum advised me. works with you?
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It happened yesterday and I just reloaded the rom from scratch(all useful data is on SD anyway) , just wanted to know if I can avoid it in the future. Thanks man
Mooatreides said:
It happened yesterday and I just reloaded the rom from scratch(all useful data is on SD anyway) , just wanted to know if I can avoid it in the future. Thanks man
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Go with the default settings for backup in TWRP. You will not have any issue. But one word of caution, use the same version of TWRP for backup and restore. Otherwise you MAY face issues.
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Go with the default settings for backup in TWRP. You will not have any issue. But one word of caution, use the same version of TWRP for backup and restore. Otherwise you MAY face issues.
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i did it was the three selected i mentioned but still it was wierd, my phone stayed on "pocophone" screen for a while then went to fastboot. I turned it off and relaunched into TWRP and reinstalled the rom.
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ed i mentioned but still it was wierd, my phone stayed on "pocophone" screen for a while then went to fastboot. I turned it off and relaunched into TWRP and reinstalled the rom.
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When backing up, select system image Instead of system, and vendor image instead of vendor. It's the same, and no more problems when restoring.
hyborian said:
When backing up, select system image Instead of system, and vendor image instead of vendor. It's the same, and no more problems when restoring.
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I'm using the official twrp. This has worked for you? On official
Yes, perfectly
I was installing custom rom,then i noticed that i dont have any internet trough my data.Then i reverted back to rom that i used and i knew that i had data.But i didint have it.So i flashed pure stock rom trough odin again i dont have data it is just plain blue color and i cant turn it off.
IZIPIZI135 said:
I was installing custom rom,then i noticed that i dont have any internet trough my data.Then i reverted back to rom that i used and i knew that i had data.But i didint have it.So i flashed pure stock rom trough odin again i dont have data it is just plain blue color and i cant turn it off.
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You probably messed up something, don't ever lose your efs partition backup.
Did you flash csc or home_csc with odin? Use the csc without "home".
home_csc doesn't wipe your phone completely, also backup your data, pictures etc somewhere else as it might erase those too(haven't done this since forever so I don't remember).
pauaxe said:
You probably messed up something, don't ever lose your efs partition backup.
Did you flash csc or home_csc with odin? Use the csc without "home".
home_csc doesn't wipe your phone completely, also backup your data, pictures etc somewhere else as it might erase those too(haven't done this since forever so I don't remember).
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I did select the CSC.I have read that EFS folder might be corrupted do you know anything about that?
IZIPIZI135 said:
I did select the CSC.I have read that EFS folder might be corrupted do you know anything about that?
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Does everything else work?
Which firmware files have you flashed?
Also make sure it's the right one for your sim card.
Other things: Shut down, take out sim, boot without it. Shut down again, insert sim and boot it, see if you get anything on start.
Can you make calls even though it's supposedly enabled?
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Does everything else work?
Which firmware files have you flashed?
Also make sure it's the right one for your sim card.
Other things: Shut down, take out sim, boot without it. Shut down again, insert sim and boot it, see if you get anything on start.
Can you make calls even though it's supposedly enabled?
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Yes everything else work .I have flashed latest android q firmware.I tried but didint work. I dont know what to do.
I was trying to install pixle expirience rom but i installed wrong kernel so it woudnt boot then i wiped and installed another rom but then the problem started.I dont know what to do.Please help me.
IZIPIZI135 said:
Yes everything else work .I have flashed latest android q firmware.I tried but didint work. I dont know what to do.
I was trying to install pixle expirience rom but i installed wrong kernel so it woudnt boot then i wiped and installed another rom but then the problem started.I dont know what to do.Please help me.
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Did you restore any settings after flashing?
Can you make calls even though you are on flight mode?
Did you try what I said before with the sim card? Also try
putting it in the other slot.
What happens when you long press the airplane icon?
Do you see your IMEI codes when you dial *#06# or do you get zeros or NULL? Don't post them here if you do, just say yes or no
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Did you restore any settings after flashing?
Can you make calls even though you are on flight mode?
Did you try what I said before with the sim card? Also try
putting it in the other slot.
What happens when you long press the airplane icon?
Do you see your IMEI codes when you dial *#06# or do you get zeros or NULL? Don't post them here if you do, just say yes or no
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No.Yes i did try it doesent even see the sim card.I tried it in sim 1 and sim 2 nothing.It just takes me to the settings for that.I dont see my IMEI.
IZIPIZI135 said:
No.Yes i did try it doesent even see the sim card.I tried it in sim 1 and sim 2 nothing.It just takes me to the settings for that.I dont see my IMEI.
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Have you flashed back twrp?
Did you make backups before you started flashing things in the first place?
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Have you flashed back twrp?
Did you make backups before you started flashing things in the first place?
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Yes i am back at TWRP.I have no backups
IZIPIZI135 said:
Yes i am back at TWRP.I have no backups
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Now i have accidentally deleted efs folder.Im trying to mount it again using abd cmd tool but how do i do that using TWRP all videos are using deffrent software.Im gonna kill myself-
IZIPIZI135 said:
Now i have accidentally deleted efs folder.Im trying to mount it again using abd cmd tool but how do i do that using TWRP all videos are using deffrent software.Im gonna kill myself-
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Why and how? What happens when you boot system now?
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Why and how? What happens when you boot system now?
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I was trying to put IMEI manual trough some software on pc but i clicked on wipe efs storage.Now it is stuck at samsung logo forever and when i try putting custom rom it says in red text that i need to mount efs.
I dont know on what thread should i ask about this
IZIPIZI135 said:
I was trying to put IMEI manual trough some software on pc but i clicked on wipe efs storage.Now it is stuck at samsung logo forever and when i try putting custom rom it says in red text that i need to mount efs.
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Again, you didn't take a backup before trying something weird and later something weirder, why?
I'd suggest reflashing stock but you should wait for someone else to try and help you as it may involve fixing partitions among other things.
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Again, you didn't take a backup before trying something weird and later something weirder, why?
I'd suggest reflashing stock but you should wait for someone else to try and help you as it may involve fixing partitions among other things.
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Ok,thanks i put my sim card from s9+ to my old s7 edge so im in no rush.thanks for helping me!
IZIPIZI135 said:
Ok,thanks i put my sim card from s9+ to my old s7 edge so im in no rush.thanks for helping me!
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Welcome, well good thing you had that. Worst case you'll have to take it to Samsung and them wanting to replace hardware, best case things haven't been overwritten so it's restorable through some method.
Pick a custom ROM and stick to that when you fix it.
In the future always make backups, especially since it's a Samsung phone and things that control your IMEI are more reachable than they should be.
Good luck!