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Me and My girlfriend both have the SGS2, mine black, hers white.
Instead of all the settings/installations I thought maybe to backup my phone with CWM and restore it on her phone.
Is it possible?
Will it work...?
Won't it ruin anything important with the phone, such as imei issues or anything?
The reason for thinking about it is that she has some unsolved issues and I dont have too much time to spend doing all the checking and installing things..I just know mine works well and it seems the easiest way
It will work as long as the back up does not have EFS in it.
EFS contains information about imei.
The backup is consisted of a several .img files.
How can I tell if it contains EFS or not, and if it does, how can I 'tell' CWM not to backup this information?
list the files in back up and we will tell which ones are safe to transfer.
Sorry, The following are the backup files:
.android_secure, boot, cache,data, nandroid.md5,system.
As far as i am aware backup does not contain EFS but i am not 100% sure .
jje
I'm also interested in this as I would like to port my existing phone backup to another SGS2, but I have doubts re MAC address and also IMEI.
EFS info stated previously does not give much insight, but what I have as a regular CWM backup is: nandroid.md5 *giving proper checksum for other 4 files), boot.img, cache.ext4.tar, system.ext4.tar and data.ext4.tar files, totaling ~ 1.20GB. No EFS dedi files. I fear my second SGS2 might receive wrong info through backup flash, thus resulting conflicting one with another. As both phones will be used in the same household (my son would receive my old SGS2), and also IMEI is worrying me as I wouldn't want ending with both of them having the same one and resulting illegitimate while both SGS2 are legit!
I searched with google, but haven't found SGS2 related topics.
Anyone with more insight or willing to help?
TIA.
Cheers!
Edit: if none replies, I might give it a try as I already have CWM backup on both phones mounting the very same ROM.
Yeah it can be done. CWM doesn't back up efs so won't need to worry about that. It will put an exact duplicate on her phone though. All settings, contacts, messages, accounts etc will be copied across.
Sent from my GT-I9100
Fevves said:
I'm also interested in this as I would like to port my existing phone backup to another SGS2, but I have doubts re MAC address and also IMEI.
EFS info stated previously does not give much insight, but what I have as a regular CWM backup is: nandroid.md5 *giving proper checksum for other 4 files), boot.img, cache.ext4.tar, system.ext4.tar and data.ext4.tar files, totaling ~ 1.20GB. No EFS dedi files. I fear my second SGS2 might receive wrong info through backup flash, thus resulting conflicting one with another. As both phones will be used in the same household (my son would receive my old SGS2), and also IMEI is worrying me as I wouldn't want ending with both of them having the same one and resulting illegitimate while both SGS2 are legit!
I searched with google, but haven't found SGS2 related topics.
Anyone with more insight or willing to help?
TIA.
Cheers!
Edit: if none replies, I might give it a try as I already have CWM backup on both phones mounting the very same ROM.
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dude at any point of time u cant change the IMEI no its no ware related to ur rom hence dont worry
but ensure that u put the bkp file under cwm/backup folder other wise u cannot install the bkp from recovery
Thanks for the info guys. That is all I wanted to "hear" (read) and it seems not so complicated after all (thank god, not like on some other Android devices and nandroid backup). Will clone my phone to other one as soon as I have some spare time and will report back.
Edit: Just cloned my older SGS2 to a newer one, did complete restore of internal memory on newer SGS2 and everything works as a charm, just enabled it on my home wifi network and that's it. Older SGS2 just got dalvik etc wipe so it can be clean for my kid
So it is really a piece of cake and is doable.
Thanks for advices and hints whoever posted here.
Cheers.
Hi guys,
I have searched high and low for this issue. I have found a lot of forums on how to fix the problem but none of them pertain to my circumstances. I installed Omega ICS ROM v 13.1 a week or two ago. I then decided to install Omega JB v18. I then upgraded to Omega JB v21 as well. In preparation for the official Samsung JB ROM, I went back to ICS. I started by downgrading to Omega v13.1 ICS followed by stock Samsung ICS ROM I9300XXALE8. A couple of days after doing this, all of a sudden, whilst on a call, I lost signal and then the stop sign icon appeared in the top toolbar. I have no radio, no wifi, no bluetooth and no lock screen & power menu. After all of the reading I have done, I have managed to discover that my EFS has disappeared. I have rooted the phone and installed ES File explorer and have looked inside the EFS folder only to find that it is blank. I did have a Nandbackup but managed to delete it in my attempts to recover my phone (yes I know im stupid but I didnt realise the significance of the backup until I realised what was missing!!). So, no EFS backup. Seemingly nothing in the EFS folder on the phones root. Any help would be greatly appreciated. One thing I did notice, which I am sure is significant in some way, is that when I put Omega JB on it, my sdcard mounted as "sdcard0" or something along those lines. Again, because I am fairly new to the custom ROM world, I didnt realise the significance of this until I had down graded back to ICS.
Please help!!!!
Thanks again.
EFS
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1308546
No fix then its a paid for repair .
jje
Have you tried to flash back to stock
JJEgan said:
EFS
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1308546
No fix then its a paid for repair .
jje
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this description:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1264021
should be tried before repair as well...
marcedli said:
this description:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1264021
should be tried before repair as well...
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Thanks guys...I have tried this one. Didnt work. Just wondering if anyone knows how or if I might be able to restore from sdcard0, if it still exists. I assume not, but I guess it might be something. Does anyone know why Omega JB did that in the first place ?
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rosshwalker said:
Thanks guys...I have tried this one. Didnt work. Just wondering if anyone knows how or if I might be able to restore from sdcard0, if it still exists. I assume not, but I guess it might be something. Does anyone know why Omega JB did that in the first place ?
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If you do not have backup of efs folder. You have no chance of getting imei back.
You can go to service centre for rebuilding efs folder.
rosshwalker said:
Thanks guys...I have tried this one. Didnt work. Just wondering if anyone knows how or if I might be able to restore from sdcard0, if it still exists. I assume not, but I guess it might be something. Does anyone know why Omega JB did that in the first place ?
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Flashing any roms can destroy the EFS thats why its always rule one to backup EFS folder . Multiple flashing up down up down increases the risk .
Did not Omega backup your EFS .
You say
have no radio, no wifi, no bluetooth and no lock screen & power menu
Thats not the signs of IMEI corruption as it plays no part in power menu or lockscreen .
jje
JJEgan said:
Flashing any roms can destroy the EFS thats why its always rule one to backup EFS folder . Multiple flashing up down up down increases the risk .
Did not Omega backup your EFS .
You say
have no radio, no wifi, no bluetooth and no lock screen & power menu
Thats not the signs of IMEI corruption as it plays no part in power menu or lockscreen .
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I think that S3 has some problem in securing it's EFS folder.
I flashed my S2 with hundred's of roms and never faced this issue.
Secondly in my experience lock screen and power menu is efs folder issue.
muhammad.ali123 said:
I think that S3 has some problem in securing it's EFS folder.
I flashed my S2 with hundred's of roms and never faced this issue.
Secondly in my experience lock screen and power menu is efs folder issue.
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Read all the SGS2 and one help IMEI /EFS posts i suggest .
lock screen and power menu is efs folder issue >>> If it was a continual factor in the posts regarding EFS/IMEI then i would have agreed .
jje
A reminder about 2 things:
1) swapping/changing/etc IMEI's is illegal
2) giving someone else your EFS folder wont work, your phone will just default to the generic IMEI which is normally no better.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...GwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5oZWxyb3ouR1NJSV9SZXBhaXIiXQ..
try this out mate might b it'll help yu...cuz once i rescue cuz of diz app,,,
I wouldn't do that : in gs3 efs is not in the same block as gs2. It'll be worse than before.
Send me your efs partition backup using efs backup pro. I'll tell you if something can be done or not to restore your data.
Sent from my GT-I9300 using xda app-developers app
I had the same issue with my SGS1, the solution was flashing a stock rom with odin.
spocky12 said:
I wouldn't do that : in gs3 efs is not in the same block as gs2. It'll be worse than before.
Send me your efs partition backup using efs backup pro. I'll tell you if something can be done or not to restore your data.
Sent from my GT-I9300 using xda app-developers app
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Hey. This is one of the things I had read about and tried and it came back with nothing. I don't recall the error message but I think it said it couldn't find the partition or folder or something. I am certain that it has to do with Omega Jb and the fact that it installed and mounted sdcard as sdcard0 and somehow, when going back to omega ics, this has occurred. Another thing I have just now remembered is that I had also setup a swap partition on my ext sdcard and had it mounted. This was all working fine for a few days though so I don't see how that caused it. Was really odd. Anyways, thanks for all the help, but I am going to pay for it to be repaired.
veyka said:
A reminder about 2 things:
1) swapping/changing/etc IMEI's is illegal
2) giving someone else your EFS folder wont work, your phone will just default to the generic IMEI which is normally no better.
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hmmmm what if he has the IMEI number written somewhere? (phones box or license purchase note), can't he copy the EFS folder from someone else and just edit the IMEI??? >.>
Cruzaders said:
hmmmm what if he has the IMEI number written somewhere? (phones box or license purchase note), can't he copy the EFS folder from someone else and just edit the IMEI??? >.>
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thats a working solution, he just need someone who shares his efs....
Kies
Have you tried the Kies Restore????? i't worked for me!
marcedli said:
thats a working solution, he just need someone who shares his efs....
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if it is so easy to edit, it won't have an "e" in the name, would it?
Imei NULL/NULL - EFS Folder Lost.
Hi, I have a i9300 which lost efs folder, already tried restoring it through the box octopus, but at the time of writing the imei, it reports the error. (Write imei fail). Anyone have any idea what I can do?
So this morning I woke up and i couldn't get on my carrier network.. Which made me wonder wtf was going on. So I tried to go into settings to connect, but it wouldn't let me. I then realized my IMEI number was "unknown" which made my face one huge questionmark. I've tried using this guide; http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1264021
But I can't find my folder? BUT!!! I found a EFS backup on my internal sd card.. which is good. I just don't know how to use it now?
I have CM 10 Nightly built from about the 15th of December (2012) and Siyah kernel... I think..
The folder i'm talking about is a zip named efsbackup.tar.gz
Can anyone help me? I tried going back to an old backup I had from october, but it didnt work either..
Try using an app like kTool (there are others) to restore the EFS backup (but obviously you only want to try this if it's definitely borked). There's a thread devoted to it on here (and you can get it from Google Play) which should have instructions on how to restore with it (never had to restore one myself).
The backup would have come from Siyah, which automatically makes an EFS backup. If you manage to fix it, thank Gokhan
MistahBungle said:
Try using an app like kTool (there are others) to restore the EFS backup (but obviously you only want to try this if it's definitely borked). There's a thread devoted to it on here (and you can get it from Google Play) which should have instructions on how to restore with it (never had to restore one myself).
The backup would have come from Siyah, which automatically makes an EFS backup. If you manage to fix it, thank Gokhan
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I downloaded the app just before I saw your comment.. and it all looks confusing, but I tried clicking the "Restore EFS from backup (DANGEROUS" and it says I don't have the files.. Is there a way I can browse into my internal SD card, choose the file and then restore it?
try root explorer
gastonw said:
try root explorer
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That app costs like 5 bucks
5 buck to be available to make calls again.........and you got a wonderful app for life
anyway, you've got some root explorers for free in play store, not as good tho.
Gaston gets a commission on every sale (Root Explorer is the shizz tho).
MistahBungle said:
Gaston gets a commission on every sale (Root Explorer is the shizz tho).
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I see.. But do you have any clue of what I can do?
MistahBungle said:
Gaston gets a commission on every sale (Root Explorer is the shizz tho).
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oh man, don't go whistle blowing now
I did say "There's a thread devoted to it on here..." (kTool). I would have thought that would be a pretty big hint to read that thread from start to finish if necessary (it's not a big thread; 23 pages. Can flick through it in no time).
And as I've never had to restore EFS myself, I only know what I've read in threads on here (same as you) so can't offer you first-hand experience. I figure the answer will be in one of the threads devoted to restoring EFS (and there are heaps of them on here), up to you to find it.
Reading time:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1264021
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2073082&highlight=imei
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1596842&highlight=imei
BTW: you original IMEI should be below your battery.
MistahBungle said:
I did say "There's a thread devoted to it on here..." (kTool). I would have thought that would be a pretty big hint to read that thread from start to finish if necessary (it's not a big thread; 23 pages. Can flick through it in no time).
And as I've never had to restore EFS myself, I only know what I've read in threads on here (same as you) so can't offer you first-hand experience. I figure the answer will be in one of the threads devoted to restoring EFS (and there are heaps of them on here), up to you to find it.
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Its not a good combination when im tired and I really want to fix my phone.. But I see lots of issues.. The only thing is, I didn't have a EFS file when I looked ( I hooked my computer up, but i dont have an .etc map?) so.. I was confused, but then I saw the backups and immediately backed them up AGAIN... Hmm. And I can't factory reset, can I?
Rijna said:
Hmm. And I can't factory reset, can I?
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Now you don't wanna do that.
I'm tired too but i'm gonna give you a hand. Go to the dialer and dial *#06#. Let me know what's your showing IMEI number.
MistahBungle said:
I did say "There's a thread devoted to it on here..." (kTool). I would have thought that would be a pretty big hint to read that thread from start to finish if necessary (it's not a big thread; 23 pages. Can flick through it in no time).
And as I've never had to restore EFS myself, I only know what I've read in threads on here (same as you) so can't offer you first-hand experience. I figure the answer will be in one of the threads devoted to restoring EFS (and there are heaps of them on here), up to you to find it.
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gastonw said:
Now you don't wanna do that.
I'm tired too but i'm gonna give you a hand. Go to the dialer and dial *#06#. Let me know what's your showing IMEI number.
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Well I've given this a few gos on myself, and I've tried several apps claiming to be able to fix this, which made a EFS folder or file, and then it restored the exact folder again.. But this is all I got. I got a IMEI number, but it's a fake one.. or standard one, either way, it is not mine and not acceptable to any carrier. When I dial that it says "Not registred on network"
Rijna said:
Well I've given this a few gos on myself, and I've tried several apps claiming to be able to fix this, which made a EFS folder or file, and then it restored the exact folder again.. But this is all I got. I got a IMEI number, but it's a fake one.. or standard one, either way, it is not mine and not acceptable to any carrier. When I dial that it says "Not registred on network"
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yeah, you've got a generic IMEI. Did you look under the battery? there's your REAL IMEI.
Still, dial *#06# and tell me what number pops up.
In that case, leave it till you're not tired. Last thing you want to do is do something silly & bork your phone. It can wait.
Rijna said:
Its not a good combination when im tired and I really want to fix my phone.. But I see lots of issues.. The only thing is, I didn't have a EFS file when I looked ( I hooked my computer up, but i dont have an .etc map?) so.. I was confused, but then I saw the backups and immediately backed them up AGAIN... Hmm. And I can't factory reset, can I?
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gastonw said:
yeah, you've got a generic IMEI. Did you look under the battery? there's your REAL IMEI.
Still, dial *#06# and tell me what number pops up.
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Yeah.. I did so, and it's not even close. And when I dial it still says "Not registered on network"
downloaded any root explorer app yet? hc ktool?
you are gonna need 'em.
gastonw said:
downloaded any root explorer app yet? hc ktool?
you are gonna need 'em.
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I downloaded following;
ES File Explorer
GSII_Repair
HC-kTool
BusyBox
Terminal Emulator ( because I found this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=19522938&postcount=10713 but I don't know how to work with it, but it seems to be this might be able to fix my problem..) but I don't know how to work with this.. or what file I should use in this.. extracted or unextracted.. etc. haha I checked the #1234# or whatever.. For what I can see everything looks legit - still.
Rijna said:
I downloaded following;
ES File Explorer
GSII_Repair
HC-kTool
BusyBox
Terminal Emulator ( because I found this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=19522938&postcount=10713 but I don't know how to work with it, but it seems to be this might be able to fix my problem..) but I don't know how to work with this.. or what file I should use in this.. extracted or unextracted.. etc. haha I checked the #1234# or whatever.. For what I can see everything looks legit - still.
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Well, you got a couple of guides to use those apps.
First of all get try locating the efs back up with root explorer app, so you can move it to a folder where hc ktool can restore it.
If that doesn't work get busybox running in the background and open gsii repair.
and if all the above don't work, your up for reading threads time.
from sii xda-ded
My phone is bricked, My backup is corrupted and I have almost a years worth of data on my phone such as all my scores and coins from games and downloads and picturemail and unsaved phone numbers. Can someone please tell me if it is possible to get any of my game data off of the phone before I wipe and put a new ROM on it?
What do you mean, bricked? Have you tried wiping cache and dalvik and fixing permissions?
MrJyrks said:
What do you mean, bricked? Have you tried wiping cache and dalvik and fixing permissions?
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If I wipe the cache and check fix permissions wont that erase my data? Check out my other post by the way, it should be above this one.
Crocluvr92 said:
If I wipe the cache and check fix permissions wont that erase my data?
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Umm no, wiping your data would wipe your data.
Check out my other post by the way, it should be above this one.
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Umm, have you read the forum rules? There is no need for THREE threads dealing with the same problem....
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=36640068
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2096517
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2096621
Also, going through your other thread, you say the phone is stuck on the Sprint screen. Well, if you read the FIRST line in the thread of the fix you were trying to do, it says "THIS IS FOR METROPCS USER WItH EVO 3D NOT FOR SPRINT USERS!!!" I'm no genius, but that could be why it's bricked.
And lastly, if you made a backup with Clockwork, then all your data is there. You can always extract it. That is why you make backups.
sitlet said:
Umm no, wiping your data would wipe your data.
Umm, have you read the forum rules? There is no need for THREE threads dealing with the same problem....
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=36640068
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2096517
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2096621
Also, going through your other thread, you say the phone is stuck on the Sprint screen. Well, if you read the FIRST line in the thread of the fix you were trying to do, it says "THIS IS FOR METROPCS USER WItH EVO 3D NOT FOR SPRINT USERS!!!" I'm no genius, but that could be why it's bricked.
And lastly, if you made a backup with Clockwork, then all your data is there. You can always extract it. That is why you make backups.
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First of all, I am using a flashed phone with Metro PCS and I am using a stock rom for sprints Ice Cream Sandwich, so naturally its going to use the traditional sprint loading screen. Second of all, I backed up my data with Clockwork mod and when I went to restore, I always get an md5 checksum error and I looked into the back up folder and it was set to backup using the .dup file extension rather than .tar I dont know if that matters but what I do know is, there was no nandroid.md5 file ever created, just the three image files and the .dup file and in the backup folder and I guess since it was using .dup format, it put the bulk of the data in blobs folder, because that folder has 1,141 folders in it with a large amount of data. So if no md5 file was created, why would clockworkmod ask for it in restore? why has no one told me how to disable md5 checksum? I have downloaded a nandroid md5 file offline, edited it with note pad and made sure there were no spaces in the folders or file names and made sure to create an md5 checksum with RapidCRC ro assign its checksum to the right images and put it in the back up directory and still nothing works. I am sorry to be so desperate, but I work from home and need my phone, and I have been with out one for almost half a day. I dont have a car, I live in the stix and if something was to happen to me I would have no way of notifying anyone in time. So Im sure you can understand how I have come to this point in desperation and I just need help getting my phone to work! I can and will abide by the rules but the situtation I am is not good and I need some good answers and have been geting the run-around all day so can you understand that?
Last idea for u: 4ext can restore clockwork backups. My 4ext backups are in the clockwork folder (even though i never had clockwork). Just flash 4ext and they will show up. Try that
BTW if remove the checksums 4ext will continue without them
sitlet said:
Umm no, wiping your data would wipe your data.
Umm, have you read the forum rules? There is no need for THREE threads dealing with the same problem....
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=36640068
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2096517
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2096621
Also, going through your other thread, you say the phone is stuck on the Sprint screen. Well, if you read the FIRST line in the thread of the fix you were trying to do, it says "THIS IS FOR METROPCS USER WItH EVO 3D NOT FOR SPRINT USERS!!!" I'm no genius, but that could be why it's bricked.
And lastly, if you made a backup with Clockwork, then all your data is there. You can always extract it. That is why you make backups.
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gotta love the arrogant pricks, at least some people try to help instead of saying search or automatically state the rules.
angryGTS said:
gotta love the arrogant pricks, at least some people try to help instead of saying search or automatically state the rules.
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I did try to help, but it's hard when people don't give all the information we need to help them. And making three threads on one topic is only hurting his chances of getting it fixed, and it's against the rules for a reason.
I have closed th thread u made in the general section as this one is the same and is in the right place
Hello all.
Yesterday i was trying to install the last version of Paranoidandroid but when phone booted, i noticed that it had no data connection.
So i tried to make a call, but when you compose a number and press the phone button i get the error "not registered on the net" (hope the translation is good as i get the message in my language Italian).
Reading here and there i was able to undestand that the problem is the IMEI: my IMEI is changed and it displays a general one.
The big problem is that i pluged in into my PC the Hard disc that i used to backup my data and it doesn't work.... nothing...All the data are lost...
Am i able to recover my original IMEI (i found some guide around the web to get back IMEIs for AT&T and Verizon S3s with no backup, but not International GT-I9300) without a efs backup or do i need to send it back to Samsung (already resetted counters and restored original stock rom)? If i need to send it back, will they fix it in warranty (i'm still warranty covered) or will they ask me for moneys?
thanks in advance.
Hi,
First, you must try to install the latest stock firmware corresponding to your country and do a wipe data/cache. In some cases, the true IMEI will be back.
After that, if it doesn't work and if you haven't an EFS folder backup, there are no solution to fix your problem. As you said, we can get back IMEI for Qualcomm based Galaxy S3 (corresponding to USA Market) but Exynos' Galaxy S3 used EFS folder containing nv_data.bin that packaged the IMEI number and cannot be write without proprietary software.
If you cannot retreive your IMEI with the first method, send your Galaxy S3 to Samsung After Sale Services. Be sure that your custom flash counter is set to 0 and the firmware is a stock one before try a warranty fixing. In some case, it's covered by warranty (if there are no flashing watermark) but they can demand you some money to do that if they think you have flash/root the device.
lelinuxien52 said:
Hi,
First, you must try to install the latest stock firmware corresponding to your country and do a wipe data/cache. In some cases, the true IMEI will be back.
After that, if it doesn't work and if you haven't an EFS folder backup, there are no solution to fix your problem. As you said, we can get back IMEI for Qualcomm based Galaxy S3 (corresponding to USA Market) but Exynos' Galaxy S3 used EFS folder containing nv_data.bin that packaged the IMEI number and cannot be write without proprietary software.
If you cannot retreive your IMEI with the first method, send your Galaxy S3 to Samsung After Sale Services. Be sure that your custom flash counter is set to 0 and the firmware is a stock one before try a warranty fixing. In some case, it's covered by warranty (if there are no flashing watermark) but they can demand you some money to do that if they think you have flash/root the device.
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Thank you, i really appreciate your reply.
Already flashed the latest stock rom for my country and operator and resetted all the counters, guess my last resort is Samsung after sales service... let's hope they will not ask for money.
Like @lelinuxien52 said, we can't restore those devices. Next time you should make several backups of your /EFS partition and them put them to an online storage facility, like DropBox, Google Drive or SkyDrive.
Would have loved to help, but you'll have to:
A: Beg that you have an old dusty backup on your PC or SD card somewhere,
B: flash a new Sammy stock ROM (Download here: http://sammobile.com/firmware) and hope that that works,
or
C: Send it to your carrier and hope they can fix it. They'll probably send you a new device, but if you're lucky they have some kind of program which can generate an EFS paritition with the data from the stickers on your phone or box.
Agree with @familyguy59 : DropBox or Google Drive (why not Mega instead of SkyDrive !) is your best friend against EFS folder problem. Do not forget to save it when you receive your new/fix smartphone.
C: Send it to your carrier and hope they can fix it. They'll probably send you a new device, but if you're lucky they have some kind of program which can generate an EFS paritition with the data from the stickers on your phone or box.
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It would be nice if the software could be available here (but available only for user with bricked /efs folder, not for thieves !).
familyguy59 said:
Like @lelinuxien52 said, we can't restore those devices. Next time you should make several backups of your /EFS partition and them put them to an online storage facility, like DropBox, Google Drive or SkyDrive.
Would have loved to help, but you'll have to:
A: Beg that you have an old dusty backup on your PC or SD card somewhere,
B: flash a new Sammy stock ROM (Download here: http://sammobile.com/firmware) and hope that that works,
or
C: Send it to your carrier and hope they can fix it. They'll probably send you a new device, but if you're lucky they have some kind of program which can generate an EFS paritition with the data from the stickers on your phone or box.
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To be honests the only lesson i learned here is: Keep that device as stock and stop messing around with it lol
It'a already wonderfull as stock, i had really no need to flash custom ROMs... it's just that i'm a flash-addicted user since my first android phone (Acer Liquid) but well... i deserved it i think ^^
Thanks anyone for the replies
ash1684 said:
To be honests the only lesson i learned here is: Keep that device as stock and stop messing around with it lol
It'a already wonderfull as stock, i had really no need to flash custom ROMs... it's just that i'm a flash-addicted user since my first android phone (Acer Liquid) but well... i deserved it i think ^^
Thanks anyone for the replies
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Well then you missed something... You can and should mess around with it. Just be more careful.
(Check my description) I have created a universal Android tool kit which, in the next update, hopefully, will be able to back up the GS III's /EFS partition. Check it out, some time.
familyguy59 said:
Well then you missed something... You can and should mess around with it. Just be more careful.
(Check my description) I have created a universal Android tool kit which, in the next update, hopefully, will be able to back up the GS III's /EFS partition. Check it out, some time.
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ok, thank you ^^
ash1684 said:
ok, thank you ^^
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Glebun said:
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