Hey all, I come from SGS4G forums, I know my way of flashing and whatnot with that device. However, a friend of mine owns a SGSII and has a weird issue that I hope you guys can help me fix.
The thing is, the device no longer recognizes the SIM card, or any other sim card. She already tried it on another device and the SIM is working fine. Also, the IMEI got corrupted.
I asked her what she was doing or what did she do with the phone. She told me that she was playing the sims and the battery died. So she plugged it in, waited a few minutes and then she turned it on.
After booting up, the phone didn't recognize the SIM card anymore.
As for ROM installed, she never replaced original ROM, nor ever tried to root the phone. This is what her device status states:
Baseband version: unknown
Kernel: [email protected]#2.
Build gingerbread.uhkg7
I really don't know how to proceed in this case. If it was my SGS4G, I would try to flash another modem using odin, but I don't know how it's done with this sgs2. So I ask the experts here to help me a bit.
Thanks in advance!
ps: i have no access to the device, my friend lives in a town far, far away.
I guess she didn't have efs backup, there are guide to recover imei I think it was in general thread, if those guides don't work, her pretty much final chance is to contact xda member called odia, he can restore imei's
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If the phone is running stock firmware, why would you risk voiding the warranty by messing around with it ? If you stuff it up, your friend will either end up with a $500 paperweight, or she'll end up paying to have it repaired.
In other words, tell her to send the phone in for warranty repair/replacement. It's a no brainer.
MistahBungle said:
If the phone is running stock firmware, why would you risk voiding the warranty by messing around with it ? If you stuff it up, your friend will either end up with a $500 paperweight, or she'll end up paying to have it repaired.
In other words, tell her to send the phone in for warranty repair/replacement. It's a no brainer.
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I was just asking if there was an "easy" way to fix this, like, flashing some other rom. If that didn't work we would just rollback to stock.
Anyway, looks like we're going to go with the warranty card this time.
I'm still open for suggestion though, I can't believe this device would damage itself just by running out of battery when playing a game.
And yeah, no efs backup I'm afraid.
There isn't easy fix for this
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It's not a matter of an easy fix. There's never an easy fix for borked EFS details. You risk stuffing the phone up & voiding the warranty in the process, which means if your friend wants it fixed, she ends up paying whatever it costs on top of what she's forked out for the phone.
Use the warranty, she pays nothing.
Think about it.
Edit to add - Also bear in mind you're going to be telling her what to do with the phone given you don't have access to it yourself. If she misunderstands something you tell her to do, kaput.
mikeflash said:
I was just asking if there was an "easy" way to fix this, like, flashing some other rom. If that didn't work we would just rollback to stock.
Anyway, looks like we're going to go with the warranty card this time.
I'm still open for suggestion though, I can't believe this device would damage itself just by running out of battery when playing a game.
And yeah, no efs backup I'm afraid.
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You could try first a factory reset
Then flash stock firmware both have been known to occasionally fix IMEI .
Did for me once .
jje
JJEgan said:
You could try first a factory reset
Then flash stock firmware both have been known to occasionally fix IMEI .
Did for me once .
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The first thing I suggested my friend was to do a factory reset. However, it didn't make any difference. In fact, I thing she came across with an error message saying something about not being able to mount efs files or something like that (she wasn't very clear, but she did mention EFS).
I would definitely try to odin (or kies) another stock ROM but since it isn't my phone and my friend isn't too tech savvy either then I think it's better to send it back for warranty.
Thank you all
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Hello,
I have Galaxy S2 Canadian Rogers version SGH- I727R with GB 2.3.5. I wanted to Install a custom Rom into my phone for that i followed below
steps :
1. Root with CWM recovery
2. Wipe data
3. Installed this "http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1824586" rom through recovery.
I rooted and installed CWM recovery successfully. wiped data successfully phone was ok till then.
after that installed the rom. Rom installation was successful as well. after that i select reboot phone but my Phone never Reboot.
I removed the battery for few minutes then put that back in and tried to start the phone but my phone is dead now. When i Flashed my battery was fully charged. so this is not a low battery issue.
What went wrong Here. Please can anyone Help me. How can i Start my phone again...Please..need help urgently
Can u enter recovery or download mode ?
Thats an ICS rom and you where on GB, you should never flash ics roms on gb
No i cant enter in Download or Recovery mode. If i could then this should be solved.
My phone is total dead now. Please give me any solution or tell me a way to turn my Phone On..
killer_nave said:
No i cant enter in Download or Recovery mode. If i could then this should be solved.
My phone is total dead now. Please give me any solution or tell me a way to turn my Phone On..
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Wave a magic wand maybe??
If your phone is totally dead as you say what do you expect us to say other then get it fixed? You will need to send it away for JTAG flash or mobo replacement. Only thing you could try really is a USB jig see if it forces it into download mode.
Also why on earth create this topic when we have plenty of this EXACT same subject? no need to create another when you can go read them or reply if needed.
i just want to know, what went wrong that my phone is not starting?? i just followed every steps i found in the forum
but after flashing the rom all went wrong..
WITHOUT JTAG flash is there any other way left with the help of software i can start the phone???
Nope. As my learned colleague has already intimated, in scientific terms, your phone is Donald. Service centre or possibly JTAG repair by 3rd party repairer; will be cheaper than having Samsung/authorised repairer fixing/replacing it if it can be repaired this way.
killer_nave said:
i just want to know, what went wrong that my phone is not starting?? i just followed every steps i found in the forum
but after flashing the rom all went wrong..
WITHOUT JTAG flash is there any other way left with the help of software i can start the phone???
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Good Lord.
You apparently know what your phone model is, because it's in the title of your thread.
The ROM you said you tried to install is an i9100 ROM. NOT a ROM for the SGH-I727.
MAYBE you should have made sure the ROM you tried to install was for your model of phone before you did so?
Your model has a totally different SoC than the i9100. That is what happened.
killer_nave said:
Hello,
I have Galaxy S2 Canadian Rogers version SGH- I727R with GB 2.3.5. I wanted to Install a custom Rom into my phone for that i followed below
steps :
1. Root with CWM recovery
2. Wipe data
3. Installed this "http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1824586" rom through recovery.
I rooted and installed CWM recovery successfully. wiped data successfully phone was ok till then.
after that installed the rom. Rom installation was successful as well. after that i select reboot phone but my Phone never Reboot.
I removed the battery for few minutes then put that back in and tried to start the phone but my phone is dead now. When i Flashed my battery was fully charged. so this is not a low battery issue.
What went wrong Here. Please can anyone Help me. How can i Start my phone again...Please..need help urgently
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I hate to be the bearer of bad news but your issue is one of two things. Galaxy S2 phones have something called the emmc brick. It often occurs when flashing a new rom from recovery. Unfortunately it is a hard brick, and is unable to be recovered from. For more details on the emmc brick there is sticky in S2 forum.
The other likely but equally unfortunate scenario is you flashed an improper rom that contained a kernel that was not intended for your device.
The symptom for both of these issues are a phone that does not turn on, as if you were trying to turn it on without battery in. Your best option is to have rogers send it off for repair as long as you remain within warranty period and be hopeful they don't refuse repair or replacement due to voided warrenty.
Wish I could offer you a better solution, and I wish you the best of luck in your situation.
Side note: just a couple comments directed at those who replied with less than helpful responses. Let's try a little to have some empathy for people. Chewing the ops head off for not replying in a pre established thread and for making a mistake and flashing the wrong rom is not productive at all and paints a pretty nasty image on us as a community. Consider for a moment the circumstances surrounding this thread, the op is likely stressing out or even worse panicking because he fears he has ruined his device and all we can do is berate him for his mistakes. Put yourself in his or her shoes.
Thank you.
Sent from my SGH-I757M using Tapatalk 2
skodazek said:
I hate to be the bearer of bad news but your issue is one of two things. Galaxy S2 phones have something called the emmc brick. It often occurs when flashing a new rom from recovery. Unfortunately it is a hard brick, and is unable to be recovered from. For more details on the emmc brick there is sticky in S2 forum.
The other likely but equally unfortunate scenario is you flashed an improper rom that contained a kernel that was not intended for your device.
The symptom for both of these issues are a phone that does not turn on, as if you were trying to turn it on without battery in. Your best option is to have rogers send it off for repair as long as you remain within warranty period and be hopeful they don't refuse repair or replacement due to voided warrenty.
Wish I could offer you a better solution, and I wish you the best of luck in your situation.
Side note: just a couple comments directed at those who replied with less than helpful responses. Let's try a little to have some empathy for people. Chewing the ops head off for not replying in a pre established thread and for making a mistake and flashing the wrong rom is not productive at all and paints a pretty nasty image on us as a community. Consider for a moment the circumstances surrounding this thread, the op is likely stressing out or even worse panicking because he fears he has ruined his device and all we can do is berate him for his mistakes. Put yourself in his or her shoes.
Thank you.
Sent from my SGH-I757M using Tapatalk 2
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He was running GB, does the emmc brickbug also affects GB ? I thought it only affected 4.0.4 running stock kernel
Poroto said:
He was running GB, does the emmc brickbug also affects GB ? I thought it only affected 4.0.4 running stock kernel
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no it will affect only the stock ICS v4.0.4, that to with the stock kernel's of those firmwares ma8
the OP's issue is mainly because he flashed a rom meant for i9100 on his phone, since both the phones i1900 and I727R have diff hardware altogether
i9100 - 1.2ghz with Exynos chipset and mali 400 gpu.
I727R- 1.5ghz with Scorpion chipset and adreno 220 gpu.
Alright I need some help please. First off i need to re-partition my modem and i have no idea how to. Due to constant flashing it screwed something up and i can no longer receive data coverage. Now i looked and looked and i couldn't find anything. So i decided to start a new thread. I need a step by step walk through this will be my first time doing it. And i really don't want to say this cuz i am myself a noob (please no noob's on this one i cant afford another phone). i have had some help by some other people witch was good advice but i have exhausted my options here. I have tried everything from flashing new modems to flashing new ROMS to odin'ing back to stock A.T.T. I'm Stumped i have done absolutely everything i can think of to this phone and still no data. I have the correct apn settings i know that. I'm just completely stumped i dont know what to do.
Phone: Att Samsung Galaxy Note SGH-I717
Android Version: 2.3.6
Okay brother ....I've been digging for gold, And to clarify your issue, you do not need to partition a modem.
You need to repair the device partitions.
Now, this doesn't mean that you should just start changing partitions using CWM or TWRP, or ODIN.
What it does mean, is you need to let Odin do it for you.
I won't take the time to go into PIT files and mapping, as we both would explode from boredom in 10 seconds.
But I will tell you that there are different levels of depth regarding roms and how they flash.
Odin stock roms go pretty deep, but sometimes not deep enough, and Odin will sometimes ignore the PIT remapping function during the flash if the file structure is already present on the device.
That being said, an Odin return to stock is not always successful when seeking a complete restructuring of the device partitions.
However, I have located a rom (factory ICS leak) that contains the entire device partition package, the PIT.IMG Package, baseband, and factory ICS image.
By using this one click Odin file, you will force the device back to factory status using ICS.
This will allow you to push the UCLE2 modem again once you root using CWM.
The ICS root method is slightly different than GB, so check the ICS root info in the super thread before rooting again. This will prevent errors or worse if done incorrectly.
The link below is the most complete package I can find, and includes files not found in the GB Odin.tar.
The file is good. And has been used many times to repair issues we see here.
Take your Time, and read read read....especially when rooting again.
Note: prior to pushing this Odin file, you "MUST" wipe all data and factory reset the device to ensure a "CLEAN" build of the file structure.
And once flashing is complete, follow the root method for ICS... And once rooted, flash the modem by using CWM.
You will need to manually add and save your new APN settings.
Once these steps are complete, you should have a working device with data..
If not, you may have device damage of some kind, which requires a repair of the device by an authorized service center.
I'm uncertain of the software having the ability to damage hardware, but I'm certain it is possible, and you may have this issue.
But if you are willing to try this rom, it will likely help.
Beyond my advice above, I've got nothing more to offer, other than moral support.
Of Course, standard disclaimers apply, and you do this at your own risk ...
Best of luck to you ....g
http://rootzwiki.com/topic/25980-sgh-i717ucle2-official-leak/
alright how do i flash in odin just like a normal .tar file????
nope didnt work
alright man i fill completely stupid 180% i put my girl friends att micro sim in my note it turns out my sim card is bad cuz i got her 4g as soon i i put her sim in but thank u at the same time as i apologize to you cuz i have learned alot from u and u have helped me alot through this issue of mine i fill so dumb right now i truly am sorry for the hassle i have put u through in the last couple of days
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alright man i fill completely stupid 180% i put my girl friends att micro sim in my note it turns out my sim card is bad cuz i got her 4g as soon i i put her sim in but thank u at the same time as i apologize to you cuz i have learned alot from u and u have helped me alot through this issue of mine i fill so dumb right now i truly am sorry for the hassle i have put u through in the last couple of days
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Dont feel stupid.
We all come here to learn about devices, and the problems that are associated with them.
If nothing else, you've learned many things about Odin, and the importance of taking your time with these things, and about proper setup of the device.
I'm pleased to hear that your device is not damaged, and you are up and running.....g
gregsarg said:
Dont feel stupid.
We all come here to learn about devices, and the problems that are associated with them.
If nothing else, you've learned many things about Odin, and the importance of taking your time with these things, and about proper setup of the device.
I'm pleased to hear that your device is not damaged, and you are up and running.....g
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agreed, OP my last post wasn't intended to make you feel stupid, I do things exactly like this more than I'd care to admit and I facepalm a lot. I completely forgot to recommend trying different sim chip which is one of the things I always check. My brother gets tired of me stealing his sim card to test my phone haha.
Happy to hear your phone is working!
Thank u all for ur help greatly appreciate it
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I717 using xda app-developers app
I717 Back from the Dead....AWESOME THANKS!!!
WoW I just about wrote off my I717 after a botched JellyBean upgrade. Came across this file and thought it was too good to be true...but is wasn't...GREAT THANKS!!!
hi. i have a real big problem. i delete a file or install a app and when I re-boot my phone it returns to the old situation. i enter the android recovery and i make wipe user data/factory reset, wipe cache partition after that i re-boot my phone and its going to return old situation. I've tried deleting everything, but still was the same. and constantly having to force close error. how can i fixed? what should i do? my atrix is international and rooted.
my english is not very good. i tried to explain myself to you. if you understood what i wrote, i will be happy.
There was a thread or two about this already. No solution though. Most suspect a dying storage, ie. a hardware failure.
Can you paste links of the threads? Thank you for interest.
http://cleanimport.xda/index.php?threads/1967620/
There were more but I can't find them right now for some reason.
help guys please.
i m working on it
thank you. i m waiting for it. please fix it.
Same thing that happened to my HOX (although there it was triggered by a corrupt partition map caused by a kernel bug, I think. /sdcard and /data are overlapping in the partition map. So much for S-On!) I think the eMMC is toast.
Your atrix emmc died. So far, no solution for that problem.
So how can i fix it? Or warranty can fix it?
(My f*ckin mind. I rooted my phone and i cant send the phone to the warranty. I m so sad. Im crying right now guys.)
I assume that you have unlocked bootloader, CWM recovery and custom ROM installed. When you try to restore your previous backup, the phone back to initial state. Same goes to Gobstopper, fastboot and fruitcakes. All these ROM cannot be flashed into your Atrix. I suggest you just try claim for warranty and persuade the service center. Sometime they accept your phone even your phone has been modified.
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I assume that you have unlocked bootloader, CWM recovery and custom ROM installed. When you try to restore your previous backup, the phone back to initial state. Same goes to Gobstopper, fastboot and fruitcakes. All these ROM cannot be flashed into your Atrix. I suggest you just try claim for warranty and persuade the service center. Sometime they accept your phone even your phone has been modified.
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No my friend. I have not got an unlocked bootloader. Im on the stock 2.3.4 rom. And just rooted for the nebtop app. Please help me.
I m in trouble guys. I definitelly feel terrible.
I had the original post that was linked to you. Came to see if there was anyone else who maybe found a solution.
In general, I would say your phone is toast. There COULD be a solution out there, but I have tried everything I could think of and anything suggested on the boards.
Sometimes if I leave my phone off for a few days, and I turn it on. It functions well for about 3 minutes, and then bam, starts giving me all sorts of read errors and applications start crashing.
I feel like theres a way to solve this, but I am not gonna try hard to do it myself. Once I can afford a new phone... I will buy one.
Hey everyone. The other day, I was installing a custom ROM and was also trying to unlock my Galaxy SIII. After both, Airplane mode somehow locked on... I did a factory reset - didn't help. I also reinstalled the stock image - didn't help. I tried several tar recovery files - didn't work or help. I tried everything! I can disable airplane mode in settings but my device simply displays a circle with a cross through it instead of the signal meter in the notification bar. It also doesn't detect SIM cards now... I don't know what is wrong. Help would be GREATLY APPRECIATED!!!!!
Thanks for your answers in advance!
My first thought is the Unlock process stuffed things for you. What did you try for the Unlock? Did you get it right? I've never had a locked phone so I don't know the process but try asking around on threads where they talk about unlocking phones.
What ROM did you try? Can you still get into the phone for menus etc?
And the biggie - did you try Restoring your Nandroid backup? (you DID do a Nandroid at some point, didn't you? )
If you've only done a factory reset from the phone I'd try getting MegaWipe and flash it in Recovery. Then try a ROM you know to be working for others.
Another thing to look at might be your Modem - I use Purelook HD ROM - one of the updates had a modem that screwed with my wifi and phone connection so I flashed the previous one that had worked well and all was right again.
You might also need to try a megawipe and then flash a stock ROM via Odin - get the phone back to a working state and then start ROM'ing again.
Yeah, I can get into menus alright. The MegaWipe didn't seem to work though Or the Purelook HD ROM. I've flashed the stock ROM about 100 times, restored Nandroid and did a full stock restore however nothing worked. Thanks anyway!!!
Do you have an EFS backup?
Is your modem correct? if not, restore your EFS backup
Another thing, dial *#06# on your phone and look at your IMEI. Do you see a bunch of zeros?
xpmode said:
Another thing, dial *#06# on your phone and look at your IMEI. Do you see a bunch of zeros?
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When I dial *#06#, a box pops up and simple says "IMEI". There is no actual IMEI number displayed... That must be bad..??
astronomynerd said:
When I dial *#06#, a box pops up and simple says "IMEI". There is no actual IMEI number displayed... That must be bad..??
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Yep, it says EMEI: null / null
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Yep, it says EMEI: null / null
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Your EFS is corrupted. If you have a backup please restore it. If not Flash a fresh stock ROM and start over.
If I'm right, you turned your phone to a Wi-Fi tablet. There is not a real at-home solution other than searching your whole computer and your phone's internal memory and all SD cards you used on your phone for files that have "efs" in their names and hope you find some kind of EFS backup you took before. (About that, can you post a list of the ROMs you installed before? I know Sotmax takes[or used to take, don't know the new versions] automatic EFS backups, maybe other Samsung ROMs do too)
If you can't find any, you should contact with your carrier and ask if they can repair it. It won't be covered by warranty, and you would probably be asked to bring evidence(receipt and such) to prove the phone is not stolen.
Make sure you tell them the whole story, and don't try to cover up the fact that you rooted your phone, or you may end up being questioned by the police.
If they accept, they will restore your IMEI using advanced debugging hardware and software. If they reject, then you may want to start looking for a new phone.
(Procedures may vary)
actually, it will be covered by warranty if you restore it to complete stock
They may still look at the binary counter and tell Odin has been used.
Other than that, lying in such conditions may result in big trouble, so if they ask if you have rooted your device, you should say yes. Not worth risking much bigger trouble for a paid repair.
There is triangle away.
Triangle away+flash stock rom = full stock no binary counter.
Why do you say there might be problems with the police? Since the gs2 there have been lots of cases of lost/corrupted efs without doing anything. Are all those people in jail?
If there's proof of ownership, then there's nothing to it. I really don't know how much is the standard rate for lost/corruped efs fixing outside of warranty, if it involves motherboard replacing, its gonna be as expensive as a new phone.
I'm talking from looking at my country's regulations, so they might be different in other countries. Hence the "procedures may vary" in my reply.
Hey guys,
So I got a real doozy here...
I flashed my Verizon Note 2 (SCH-I605) to the SOKP Rom from a Jedi X Rom (v13 I believe). After the flash, I noticed my network was not working. Eventually I found out that the device was registering as a GT-7105. Not sure what went wrong, as the rom was flashed with no errors. I also ensured that my recovery was on the appropriate version (TWRP 2.6.3.3 in this case) and I also did a factory reset. To try and rectify the issue I wiped the phone and tried various other roms. In every one of those cases I found that the phone was constantly roaming. I had checked my network mode and tried switching between Global and LTE/CDMA which did nothing. Being completely out of options, I just installed to a stock rom through Odin (VRAMC3 4.1.2) and let it update via Wifi to 4.3 and still nothing. (I am well aware of the Knox security feature and will address this in a moment)
Here are the different ways I tried to diagnose the issue after this that led nowhere:
1. Made contact with a Tier-2 specialist from Verizon that tried various diagnostic methods and found that my phone was simply not registering on the Verizon network, or ANY other network for that matter.
2. I went to a Verizon store and got my SIM card replaced.
3. I even went to a repair shop to see if the phone possibly had a faulty connection.
I have already verified that the IMEI is correct based on the sticker behind the battery. The PRL is on 15310. The very last thing I tried was entering "getprop" inside a terminal. I'm taking a guess here, but I noticed my ril.serialnumber was all 0s. Could this be the problem? If there's anymore information someone needs, I'll be happy to post it up. Just hoping I can get a little direction here. If I need to root my phone again to try something, I am more than willing to. My phone is out of warranty and not insured, I'm not really concerned about the Knox warranty trigger unless it will render my phone completely unusable.
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Hey guys,
So I got a real doozy here...
I flashed my Verizon Note 2 (SCH-I605) to the SOKP Rom from a Jedi X Rom (v13 I believe). After the flash, I noticed my network was not working. Eventually I found out that the device was registering as a GT-7105. Not sure what went wrong, as the rom was flashed with no errors. I also ensured that my recovery was on the appropriate version (TWRP 2.6.3.3 in this case) and I also did a factory reset. To try and rectify the issue I wiped the phone and tried various other roms. In every one of those cases I found that the phone was constantly roaming. I had checked my network mode and tried switching between Global and LTE/CDMA which did nothing. Being completely out of options, I just installed to a stock rom through Odin (VRAMC3 4.1.2) and let it update via Wifi to 4.3 and still nothing. (I am well aware of the Knox security feature and will address this in a moment)
Here are the different ways I tried to diagnose the issue after this that led nowhere:
1. Made contact with a Tier-2 specialist from Verizon that tried various diagnostic methods and found that my phone was simply not registering on the Verizon network, or ANY other network for that matter.
2. I went to a Verizon store and got my SIM card replaced.
3. I even went to a repair shop to see if the phone possibly had a faulty connection.
I have already verified that the IMEI is correct based on the sticker behind the battery. The PRL is on 15310. The very last thing I tried was entering "getprop" inside a terminal. I'm taking a guess here, but I noticed my ril.serialnumber was all 0s. Could this be the problem? If there's anymore information someone needs, I'll be happy to post it up. Just hoping I can get a little direction here. If I need to root my phone again to try something, I am more than willing to. My phone is out of warranty and not insured, I'm not really concerned about the Knox warranty trigger unless it will render my phone completely unusable.
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If updating the Profile and PRL on a stock based rom doesn't get it back, then you might have corrupted your EFS partition. I don't suppose you used TWRP to back up the EFS partition when you did a nandroid?
FYI: Doesn't matter what the phone is listed as (n7105) for connecting to the network. It's just a build.prop edit away from saying whatever you want it to.
es0tericcha0s said:
If updating the Profile and PRL on a stock based rom doesn't get it back, then you might have corrupted your EFS partition. I don't suppose you used TWRP to back up the EFS partition when you did a nandroid?
FYI: Doesn't matter what the phone is listed as (n7105) for connecting to the network. It's just a build.prop edit away from saying whatever you want it to.
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Unfortunately, I did not back up the EFS partition. I'm guessing I should try and restore this somehow?
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Unfortunately, I did not back up the EFS partition. I'm guessing I should try and restore this somehow?
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Can't restore what wasn't backed up. The efs is unique to your phone. In some cases you can use another part of another phone's efs partition, but not always and is gonna be a huge hassle either way. But yea, I think you're in a pretty tricky situation. I was reading on another forum that the serial number being 0 shouldn't cause this issue though, so not really sure what to think. Usually when this sort of thing happens, the IMEI gets messed up too. Updating Profile and PRL didn't help?
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Can't restore what wasn't backed up. The efs is unique to your phone. In some cases you can use another part of another phone's efs partition, but not always and is gonna be a huge hassle either way. But yea, I think you're in a pretty tricky situation. I was reading on another forum that the serial number being 0 shouldn't cause this issue though, so not really sure what to think. Usually when this sort of thing happens, the IMEI gets messed up too. Updating Profile and PRL didn't help?
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I guess that'll be the next step for me. I didn't want to go through the hassle without making sure. Please send me the links on how to do this if they are available.
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I guess that'll be the next step for me. I didn't want to go through the hassle without making sure. Please send me the links on how to do this if they are available.
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I don't have a Note 2 in front of me, but generally it should be in Settings / About Phone / Update or Software Update and for most Samsung CDMA phones, the Profile and PRL options are in or around there.
es0tericcha0s said:
I don't have a Note 2 in front of me, but generally it should be in Settings / About Phone / Update or Software Update and for most Samsung CDMA phones, the Profile and PRL options are in or around there.
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Yeah, it's actually in the Status section. It does not allow me to edit anything in this area. I don't see anything that says Profile.
Hmm I guess VZW decided you don't need to have access to those functions. Weird. Sorry man, I dunno what to tell you at this stage.
Edit: Found this -
"The only acceptable way to update it on LTE phones is to take the SIM out, boot the phone back up, let it sit for 5 or 10 minutes, power off, reinsert SIM, reboot phone. That's the only one I know of, there may be other ways to do it but that is the easiest."
Not sure if it will help, but certainly isn't going to make it any worse. What baseband version do you have installed?
First thing you need to do is write down your IMEI number. You do NOT want to lose that. Seriously, write it down with a pen. Also your serial number and anything else you find in the EFS partition you might need that's specific to your phone. THEN: at this point it sounds like you'll have to find someone's EFS partition. I've seen it around on XDA multiple times as I've gone through threads similar to this one. Once you find an SCH-i605 efs you'll have to flash/replace/edit yours somehow, try editing your own first to match the same values as your peer's. Don't replace personal information tho. If you end up replacing it you'll have to go in and re-enter your own IMEI number somehow. I am not an expert on how you can do this, but stated here is/would be the process.
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es0tericcha0s said:
Hmm I guess VZW decided you don't need to have access to those functions. Weird. Sorry man, I dunno what to tell you at this stage.
Edit: Found this -
"The only acceptable way to update it on LTE phones is to take the SIM out, boot the phone back up, let it sit for 5 or 10 minutes, power off, reinsert SIM, reboot phone. That's the only one I know of, there may be other ways to do it but that is the easiest."
Not sure if it will help, but certainly isn't going to make it any worse. What baseband version do you have installed?
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I tried this and still no luck. My baseband is I605VRUAND3.
aarongillion63 said:
First thing you need to do is write down your IMEI number. You do NOT want to lose that. Seriously, write it down with a pen. Also your serial number and anything else you find in the EFS partition you might need that's specific to your phone. THEN: at this point it sounds like you'll have to find someone's EFS partition. I've seen it around on XDA multiple times as I've gone through threads similar to this one. Once you find an SCH-i605 efs you'll have to flash/replace/edit yours somehow, try editing your own first to match the same values as your peer's. Don't replace personal information tho. If you end up replacing it you'll have to go in and re-enter your own IMEI number somehow. I am not an expert on how you can do this, but stated here is/would be the process.
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Say thanks if I was of help,
Sent from my SCH-I605 using XDA Free mobile app
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Thanks, I'll see if I can hunt down an EFS partition that fits my phone. Considering I haven't had any luck yet...I'm not too hopeful in finding one.
jvar105 said:
I tried this and still no luck. My baseband is I605VRUAND3.
Thanks, I'll see if I can hunt down an EFS partition that fits my phone. Considering I haven't had any luck yet...I'm not too hopeful in finding one.
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Hey guys, I just gave up and traded it in for an S5. I knew a guy so it was a good deal. I appreciate all the help!