how to repair EFS solve a problem of recognition of sim card
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Bumping posts in a short time span is against XDA rules .
As is failing to search for a subject covered multiple times .
EFS repair is very simple restore your backed up EFS folder if you did not then the search is for corrupt IMEI and EFS .
jje
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Hi guys (and girls)
I just made a wrong move on my galaxy S3 and ended up changing my IMEI and loosing my backup EFS folder in a full wipe, I know I should have known better :crying:
So do you guys know a way to restore my S3's IMEI or could you guys give me your EFS folder and a way to modify it to change the IMEI inside?
I'm up for any solution, just help me out guys, I'm desperate :crying:
Thanks again :fingers-crossed:
noob95 said:
Hi guys (and girls)
I just made a wrong move on my galaxy S3 and ended up changing my IMEI and loosing my backup EFS folder in a full wipe, I know I should have known better :crying:
So do you guys know a way to restore my S3's IMEI or could you guys give me your EFS folder and a way to modify it to change the IMEI inside?
I'm up for any solution, just help me out guys, I'm desperate :crying:
Thanks again :fingers-crossed:
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Changing an IMEI is illegal and as such is banned on XDA .
Repairing your own IMEI is by restoring your EFS folder .
Not some other EFS folder as that does not have your IMEI .
Only other solution is a service centre .
jje
JJEgan said:
Changing an IMEI is illegal and as such is banned on XDA .
Repairing your own IMEI is by restoring your EFS folder .
Not some other EFS folder as that does not have your IMEI .
Only other solution is a service centre .
jje
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Well here in France the service center verifies if the IMEI on the box and the back of the phone is the same as on the mobile!
So it's quite risky for me to return it. at best they would hand it back to me but won't repair it and at worst they would take it and never return it unless i filed a lawsuit and that's costly as hell
If you have used ktool to backup EFS,you can unzip efsdev-mmcblkop3 to get your efs...It's only my experience
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noob95 said:
Hi guys (and girls)
I just made a wrong move on my galaxy S3 and ended up changing my IMEI and loosing my backup EFS folder in a full wipe, I know I should have known better :crying:
So do you guys know a way to restore my S3's IMEI or could you guys give me your EFS folder and a way to modify it to change the IMEI inside?
I'm up for any solution, just help me out guys, I'm desperate :crying:
Thanks again :fingers-crossed:
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That's why I have multiple backup of my EFS: on my phone, on my SDcard, on my USB stick, on my NAS, on my dropbox and on my computer (one on system HDD and one on data HDD)
Now, if you have no backup of your EFS your last chance is to go to a service center and hope that they accept to repair your phone...
Is it just an issue with money if they have to reflash your phone?
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Hello all!
This is my first post, and now I need your help.
I have a Galaxy SIII, but he is having trouble functioning as a phone. Says I'm unsigned.
Finding enough on the internet, I discovered that the problem is the IMEI.
The IMEI appears on the phone's settings is not the same as that described in the label behind the cell.
Searching further, I saw that it would be necessary to backup the EFS folder, but I can not find this folder, already tried all the ways it seeks, even with apps that do this but they are also not there.
Somehow, this folder has been deleted from my device.
And now, what should I do?
Is there a generic folder that can be used to retrieve the IMEI?
Please ask your help because I am very frustrated with this.
newtonBR said:
Hello all!
This is my first post, and now I need your help.
I have a Galaxy SIII, but he is having trouble functioning as a phone. Says I'm unsigned.
Finding enough on the internet, I discovered that the problem is the IMEI.
The IMEI appears on the phone's settings is not the same as that described in the label behind the cell.
Searching further, I saw that it would be necessary to backup the EFS folder, but I can not find this folder, already tried all the ways it seeks, even with apps that do this but they are also not there.
Somehow, this folder has been deleted from my device.
And now, what should I do?
Is there a generic folder that can be used to retrieve the IMEI?
Please ask your help because I am very frustrated with this.
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To late .
EFS folder is used to restore IMEI from a backup of your EFS .
Return phone to the seller or take to a service centre for repair .
Wrong IMEI can be stolen phone user flashing firmware or phone failure .
Try a factory reset first .
jje
JJEgan said:
To late .
EFS folder is used to restore IMEI from a backup of your EFS .
Return phone to the seller or take to a service centre for repair .
Wrong IMEI can be stolen phone user flashing firmware or phone failure .
Try a factory reset first .
jje
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I tried the factory reset, but it did not work.
Is not there any way to do this?
just restore the efs backup you've made. if you didn't, try restoring any nandroid backups, maybe they have efs included. if that doesn't work, try looking in the sdcard for some files that have "efs" in the name, some kernels back it up automatically. use adb to view the files (Google it). if that doesn't work, try flashing a stock rom and factory resetting from recovery.
and that is absolutely everything you can do.
I have bought a galaxy s3.
Old owner has deleted efs folder while he was trying to install a rom. he had also no efs backup.
How can i put it back? i have my phones imei but imei shows null/null.
Return it for a refund, there are some solutions for efs problems here in q&a but they probably won't help your situation.
Likewise no EFS no phone .
You can search and read all the multiple lost EFS posts .
Guess the seller new that EFS is not replaceable .
Possible a service centre may repair if you have the IMEI and an original sales receipt.
jje
hi everybody.
I have an issue with my device, I was on the root directory and I deleted the folder EFS.
Now I have a different IMEI 04999010640000 and I can't connect to my provider.
I was looking in a different forums and they said that the imei it's a custom provided by the device and I have to use a box for restore the imei and the other things of that folder. please, can someone help me.
Can you first read the faqs and guides and use search instead of asking the same question day after day after day.
Basic is restore your backed up EFS folder .
Fail to read the guides first and no EFS backup tough **** pay for a service centre repair .
jje
Why delete efs in first place
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kangerX said:
Why delete efs in first place
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I made a mistake,I didn't wanted erase that file
anyways... there is first time for everything... Please check in your internal and external card that if you have the backup of EFS. Sometimes when you flash a new ROM specifically a custom rom, some of them backs up the efs partition automatically. so try to find out if there is any back up of efs on any one of your memory cards.
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anyways... there is first time for everything... Please check in your internal and external card that if you have the backup of EFS. Sometimes when you flash a new ROM specifically a custom rom, some of them backs up the efs partition automatically. so try to find out if there is any back up of efs on any one of your memory cards.
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I look on my internal and external memory, I don't see any backup .
That is not good.. The only way is to send it to Samsung service centre
If my post had helped you than please press Thanks button. It might be very little for you but VERY BIG for me.
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I made a mistake,I didn't wanted erase that file
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oh okay !
after playing around unnecessarily with roms it seems I messed up my IMEI.
by checking if IMEI is valid via dialer, i got a number which starts with 0049, which as I understand is bad. I have done a little reading on ESF backup and restore, but the ways to restore EFS always require backup from the same apllication...So I searched for a backed that maybe occoured automatically, so I found one in the root internal storage folder and discovered a folder named "esf_backup", probably created during rom installations, the question is can i restore the tar.gz file in this folder? Or has my phone been messed up way beyond repair?
thx upfront
Yes you can, read the hundred or so other exact same posts to find out how.
Have a look at EFS Pro.
jje
If it's not .img you can restore by simply copying whole efs from backup to phone by root explorer
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