Hey I've been looking through all the other threads for the past few days and nothing has helped. My normal network is orange but a few days ago i believe it was after i flashed neat ROM i couldn't connect to my network i tried a few different sim cards in there but some worked and some didn't, now today i flashed Miui android and the sim cards that used to work don't now.. I've contacted orange and they are sending me a new sim card. I've tried flashing stock ics and gingerbread also stock orange firmware, IMEI is the same as under the battery.
Is it..
Blacklisted?
Hardware?
EFS?
Thanks in advance
Did you try this already?
Yeah, sorry should have said, this was the first thing i tried
Before contacting Orange, Did you try your sim in another phone or try reinstalling Original Orange firmware.
Going from one custom rom to another custom rom because of the problems you were getting, will more than likely create more problems.
From recovery, data/factory reset. advanced wipe delvik cache. Mounts and Storage format system and data.
Use Odin to reinstall latest firmware or the original firmware that came with your phone.
Then make a nandroid backup. Plus backup your EFS.
Once its all working.. Then and only then.. try a custom rom.
Thanks for helping, but that has not worked, i also got my new sim in the post just now and that has not worked either.. :/
cashisback said:
Thanks for helping, but that has not worked, i also got my new sim in the post just now and that has not worked either.. :/
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Sorry to hear that. If you have already tried original firmware and your imei is correct then it looks like it may have to go in for service.
Dont forget to use triangle away if your still on ICS to remove any binary counts or use USB jig with old bootloader. Then flash your original firmware back to your phone before sending it in though.
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bored_stupid said:
Sorry to hear that. If you have already tried original firmware and your imei is correct then it looks like it may have to go in for service.
Dont forget to use triangle away if your still on ICS to remove any binary counts or use USB jig with old bootloader. Then flash your original firmware back to your phone before sending it in though.
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I will not surrender yet! :L yeah i phoned orange again and they said my IMEI is blacklisted then said to phone t mobile and they said the same but to phone the place i bought it. thanks for your help though guys. hopefully they will unblock the IMEI or i reckon a refund is at hand!
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Hey I've been looking through all the other threads for the past few days and nothing has helped. My normal network is orange but a few days ago i believe it was after i flashed neat ROM i couldn't connect to my network i tried a few different sim cards in there but some worked and some didn't, now today i flashed Miui android and the sim cards that used to work don't now.. I've contacted orange and they are sending me a new sim card. I've tried flashing stock ics and gingerbread also stock orange firmware, IMEI is the same as under the battery.
Is it..
Blacklisted?
Hardware?
EFS?
Thanks in advance
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Blacklisted surely Orange would have told you .
EFA unlikely if you have correct IMEI you can always restore your backed up EFS folder .
Hardware possible but as you have messed with roms my guess would be you have wrong CSC and not entered network settings manually .
jje
cashisback said:
yeah i phoned orange again and they said my IMEI is blacklisted then said to phone t mobile and they said the same but to phone the place i bought it. thanks for your help though guys. hopefully they will unblock the IMEI or i reckon a refund is at hand!
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Sounds like you already had an idea that the IMEI was blocked from your first post. Sugesting that you have a fair idea that it was stolen. If not, I hope you get your money back. If on the other hand you knew!!, I and I imagine all the other members of this site wil help you no further. And I hope you get what you deserve!!!
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If it was stolen it wasn't my fault it was CEX's fault for selling it to me, i reckon someone sold it to CEX either to claim insurance or it was stolen and then sold to CEX then me. I would rather get the IMEI unblocked instead of a refund do you know if they have the power to do that?
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If it was stolen it wasn't my fault it was CEX's fault for selling it to me, i reckon someone sold it to CEX either to claim insurance or it was stolen and then sold to CEX then me. I would rather get the IMEI unblocked instead of a refund do you know if they have the power to do that?
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No they will not have the power to do that," that would make it a criminal offence, if it already is'nt ". Take your receipt back to the shop along with the phone and demand your money back.
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No they will not have the power to do that," that would make it a criminal offence, if it already is'nt ". Take your receipt back to the shop along with the phone and demand your money back.
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Okay, thank you, will do, if i get money i may just have to invest in the GS3 in a couple of days. thank you for your help
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The phone part of my gs2 has stopped working without notice during standby ;
Sim cards are not recognized, the baseband is listed as "unknown", so are imei and everything associated with phone and data.
Wifi works, like everything else, it works like normal except for phone and data.
I was on cognition 1.31, I tried to restore a previous working nandroid backup, but with no success ; So I tried to flash separately various modems via Odin , but with no success either...
If I put the phone in offline mode it stays that way handgun it's impossible to disable it.
What can I try next before taking it to service?
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Restore your backed up EFS folder as it looks looks wrong/no IMEI .
Service will require no root no custom rom and rom counter at zero for warranty .
jje
JJEgan said:
Restore your backed up EFS folder as it looks looks wrong/no IMEI .
Service will require no root no custom rom and rom counter at zero for warranty .
jje
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I tried that too, copying he efs folder that I copied on the external memory with root explorer, it's the right procedure?
I have the USB jig, so I have no problems restoring it to stock-like conditions.
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Bump?
Nothing seems to work..
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Is the phone stolen? Who did you buy it from?
666fff said:
Is the phone stolen? Who did you buy it from?
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Obviously is not stolen, I bought it from a local reseller in June, sealed and with my provider's sim/documentation ,it worked like a charm until now..
But how can this matter? Should I contact my network provider?
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I have the same problem. The phone is not stolen I went to the shop and I called the provider to check if the IMEI is not in stolen or lost blacklist but it is not.
I went to carphone warehouse and of course they also straight away told me that it is probably stolen but later that backed from that idea and they do not know what to do with the phone they advised to send it to Samsung.
I wonder why the idea that the phone is stolen,
It has no IMEI no baseband . Stolen phone would have baseband and IMEI may be changed but some. Stolen IMEIs are in database and phones with this IMEI cannot use the network (also I know that the changing IMEI is not legal but easy to do) but ours are not. So why the idea that it is stolen?
Anyhow.
Is your EFS folder Read Only as mine and you can not change there anything?
I wonder if there is anyway to be able to completely remove EFS partition and create it again.
This is only Linux and I bet that there is the way.
I got myself second handheld directly from provider and now I am looking dor the way to clone the partition but no success.
Well if you've got all the documents and receipts then I would certainly take it back!
Same advice but still we do not know why it happends to so many SGS2? is it hardware or software error?
As i have 2 same phones i thing that the content of my EFS folder is not corrupted and i will do the test and copy it from the brokrn one to the working one and see if IMEI will change to the one fron the broken one? i think it will anf i know that i can not di this other way around because it is RO. Si if it will work that means it is the hardware
619619 said:
TSim cards are not recognized, the baseband is listed as "unknown", so are imei and everything associated with phone and data.
What can I try next before taking it to service?
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Your Baseband processor is dead, thats the only reason "Unknown" will be displayed, if it was because your EFS was corrupted you would have the U1 default IMEI displayed.
Service is your ONLY option.
Yes thay is what is happened i wonder how much it cost to fix the Baseband processor?
Finally a definitive answer, as soon as I come back home I'll take it to service, hoping that it won't take too long, this is the worst period for service, everything is closed due vacations ...
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Yes thay is what is happened i wonder how much it cost to fix the Baseband processor?
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You should have warranty, since the phone is too young for the warranty period to be over,and it's not some kind of damage that's related to you, but it's their fault.
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I've got exactly the same problem. I bought mine from Phones4u when it came out in late april, but i'm now in Hong Kong on a short term contract, and my phone is lost its IMEI and baseband after the battery died.
I took it to Samsung HK service centre and not suprisingly its not covered by warranty in HK as its a UK phone, but they will repair it for about £150, they said they need to replace the whole board, and takes a month to get in.
I rang Samsung UK service centre, and they told me to send it in to the UK for repairs.
Its really shocking that running out of battery can corrupt the phone like this, and how on earth can mobile phones not be covered under international warranty? a mobile phone is mobile right?
Now i having to use my old iphone with all my data such as sms and chat history gone.
So I unlocked my phone with an app by Helroz - is it possible to restore the sim lock so that it looks like it's in factory condition?
Also, this one is a Canadian SGS2.
If you have a backup of your efs from before the unlock you can restore it. It has been a while since I unlocked mine but if I remember right the unlock app backs up the efs before unlocking so you should be good.
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If you have a backup of your efs from before the unlock you can restore it. It has been a while since I unlocked mine but if I remember right the unlock app backs up the efs before unlocking so you should be good.
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If I did a factory wipe since then, does that mean it's gone?
You do not have to re-lock your phone to be in factory condition. In face, I see no reason why you would want to do it. Warranty? Unlocking your phone does not void the warranty. Rooting does.
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You do not have to re-lock your phone to be in factory condition. In face, I see no reason why you would want to do it. Warranty? Unlocking your phone does not void the warranty. Rooting does.
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The person(s) I have spoken to say that it does, and that's all there is to it. :/
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The person(s) I have spoken to say that it does, and that's all there is to it. :/
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Utter nonsense.....unlocking has no effect on warranty
Iphone sim lock
Hi everybody,
I have just received a new iphone 3G and capacity is near about 16GB. I am running with the issue of unlocking the SIM into the device. When I insert my sim card into my iphone I don't have any numbers but I can call ! I am not sure about the proper procedure to do it , Would you all help me to do this ?my iPhone book is currently empty when I list a new entry ,I am unable to get any numbers in my phone book ....
Thanks.
Joey2o11 said:
Utter nonsense.....unlocking has no effect on warranty
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The thing is, the people empowered to refuse service on my device told me if I had unlocked the phone they would do nothing for me, so your telling me otherwise does not really help.
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Hi everybody,
I have just received a new iphone 3G and capacity is near about 16GB. I am running with the issue of unlocking the SIM into the device. When I insert my sim card into my iphone I don't have any numbers but I can call ! I am not sure about the proper procedure to do it , Would you all help me to do this ?my iPhone book is currently empty when I list a new entry ,I am unable to get any numbers in my phone book ....
Thanks.
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Wrong section. Better post it on the iphone-developers (sister site of xda)
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If I did a factory wipe since then, does that mean it's gone?
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If it backed up your efs then it probably is in the internal sd card w/c i think will not be erased by doing a factory reset. If otherwise you formated the internal sd card then it will be gone (i think).
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If it backed up your efs then it probably is in the internal sd card w/c i think will not be erased by doing a factory reset. If otherwise you formated the internal sd card then it will be gone (i think).
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Alright...How would I access the backup?
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The thing is, the people empowered to refuse service on my device told me if I had unlocked the phone they would do nothing for me, so your telling me otherwise does not really help.
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Well it does, but not directly. First of all unlocking might be illegal in Canada (OP says it's canadian SGS2). Second if he modified the efs to unlock then he could do that only by rooting, and that might be the main reason for those "empowered" people to say it voids. On the other hand if you would use magic unlock code based on imei (don't know personally how that stuff works) then it wouldn't imply that it was rooted.
Besides if you don't have that efs files. You can still try to simply reverse the hack by placing right bytes in the right place. Browse howtos here there should be some info about operators sim code. Orrrrrrrr you could lock your phone by using so called secret codes I think I saw something like that, perhaps this would allow you to lock the phone again to a particular network in range but first backup the efs again, mail it to your account to be safe.
cheers
I see alot of potentially good ideas for solving this problem here, but not alot of usability. i.e I have absolutely no idea as to how to put these methods into effect.
mystic01 said:
The thing is, the people empowered to refuse service on my device told me if I had unlocked the phone they would do nothing for me, so your telling me otherwise does not really help.
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Baloney. What happens if its carrier unlocked?
Bell canada only allows you to unlock your phone from them by them our they will not honor the warranty. bastards I know.
They charge $75 to unlock.
If you have the extended warranty take your phone water skiing and try to call some one.then make a claim and get a new phone.
Welcome to canada please bend over to receive your new phone.
I just had a thought.
Call bell and pay for the unlock code for your phone.
They should have no way to tell how it was unlocked..
Then you can use your warranty.
Still sucks
There's absolutely no reason to relock your phone even if you're sending it back for warranty purpose. You do need to put back stock unrooted ROM and reset the flash counter
I have unlocked my old Galaxy S and my Motorola Atrix. Both which I sent in for repair. No problems whatsoever
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So I've flashed my phones a couple of times without backing up the EFS folder (a mistake I will not make again) and my question now is if the warranty covers an IMEI number change that occured when I flashed it.
I have not rooted the phone and have also only flashed official firmwares (some leaks) but not custom Roms.
IMEI number: 00499901064000
You normally shouldn't post your IMEI number anywhere online, but I'm pretty sure that one is the generic samsung one you get if your efs is corrupt (or sometimes you get no imei at all)
Back to your actual question: I'm not sure if the warranty covers that exactly, but what you can do (assuming you have no signal etc) is claim you were updating your phone via KIES and when it booted you had no signal etc, that's what I did when my aunt's EFS was corrupted during an unlock and Orange swapped it out for a new one.
Try GSII_Repair app from market
If that works than you are lucky
if it doesn't then check the flash counter if its zego or more(if you had rooted before sometime) and take it to Samsung and say happened while updating through kies
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D3_ said:
You normally shouldn't post your IMEI number anywhere online, but I'm pretty sure that one is the generic samsung one you get if your efs is corrupt (or sometimes you get no imei at all)
Back to your actual question: I'm not sure if the warranty covers that exactly, but what you can do (assuming you have no signal etc) is claim you were updating your phone via KIES and when it booted you had no signal etc, that's what I did when my aunt's EFS was corrupted during an unlock and Orange swapped it out for a new one.
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Ah man I went to the store and asked about it (because I wasn't able to make calls from my phone) and we just switched out sim cards and it started working again.
But the guy I was talking to was actually about to send it in for repair but we decided to try out the SIM card switch first.
For future reference, warranty will NOT cover the phone if the IMEI has changed/is corrupt. Had this issue exactly as you had, flashed an official Samsung firmware release on the phone (without backing up EFS >.<) and lost the IMEI altogether. Samsung would not cover the phone under warranty regardless of the fact it was un-rooted/official firmware.
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Ah man I went to the store and asked about it (because I wasn't able to make calls from my phone) and we just switched out sim cards and it started working again.
But the guy I was talking to was actually about to send it in for repair but we decided to try out the SIM card switch first.
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But the IMEI is still corrupted, isn't it? If the SIM change brought it back THAT would be amazing! ;-)
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But the IMEI is still corrupted, isn't it? If the SIM change brought it back THAT would be amazing! ;-)
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Yes the IMEI is still corrupt although I can now make calls and use the 3G network
BJ van Beethoven said:
For future reference, warranty will NOT cover the phone if the IMEI has changed/is corrupt. Had this issue exactly as you had, flashed an official Samsung firmware release on the phone (without backing up EFS >.<) and lost the IMEI altogether. Samsung would not cover the phone under warranty regardless of the fact it was un-rooted/official firmware.
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Okay, thank you for a clear response
Obviously his imei was not corrupt after all, as changing the Sim fixed the problem. If hazard a guess that either the original Sim had become dislodged, or damaged. Our maybe the guy in the shop factory reset the phone as well as put the Sim in the phone. Either way, the imei in the first post is the original, you should take it down. Otherwise, maybe some clever fellow will use it to make a clone of your phone! :-(
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Obviously his imei was not corrupt after all, as changing the Sim fixed the problem. If hazard a guess that either the original Sim had become dislodged, or damaged. Our maybe the guy in the shop factory reset the phone as well as put the Sim in the phone. Either way, the imei in the first post is the original, you should take it down. Otherwise, maybe some clever fellow will use it to make a clone of your phone! :-(
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No it's not, it's a generic IMEI that generates when your EFS is corrupted. You will still be able to use the phone using this IMEI number.
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Obviously his imei was not corrupt after all, as changing the Sim fixed the problem. If hazard a guess that either the original Sim had become dislodged, or damaged. Our maybe the guy in the shop factory reset the phone as well as put the Sim in the phone. Either way, the imei in the first post is the original, you should take it down. Otherwise, maybe some clever fellow will use it to make a clone of your phone! :-(
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That can't be since it doesn't match with the IMEI number that is under the battery (which the shopkeeper explained was my real IMEI number). I think it's a generic one.
The IMEI you posted is the standard wrong IMEI usually due to damaged EFS .
The legal IMEI is the one under the battery .
jje
It is possible to repair an S3 which has an generic imei and when i insert an sim card it gave me no service but my phone number is shown in settings?
where did you buy this phone?
Doispe12 said:
It is possible to repair an S3 which has an generic imei and when i insert an sim card it gave me no service but my phone number is shown in settings?
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Restore your backed up EFS folder .
jje
From an auction site.I don't have a backup of efs folder...
Sounds stolen usually no service means the phone is blocked
Hopefully it's not. Good luck
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Yep definitely looks like it's stolen, and even though the phone doesn't show the IMEI the network can still read it and looks like they have blocked it. And this is exactly why I'd never buy expensive phones from eBay.
If you got it from eBay report the seller to eBay and PayPal and demand money back
It's illegal to sell blocked phones because 99% of the time they are stolen or a dodgy insurance job.
The first phone I got from eBay was blocked and I got a full refund when I reported him to eBay because it's illegal to sell stolen phones. Even though the guy had the phone advertised as sold as seen etc no refunds blah blah but it's either they Give the refund or reported to the police and they will get in huge trouble .
Goodluck I hope you do get it refunded
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Did u done a efs backup??
If yes restore it!!!
No i can't restore it.I had another one with generic imei and was working perfectly.
Definitely stolen I would say....report him, nail him, prosecute him, sorry to hear about this
It is not stolen i am asking for a solution to have gsm semnal.
If anybosy can help please post.
Doispe12 said:
It is not stolen i am asking for a solution to have gsm semnal.
If anybosy can help please post.
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Their is no solution .
No EFS then cannot restore .
Normal route is return unit to the seller as not fit for use .
As XDA does not know the providence of this phone their is no help outside of what you have been given .
No IMEI sale is usually a stolen or blacklisted phone .
Contact the original network .
jje
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It is not stolen i am asking for a solution to have gsm semnal.
If anybosy can help please post.
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I didn't say you stole it, but it is likely that it has been stolen that is why the imei has been blocked
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if you have the box then it should have the imei on it, take it to Samsung service centre and if it hasn't been reported stolen then they can fix it for you, only solution I think
I had this on my old GS2 after flashing a dodgy ROM. It replaces Your IMEI with an american generic code which unfortunately doesnt work. There is an app on Play Store which restores Your efs folder but this didnt work for me so was a repair job with o2 who sent it off to Samsung in the end.
App was called Ktool and another called GSII Repair but obvs that prob wont work on GSIII.
Good luck
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Hello everyone!. 3 weeks I installed Omega v11 rom on S3, and locked after rebooting my fon and I have no more network.After i returned to the factory rom, but is same problem. S3 works perfectly except network.Spent many hours with the computer, I noticed on other forums have mentioned the same problems.The fatal EFS folder i saved before installing the new ROM. (I had it outside of SD, but it lost. S3 can not go back to the original EFS.The IMEI number Omega v11 CHANGED. S3 in the service.Past two weeks since I gave them,, and still nothing! they say they know what is the problem, but do not know how do it.Forums for Hungarians to do that (return the original IMEI number and the cost would be about 20 Euro.Ja but i came through but maybe someone knows in order to solve.If someone knows something about this issue as resolved, or already had prayed would like to help mee please.
Doispe12 said:
It is not stolen i am asking for a solution to have gsm semnal.
If anybosy can help please post.
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Search the forum..somewhere I have read you can restore you generic imei even if you have not backed up your efs partition..search for restoring efs partition..I hope you will do fine..
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Edit: got your fix..try these 2 forums..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1802024
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1264021
I cant help you more than that..
Alright, so I've looked up at least 20 solutions to my error and it seems to be a common one but none of the solutions have worked for me so far.
My phone doesn't have any bars and says emergency calls only. Before, when I booted up the phone it would have the signal for 2-3 seconds before disappearing so I could receive text messages through that, but it doesn't even do that anymore.
Things I've tried:
Wiping Dalvik Cache
Factory Reset, wiping cache, dalvik cache
Restoring the /efs folder (This just resulted in getting a generic IMEI and replacing my old one, so I think my backup is messed up but I don't have any other backups to use. Yes, I renamed nv_data.bak to nv_data.bin and same with the md5 files.)
Using someone else's efs.img to restore my own via kTool, to no avail. The IMEI is still generic.
Flashing Jellybean 4.1.2 (I'm currently on CM10.1) with SLIGHT chance. When I used 4.1.2, I could see the bars of signal (3-4) but I still could only make emergency calls, and I couldn't connect to the network.
Using this method to restore my nv_data.bin: Link
Using GSII_Repair
Using this method: I was able to complete it successfully, but I still am seeing "emergency calls only": Link
Using this method: Link
I can't find CSC since I can't dial anything except to find IMEI, but the baseband version is LS8, but in the IMEI folder the mps_code.dat file reads as XEU. Should those be matching?
Also I believe my backup EFS isn't working because the dates of nv_data.bin and nv_data.bak are the same, both dated from 2011. I didn't do all these steps in that order, but I'm not sure what to do since I don't have any other backups.
I have NOT tried wiping /system manually but I'm not sure what this would achieve and I don't know what I would flash if I did.
Please help, I'm desperate and in no financial condition to buy a new phone. Thanks to all in advance.
Flash stock rom,i tried this many times.
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Flash stock rom,i tried this many times.
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Sorry, I forgot to state that I already tried this too. Didn't help, and I wiped /system this time.
Alright, so the phone has gone back to letting the signal appear for a second. I'm thinking the problem is that the generic IMEI is just blocked by my carrier (I'm on T-Mobile in the USA) because I was able to test my SIM in another phone today and it was fine.
Obviously I don't expect anyone to tell me how to change my IMEI since that's illegal, but are there any more miraculous efs-restoring methods? I'm willing to do anything at this point, besides visit a service center or pitch my phone.
This will probably be my last update, sorry for bumping but I'm really hoping someone will see this and either give me a miraculous solution or tell me to give up.
I've heard from a few posts that flashing Gingerbread fixed the IMEI somehow, sadly this did not work for me. What I'm wondering now is if I take it to a service center how much it will cost, because they don't sell i9100's in the US, I bought this as an unlocked phone and it has already been rooted. Will they even attempt to fix it, and can it be done? I don't see any other option.
Someone please reply, I at least need to know if I should give up or not and if this can be fixed at all.
I'm fairly certain you're in the wrong forum. What model number from the sticker on the phone chassis under the battery ?
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I'm fairly certain you're in the wrong forum. What model number from the sticker on the phone chassis under the battery ?
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No, it's definitely a Samsung Galaxy SII i9100 and this is the i9100 forum. My problem here is that yes, this is an i9100, which is the International version of the SII. I bought this off of eBay, used, from overseas. They don't really use this version in America (where I currently reside), we have the SGH models. Should I take this to my service provider (T-Mobile) or a Samsung service center, and will they even fix it after it's been rooted, the IMEI changed, and the fact that it's not an American phone?
They'll probably fix it but charge you an arm & a leg for it. Better off finding a local mobile repair shop with a RIFF box, will likely be much cheaper.
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They'll probably fix it but charge you an arm & a leg for it. Better off finding a local mobile repair shop with a RIFF box, will likely be much cheaper.
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Thanks for the advice! So I'm guessing there aren't any miraculous fixes or any other methods I can try then?
There are unfortunately no miracles in technology. If you've tried all the things in OP (good job persevering) then I'm afraid it's local mobile shop as MistahBungle said.
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About £ 20 in uk so its not that expensive really. Once you have done this bk up your efs. Good luck. :thumbup: