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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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mahatma said:
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.
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.
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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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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
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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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..
Sorry I am new here,
Device Model: GT-I9300RWXPAP
I realize the question has been asked several times over but I was wondering if I had missed anything and what my options are at this point.
I recently bought a new Galaxy S3 from eBay, the phone was described as having a "problem calling out" but the seller promised everything else works perfectly. The item was sold as "faulty" in eBay. So the phone was sold for around £250.
I followed the guide here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1264021 (making sure to backup my EFS folder) and found that an original EFS folder was missing a file called ".nv_data" when I looked for it with Root Explorer, however there was a ".nv_data.bak" file. So I tried that file instead and continued with the guide. However the IMEI number is still the generic one (004999010640000/01) after I rebooted it.
Is there any other way I can restore the original IMEI number?
(This isnt a clone)
Try.
EFS IMEI
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1857054
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1308546
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1264021
and all the other IMEI/EFS posts .
Faulty as in IMEI corrupt or blacklisted .
jje
JJEgan said:
Try.
EFS IMEI
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1857054
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1308546
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1264021
and all the other IMEI/EFS posts .
Faulty as in IMEI corrupt or blacklisted .
jje
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I've tried EFS Pro, same problem and I tried the link about replacing .nv_data also I cant find the IMEI anywhere on the handset. I took the battery out and there's nothing there.
sky360 said:
I've tried EFS Pro, same problem and I tried the link about replacing .nv_data also I cant find the IMEI anywhere on the handset. I took the battery out and there's nothing there.
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Then you are going to have to use it as not a phone .
No original backed up EFS No original IMEI .
You cannot recover whats not there and i suspect a phone that is missing the IMEI sticker is more than just faulty .
jje
If it could be fixed by software, it probably won't be sold as demaged.
ABC_Universal said:
If it could be fixed by software, it probably won't be sold as demaged.
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Do you think someday there will be a way to fix this?
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Do you think someday there will be a way to fix this?
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Not on XDA no as you have no IMEI and XDA does not deal in illegal cloning of IMEI etc .
jje
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Not on XDA no as you have no IMEI and XDA does not deal in illegal cloning of IMEI etc .
jje
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Of course I meant legally. I mean is there not any other way to retrieve the official IMEI number for this phone?
In order to recover legally you need orignal IMEI number.
But you do not have Phone imei or serial number, I think even samsung service centre cannot recover it.
Sorry m8,but that phones original imei is reported stollen.
Why..
they removed the sticker on the back,so its almost impossible to recover imei except through samsung.they do it with the phone-id.
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Device Model: GT-I9300RWXPAP
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PAP is launch event phone or shop demo model and the PCB has RF components missing, so you will never get a signal even if the IMEI is fixed.
PAP probably stands for Prototype AP.
OP in which case i would take it up with Ebay as not faulty as description but a non working demo model .
jje
zodiaxe66 said:
Sorry m8,but that phones original imei is reported stollen.
Why..
they removed the sticker on the back,so its almost impossible to recover imei except through samsung.they do it with the phone-id.
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So am I within my rights in eBay to return the item?
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OP in which case i would take it up with Ebay as not faulty as description but a non working demo model .
jje
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thanks sorry I didnt see this. I will try to arrange a peaceful return with the seller, he told me he didn't buy it directly either. So I don't want to accuse him of anything.
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So am I within my rights in eBay to return the item?
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The item was sold as faulty, so you have little recourse for returning it. You were told what you were buying.
Your only hope is contacting Samsung, who might swap out the main board for you, for a price.
Caveat Emptor.
FloatingFatMan said:
The item was sold as faulty, so you have little recourse for returning it. You were told what you were buying.
Your only hope is contacting Samsung, who might swap out the main board for you, for a price.
Caveat Emptor.
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A faulty phone is a working phone with a problem, in this case it had a problem dialing out. This is a display model, so it technically could never dial out, and it wasn't a problem. He should return it and get his money back.
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It was sold WITH the stated problem so the OP knew it couldn't call out when he bought it. It was also marked as a faulty device in the sale. There is no recourse here.
Lesson here, never buy a "faulty phone" in the hopes of fixing it... Not unless its for fun....
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It was sold WITH the stated problem so the OP knew it couldn't call out when he bought it. It was also marked as a faulty device in the sale. There is no recourse here.
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The person never stated its a display model, only that it has a calling out problem.
Selling a car with a faulty engine is different from selling a car with no engine at all and saying it has an ignition problem.
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imei change in 004999010640000/01
Hi all,i have a big problem,plz HELLP me...i flash my GS 2 ,gt-i9100 with 4.1.2 JB ,after that phone was blocked on the network,i delete nv_data.bin and nv_data.tar,and i dont have a backup---I repeat that I did not have backup from original nv_data and nv_data.tar.The phone works ok but i lost my imei,is changed in 004999010640000/01.I lost the warranty from samsung,because i flash alot of roms.
Can i recovery mi original imei???Plz hellp me,plz,plz,i have try with no succes...i m tired (Srry for my english)
Hi guys, a friend of mine bough a brand new Samsung Galaxy SII from Amazon. It was unlocked and came with no warranty. For one month the phone work flawlessly, but then one day the phone's battery went discharged so my friend plug it to a wall charger and turn it on... that was the last day the phone worked fine. She didn't rooted, she didn't upgrade it, she didn't flash it, she didn't temper with it in ANY way.
When the phone turn on it did it in flight mode, no IMEI. She pass me the phone, and for the last 3 hours I've been reading about this problem with /EFS folder.
Now my concrete question is:
Is there some way to fix this???.
PLEASE, BEFORE YOU ANSWER READ THIS:
NO, the phone can't be sended to Samsung because it's and international phone with no warranty.
2. NO, the phone can't be sended back to original seller because it was bough 4 months ago.
3. NO, there is no backup of /EFS folder, because she didn't know about this /EFS folder corruption thing, but mostly because she didn't temper with the phone in any way, so PLEASE don't embarrass yourself suggesting to restore /EFS folder.
4. NO there is no .nv_data file, .nv_data.bak, nor nv_data.bak.md5, so NO I can't rename them to nv_data.bin or nv_data.bin.md5, so once again PLEASE don't embarrass yourself suggesting this...
5. NO, GSII_Repair doesn't work.
6. NO, turning off phone, removing SIM, turning on phone, wait until phone fully boots, turning off phone, re-insert SIM, and turning on phone DID NOT WORK.
7. NO, flashing a stock rom didn't work.
8. NO, flashing a new kernel didn't work.
9. NO, there is no backup of /EFS folder in SD Card...
10. NO, she/I can't turn phone back to carrier because it's an unlocked phone.
11. YES, I did try the SIM card in another phone, worked ok, so it's NOT a SIM card issue.
12. YES. I try with 3 more working SIM cards, none work with this phone, so YES it's a phone issue.
13. YES, I search the forum, actually I read the first 10 result pages, every post. No stright answer to solve this problem.
14. YES, I know Odia could (or could not...) fix this, but I want to leave it as a very last resource.
So far, the only 2 things that could work are this and this, but both will give me a generic IMEI, and that will bring troubles with the law when my friend try to sell this phone.
Any other suggestions?
Throw it in the bin. Yes, I'm serious given all the caveats you've put in your OP. What miracles are you expecting ? There aren't any.
The only ways this phone is getting fixed is by a Samsung authorised repairer, or by replacing the motherboard with a 2nd hand one (Which will mean the phone now has the IMEI of the phone the board came from).
Wow! U really wrapped up this case!
I do hope u have rooted the phone before u checked the contents of the EFS folder. I have seen some members report seeing an empty EFS folder when they haven't rooted.
Am asking just to be sure.
"To err is human, to forgive is divine"
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I am gonna suggest something that I have read here (which I personally find it ridiculous but since you're desperate...) some people have written posts regarding copying or backuping your current efs folder and then performing a delete operation to the original efs folder, also several others have said it's working for them, so you find these kind of posts and try their method since you got nothing to lose..
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king_below_my_lord said:
I am gonna suggest something that I have read here (which I personally find it ridiculous but since you're desperate...) some people have written posts regarding copying or backuping your current efs folder and then performing a delete operation to the original efs folder, also several others have said it's working for them, so you find these kind of posts and try their method since you got nothing to lose..
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That only works when you have the .nv_data file. After you delete the /EFS folder and reboot phone, you need to rename .nv_data file to nv_data.bin... But as I did say before: I don't have the .nv_data file nor the nv_data.bak file sooooo, it wil NOT work.
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That only works when you have the .nv_data file. After you delete the /EFS folder and reboot phone, you need to rename .nv_data file to nv_data.bin... But as I did say before: I don't have the .nv_data file nor the nv_data.bak file sooooo, it wil NOT work.
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Hmm is that so? I never read those posts fully though since I recently read a guide where the OP was insisting that a stock rom flash and efs deletion worked for him(he had no backups) and he didn't do anything else like editing nv_data file, but as bungle was saying you have few options left, before converting it to a expensive media player.
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have the same problem did you fixed??
need hel got the exactly same problem but i do have the mine shows the imei but no signal with a circle
Did you followed these steps? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1264021
If you are willing to pay, this guy seems to be able to do it: http://forum.samdroid.net/f70/repair-imei-s2-5729/
You are better off going to a repair shop and buying a motherboard tho.
Hello,
Got the same problem, no imei.
My phone was dead after a trip. I live in china and usually its pretty cheap to fix hardware here. So did I. For 100 Yuan they got my phone start again but from this point no imei any more... I complained returned it, but they couldnt do anything and i didnt want to give them more money to try more.
So i got a sgs2 totally useless...
My question is, i have a 2nd sgs2, i would like to know if there is a way to backup 100% a phone to replicate it to an other. (does the EFS can be transposed to an other phone or they are to be unique and fit exactly to one phone ?)
I tryed all kind of tutorial to restore it i never could.
Thank you all !
You can't transfer IMEI's from one device to another, an IMEI is a unique number which identifies a particular piece of hardware, and doing so is illegal in most countries (and not allowed to be discussed on XDA due to same). If you attempt to do it, you'll end up with two permanently blacklisted/unusable devices.
Basically you have two options:-
1) A Samsung service centre will be able to 're-write' the IMEI to the device, in most cases/countries you'll keep your existing IMEI. Like most repairs by Samsung service centres in most countries, this could be somewhat expensive. Many local mobile repair shops have similar equipment, and will possibly be able to do this more cheaply than a Samsung service centre.
2) You could replace the motherboard with a 2nd hand one sourced from a 'donor' phone, which you'd either replace yourself, or pay a local mobile repair shop to do it. In this case your IMEI will change to that of the phone which the board came from.
Another 'possible' option might be to purchase the equipment (that Samsung authorised repairers/others) used to re-write the IMEI. However, if you don't know what you're doing you can easily bork the phone to the point of requiring a motherboard replacement, plus you'll be left with an expensive piece of equipment you'll probably never use again.
If I were in your situation, I'd be going to a local mobile repair shop to have the IMEI re-written to the device, and if that wasn't possible for whatever reason, I'd be going option 2.
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You can't transfer IMEI's from one device to another, an IMEI is a unique number which identifies a particular piece of hardware, and doing so is illegal in most countries (and not allowed to be discussed on XDA due to same). If you attempt to do it, you'll end up with two permanently blacklisted/unusable devices.
Basically you have two options:-
1) A Samsung service centre will be able to 're-write' the IMEI to the device, in most cases/countries you'll keep your existing IMEI. Like most repairs by Samsung service centres in most countries, this could be somewhat expensive. Many local mobile repair shops have similar equipment, and will possibly be able to do this more cheaply than a Samsung service centre.
2) You could replace the motherboard with a 2nd hand one sourced from a 'donor' phone, which you'd either replace yourself, or pay a local mobile repair shop to do it. In this case your IMEI will change to that of the phone which the board came from.
Another 'possible' option might be to purchase the equipment (that Samsung authorised repairers/others) used to re-write the IMEI. However, if you don't know what you're doing you can easily bork the phone to the point of requiring a motherboard replacement, plus you'll be left with an expensive piece of equipment you'll probably never use again.
If I were in your situation, I'd be going to a local mobile repair shop to have the IMEI re-written to the device, and if that wasn't possible for whatever reason, I'd be going option 2.
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Thank you soooo much for taking your time to answer completly to this question. It seems that i should try again and go to an other shop see if they can do something. At least i wont lose my time anymore trying to fix that myself.
I was thinking also of selling it to those kind of shop. Last time the guy who said he couldnt fix it was trying to buy it at 500 Yuan (60euro) I guess they will use the parts of my phone to fix others (or relaly fix the IMEI and sell it haha).
No problem. Yeah, many local mobile repair shops would have the equipment to re-write the IMEI to the device, so see if the original shop can do this. Yes, selling it to them for parts is another option I guess, but as you say, they might just as easily end up repairing it & selling it for a fair bit more than they paid you for it.
Guys please help me same problem but my phone have orignal imei number only one problem my phone dont yave any network it shows no network i already did restored my efs backup but no success plz help
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No IMEI S2
Merry Xmas dudes...
I bought my missus an S2 for xmas.... the phone had no network or IMEI so i thought i could fix it easily !!! Which i did !!!!! i put a tesco sim in and I used s2 repair and s2 unlock which worked first time.....
BUT like the noob i am i decided to do an update via kies ( the phone is gingerbread .XWKI4 GT-I9100, 2.3.4 and rooted)
Yes this was a very bad mistake.... this put it back to the way it was NO IMEI number, etc . I tried the repair again last night and it did not work anyway i wrapped it and gave it the missus this morning and the tesco payas you go worked ??? It also showed IMEI number ????even though it was not there last night ???
I then put my missus pay as you go stesco sim in and it went back to NO IMEI number and that is where i am at now ????
I did not know about backup of the EFS but then again i bought it like this ???
CAN ANYONE PLEASE HELP ME ???
it also has BASEBAND VERSION = Unknown
Using the box
MistahBungle said:
Throw it in the bin. Yes, I'm serious given all the caveats you've put in your OP. What miracles are you expecting ? There aren't any.
The only ways this phone is getting fixed is by a Samsung authorized repairer, or by replacing the motherboard with a 2nd hand one (Which will mean the phone now has the IMEI of the phone the board came from).
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Or you can just get yourself one of those special boxes like the octopus box or the Z3x box and a UART cable which can help you write an IMEI. Yes, I know that writing an IMEI is illegal but then again what the hell! Illegal is awesome and its fun. Break the ****ing rules and rise against the authorities! that's what we, the lovers of linux,android and the open source community should do!
So you trust someone who didn't have the presence of mind to do an EFS backup when they rooted their phone (I.E a n00b) to use an Octopus box without completely stuffing it up, do you ? I don't, which is why the advice is always to take it to someone who already has one/knows how to use it & pay them $30-$50 to fix it guaranteed.
no imei on custom rom.
hi guys
this is what happend to me.i flashed a custom rom on my s duos and it was nt getting any network.at first i thought baseband.but then i checked the imei (*#06#).guess wat nothing pops up.screwed i thought.
desperado i restored it to my nandroid backup.hurray! got my imei back identical to the one on the back of the battery.no network trouble call,sms,data all fine.but when i checked efs folder it appears to be empty.so as i am a noob and my friend who without second thought gave me his efs folder of s duos.i tried to use it.damn it says "the same file name
exists do u want to overwrite it " this is wat i get when i try to copy the efs contents of the similar device to my phones empty efs folder.
so do i have my efs in my phone nw otherwise sims wouldnt work?
any chance efs is hidden??
ps.i was nt able to copy the efs of the other device som emmc restricted acces.rooted s duos.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/general/rooting-roms/imei-000-044999-repair-t2806129
Dear xda-community,
some months ago I dared myself to root my Samsung SHW-M250S (Korean Version of Galaxy S2) and lost my IMEI on that phone. I couldn't find it and forgot to make a backup of my efs partition because of stupidity and not really reading the manuals properly (I used to have a HTC Desire S which didn't have the efs partition so it's a bad habit thing). Today I found out that I luckily registered my phone with the original IMEI in my google Settings and the developer IMEI on my current Galaxy S2.
My question is: Is there any possibility to insert my old IMEI into my rooted Galaxy S2?
IMEI is device specific.....by law.
Sorry mate, but nobody here is going to help you break the law......
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Take it to a local mobile repair shop, some have the same equipment as Samsung service centres that can write the IMEI back to the device. Normally isn't very expensive (much cheaper than replacing a motherboard for example).
You could buy this equipment yourself, but it would cost twice as much (or more) as paying someone who knows what they're doing to fix it properly, you'd probably never use it again, and if you mess it up, your phone is probably a bin job.
keithross39 said:
IMEI is device specific.....by law.
Sorry mate, but nobody here is going to help you break the law......
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Well... Since I didn't backup my EFS and got the develeoper one, does it mean I am owning an illegal phone?
MistahBungle said:
Take it to a local mobile repair shop, some have the same equipment as Samsung service centres that can write the IMEI back to the device. Normally isn't very expensive (much cheaper than replacing a motherboard for example).
You could buy this equipment yourself, but it would cost twice as much (or more) as paying someone who knows what they're doing to fix it properly, you'd probably never use it again, and if you mess it up, your phone is probably a bin job.
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Gonna try that in the next weeks, see if it works
No, the device having the generic IMEI is not illegal, it's just in many countries these phones are essentially useless & have no connectivity (they will work in some countries with providers who use outdated telco equipment, though).
Most good phone repairs shops should be able to fix this for you, if not, service centre definitely will.
Edit to add - However, writing a different IMEI into a device is very much illegal in most countries (the EU in particular) and will result in both your device & the device the IMEI came from being blacklisted (rendered permanently useless). The only way you can legitimately get a different IMEI & use the phone OK is if you swap the motherboard with a 2nd hand board from a 'donor' device. When Samsung service centres replace motherboards to fix a whole host of things, in most countries they write the existing IMEI to the new board.
MistahBungle said:
No, the device having the generic IMEI is not illegal, it's just in many countries these phones are essentially useless & have no connectivity (they will work in some countries with providers who use outdated telco equipment, though).
Most good phone repairs shops should be able to fix this for you, if not, service centre definitely will.
Edit to add - However, writing a different IMEI into a device is very much illegal in most countries (the EU in particular) and will result in both your device & the device the IMEI came from being blacklisted (rendered permanently useless). The only way you can legitimately get a different IMEI & use the phone OK is if you swap the motherboard with a 2nd hand board from a 'donor' device. When Samsung service centres replace motherboards to fix a whole host of things, in most countries they write the existing IMEI to the new board.
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But what if I can prove that the IMEI I wanted to recover is stored e.g. in my google account? Is it still illegal then?
You didn't comprehend what I said to you.
The original IMEI can definitely be written back to the phone by a Samsung service centre & likely many mobile repair shops; this is OK.
You cannot write a different IMEI to a device, this is illegal.
The end.
MistahBungle said:
You didn't comprehend what I said to you.
The original IMEI can definitely be written back to the phone by a Samsung service centre & likely many mobile repair shops; this is OK.
You cannot write a different IMEI to a device, this is illegal.
The end.
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Ok, that's what I wanted to know. Gonna search for a repair center in around me then... Thanks!
this is straight from a pageplus chat
nothing special just standard procedure for activating an "unknown device" that...well read below.
4G LTE devices (with MEIDs starting with 256 or 99000) are not compatible with our system.
They are able to be activated by dropping the last digit of the IMEI (99000)
they are not able to be programmed with OTA (*22890 or *228) and unable to be manually programmed.
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i might have chopped it i cant remember but i always keep the good parts
so are you saying a verizon network is breaking the law because it is their policy that dictates pageplus and straight talk in this procedure heck even verizon prepaid
dropping the last digit like they are telling me to do is what?
i dont think its illegal like you say.
no way they would tell 1000's of people to do it
i just tried to ota *22890 my note 3 after they gave me those directions along with my mdn/min/sid and "normally" i get voice/text/mms and data at this point
i just tried without successsfully changing mine and it wont OTA
the step in the directions above is REQUIRED i believe
Changing imei talk is not done on xda. :thumbdown: We all know what can be done with this but we can't talk about it here. Illegal or not info is out there, software is out there. but like I said on xda we don't talk about changing imei or modding it.
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Changing imei talk is not done on xda. :thumbdown: We all know what can be done with this but we can't talk about it here. Illegal or not info is out there, software is out there. but like I said on xda we don't talk about changing imei or modding it.
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agreed
BTW at op. Don't go to a service Centre mate. If I go to a local shop they would only charge me £20 in the UK. Have a look as its much cheaper than ss.