Simcard and CWM problems - Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hi,
I bought my phone on december 2011. It is rooted and I put the Checkrom V6 and the redpill kernel five months ago. For the radio, I think it was the KK5 one, but I'm not so sure. Yesterday, everything was working fine, when I turned it off before going to bed. But this morning, my phone couldn't join any network. In fact, it couldn't detect any simcard. I tried putting my simcard in another phone, and it worked, while putting another simcard in my phone didn't change anything. When I tried the *#1234# code, my phone was "Unknown" and I didn't have an IMEI anymore. I tried to restore the EFS files but it didn't work at all. So I tried to restore an old back up, but nothing changed. When I tried to go back to my latest backup, I kept on getting "md5 mismatch". I read this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=976453 but nothing worked... So yeah, I'm kinda stuck and running out of ideas... Sorry if I shouldn't have post this thread, but I thought I could as I almost tried all the solutions given that I could find. But still, I'm sorry if I shouldn't have done it and thanks in advance if someone has a solution for one or both of my problems...

Try going back to stock Samsung ROM, flash using Odin and see if that works, just flash PDA and make sure repartition ISN'T ticked after that enter recovery wipe data+cache then reboot and then flash siyah kernel for root. Just a suggestion!
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[Q] Phone totally screwed?

Hey all.
I was on MIUI 1.9.2 and flashed VillainRom (wiped everything as usual) and after the reboot, I couldn't get any signal. Went to the mobile network screen and I get an error saying I don't have a sim card in my phone.
My baseband and IMEI all read unknown.
Tried restoring a nandroid with no luck.
Are there any fixes or do I need to send it off to be fixed?
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Another problem with Custom Rom!
Anyway, do a Factory Reset, if it doesn't work then flash Stock ROM.
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GANJDROID said:
Hey all.
I was on MIUI 1.9.2 and flashed VillainRom (wiped everything as usual) and after the reboot, I couldn't get any signal. Went to the mobile network screen and I get an error saying I don't have a sim card in my phone.
My baseband and IMEI all read unknown.
Tried restoring a nandroid with no luck.
Are there any fixes or do I need to send it off to be fixed?
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I hope you backed up your EFS folder, If not only Samsung can fix it.
try to flash a modem via cwm
happend to me a couple of times on sgs i9000 when i come from miui that helped me
dj_m said:
try to flash a modem via cwm
happend to me a couple of times on sgs i9000 when i come from miui that helped me
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Didn't realise there were CWM modems available. All I've found are for Odin..
jhernand1102 said:
I hope you backed up your EFS folder, If not only Samsung can fix it.
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Im gunna go ahead and say no :/
Not that I know of anyway.
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This might be a long shot but try toggling airplane mode on, reboot the phone and once fully booted toggle airplane mode off.
This issue has nothing to do with the Rom you flashed, (not VillainRom anyway) it seems in all your flashing you may have messed up your EFS partition, some people got it back when they flashed a stock ROM, if you don't, you may need to get in contact with Odia, he can assist you with getting your IMEI back
achillies400 said:
This issue has nothing to do with the Rom you flashed, (not VillainRom anyway) it seems in all your flashing you may have messed up your EFS partition, some people got it back when they flashed a stock ROM, if you don't, you may need to get in contact with Odia, he can assist you with getting your IMEI back
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Cheers.
I'm now downloading stock firmware. Where would I find Odia, on xda?
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*Edit*
Flashed KG3 fully, nothing.
looked inside the KG3 zip again and found a tar with EFS in the name. flashed it via Odin and all is well.
Thanks for your help.
GANJDROID said:
Cheers.
I'm now downloading stock firmware. Where would I find Odia, on xda?
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*Edit*
Flashed KG3 fully, nothing.
looked inside the KG3 zip again and found a tar with EFS in the name. flashed it via Odin and all is well.
Thanks for your help.
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Good for you it worked .

Broken modem

Hi guys,
I flashed my phone with the latest checkrom revoHD V6 as per Spider's instructions (full wipe). Afterwards my phone couldn't connect to 3G. Wifi and 2G work ok. So I flashed the same baseband I'd had previously, but that made no difference. So I flashed back to the restore (VillainRom V3) I'd made with CWM before checkrom. Now I can't even connect to 2G. I tried reflashing the baseband, but again no difference.
Any ideas of what to do next?
Cheers.
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Check your IMEI (*#06#) and report back.
Don't post your full IMEI or anything, just say if it starts with 24 (I think) and has loads of 0's in it, that's the default development IMEI.
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Hi rev,
Cheers for that. I checked my imei number, but it was blank (small panic). Having just read that some people got theirs to reappear by turning off, removing sim, and rebooting, I tried that. It worked.
I also have a efs folder back up.
I think the problem may have occurred because I flashed the modem (using CWM) while the ac charger was plugged in.
Lesson learned: ALWAYS MAKE A FULL BACKUP, ESPECIALLY THE EFS FOLDER.
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[Q] help! cant get back to stock telus.

major problem.
i flashed team perfection objection ics rom. felt that i wanted to go back to stock and thats when the problem showed up.
i havent flashed any other custom rom before the objection ics. i came from stock rooted telus.
tried flashing the tar file from this thread
[STOCK][ODIN][GB][Telus] For those who wish to revert to stock Telus
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=27508953#post27508953
- sometimes odin freezes but when it doesnt and actually finishes flashing, phone wouldnt start up after the automatic reboot. (how long should i wait for the initial boot to start? i wait for about 2-3 minutes of nothing but black screen before resetting)
i tried flashing the backup files from this thread
[ROOT]For TELUS Note (i717D) - No Flash Counter
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1585440&highlight=telus+rooted+system
- after flashing, boots but gets stuck at the "touch the android screen to begin"
anybody have an idea whats going on?
tried 2 different stock tar files through odin and i cant get any of them to work.
i flashed back to the objection rom through cwm to make sure that my phone isnt bricked or anything. seems to be working fine. havent tried any other custom roms though.
any help would be appreciated.
thanks
Hi you may have a partition that is corrapted or there may be something wrong with that telus Odin flash. Go to dev section. There is another Odin flash for telus. It is a stock telus rom rooted that is flashed through Odin. It does work, I hav e used: t before. I will send you a link when I get home from work.
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I use to have a telus note now I have a rogers note. I may still have a back up of a telus rom. Will check my computure when I get home
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I may have found your problem. When using Odin, and flashing a backup file, it does not format your phone partitions. So you first have to go into cwm and do a factory wipe, wipe dalvik and go into advance and wipe the other dalvik . Do a battery pull, and now put your phone into download for Odin. I have telus kernel, telus modem and telus stock recovery that can be flashed in cwm. Just not sure if I have the stock from still. Pm me if you have any questions
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Just a update wipe data, wipe cache and wipe dalvik cache before you use Odin to flash a rom. I told you partly wrong in precise post
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thanks for the help guys
thanks for the help guys.
i dont know if its a partition problem though but it really got me worried.
for some reason i got it to flash properly and it booted up with no problems.
now im thinking thats its the odin software that was causing the problems. the first one that i used to root my phone a couple of weeks back had an "evo 4g" title at the top. it didnt gave me any problems back then so i ignored it. and thats the same one ive been busting to use last night to flash back to stock. anyhow, i tried using a different odin3 that has "android+slp" label on it and i noticed that it was freezing less and actually finishes the flashing but the bootup still has some problems. i get stuck at the bootup logo for a couple of tries. after sometime i just flashed it over and over again until i hit the jackpot.
is there anyway that i can check if my partitions are still broken? im thinking that i wont be doing any flashing until the update comes in july. the ics roms arent stable enough for me anyway.
oh what do i do if wanna get the official ics update? i have stock system, i think, but its rooted. do i just flash stock kernel and unroot it?
i found an article in lockermikedotcom that allows you to unroot using a batchfile. i was wondering if you guys can point me in the right direction. thanks
If you have a stock rom but it is rooted, flashing a stock kernel usually does not remove root. You would have to install stock recovery first and then you adb to remove the superuser and busbox files from your phone to get it totally stock like it was before you rooted it. This batch file DooMLord_v1_unrooting_zip will unroot your phone .It work on the Rogers Note anyways. http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?7ysrb3v7tfu9t1a

Where to send Bricked i777 to get fixed? The bad decisions that got me Bricked.

I finally bricked my first phone.Its been a long ride but it caught up to me. I have had three different android phones within about 4 years and have successfully rooted all three myself and have successfully flashed them over and over close to 1000 times between all three phones including modems, kernals, gapps, themes etc. So what gives? Why today? To be honest I don't know. But here is what happened...
The past few days I have been going back and forth between different kernals for this device to try to get something that won't freeze up. ( I liked browsing on this phone but I would get freeze ups and therefore would flash something new to try and resolve it.) Today my phone froze so I tried a simple reboot. The boot then did a freeze on the kernal's "intro" picture. It wasn't a bootloop it just frooze. (I was on XWLPT with Skyfire Kernal). I decided to reboot into recovery and flash a different kernel. I flashed NEAK The flash went halfway then stuck and froze. I rebooted to try to get back to the phone's main screen. This time it would not boot. I couldn't tell if it was in bootloop or was froze. I went back into recovery. Here I should of wiped everything but in the back of my mind I thought I could just do it in odin if I lost recovery. So I tried flashing Siyah for sammy roms. This is when I lost everything. It froze in cmw on the flash again but this time when I tried going back into recovery it stayed on the Galaxy SII screen. So I put the phone in download mode and started Odin up. When trying to flash anything in Odin I got stuck on nand write start! I never heard of this. I thought Odin would work as this is how I rooted the phone when I first got it. Last thing I did was install kies which couldn't even connect to the phone. So all I am left with is download mode and taking way more caution when flashing. I think it may have been a case of the brickbug. Even though I was on a I9100 rom and using "safe" kernels I believe something happened to lock me out from writing anything to the phone.
U already posted this in another thread. I posted a response there for ya
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Sad.
I got my galaxy s2 bricked twice
Double posting is no bueno.:thumbdown:
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anup123456 said:
I got my galaxy s2 bricked twice
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Not really related.. (Yes I know my post isn't related either)
I bricked my sgs2 not to long ago At&t could not fix so in one last attempt I tried to flash back to Pics stock it took some time but finally recoverd using odin
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VICIOUSVIC1 said:
I bricked my sgs2 not to long ago At&t could not fix so in one last attempt I tried to flash back to Pics stock it took some time but finally recoverd using odin
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what's pics stock?
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Phalanx7621 said:
what's pics stock?
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Pics stock is when you're typing and not paying attention then the auto complete changes pics stocks to pics stock. Got it?
Revert to stock using Odin and download mode probably or the guys and (sorry if I hurt anyone's feelings) but the guys at mobile tech videos offer a service to unbrick your phone.
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bocephus007 said:
Revert to stock using Odin and download mode probably or the guys and (sorry if I hurt anyone's feelings) but the guys at mobile tech videos offer a service to unbrick your phone.
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Yeah I know . But its just a front man! They receive the bricked device, then send it to some Chinaman named Finchenzo. And he fixes em all and sends em back to mobile tech! Then you get your device back! Poor Finchenzo
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paulfrankie said:
I finally bricked my first phone.Its been a long ride but it caught up to me. I have had three different android phones within about 4 years and have successfully rooted all three myself and have successfully flashed them over and over close to 1000 times between all three phones including modems, kernals, gapps, themes etc. So what gives? Why today? To be honest I don't know. But here is what happened...
The past few days I have been going back and forth between different kernals for this device to try to get something that won't freeze up. ( I liked browsing on this phone but I would get freeze ups and therefore would flash something new to try and resolve it.) Today my phone froze so I tried a simple reboot. The boot then did a freeze on the kernal's "intro" picture. It wasn't a bootloop it just frooze. (I was on XWLPT with Skyfire Kernal). I decided to reboot into recovery and flash a different kernel. I flashed NEAK The flash went halfway then stuck and froze. I rebooted to try to get back to the phone's main screen. This time it would not boot. I couldn't tell if it was in bootloop or was froze. I went back into recovery. Here I should of wiped everything but in the back of my mind I thought I could just do it in odin if I lost recovery. So I tried flashing Siyah for sammy roms. This is when I lost everything. It froze in cmw on the flash again but this time when I tried going back into recovery it stayed on the Galaxy SII screen. So I put the phone in download mode and started Odin up. When trying to flash anything in Odin I got stuck on nand write start! I never heard of this. I thought Odin would work as this is how I rooted the phone when I first got it. Last thing I did was install kies which couldn't even connect to the phone. So all I am left with is download mode and taking way more caution when flashing. I think it may have been a case of the brickbug. Even though I was on a I9100 rom and using "safe" kernels I believe something happened to lock me out from writing anything to the phone.
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Send it to MobileTechVideo.com. I sent my bricked SG2 in and a week later and at a cost of only $50, it was returned fully functional.
Sent it to MTV. Mobile Tech Video said this...The device's onboard EMMC controller was in a non-responsive state.
I never flashed anything that wasn't specifically made to be flashed for an i777.
Everything I had ever flashed was on the i777 development thread.
My advice ...beware of the brickbug. Also don't flash anything when the phone is hot. This happened when my phone was hot and maybe a reason why it froze while flashing in cwm.
And for a recap... What did you flash right before tie happened and what were you coming from?
Clay
Team Pirate
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Specifically the rom booted fine with Shostock-XWLPT. When using the rom sometimes it would freeze up so I flashed NEAK kernal over it. Froze in cmw during halfway through the flash.Rebooted after about 5 minutes wating for cmw to finish. (it never did) Phone bootlooped. Pressed hardbuttons to get to recovery. Recovery worked went into NEAK cwm. Instead of wiping and starting fresh here decided I would take a shortcut and flashed a Siyah for i777 over that. CWM froze again halfway through flashing the Siyah. After waiting 5 minutes again decided to reboot. Phone bootlooped. No more hardbutton recovery. Phone bricked. I Can still go into download mode but even MTV could not unbrick it. Said EMMC controller was in unresponsive state. Don't know what that means but know its now a paperweight.
Got it back today I still can get into download mode. Odin will recognize phone. When I try to flash a kernal it follows through until right before it actually writes and says NAND Write Start. I believe the internal memory either is filled with bad sectors or someting like brickbug locked anything from writing to EMMC.

[q] in desperate need of help!!

I am in need of some help ASAP.!!
Have a Samsung Galaxy Note 2. I had rooted it and flashed different Eclipse ROMs and decided to go with CarbonROM all in one night. I liked everything about Carbon until I noticed the next day I didn't have 4g anymore and wouldn't go over 2 bars of signal. So I decided i wanted to flash back to factory unrooted. I searched and searched and read and read to make sure just how to do it for my phone. I used Odin and it successfully flashed but than when it went to reboot it keeps flashing the startup "Samsung Galaxy Note II" over and over. Is this bootloop correct? If so i have searched and searched how to fix this and nothing is working. Either Odin gets stuck at SetupConnection, or hangs, wont even recognize my Note (I have uninstalled and reinstalled drivers multiple times.) and nothing is working. I have no access to recovery mode, only download.
I really need some help with this. Any input is greatly appreciated!!!!!!
If you are able to go into recovery then wipe to factory reset.... If not then try to install the stock rom via odin
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nikhil.kdhand said:
If you are able to go into recovery then wipe to factory reset.... If not then try to install the stock rom via odin
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I was able to finally restore it back to factory. I ended up using a stock ROM from one thread used with a pit. file from the Root/Unroot Guide on this forum along with checking the re-partitioning. It was successful the first try amazingly, entered a true bootloop as i found out (flashed 4gLTE rainbow etc over and over.) and was able to access recovery mode. Wiped cache and factory reset and rebooted. Phone is now working!!
BUT... no 4g?? only 3g and signal is still somewhat weak compared to past signals. Do I need to alter APN, IMEI, or stuff like that?? :S
Also a sidenote, I used to be 4.2.2, and now after stock restore/flash I am 4.1.2. Is this a big deal and can I upgrade to lets say 4.3 without rooting or do custom ROMs update this or do they need a base to be added to? :S

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