2 galaxy s3 imei repair - Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

i have 2 galaxy s3 i9300 . my first i9300 has a fake imei and my second just the right imei
what if i copy my second i9300 efs folder and then put it on my first i9300 will it fix the no service issue
and sorry for bad english

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Sounds like you have at least one stolen phone. Good luck getting help with that.

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i installed omega v14 and it change my imei i forget to back it up i didn't stole it

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and the phone with changed imei i buy it at t-mobile netherlands shop

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And the other phone?
Regardless, you won't find much help trying to spoof an IMEI.

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to phone with the original imei i buy at typhone.nl with vodafone contract if u dont believe just dont i want to fix the no service issue

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No you cannot transplant IMEI numbers since they are encrypted with (amongst others) the device/CPU ID which is unique and unchangeable for all devices. It would be illegal anyway, additionally since you will not be able to use both phones at the same time pointless.
Have it repaired by Samsung (depending on the location and serice center it should cost you some 60-ish $.
Then, wehn you get it back, do the damn EFS backup so you wont have that same issue again.

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okay thanks i have one last question what do i say if samsung ask whats wrong with this phone

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Hi, I think your problem is generic IMEI, you can recover your original IMEI by flashing it with stock ROM. Or try to find a repairing shop which have SPT box or Octopus box.

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shaheerali said:
Hi, I think your problem is generic IMEI, you can recover your original IMEI by flashing it with stock ROM. Or try to find a repairing shop which have SPT box or Octopus box.
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the problem is i live in the netherlands and a lot of people in a shop doesn't know much about android

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lobird said:
the problem is i live in the netherlands and a lot of people in a shop doesn't know much about android
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flash it back to a stock Rom with Odin. Since you are on xda you should know how to do this with ease. Use the search button.
Sent from my GT-I9300 using xda app-developers app

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lobird said:
the problem is i live in the netherlands and a lot of people in a shop doesn't know much about android
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There are so many posts in this forum to recover corrupted IMEI. One simple method is try to flash it with original stock ROM or in efs folder, rename the 'nvdata.bin.bak' file to 'nvdata.bin' and replace the old one.
First go through the original posts and then try the above methods...

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thanks i already trying instal stock rom but no luck

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here u can see my screen shot of the efs folder .
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Um... I think the OP has some explaining to do - since late August s/he has been posting asking for help to fix IMEI in a number of threads - in fact that has been the ONLY topic/question for all the posts. Previously s/he was in Thailand and now it is 'live in Netherlands' - also one phone has a fake IMEI and the other doesn't yet both have been bought from vendors. One has to wonder why s/he wouldn't simply go back to the vendor and get the stuffed phone repaired? Apparently it IS working, (i.e. not hard-bricked) so it would seem all that is needed is to pay a service fee and 'Voila!' working S3.
Logically this leads to a thought about the legitimacy of the 2nd (and maybe both) phone(s) - 3 weeks of trying many threads to get someone to provide a new IMEI seems a little excessive.

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Agree this and the multiple posts is getting very suspicious . Plus not the only post asking to borrow somebody's EFS folder .
jje

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yup

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Closed, you have already opened a thread on this, more than once, send it to samsung and they will fix it, seems you are beyond repaid at this point.