No Service after root - Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

My friend just rooted his international version model GS3 and his 3G reception is . It was bought unlocked to any carrier (T-Mobile sim in it) and it came with SuperSu and CWM installed, but none of the root functions would work so he ran it through odin yesterday and re rooted it and all the root functions now work, but his 3G isn't working right. It also says "Emergency Calls Only" in the notification menu when it would normally say T Mobile. Stock ROM.
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Seems like the efs destroyed. check if the imei number in phone properties is same as on the sticker below the batt

Second user phone???
Flash stock rom with correct modem and csc for location if IMEI ok.
jje
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JJEgan said:
Second user phone???
Flash stock rom with correct modem and csc for location if IMEI ok.
jje
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spamtrash said:
Seems like the efs destroyed. check if the imei number in phone properties is same as on the sticker below the batt
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How would he go about restoring the IMEI?
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no service

I have a galaxy s3 new with no service and a circle in the network i flashed with multi roms but still the same eror in network setting i have number of phone and all of this but the network has just a circle and no service whats the problem Nb: the phone is unlocked
Check setting-about device-status-imei number. Make sure imei number is there and matched the number printed inside back cover.
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arsaw said:
check setting-about device-status-imei number. Make sure imei number is there and matched the number printed inside back cover.
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thanks for ur replay the imei its not the same in thee phone the first nu?bers 0094 and in the cover 353
Did you back up your efs? I'm going to take a wild guess that you didn't. If not and you have flashed different stock roms and modems then it's service center time.
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What about the serial number?
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No EFS backup then its worth a factory reset and flash a stock rom before service centre .
But as you have flashed multiple roms its probably to late to help .
jje
Thanks for replayy for the serial nu?ber is 0000000 we dont hava center in morocco
How about flash full rom with re partition it will change anything .???
rida007 said:
How about flash full rom with re partition it will change anything .???
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NO
There are multiple help IMEI/EFS posts on XDA you can read .
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

Ime changed !

Hey guys,
My ime changed after flashing wanamlite 4 .
I have read a lot of thread abt ppl saying they have the same problem but their s3 don't have network ... I have network and everything is working fine .. and I don't have nandroid or efs backs up should I be worried for future ? ,, what should I do ???
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nguyendt said:
Hey guys,
My ime changed after flashing wanamlite 4 .
I have read a lot of thread abt ppl saying they have the same problem but their s3 don't have network ... I have network and everything is working fine .. and I don't have nandroid or efs backs up should I be worried for future ? ,, what should I do ???
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Well, I believe you should be a little worried for the future - I am a little surprised that the phone still lets you place calls on the network, the phone was probably a totally unlocked version from the start.
nguyendt said:
Hey guys,
My ime changed after flashing wanamlite 4 .
I have read a lot of thread abt ppl saying they have the same problem but their s3 don't have network ... I have network and everything is working fine .. and I don't have nandroid or efs backs up should I be worried for future ? ,, what should I do ???
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Make a nandroid backup now, you can use it if some thing goes wrong in future, :thumbup:
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nguyendt said:
Hey guys,
My ime changed after flashing wanamlite 4 .
I have read a lot of thread abt ppl saying they have the same problem but their s3 don't have network ... I have network and everything is working fine .. and I don't have nandroid or efs backs up should I be worried for future ? ,, what should I do ???
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LOL !
Sorry :/. But it's funny... Lot of people try custom ROM / change the kernel .. but always the same sentence : "I don't have backup / I don't have EFS backup". It's the first thing to do (bakcup EFS folder) after unpacking and rooting the phone.
Now, we can try flashing an official galaxy S3 rom. If it doesn't work, thanks Wanamlite and welcome to Samsung Service Center (no phone for 1 month and some $ for us).
Well I made a nandroid back up and I deleted it by mistake lol (
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I think u have the imei sv changed not yhe imei...my imei sv also change from 01 to 04 or 03
Everything is working normally here too
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If the IMEI has changed probably something went wrong with your /efs
try to search the new IMEI in google, maybe its a default one assigned when efs is corrupt ; but not every carriers will allow it.
If you did not save youe /efs only Samsung service can restore it and you may have to pay.
Yes it's only the imesv so it's nothing to be worried about ??? ... I flashed stock and it back to 01 ...
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U dont have to worry about imei sv its just the software version and it can change
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Well I made a nandroid back up and I deleted it by mistake lol (
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Nandroid backups all the phone excepted /EFS folder, so it is useless for you !
If only IMEI SV is changed, no worry about it.
lelinuxien52 said:
Nandroid backups all the phone excepted /EFS folder, so it is useless for you !
If only IMEI SV is changed, no worry about it.
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+1
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I think wanamlite makes an backup of two efs files efsbackup.tar
This and another. Check your sdcard
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U dobt have to restore ur efs if the imei sv changes.. u dont have to worry about it
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Is my phone carrier locked or not?

I have S2 from orange, I can't decide whether my phone is Sim locked or not!
I was running the Sim normally before and then my phone got some problem, I flashed the latest ICS 4.0.4 (Rooted with Siyah Kernel). Now when I insert the sim it gives No Service! I have tried to insert other Sim but all give the same No service problem.
At the time of inserting sim it doesn't ask for unlock code and I can't determine the state of unlock from *#Simlock#
Thanks for helping
Check your IMEI. If its one particular Imei number, then your Efs is corrupted.
What do you mean by particular IMEI?
MY IMEI is 35884XXXXXXXXXX
And its 15 digit ... what does it mean?
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What do you mean by particular IMEI?
MY IMEI is 35884XXXXXXXXXX
And its 15 digit ... what does it mean?
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Particular IMEI means the IMEI has repeating numbers. At least that's what I think.
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Nop it doesn't have any repeating numbers in it
If its from Orange then it will be locked to them. In about phone in settings are you showing a baseband version?
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The baseband is I9100XXLQ6
Before ICS I was running Gingerbread and the Sim was running in it normally
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By 'particular' Imei I meant one particular Imei number which you get when efs gets corrupted. Unfortunately I dont know which number exactly that is... :/
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Thanks a lot for your help
The problem got solved ... I gave my cell to repair because it wasnt charging ... during the repair they forgot to place the antenna wire therefore I was getting no service when I inserted the sim ... thank you all
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boki9999 said:
By 'particular' Imei I meant one particular Imei number which you get when efs gets corrupted. Unfortunately I dont know which number exactly that is... :/
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Would it start with 0404 or 0044? I read somewhere that's the corrupt IMEI number
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imei change into random number

I flashed my firmware from ICS to JB using odin. (PDA taken from sammobi)
After flashing i cant connect to my provider it keeps telling me not registered.
I also noticed that my IMEI 353********** was change ito 352***************
My fone is working fine and i can connect to wifi and all of its function are working except that is not registed on my network and i cannot make calls(except emergency calls) or text...
Does anybody have an idea?
zeromemory said:
I flashed my firmware from ICS to JB using odin. (PDA taken from sammobi)
After flashing i cant connect to my provider it keeps telling me not registered.
I also noticed that my IMEI 353********** was change ito 352354578955556
My fone is working fine and i can connect to wifi and all of its function are working except that is not registed on my network and i cannot make calls(except emergency calls) or text...
Does anybody have an idea?
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Did you make an efs backup?
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Did you make an efs backup?
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no i have no backup
zeromemory said:
no i have no backup
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There is a thread floating around somewhere that explains how you can restore it if you didn't make a backup. But for the life of me I can't find it.
But it's definitely out there somewhere
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btw which cell r u using?
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Op please remove the imei number you are using.
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Op please remove the imei number you are using.
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I'm using the GT-I9300
I was told to flash to stock firmware but i am totally clueless to what stock firmware i should use as there are so many out there.
dude.. didn't u make a nandroid backup?
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nope, no backup was done.
I think its time for a paid repair
Use odin and restore to a 4.0.4 Firmware then reset flash counter and then update with kies to 4.1.1 and your imei should be back if it's not then return it to samsung/the place you bought it from and get a warrenty repair ( and what ever they just say u havent flashed it ever )
any idea to what 4.0.4 firmware i should flash it to.
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CSC unknown

I unrooted my phone and flashed what I thought was stock when I checked it against my girlfriends everything seemed the same but once I done a *#1234# it showed my CSC unknown can I fix without root
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tonyt3rry said:
I unrooted my phone and flashed what I thought was stock when I checked it against my girlfriends everything seemed the same but once I done a *#1234# it showed my CSC unknown can I fix without root
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you can fix it by using the search button , already answered 10 times...or for you:
try to reflash the rom, that worked for me, otherwise you can try the CSC changer from the market, but be careful as it will format your rom & sd card. In general CSC unknown is not a big issue (at least it was not for me, anything worked just fine).
If I was at a desktop computer id have used the search feature it also let's me know if I have dupe thread mobile app doesn't let me know. I'll try flashing stock ROM but the one I used didn't have a CSC but im sure I can find out how to do it
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Yes reflash the firmware. It worked for me too.
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