Lost IMEI Accidently flashed i9300 rom - Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

as title says i accidently flashed wanname lite for i9300 instead of ripper rom was getting nagged and accidenlty selected wrong file, no my baseband shows as unknown and imei is null i did backup my efs with qpst but i cant restore the qpst program says no phone even though its picks up usb diagnostics
any ideas guys just flashing stock rom then gna retry restoring imei but im thinnking i need a partition flash

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chwads2k8 said:
as title says i accidently flashed wanname lite for i9300 instead of ripper rom was getting nagged and accidenlty selected wrong file, no my baseband shows as unknown and imei is null i did backup my efs with qpst but i cant restore the qpst program says no phone even though its picks up usb diagnostics
any ideas guys just flashing stock rom then gna retry restoring imei but im thinnking i need a partition flash
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hi can someone close this thread issue has been sorted flashed ee stock rom and got imei back lol
thanks though

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wait a minute thats not a good sign, So your saying that you lost your Imei and that QCN backup did not work?
The only thing that worked was flashing a stock rom back... this is not in the guide lol HMMmmmmm
I am just thinking why that QPST tool would not work when it should of or shouldnt it, did you use it correctly??? Can you try do the same thing as you did before and see if it you are able to restore it over your imei now? If it works now then maybe it wont work if theres no IMEI when thats the time we really need it to work.....Maybe Lyriquidperfection can comment?
ChwadKs can you try that QPST tool again and do EXACTLY what you did when you lost your imei. If it doesnt work AGAIN then thats a good sign for us as then it must be something wrong on your end or Hopefully you did it wrong which is why it didnt work. But if you do the exact same thing again but this time it works, then it may be a bad sign for us

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btemtd said:
wait a minute thats not a good sign, So your saying that you lost your Imei and that QCN backup did not work?
The only thing that worked was flashing a stock rom back... this is not in the guide lol HMMmmmmm
I am just thinking why that QPST tool would not work when it should of or shouldnt it, did you use it correctly??? Can you try do the same thing as you did before and see if it you are able to restore it over your imei now? If it works now then maybe it wont work if theres no IMEI when thats the time we really need it to work.....Maybe Lyriquidperfection can comment?
ChwadKs can you try that QPST tool again and do EXACTLY what you did when you lost your imei. If it doesnt work AGAIN then thats a good sign for us as then it must be something wrong on your end or Hopefully you did it wrong which is why it didnt work. But if you do the exact same thing again but this time it works, then it may be a bad sign for us
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Messing up partitions can cause adverse effects like phone not being detected in QPST. Don't worry backups do work.
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actually the imei was all right just needed to plash the param file in odin the orig stock n all ok
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my issue was when i was adding port itnbacked up then i messd up imei by messing with thebpartitions my efs folder wss intact so jus flashed param file from that thread and then stock rom and all was ok
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chwads2k8 said:
my issue was when i was adding port itnbacked up then i messd up imei by messing with thebpartitions my efs folder wss intact so jus flashed param file from that thread and then stock rom and all was ok
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PHEWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW...that does make sense didnt think of the partition locations
thank you for clearing up my concerns Mr Lyriquidnessperfectionezim
HEY HEY you may have done all a favor here aswell you are the tester that tested a 9300 rom maybe the only thing we need to change is the Partition locations
i have been fiddling around and i will be releasing my first rom soon too...

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btemtd said:
PHEWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW...that does make sense didnt think of the partition locations
thank you for clearing up my concerns Mr Lyriquidnessperfectionezim
HEY HEY you may have done all a favor here aswell you are the tester that tested a 9300 rom maybe the only thing we need to change is the Partition locations
i have been fiddling around and i will be releasing my first rom soon too...
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Don't get too excited about ROMS. It's not just partition locations to think about but the hardware differences such as the extra ram and the Qualcomm modem.
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Ahhh yeh your right forgot about those 4 different weird partitions
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not sure if one of u could help i was hus porting a stock deodex rom for s3 to our device as a test changed all partition locations and rellaced modem file with ee but when rom loads baseband is unknown and get no signal
i did injecct perseys kernel rom loads fine jus signal issues
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if i wasnt camping i would get on this, cause if we can this working then we have A MASSIVE section of roms open to us. Once we know how to port one rom i guess we can follow the sam steps for all. i will be back monday night, maybe if someone else can give you advise... Good on ya chad for giving it a go.... taking it for the team

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chwads2k8 said:
not sure if one of u could help i was hus porting a stock deodex rom for s3 to our device as a test changed all partition locations and rellaced modem file with ee but when rom loads baseband is unknown and get no signal
i did injecct perseys kernel rom loads fine jus signal issues
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Try looking at the RIL. I9300 uses the Samsung RIL but the I9305 uses the Qualcomm RIL. So you will need to alter the Rom to reflect this and you will get baseband back!
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cheers for that will check it today
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hey guys,
sorry to hijack the thread. I have a i9300 with the exynos processor so all the qualcomm leg works to restore the imei are a no go for me.
Is there a way I could fix it? (imei unknown)

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I did the same. Thinking I was being smart and not looking into it properly flashed with i9300 and not i9305 and now I have no IMEI. Searched everywhere and cant find a solution. If any one can help out with a solution, I would greatly appreciate it.
I have re-flashed several times, back to original and back to root and still null IMEI.

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mbelik said:
I did the same. Thinking I was being smart and not looking into it properly flashed with i9300 and not i9305 and now I have no IMEI. Searched everywhere and cant find a solution. If any one can help out with a solution, I would greatly appreciate it.
I have re-flashed several times, back to original and back to root and still null IMEI.
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Restore your backed up EFS folder do not keep re flashing that cannot bring back IMEI .
jje

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mbelik said:
I did the same. Thinking I was being smart and not looking into it properly flashed with i9300 and not i9305 and now I have no IMEI. Searched everywhere and cant find a solution. If any one can help out with a solution, I would greatly appreciate it.
I have re-flashed several times, back to original and back to root and still null IMEI.
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you can try this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1946915
and flash this though odin
Param_Bin_I9305.zip
this work for me

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chwads2k8 said:
my issue was when i was adding port itnbacked up then i messd up imei by messing with thebpartitions my efs folder wss intact so jus flashed param file from that thread and then stock rom and all was ok
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Please mention how did you solve it, i'm experience the same issue and don't know what to do.
Thanks anyway.

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leamoor said:
you can try this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1946915
and flash this though odin
Param_Bin_I9305.zip
this work for me
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Yep this works just needed to flash with the above file.
Thanks :good: