Hi all,
I traveled to another country and got a new sim. In the process of putting the sim in and registering my phone on the foreign network, I noticed that the saleslady entered several USSD codes (sometimes she receives error messages and had to re-do them).
My question is: now I am back in my home country and want to ensure that any config changes she made to my phone are removed, can I just do a phone hard reset / factory reset to get everything back to "factory" defaults? I don't have a problem doing a factory reset if that's what's needed.
Thanks in advance for any info.
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Good Evening First off i would like to say hello im new to this site (Virgin) and i have tried to search but to no avail, i have a Dopod 838Pro and i got it with a plan from my Mobile vendor in australia (3) now i want to clear there settings (.cab) and just use the standard factory settings and modify them but no matter what i do it keeps loading the (3) Software and etc any ideas on how to clear it and go back to factory
Cerwinvega said:
Good Evening First off i would like to say hello im new to this site (Virgin) and i have tried to search but to no avail, i have a Dopod 838Pro and i got it with a plan from my Mobile vendor in australia (3) now i want to clear there settings (.cab) and just use the standard factory settings and modify them but no matter what i do it keeps loading the (3) Software and etc any ideas on how to clear it and go back to factory
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First do a hard reset. Then, when the phone boots do a soft reset before the customisations begin. This will put you back to the base rom without the carrier settiings. (This may not be completely correct because some carriers may embed their settings in the rom). Give it a try, but remember that the hard reset will clear all your data and loaded programs, so back up first.
incorrect... hard reset your PDA... make sure you remove your SIM card when you boot up... then uninstall the 3 Mobile Mail client by using the 'Remove Programs' and reboot... insert your SIM card again... but say no to the autocustomisation 'netwiz' that pops up...
and bingo!!!
Hello everyone, Happy Monday
I have a TOSHIBA TG01 original service provider Telefonica Movistar Spain.
Windows 6.5 OS
I am currently living in Greece and tried to use a WIND GREECE sim card.
At first my phone asked for my PIN, then afterwords asked for a network unlock code. I made the mistake of guessing the code a couple of times.
I finally purchased a network unlock code, but the phone dose not give me the option to enter this code anymore after entering my PIN.
The Home Screen Displays: BLOCKED SIM
If I click on the network icon it asks my for NETWORK PUK, ( I DONT KNOW THIS CODE) what is this? I cant find information about this ether.
I tried to find several ways to get back the option to re-enter the code using the information I can find on internet and forums, but can not find a solution.
It seems other phones give the option at some point using Dialing Pad Codes, or thru some settings... but I cant find a list of Dialing Pad Codes specifically for Toshiba TG01 or any Toshiba phones.
Is there any simple solution to this problem?
Steps I have tried.
1. Hard reset and soft rest... No success.
2. Hard reset and soft rest with sim card... No success.
3. Entering unlock code in Network PUK screen... No success.
4. Entering unlock code in a 0 reception area... No success.
5. Tried several different sim cards... No success.
This seems to be a internal block on the phone, is there anyway to reset this?
personal discovery
1. I used Total Commander to explore my phone.
2. I downloaded identical SimLock files from this site from another person that had a unlocked Tg01 Movistar Spain.
3. Swapped the ones i had on my phone.
4. Realized the phone was unlocked, but was running really really slow.
5. I hardreset my phone, because it wasn't worth it and went back to my normal Blocked Sim state.
This to me means somewhere in those files was the key to my counter reset problem, since the phone didnt ask for anymore Network PUK code.
If someone could enlighten me as to what actually happened?
Hi there!
Im happy about my new S9+ (international DUOS variant available in germany), im just about to set everything up. Now, to keep my old phone as long as possible, i have not inserted my german T-Mobile SIM yet but already customized a lot on my S9+.
Now i've read here at XDA that the first time you insert a SIM into the device it will trigger a reset, no matter what you do and all my setup and customisation work will be lost for good...
Is there any way to prevent this hard reset?
I read about this method for a Samsung J3 smartphone:
1. Ensure you have set a PIN on the phone.
2. Shut it down, remove battery, insert SIM.
3. Start it up, wait till it gets to the initial lock screen. Do not enter the PIN.
4. Force the phone to shut down again..
5. Power it up again. After entering the PIN, the SIM should be detected and join the cell network, with no "security" reboot and factory wipe.
Can anyone confirm this?
Otherwise i would use the Samsung Cloud Backup to restore my settings later, hopefully this samsung backup is working...
Any other ideas? Thank you!
Ok people, i have tried the procedure i have mentioned above and my phone did not reset itself. It was the first time i have inserted a SIM, so this may actually work. But remember, i dont have a SIM-locked or branded phone, maybe those behave different.
On the other hand i cannot confirm that it would have done this reset in the first place if i just put in the SIM.
So i can only tell you to try out this method, it wont hurt your phone. And if it works it will save you a lot of time.
hi,, sorry posted in wrong forum first time
I did the silly thing of doing a factory reset from phone off rather than from settings so it thought it was unauthorized factory reset
I still managed to get into my google account and onto the phone , just had to use wifi for some reason to use settings, everything is fine and wouldnt have known anything was wrong but I cant log into my mcafee security, it tells me invalid SIM card on my number and also my simcard #2 is greyed out and says no sim card in there
I am guessing this is because of the phone going into factory reset protection, will this resolve itself in 72 hours if do another reset ? any idea how i can solve this?
thanks
Hi all,
Alright so this is going to be a long post. So I recently flashed my phone to the U1 firmware, I currently have an unrooted Verizon Unlocked Samsung S9+. I wanted to switch phone carriers over to Visible (subsidiary of Verizon), here are the order of events that occurred:
1. Visible's website says that my device in not compatible using their IMEI checker, there is a solution that was found on reddit about flashing the device on the U1 firmware.
2. I flashed the device on the U1 firmware using Odin and the Visible SIM card worked as expected. No issues with the flash
3. Data/Texts etc.. are all working as expected. Except for Voicemail.
When I try to check my Voicemail, it is acting as if it's still on the Verizon Voicemail system. It says "Welcome to the message management system, please enter your mailbox number". No one can leave me a VM either because of this. I tried several different combinations of numbers, including my full 10 digit cell number and last 4, to which it says "XXX is not a valid mailbox number", which would be because my number is no longer active on Verizon, so it's unable to access it. Which makes sense. The Visible Customer Care team tried the following:
1. Provisioning my VM multiple times
2. Take out SIM card, turn phone off for 1 min, insert SIM card again, and toggle airplane mode for 30 seconds
3. Reset network settings
After numerous days of troubleshooting with them, eventually they said it was because my device isn't compatible, ok, I can't argue with that. I have not seen anyone else experiencing this issue that had flashed their phone to U1 firmware.
After trying all of this with them, I eventually factory reset my device, hoping that might do something. That still did not work.
My questions is, is there something I missed with flashing the U1 firmware? Why is it still using Verizon's VM system even though I flashed it to U1? Is there any way to fix this? Any help is greatly appreciated, and please don't hesitate if you need any other information.
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Hi all,
Alright so this is going to be a long post. So I recently flashed my phone to the U1 firmware, I currently have an unrooted Verizon Unlocked Samsung S9+. I wanted to switch phone carriers over to Visible (subsidiary of Verizon), here are the order of events that occurred:
1. Visible's website says that my device in not compatible using their IMEI checker, there is a solution that was found on reddit about flashing the device on the U1 firmware.
2. I flashed the device on the U1 firmware using Odin and the Visible SIM card worked as expected. No issues with the flash
3. Data/Texts etc.. are all working as expected. Except for Voicemail.
When I try to check my Voicemail, it is acting as if it's still on the Verizon Voicemail system. It says "Welcome to the message management system, please enter your mailbox number". No one can leave me a VM either because of this. I tried several different combinations of numbers, including my full 10 digit cell number and last 4, to which it says "XXX is not a valid mailbox number", which would be because my number is no longer active on Verizon, so it's unable to access it. Which makes sense. The Visible Customer Care team tried the following:
1. Provisioning my VM multiple times
2. Take out SIM card, turn phone off for 1 min, insert SIM card again, and toggle airplane mode for 30 seconds
3. Reset network settings
After numerous days of troubleshooting with them, eventually they said it was because my device isn't compatible, ok, I can't argue with that. I have not seen anyone else experiencing this issue that had flashed their phone to U1 firmware.
After trying all of this with them, I eventually factory reset my device, hoping that might do something. That still did not work.
My questions is, is there something I missed with flashing the U1 firmware? Why is it still using Verizon's VM system even though I flashed it to U1? Is there any way to fix this? Any help is greatly appreciated, and please don't hesitate if you need any other information.
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Please check your voice mail settings in your phone app. See my screenshots.
There you should select the correct service provider and the Visible mailbox number.