Hi guys so the missus didnt know not to update the galaxy s3. It was running the revolution hd 4.0.4 rom.
After she updated it the phone would not boot. Stuck in boot loop. So thought right ok reflash. Tried and nothing. Boot loop. Downloading the original three rom (i think its the three rom. Downloading the unbranded one just now just incase )
Done a data wipe, cache wipe, fired into dl mode, opened odin, pda picked the rom, phone flashed and passed. Now turns on which is great. But no signal with any sim card, imei is null/null and the baseband is unknown. Tried to root the phone and still no signal.
Relashed the modem with a few others, nothing.
Im at a loss, im not so good at flashing eveything, i can do basics, but if someone could point me in the right direction for a noob to regain signal and use of y phone it would be greatly apreciated
small update i flashed the international rom and nothing at all no signal
It sounds to me like your efs partition is corrupt, if you have a backup restore that, if not you will have to go to service.
no backup mate, i found this video tho, shows how to put imei back, think it could work ?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AlQmfMJBK0
well couldnt fix it three sent it away for repaior so we will see if im charged in 10 days
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Hi all,
I own a galaxy s2. I'm facing a issue which i've been trying to fix for the past couple of weeks. I tried many threads in this forum, but nothing seems to solve the issue.
This is the issue,
I used to flash custom roms on my device. I used many custom roms including cm9 RC1 and when samsung released the lastest 4.0.4 update i just wanted to chek it out. so I downloaded the generic russian (SER) firmware and flashed it using odin.
After flashing it I was stuck @ boot. i was stuck there for more than 10 mins, so I ended up removing the battery. then I went to samsung recovery(Volume Up+Power+Home) and cleared the cache and user data and rebooted the phone it worked fine. At this time I didn't bother to check whether my IMEI was there but everything worked fine.
After couple of days(without rebooting the device in that time) I droped the phone. battery came off, when I turned on the device again, prohibited mark like thing came in the status bar and there was no service, when I checked the IMEI it was not there.
At this moment I was not sure whether the drop caused the issue or the flashing caused it. I later realized IMEI issue comes because of EFS but sadly I didnt back it up. After diggin for few days I found when flashing one of the custom roms, efs was backed up automatically, I tried restoring it, but it didnt help (Maybe the backup was corrupted )
I followed various threads in this forum but nothing helped me.
Please help me get the IMEI back, I really miss my device :crying:
Shasinda said:
Hi all,
I own a galaxy s2. I'm facing a issue which i've been trying to fix for the past couple of weeks. I tried many threads in this forum, but nothing seems to solve the issue.
This is the issue,
I used to flash custom roms on my device. I used many custom roms including cm9 RC1 and when samsung released the lastest 4.0.4 update i just wanted to chek it out. so I downloaded the generic russian (SER) firmware and flashed it using odin.
After flashing it I was stuck @ boot. i was stuck there for more than 10 mins, so I ended up removing the battery. then I went to samsung recovery(Volume Up+Power+Home) and cleared the cache and user data and rebooted the phone it worked fine. At this time I didn't bother to check whether my IMEI was there but everything worked fine.
After couple of days(without rebooting the device in that time) I droped the phone. battery came off, when I turned on the device again, prohibited mark like thing came in the status bar and there was no service, when I checked the IMEI it was not there.
At this moment I was not sure whether the drop caused the issue or the flashing caused it. I later realized IMEI issue comes because of EFS but sadly I didnt back it up. After diggin for few days I found when flashing one of the custom roms, efs was backed up automatically, I tried restoring it, but it didnt help (Maybe the backup was corrupted )
I followed various threads in this forum but nothing helped me.
Please help me get the IMEI back, I really miss my device :crying:
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hi there
you said that you have the backup of your EFS Folder, what you need to do is follow the steps in this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1264021
its recover your imei in nine steps
my imei was lost as well and i recovered my imei following those stesp, its a great guide if you already have the backup of your EFS Folder
cheers
fr3nlysmil3 said:
hi there
you said that you have the backup of your EFS Folder, what you need to do is follow the steps in this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1264021
its recover your imei in nine steps
my imei was lost as well and i recovered my imei following those stesp, its a great guide if you already have the backup of your EFS Folder
cheers
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I tried this also, but it didnt solve my issue :crying:
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I once had a similar problem.
My imei went lost because of a rom upgrade and I DIDN'T have a backup..
I solved the problem by flashing a stock rom (any samsung stock rom will do) with ODIN.
I am not sure what happened, but it looked like that the nv_data folder was "re-generated" and I got my IMEI back.
Now I have a copy of the folder in every storage media around my house
MistahBungle said:
If you have a backup, then you should be able to recover it. There are tons of threads on here with instructions on how to restore an EFS backup. Search (if you want it fixed, that is. If you don't want it fixed, keep posting to this thread in the hope someone spoonfeeds you. Might be waiting a while tho).
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I tried almost every thread here in xda about restoring, tried GSII_repair, kTool to restore it but none of them recovered the IMEI. I did not made a backup of efs but when I installed the Hydra H2O ICS Rom for GS2 it made the backup i guess, because a file called "efs-backup.tar.gz" was in a folder called .hydra inside the sd card.
does the drop of the device has anything to do with the erased IMEI?
robdpi said:
I once had a similar problem.
My imei went lost because of a rom upgrade and I DIDN'T have a backup..
I solved the problem by flashing a stock rom (any samsung stock rom will do) with ODIN.
I am not sure what happened, but it looked like that the nv_data folder was "re-generated" and I got my IMEI back.
Now I have a copy of the folder in every storage media around my house
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I have installed stock roms from samsung using Odin, but then I discovered that efs folder get unmounted everytime I install the stock rom, phone just starts after flashing without android setup wizard, also when I long press power button, menu wont appear, device just shut down, after I restore the efs from the backup i have, and mount the efs using the CWM recovery would bring back the power button long press menu. everything else working except for Mobile Networks. and imei/baseband shows unknown
Drop Caused this problem
Hi all,
Thank you for replying on this thread and helped me figured out my problem, I have contacted Odia and he thinks that dropping the phone damaged the baseband chip inside the main board, not a flashing of the roms or efs folder issue. i have only 2 options either replace the whole board paying LKR 35,000 (New s2 costs only LKR 65,000) or use it as a MP3 player :crying:
Hi again peeps, this is the latest on my experiments. I grabbed an almost hard bricked Note i717, After a nice GB flash i was able to recover it. But to my surprise it had no Imei and was showing no sim card inserted. Now, i have a box in here but i think it doesnt have full dump support. So i tried to unlock it using the box and when it rebooted it showed IMEI. Then now it has IMEi number but still shows no sim card. And i even found a bml5 file on the sdcard so i think the guy who brought it to me should have made a mess of this phone. It even had 12 flashes on the flash counter so im pretty sure of that. Question is, i installed the GB baseband hoping for a miracle to happen but it didnt happened. Is there a solution for that other than flashing it with a box or something?
One ....perhaps ....
Go to Samfirmware.com, and push the factory image back to the device.
The Samsung image is complete, and unless the device is damaged, should fully restore it ...
Good Luck to you Sir ....g
Well, i flashed the phone with stock Gingerbread downloaded on Samsung Firmwares a couple times to see if something changes. And nothing, trust me the phone was a mess. And just like always people cant tell you what in the world they did. So i guess theres no hope for this one.
Did you flash a modem? Just asking.
Yeah, when i installed the GB firmware back to stock i did flash the GB modem on it.
I recently just bricked my phone and I recovered following this " http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1457458 "
but i bricked it again and this guide doesn't seem to help me and i need help fixing my phone again... i've tried almost everything i know of.. i looked up xda and can't find much about where im at...
i recently installed ICS stock firmware and installed dorimanx kernel rooted and CWM with speedmod and installed nightlykang's CM10... there were some bugs in the CM10 like i lost all my contacts no drop menu and such so i tried reflashing... after reflashing my phone just bricked.. so i tried flashing a stock firmware 4.0.4 ics i had and it failed... now i've been stuck in firmware upgrade encountered an issue please select recovery mode in kies and try again... i tried flashing a gingerbread and it didn't work... at 1 point my phone some how went into recover mode and i was able to get my phone working but it woudln't read my SIM card.. even though it was in, i took it out and plugged it back in and no luck... so i reflashed and back to the same stage... help please...!
Why have you got 3 threads about basically the same thing running concurrently.
Your time would be better spent reading the rules and searching........than spamming.
Hi, basically i tried to update my s3 to a custom jelly bean software and during the process, i got no signal. I then got my friend to look at it and then he rolled it back to 4.0.4 but now there is no sim in the phone and it says no service? Also, there is no imei number or bluetooth number and the phone doesnt connect to wifi? What should I do?
Reboot into recovery, do a factory reset and see if it works then. If not, try reflashing a stock ICS ROM.
nope didnt work
try to flash stock ROM and kernel with ODIN....
BAD NEWS
labeeqhussain said:
Hi, basically i tried to update my s3 to a custom jelly bean software and during the process, i got no signal. I then got my friend to look at it and then he rolled it back to 4.0.4 but now there is no sim in the phone and it says no service? Also, there is no imei number or bluetooth number and the phone doesnt connect to wifi? What should I do?
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You wiped the EFS folder... that's not good, not even close
If your phone is not the intl version, and you got no signal after flashing the ROM, you most likely reverted the soft unlock (which involves altering files in this folder, which is in the root of Android on most sammy devices) - that's why you didn't get a signal (or maybe you just didnt have the right modem flashed with the rom you downloaded, but this is unlikely)
And when your friend rolled back he wiped the EFS folder by accident, or tried to unlock your phone and screwed up without having backed it up first
My friend, i do not know if these folders have files specific to each device, if not, just look for a backup on the forums and paste it in the root folder of the device, otherwise, you are beyond ****ed up, you may have bricked your s3 (or maybe your friend did)
Please write back if developments occur
EDIT: The only solution is to take it to a service center and *hope* they repair it, as modifying the IMEI is likely ilegal (and talking about it is against the rules of XDA) - The EFS folder is DEVICE SPECIFIC, if you didnt make a backup you basically bricked your phone... i'm sorry my friend, i hope the SC can get it done for you
Hi everybody,
hoping someone can help me as I am really frustrated now and have tried everything I can think of...
first a bit of info, I have an S6 edge, G925F and I was using a custom rom with no issues for a couple of months until all of a sudden I was having the same issue as others where I was getting "not registered on network" from damaged or corrupted /EFS, my imei had changed to 350000000000006 but I still had baseband version etc visible, just imei lost.
I have read on many threads that the answer is to change back to stock rom but no matter what rom i flash from sam mobile, it will not boot, when I go into recovery after booting it says "DM-Verity failed have to check DRK first", no matter what Rom I try but if I flash the odin flashable UNI Kernel after that then it will boot but then I have a rooted stock rom so not actually stock and an unstock kernel and still the not registered on network issue with same imei (350000000000006) .
so far I have tried flashing;
G925FXXS3COK5_G925FOXA3COK5_G925FXXS3COK5_HOME.tar.md5
G925FXXU3COI9_G925FBTU3COJ1_G925FXXU3COI9_HOME.tar.md5
and another one same as above but with XEU sales code as well as trying the EE (EVR) branded one with associated pit file and I've flashed every other pit file with each one as a last resort, to no avail...
nothing boots without flashing separate, non stock kernel, defeating the purpose of trying to return to stock.
p.S. Smart Switch doesn't work either as both it and kies say "SM-G925F does not support initialising, please contact support service"....
what can I do??
I've had 3 samsung phones now, s3, s4 and now s6, all rooted and have flashed countless roms on them and never had this issue and I also have no EFS back up as I have never selected it to back up in TWRP as I didn't know I should have and like I said, haven't had this problem before (kicking myself for not backing it up now...)
any help would be mucho appreciated as I am gutted to have broke my new phone and I am at my wits end with trying to fix it.... I thought I was quite good with tech and have done countless mods and rom flashes to various phones and solved many problems Ive encountered along the way but this is stumping me and I really need help..
Thanks in advance for your time and regards,
Elijah
anybody?
any ideas at all? anyone? how do I get the phone to rebuild or reset the EFS partition so that it refreshes it when I start it up with the sim card in it again? any ideas are more than welcome as I really can't accept Ive bricked my new phone, it's less than 3 months old and I know there must be a way to do it. any help would be appreciated, cheers in advance, Elijah
Elijah257 said:
any ideas at all? anyone? how do I get the phone to rebuild or reset the EFS partition so that it refreshes it when I start it up with the sim card in it again? any ideas are more than welcome as I really can't accept Ive bricked my new phone, it's less than 3 months old and I know there must be a way to do it. any help would be appreciated, cheers in advance, Elijah
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I just managed to flash stock firmware on a SM-G925F (= model name in upper case) with Kies3.
It puts the phone on stock state (i.e. bootloader, efs partition, recovery, ... etc.)
but you have to be able to boot in Android in order to retrieve serial number in settings => about => state
Elijah257 said:
Hi everybody,
hoping someone can help me as I am really frustrated now and have tried everything I can think of...
first a bit of info, I have an S6 edge, G925F and I was using a custom rom with no issues for a couple of months until all of a sudden I was having the same issue as others where I was getting "not registered on network" from damaged or corrupted /EFS, my imei had changed to 350000000000006 but I still had baseband version etc visible, just imei lost.
I have read on many threads that the answer is to change back to stock rom but no matter what rom i flash from sam mobile, it will not boot, when I go into recovery after booting it says "DM-Verity failed have to check DRK first", no matter what Rom I try but if I flash the odin flashable UNI Kernel after that then it will boot but then I have a rooted stock rom so not actually stock and an unstock kernel and still the not registered on network issue with same imei (350000000000006) .
so far I have tried flashing;
G925FXXS3COK5_G925FOXA3COK5_G925FXXS3COK5_HOME.tar.md5
G925FXXU3COI9_G925FBTU3COJ1_G925FXXU3COI9_HOME.tar.md5
and another one same as above but with XEU sales code as well as trying the EE (EVR) branded one with associated pit file and I've flashed every other pit file with each one as a last resort, to no avail...
nothing boots without flashing separate, non stock kernel, defeating the purpose of trying to return to stock.
p.S. Smart Switch doesn't work either as both it and kies say "SM-G925F does not support initialising, please contact support service"....
what can I do??
I've had 3 samsung phones now, s3, s4 and now s6, all rooted and have flashed countless roms on them and never had this issue and I also have no EFS back up as I have never selected it to back up in TWRP as I didn't know I should have and like I said, haven't had this problem before (kicking myself for not backing it up now...)
any help would be mucho appreciated as I am gutted to have broke my new phone and I am at my wits end with trying to fix it.... I thought I was quite good with tech and have done countless mods and rom flashes to various phones and solved many problems Ive encountered along the way but this is stumping me and I really need help..
Thanks in advance for your time and regards,
Elijah
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What happens when you just flash the stock FW, boot into recovery and make a factory reset from there? Cannot mount /EFS error???
AFAIK this IMEI is displayed when the EFS partition has been corrupted...
Some reported issues with param.bin (part of the BL file) in combination with EFS... and solved it by flashing the BL (which contains the param.bin) and the modem.bin
Try to flash a 4 part original FW, boot into recovery and make a factory reset...
Anyway if the EFS has lost data and you have not made a backup, you cannot fix / get back your original IMEI again.....
Check here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s6/help/help-restore-lost-imei-serial-sm-g920fd-t3239815