Hi everyone,
Today I updated my CyanogenMod Rom to the nightly of 05/13, coming from a nightly that was approximatively one week older.
Once I updated the Rom, the phone asked me 5-7 times for my Pin code, and I didn't succeded in acquiring cell signal . As I read from suggested in a thread (can't find it again sorry), someone suggered that the Modem wasn't right and to update it with the GetRIL app', so I did it, and the app' told me that indeed my radio modem wasn't compatible with my baseband and that I should download the modem it suggered. I did it, (the app' also proposed a backup of my current radio in case of bad flash, so I was kind of reassured), the flash was succesfull, and to try if the pin was working again, I rebooted my phone.
It didn't work at all, so I decided to revert the modem to the old one using the backup the app' created.
It was a disaster, I lost my IMEI, my baseband, and so on. I then decided to flash a stock firmware to repair that using ODIN, and it worked, I regained access to my IMEI, and to my cell phone signal. I then decided to flash the cyanogen nighlty from 05/11, but it broke my IMEI and connectivity again. Am I the only one experiencing such issues? It's not my first flashing a ROM and I followed scrupulously the procedure on the Cyanogen website, so if someone had a solution about it, I will be very glad.
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My Galaxy S3 GT-I9305 LTE was running Liquid Smooth 2.37. Recently I lost notification and phone ring sounds and now I have lost baseband and I have no cell signal.
In the phone's 'about' section the baseband field is empty. Android version showing is 4.3.
I'm not quite sure what I did wrong, first to try and get back the sounds and then baseband, I have been playing around with various custom and stock ROMS and kernals to get full functionality back.
I've read tons of help posts but nothing works.
Here's a few of the things I've tried with results in brackets, used CWM recovery to restore working backup (failed 'unsupported file' message),
reflashed kernals (neither Boeffla nor yank555 have worked, wipe/data restore in CWM (it still takes me back to 4.3 with no baseband).
I thought I'd re-flash back to the phone's original stock ROM using Kies, but the weird thing is Kies doesn't restore, it upgrades to the latest 4.3 ROM which fails to restore baseband.
I wanted to send the phone back to the 4.1.2 it came with or was it an earlier ROM? I can't remember as I didn't note it down, I bought the phone second hand, it arrived loaded with a stock ROM for Australia's Optus network. I promptly rooted and flashed the phone to Liquid Smooth and the phone ran fine for months on the 2 Degrees Network in New Zealand.
Anyway, I must have tried reflashing a dozen stock roms I've found online using Odin. Some of them partially work, I get sound back, (it seems only the 4.3 ones work, with the german I9305XXUEMKC reliably loading - it even gives me a NZ english install option) but don't restore the baseband
. All the ones I've found for Optus are rejected, I get the 'unsupported device' or status 7 error in Odin.
So I decided to flash one that works, install cwm, root the phone and try installing different baseband kernals to fix the (probably corrupt) efs.
But I'm going round in circles trying to root the phone. Using CWM, supersu shows as successfully installed, but when I boot into the OS root checker shows my phone is not rooted. Knox seems to obstruct every attempt I make to disable it as well. I keep getting these 'knox stopped etc...from working messages'.
I'm sorry if my description is a bit confusing, I'm happy to clarify anything.
I'm at my wits end. I want to try everything before I have to ship the phone off to a repairer who may charge me hundreds of dollars to fix the phone.
This is I9300 not I9305 Q&A
Use the report button and ask a mod to move to the correct forum .
I can offer no help as i fail to understand the post .
As said before you are in wrong place and are not giving us a clear question to answer. If its a root problem there are fixes for it. Status 7 error is discussed in many threads. Flashing MG4 modem fixes efs problem. Downgrading causes problem. Learn to search before making a thread.
No matter what whenever I flash CyanogenMod I lost my IMEI. I've tried dozens of times go back to stock rom (IMEI FIXED) and the install CM and it always ****** the IMEI. I've tried first going to CM7 and later to 10.1 but even doing that 7 already has lost IMEI. This is driving me nuts. I've also tried recovering the IMEI from stock but it changes nothing.
I've found what's wrong:
1) I had problems with CWM. Was using a bad version or something like that.
So for anyone who is having trobble with IMEI lost, try the following:
Flash the original phone rom
Use a good CWM to flash the new rom (by good I mean the official one as the CWM list)
Hello,
I've been facing this problem for days now, tried almost everything and still no luck, so I'm sorry if it's been asked before, but I'm truly hopeless.
Right now, my SGS3 works only on stock ROMs. Every time I try to install a custom ROM (JB or KK) I have a problem with the signal - either baseband, IMEI and everything is "unknown", or everything is good (IMEI not "0049...", there are full correct APNs) but it still displays the "error while searching for networks" message.
Fortunately (as I realized on other threads),I can always go back to square one, flash a stock 4.3, with no problems with IMEI or anything, but, you know, stock sucks.
I tried installing every modem I ran into, but nothing helped. Is there a secret step from stock to custom on samsung devices I'm skipping (I'm an ex-nexus user...)?
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Same problem, no solution until now
oriwass said:
Hello,
I've been facing this problem for days now, tried almost everything and still no luck, so I'm sorry if it's been asked before, but I'm truly hopeless.
Right now, my SGS3 works only on stock ROMs. Every time I try to install a custom ROM (JB or KK) I have a problem with the signal - either baseband, IMEI and everything is "unknown", or everything is good (IMEI not "0049...", there are full correct APNs) but it still displays the "error while searching for networks" message.
Fortunately (as I realized on other threads),I can always go back to square one, flash a stock 4.3, with no problems with IMEI or anything, but, you know, stock sucks.
I tried installing every modem I ran into, but nothing helped. Is there a secret step from stock to custom on samsung devices I'm skipping (I'm an ex-nexus user...)?
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When you install a custom rom, based on samsung 4.3, do you have emergency calls only/no network?
If yes, install Boeffla kernel 5.3/or beta 5.4 because Boeffla is a patched kernel i.e. it can read patched modems, and then install a patched modem .
From the on you will have your network (no emergency calls/no network problem) and signal should be good.
But first backup your EFS and store it on a very safe location, you have ann app for that, k-Tool on Playstore (requires root).
Hi guys,
I've ordered a new, unlocked i9300 from eBay, and I had some adventures with it:
I've unpacked it, inserted my SIM, powered it on, and found out that the phone always thinks that I'm roaming. Instead of trying to understand what's going on, I though: "I'll just install CyanogenMod and everything will be good".
I've installed CyanogenMod 10.2 (latest stable build), only to find out that my SIM is not being detected at all. It says that Baseband is unknown, IMEI and related are unknown as well.
After trying lots of stuff, I gave up and decided to return to stock ROM (4.3). While trying to do that, I bricked my phone, and the only thing I could do is enter Odin mode.
After reading dozens of tutorials and trying lots of stuff, I ended up flushing GT-I9300_mx_20120329.pit, and that unbricked my phone.
I successfully flashed Android 4.3. This version detected my SIM, displayed the Baseband/IMEI, but it didn't connect to the cellular network. I could scan for available networks, but when I chose my network manually, it said "Selected network not available ".
I tried to flush alternative modems, but all it did is making things worse. Usually it made the phone behave like with CyanogenMod, i.e. Baseband/IMEI are unknown.
Again, after trying lots of stuff, I tried to flush Android 4.1.2. That made no change until I've stumbled on this thread. Flushing Patched_Modem_I9300XXEMG4.zip made my networking work again, and restored it to behave exactly like it did initially. Again, the phone thinks that I'm roaming all the time, but at least it works.
So currently, I have two issues:
My phone always thinks I'm roaming. Is there a fix for it?
And more important: currently, I cannot install anything other than Android 4.1.2!
Could you please shed some light on the situation? What happens with my phone? Why does it think I'm roaming? Why does the SIM work only with Patched_Modem_I9300XXEMG4? How can I make other ROMs (e.g. CyanogenMod) work?
Thanks, any help is much appreciated!
9999 :) said:
Hi guys,
I've ordered a new, unlocked i9300 from eBay, and I had some adventures with it:
I've unpacked it, inserted my SIM, powered it on, and found out that the phone always thinks that I'm roaming. Instead of trying to understand what's going on, I though: "I'll just install CyanogenMod and everything will be good".
I've installed CyanogenMod 10.2 (latest stable build), only to find out that my SIM is not being detected at all. It says that Baseband is unknown, IMEI and related are unknown as well.
After trying lots of stuff, I gave up and decided to return to stock ROM (4.3). While trying to do that, I bricked my phone, and the only thing I could do is enter Odin mode.
After reading dozens of tutorials and trying lots of stuff, I ended up flushing GT-I9300_mx_20120329.pit, and that unbricked my phone.
I successfully flashed Android 4.3. This version detected my SIM, displayed the Baseband/IMEI, but it didn't connect to the cellular network. I could scan for available networks, but when I chose my network manually, it said "Selected network not available ".
I tried to flush alternative modems, but all it did is making things worse. Usually it made the phone behave like with CyanogenMod, i.e. Baseband/IMEI are unknown.
Again, after trying lots of stuff, I tried to flush Android 4.1.2. That made no change until I've stumbled on this thread. Flushing Patched_Modem_I9300XXEMG4.zip made my networking work again, and restored it to behave exactly like it did initially. Again, the phone thinks that I'm roaming all the time, but at least it works.
So currently, I have two issues:
My phone always thinks I'm roaming. Is there a fix for it?
And more important: currently, I cannot install anything other than Android 4.1.2!
Could you please shed some light on the situation? What happens with my phone? Why does it think I'm roaming? Why does the SIM work only with Patched_Modem_I9300XXEMG4? How can I make other ROMs (e.g. CyanogenMod) work?
Thanks, any help is much appreciated!
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When the phone gets upgraded from 4.1 to 4.3 your efs changes from efs v1 to efs v2 sometimes this upgrade does not go smoothly (as in your case) so then you need to always use a patched modem from version mg4 onwards (not a normal one) if you flash a rom which changes the baseband to anything less than 4.3 then it will not work.You need to keep on mg4 or later to keep signal and because your efs is not fully upgraded properly you need to always use a patched modem and preferably kernel as well.
I am not sure about the roaming issue but if you try patched modem and patched kernel together that might help.Take a look here for some patched modems and kernels and remember you always need to use them >> https://drive.google.com/folderview...sharing&tid=0B6MIUd7HJudAbU5YaGkzOUowMG8#list << You should also be able to use 4.3 roms as long as you use the patched files above ie baseband and kernel.
In general, It would be great if I could use CyanogenMod 10.2.
Should I proceed in the following order? Flush CM -> flush patched kernel -> flush patched modem.
Which of the patched versions should I choose?
Also, what do these versions change? What functionality was patched in these files? Can I read about it somewhere?
Thanks for the help.
9999 :) said:
In general, It would be great if I could use CyanogenMod 10.2.
Should I proceed in the following order? Flush CM -> flush patched kernel -> flush patched modem.
Which of the patched versions should I choose?
Also, what do these versions change? What functionality was patched in these files? Can I read about it somewhere?
Thanks for the help.
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No the kernel will only work for 4.3 roms not CyanogenMod roms but the patched modems will work.You can try flashing CyanogenMod then the patched modem but CyanogenMod does not include a modem so whatever modem you where on when you flashed CyanogenMod you will keep.
tallman43 said:
No the kernel will only work for 4.3 roms not CyanogenMod roms but the patched modems will work.You can try flashing CyanogenMod then the patched modem but CyanogenMod does not include a modem so whatever modem you where on when you flashed CyanogenMod you will keep.
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I tried installing CyanogenMod, then flushing some of the patched modems you've linked. Unfortunately, nothing changes - Baseband/IMEI are always unknown.
9999 :) said:
I tried installing CyanogenMod, then flushing some of the patched modems you've linked. Unfortunately, nothing changes - Baseband/IMEI are always unknown.
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You mean flash not flush.
Also you should be careful to by things like this off ebay, There is a very high chance you brought the phone broken like this but did not notice straight away.
Don't hang around on 4.1.2 as you might get SDS.
Upgrade to 4.3 stock of higher using custom roms with a patched modem of mg4 or higher as stated by tallman43.
Read here for what you or the previous owner has done. Also on stock make sure your csc is correct.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s3/general/ref-imei-efs-stuff-i9300-including-t2393289
If you cannot get it to work you need to take it in for repair. Make sure it works on 4.3 before paying.
Ok, so I used to have cm11 installed, but it got sort of buggy in the long run.
I decided to try Foxhound rom, just for kicks... When it was finished installing, I got the default IMEI and the phone wouldnt connect to the network. I found a way to fix this (without backing up my efs folder), by installing an old rom. After that, I installed ef extreme rom (the one with the s5 ui).. It was supposed to be the most stable and smooth rom... But the camera and hotspot wouldnt work -_- ... I never understood why.
Anyhow, the problem is, now that Im trying to get off that crappy touchwiz rom, I NEVER get service anymore. My IMEI will always go blank.. Now the baseband goes "unkown" too (which hadnt happened before)... For ****s sake, I was trying to go back to my old cm11, and still, crazy IMEI... However, if i install the old rom all over again and the region modem: boom, mobile network works again... I dont understand why it fails to work after i have gotten it fixed over and over again...
I even made a backup of my efs folder when the mobile network is working (on the old rom.. Revolution HD)... When i restore it on newer roms, the IMEI and everything comes back.. however, it wont let me access the network (radio off?)
WTF can i do? Im desperate for help, please!!
@niko: standard is to get your actual firmware from sammobile.com & flash it with Odin … to get a stable base.
Your device serial number is probably corrupted. You can use service box to fully repair this issue. Or you can flash Ariza's patched modem. It will work but your efs folder will be permanently screwed and you will be forced to flash it every time you flash a new firmware.
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