hello.
I bought a used samsung S3 from the internet, like a dumby. I set the apn's and was able to get data working no prob. Can't call or text though. my research tells me the phone is probably stolen... so my question is.
I have my old broken S3 (still boots up just no screen) can i swap out the imei numbers to make it a functional phone? the guy obviously isn't getting back to me.
just changed out the mainboards... working now. sweet.
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Hello all , I will make this short , so i tried sending a text but my reception was not very good and it didnt go through. I check the notification tab and where the carrier (T-Mobile) is supposed to be i see AT&T , i tried resending the text but i kept saying i wasnt registered on the Network. This has happened twice today.
I had to reboot the phone and everything is working so far .
The phone is rooted and lagfixed.
Im fairly new to rooting so be patient with my noobness, thanks guys.
Hello guys finally got my hands on the att Gs2
First problem is When i check my mobile phone number in settings it shows it as unknown, I bought the phone with no commitiment so i just put my sim card if that has to do with anYthing, everything else works great.
Also my phone gets pretty hot after some web broWsing or moderate use, is that normal? Mostly around the Back area around the camera
i have a friend with that same "unknown" issue on his tmobile phone and he was told it was a carrier issue. He had to go to them to fix it. Not sure if yours is the same problem. I dont know what they did to fix his problem but you might simply need a new sim card.
as for the phone getting hot, I know all phones get warm when they're in use but around the camera is pretty odd. Maybe bring it in for the first issue and ask them about the 2nd one, too.
Thanks for the reply, yeah ill have to take it to att and see if they can fix
Recently bought a second hand S3 on the UK three network and used a unlock code as on t-mobile/orange. It was working fine but recently it stopped sending and receiving calls and texts. Data usage is fine. Not sure when this happened as mainly use it for data as have a works phone. Can remember doing a software update (think to jelly bean) recently but couldn't say whether its started after that. Have used my cut down sim in the wifes S3 and it works okay and put her sim in miner and that has same issue. When I try to call it immediately ends call and texts just fail. Have tried setting to network manually both 2g and 3g and auto, sometimes it say cant register and other times it does but when call ends it then seems to change to another available network. Started to think the imei may have been blocked but wouldn't expect data to work. Anyway rang t-mobile and they said everything looks okay their end and the imei is not black listed but not sure how they could tell that. Said the issue must be with my phone. Have emailed samsung to see what they say but not to hopeful with it being a second hand phone. The bars on the signal seem okay too.
Anybody got any idea's on what to try or do as its currently an expensive data only device. :crying:
Have already tried a factory reset.
hardyp said:
Recently bought a second hand S3 on the UK three network and used a unlock code as on t-mobile/orange. It was working fine but recently it stopped sending and receiving calls and texts. Data usage is fine. Not sure when this happened as mainly use it for data as have a works phone. Can remember doing a software update (think to jelly bean) recently but couldn't say whether its started after that. Have used my cut down sim in the wifes S3 and it works okay and put her sim in miner and that has same issue. When I try to call it immediately ends call and texts just fail. Have tried setting to network manually both 2g and 3g and auto, sometimes it say cant register and other times it does but when call ends it then seems to change to another available network. Started to think the imei may have been blocked but wouldn't expect data to work. Anyway rang t-mobile and they said everything looks okay their end and the imei is not black listed but not sure how they could tell that. Said the issue must be with my phone. Have emailed samsung to see what they say but not to hopeful with it being a second hand phone. The bars on the signal seem okay too.
Anybody got any idea's on what to try or do as its currently an expensive data only device. :crying:
Have already tried a factory reset.
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If it's not your imei number. Did you have a backup of your efs folder?
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If it's not your imei number. Did you have a backup of your efs folder?
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Didn't have a backup of anything, why? One thing I have noticed is that the sim card doesn't click into the slot. compared it against the wife s3 and the sim card doesn't go as far down as if something is blocking it. Tried my sim in the wifes s3 only putting it in the same distance and it worked fine. Anyway just in case I took some of the plastic off the bottom right up to the metal chip so it would sit in the right place not being all the way down but it still does not work. Whilst having the sim in the wifes phone I diverted all calls to my works mobile and when back in my s3 its shows as calls being diverted so it must be working up to a point. Not sure whats wrong with the sim card slot, the mechanism which you push to insert and release seems to be broken so not sure if this is the cause or just a knock on effect from taking the sim card in and out alot
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Can the sim card slot/mechanism be replaced/fixed easily?
Alright, here I go.
Yes, I searched the forum, and I can't wrap my head around this at all, so I'm just going to throw my specs out and hope for the best.
- T-mobile Samsung Vibrant Galaxy S T-959
- NOT unlocked...although I'm not sure, the phone seems to try and pick up AT&T but it's labeled as a Tmobile phone
- Using a Tmobile SIM (brand new replacement, works on other phones just fine)
- Rooted and Flashed to Hellybean Stable 15.11.12
- Generic IMEI (004999010640000)
Whenever I rebooted the phone after root/flash a week and a half ago, it would give me the IMEI mismatch warning but everything worked fine. It was only this afternoon that I jumped on the bus, took out my phone, and suddenly could not connect to any mobile network at all. I've restarted and cried and sat in a corner and now I don't know. It connects to Wifi just fine and that's how I've been getting by, but it'd be nice to text/sms again...
I kept running into this post:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=30644270&postcount=116
But it makes no sense to me. Copy it to what folder? Where is /efs? I only have one /efs folder and it's in /sdcard/backup.
Before I return to stock and try to flash all over again, I want to try and fix this.
The same thing happened to me today!
I don't know what is going on. I flashed another modem but the problem is not solved.
I'll try Odin back to stock but it is not seeing my phone. That's another problem anyway.
I'll let you know if I get it to work.
Ok, it works now, but I still don't know if it was the generic IMEI or something else.
I went back to stock and it automatically connected so I could make calls and use internet. This also restored my IMEI
Then I rooted and installed CM7 and then Slim Bean and now everything works as usual with my restored IMEI.
Here you have all you need for Odin: http://www.team-passion.com/index.php/wiki/general/15-how-to-use-odin-for-vibrant
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Ahh shucks. Don't want to hijack your thread, but now my Vibrant is having connection problems too :crying:
It all happened when I let a friend borrow my phone to use his SIM card. It was a simple mobile SIM card and a day later when I tried to make a call, I got a "not registered on network" when I tried to make a call.
I was running bionix-v fishman so I odined back to stock to make sure it wasnt a ROM issue, and still have the same problems.
I still have a IMEI working and I can still get bars, but cant make any calls whatsoever. Not even emergency calls.
So back to my very old Motorola Backflip. But I can't seem to wonder how this happened when my friend used his sim card. So I know the problem is not my SIM card because it works on my older phone.
I'm still using the very old full SIM-card that is at least 2-years old and not the newer ones. Because my friend's SIM was brand new, you think that may have to do its the problem?
Any help appreciated. Heres a similar thread to my problem: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=890353
Okay, this went from bad to worse to a nightmare.
My friend tried the Odin then back to Hellybean for me, and nothing changed at all.
So I went into recovery mode and tried to restore from an old system restore point.
After loading that my phone was permanently stuck on the Vibrant SAMSUNG screen.
I hunted around and found this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=15330252
After a few tries I managed to get it into download mode and tried it, nothing changed.
Except now that I've moved on and tried to use Odin to just unroot it won't even go into recovery or download mode, it gets stuck on this screen:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BDDLnUcCMAEqvkQ.jpg
or just the Vibrant start screen.
helpppp
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Okay, this went from bad to worse to a nightmare.
My friend tried the Odin then back to Hellybean for me, and nothing changed at all.
So I went into recovery mode and tried to restore from an old system restore point.
After loading that my phone was permanently stuck on the Vibrant SAMSUNG screen.
I hunted around and found this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=15330252
After a few tries I managed to get it into download mode and tried it, nothing changed.
Except now that I've moved on and tried to use Odin to just unroot it won't even go into recovery or download mode, it gets stuck on this screen:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BDDLnUcCMAEqvkQ.jpg
or just the Vibrant start screen.
helpppp
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Read this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2142192
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OK I'm going to use ur thread. I rooted my sgs1 seven hours after I got it. When it was a new phone. Have been running all kinds of roms. Somewhere along the line I lost my backup. But it was never really a problem. My imei is generic and couldn't make 911 calls but no worries there. I was running 4.2.2 something something using my phone. Then my battery was running low so I switched it with another and when it booted up no signal from that point on. I put my sim in my old g1 and it works. Put my wife's sim in my phone and a no go. Everything works wifi Bluetooth usb .....except won't connect to t mobile. I Odin back to stock and no luck. Imei still generic. Called tmobile no help at all. Funny thing is though it won't let me connect it shows I have a voicemail so its sending a signal and receiving one. I think if I had a way to put a new imei on it I would be OK. Another funny thing is my imei is the same number as the one posted above. So thinking it got picked up and blocked and that's why i m not getting service. I love this phone and would like to fix it if I can.does anyone have any ideas.
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Hello All,
I have been looking around and seeing if anyone else is experiencing the same issue I have. But I have not had much luck. I have seen similar cases, but for whatever reason, some of the workarounds found that worked for others have not been successful for myself, or are temporary.
For the past three months, I have been experiencing an off and on issue where I am unable to receive texts, but I am able to send out text. And it is something that I would not realize until people actually notify me, or it is awkwardly silent on the "texting front", which makes me second guess myself. Almost every other week or two weeks this has occurred. At the time, I am running Darky's 8.8 [4.1.2] ROM for the i9300. I have tried rebooting, taking out the SIM, re-flashing Darky and re-flashing Stock (full wipe, etc), and replacing my old SIM with a new one. None have been successful thus far. The only success I have found is that inserting my SIM in a different phones allows the text to flow through almost immediately. I would then place the SIM back in the i9300 and any new texts sent I would receive immediately. After a week or two, it randomly just stops receiving text again, and the cycle continues.
I was wondering if whether this may be a bug with the Android OS itself? I have seen a few posts in regards to SMS being handled by Jelly Bean, but I am not 100% sure if my issue would fall in the same boat. Or if it is possibly faulty hardware? Or some kind of network issue. My network is AT&T, but I'm ruling out a network issue since I am able to receive text almost instantaneously on other phones.
Any information, advice, or help would be greatly appreciated.
Its not a bug .
Usual reason is wrong MMS message centre settings or network settings .
jje
JJEgan said:
Its not a bug .
Usual reason is wrong MMS message centre settings or network settings .
jje
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I've verified that the MMS APNs and SMS settings are correctly configured to AT&Ts network. If it were incorrect from the beginning, I would not get text messages (or MMS) at all. But in this case, it is intermittent and only resolved when I get to "unload" the text messages on to another device.
Same thing happens to me (why I had to use my upgrade to buy a phone from them -_-) I'm using a S2 for now... it sucks when you have been on the S3. Their excuse for not being able to help me was "Its an international phone, therefore may not work with our network." That's freaking BS. It worked for 6 months before this issue came up. New micro SIM card is the only temporary solution for now. When I have time. I'm going up there or calling help line. Gonna file a complaint and mention I might be leaving service with them or I can say legal action will be taken since they are denying me a service I'm paying for. They should start helping by them. I don't abuse their services. I don't tether. I don't cheat them in any way. Its retaarded.
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Same thing happens to me (why I had to use my upgrade to buy a phone from them -_-) I'm using a S2 for now... it sucks when you have been on the S3. Their excuse for not being able to help me was "Its an international phone, therefore may not work with our network." That's freaking BS. It worked for 6 months before this issue came up. New micro SIM card is the only temporary solution for now. When I have time. I'm going up there or calling help line. Gonna file a complaint and mention I might be leaving service with them or I can say legal action will be taken since they are denying me a service I'm paying for. They should start helping by them. I don't abuse their services. I don't tether. I don't cheat them in any way. Its retaarded.
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Ahh! Thank you b-eock! I don't mean this in the wrong way, but I'm glad that I'm not the only who has experienced this. When this occurred to you, were you on some version of 4.1.2? From what I can remember, this issue never came up until I upgraded from 4.1.1 to 4.1.2. Just trying to find some kind of trend here...
I have had to call up AT&T a number of times regarding this issue. And each time they were of no help. Although they were able to confirm that everything on their end of setup correctly, I got the same BS that you got. And they even gave me the whole baloney that I should upgrade so that they can help assist me better and that since it is not their branded phone, it may not be fully compatible.
I really do not want to give up on this. And I definitely want to find a solution. So I am hoping there is a lucky one out there that has tried different ways of getting fixed. Whether that be trying a new ROM, or downgrading from Jelly Bean to ICS, etc.
Came up a few weeks after I upgraded to 4.1.2 but there isn't really a connection between that. It worked before. Its just random crap. And them telling us everything is good on their end, that's complete BS. They don't know what's going on behind their computer screen.
Same exact thing happens to me. It's ROM dependent i'm thinking. Samsung roms from other countries do it the most for me. Has done it on AT&T and AT&T with StraightTalk. Experiencing it on Purelok HD v3.1 right now. I love this rom but im probably going to go AOSP/AOKP as I don't experience it on those kind of roms.
Camera just isn't the same without the Samsung software to me.