Hey everyone
My Galaxy S3 will not connect to my Airtel GSM network (India). When going into the service providers it shows all the provides but will not connect to any of them. The error I get is that "Selected network (Airtel) is unavailable", so that means it is getting the signals from the network but is not connecting to them.
A little background, yesterday night my phone restarted and got stuck on the loading screen (the one that says Samsung), I searched on the net and went into the recovery mode (Volume up + Power + home) and there found that the error was that the efs partition could not be read. I've never rooted the phone or even tried to install a custom ROM. I did a factory reset and cleared cache and when that did not work I got desperate and tried to search online for a solution . I finally ended up using this
Youtube video titled E: failed to mount /efs (invalid argument) Galaxy S3 ... Can't post the url since I'm new here
I think this killed my IMEI number but it got the phone working again
The phone booted correctly however all text was in Portuguese and it had some really notifications that I did not understand.
Since I'd already lost all my data I decided to install the cynogenmod too CM11M7 (snapshot) hoping that would resolve most of these issues. The mod worked perfectly with everything including wifi running. However the only thing that does not work is that it will not connect to the GSM network. Please advise, really need this phone to work
Can I do a recovery using Odin? Will flashing another modem work, my current baseband number is I9300XXUGNA8? any other steps that I should be taking?
izzikiorage said:
Hey everyone
My Galaxy S3 will not connect to my Airtel GSM network (India). When going into the service providers it shows all the provides but will not connect to any of them. The error I get is that "Selected network (Airtel) is unavailable", so that means it is getting the signals from the network but is not connecting to them.
A little background, yesterday night my phone restarted and got stuck on the loading screen (the one that says Samsung), I searched on the net and went into the recovery mode (Volume up + Power + home) and there found that the error was that the efs partition could not be read. I've never rooted the phone or even tried to install a custom ROM. I did a factory reset and cleared cache and when that did not work I got desperate and tried to search online for a solution . I finally ended up using this
Youtube video titled E: failed to mount /efs (invalid argument) Galaxy S3 ... Can't post the url since I'm new here
I think this killed my IMEI number but it got the phone working again
The phone booted correctly however all text was in Portuguese and it had some really notifications that I did not understand.
Since I'd already lost all my data I decided to install the cynogenmod too CM11M7 (snapshot) hoping that would resolve most of these issues. The mod worked perfectly with everything including wifi running. However the only thing that does not work is that it will not connect to the GSM network. Please advise, really need this phone to work
Can I do a recovery using Odin? Will flashing another modem work, my current baseband number is I9300XXUGNA8? any other steps that I should be taking?
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Yeah, without an efs backup, your IMEI is ruined. I suggest you flash back to a stock rom and take the device in for repair, if it is still under warrantee they should fix it for free, provided you have stock recovery and rom the device came with. You can search the General thread for how to do this.
cornelha said:
Yeah, without an efs backup, your IMEI is ruined. I suggest you flash back to a stock rom and take the device in for repair, if it is still under warrantee they should fix it for free, provided you have stock recovery and rom the device came with. You can search the General thread for how to do this.
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It's not in warranty, plus I guess they'll keep it for quite a few days. Is there no other way to get this to work?
Also, could you please give me link to how I can put back all the stock things if I really need to take this in for repairs
Thank you so much for your help
Had the same problem when bought s3, exchanging sim-card in 'my operator''s office solved the problem
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izzikiorage said:
It's not in warranty, plus I guess they'll keep it for quite a few days. Is there no other way to get this to work?
Also, could you please give me link to how I can put back all the stock things if I really need to take this in for repairs
Thank you so much for your help
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AlienJust said:
Had the same problem when bought s3, exchanging sim-card in 'my operator''s office solved the problem
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[email protected]
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I wish it was that simple ...
Sorry, should've posted the solution earlier incase anyone else had the same problem
Took the phone to a service center, they re registered my IMEI. Charged me about 1200 INR (about 20$) to do so since the phone was purchased in the USA. After that it started working again. I've installed all the updates and it all seems to work fine. The lesson is that everyone, regardless of whether you are planning to tinker with the phone, should have a backup of the EFS partition.
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Please Help Me
My sgs2 cannot read the sim and it always in airplan mode
Imei : unknown
BaseBand: Unknown
please please please Give The answer that solve this problem
mswar89 said:
Please Help Me
My sgs2 cannot read the sim and it always in airplan mode
Imei : unknown
BaseBand: Unknown
please please please Give The answer that solve this problem
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insert the sim properly with the golden plates down and the cut end outward. Then go to settings>>>wireless>>> untick the flight mode.
I think it's broken
Try reflashing back with the original stock rom.
It looks to me the baseband is not installed properly, and therefore unable to access IMEI, without a working baseband, you are unable to access the phone portion.
It could also be that the nv_data.bin file is damaged due to a bad sim unlock hack. If that is so, you will have to rebuild that file.
Again, try reflashing back to original stock rom, before trying to rebuild the nv_data.bin.
(Sorry to resurrect old-ish topic, but I think it's better to continue here than to make a new one.)
Same problem here, except the only custom thing I've ever run on this phone, is apps from market. I'm running SPB Shell 3D (legal version, but not through Android Market but the other thing SPB was selling their programs through... Handango? Not that it matters.)
The phone has been running ALMOST perfectly since day one. I can only remember two occasions that the phone was in "no reception" mode (the O with slash through it) and toggling Flight Mode on and then off fixed it both times before.
However, yesterday I noticed the icon again, thought nothing of it and switched Flight Mode on. It never went back on again. Googling the problem I bumped into the imei/baseband thing and sure as not, when checking my phone's data there is "unknown" in the baseband version and IMEI is empty.
Trying to enter Mobile Networks settings results in "insert sim" notification.
The phone is (OS-wise) completely stock, I think the only thing I have ever done to it since then was to update it to 2.3.5 via KIES when it became available.
Phone is unbranded and not simlocked and never was. The only alterations are the aforementioned SPB Shell 3D and WidgetLocker. And of course a bunch of "normal" apps, games and such.
I placed a call (which went unanswered for all it matters), then after a short while (five minutes or so) noticed the "no reception" -icon. Then all went to hell.
Tried with three different SIM cards, none work on this phone, all work on other phones. Currently SIM working in Galaxy Gio.
I plan to take the phone to repairs under warranty, I'll let you know what they say and what happens to the phone if I remember.
help!
I have the same problem. The phone is 5 weeks old. I dont know what happened afternight with it :-(
pandaradu said:
I have the same problem. The phone is 5 weeks old. I dont know what happened afternight with it :-(
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READ the restore IMEI restore EFS posts but first backup data and try a factory reset .
jje
In my case, it was perhaps a bit more extreme. I sent it to the repair shop under warranty, it came back practically new. They had changes most of the innards, including the motherboard. Something had apparently shorted itself and cleared some chip. Hadn't gotten anything more specific out of them and I've even sold the phone since then and got this Galaxy Note.
Sent from my GT-N7000
My SGS2 has this problem too after update to 2.3.6.. I did factory reset... I flashed it back to stock 2.3.3 firmware.. problem still cant solve.. any idea? pls help me..
DMLING said:
My SGS2 has this problem too after update to 2.3.6.. I did factory reset... I flashed it back to stock 2.3.3 firmware.. problem still cant solve.. any idea? pls help me..
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Restore your backed up EFS folder .
If you did not read the guides and follow instructions .
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=20163984&postcount=7
IMEI.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1372169
jje
imei
just a precaution.....alwayz backup ur efs a tool is hell kat tool which backs up ur efs folder as image....so any prblm such as diff pcode,imei etc can b restored within sec...always save ur efs folder on pc...an certain apps like root exp etc work on rooted phones..i messed alot wiv my sgs1 an sgs2 but thanks to the developers for creating this great tools....
I have a similar issue with my SGS2
I ran my phone battery until it died and when I rebooted the no-network sign came up.
Now, it show's no baseband, no imei and if I dial *#1234# it shows up as Phone: Unknown
(I think it used to say GT-I9100)
I had a backup efs img and files from way back, and restored that several times along with a factory reset and tried installing different modems both original and others.
It's looking pretty bad.
Any thoughts on what else I can try to diagnose this before I send it back?
TIA, Daniel
Ok guys! This is simple, i bought this GS2 from a friend a couple days ago. He told me the phone had no IMEI and since i have seen this before on other Galaxy S variations and have been able to fix it i thought it was a good buy. Thing is i didnt realize how hard it was going to be to fix that. He tried to unlock that phone who knows how and it completely messed up the efs folder. I have tried the 9 step Imei restore method and some other tricks with no luck. Problem with this phone is that it doesnt even have a dummie imei number. In fact, not even zeros, just nothing when i try to check for an imei number. Any suggestions for this. Or should i just look for someone to buy the lcd and dump the motherboard to the trash?? Thanks!
Without a backup of the original, working EFS folder you are probably more or less stuck. I've been in the same situation before and ended up having to get the phone replaced.
Contact a member on here called Odia via PM. He is sometimes able to recover IMEI's/EFS details when everything else has failed (for a small donation). If everything else you've tried hasn't worked, that's probably your last chance.
Yep odia said corrupt efs was no problem to fix.
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I'm facing this as well: imei blank, no baseband, stuck on flight mode. I've tried everything, no luck. I'm fixing it for a friend, would be nice to come with some results up!
[email protected] said:
I'm facing this as well: imei blank, no baseband, stuck on flight mode. I've tried everything, no luck. I'm fixing it for a friend, would be nice to come with some results up!
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Results/methods are as posted above for those that have no EFS backup .
jje
enelyam said:
Ok guys! This is simple, i bought this GS2 from a friend a couple days ago. He told me the phone had no IMEI and since i have seen this before on other Galaxy S variations and have been able to fix it i thought it was a good buy. Thing is i didnt realize how hard it was going to be to fix that. He tried to unlock that phone who knows how and it completely messed up the efs folder. I have tried the 9 step Imei restore method and some other tricks with no luck. Problem with this phone is that it doesnt even have a dummie imei number. In fact, not even zeros, just nothing when i try to check for an imei number. Any suggestions for this. Or should i just look for someone to buy the lcd and dump the motherboard to the trash?? Thanks!
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Here's the only fix I know of for a galaxy s2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iY9cDkj4CCw! If it works, make sure to make multiple backups of your efs folder on sd card/pc/drop box etc!!
You can view your efs folder using the Root explorer app!!
Here's the download link for the galaxy s2 kTool fix: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.hellcat.droiddev.ktool&hl=en Good luck!
If all else fails, your only other option is here: http://mobiletechvideos.mybigcommerce.com/samsung-galaxy-s-ii-imei-efs-repair/
You can try to fix the efs partition following this guide : forum.samdroid.net/f70/repair-imei-s2-5729/
You'll probably get a generic IMEI after that, then contact the guy he will set back your original IMEI. I had exacly the same problem and it worked !
Wow guys thanks a lot for all those replies! Ill keep in touch and tell you how it goes!
Thank for your help jje, I've tried many methods but none of them seem to be working. (Done factory reset, installed CWM recovery, wiped caches, adb shell) I've a feeling that this phone needs a main board as well. He's got insurance for his phone so at this point, I think, it's not worth the hassle anymore.
JJEgan said:
Results/methods are as posted above for those that have no EFS backup .
jje
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[email protected], even changing almost any galaxy S lcd is not worth it when it breaks. Have you seen the prices of those lcd replacement screens? We do it for the sake of learning. Although in this case you might be right, because just like your phone this one doesnt even have a baseband showing. But still im pretty shure its a software and not hardware issue. This is about something that went really wrong while unlocking or trying to do something like that with it. Too bad i dont even know what happened with this one. No efs backup or anything
What actually happened is my friend went into this badly network covered area, lost the signal and he was back to a place again, where is a strong network coverage the phone just would not log on and stuck in flight mode.
So my s2 was on gingerbread rom and I decided to flash 4.1.2 via odin. Phone booted up and asks for sim unlock code. I learnt then that it locked the phone. I used Galaxy_S unlock https://play.google.com/store/apps/...sMSwxLDEsImNvbS5oZWxyb3ouZ2FsYXh5c3VubG9jayJd
but it didn't work so I restored the efs. Then I tried this Galaxsim http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1846451 and it says unlocked so rebooted phone but when making or receiving phone calls, it disconnects. The paid version from play I havent tried but Im guessing will be the same?
Imei still shows so Im not sure what I have done wrong.
I have efs backup from both of those apps and also a efs.autobackup in the root of internal storage date in January. Not sure how that got there as this phone had GB over a year.
Please help
Do you get any signal at all?
The paid version won't help as this could be a modem issue.
Sent from the little guy
gastonw said:
Do you get any signal at all?
The paid version won't help as this could be a modem issue.
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Yes there is signal, data connection works. I then tried reflashing GB, restored GB backup, flashed ICS and same problem
Hi guys
I have done my basic research on all the forum room and can't find a answer to my problem.
I have Samsung S3 , I have not rooted or flash the device , I have not install any apps for the pass 2 months , for some reason today my device restarted and then got stuck on boot screen "Samsung Galaxy S3 GT-I9300" , am totally new to android and only had my device 9 months.
from all the basic searches I have done , I have try pressing vol key up + Home Key + power key) nothing happen
I tried : Switch off the device.
Press and hold Volume Up + Home Button + Power Key.
After 2-3 seconds, release the Power Key.
nothing happens here either this suppose to do a hard reset
I have taken the battery out , re-inserted the battery hold the power key for 10secs and I still don't get any where
each attemp I only get the boot screen the only luck I have had was by pressing the vol key down + home key + power key , i get the downloading Rom and this obviously does nothing as I can't get to the internet via wireless
please someone helpme the last person who posted this type of topic on this forum room did not get any replies.
I am sure I am not the only one who has experience this problem.
I am with three network if that makes any differents
thanks for your support.
Search 'sudden death' - you'll find more on it there
I has this problem with mine - I ended up taking it to Samsung for repair under warranty: it was a mother board replacement
it is however possible that you could fix it
Cn you get into download mode? (home + power + vol down)
if you can get to download mode ^^^ post above then all is well all you need to do is flash stock rom.
Getting into download mode is good news, Now plug your phone in to your computer, launch ODIN, and flash the correct stock firmware.
Thank you guys for your prompt reply , I have decided to take the device back to Car phone Warehouse as it is still under warrantee , I don't want to risk the manufacture guarantee. On this note I will like to salute all those geek's who have rooted their phones. :cyclops:
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Thank you guys for your prompt reply , I have decided to take the device back to Car phone Warehouse as it is still under warrantee , I don't want to risk the manufacture guarantee. On this note I will like to salute all those geek's who have rooted their phones. :cyclops:
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welcome in the emmc burned club - you are number ???
Flashing stock rom - chainfire tar - recovery tar - or whatever wont help you, i made a thread about it, no matter what you get "cant get pit" when you flash in odin
Sorry bR0 - seams like samsung made a MAJOR hardware error here - makes me thinking twice again before buying a sammy phone again, its a pitty cose it really is the nicest phone out there - maybe htc phones dont do this crap.. dont now
And since you haven't rooted or even flashed it, it proves just further that this is no "soft" problem but only faulty hardware !!!
Here is my link to tar files >http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2019902
And just so you now, flashing a rom DONT void your guarantee, in EU at least, its a proven court judgment ! > http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1998801
Urgent illegal advice required on 'sudden death'
Hi all /comrades
Four days ago I decided that I had to take Samsung Galaxy S3 to Carphone warehouse for repairs as the phone was still under manufacture warrantee , I did not wanted to go via the rooted / flashing my ROM . well guess what happen.
Carphone Warehouse Engineer total me the following and I quote " Please read notes , unfortunately handset returned unrepaired due to device rooted thought custom firmware, we have provided photo evidence. this is classed as Chargeable repair , please speak to one of the sales team to verify the cost of charge if you wish to take this ."
okay the photo screen that they gave me was of the one where you hold the volume button done + Home screen + power button and you get the Android stating its downloading on the top left side system status : custom and its this point he make out to me that I try to root or have rooted my phone.
as you all know I haven't got a clue on how to root or flash a phone never mind doing it.
I need your help , I am going to take Carphone Warehouse Ltd to Small courts to claim the cost of my phone and line rental back , How do I prove to the hight court that I actually did not root my device and Carphone Warehouse was trying to claim extra cash from me.
please all techie help me.
GUY I NEED HELP PLS
i tired flashing custom firmware and now all i get is flashing logo on bootup and reboots again and again...
i tried what mention in this thread but no luck!!
pls help and adive...
shub said:
GUY I NEED HELP PLS
i tired flashing custom firmware and now all i get is flashing logo on bootup and reboots again and again...
i tried what mention in this thread but no luck!!
pls help and adive...
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If Stock ROM Via Odin Didn't Work Then Try Flashing Kernel
THE.W!ZARD said:
If Stock ROM Via Odin Didn't Work Then Try Flashing Kernel
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which kernel mate?
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im trying to flash
I9300XXELKC_I9300OXXELK4_I9300XXELKC_XEO
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ok ive just done MEGAWIPE
so what should i flash.. pls advice...
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hi
i tired flashing back to orignal stock rom
I9300XXDLJ4_I9300OXADLJ4_BTU
still no joy!!
really need some advice pls...
ive tried many thing but no luck
all it does,,, every rom is flashing fine - via odin or cww but when it reboots the samsung logo keep flashing... it looks as if the phone is rebooting itself! dosnt go pass the samsung boot logo...
helpp plssss
pls guys... any help??
i can get into recovery and download mode... flashing stock and custom rom but it just wont go past the samsung boot screen.. it just rebooting on its own...
pls advice...
Same problem here... I tried flashing stock/official 4.1.1 after trying 4.1.2 and now I cant flash with either of them.
I tried flashing the siyah kernel and this had no effect either.
Please help.
Cask said:
Same problem here... I tried flashing stock/official 4.1.1 after trying 4.1.2 and now I cant flash with either of them.
I tried flashing the siyah kernel and this had no effect either.
Please help.
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did exactly same..
this happen when i flashed 4.1.2
just to update.. i manage to fix this by applying I9300XXBLG8_I9300OXABLG8_I9300XXLG8_HOME.tar.md5
You may reset your phone by "Firmware Upgrade And Initialization" in the "Tools" of Samsung KIES 2.5. It will download the latest firmware for you as well.
hey there im thomas from switzerland and im new here
i cant post the thread in the specific area due to my newbie status. im sorry
my englisch isnt that good; neither is my knowledge in software engineering. i dont know the specific terms like adbpush/pull, cwm, mount and so on. im not even sure what exactly the difference between rooting and flashing is lol and i have no clue about what a kernel is
so thats gonna be kinda funny. i hope
well my problem i quite easy to explain. my wifes galaxy s7 is bricked/has a boot loop whatever. it powers up, doestn vibrate and shows the samsung logo an stocks from that on. it doesnt reboot automatically. its stuck at this point until the battery dies or i enter the boot mode or bios or how u say to the mode (power,home,volup) and shut it down. when i shut it down manually im able to restart it again and enter the download mode (voldown). simple restarting or wiping cache didnt work.
so u see i already tried to fix it myself within my abilities. i postet my acutal problem in some other forums but i didnt really got helped out and mostly was told to contact the xda developers for professional and patient help.
i dont want to get the phone running again, its display is a little broken and i got a guarantee so i can swap the phone via my provier, so thats not the actual point. the only thing i want to have are the many many pictures which my wife didnt cloudshare or save otherwise.
so what can i exactly do to recover the pictures and videos. ive read as long as i can access the download mode im able to do something, but no one really knows how to.
the device is a standard s7 non rooted, i dont know exactly which android is running on it but i think my wife would have updated the version if the notification would have popped up. so i think its android 6.0 or 6.0.1 or something like that. im pretty sure she didnt enter the development settings to enable usb debugging or something else. its just a standard s7 from a german store. i do not know the exact model number of the phone like (gt-123456) hope these informations are neccessary if not sorry lol
ive read a lot of flashing instructions with lots of terms which ive never heard and cant explain to myself.
so is there probably anyone who would so nice to instruct for dummies how to get my pictures and videos from the phone please? just explain what to do in non-it-professional-words. if ure going to use a term just quickly explain in very few words what is meant by that.
ive read somewhere about an samsung usb driver to install first, but everywhere are only parlty described guides which i just dont understand.
i have downloaded odin3, have an usb cable, the device, a very slow win10 laptop, absolutely no clue of the complete matter but much patience haha
thank you very very very much
thomas
I am not sure that you may or may not get DATA from phone Back. But if you flash with stock rom for now you may able to open phone.
Allow me some time to get instruction and firmware and necessary files. Be patient.
Salman
(If I helped you please press Thanks)
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@thomaszurich please give your phone details
Model Number S7-xyz is it edge or ???
and your country name so that i can arrange your country firmware.
Edit:
Country : Switzerland
Please Confirm??
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@thomaszurich
Model : SM-G930F
Model name : Galaxy S7
Please confirm, I got ROM for Switzerland (Swisscom)
Android Version : 6.0.1
hey there
thank you very much. ive found a video which declared what files i maybe need.
i already downloaded the 2.1 gb sized rom from sammobile.com for my model last night, i found the number on the case and i also downloaded and installed the samsung usb driver for the s7.
tonight im going to try out what to do. so what im about to do with that?
i also read that usb debugging must be enabled, which surely has not been done by my wife.
cheers
thomaszurich said:
hey there
thank you very much. ive found a video which declared what files i maybe need.
i already downloaded the 2.1 gb sized rom from sammobile.com for my model last night, i found the number on the case and i also downloaded and installed the samsung usb driver for the s7.
tonight im going to try out what to do. so what im about to do with that?
i also read that usb debugging must be enabled, which surely has not been done by my wife.
cheers
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Good to see that
http://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/download/101636/G930FXXS1BPI8_G930FVFG1BPH2_SWC/
Please do reply me once you done or else message me if you got any trouble.
Salman
so the actual question is: what do i have to do now with all these data? try to "flash" with odin3 like in many other descriptions? if it works, does my phone boot as like as nothing ever happened and i can totally use the device again? or is just the bootloader menu extended so that i have to go further steps to get my pictures saved or what?
im sorry, as i said i dont know much about android things like that.
what am i supposed to do now and what exactly is my phone supposed to do afterwards?
thomaszurich said:
so the actual question is: what do i have to do now with all these data? try to "flash" with odin3 like in many other descriptions? if it works, does my phone boot as like as nothing ever happened and i can totally use the device again? or is just the bootloader menu extended so that i have to go further steps to get my pictures saved or what?
im sorry, as i said i dont know much about android things like that.
what am i supposed to do now and what exactly is my phone supposed to do afterwards?
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Your problem's solution is simple...when u flash ur firmware file (2.1gb) through Odin, it will only clear ur system partition and some other partitions but won't touch ur data portion where ur pics are stored... So just flash ur firmware using Odin ..
well i just flashed the phone, odin worked with success but the s7 is still stuck at the same point. it doesnt boot up.
what else can i do to get to my data? is there any option?
thomaszurich said:
well i just flashed the phone, odin worked with success but the s7 is still stuck at the same point. it doesnt boot up.
what else can i do to get to my data? is there any option?
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Be clear with your problem so that we can solve it.
Try to flash with your specific country firmware I already attached in my previous posts.
NOTE: Please reply to our post so that we can receive notification, You need to simply click on Reply on my post.
Hey there,
I did flash the Country Firmware via odin as u told me but the problem is still the same.
thomaszurich said:
Hey there,
I did flash the Country Firmware via odin as u told me but the problem is still the same.
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is s7 have twrp ? twrp have mtp support , and backup all your data , after that flash the firmware via odin and wipe all system
Hi All,
I wonder if any of you is able to help me please, I promise a kind donation in case the device works again.
So here's my story I bought a 2nd hand Galaxy s6 device from a store, it worked for about 9 months then it got blocked, I returned it to the store and after lots of arguing he decided to exchange the blocked device for a similar one if I repair the screen I broke, so I paid him another £180.00 to fix both the screen and back cover.
The wanker gave me a phone which looked fresh, I put my sim inside and it worked without any issues whatsoever... for about 30 mins then the sim card was not recognised anymore !! changed sim cards and nothing happened, when I returned back to the shop the IMEI number on the receipt was not matching the IMEI number in the phone, so the prick said that I am lying to him and that this device is not the one he sold to me, without any proof of it, I am now totally screwed.
After putting the device into download mode it shows the model name as: SM-G925X
The MF gave me a LDU, but whats driving me nuts is that it worked for about 30 mins, I made calls from this LDU for less than 30 mins before it stopped reading the sim card !
Now I took it to another store, where the guy completely f it up and got it bricked and now stuck at the samsung logo.
**If anyone could help me to get this device to work again I will be so grateful to you and promise and kind donation.
freestyler912 said:
Hi All,
I wonder if any of you is able to help me please, I promise a kind donation in case the device works again.
So here's my story I bought a 2nd hand Galaxy s6 device from a store, it worked for about 9 months then it got blocked, I returned it to the store and after lots of arguing he decided to exchange the blocked device for a similar one if I repair the screen I broke, so I paid him another £180.00 to fix both the screen and back cover.
The wanker gave me a phone which looked fresh, I put my sim inside and it worked without any issues whatsoever... for about 30 mins then the sim card was not recognised anymore !! changed sim cards and nothing happened, when I returned back to the shop the IMEI number on the receipt was not matching the IMEI number in the phone, so the prick said that I am lying to him and that this device is not the one he sold to me, without any proof of it, I am now totally screwed.
After putting the device into download mode it shows the model name as: SM-G925X
The MF gave me a LDU, but whats driving me nuts is that it worked for about 30 mins, I made calls from this LDU for less than 30 mins before it stopped reading the sim card !
Now I took it to another store, where the guy completely f it up and got it bricked and now stuck at the samsung logo.
**If anyone could help me to get this device to work again I will be so grateful to you and promise and kind donation.
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I will try to help u
First please don't use abuse language
And if hey boot looped it is there any way you could get into recovery mode
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See if it boots into the recovery mode u just have to do is clear cache and factory reset(in same order) and then try booting the device
Krishhacker said:
I will try to help u
First please don't use abuse language
And if hey boot looped it is there any way you could get into recovery mode
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See if it boots into the recovery mode u just have to do is clear cache and factory reset(in same order) and then try booting the device
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I am genuinely sorry about the bad language, its just out of frustration. And thank you very much in advance.
I am no longer able to get into recovery mode, I tried flashing various firmwares by removing all the .bin files yet the device is still stuck in boot loop.
I also cant locate the S/N to use the emergency recovery function in Smart switch, last time the device was on the imei number and S/N it had, showed up as a completely different samsung device !
freestyler912 said:
I am genuinely sorry about the bad language, its just out of frustration. And thank you very much in advance.
I am no longer able to get into recovery mode, I tried flashing various firmwares by removing all the .bin files yet the device is still stuck in boot loop.
I also cant locate the S/N to use the emergency recovery function in Smart switch, last time the device was on the imei number and S/N it had, showed up as a completely different samsung device !
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The person just gave you a temp efs (IMEI no) which got expired and device lost signal with the provider nevermind and where do you live please tell me(country)
I live in Scotland, UK. What's really confusing me is that it's a LDU, and I read multiple times that LDU are not full mobile phone devices they are missing an antenna or something like that. You really do sound like you know what you're talking about, thank you very much for helping me.
freestyler912 said:
I live in Scotland, UK. What's really confusing me is that it's a LDU, and I read multiple times that LDU are not full mobile phone devices they are missing an antenna or something like that. You really do sound like you know what you're talking about, thank you very much for helping me.
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Have you solved this mate
Not at all, the device has been lying on the desk like a brick.
freestyler912 said:
Not at all, the device has been lying on the desk like a brick.
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Do you have the tools to get inside the phone? To see if the phone has antenna?
Or dial *#0*#
On the menu press receiver.... does it make a sound?
Thanks for your quick reply Calum, no unfortunately am not able to get inside the phone, but I am certain that it does have an antenna because I made calls from it ! it seems like the phone has been bricked, because am still stuck in the bootloop and not able to start it up at all
freestyler912 said:
Thanks for your quick reply Calum, no unfortunately am not able to get inside the phone, but I am certain that it does have an antenna because I made calls from it ! it seems like the phone has been bricked, because am still stuck in the bootloop and not able to start it up at all
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Have a go at flashing this firmware via odin. Rumour has it that you can flash unbranded G925F firmware onto an LDU. The worse that can happen is odin will fail.
If you need instructions on how quote me and I will get the notification
https://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/download/106963/G925FXXS4DPJ2_G925FBTU4DPH1_BTU/
Thanks mate, I have tried that in the past and it worked through odin but the phone is still stuck at the Samsung logo, I will give it a go one more time though and see what happens
freestyler912 said:
Thanks mate, I have tried that in the past and it worked through odin but the phone is still stuck at the Samsung logo, I will give it a go one more time though and see what happens
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Flash the firmware mate but uncheck auto reboot in odin. Once successful flash boot to recovery and wipe data and cache then reboot. Give that a try
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Flash the firmware mate but uncheck auto reboot in odin. Once successful flash boot to recovery and wipe data and cache then reboot. Give that a try
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Alright so I have given that a go, odin failed to flash the firmware, I tried a different one for th SM-G925F with only the F. Reset Time ticked and it worked, but its still not get into recovery mode, when holding the vol up, home and power it does nothing.