Hi guys,
This is my first thread and I've just recently began rooting and flashing roms etc.
I'm sorry if this is a duplicate thread but I searched the forum and found nothing. Here's the thing:
I have a Samsung GT-i9300 ( international version ) and after the first flash I lost my efs folder.
Which did not only mess up my IMEI. It messed up bluetooth, connectivity, wifi adress and the phone lost it's identity.
I took it to a " technician " who said he could fix it. He restored my imei, but the network wouldn't work. So he put another IMEI and voilá!
The phone had connectivity and worked perfectly. So he told me that my phone's imei was reported as stolen because the network wouldn't let it connect. ( and I have had this phone since it first came out of the box and I never reported such a thing. )
He then said the police would have to be involved to verify if i'm the owner so I just told him to put a new imei on.
When I picked up the phone it was working fine. Full connectivity. Then I flashed a rom and lost my efs folder again.
Luckily I had a backup of the imei, wifi, serial and bluetooth adresses. Which were sucessfully restored.
But still, no connectivity. So I googled it and finally found a solution! The problem is with the Baseband.Basically the phone lost it's baseband files, without which the phone cannot connect to the network, and when the " technician " restored my imei, he copied the whole EFS file from the dead phone. Which then replaced the missing files and the phone worked. So my IMEI wasn't blocked, my EFS file was corrupted and the baseband files were missing.
I used the Ariza patch. And voilá, the connectivity is back. But after being turned on for about an hour, the phone has a pop up which says it's not registered in the network and it must restart with a valid sim. And it's a no option pop up, you are indeed forced to restart your cell phone which is annoying because it shuts off at night and operations that take more than an hour are impossible.
But still, after 2 days, the ariza patch stopped working. The phone is in Emergency Calls only now and it doesn't detect the sim. But it's not blocked, it connects to the network.I read that you could flash the modem files to fix this aswell. So I downloaded the modem file for my phone, from my carrier ( VODAFONE PORTUGAL ), from one of the threads here. It didn't work.
Now, this is the question:
Is it possible that it didn't work because my new EFS file is from a phone based in the UK and my phone is from Portugal?
Can it be a sim software problem?
Also, is there any solution found other than the obvious which I've already exhausted ( flash stock rom, wipe cache, etc )
Thank you an Advance guys!
Hi!
I have problem with my lenovo p780 4gb Chinese version (after 04.2014)
I am using vibe ui 2.0 (row version from sympty's thread)
I flashed couple Roms to find my favourite and probably messed up with the nvram.
I was having problems with no signal, nvram error in WiFi ect.
I couldn't restore my imei (done with mobile uncle but after reset the problem apeard again).
Decided to recover nvram.img but as I did not have my own backup I used one uploaded by sympty. (Before restoring nvram made a backup of my own messed up nvram, just in case).
After recovering sumptys nvram the problem with imei and nvram error in wifi disappeard . I noticed that I have symptys imei so I overwritten it with my own using moboleincle.
The problem is that I still get the network problem. No signal at all. Tried many modems also the one that have been adviced to me here (the one created by xaep).
Do You know what can cause this?
I noticed that in mobile uncle radio information the signal is not floating. Once it worked it was floating now it is still and shows 0 db 99 and.
What else could I mess up and how can I fix it?
Thank You guys in advance.
Erni1 said:
Hi!
I have problem with my lenovo p780 4gb Chinese version (after 04.2014)
I am using vibe ui 2.0 (row version from sympty's thread)
I flashed couple Roms to find my favourite and probably messed up with the nvram.
I was having problems with no signal, nvram error in WiFi ect.
I couldn't restore my imei (done with mobile uncle but after reset the problem apeard again).
Decided to recover nvram.img but as I did not have my own backup I used one uploaded by sympty. (Before restoring nvram made a backup of my own messed up nvram, just in case).
After recovering sumptys nvram the problem with imei and nvram error in wifi disappeard . I noticed that I have symptys imei so I overwritten it with my own using moboleincle.
The problem is that I still get the network problem. No signal at all. Tried many modems also the one that have been adviced to me here (the one created by xaep).
Do You know what can cause this?
I noticed that in mobile uncle radio information the signal is not floating. Once it worked it was floating now it is still and shows 0 db 99 and.
What else could I mess up and how can I fix it?
Thank You guys in advance.
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Look arownd here... In Q&A section ! There are some tutorials about rewriting NVRAM section!
stympy said:
Look arownd here... In Q&A section ! There are some tutorials about rewriting NVRAM section!
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So that means that I did not rewrite imie properly?
Also, I noticed that IMEI on the baterry is diffrent than IMEI on the back of the box. My phone have been in service in China, maybe they've made a mistake?
Erni1 said:
So that means that I did not rewrite imie properly?
Also, I noticed that IMEI on the baterry is diffrent than IMEI on the back of the box. My phone have been in service in China, maybe they've made a mistake?
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Hi. What are the diferente betwen them?
stympy said:
Hi. What are the diferente betwen them?
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Only first 3 numbers match, the rest is completly diffrent.
Erni1 said:
Only first 3 numbers match, the rest is completly diffrent.
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This is strange. At least one of the IMEI'S from the box must be the same with the IMEI from the accumulator. They could switch the box on the service store, i think?
Sent from my Lenovo P780
stympy said:
This is strange. At least one of the IMEI'S from the box must be the same with the IMEI from the accumulator. They could switch the box on the service store, i think?
Sent from my Lenovo P780
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Yes probably You're right.
Soo does it matter wchich imei I will use? The one on the box or the baterry one?
Also I am still facing the problem with network. Tried many modems. And now i eaven get the problem with sim card (mmi error).
I changed the nvram for the one i got from this forum.
Can't really rewrite imei with sn writer but managed to do it with mobile uncle. (It changes, but after factory reset it goes back to the imei i got when changed nvram).
I don't really know what else could that be. Maybe it is the rom?
I really like this phone, but I am starting to think of getting a new one without network problems.
Erni1 said:
Yes probably You're right.
Soo does it matter wchich imei I will use? The one on the box or the baterry one?
Also I am still facing the problem with network. Tried many modems. And now i eaven get the problem with sim card (mmi error).
I changed the nvram for the one i got from this forum.
Can't really rewrite imei with sn writer but managed to do it with mobile uncle. (It changes, but after factory reset it goes back to the imei i got when changed nvram).
I don't really know what else could that be. Maybe it is the rom?
I really like this phone, but I am starting to think of getting a new one without network problems.
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Hi. It does not matter what IMEI you are running. It doe matter to have one .
With network problem it is the same! If you dont have IMEI you cannot acces any GSM network. You can change all the modems, if you dont have IMEI your phone cannot acces network.
And yesss.... MobileUncle Tool is an temporary solved problem.
I did not encounter this proble myself. I have saw this problem to others.
From what i have read i saw that this problem could be solved with an older firmware like s119, s123, s124. Dont know how but some of the users did write the IMEI for good.
You can change only the motherboard, or change all the phone and this one use it like power bank, nice agenda, or other uses.
Good Luck.
stympy said:
Hi. It does not matter what IMEI you are running. It doe matter to have one .
With network problem it is the same! If you dont have IMEI you cannot acces any GSM network. You can change all the modems, if you dont have IMEI your phone cannot acces network.
And yesss.... MobileUncle Tool is an temporary solved problem.
I did not encounter this proble myself. I have saw this problem to others.
From what i have read i saw that this problem could be solved with an older firmware like s119, s123, s124. Dont know how but some of the users did write the IMEI for good.
You can change only the motherboard, or change all the phone and this one use it like power bank, nice agenda, or other uses.
Good Luck.
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Will try to go back to the older firmware like You said.
Basically if it doesn't matter what imei I have, than it is not the imei problem, because I do have imei after factory reset, only it is probably Yours (because i restored nvram uploaded by You ;D).
In such a case, maybe the firmware will help.
Hey guys so i messed up today and spent a while flashing all the way from CM11 > 1.64 > 3.09 > 3.22 > CM12.1 and now i have lost my IMEI file :crying: and can no longer make calls essentialy turning my phone into an ipod.
I still have files from c:/nubia backup/ but i have no idea what to do with them. it contains nc.qnc, bluetooth and some persist files. I tried using nubia restorer on 3.22 but it didn't work so i tried to flash to cm12.1 to test my luck out but nope didn't work.
Any help would be very appreciated. Thanks guys :crying:
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I managed to fix it
Hi, mind sharing how you fix the IMEI problem? I had the same problem here too ... My sims are not detected after i made a mistake ...
petrofsky77 said:
Hi, mind sharing how you fix the IMEI problem? I had the same problem here too ... My sims are not detected after i made a mistake ...
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flash back to stock recovery v3.09 or v3.22 open up adb and factory ports *#7678# download and install QPST configuration and choose the port of your phone, select start client and "software download" then press restore tab.
You will have to find the backup file (nv.qnc) made in c:/nubia backup folder. if u need any help pm me
I, i just tried it with my (nv.qnc) file because i'd lost my IMEI and MEID. It worked, but since when I enter my PIN code, the phone boots, but 10 second after it answers pin code again and again. if I try to restore the imei an other time it says "the ESN of the phone does not match the ESN of this file containing RF calibration data".
Could you help me? Thanks!
hey evrybody
i have a big probleme with my s3 i9300 , my probleme is the imei number its goes alone for exemple if i restarted the phone ill get imei nul/nul and when i type the code 1234 the cp thing ( the modem i think ) it dosent show up , i have efs backup on my phone with samsung tool and i have another one i made with backup and restore efs to computure .
the thing i always try to restore the efs file but the imei didnt back but sometimes the imei comes back alone without doing anything and sometimes i need to flash so many stock frimwears
my phone mack me beleive in luck cause i dont do anèything spicifique but sometimes it comes back and sometimes it dosent so whats the soulution to my phone i want it to back worcking
now im stuck with imei nul since 2 days and i flashed so many frimwears and i did restore but nothing changed it stell on imei nul
thanks for reading and helping
i have a sm g925f s6 edge which was working fine until about a week ago
after a restart I lost my imei and my baseband
which comes back after almost 6 restart and often after restoring the backup of my efs
ps: I have a backup of my efs
but every time I restart I lose my imei and my baseband
and I have to restart several times and restore my efs to hope to solve the problem again except that it does not work all the time
actually my baseband and imei are there so dontt want to reboot
if someone know whats is the pb if not i will to change the motherboard