Hi,
I am still trying to repair my hox+, it is stuck in airplane mode, it has lost its IMEI.
I am looking into flashing the damaged partitions by doing backup on a second phone (which is working, same stock rom version)
and restoring it on the damaged one. After that the correct IMEI has to be restored by the phone itself.
This is often done on Samsung phones. But does anybody know, if this works on HTC One X+?
And I have really trouble to identify that partition which contains the efs . Since there are 20 mmcblk´s
The Software "Partitions Backup" just gives me the 3-literal Names, like rfs, rca, rv1, sos, sp1, pg1 and so on.
I find no suitable informations on the www. Seems like it happens more often on SAMSUNG than on HTC
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ICEMAN_77 said:
Hi,
I am still trying to repair my hox+, it is stuck in airplane mode, it has lost its IMEI.
I am looking into flashing the damaged partitions by doing backup on a second phone (which is working, same stock rom version)
and restoring it on the damaged one. After that the correct IMEI has to be restored by the phone itself.
This is often done on Samsung phones. But does anybody know, if this works on HTC One X+?
And I have really trouble to identify that partition which contains the efs . Since there are 20 mmcblk´s
The Software "Partitions Backup" just gives me the 3-literal Names, like rfs, rca, rv1, sos, sp1, pg1 and so on.
I find no suitable informations on the www. Seems like it happens more often on SAMSUNG than on HTC
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As far as I know, there's no EFS partition in HTC phones. That's why you will find it happens more often on Samsung phones because the EFS partition is ONLY for Samsung phones.
Now when it comes to losing IMEI in HTC phones, after checking a lot of threads about it (I've got a HOX+ with lost IMEI myself), I am convinced that when IMEI is lost (and impossible to recover even trying to come back to stock ROM using the RUU's) it's more likely to be a hardware issue.
You should take your phone to service.
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Hi everyone,
So, I'm way out of my depth here and I've searched high and low for a similar situation to mine to no avail.
I'm fairly sure I have EFS issues. I flashed CM9 onto my S2 and had the RIL issue which caused me to have no reception. After trying about five different modems I gave up and went back to stock.
Unfortunately, I still have network issues. I realised after some mucking around that intermittently I my phone would recognise my baseband and IMEI and then it wouldn't, it would switch on restart. This sent me down the EFS issue, and now I'm freaking out.
I screwed around with my EFS and I don't seem to have done any permanent damage. My phone still recognises my baseband and IMEI, and it can still get a signal. Now I'm getting "Enter Network Lock Control Key" when I boot up though, and can only make emergency calls. The phone came unlocked, it was bought outright, and I have run CF-Root's unlock key finder to no avail.
Any suggestions?
Cheers
BobSwinkle said:
Hi everyone,
So, I'm way out of my depth here and I've searched high and low for a similar situation to mine to no avail.
I'm fairly sure I have EFS issues. I flashed CM9 onto my S2 and had the RIL issue which caused me to have no reception. After trying about five different modems I gave up and went back to stock.
Unfortunately, I still have network issues. I realised after some mucking around that intermittently I my phone would recognise my baseband and IMEI and then it wouldn't, it would switch on restart. This sent me down the EFS issue, and now I'm freaking out.
I screwed around with my EFS and I don't seem to have done any permanent damage. My phone still recognises my baseband and IMEI, and it can still get a signal. Now I'm getting "Enter Network Lock Control Key" when I boot up though, and can only make emergency calls. The phone came unlocked, it was bought outright, and I have run CF-Root's unlock key finder to no avail.
Any suggestions?
Cheers
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Try these apps.
1. (Try this one first, if it doesn't work, then try the second app).
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.helroz.galaxysunlock&hl=en
2.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.helroz.GSII_Repair&feature=more_from_developer
Good luck
Swyped from my Samsung Galaxy SII
Jokesy said:
Try these apps.
Good luck
Swyped from my Samsung Galaxy SII
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Hi, thanks for the reply. I've tried both those tools to no avail. The problem has regressed to the original problem now. Do you, or anyone else, know the trick to restoring an EFS folder that isn't hasn't been turned into a tar folder? I backed up before doing any of this, but the backup doesn't seem fully functional when I restore it.
BobSwinkle said:
Hi, thanks for the reply. I've tried both those tools to no avail. The problem has regressed to the original problem now. Do you, or anyone else, know the trick to restoring an EFS folder that isn't hasn't been turned into a tar folder? I backed up before doing any of this, but the backup doesn't seem fully functional when I restore it.
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Sorry about that:
1. Have you ever flashed Siyah kernel before, when your phone was still working perfectly?
2. This should help you manually repair your efs folder : forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1264021
Ps: if you have flashed Siyah kernel before, it always backup your efs partition in .tar to external SD /EFS_BACKUP, with time stamp on each backup, each time you flash it.
Swyped from my Samsung Galaxy SII
For some reason I lost my imei on one of the recent flashes and I've tried to restore it, but something is still wrong. When I boot my phone and go straight into settings I get "unknown" both for baseband and imei, it does happen though, that both of them pop up a few minutes later for no obvious reason.
How do I fix this? How do I stabilize them again?
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For some reason I lost my imei on one of the recent flashes and I've tried to restore it, but something is still wrong. When I boot my phone and go straight into settings I get "unknown" both for baseband and imei, it does happen though, that both of them pop up a few minutes later for no obvious reason.
How do I fix this? How do I stabilize them again?
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It must be that the efs folder being improperly read or slightly corrupted it contains information regarding your IMEI number and several other important information like wifi mac address, you must backup that particular folder using the latest cwm or other software before you perform any flashes perform a backup by an application like efs products, there are some application which can repair it too, search and find... It is one of the basic things you must do before flashing anything because efs folder can easily get corrupted and if you lose it your device will be just a expensive multimedia device with no phone or wifi capabilities.
Using GT - I9100
Just hit the damn help button if I helped you.
maybe check this?
forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1264021
Hi All,
I thought I’d share this as I’ve been pulling my hair out with trying to find answers to this, and sending it to old Sammy was the next option.
After trying everything on every forum, trying the QPST method, trying to use someone else's efs folder (which changed the serial as well) and every other complicated as hell method everyone had suggested, nothing worked expect his which I’ve not found mentioned anywhere as a solution to this (or any other) problem
In the Samsung Kies application under "Tools" there is "Firmware Upgrade and Initialisation,"
With your device unplugged (it will say not available for this model if its plugged in, don't plug it in until it tells you to when in download mode) select this and run the what it tells you to do,
After this is finished you will have a completely fresh install of the latest officially released firmware (for your original build eg. carrier branded) with original serial number and imei number :laugh:
It’s really silly how simple this is yet has not been mentioned or attempted by anyone else, or if it has, not mentioned by anyone else.
I crap you not…
Thanks,
[edit:] just as a note, I got into this problem by not backing up the efs, the world would be a much nicer place if everyone just backed up their efs :laugh:
This has been posted before and does not work in many cases .
Although the method can be useful to restore to original firmware .
jje
Yes, flashing a stock rom will sometimes fix the problem of the efs folder not being mounted or read. It won't fix a corrupt partition or damaged files.
The stock rom you flashed didn't contain any efs data so it isn't any substitute for a backup, you were very lucky it worked.
To my tests this work only when efs is completely empty while upgrade if not it doesn't work
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Same problem
hello guys,
Well I'm to tell the story of how my aunt damaged apparently her phone
At first the phone is a samsung galaxy S3 from movistar (locked), and she bought a freaking iphone 5 to give the S3 to his husband and there it starts the problem he's in another company so she goes to a store to unlock the phone, the guys on the store supposedly unlocked the phone. So when she arrives home, she puts the sim into the phone and SORPRISE it says emergency calls only and not registered in network. After a week she calls me and hands me over the phone.
My surprise was when I put it in recovery mode, it says flash count 3, and then i did all these terrible things with thephone.
1) Flash it to a stock movistar rom 4.1.2.
2) Sorprise the IMEI sayd null.
3) Searching in the web, found the ariza patch, and I patched it without saving the efs (big mistake).
4) The phone imei's became 0049.
5) So I flash it back to the rom they put in the store and the imei went back I make sure it was the one on the back of the phone.
6) I still stuck in the emergency call not registered in the network thing.
7) Now I rooted the phone erased the whole content of the efs directory (this time with a back up).
8) Did the tutorial thing with samsung kies and I'm back with the movistar rom with the 0049 IMEI.
I don't what to do at this point besides going to samsung and send it to repair I really hope they can fix it at a low price.
Sorry for my english, I'm trying to improve it.
Best Regards
Andy Serrato... the spaniard
Start by reading the stickied faqs and guides EFS/IMEI sticky for one or just pay for a repair .
Galaxy S3(GT-I9300) having the same problem! HELP HELP HEEEELP PLEASE!!
Very unfortunately. this didn't solve my problem, the phone's Serial number is still that auto generated junk, and the EMEI is 00499901640000 as before. I had 4.1.2 on my S3 and Kies has updated it to 4.3 without resolving the issue!
can anyone give an idea on how to surely resolve this issue please. its about 3 months now ever since my phone got screwed up!
Pay for a repair
Perfect
I cannot believe this worked, but it did.
I messed up somehow by trying to flash the wrong cwm.tar file (for i9305) I needed i9300 of course and odin stopped halfway and got stuck, i then pulled the cable out and everything got very messy,.. i kept getting lots of errors etc. i somehow managed to install an old cm11 rom which worked lovely. BUT I had no baseband, no imei, no network, no number, nothing, #*06# or whatever it is, wouldn't work. nothing.
I then started to figure out how the efs filesystem worked, then foundout kies has an emergency thing where i guess they look into there database what your imei was when the phone was built. this would not work because I was using a custom rom (i think) but then I stumbled upon this post. thank goodness!!!!!
It's just restarted and internet, signal, imei is back, baseband version is back. all in order.
however, i think i was also very lucky, but for those of you who are in the position i was in, but this doesn't work, I do think there are ways to get an old efs going again and modify it to your "should be" imei,
if anyone needs an IMEI, I can give you one from a phone i had stolen in vietnam, (not sure its even legal to give it out but whatever)
thank you
Nev
EFS recovery
DonkeyDuck said:
Hi All,
I thought I’d share this as I’ve been pulling my hair out with trying to find answers to this, and sending it to old Sammy was the next option.
After trying everything on every forum, trying the QPST method, trying to use someone else's efs folder (which changed the serial as well) and every other complicated as hell method everyone had suggested, nothing worked expect his which I’ve not found mentioned anywhere as a solution to this (or any other) problem
In the Samsung Kies application under "Tools" there is "Firmware Upgrade and Initialisation,"
With your device unplugged (it will say not available for this model if its plugged in, don't plug it in until it tells you to when in download mode) select this and run the what it tells you to do,
After this is finished you will have a completely fresh install of the latest officially released firmware (for your original build eg. carrier branded) with original serial number and imei number :laugh:
It’s really silly how simple this is yet has not been mentioned or attempted by anyone else, or if it has, not mentioned by anyone else.
I crap you not…
Thanks,
[edit:] just as a note, I got into this problem by not backing up the efs, the world would be a much nicer place if everyone just backed up their efs :laugh:
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WOW! This worked! I had been struggling for 3 months with my Note 2. Been flashing rom after rom and got stuck in boot cycle. Actually broke down and brought phone to a cell repair shop. She said it just needed a new battery. $50 later got my phone back. She had put stock AT&T rom on it but lo and behold, my sim card didn't work and my IMEI was null. I brought it back and she had it for a week and then said there was a hardware problem AND my USB port wasn't working and it would cost more to fix than it was worth, so she gave it back to me no charge. So I spent next months trying other roms. reading up on EFS folder, even learned some ADB stuff. To no avail. And BTW, my usb port seems to work fine. Finally this afternoon after Turkey Dinner, I stumbled across your forum message. And 15 minutes later I was downloading a repair and the son of a gun fixed everything. I verified it with a Sim card - perfect ! Apparently Samsung has a database of phone serial numbers and what IMEI code goes with them. Fanatastic! Thank you. I will be writing a serious neg review of that cell phone repair place soon.
kangerX said:
To my tests this work only when efs is completely empty while upgrade if not it doesn't work
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I have tried the method posted in the thread ..... but EFS didn't recovered ........ so i decided to follow your procedure
like making empty EFS folder.... so how can i do that ...and if so will it work .....as someone here mentioned that Download firmware package doesn't contains any EFS contains .... help me out :good:
DonkeyDuck said:
Hi All,
I thought I’d share this as I’ve been pulling my hair out with trying to find answers to this, and sending it to old Sammy was the next option.
After trying everything on every forum, trying the QPST method, trying to use someone else's efs folder (which changed the serial as well) and every other complicated as hell method everyone had suggested, nothing worked expect his which I’ve not found mentioned anywhere as a solution to this (or any other) problem
In the Samsung Kies application under "Tools" there is "Firmware Upgrade and Initialisation,"
With your device unplugged (it will say not available for this model if its plugged in, don't plug it in until it tells you to when in download mode) select this and run the what it tells you to do,
After this is finished you will have a completely fresh install of the latest officially released firmware (for your original build eg. carrier branded) with original serial number and imei number :laugh:
It’s really silly how simple this is yet has not been mentioned or attempted by anyone else, or if it has, not mentioned by anyone else.
I crap you not…
Thanks,
[edit:] just as a note, I got into this problem by not backing up the efs, the world would be a much nicer place if everyone just backed up their efs :laugh:
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i love u so much right now,.. worked like a charm,.. and after thjat i was able to unlock my phone,... thanks so much i would love to give u 10000 thanks
I cant get past entering my model number,, I read it right from under the battery and it still keeps telling me to enter the model number. G550T1 doesnt change from G550T1 no matter how many times you type it... I give up.. If I could just get a twrp backup for mine I may be able to fix it. It's metropcs! flashing to the T-Mobile twrp backup by mistake thinking it was the metropcs one is what got me in this situation... Should have paid better attention...
UPDATE: It took my numbers and I'm trying it now, wish me luck
Well I got it to take my model number and did the whole software thing. Everything is all back to stock but it didnt fix the problem.. Still no net work and says theres no sim card.
Which shop samsung
Which shop samsung or repair shop bro.
Please tell.?????? me I am facing too problem.
stwischu said:
WOW! This worked! I had been struggling for 3 months with my Note 2. Been flashing rom after rom and got stuck in boot cycle. Actually broke down and brought phone to a cell repair shop. She said it just needed a new battery. $50 later got my phone back. She had put stock AT&T rom on it but lo and behold, my sim card didn't work and my IMEI was null. I brought it back and she had it for a week and then said there was a hardware problem AND my USB port wasn't working and it would cost more to fix than it was worth, so she gave it back to me no charge. So I spent next months trying other roms. reading up on EFS folder, even learned some ADB stuff. To no avail. And BTW, my usb port seems to work fine. Finally this afternoon after Turkey Dinner, I stumbled across your forum message. And 15 minutes later I was downloading a repair and the son of a gun fixed everything. I verified it with a Sim card - perfect ! Apparently Samsung has a database of phone serial numbers and what IMEI code goes with them. Fanatastic! Thank you. I will be writing a serious neg review of that cell phone repair place soon.
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Hi,
A month ago i suffered a really bad flash and bricked my i9300. I had no efs backup, i knew very little about the importance of the efs-folder.
After trying every possible solution xda and the www have to offer i finaly gave up. Furious with myself. The last thing i did in pure desperation was to copy the efs-folder straight over to my PC and then deleted the efs-folder on the phone, and hoped that the phone would magicly put all the pieces on the right place again. That was not the case.
This is how the problem looks now: When i start the phone it just says SAMSUNG with the swirly bluish flame (or whatever) spinning around it. Then it reboots. Then i go into stock recovery it says "e:failed to mount /efs". I then flashed CWM (dont remember what version, but i belive it was the latest version) and tried mounting efs from there. - Same error - Failed to mount.
But now i have a new i9300 and was thinking to myself, could i use the efs.img-backup from this new phone to my old one? I assume, i would be breaking the law by cloning the imei. But after i've got the proper structure back to the efs-folder i could maybe switch the containing files with my files from the old phone?
Is this mad?
I would really appreciate any kind of help on this matter, or a solution to mount efs? Keep in mind though, that the phone doesn't boot into TW. All i got is Download mode and recovery.
I
DrunkWithAGun said:
Hi,
A month ago i suffered a really bad flash and bricked my i9300. I had no efs backup, i knew very little about the importance of the efs-folder.
After trying every possible solution xda and the www have to offer i finaly gave up. Furious with myself. The last thing i did in pure desperation was to copy the efs-folder straight over to my PC and then deleted the efs-folder on the phone, and hoped that the phone would magicly put all the pieces on the right place again. That was not the case.
This is how the problem looks now: When i start the phone it just says SAMSUNG with the swirly bluish flame (or whatever) spinning around it. Then it reboots. Then i go into stock recovery it says "e:failed to mount /efs". I then flashed CWM (dont remember what version, but i belive it was the latest version) and tried mounting efs from there. - Same error - Failed to mount.
But now i have a new i9300 and was thinking to myself, could i use the efs.img-backup from this new phone to my old one? I assume, i would be breaking the law by cloning the imei. But after i've got the proper structure back to the efs-folder i could maybe switch the containing files with my files from the old phone?
Is this mad?
I would really appreciate any kind of help on this matter, or a solution to mount efs? Keep in mind though, that the phone doesn't boot into TW. All i got is Download mode and recovery.
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That new efs folder you're talking about still contains the IMEI number specific for that device. Any act pushing or copying that efs folder to your old phone is illegal.
However since you can still boot to Download mode on your old phone you can try flashing a new stock firmware via Odin and see if it boots properly. If it fails then better wait for a more expert answer since I haven't experience your issue on mine yet (and I hope i won't).
DrunkWithAGun said:
Hi,
A month ago i suffered a really bad flash and bricked my i9300. I had no efs backup, i knew very little about the importance of the efs-folder.
After trying every possible solution xda and the www have to offer i finaly gave up. Furious with myself. The last thing i did in pure desperation was to copy the efs-folder straight over to my PC and then deleted the efs-folder on the phone, and hoped that the phone would magicly put all the pieces on the right place again. That was not the case.
This is how the problem looks now: When i start the phone it just says SAMSUNG with the swirly bluish flame (or whatever) spinning around it. Then it reboots. Then i go into stock recovery it says "e:failed to mount /efs". I then flashed CWM (dont remember what version, but i belive it was the latest version) and tried mounting efs from there. - Same error - Failed to mount.
But now i have a new i9300 and was thinking to myself, could i use the efs.img-backup from this new phone to my old one? I assume, i would be breaking the law by cloning the imei. But after i've got the proper structure back to the efs-folder i could maybe switch the containing files with my files from the old phone?
Is this mad?
I would really appreciate any kind of help on this matter, or a solution to mount efs? Keep in mind though, that the phone doesn't boot into TW. All i got is Download mode and recovery.
I
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I don't understand why you would want to do that? You have purchased a new phone, which has a new IMEI. Putting the old IMEI on there is a) pointless and b) not possible (I think).
Unless you have purchased a stolen phone?
But now i have a new i9300 and was thinking to myself, could i use the efs.img-backup from this new phone to my old one?
As said no
Suggest you ask in the IMEI?EFS thread instaed of starting yet another ,
None of the phones are stolen, but if i could get the old one working again i could either sell it for more than just a faulty phone or give it to my wife, anything. It's just an annoying paperweight.
My intentions was just to get phone in a better state then it is in now, meaning putting an original efs-structure from my new phone on it. And if it that way could jumpstart it so i could atleast get TW running, and from there switch out the new contents in the folder with the contents from the old phone i put on my pc.
And i am sorry for starting yet another efs-thread :\
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Hi guys,
So, i have a big problem with my Galaxy s3. I dont know what happened, but at one time was home and your battery has ended. So I went to charge the battery and for my surprise, when I switch on the phone, it could not make calls.
I took it for Technical Service to solve the problem, but I got the information that they could not fix, because the telephone broke.
Dissatisfied, I came home and tried to fix it, and found that the IMEI listed as "null / null". I searched on various websites that could do to fix it. I installed the original 4.3 version of the S3, I ROOT your phone, tried to repair the various ways that the EFS folder could be corrupted, but i just get a generic IMEI.
I just want to know if I have any alternative to put again on phone my unique IMEI, and that can make calls again.
Please, help me with that.
EFS might be corrupted, if it was not rooted you should stay that way and get it for warranty repair, now you have to get your efs repaired, it is around 15$ in service centre, i had to do so, and in future try to make efs backup so if something happens again, you just restore and you're good to go.