I was given a samsung S4 verizon phone..I was told i had to unlock the phone to enable usage of my network(Nigeria).The Engineer i gave it to said he had to root the phone first..it was running 5.0.1 lollilop. After rooting, i think he used chimera, and restarting the phone, it would get stuck at the verizon logo..I'm new to android so I really want to know what to do next..
You should not have to root the phone to use it on your network. I am currently using my Verizon S4 in a Central American country on a GSM network. You should be able to just put in the sim card from your carrier and use the phone.
The first thing you need to do though is get you phone in a functional state. Your best bet here is probably to flash the stock firmware with Odin. You can find instructions on this in other threads. One I found is here - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2393104&page=1
Once you have the phone restored to the stock firmware you should be able to pop in your sim card and go.
There are two settings you may need to check in order to ensure everything is functional:
1. Ensure that network mode is set to global. This option can be found in settings>more networks>mobile networks>network mode
2. If calling and texting work but mobile data does not you probably need to add your carrier's APN. First do a google search to find your carrier's APN, then enter the APN in settings>more networks>mobile networks>access point names. Tap the + in the top-flight corner and enter the information you found on the Google search. Save the APN and be sure it is selected on the APN page.
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You may find some more information on returning to the stock firmware here http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s4-verizon/general/bricked-believe-t3487515/page1.
ktfinzer said:
You should not have to root the phone to use it on your network. I am currently using my Verizon S4 in a Central American country on a GSM network. You should be able to just put in the sim card from your carrier and use the phone.
The first thing you need to do though is get you phone in a functional state. Your best bet here is probably to flash the stock firmware with Odin. You can find instructions on this in other threads. One I found is here - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2393104&page=1
Once you have the phone restored to the stock firmware you should be able to pop in your sim card and go.
There are two settings you may need to check in order to ensure everything is functional:
1. Ensure that network mode is set to global. This option can be found in settings>more networks>mobile networks>network mode
2. If calling and texting work but mobile data does not you probably need to add your carrier's APN. First do a google search to find your carrier's APN, then enter the APN in settings>more networks>mobile networks>access point names. Tap the + in the top-flight corner and enter the information you found on the Google search. Save the APN and be sure it is selected on the APN page.
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You may find some more information on returning to the stock firmware here http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s4-verizon/general/bricked-believe-t3487515/page1.
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thanks man..i followed all the instructions and now everything works perfectly..God bless you
Awesome! Glad to hear that.
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I'm in South Korea, using a sony x10. I wasn't sure if the latest gingerbread update would be released in my region, so I decided to flash the firmware myself to the latest stock gingerbread (2.3.3).
Afterwords I lost 3g access and my carrier says it's my fault or nothing they can do.
Afterwards, I rooted the phone and installed a custom kernel and still it's not available(I figured it was worth a shot).
I can see and select my mobile service provider(Sk telecom) in the list of data service providers, but my phone is not downloading any APN info from my carrier.
Any advice?
Hi,
search for APN information from your provider in the internet and enter them manually.
Somehow my APN got two additional letters and I had no 3G. I corrected the information manually and all is fine now.
Ralf
ryuker said:
I'm in South Korea, using a sony x10. I wasn't sure if the latest gingerbread update would be released in my region, so I decided to flash the firmware myself to the latest stock gingerbread (2.3.3).
Afterwords I lost 3g access and my carrier says it's my fault or nothing they can do.
Afterwards, I rooted the phone and installed a custom kernel and still it's not available(I figured it was worth a shot).
I can see and select my mobile service provider(Sk telecom) in the list of data service providers, but my phone is not downloading any APN info from my carrier.
Any advice?
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You need to set up your wireless apn go to:
menu/settings/wireless & networks/mobile networks/network mode/gsm/wcdma preferred (click it)
Then Back button/Back button/sony ericsson/settings download then wait a few you will see it (3g/H) flash on (you do not have to click it it's just saying that is your network) then go to:
Back button/wireless & networks/mobile networks/access point name. there should be two apns
one wireless/one mmsc. if for some reason you have three make sure that the top one (the house icon 3g) is checked or you will be roaming
And always remember to backup your Settings and APNs,and anything else you need to keep. There are free apps on the market to do that but the pro/key versions have more settings and help the developers and no adware. Hope this helps if not all be here tomorrow or i'm sure someone else will help too i do have some apns just tell us what network your on an we can help you set them up. Good luck
No APN info shows up at all. If I go to Sk telecom service center, can they give me the info to manually input it?
My network is for SK telecom in South Korea. Any other info you need about the network?
You can try an all see if i can find it. So give me a day and all post it
Sorry no luck that an Three other Country's i can't get for some reason. It's a bummer
Maybe someone else here can help.
I went through and read everything in the Super Thread - twice.
I went through and flashed the stock Rogers ICS 4.0.4 rom to the phone and then rooted it by flashing the cwm kernal in the instructions. My phone is successfully rooted and it is not reverting to the stock android recovery.
I went through and disabled all the Rogers bloatware and restarted the phone and now it isn't enabling itself automatically. Score one for patience and good advice.
I use Petro Canada Mobility pay as you go. They are a reseller of Rogers and the price is right until my ISP launches their wireless service.
I went through and set the phone so that is uses gsm/wcdma bands only - no LTE as it isn't available in my province as of yet. I set up Petro Canada's APN settings and save. I restart the phone and the phone automatically defaults back to Rogers APN settings. The APN that I created is gone - *poof* I can't count how many times in the last 24 hours I have reset this phone
What the heck am I missing here cause I can't figure it out. Why won't it save my APN settings? I got the rest of the kinks worked out and now this??
Do the Bell and Telus versions of this phone have the same quirks cause if they don't, I'll gladly flash their roms.
Help please!
I would leave the network to auto.
When you make an APN and save it, then select it, it disappears?
Can you edit the default Rogers APN?
Is your phone carrier unlocked?
rangercaptain said:
I would leave the network to auto.
When you make an APN and save it, then select it, it disappears?
Can you edit the default Rogers APN?
Is your phone carrier unlocked?
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When I make an APN and and save it, it is fine until I restart the phone. The minute I restart the APN disappears. I can edit the Rogers APN and save the changes. When I restart, it reverts to it's default settings. It is not carrier unlocked. Because my mobility carrier is a reseller of Rogers, my sim card works with it. There was no need to unlock it.
It seems like you need to unlock it, because you can't use any other carrier's APN, you're locked on Rogers.
Have you rooted it? Since that is the cheaper route, maybe being rooted will let you permanently create the correct APN.
Yes I have it rooted. Still the same issue.
Run a good nandroid backup ....
Then enter the new APN into the device ....
Then delete the old APN , then reboot ...
If the new APN sticks, then run a new backup and delete the old one ...
These devices can be temperamental on occasion ....g
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And yes ...you may be locked at this point, and stuck on Rogers ...g
I went through and unlocked the phone, stuck in a Bell Sim card and it recognized it right away. I went through completely reset the phone again, entered in my APN settings, and restarted. The settings disappeared. I am told that the Bell, Rogers, and Telus variants are all the same so I am going to flash one of their roms on the phone to see if I have better luck.
Well I flashed a different rom - Bell and that fixed the issue. It was the stock rogers rom that was causing me grief.
So my next question is this - anyone have any ideas on what Rom is better? The Telus or the Bell one?
I have found no threads with this exact problem. I am new to smart phones, I bought an unlocked S2 gt-I9100, I checked to make sure it read my sim card before buying..it did..but didn't realize the data wasn't working. So I've searched high and low and now I'm here. When you go to APN and open it all it has at the top is APN, you can't access anything. I tried various programs to achieve this but they all say "your android phone does not allow automatic APN setup" So I try to manually do it and it pops the APN page up and you can't do anythng but the program is in the notification thing at the top thinking it is working I guess. Not syre what info on the phone you need.
Samsung Galaxy S2 GT-I9100
Execulink - I guess was the phone company in Canada
Version 4.0.3
Build number ULTIMOBILE-SGS2-4.0.3-EXE-071212-2.1
If you need anything else let me know, Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
Berty720 said:
I have found no threads with this exact problem. I am new to smart phones, I bought an unlocked S2 gt-I9100, I checked to make sure it read my sim card before buying..it did..but didn't realize the data wasn't working. So I've searched high and low and now I'm here. When you go to APN and open it all it has at the top is APN, you can't access anything. I tried various programs to achieve this but they all say "your android phone does not allow automatic APN setup" So I try to manually do it and it pops the APN page up and you can't do anythng but the program is in the notification thing at the top thinking it is working I guess. Not syre what info on the phone you need.
Samsung Galaxy S2 GT-I9100
Execulink - I guess was the phone company in Canada
Version 4.0.3
Build number ULTIMOBILE-SGS2-4.0.3-EXE-071212-2.1
If you need anything else let me know, Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
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If you want to set up APN manually, go to
Setting>more setting>mobile network>access point name>
then press menu and choose new apn.
you need to ask your service provider to fill up APN, MCC, MNC etc;
and then, press menu and save apn.
kyawzaw said:
If you want to set up APN manually, go to
Setting>more setting>mobile network>access point name>
then press menu and choose new apn.
you need to ask your service provider to fill up APN, MCC, MNC etc;
and then, press menu and save apn.
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I have tried that, I have all the info as far as APN,MCC,MNC ect. from my other phone.
When I go into Apn there is no menu. All you have is at the top Is a gear looking thing and APNs, thats it. It will not open to allow any changes or add a new APN.
Did you tried a custom ROM?
deiuma said:
Did you tried a custom ROM?
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Not sure what you mean by custom ROM, I have tried multiple apps that say you can set up an APN the latest one I tried was giffgaff APN.
They all failed to open it so I can edit and they all state "your android phone does not allow automatic APN setup"
Berty720 said:
Not sure what you mean by custom ROM, I have tried multiple apps that say you can set up an APN the latest one I tried was giffgaff APN.
They all failed to open it so I can edit and they all state "your android phone does not allow automatic APN setup"
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Read this. Do you have warranty?
deiuma said:
Read this. Do you have warranty?
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Ok I see what you mean by ROM, No I haven't tried any custom ROM's
No Warranty bought it used and unlocked.
Is there a custom ROM that can fix this?
OK, solved it, As I said I tried apps to no success unlocking the APN to edit, So you mentioned custom ROM's and I did some research.
So first I rooted my phone then added theGT-I9100_ClockworkMod-Recovery_4.0.1.4.tar then flashed the newest version of the Rootbox Jelly Bean ROM to my phone and fired it up and The APN was not only unlocked it was already set up to my provider and the data was working.
I tried adding the truth77supergapps-4.2-jb for the apps but it would crash as the phone started.
Thanks a bunch for the help I'm not sure how to change the title of the thread to solved though.
I tried multiple Gapps created by different people and all crashed at start up. So went looking and found lots of people having issues with, Trebuchet not responding, so I looked for a rom that didn't use it.
So I found this Avatar ROM 4.1.2 Jelly Bean ROM For Galaxy S2 I9100 and Flashed it on my phone and flashed gapps-jb-20121011-signed, to get my google apps and it went perfectly into the phone so now I have data and my google apps.
Hi XDA ,
Am new in the Forum & First of all thanks to all of you for helping the forum and people. I'm having difficulties and I cant seem to find the way to fix this(its been 2 weeks)
My problem is the following: I have a Samsung Galaxy Note 3 details:
software version: N900PVPUBMI3
hardware version N900P.00
Status: network: Digital roaming
mobile network type CDMA-AxRTT
Android 4.4.2
KERNEL:[email protected]#1
A friend bought me this phone and called my carrier METROPCS and made them set up the phone so I could use it. they asked him for imei and sim number. He was able to use the phone and 4GLTE(he was doing this to verify it was unlocked) later on he gave me the phone and I had to do the same procedure he did but first I did a factory data reset.
After it I wasn't able to set it up again.
I've noticed that APN SETTINGS has disappeared from the menu, cant search for networks, when I load IMEI it no longer shows the imei but it shows MEID B0000000 and besides all of this I have a message that says SIM CARD INVALID.(but the sim card works perfectly on my other phone)
I will all my life appreciate if you help me with this matter please!
PS. phone is rooted as far as I know(root check on Google play store said it was)
Sir,
Please wait until mods will move this thread to the device specific forum for more relevant answers.
Stand by
Good luck
XDAGeorge305 said:
Hi XDA ,
Am new in the Forum & First of all thanks to all of you for helping the forum and people. I'm having difficulties and I cant seem to find the way to fix this(its been 2 weeks)
My problem is the following: I have a Samsung Galaxy Note 3 details:
software version: N900PVPUBMI3
hardware version N900P.00
Status: network: Digital roaming
mobile network type CDMA-AxRTT
Android 4.4.2
KERNEL:[email protected]#1
A friend bought me this phone and called my carrier METROPCS and made them set up the phone so I could use it. they asked him for imei and sim number. He was able to use the phone and 4GLTE(he was doing this to verify it was unlocked) later on he gave me the phone and I had to do the same procedure he did but first I did a factory data reset.
After it I wasn't able to set it up again.
I've noticed that APN SETTINGS has disappeared from the menu, cant search for networks, when I load IMEI it no longer shows the imei but it shows MEID B0000000 and besides all of this I have a message that says SIM CARD INVALID.(but the sim card works perfectly on my other phone)
I will all my life appreciate if you help me with this matter please!
PS. phone is rooted as far as I know(root check on Google play store said it was)
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You might try installing this app it find/gives all the hidden info on your device http://forum.xda-developers.com/not.../app-one-click-hotspot-enabler-menus-t2816159 it will give you APN's MEID AND IMEI . All you have to do is download to your PC, it my download as a zip file. Just use 7zip and rename it to an apk, then copy and paste it to your internal sd card via your charging cable. Then click on apk and install. Enjoy !!!
BTW your MEID is on a label under the battery !!!
jimzweb1 said:
You might try installing this app it find/gives all the hidden info on your device http://forum.xda-developers.com/not.../app-one-click-hotspot-enabler-menus-t2816159 it will give you APN's MEID AND IMEI . All you have to do is download to your PC, it my download as a zip file. Just use 7zip and rename it to an apk, then copy and paste it to your internal sd card via your charging cable. Then click on apk and install. Enjoy !!!
BTW your MEID is on a label under the battery !!!
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Hi Jim/XDA
I'm still not able to connect to the network. Regarding the IMEI on the back part i know its there however what im saying is that im not able to see my imei through command when i dial *#06#
i as well had this errors today when i woke up:
: LTE:ESM-x EMM-14(ive seen this error when this issue started but it dissapeared and it came back know)
data roaming: you have lost data connectivity because you left your home network with data roaming turned off.
On mobile networks i remember i use to be able to select many(GSM,CDMA,etc) now in network mode i only see 2 options LTE/CDMA,CDMA. Currently LTE/CDMA is selected and if you just look at the network mode option without actually opening it it shows CDMA/LTE/EVDO.
Also when i opened the SCRTN it shows on black screen.
I tried to do some minor changes on Galaxy tools like the SIM UICC UNLOCK all mps,sales,default code on XAS. Factory & keystring ON. MSL/SPC show 222222.
After i did SIM UICC UNLOCK and restarted phone know took away all errors but i see the signal bars faded out and with a little red x on top of it. I've read the manual but im still wondering if there might still be things to set on a particular way that are not specified on it Can you please help me set this up properly?
XDAGeorge305 said:
Hi Jim/XDA
I'm still not able to connect to the network. Regarding the IMEI on the back part i know its there however what im saying is that im not able to see my imei through command when i dial *#06#
i as well had this errors today when i woke up:
: LTE:ESM-x EMM-14(ive seen this error when this issue started but it dissapeared and it came back know)
data roaming: you have lost data connectivity because you left your home network with data roaming turned off.
On mobile networks i remember i use to be able to select many(GSM,CDMA,etc) now in network mode i only see 2 options LTE/CDMA,CDMA. Currently LTE/CDMA is selected and if you just look at the network mode option without actually opening it it shows CDMA/LTE/EVDO.
Also when i opened the SCRTN it shows on black screen.
I tried to do some minor changes on Galaxy tools like the SIM UICC UNLOCK all mps,sales,default code on XAS. Factory & keystring ON. MSL/SPC show 222222.
After i did SIM UICC UNLOCK and restarted phone know took away all errors but i see the signal bars faded out and with a little red x on top of it. I've read the manual but im still wondering if there might still be things to set on a particular way that are not specified on it Can you please help me set this up properly?
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Is this a Sprint variant? If so, you shouldn't have factory reset the phone. It looked like the phone was previously flashed to MetroPCS and by resetting the phone, it removed all the carrier data.
You will have to reflash the phone to get it working again.
nature954 said:
Is this a Sprint variant? If so, you shouldn't have factory reset the phone. It looked like the phone was previously flashed to MetroPCS and by resetting the phone, it removed all the carrier data.
You will have to reflash the phone to get it working again.
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Is there a tutorial i could follow here ?
I greatly appreciate your help,
Regards
George
Hey guys, for those who need to edit an APN (Access Point Names), there is a little secret.
Go Settings, and scroll down the list. You will find a search box. Type there Access Piont Names and here it is.
The steps above are neccesary, since APN setting is hidden.
Obligatory - This is my first post here, please go easy on me. If this is the wrong section please point me where I need to go.
Okay, I have been having issues getting IMS registration (for att) on my N20U (unbranded) Snapdragon. This is an issue because I don't receive most calls without VoLTE, and the service I am using is actually FirstNet. (An at&t service that provides priority cell tower access for first responders.) Who is also dropping legacy 3G and analogue calling at the end of the year.
The FN sim I was given would not change the network CSC to ATT like it should have in order to work properly.
I was able to get to the manual CSC change menu through the dialer code with a TFW-att sim card (yes, while on oneUI 3.0). I suppose the menu is locked out when other csc's are active.
This allowed me to force change to ATT's csc, then place my FN sim in the phone. The kicker? I had to toggle "do not auto update CSC based on sim data" in the menu to get this method to stick.
Things are grand, working fine, but i got curious as to what options the other csc's had to offer. So i start flipping through the list and end up landing on.....you guessed it..... XAA.
Without thinking about it, i ran it, the phone rebooted, and now im screwed. Flashed the ATT rom with Odin- no change. Factory reset? No change. I messed up BIG.
Finale / TLDR
If you didn't get what just happened there, I used a specific sim card to enable a CSC a menu that uncle sammy does not want you playing with. Proceeded to disable auto CSC changing by SIM, then walked back into a CSC that does not allow me to open said menu. Thus preventing my phone from working fully on ANY NETWORK ever again. With root impossible...
Side notes that failed: Tried fac reset/ tried firmware flash/ tried samkey (no android 11 support)/ tried force change from network side. I hope im not out of options?
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