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Does anyone know how to remove the message about sim card is needed to operate phone on lock screen.
I am back on stock ruu but rooted and use cdma with no sim.
I it was removed with flashed rom but i am back to stock now.
Thanks
Well, I went back to Newt's rom. I figtured out the ottrbox was causing my issue with the screen going black. I took the phone out of the ottrbox and it not doing the same as before. I don't see how to delete this thread.
Hi All,
I have an HTC Desire 601 phone that won't connect to a network service. This phone is a side project I've been working on. I replaced the screen and digitizer (the screen was shattered). I also unlocked the phone with a SIM unlock code.
Now, no matter what SIM card I input, it won't connect to a network. I've checked that the IMEI number is not blacklisted (it is not). It registers a sim card is inserted, but won't connect to a network -> I receive the error "SIM card doesn't allow a connection to this network"...every once in a while I'll also get a random "ME returned a temporary error".
I've attempted manually and automatically connecting to a network, but to no avail. I've manually input APN's for different providers, but still nothing. I've basically tried everything that was offered on XDA for other phones with a similar problem but didn't get any positive results.
The phone was previously locked to virgin mobile. I have a couple of theories as to what could be wrong but I'm not sure (I'm newbie when it comes to cell ware and its software, I just like to take things apart and put them back together etc.). One theory is that the unlocking wasn't complete in some form; not sure how though, considering it no longer asks me to input an unlocking code when i insert a different SIM card (i used a Koodo sim card). The other theory I had was the antenna, which I've read is often located in the SIM card slot (or in this case the frame), is damaged (the phone fell and had a shattered screen).
I no longer have a warranty on the phone, so I can't just send it back to replace (plus I like solving problems). I like XDA forums because they helped me flash my ROM on my samsung (after it completed a faulty upgrade and was stuck on download mode). I was wondering if anyone knows what I could do, from a software perspective, or if I should look into finding antenna replacement? (I don't think the sim card reader is broken as it registers a sim card is in there)
PS. sorry for the essay message, I just wanted to provide as much detail as possible
kb26 said:
Hi All,
I have an HTC Desire 601 phone that won't connect to a network service. This phone is a side project I've been working on. I replaced the screen and digitizer (the screen was shattered). I also unlocked the phone with a SIM unlock code.
Now, no matter what SIM card I input, it won't connect to a network. I've checked that the IMEI number is not blacklisted (it is not). It registers a sim card is inserted, but won't connect to a network -> I receive the error "SIM card doesn't allow a connection to this network"...every once in a while I'll also get a random "ME returned a temporary error".
I've attempted manually and automatically connecting to a network, but to no avail. I've manually input APN's for different providers, but still nothing. I've basically tried everything that was offered on XDA for other phones with a similar problem but didn't get any positive results.
The phone was previously locked to virgin mobile. I have a couple of theories as to what could be wrong but I'm not sure (I'm newbie when it comes to cell ware and its software, I just like to take things apart and put them back together etc.). One theory is that the unlocking wasn't complete in some form; not sure how though, considering it no longer asks me to input an unlocking code when i insert a different SIM card (i used a Koodo sim card). The other theory I had was the antenna, which I've read is often located in the SIM card slot (or in this case the frame), is damaged (the phone fell and had a shattered screen).
I no longer have a warranty on the phone, so I can't just send it back to replace (plus I like solving problems). I like XDA forums because they helped me flash my ROM on my samsung (after it completed a faulty upgrade and was stuck on download mode). I was wondering if anyone knows what I could do, from a software perspective, or if I should look into finding antenna replacement? (I don't think the sim card reader is broken as it registers a sim card is in there)
PS. sorry for the essay message, I just wanted to provide as much detail as possible
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Before investing in some hardware, did you tried a factory reset? Maybe flashing a RUU to set back your phone to 100% stock (this doesn't remove the sim-unlock) could help. If the problem persist after flashing a RUU then yes its probably an hardware problem, its hard to tell what exactly.
alray said:
Before investing in some hardware, did you tried a factory reset? Maybe flashing a RUU to set back your phone to 100% stock (this doesn't remove the sim-unlock) could help. If the problem persist after flashing a RUU then yes its probably an hardware problem, its hard to tell what exactly.
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I've definitely tried a factory reset, but that didn't work. I haven't flashed the RUU. To be honest, I"m not sure what the RUU is. Is it related to the ROM (I've flashed the ROM on another phone)?
kb26 said:
I've definitely tried a factory reset, but that didn't work. I haven't flashed the RUU. To be honest, I"m not sure what the RUU is. Is it related to the ROM (I've flashed the ROM on another phone)?
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A RUU will restore the original firmware and software on your phone like if it was brand new. If the problem persist after flashing a ruu, its most likely an hardware problem. I have posted a few RUU in the general section, maybe there is one that fit on your phone. Check link in my signature.
alray said:
A RUU will restore the original firmware and software on your phone like if it was brand new. If the problem persist after flashing a ruu, its most likely an hardware problem. I have posted a few RUU in the general section, maybe there is one that fit on your phone. Check link in my signature.
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Ok, so I've looked for an RUU that matches my model (details below) but I can't find anything (I'm probably looking in the wrong place):
Android version: 4.4.2
Sense: 5.5
Software: 2.14.666.15
SDK APi: 5.69
Can I use an RUU that's close like the one below?(from your thread link)
2.14.666.3 (Bell Mobility) Android 4.4 Sense 5.5
Link: androidfilehost.com/?fid=24052804347841561.......etc.
md5: 1aca3dad753c01ce7b1d7c676316f28f
kb26 said:
Can I use an RUU that's close like the one below?(from your thread link)
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This is already explained in the "important notes" section of that thread...
my phone HTC Desire 601 with IMEI : 990004284248766 has no Mobile Network or Network mode icon. How could I do?
So, I've had a lot of problems with my phone lately, including a semi-brick for a while. After all this mess, I had to do re-partition, fix WiFi and stuff like that.
Recently, my only problem was no service after inserting SIM card in CM12 (basic stock ROM using Nubia Tools, repartition using official 2.03 ROM from NeedRom & finally CM12 for Nubia Z7 Mini from NeedRom). SIM card was fine but there was no service, I've tried re-inserting it, I've tried different SIM cards etc.
The issue went like this: phone crashed and "turned off" after inserting SIM card. It wasn't really off - Windows was detecting it as several storage disks (?), and it was heating up after a while. Long press of a Power Button made it reboot to system and it was running fine, but only without SIM card. SIM card made it freeze, heat up and the issue was happening all over again.
Currently, I've tried to fix that by flashing latest Resurrection Remix. Now, phone is stuck at "emergency calls only" - it tries to find service but without any luck. I've read that it might be an issue with bootloader - that there is some script that is trying to run, making it unable for the SIM card to grab service. The phone is really heating up with SIM card in it, but it definitely detects it and it tries to find service without any luck.
Maybe flashing only modem would do? But I can't find it anywhere.
What can I do to fix it? IMEI numbers are fine, on their right place.
Hello! I have an ATT version.
I was having trouble updating to android pie because I'm out of the states so I was using Firmware.science; at one point I decided to jump and flash the BJ5 with odin, the flashing was taking forever, at one point it seemed like it was stucked so I decided to only flash the AP file, I worked, then afterwards I decided to flash the BL, CP and CSC Files. I flashed all 4 files for the android pie build.
My problem is that ever since I updated to pie, I never have full bars of signal, the last one is never filled. I tried with another sim card from another carrier and the problem remains. I updated from the first build to the february build to the march build today and the problem persists. I can take calls, make calls, my mobile internet, I'm not so sure, It's been a little slow. I don't know if this is a bug? I'm thinking about downgrading to oreo, I'm not sure if this is possible, is anyone else having the same issue?
Edit: I tried wiping cache, (with every update the phone factory resets so there's no point for a factory reset), taking my sim card in and out but the issue persists. I don't know what to do.
Pigoath said:
Hello! I have an ATT version.
I was having trouble updating to android pie because I'm out of the states so I was using Firmware.science; at one point I decided to jump and flash the BJ5 with odin, the flashing was taking forever, at one point it seemed like it was stucked so I decided to only flash the AP file, I worked, then afterwards I decided to flash the BL, CP and CSC Files. I flashed all 4 files for the android pie build.
My problem is that ever since I updated to pie, I never have full bars of signal, the last one is never filled. I tried with another sim card from another carrier and the problem remains. I updated from the first build to the february build to the march build today and the problem persists. I can take calls, make calls, my mobile internet, I'm not so sure, It's been a little slow. I don't know if this is a bug? I'm thinking about downgrading to oreo, I'm not sure if this is possible, is anyone else having the same issue?
Edit: I tried wiping cache, (with every update the phone factory resets so there's no point for a factory reset), taking my sim card in and out but the issue persists. I don't know what to do.
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I would just flash the home tar in AP. Uncheck Auto reboot. after the flash is complete ,use button combo to access recovery. Then it will update your firmware for you
I'll give it a try but this reception issue is getting annoying.
If you get almost full bars (all but the very last one at the top end) that is still pretty good. If your having issues you can try factory data resetting the phone or else call AT&T and see if there is an issue in the area.
Truth be told the bars are just a convenient visual aid. If anything you should look at the signal strength.
Under settings > about phone > sim card status is an entry called signal strength. If I recall correctly somewhere around 105 to 115 dBm is pretty good. Mine is at that range (108 to 110 dBm) with tmobile and I have almost full bars (very top one is not lit).
Also if your baseband version contains the number 4 (start at the end as first character and count 5 characters to the left) then you will not be able to downgrade to oreo. The 5th character from the end (counting inwards) is the bootloader version. You can only flash firmware with the same bootloader version or higher. Attempts to flash a bootloader version lower then what is on your phone now will always fail.
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If you get almost full bars (all but the very last one at the top end) that is still pretty good. If your having issues you can try factory data resetting the phone or else call AT&T and see if there is an issue in the area.
Truth be told the bars are just a convenient visual aid. If anything you should look at the signal strength.
Under settings > about phone > sim card status is an entry called signal strength. If I recall correctly somewhere around 105 to 115 dBm is pretty good. Mine is at that range (108 to 110 dBm) with tmobile and I have almost full bars (very top one is not lit).
Also if your baseband version contains the number 4 (start at the end as first character and count 5 characters to the left) then you will not be able to downgrade to oreo. The 5th character from the end (counting inwards) is the bootloader version. You can only flash firmware with the same bootloader version or higher. Attempts to flash a bootloader version lower then what is on your phone now will always fail.
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Well, I'm screwed then because I do have the number 4 and the last number is a 7. I'm on the march update, I might take it to Samsung so that they can check it out. I'll try to reflash with Odin.
I have been at this issue since Saturday and gone through a lot of possible solutions but to no avail. So first of all i am in Ghana. A friend came to me with his s6 edge that he had some issues with his phone going off when he unplugs the charger and getting stuck in a bootloop when turning it on unless he plugs a charger in before it boots up fully(even with full charge)
So first of all he wanted to do a factory reset(phone was not rooted). Factory reset completed successfully but issue still persisted.
Specs of the phone was:
android 5.0.2
model number = SM-G925F
original csc (i wasnt able to note that down because downloading stock firmware was going to be the last ultimate weapon. first i was going to try some custom roms to see if it fixed the issue. Besides it was working fine here in Ghana.)
So that's when i flashed a twrp and i dont exactly remember but i think i might have tried to flash a lineage OS or something. But long story short, when u try booting up, the samsung galaxy edge screen with powered by android came on and stayed there. and it did not go on to boot up.
After trying through the night i then decided to use the ultimate tool and flash a stock firmware. Try as i might none of them got past the "Repartition Operation Failed" portion of flashing it. The Pit File was becoming an issue. Tried firmwares for my country, countries nearer to us, contries in africa and finally even european firmwares. And since from reading from here and other forums that the F variant was an international version the international pit files should work but they werent.
All this while whenever i go to Odin Download mode on the phone, the product name there was SM-G925D. This started the confusion because at that point i had looked through alot of firmware and that was not an option. When i searched google for that, the search results mostly correlated it to SC-04G, which looking at it was a Japanese firmware. I didnt want to use a japanese Firmware for obvious reasons. At least i wanted a firmware that was by default in English. But after about 2 days and seeing a lot of answers saying stuff about going to settings and checking stuff there plus me wanting to see an interface and work my way from there i succumbed.
And lo and behold, it flashed on the first try(i used the 4-part files firmware. It was android 7.0). But when it came to booting up, the splash screen had changed from samsung bla bla bla powered by android to NTT DOCOMO powered by android. But it booted up and i skipped through the setup. i had to change the language to english but there were a lot of japanese bloatware that came with it. But as i expected when i popped a sim card into it, and restarted the phone, there was the not available symbol(circle with a bar across) where the network bars were supposed to be.
Seeing that this was not going to do, i went to the settings this time to check on any important details and this were the new details
android version 7.0(January, 2018)
model number=SC-04G
build number was now SC0.....(cant write the full code as im currently in odin mode)
But obviously it was the japanese network. After this i have downloaded more firmwares and they all fail at "Setting PIT...Re-Partition failed". Somtimes i try to mix the 4 files up using maybe the CSC portion of the Japanese firmware but BL, CP, and AP of firmware from my region. This time the error is "sboot.bin failed".
And that has been my grind till now. Downloading likely firmwares and all failing to doing extremes like the mix and match. When the mix and match with BL, CP, and CSC of Japanese with AP of my region works and eventually boots up, there is no touch input. The touch does not work. When that happens i just have to start all over with the SC-04G, which never fails to work.
I have even seen some things about changing csc files in the file explorer with root so i flashed the Japanese FW and rooted it. Went through the processes but to no avail.
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The first part of the Odin screen where you choose to continue or reboot is now completely in Japanese whiles it was formerly in English.
And there is no indication on the phone itself that it was from Japan. The back says Samsung and below it says Galaxy s6 edge. Friend bought it from a shop in Ghana here brand new.(not from a carrier)
****So here lies my confusion. How come a phone with an original model number of SM-G925F have a Product name of SM-G925D in Odin and hence only Flash Japanese Firmware SC-04G(CSC code = DCM) but would not flash any of the international variants. Even if i can eventually get the Japanese firmware to read the sim card we can manage it that way. But thats for when there are no options left.
So please i would like to know your ideas as to how this is happening and any possible solutions that might be different from what my batallion of open tabs are telling me. You can also let me know if you want any more details i might not have included. Looking forward to hearing from you guys.
Update On Issue
I ended up using the japanese firmware in the end because it wasnt picking anything else.
This time after the setup process, it picked up the sim card and the imei is available. So since network is now available i just rooted it with cf autoroot and removed the japanese bloatware and everything looks normal now.
Except the original issue of going off randomly whn power cable is pulled out even when having full charge.
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