Hey everyone, I'm hoping someone is able to point me in the right direction.
I have an S9 Plus with TWRP installed and DevBase v5.9 as the ROM. I have made two backups using TWRP, one from when I first got the phone and a more recent one (within the last week).
When I first got the phone I removed a lot of the bloatware that came with it (Samsung stuff and other junk). After using the phone for a while I realized I needed to keep a couple of the Samsung apps, mostly Samsung Themes and Galaxy Apps (to keep other Samsung Apps up to date). This is where the problems first began.
I restored the backup I made when I first got the phone because I didn't remove any of the bloatware. The backup restored without any problems, I started updating apps, getting it back to the way I had it and noticed I didn't have any reception. I tried to make a phone call and it displayed an error "Not registered on network". I thought something went wrong during the restore, so I tried to restore the phone with the more recent backup I had. That, too, gave me the same message. I checked the IMEI number it was displaying 0000000000000/01. Definitely not my IMEI.
I tried my SIM card in another phone and it worked without any problem. I tried my partners SIM card in my phone and it displayed the same 0000000000000/01 IMEI. I downloaded the latest stock firmware for the phone in an attempt to try and get it back to normal, however, even on stock android it displays 0000000000000/01 IMEI.
So I'm in a sticky situation at the moment. Is there any way to recover from this problem?
cocachris89 said:
I tried my SIM card in another phone and it worked without any problem. I tried my partners SIM card in my phone and it displayed the same 0000000000000/01 IMEI. I downloaded the latest stock firmware for the phone in an attempt to try and get it back to normal, however, even on stock android it displays 0000000000000/01 IMEI.
So I'm in a sticky situation at the moment. Is there any way to recover from this problem?
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Same here +1. Anyone has solution to this ? Please help ... I'm stuck in this since last month.
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Hello
I just ran into the no SIM detected problem many people already had. This happened after having flashed Pount ROM CM 11, after which I tried to restore my stock ROM backup with no success. I also get signal.
I did some lookup, and it seems most of the time the obvious symptom is the loss of the IMEI.
However my IMEI is fine. My baseband is also correct. I tried restoring the whole "efs" folder which I had backed up a few months ago, but still no go.
Which other options do I have? I'd gladly read some other thread but I could not find any other similar situation - maybe because most of the time the IMEI is loss.
Can I get some help? Thanks!
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Hello
I just ran into the no SIM detected problem many people already had. This happened after having flashed Pount ROM CM 11, after which I tried to restore my stock ROM backup with no success. I also get signal.
I did some lookup, and it seems most of the time the obvious symptom is the loss of the IMEI.
However my IMEI is fine. My baseband is also correct. I tried restoring the whole "efs" folder which I had backed up a few months ago, but still no go.
Which other options do I have? I'd gladly read some other thread but I could not find any other similar situation - maybe because most of the time the IMEI is loss.
Can I get some help? Thanks!
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I'll just answer myself as I kept on investigating and it may help somebody observing the same symptoms: the SIM card was simply dead. Yay, my I9100 is back on track :victory:
Couple days ago when I was at work, my Z ultra suddenly lost the signal after I left it on the table for a few minutes.
At first, I thought it's just a random issue with the network and I rebooted the phone immediately.
But that doesn't solve the issue. So on my way back home, I did a full nand backup and restore the phone to the backup I made right after I flashed the rom I was using at the time. No luck. Then I switched between couple of nand backup I had on my sdcard and neither one of them worked. So i figured maybe I should use the flashtool to flash a stock rom back in.
Went back home and fired up flashtool and tried the following ftfs
C6802_14.2.A.0.290_Generic ME.ftf
C6833_14.1.b.2.257_euro-lte.ftf
C6802_14.3.A.0.757_UA_1276-6784.ftf
Still no luck.
However, in the settings app -> About phone -> Status
it actually showed me the Signal strength, and my phone number, which should rule out the possibility that the sim card reader is broken or there's any issue with the SIM card itself.
Tried searching for service providers and it would just keep showing me "searching..........."
Now I'm officially out of option besides taking it to one of sony's authorized repair center.
But I give my last hope to XDA.
Do you guys think this is a hardware issue since after trying three ftfs yet they all failed to solve this issue?
and do you guys have any suggestions on what to do next?
P.S. I have a C6802, and I was on .757 rooted when the problem occurred. And the IMEI is still there.
Hi guys,
A month ago my phone got stuck on Samsung's bootscreen (I was using CM10.2). I tried to restore a nandroid backup but the recovery wasn't able to mount /data, so I had to restore my phone via odin flashing official firmware. Then /efs was corrupted so I lost my IMEI (0049...), therefore I wasn't able to connect to the mobile network (no calls, no data connection...) and I hadn't a backup for that (yes, really dumb). Yesterday I took it to a repair service from a mobile store (definitely not the official one) and they restored my old IMEI number, as I can check it comparing the one behind my battery and the one shown dialing *#06#. But it still doesn't connect to the network, only emergency calls. When I try to call, it displays a message that says that it isn't registered in the network, and if try to register it manually, a toast notification displays saying that it's registered but another one in the notification bar says that the network it's not available.
Things that I've already done without success:
- Back up and restore /efs (kTool).
- Flash CM10.2.
- Flash official firmware.
- Tried with other's SIM (mine works fine in other phones).
Any thoughts? clues? anything that cross your minds? I need to bring my S3 back to life and I don't really know where to begin the research (I googled like hell, though).
I'll appreciate any contribution (even if it's just a description of how network connecting works at low level, codes to check, etc),
Thank you (and please forgive my poor english).
Try patched modern and kernel, if that doesn't work then take it back to your repair store.
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Try patched modern and kernel, if that doesn't work then take it back to your repair store.
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Thank you for the quick response, I'll give it a try right now!
EDIT: It worked, thank you!!
I'll explain for others. I had CM10.2 before repairing it following the instructions of boomboomer. I've downloaded the firmware I9300XXUGMK6 from here and flashed it with Odin v3.04. After this, I had to get root again and flash cwm recovery (CF-Root-SGS3-v6.4 with Odin). Then just flashed the two files listed on this post. Now it works again.
Hey guys!
I'm currently getting the "not registered on network error". I have tried any; if not all threads on this issue to no prevail! It started when i flashed my phone to a deodexed version of the stock firmware for my phone.
What i have tried;
Used my simcard in other phone (Works fine)
*#06# brings up the same IMEI string as the one underneath battery
Using another simcard in my phone doesn't work
Used Kies Emergency Recovery to flash my phone back to complete factory reset
The strange thing is, i then thought after my efforts, i've had a hardware failure. But when i scan for my local networks, i see them just fine. Which would presume the antenna is operational. *see attatchment - Screenshot_2015-01-09-02-30-32.png*
Try patched modem and kernel, restore efs backup.
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Try patched modem and kernel, restore efs backup.
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Thanks for the reply.
I think it's on it's way out. The phone is touching 3-4 years old now. One of the first to receive the phone. It seems to be a power issue. I did the above solution yesterday evening which didn't work. However, the phone IS currently working perfectly above 45% battery. Have you ever come accross this issue before?
Is the battery swollen? Try another battery.
Well as the title says.
Just rebooted my s2 and now when I try to do anything it says "insert sim card to access network" imei is fine serials fine and even shows signal bars but soon as try to make a call to drop signal and network completely....
have restored efs folder and even dne a repair.
changed base bands
reflashed new rom
tried different sims(and networks)
and still nothing
Odd that it happened after weeks of being fine and then just did a reboot and then this all happened
any ideas folks as to next move?
please someone must have an idea or two. to offer!
Well looks like I have fixed the issue after many hours of frustration..
Still have no idea what happened to cause issue in first place..
What I did was refresh my original backup
flash original STOCK rom via odin and this seemed to have fixed it. Are there any friggin better loctaion for these files as took 8 hrs to down load the damn thing!?
now re rooted, flash custom rom, flashed custom kernel of choice and than restored back up
everything seems ok(though my imei is incorrect now as says 004999010xxxxxx ,but am concerned it will happen again. Had flashed a modem several days before and updated a few apps . but at time of the issue occuring was just clearing caches then a reboot..