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Here's the story. I upgraded to the new HTC ROM via the download from their website. I performed a Sprite backup prior to doing this and then restored after it was complete. Upon restoring and restarting it prompted me for my usual pin password (required by my company when we setup push email). I entered it in and...Incorrect password. Tried again...incorrect password. Tried anything else I could think of and...incorrect password. Nothing seems to work. Does it revert to some sort of default? Or am I SOL and need to hard reset and start from scratch?
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chrisdeaner said:
Here's the story. I upgraded to the new HTC ROM via the download from their website. I performed a Sprite backup prior to doing this and then restored after it was complete. Upon restoring and restarting it prompted me for my usual pin password (required by my company when we setup push email). I entered it in and...Incorrect password. Tried again...incorrect password. Tried anything else I could think of and...incorrect password. Nothing seems to work. Does it revert to some sort of default? Or am I SOL and need to hard reset and start from scratch?
Thanks...
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and i thought it was the story of my life. i just got my 2nd replacement tilt! i think my problem is the old phone had the new rom and the replacement has the old. i can't find the new rom update on htc's website!
guyin916 said:
and i thought it was the story of my life. i just got my 2nd replacement tilt! i think my problem is the old phone had the new rom and the replacement has the old. i can't find the new rom update on htc's website!
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Did you check my site? I have quite a few of the "untouched" roms there.
Roms/Untouched Roms
Link in my sig
Problem Solved haha! After you update the ROM, actually setup a PIN password (what it was before). Then, when you do the Sprite backup it will all work just fine. Only issue I had was getting my theme to work but it's all good now!
P1Tater said:
Did you check my site? I have quite a few of the "untouched" roms there.
Roms/Untouched Roms
Link in my sig
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your sig doesn't really tell me much what to expect on your site. i just see "check out my **** face" or something like that on the button/banner. your sig should include what to expect on your site.
Everybody pretty much knows his and atw's sigs link to a couple of the most useful ftps out there, and on the FAQ you can clearly see they're both linked to FTPs
Hi,
what options did you use for the restore(after upgrading to 6.1):
corrupted registry controls?(checked?)
merge/replace ?
merging or fusion(translated from french) Level 1/2/3 ?
restore databases?
thanks in advance
best regards
I made the easiest mistake. I had lots of bloatware, so wanted to a generic rom. Had been using the phone for about 3 weeks.
Coming too my 4th android smartphone, previous all rooted, this was easily enough to flash.
Then I forgot. NOOOOOO!! All my data had been deleted!!! I didn't uncheck no to delete data in flashtool and I hadn't yet backed up my phone.
So, I tried to find out out to recover internal memory. I found out cannot be done.
I thought, OH well I will reluctantly have to unlock bootloader/root my phone to use software to recover my important photos and some data.
I did service info check. My bootloader cannot be unlocked!! wtf !!
So now am I literally screwed from every angle. Please can someone help.
Thx
davestuarts said:
I made the easiest mistake. I had lots of bloatware, so wanted to a generic rom. Had been using the phone for about 3 weeks.
Coming too my 4th android smartphone, previous all rooted, this was easily enough to flash.
Then I forgot. NOOOOOO!! All my data had been deleted!!! I didn't uncheck no to delete data in flashtool and I hadn't yet backed up my phone.
So, I tried to find out out to recover internal memory. I found out cannot be done.
I thought, OH well I will reluctantly have to unlock bootloader/root my phone to use software to recover my important photos and some data.
I did service info check. My bootloader cannot be unlocked!! wtf !!
So now am I literally screwed from every angle. Please can someone help.
Thx
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Is the phone still recognized by PC Companion? If so, does it let you do a software repair?
degraaff said:
Is the phone still recognized by PC Companion? If so, does it let you do a software repair?
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The phone functions ok. I only flashed latest official less bloated rom. It is still recognised by PC companion, but I don't see a repair option. Maybe because I did flash manually with flash tool or unless you mean 'Backup/Restore' option? I did not do that
At them moment, I am not writing installing any apps or taking any photos, so it wont overwrite onto memory. I'm still looking for a solution.
I can't believe my bootloader cannot be unlocked
thanks for the suggestion..anything more you can think off?
Anybody ?
I haven't tried this so not sure if it will work but you can try a software like Recuva on your PC. Good call on not overwriting more data...hope you get your data back!
Hi All
I have messed up with my phone while ting to install 6.0
My imei is gone to 04.
Tried flashing original ftf and doesn't seem to get fixed. Will it be possible for someone to share their efs backup?
You can send me a PM if do not want to share openly.
Thank you z3 compact community.
Anyone please? I am without network for few days now, Thanks!
abrarabbu said:
Hi All
I have messed up with my phone while ting to install 6.0
My imei is gone to 04.
Tried flashing original ftf and doesn't seem to get fixed. Will it be possible for someone to share their efs backup?
You can send me a PM if do not want to share openly.
Thank you z3 compact community.
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I had a similar problem with my Xperia X8 and Xperia PLAY back in the days. Try repairing the software using newest PC Companion.
I don't know if applying someone else's EFS backup is a good idea.
You cant use someone else's backup akaik.
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IMEI gone? Didn't you backup TA before unlocking the phone?
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That is the reason I am asking, If I had my backup I wouldn't have requested for the data.
Please, I can give you my efs backup if someone knows how to fix it. Thank you All,
feherneoh said:
We can't do anything, we don't have Sony's private keys
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This is my first Sony phone, before I was a Samsung user, I recall that once similar thing happened to S5 user, Community helped him and one of the members had given his backup. I would have done that if someone is in need.
So, say I restore a backup from some other phone, will my phone get bricked?
Thank you Z3C Community
feherneoh said:
No, but you will use the other phone's IMEI, and that's illegal
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No two phones will have same IMEI
When you put same IMEI in phone and connect it to network, it goes from XX123 to XX123 / 1 and etc for all multiple ones,
I am with XDA for years and I know when things are actual illegal.
Anyways my phone is unusable and will go back to Samsung if I cannot get any backup as I have tried flashing multiple times and it seems like it cannot get fixed and this is the only way I can think of
Thanks All!
Anyone?
feherneoh said:
Noone wants to ban his/her phone
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See my Post 11
It wont ban your phone
after installing the baseband.img and radio.img from this thread:
[ROM] [Stock-Debloated][6.0.1][MMB29K][08/12/15][Layers]Rooted-Deoxeded-Fast & Stable
i am receiving a 'no sim' message when setting up a new rom. if i do a restore from a backup, it loads up fine, but i get the slash through the 4g bars in the notification area and under 'about phone' it shows 'unknown' baseband info.
any comments or helpful suggestions?
sybert said:
after installing the baseband.img and radio.img from this thread:
[ROM] [Stock-Debloated][6.0.1][MMB29K][08/12/15][Layers]Rooted-Deoxeded-Fast & Stable
i am receiving a 'no sim' message when setting up a new rom. if i do a restore from a backup, it loads up fine, but i get the slash through the 4g bars in the notification area and under 'about phone' it shows 'unknown' baseband info.
any comments or helpful suggestions?
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in case anyone runs across this... my /efs partition has become corrupted. this means the phone is basically a tablet now. ordered a new phone. lesson learned... back up the /efs partition!
No Sim
sybert said:
in case anyone runs across this... my /efs partition has become corrupted. this means the phone is basically a tablet now. ordered a new phone. lesson learned... back up the /efs partition!
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I'm having a similar problem (i.e. no sim but I did not install the radio you linked to) but I had a backup of my efs partition as part of my nandroid. I tried restoring everything (including efs) and still have a no sim. I've tried other sim cards and the same thing. I also tried putting some tape on the back of the sim slot to tighten it up to ensure that contact is being made but that didn't help either.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks.
-con
sybert said:
in case anyone runs across this... my /efs partition has become corrupted. this means the phone is basically a tablet now. ordered a new phone. lesson learned... back up the /efs partition!
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very strange as /efs is not touched when flashing radios.
(still i NEVER flash radios and/or bootloaders in TWRP)
Droidphilev said:
very strange as /efs is not touched when flashing radios.
(still i NEVER flash radios and/or bootloaders in TWRP)
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that is the only way i had ever flashed bootloaders or radios up until this time. this time i used the NRT to push the bootloader and radio *.img files over to it and a corruption resulted (not blaming the files or wugfresh's tool.. i think this was a freak occurrence....).
con_oner said:
I'm having a similar problem (i.e. no sim but I did not install the radio you linked to) but I had a backup of my efs partition as part of my nandroid. I tried restoring everything (including efs) and still have a no sim. I've tried other sim cards and the same thing. I also tried putting some tape on the back of the sim slot to tighten it up to ensure that contact is being made but that didn't help either.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks.
-con
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i don't believe i can help you much. i already ordered a replacement phone and might try to send this one back to motorola. perhaps it can be fixed for a small repair fee?
sybert said:
that is the only way i had ever flashed bootloaders or radios up until this time. this time i used the NRT to push the bootloader and radio *.img files over to it and a corruption resulted (not blaming the files or wugfresh's tool.. i think this was a freak occurrence....).
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Why don't you download the full stock image from Google, extract the radio and flash it with fastboot? Nothing to loose i guess.
Droidphilev said:
Why don't you download the full stock image from Google, extract the radio and flash it with fastboot? Nothing to loose i guess.
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way ahead of ya.. already reflashed the google image on it and relocked the bootloader. still says 'unknown' under the imei and 'no sim' in the notification panel.
thanks for the suggestions though... would be nice to get 'er working again as something other than a tablet
sybert said:
way ahead of ya.. already reflashed the google image on it and relocked the bootloader. still says 'unknown' under the imei and 'no sim' in the notification panel.
thanks for the suggestions though... would be nice to get 'er working again as something other than a tablet
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is there still a (correct) imei shown in "about phone"?
Droidphilev said:
is there still a (correct) imei shown in "about phone"?
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under 'about phone' i see Baseband version 'unknown'.
under 'status' for IMEI information it shows unknown for imei and imei sv.
pretty weird, huh?
sybert said:
under 'about phone' i see Baseband version 'unknown'.
under 'status' for IMEI information it shows unknown for imei and imei sv.
pretty weird, huh?
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ok, then it's indeed your efs partition.
Droidphilev said:
ok, then it's indeed your efs partition.
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speaking of which, i see a lot of folks saying that twrp backs this up.... i made a backup before i made my changes, but there was no /efs to be found.... any clue where this is?
sybert said:
speaking of which, i see a lot of folks saying that twrp backs this up.... i made a backup before i made my changes, but there was no /efs to be found.... any clue where this is?
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if you don't check/enable the option 'efs' just before backup starts....
I backed up my efs, then restored it and still have this problem. Thoughts?
-con
con_oner said:
I backed up my efs, then restored it and still have this problem. Thoughts?
-con
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Did you back it up before your issues?
zelendel said:
Did you back it up before your issues?
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Yes. I have multiple EFS backups prior to the issue and restoring them doesn't help. I still have a no sim card message.
Thanks in advance for any help.
-con
I was able to solve my problem. Although I had a backup of my efs partition restoring wasn't helping. This time I mounted system and firmware (both were unchecked when I entered the mount settings in twrp) then restored efs. This time it worked and I got my imei/basband back.
I just thought I would let others know just in case it could help.
Thanks.
-con
con_oner said:
I was able to solve my problem. Although I had a backup of my efs partition restoring wasn't helping. This time I mounted system and firmware (both were unchecked when I entered the mount settings in twrp) then restored efs. This time it worked and I got my imei/basband back.
I just thought I would let others know just in case it could help.
Thanks.
-con
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Wow, one of the very little people that also let others know that a problem is solved and how it is solved! thank you!
thanks for the info, this seems to be the exact issue my device was having, i'm just going to return mine since it's new and i never unlocked the bootloader or anything (device was like this out of the box) at least now i know i probably couldn't fix it since it never worked so i have no backups from a working state.
sybert said:
after installing the baseband.img and radio.img from this thread:
[ROM] [Stock-Debloated][6.0.1][MMB29K][08/12/15][Layers]Rooted-Deoxeded-Fast & Stable
i am receiving a 'no sim' message when setting up a new rom. if i do a restore from a backup, it loads up fine, but i get the slash through the 4g bars in the notification area and under 'about phone' it shows 'unknown' baseband info.
any comments or helpful suggestions?
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ive learned my lesson not flash any radio or bootloader on twrp last time i did that i hard bricked my phone good thing my still under warranty my phone got replace with no cost for me, but anyways try to call ur carrier n tell them ur sim does not recognize ur phone, hope thats the only causing the problem
I have wiped my efs file and cannot make calls or receive emails. can someone let me have a copy of the efs folder for the above. thanks SM-N950F
If they did that your phone would be using their phone's IMEI, as that is stored in the EFS partition.
Instead, I would recommend searching for a repair guide as I have run across those, and they will help you fix your own EFS and restore the phone's true IMEI so there's no funny business going on. I can use my Google-Fu skills for you after work if you are not able to find what you need on your own.
Kalm_Traveler said:
If they did that your phone would be using their phone's IMEI, as that is stored in the EFS partition.
Instead, I would recommend searching for a repair guide as I have run across those, and they will help you fix your own EFS and restore the phone's true IMEI so there's no funny business going on. I can use my Google-Fu skills for you after work if you are not able to find what you need on your own.
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that would help a lot. thanks .
reservation31 said:
that would help a lot. thanks .
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I have sorted it . the problem was connected to wrong csc file . I'm on o2 I flashed csc for t mobile. thanks