Hi,
I had a bricked G1 due to wrong radio update.
Got it restored from a repair shop using JTAG. Now when i am checking the IMEI number is showing all zero - 0000000000000
Due to this I am unable to connect to any mobile network. Can this be restored as I have the number on the Box which i received with the Mobile phone.
Will it again need opening the phone or I can do it myself ?
Regards,
Chinmay
After the JTAG Recovery, I was facing this problem, so I also tried flashing the radio and the factory rom but does not solve the issue.
chinmayfun said:
Hi,
I had a bricked G1 due to wrong radio update.
Got it restored from a repair shop using JTAG. Now when i am checking the IMEI number is showing all zero - 0000000000000
Due to this I am unable to connect to any mobile network. Can this be restored as I have the number on the Box which i received with the Mobile phone.
Will it again need opening the phone or I can do it myself ?
Regards,
Chinmay
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Does anyone have any solution ? Can JTAG solve this ?
Whoever did the work was a complete moron and wrote to parts of the flash that should NOT BE TOUCHED.
Technically, it is possible to repair.
Haven't heard of anybody with this exact problem before, so it is uncharted territory.
IMEI Number got Reset
Take it back to the guy who did the jtag unbricking.
He should be able to put your IMEI number back.
Please note a "How to change the IMEI" Faq could be used for ilegal purposes.
Hence it is against the forum rules to explain how to do this.
Hi Thanks for the solution.
I am not changing my IMEI number, just restoring the original one so this should not be illegal.
This post can be blocked if it is against the forum rules. I don`t intend to do anything illegal.
vladmaster99 said:
Take it back to the guy who did the jtag unbricking.
He should be able to put your IMEI number back.
Please note a "How to change the IMEI" Faq could be used for ilegal purposes.
Hence it is against the forum rules to explain how to do this.
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chinmayfun said:
Hi Thanks for the solution.
I am not changing my IMEI number, just restoring the original one so this should not be illegal.
This post can be blocked if it is against the forum rules. I don`t intend to do anything illegal.
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Like most knowledge, it can be used for good or evil. There would be no reason to close or delete this thread, since nobody here suggested doing anything evil and your question is totally reasonable. The main issue with being up the technical details about changing the IMEI would be that it could be used to ENABLE people to use it for evil purposes. That is why vlad mentioned about why there isn't and shouldn't be a set of instructions about it.
Got the IMEI number restored. Mobile Network is up now.
The guy who did the JTAGG Recovery mistakenly did IMEI repair is what he said.
Now its fine.
chinmayfun said:
Got the IMEI number restored. Mobile Network is up now.
The guy who did the JTAGG Recovery mistakenly did IMEI repair is what he said.
Now its fine.
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where to contact for restoration of imei no.
pls help
Imei repair
sorry to bump an old thread, i do imei repair and ONLY restore to original imei number.
Related
can anyone tell me how to repair imei in Samsung SGH-I897
i dont know how it changed to 0049******* imei so plz help me out
Did you back up your EFS folder? If you did there is a simple fix, just inserting the efs folder back into the phone.
If you didn't, it will be more difficult. Search the forum. there are threads already out there that explain how to work on this.
If the method of the thread doesn't work you can send it out to Mobiletechvideos.com Josh can rebuild IMEI
Offers help in repairing the IMEI. If your Imei begins sated go 0049 .. write to me.
Repair IMEI for Captivate without backup of EFS's files
cvxcvx said:
Offers help in repairing the IMEI. If your Imei begins sated go 0049 .. write to me.
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Please, I need your help about how repair my imei now with 0049...
Thanks...
Joe :good:
Hello, i have one piece galaxy note with me that shows IMEI unknown BAseband version unknown when i check in about phone section...when i insert simcard it shows circle on top and no network....i tried flashing with N7000JPKK2_XSG_Android_2.3.6 which is just one file but still problem...help
Check /efs?
Atrix_E said:
Check /efs?
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Well, i did some research on efs and i didnt back it up since this piece was brought to me after losing imei, baseband etc.
Can i still back it up and restore it?
who can help ???????????????
andrew21 said:
Well, i did some research on efs and i didnt back it up since this piece was brought to me after losing imei, baseband etc.
Can i still back it up and restore it?
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You took the phone after losing imei and with no backup of efs folder.So how can u restore it?Only samsung service can do it
liliu said:
who can help ???????????????
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on what?
Sent from my GT-N7000 using Tapatalk
liliu said:
who can help ???????????????
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http://forum.samdroid.net/f70/repair-imei-s2-5729/
I think there is hope for you guys. I once had the same problem with my sgs2 and I searched everywhere... Until I found someone that send me a efs tar file... I told the guy it wouldn't work cause I tried everything... And I had to flash it with odin in the pda section... It totally solved the problem! I don't know where I found that guy but if you just search the net a bit longer, yoi could find it. Just search for efs tar file. It gives you another imei number so be carefull... It's forbidden in some countries...but yeah...
I also found some answers if I typed "baseband unknown galaxy note" in google. About somesort of tool...
Good luck!
Grts
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I think there is hope for you guys. I once had the same problem with my sgs2 and I searched everywhere... Until I found someone that send me a efs tar file... I told the guy it wouldn't work cause I tried everything... And I had to flash it with odin in the pda section... It totally solved the problem! I don't know where I found that guy but if you just search the net a bit longer, yoi could find it. Just search for efs tar file. It gives you another imei number so be carefull... It's forbidden in some countries...but yeah...
I also found some answers if I typed "baseband unknown galaxy note" in google. About somesort of tool...
Good luck!
Grts
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Please, can I contact with you? I really need those files for fixing my phone...
You're original imei is specific to the phone and registered with Samsung and the network. If it's corrupted and you have no backup, there is no one who can restore it except samsung. You can create a new imei, but it's illegal and of no use at all. Don't get ripped off by people claiming they can restore your original imei, it's just not possible.
Sent from my GT-N7000 using xda premium
Have you tried flashing a 3 file gb firmware in odin? That always worked for me in the sgs1 days, if it does work get that efs folder backed up immediately
Sent from my GT-N7000 using Tapatalk 2
EDIT: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=17587351&postcount=1
I Want N7000XXLPY Efs Image Please Urgent
do not share your efs with him, it contains imei for your device only...
If this guy didnt do a efs backup of mint factory condition, to bad...
Only Samsung or cvxcvx can fix it for you!
N7000 repair IMEI "Unknown", Baseband "Unknown", Serial "Unknown"
Please, if anyone can upload EFS.bin readed from N7000 for NSPRO
I want try repair EMEI, Baseband, Serial...
Thanks
sloper said:
Please, if anyone can upload EFS.bin readed from N7000 for NSPRO
I want try repair EMEI, Baseband, Serial...
Thanks
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Read the post before yours. It's not possible to do it because of the unique IMEI. If you do not have your old one (written on a sticker inside your device) then there will be not solution.
Dear all,
My moto x' IMEI got invalid after having a repair process. May I flash the raw valid imei to the device ?
You know I have my own valid IMEI number
If a repair shop messed it up, they should fix it.
You can try flashing your devices exact firmware... Same Android version and see if it fixes it.
Other than that, any talk of manually manipulating your imei is mostly illegal and definitely not discussed on XDA. ?
ibigbug said:
Dear all,
My moto x' IMEI got invalid after having a repair process. May I flash the raw valid imei to the device ?
You know I have my own valid IMEI number
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No hardware "repair" will just result in you to loose your IMEI it would have screwed up more! And if its a result of a software "repair" it is almost cuz of mismatched partitions, so flashing the whole firmware for your device should help to correct the issue!! If the repair guy has the "tools/power" to mess up your IMEI he should definitely have the ability to restore it back... Other than that changing IMEIs is ILLEGAL is almost ALL COUNTRIES and against XDA Rules!
Darth said:
If a repair shop messed it up, they should fix it.
You can try flashing your devices exact firmware... Same Android version and see if it fixes it.
Other than that, any talk of manually manipulating your imei is mostly illegal and definitely not discussed on XDA. ?
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He just replaced my logic board I think
Gundabolu SC said:
No hardware "repair" will just result in you to loose your IMEI it would have screwed up more! And if its a result of a software "repair" it is almost cuz of mismatched partitions, so flashing the whole firmware for your device should help to correct the issue!! If the repair guy has the "tools/power" to mess up your IMEI he should definitely have the ability to restore it back... Other than that changing IMEIs is ILLEGAL is almost ALL COUNTRIES and against XDA Rules!
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The guy replaced my mother board, in fact I don't where the new board comes from.
Any way my phone worked but IMEI lost
ibigbug said:
The guy replaced my mother board, in fact I don't where the new board comes from.
Any way my phone worked but IMEI lost
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IMEI is generic to the Mother board it is pre programmed into it... So if you have lost the IMEI that means the repair guy gave you a faulty motherboard... You should catch hold of him... U dont have signal right?
Gundabolu SC said:
IMEI is generic to the Mother board it is pre programmed into it... So if you have lost the IMEI that means the repair guy gave you a faulty motherboard... You should catch hold of him... U dont have signal right?
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As I know, nv550 stores the IMEI info, but it is read only now. Anyone knows how to write it again ?
ibigbug said:
As I know, nv550 stores the IMEI info, but it is read only now. Anyone knows how to write it again ?
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Nope there is NO way... Sorry...
ibigbug said:
As I know, nv550 stores the IMEI info, but it is read only now. Anyone knows how to write it again ?
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The xt925 was the last moto you could mod the imei on.
Hello XDAs,
After reading that Forum with much enthusiasm for a few...well...years, i got my first question.
I hope you can help me with a big problem on my g800f: I can´t register in network.
When I search for network it pops up a few results, but if choose one to register, it says "Can´t register. Try again later."
I did a few hours of research and found out it might have something to do with my IMEI (Note: till that day i did nothing to my phone, except cf-autoroot. But never faced any problems!).
So I checked my IMEI and it wasnt the original, it was changed to 350695200123951. So I googled a bit and realised it might have something to do with the efs-partition. Googled for solutions.
Found out it might help to flash a Stock-Rom, one with three parts, via odin so i did it. Everything worked fine, but my IMEI still was the different one.
I was a bit irritated so i searched for that IMEI. And there are a few threads (some in russian and arabian), also owners of a g800f, which also reported this problem: They did nothing, but sudddenly the IMEI changed to this number. One author tells he received a myserious call from the ukraine after this happened. He didnt answer it. I am quite sure i also received that call- I didnt answer it either.
So i googled even mre: "How to restore a damaged efs-partition, without backup?" I came to one very outdated guide which wanted me to delete the efs (after saving it on externalSD) and do a few mysetrious actions...
Well, i just realised i cant fully delete the efs, its not possible and i also cant apply my backup from external sd. Anyone knowing a solution for this?
But, the most important, how can i bring my g800f back into mobile network?
Or just: How can i get away from that cursed IMEI?
Any Ideas?
P.S. If you got any questions regarding technical details of my phone(CSC, AP, Kernel, Modems), just ask. I´ll answer.
P.P.S I´m excusing for that horrible english. I googled the entire night and i´m german.
LukiRe said:
Hello XDAs,
After reading that Forum with much enthusiasm for a few...well...years, i got my first question.
I hope you can help me with a big problem on my g800f: I can´t register in network.
When I search for network it pops up a few results, but if choose one to register, it says "Can´t register. Try again later."
I did a few hours of research and found out it might have something to do with my IMEI (Note: till that day i did nothing to my phone, except cf-autoroot. But never faced any problems!).
So I checked my IMEI and it wasnt the original, it was changed to 350695200123951. So I googled a bit and realised it might have something to do with the efs-partition. Googled for solutions.
Found out it might help to flash a Stock-Rom, one with three parts, via odin so i did it. Everything worked fine, but my IMEI still was the different one.
I was a bit irritated so i searched for that IMEI. And there are a few threads (some in russian and arabian), also owners of a g800f, which also reported this problem: They did nothing, but sudddenly the IMEI changed to this number. One author tells he received a myserious call from the ukraine after this happened. He didnt answer it. I am quite sure i also received that call- I didnt answer it either.
So i googled even mre: "How to restore a damaged efs-partition, without backup?" I came to one very outdated guide which wanted me to delete the efs (after saving it on externalSD) and do a few mysetrious actions...
Well, i just realised i cant fully delete the efs, its not possible and i also cant apply my backup from external sd. Anyone knowing a solution for this?
But, the most important, how can i bring my g800f back into mobile network?
Or just: How can i get away from that cursed IMEI?
Any Ideas?
P.S. If you got any questions regarding technical details of my phone(CSC, AP, Kernel, Modems), just ask. I´ll answer.
P.P.S I´m excusing for that horrible english. I googled the entire night and i´m german.
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I´ve just seen this problem being reported i a different thread. Guess the problem will be discussed there?
Hi All,
Did any one actually get a fix for this issue as I have exactly the same problem, my SM-G800F IMEI now also shows as - IMEI 350695200123951-01 which is for a blacklisted NOKIA 6310. If anyone can supply an absolute beginners guide for me as to how I can get my original Imei back that would be fantastic.
I am just a user of an android phone and have zilch experience of tinkering with them.
I have seen reference to things like Odin and flashing firmware and am quite happy to give it a go myself and learn
I will post this on a few other threads that list the same issue as I am desperate to get this fixed now as is a waste of a perfectly good phone !!
Cheers.
SM-G800F, can't register in network
Hello,
I have exactly the same problem. Since some month I got the message "can´t register in network". After checking all, I found that my SM-G800F IMEI has changed to a NOKIA 6300 IMEI.
If anyone knows a fix for this issue (set back to the orignal IMEI) , it would be great. All apps which I could find didn't work (XPOSED IMEI Changer Pro , Mobile Uncle Tools App, MTK Technikmodus... ), are not supporting S5mini.
I don't have a backup of the original system EFS file.
Would be great when one could help.
Regards
Chris
@S5miniChris somewhere in XDA I read that restoring the original stock (multiple part) firmware might or did help.
Gotta do it in Odin (recommended to use an older version like 3.09).
bmwdroid said:
@S5miniChris somewhere in XDA I read that restoring the original stock (multiple part) firmware might or did help.
Gotta do it in Odin (recommended to use an older version like 3.09).
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Thanks for your reply.
I have installed the original stock firmware. But it did not change the IMEI. Available for my model is only the single file " G800FXXU1CRG3_G800FDBT1CRE1_G800FXXU1CRG3_HOME.tar.md5"
Multible file firmware I couldn't find.
A manual modification of the IMEI should be possible with " Best smart Tolls " e.g. : BSTPRO 4.03 . But for the software a dongle is requiered. To purchase this is for one time use too expensive for me
Regards
Chris
S5miniChris said:
Thanks for your reply.
I have installed the original stock firmware. But it did not change the IMEI. Available for my model is only the single file " G800FXXU1CRG3_G800FDBT1CRE1_G800FXXU1CRG3_HOME.tar.md5"
Multible file firmware I couldn't find.
A manual modification of the IMEI should be possible with " Best smart Tolls " e.g. : BSTPRO 4.03 . But for the software a dongle is requiered. To purchase this is for one time use too expensive for me
Regards
Chris
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Where from did you get the stock?
Samfirm_reborn tool already tried?
https://github.com/ivanmeler/SamFirm_Reborn/releases
Checking "binary nature" or "factory mode" downloads a multiple part rom.
Edit:
Checked tool and it's working.
bmwdroid said:
Where from did you get the stock?
Samfirm_reborn tool already tried?
Checking "binary nature" or "factory mode" downloads a multiple part rom.
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Checked tool and it's working.
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I flashed now also with " binary nature " firmware downloaded with SamFim. The IMEI is still the same, it hasn't changed to the orginal IMEI.
I really can't believe that a firmware update will flash the E2PROM where the IMEI is stored. Therfor the orginal IMEI must be stocked some where
in the phone and by flashing transfered to the E2PROM.
Regards
Here i crossflash 409n to 405ebw but my imei no is 00 i have no any backup of modem or qcn or efs to restore imei i also tried original kdz of 409n but same problem any solution to get out from here?
You need someone's modem EFS/QCN backup file. They need to have the exact same version phone you have
tiguy99 said:
You need someone's modem EFS/QCN backup file. They need to have the exact same version phone you have
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That way, he could steal someone else's imei? What?
AsItLies said:
That way, he could steal someone else's imei? What?
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Lol didn't think of that!
Perhaps the person can alter their file and remove their IMEI number or make it all 9s.
He can open the file and edit it with his real IMEI (assuming he has his box or the real number written somewhere)
tiguy99 said:
Lol didn't think of that!
Perhaps the person can alter their file and remove their IMEI number or make it all 9s.
He can open the file and edit it with his real IMEI (assuming he has his box or the real number written somewhere)
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but see that's the thing, I'm pretty sure he doesn't have it. If he did it would be simple to edit the ftm partition, which has worked for others. But there's really nothing u can do if u don't have it.
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but see that's the thing, I'm pretty sure he doesn't have it. If he did it would be simple to edit the ftm partition, which has worked for others. But there's really nothing u can do if u don't have it.
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That absolutely makes sense!
When shopping for mine, I noticed some of these V40s have their IMEI #s printed on the back.
Would be very silly (and lucky) if the O.P lucked out, had an IMEI printed on the bottom and overlooked it.
Otherwise, I'm wondering if he can somehow talk with someone at his phone provider tech support and see if they can share the number of the last phone that connected to their service.
Pretty sure if he catches the right person, they may share his V40's IMEI after he successfully identifies himself
tiguy99 said:
That absolutely makes sense!
When shopping for mine, I noticed some of these V40s have their IMEI #s printed on the back.
Would be very silly (and lucky) if the O.P lucked out, had an IMEI printed on the bottom and overlooked it.
Otherwise, I'm wondering if he can somehow talk with someone at his phone provider tech support and see if they can share the number of the last phone that connected to their service.
Pretty sure if he catches the right person, they may share his V40's IMEI after he successfully identifies himself
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would be more effective to direct your comment to him, I don't have the issue.
tiguy99 said:
You need someone's modem EFS/QCN backup file. They need to have the exact same version phone you have
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Sucessfully backup of Qcn from Qfil and edit in hex editor change imei no save and flash flash sucessful but imei no is same
Sherzaman Khan said:
Sucessfully backup of Qcn from Qfil and edit in hex editor change imei no save and flash flash sucessful but imei no is same
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I had this problem back in the LG G2 days, had trouble with my EFS too but was able to recover. Sounds like something is off and is not coming through from your EFS backup.
If you search my screen name you'll find an old thread I made about it from years ago. Hopefully the steps will be similar and can be helpful to you.