hi all,
when i first got my galaxy s it was locked to Orange (UK Network) and i unlocked the phone to be used on any network, and have been happily using it for well over half a year, i also attempted to flash the F1 SG2 Rom, however, there wasnt enough space on the partition so i flashed the phone back to XXJVQ (which i had on the phone before trying to install the F1 ROM) however, now my phone doesn't recognise the SIM that i put in, im wondering if the flash had anything to do with it or if the phone has locked itself. i have been researching around and some people have said that its something to do with efs or IMEI, i have no clue what that means but its sounds important, they also say that you need backups of these and that they contain phone files, however, if they were important there would be more emphasis placed on backing them up...
anyone who has had the same issue or someone who knows whats going on please help. everything else works fine, so is there a way to get my phone to read the SIM again without risking totally bricking the whole thing??
an (easy to understand) guide on how to fix this would be much appreciated...
thank you.......
flash a new modem file.. cause u may have corrupted your modem while flashing.. if that does not work change kernel( helped me once)..
Ive rooted it. If i flash something else wont it remove the root. Alsp which 1??
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GalaxySN00B:0 said:
Ive rooted it. If i flash something else wont it remove the root. Alsp which 1??
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Flash a kernel with root........ There's plenty in the development thread. You could also flash a new modem. Very simple.
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Kk. Ill try but i alreadt flashed a kernel in order to aquore root. Wouldnt it just be the same thing if i flash a new ? Thanks for reply though...
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Your imei is the code that identifies your phone. Look in settings, about phone, status.
Have you tried reflashing your rom?
If all else fails, i would recommend a flash of jm9 with odin. Files can be found at samfirmware.com. It's got me out of some deep black holes in the past!
Don't stress too much mate, there's been plenty of times that my phone hasn't recognised my sim when flashing cm7.
Reflash your rom, if that doesn't work, flash jm9, and most of all, relax.
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Worth trying the simple things, take out sim, clean and reinsert, this has worked for me in the past, and when you do get going again get sgs toolbox and with that you can make a back up of your efs folder, check your imei against the label on box that phone came in
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slaphead20 said:
Worth trying the simple things, take out sim, clean and reinsert, this has worked for me in the past, and when you do get going again get sgs toolbox and with that you can make a back up of your efs folder, check your imei against the label on box that phone came in
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Hi slappy, probably best to use nitrality for efs backup, no?
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woolf clubs said:
Hi slappy, probably best to use nitrality for efs backup, no?
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Very true! My bad lol
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Damn. Threw the box away is the IMEI specific to each individual phone?
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Thanks 4 the encouragement. Ill try flashing that 2mrw...
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woolf clubs said:
Your imei is the code that identifies your phone. Look in settings, about phone, status.
Have you tried reflashing your rom?
If all else fails, i would recommend a flash of jm9 with odin. Files can be found at samfirmware.com. It's got me out of some deep black holes in the past!
Don't stress too much mate, there's been plenty of times that my phone hasn't recognised my sim when flashing cm7.
Reflash your rom, if that doesn't work, flash jm9, and most of all, relax.
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Theres only 1 thing. Im running Gingerbread w.e.r XXJVQ not Froyo. :0 will flashing this help?
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Jm9 helps everything - trust me.
When you flash a rom with odin it completely wipes your phone. The process of getting cm7 2.3.4 on your phone involves flashing back to froyo or eclair first.
You seem hesitant, if you're worried, i suggest you spend a few days reading up. Try the sticky on rooting/flashing in the development section.
P. S. There's a thanks button at the bottom of every post.
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GalaxySN00B:0 said:
Damn. Threw the box away is the IMEI specific to each individual phone?
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Yep. Will probably be with your original paperwork though.
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hey,
i have an issue, i fear i may have bricked my phone, thou i cant be sure!
It gets stuck on the galaxy s screen when you first turn it on, thou i can still hear the start up sounds.
any ideas on how i can fix it, though i have tried the factory reset, no luck!
i tryed to use Odin, though i dont know how to use it very well!
cheers,
madkid21
Mind at least telling us what the heck you did before this happened?
It would REALLY help us in diagonising your problem, you know.
heh i suppose it would wouldnt it!
I installed the battery icon mod..
Madkid21
How did you try odin? I think that should have done the job.
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well i looked at it and thought wtf, how i use this **** lol,
any chance you can explain how to use it, i got it recognise the phone but thats it!
i put phone into download mode, could you explain how i can fix with it?
thanks,
madkid21
Have you downloaded an official ROM?
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not yet, im not sure where to get it from! lol
i only had the phone like a month or 2, and i broke it but got it replaced under the warrenty lol
so where can i get a offical rom from?
There are lot of ROMs on samfirmware.com and guides on how to flash them. You need an account though.
Have you even flashed a ROM before?
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i have flashed rom on a HTC Hero before, which was my old phone, but not on this phone, dunno how different its gonna be!
madkid21
Check samfirmware.com, it will help you (a lot).
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thanks muchly, i will check back soon when i have attempted to flash it!
madkid21
BTW, you could also check Doc's ROM if you want to use custom rom. I personally use it and its great. It has also some good guides compiled on the first post. I strongly suggest you read the Doc-Froyo.pdf guide in that thread.
Good luck!
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awesome i sorted it!!
thanks for your help mate,
*at least i think i sorted it*
Odd everything is foceclosing on me now, even the main android os!
Madkid21
No problem I assume you have your device working now.
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I have been flashing ROM's for months but it has been forever since i used ODIN to go back to stock. I am wanting to try Cyanogenmod 7 but I want to work out how to go back. I have ODIN3 V1.0 and I know I am to choose repartition option. Since I havent done this in forever, I am not sure what to choose for PDA, Phone, CSC, PIT. Maybe I am using the wrong version. I am assuming I cant use the Odin one click downloader to go back to stock.
I knew all this at one point but it has literally been 4-5 months since I did it so if someone would clarify these points it would help. I REALLY hate to post this question but I simply do not remember.
Thanks.
Odin one click to stock should work if you are build 1009 and lower.
Only if you are trying to get rid of cm7
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I am build 1007. I have looked into this more and it states that I need to check repartition and you cant do that through the ODIN one click downloader that I can find.
I doubt I would got back to other ROM's but I want to have the option and frankly I should know how to do this anyway. Must be getting old or something, they say the memory is the first thing to go....or something like that....cant remember.
Odin one click repartitions
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Odin one click repartitions
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Duh! Thanks.
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mcord11758 said:
Odin one click to stock should work if you are build 1009 and lower.
Only if you are trying to get rid of cm7
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Just for the record, Build 1008, at least in my case, took being one-clicked very poorly. I've used v3 ever since and had no trouble... at least with flashing back to stock. I do use the 1-click to master-clear, however.
How so u flash back to 2.2 from 2.3
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The easiest way is to use Odin One Click to flash back to 2.1 then use Kies mini to update to 2.2
Use TiBu to back up files 1st.
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bornjamerican said:
The easiest way is to use Odin One Click to flash back to 2.1 then use Kies mini to update to 2.2
Use TiBu to back up files 1st.
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i tryed and it soft bricked my phone and i couldnt get into download mode
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i tryed and it soft bricked my phone and i couldnt get into download mode
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You might want to read this.
That is the definitive guide to bricking. You will probably find all the answers you need to get yourself out of that soft brick and to get back to a place where you can get to 2.2.
In theory, according to the guide, as long as you still have the 2.3 bootloaders in place, you should be able to flash a 2.2 rom
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In theory, according to the guide, as long as you still have the 2.3 bootloaders in place, you should be able to flash a 2.2 rom
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Can someone verify this? I'm possibly thinking of flashing back to FF, and if I don't have to revert to the Froyo bootloaders it'll make my decision easier.
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Can someone verify this? I'm possibly thinking of flashing back to FF, and if I don't have to revert to the Froyo bootloaders it'll make my decision easier.
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Yes, GB bootloaders work just fine on Froyo based rom. Just make sure you flash a froyo kernel first, get in recovery (don't boot the phone normally) and flash the 2.2 based rom you want (beside cognition as it flashes the sbl.bin)
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so if i Flash Serendipity will it still work after because i hard bricked my phone flashing GB -> Froyo roms and i ended up having to get an Rma phone
As long as the froyo rom does not flash a secondary boot loader, you should be fine.
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As long as the froyo rom does not flash a secondary boot loader, you should be fine.
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Correct ... To check the rom for a secondary bootloader, open up the zip look in the updates folder if you see "sbl.bin" that would be the secondary bootloader. Don't flash that rom.
Well since infant use .bin files can I just delete that file form the Rom? Or will it get corrupted
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Well since infant use .bin files can I just delete that file form the Rom? Or will it get corrupted
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Yes ... You might also have to go into the script "Meta-inf" and delete the lines about sbl.bin, not sure if it is in the script to flash it individually or just the update folder...but the only rom I know has it is cognition. But I'd still check every rom I was going to flash, better safe than sorry.
Sounds Like a lot of work but ill try
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Ok Im lookibg for sbl.bin in the ron and I don't see it where do I go
Can some one help with this?
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If it's there it'll be in the updates folder. There should only be 3 things in that folder: modem.bin redbend_ua and zImage. If that's all you see you're golden.
ohhh I was looking in the wrong folder
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Ok so if I'm running a 2.2 rom can I flash stock?
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If it's there it'll be in the updates folder. There should only be 3 things in that folder: modem.bin redbend_ua and zImage. If that's all you see you're golden.
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Is it sopose to pop out at me?
U still don't see it. =-O
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Ok so if I'm running a 2.2 rom can I flash stock?
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You can go to stock from anything but a broken phone
mwiz123 said:
Is it sopose to pop out at me?
U still don't see it. =-O
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If you don't see it then it probably isn't there, I think only cognition has it, and dg(the dev of cog) might have taken it out because alot of people bricked because of it.
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You can go to stock from anything but a broken phone
If you don't see it then it probably isn't there, I think only cognition has it, and dg(the dev of cog) might have taken it out because alot of people bricked because of it.
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Ohh ok
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HELP
i think it bricked (hard)
i was flashing stock and my screen turned brown and it was on Factoryreset and i pluged it out and now it dosent want come on please HELP
Every time I Flash A rom I cant connect to any network, I have no signal, nothing. Can some explain to me why this is happening? It just recently started happening. Ive flashed back to stock multiple times and I DO have signal with stock. But when I flash a rom, I lose signal. There is nothing under APN list
Any system apps you are restoring with tibu?
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Any system apps you are restoring with tibu?
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No, I flash a rom and I lose signal, No matter what rom I flash. I dont restore any apps until I have signal and I dont get signal o.o
I wonder what will happen if I flash another modem, whats the best modem(The most used) on the cappy
What does it show under baseband when there's no signal?
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What does it show under baseband when there's no signal?
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It says Unknown
Flash a modem. Jk4 is kind of a standard one for I9000 roms. Look in the modem thread. Also, cm/ics roms use a different install script as regular (stock base) roms. Be sure to get the right one,k or it still won't work.
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patrick8996 said:
It says Unknown
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Well there's your problem! Flash a modem as mrhaley says
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korockinout13 said:
Well there's your problem! Flash a modem as mrhaley says
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Ive flashed a modem it doesnt help, When I go into phone info mostly everything is either N/A Or unknown. I flashed back to stock. I have never ran into this before. I dont know whats causing my phone to do this. I started 2 days ago when my phone randomly started rebooting. So I flashed back to stock(With bl) and now whenever flash a rom everything is unknown.
Whats the standard SGH-i897 modem?
Also this started happening after I started using Devil kernel inside my own roms.
I've had this exact issue before, right after I flashed GB bootloaders I flashed them again and it worked.
On a side note, are you restoring a nandroid?
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korockinout13 said:
I've had this exact issue before, right after I flashed GB bootloaders I flashed them again and it worked.
On a side note, are you restoring a nandroid?
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No I usually flash back to stock before I Flash a new rom Ive already flashed stock 2.3.3 WITH BL and then I flash a kernel with CW and then I flash a rom. Ive never had this problem before. And I dont know how to fix it
Try the KK4 One Click I put together here... http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=18370912
Just curious...what specific Stock package were u flashin back to before? It sounds like that stock package did not contain the default apns...
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Are you flashing the right type of modem? Aosp (cm, MIUI,ics) uses a different install script in the zip. It installs to a different place. Samsung based roms can actually use Odin to flash them, if you make a tar.md5 file for it. If you use the wrong type of install script, it won't work.
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Try the KK4 One Click I put together here... http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=18370912
Just curious...what specific Stock package were u flashin back to before? It sounds like that stock package did not contain the default apns...
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I flashed the I897UCKF1 from that post. Ive flashed my OWN rom, which means I control the modem, It just started doing this, and I am stuck on Stock until I figure out whats doing this. Ive tried multiple modems, Nothing gets and APN or Network operators on either list.
Try starting from the kk4...then flash kk4 corn kernel to get cwm then go from there.
Worth a try.
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Wait, when you open the apn menu, there's nothing there? Try resetting to default apn.
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That was a known bug with the leaked kf1...forgot about that.
Oooor he could stop using the kf1 and go to kk4 when needed
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i am having the same problem. the only rom that ive been able to run that i have signal with is Team Nyx (ICSSGS) RC5, all the others ive tried i get no signal or data. does anyone have any ideas why this is? if you could point me in the right direction it would be greatly appreciated. i don't know too much about the whole process, but i followed the instructions written in the threads, just this one problem...
im sticking with Team Nyx's ROM for now but i would like to be able to run custom ROMs, not just stock ICS. Thanks for any advice.
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Wait, when you open the apn menu, there's nothing there? Try resetting to default apn.
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When I open the menu right now on stock it says the at&t apn. When I flash another rom and check the menu there's nothing. Can you link me to the direct download of kk4 I dont want to Download the wrong one
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=18370912
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=18370912
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Can you also link me the corn kk4 kernel so I know I've got everything
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Hi everyone,
As i stated, I have the gt-p1000n running stock GB 2.3.3
All info is in attached screenshots
My tab has been bricked and resurrected.
My problem is, the network capabilities are gone.
Will not recognize sim, yet will reboot when removed or inserted
I have read previous threads and searched, but the N model is hard to find for.
As i found in other threads, I have tried flashing: JP3 Modem (Gingerbread) 2.3.3 for P1000N by HumerOS but still doesnt work.
Should I flash a different modem.bin?
Will it brick me again?
Any and all help appreciated
Please help........someone.......anyone???
People use the word brick lightly.
You can brick your tab if you flash a Rom made for another device.
Or if the flashing was interrupted when it was writing the bootloader.
There is no way you brick your tab by flashing different modem.
Just go ahead and flash as many modems as you like.
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priyana said:
People use the word brick lightly.
You can brick your tab if you flash a Rom made for another device.
Or if the flashing was interrupted when it was writing the bootloader.
There is no way you brick your tab by flashing different modem.
Just go ahead and flash as many modems as you like.
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Yet again you assist me sir, Thank You!
priyana said:
People use the word brick lightly.
You can brick your tab if you flash a Rom made for another device.
Or if the flashing was interrupted when it was writing the bootloader.
There is no way you brick your tab by flashing different modem.
Just go ahead and flash as many modems as you like.
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Ok, so I flashed all of the GB modems from here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1069727
No change
Have tried other SIM cards?
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Tried two. I can tty to get a few more.
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Try checking the rotohammer carrier unlock guide in my signature.
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Try checking the rotohammer carrier unlock guide in my signature.
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Will try, thanks!!
Ok So i think i know what the problem is. When I checked the IMEI using *#06# it showed a different number than the number on the back casing. I think they (repair shop) might have changed my IMEI after JTAG??
Also, EFS backup shows different IMEI (same as in *#06#) and Serial number than on unit.
Suggestions?
the IMEI you posted earlier looks legit.
Could they have changed the back cover of your unit or the motherboard?
Usually, flashing a stock ROM from Samsung using Odin will restore your IMEI.
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the IMEI you posted earlier looks legit.
Could they have changed the back cover of your unit or the motherboard?
Usually, flashing a stock ROM from Samsung using Odin will restore your IMEI.
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I cant say for sure about the MB, but I doubt they would replace the MB for free. The back cover is mine. There are distinct markings on it that I confirm it.
Now I remember, I also had this problem. My IMEI was also changed after flashing a ROM and I lost my network service, I think it was a CM nightly as well. I remember just getting the next nightly and it was fixed.
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geno93n0 said:
Now I remember, I also had this problem. My IMEI was also changed after flashing a ROM and I lost my network service, I think it was a CM nightly as well. I remember just getting the next nightly and it was fixed.
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Right now the Tab is stock Froyo with the exception of being rooted. No Custom recovery yet and no ROM. I'm trying to fix the issue at hand first (already solved one problem).
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Right now the Tab is stock Froyo with the exception of being rooted. No Custom recovery yet and no ROM. I'm trying to fix the issue at hand first (already solved one problem).
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Yeah, what I'm saying is that maybe flashing a new ROM might solve it. I don't think you've got anything to lose now, right?
Ok so as the screenshot shows I have a new nightly Rom, updated and all, yet the IMEI is the same (not the correct one), and the S/N changed yet again to a different number.
Im lost
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