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[Q] Unlocking Captivate - AFTER RESTORING TO STOCK ROM FROM COGNITION

Hi...
I just bought a USED samsung captivate from Craigslist and was working on getting the phone network unlocked so I can use it on TMO's network.
The previous owner restored it to Stock ROM. I rooted and downloaded SGS Unlock App from the market (same process as my Samsung Vibrant).
However, is I ran the app, it said file/directory not found. I'm assuming this is the file where the unlock codes were originally stored.
Any other way I can unlock this phone? I searched the forum and didn't find anything.
Thank you

Pay for site where you send them the phone info and they search their db's. Unfortunately when the phone is upgraded to froyo or higher, its built in the the unlock code file is encrypted. I spouse you could send the sgs unlocker devs a message and inquire about an update...

Find galaxy s one click unlocker on xda (Google) its has a .bat file which will grab the encrypted code. Be sure to thank you him them for providing the awesome program
There's also an app that's been reported to work. Called galaxy unlocker, I've used the one click and it worked for me, that's if you or anyone else has never messed with the original NV_data file. Good luck
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Out of curiosity how much did you pay for your captivate and what condition is it in
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You're probably going to want this: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.helroz.galaxysunlock&feature=search_result
It's based off the method I used back in October 2010 when we got our Froyo beta leak. Should work just fine.

[Q] Samsung Galaxy S Captivate

I have a Samsung Galaxy Captivate 2.3.5 gingerbread Rooted and UNlocked. It happens I got this phone for free. I currently have phones on Open Mobile Puerto Rico. I talked and researched and I'm still a noob someone just told me to sell the phone. I keep trying and I got MCC/MNC codes and bands. I dont know if I could use this phone on a cdma network.

You can't as the phone is a GSM phone...

Well i just thougt that maybee i could use another firmware for it like the samsung showcase
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What?!?
10CHAR

Ok at least i tried
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chasama said:
Well i just thougt that maybee i could use another firmware for it like the samsung showcase
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No GSM UMTS doesn't work with Open Mobile. (Sprint's phones might). Nothing you can do will make it run. Your in luck, Captivate sells anywhere from $130-$180 in PR use Clasificadosonline.com GL
Edit: Yes Spring phones use same freq as Open. Regardless you need Open Mobile to activate it for you.

How did you get GB 3.2.5 to root?
chasama said:
I have a Samsung Galaxy Captivate 2.3.5 gingerbread Rooted and UNlocked. It happens I got this phone for free. I currently have phones on Open Mobile Puerto Rico. I talked and researched and I'm still a noob someone just told me to sell the phone. I keep trying and I got MCC/MNC codes and bands. I dont know if I could use this phone on a cdma network.
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What did you use to root GB 3.2.5? I am having one heck of a time.

tolls101 said:
What did you use to root GB 3.2.5? I am having one heck of a time.
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It's not nice to hijack other peoples threads with new, unrelated questions.
Plenty of threads on how to do it:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1444382
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1479932
Down and dirty:
Flash corn kernel with ODIN
Reboot to recovery
Find install root in menu
Install root
Reboot
You can then flash back to stock kernel or stay on corn

"This SIM Card is from an unknown source."

I updated the ROM to the most recent ICS leak and inserted my SIM card. When in either GSM or Global mode, the phone will respond with "This SIM card is from an unknown source." Is there any way to fix this? I'm on AT&T in the US.

beepboopbeep said:
I updated the ROM to the most recent ICS leak and inserted my SIM card. When in either GSM or Global mode, the phone will respond with "This SIM card is from an unknown source." Is there any way to fix this? I'm on AT&T in the US.
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This phone will not work on US GSM frequencies, only abroad.
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I thought it was compatible with US GSM frequencies since its a quad-band radio. This website refers to the Radiocomm hack to use AT&T (see Android Community's article "Motorola Droid 4, Razr, and Bionic modded for AT&T and T-Mobile") and the resource on Droid-Forums implies that the Radiocomm hack isn't even necessary after upgrading to ICS ("Finally! GSM Droid 4 Works!"). Is there something I'm missing?
edit: I can't post links, so woops! You'll have to search for those things instead I guess.

beepboopbeep said:
I thought it was compatible with US GSM frequencies since its a quad-band radio. This website refers to the Radiocomm hack to use AT&T (see Android Community's article "Motorola Droid 4, Razr, and Bionic modded for AT&T and T-Mobile") and the resource on Droid-Forums implies that the Radiocomm hack isn't even necessary after upgrading to ICS ("Finally! GSM Droid 4 Works!"). Is there something I'm missing?
edit: I can't post links, so woops! You'll have to search for those things instead I guess.
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I know what you talk about.
GSM is unlocked in ICS for abroad GSM carriers, but it's not working for US GSM. For US GSM you still need to go and use radiocomm patch.

olegfusion said:
I know what you talk about.
GSM is unlocked in ICS for abroad GSM carriers, but it's not working for US GSM. For US GSM you still need to go and use radiocomm patch.
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I used Radiocomm to check my NV value and it matches what the patch would be setting. I'm still not able to use my AT&T SIM. Has anyone encountered this before?

beepboopbeep said:
I used Radiocomm to check my NV value and it matches what the patch would be setting. I'm still not able to use my AT&T SIM. Has anyone encountered this before?
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Verizon is obviously blocking access to US GSM networks. This has been reported previously on the ICS leaks. You are out of luck for now unless someone figures out how to patch this.

But I got the same message with my australian sim...
I rooted, installed safestrap and then CM9 with the setting "telephony.lteOnCdmaDevice" set to "0" in the build.prop. After that I had much better GSM-reception and the message didn't show up anymore.

In build.prop there is the following string: ro.telephony.gsm-routes-us-smsc. Could that be the limiting factor? Maybe try change to 0?

That only affects sending of SMSs. If you're not in the US, and not using Verizon's SIM, yes you should set it to 0.
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I haven't had any luck from modifying the build.prop file. Running logcat -b radio shows me that CDMA stuff is going on when I'm in CDMA mode (whodathunkit) and GSM is happening when I'm in GSM mode. Is there a guide on how to interface with the radio directly (or, well, through linux or adb) so that I can figure out what the radio is picking up? It might not be seeing the AT&T signal at all. If only I could see what AT+COPS=? returns.

Could someone post their build.prop for the latest leak? Mine was accidentally saved while deleting some line. I don't want to reboot the device for fear of some kind of mishap. If you like outside the US and have your GSM edits included, that would be greatly appreciated

highlandsun said:
That only affects sending of SMSs. If you're not in the US, and not using Verizon's SIM, yes you should set it to 0.
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hi, i'm not understand where i need to set is zero. pls explain. Now i have the problem " Sim card is from unknown source" and mobile network data is not working. my droid is RAZR HD verizon but i using in out of us.
thanks

beepboopbeep said:
I haven't had any luck from modifying the build.prop file. Running logcat -b radio shows me that CDMA stuff is going on when I'm in CDMA mode (whodathunkit) and GSM is happening when I'm in GSM mode. Is there a guide on how to interface with the radio directly (or, well, through linux or adb) so that I can figure out what the radio is picking up? It might not be seeing the AT&T signal at all. If only I could see what AT+COPS=? returns.
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I keep having this error on most roms I flash

kswynn said:
hi, i'm not understand where i need to set is zero. pls explain. Now i have the problem " Sim card is from unknown source" and mobile network data is not working. my droid is RAZR HD verizon but i using in out of us.
thanks
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Hi mate. Find"build prop editor" in play store, install and run the app and search for the string you want to change. Rest is easy.
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[29.12] Official STOCK firmware collection for Galaxy S4 (Sprint/SPH-L720)

[size=+1] Here you can find all stock firmwares for Sprint's version of Galaxy S 4 (SPH-L720) superphone![/size]
I decided to make this thread one to rule them all, instead of posting every firmware in separate thread. Others, please stick into this one, don't make mess on forums.
Latest Firmware Releases (Sorted by Changelist):
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Build Date: 16.11.2013 -> Region: SPR (U.S. (Spint)) PDA: L720VPUEMK2 Changelist: 1927016 Android: 4.3 -> Get it @ You know where
Build Date: 25.06.2013 -> Region: SPR (U.S. (Spint)) PDA: L720VPUAMF9 Changelist: 953334 Android: 4.2.2 -> Get it @ You know where
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You will be able to get all the versions as soon as Samsung releases it at SPH-L720 Firmware Collection Page from You know who
Enjoy!
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Wow... I'm impressed. Sprint doesn't even have these yet so I'm very curious how these were pulled.

We got beat to the punch
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Now if we could get a NO–DATA version..... :thumbup::thumbup:
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What is the difference between xas and spr as region?
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Good god this is a huge rom -_-

amwworks said:
Now if we could get a NO–DATA version..... :thumbup::thumbup:
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Team SXTP is working on that
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musclehead84 said:
What is the difference between xas and spr as region?
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Wondering the Same. I downloaded the SPR. Not sure if thats the right one.

I am pretty sure they are the same. I downloaded them both and they have the same size, date and md5.
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Could i just flash this through odin?

Yes, you can.

Thanks
Thanks, I like having it all in one place.

So, it looks like everything here except will flash in heimdall except system.img.ext4. Gives an error after 4%:
Code:
ERROR: Failed to confirm end of file transfer sequence!
ERROR: SYSTEM upload failed!
Any ideas on what is causing this? Haven't tried with ODIN, since I'm on OSX and don't have a virtual Windows machine setup for this.

Here is a mirror: http://storagecow.tk/index.php?dir=Xda/Galaxy+S4/Sprint+S4/Stock+Odin/

Very nice

My sister bought it from SPRINT US, and her friend help her to unlock it but he failed, i don't know what did he do?
And now she gave it to me for unlock, i'm surfing on the internet and i found this topic http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=2282683
i'm trying to unlock it, but when enter *#0011# this service mode appear, but no information display .
After that i'm checked her phone, I seen IMEI NULL, and BASEBAND UNKNOW, i know it used Qualcomm Chip, because i see the word "Qualcomm 4G" on the jack 3.5mm
I downloaded this firmware and restore but it's still IMEI NULL and BASEBAND UNKNOW...please help me, how i can fix it

I have added US Galaxy S 4 firmware pages to my website. In addition to the full stock firmware, I also mirror the OTA update ZIPs. Each time there's an OTA, I'll need someone to pull the OTA file from /cache or, better yet, check your adb logcat and see if the direct URL to the file is in there. Thanks! http://randomphantasmagoria.com/firmware/galaxy-s4

Thread updated Enjoy!

will520 said:
My sister bought it from SPRINT US, and her friend help her to unlock it but he failed, i don't know what did he do?
And now she gave it to me for unlock, i'm surfing on the internet and i found this topic http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=2282683
i'm trying to unlock it, but when enter *#0011# this service mode appear, but no information display .
After that i'm checked her phone, I seen IMEI NULL, and BASEBAND UNKNOW, i know it used Qualcomm Chip, because i see the word "Qualcomm 4G" on the jack 3.5mm
I downloaded this firmware and restore but it's still IMEI NULL and BASEBAND UNKNOW...please help me, how i can fix it
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Hello, i have the same problem.how fix it. i have riffbox, gpgjtag, medusabox, ORT, octopus, Z3X, SPT.

[Q] Droid 3 solana CM10.1 "No Service"

Hi,
I flashed my droid 3 with the current CM10.1 ROM and it's working... Except for the SIM card.
It's plain not recognizing the sim. No calls, no SMS, no data.
I couldn't find anywhere how to fix nor even how to debug it.
I'm pretty new to android flashing but have extensive experience as Linux sysadmin (15+ years), so any hint about how to debug it would be very welcomed.
Any hints?
( Ahh, I'm in Brazil, using GSM)
Thanks in advance,
Leon

Hi,
Try to find the library libmoto_ril.so from the stock rom at /system/lib, and replace it. You should get signal, but until now, I'm not aware of anyone that made 3g work on JB Roms with GSM networks.
Also replace the line:
ro.telephony.default_network=3
On the default build.prop it is 7 (for CDMA).
Hope this helps.
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Hey, I am having the same problem on my droid 3 cm 10.1 installation. I live in Australia and my droid 3 is a Verizon one. I did what you said and then it doesnt boot but stays stuck on the loading screen. I even tried Hashcode's GSM patch and still remains stuck. Any Ideas.
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i hope this one help you http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1989359

CDMA network is not working
Hi guys,
I recently purchased unlocked Motorola Droid 3 Verizon. But on this phone CDMA sim does not work, GSM working correctly. I need solution....