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i bought a used g1 no physical problems took it into a shop and they couldnt find anything wrong with it internally so im guessing its a software issue....dont know if this guy i bought it from tried to mess with root and messed something up but im thinking its some sort of software stuff....can anyone PLEASE help!?!?!?!?! i either get this phone fixed or keep using my nokia that seems like its from 1998 and its killing me!!!!!!
What are the stats of the phone? You can check the versions in the settings\about phone area. Model #, Firmware version, Baseband version, kernel version and build number information would be helpful.
Is it already rooted? If not, you may want to go ahead and start reading up on the root process. Some of the newer builds may or may not help the issue. But if it isn't rooted and you arent getting a signal, it very well may be a network issue. Also, does your phone service have a data plan? Has the phone gone through and passed all of the sign-in procedure? (being from another country, I am not sure what all you have to do to activate your phone) Sim card good?
thats the problem i did a factory reset to input my gmail info and now i cant get past the damn activation screen! ive been through all the customer support through tmo and cant figure anything out!!! im goin crazy
also ive found this webpage http://developer.htc.com/adp.html that has recovery, system and radio images from htc and every time i try one of them it comes up and says no signature or no verification.......not sure what to do
forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=452316
you cant apply those because your phone is not rooted. learn what your doing without randomly flashing everything that can killed your phone. and yes, you can kill your phone permanently flashing the wrong **** (i.e radio/spl)
Hi all,
I'm a complete noob from blackberry.
Got a i9305 last nite, before I left the store it was tested and all and all looked good. Came home and charged the phone and now it won't detect my sim card. Took it back to the store and they won't honor the warranty because they said the phone was jailbreaked. All i did was used the wifi to download some legit apps and plugged it into my mac air to do some file transfer using 'Android Transfer'. The phone cannot even detect IMEI.
I didn't do any jailbreak activities on the phone (at least to my knowledge), so i have no idea why the phone is like this.
Q:
what happened?
What to do now?
What to do to avoid similiar incidents? (Should I backup my 'OS' ? how? -0 knowledge with Android)
Appreciate all your advise.
If you didn't do anything to your phone. Go to setting and in back and reset, restore it to factory which will erase all that was installed.
We don't jailbreak our devices only root and flash custom roms
Or they sold you a bad device and aren't helping you.
Sent from my GT-I9305 using xda premium
Sounds to me like you were sold a bad device. Unless you're omitting something, but you have no reason to do that on the internet so I reckon you were sold a bad device.
QLau said:
Hi all,
I'm a complete noob from blackberry.
Got a i9305 last nite, before I left the store it was tested and all and all looked good. Came home and charged the phone and now it won't detect my sim card. Took it back to the store and they won't honor the warranty because they said the phone was jailbreaked. All i did was used the wifi to download some legit apps and plugged it into my mac air to do some file transfer using 'Android Transfer'. The phone cannot even detect IMEI.
I didn't do any jailbreak activities on the phone (at least to my knowledge), so i have no idea why the phone is like this.
Q:
what happened?
What to do now?
What to do to avoid similiar incidents? (Should I backup my 'OS' ? how? -0 knowledge with Android)
Appreciate all your advise.
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No IMEI you have either been sold a damaged phone or you have flashed stuff on it .
Highly unlikely for a hardware failure a few hours after phone is tested . Why test is it a refurb / used item ???
Return the item to the vendor and ask what has broken the warranty and to show you proof of such .
No / wrong IMEI phone will not work as a phone .
Whyare you are asking to backup a phone in other posts that is faulty ???
jje
When I first got my phone and wanted to set in the sim it didnt go well cuz I didnt push it till it clicked. So just to be sure, look if you've put it right.
QLau said:
Hi all,
I'm a complete noob from blackberry.
Got a i9305 last nite, before I left the store it was tested and all and all looked good. Came home and charged the phone and now it won't detect my sim card. Took it back to the store and they won't honor the warranty because they said the phone was jailbreaked. All i did was used the wifi to download some legit apps and plugged it into my mac air to do some file transfer using 'Android Transfer'. The phone cannot even detect IMEI.
I didn't do any jailbreak activities on the phone (at least to my knowledge), so i have no idea why the phone is like this.
Q:
what happened?
What to do now?
What to do to avoid similiar incidents? (Should I backup my 'OS' ? how? -0 knowledge with Android)
Appreciate all your advise.
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Maybe you want to verify with the store what they mean by jailbreak? Sim unlocked? Rooted?
Was it a store selling 2nd hand phones? If so, it's quite hard to have any form of warranty. I'm sure there are ways about this once the experts in this forum know more about the nature of your problem.
It's quite hard for them to look into this post though, cos the title doesn't seem to help describe the nature of your problem. You could have used a title like "no IMEI detected" or something like that.
mr.megi said:
When I first got my phone and wanted to set in the sim it didnt go well cuz I didnt push it till it clicked. So just to be sure, look if you've put it right.
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has no effect on imei
Hello friends,
I have the Z for almost two years now, and have had a issue for a long time; here goes:
A long time ago, I started flashing roms, and everything was all right. After a few months I noticed that I had no H+ any more.
Because I thought that the TELE-2 service was horrible I left it. Eventually I thought I was shut off, and because I'm more of a WiFi user, I left the issue.
Now, after a year, I decided to call TELE-2 and they tried to help me restoring my APN settings. Everything was all right but I still can't use 3g.
I can make calls, but as soon as I turn off WiFi, my network connectivity disappears and shows a exclamation mark.
entering *#*#4636#*#* gives me some information, but I'm not sure what to make of it. Roaming is enabled, HTTP client test gives:
FAIL: IOexeption.
I'm thinking this has something to do with my modem/ baseband?
Can someone point me to a correct thread because I'm not even sure what this issue is called.
Or perhaps teach me how to treat network connectivity issues in the future?
If further information is needed I'll fill it in. Remember, I have some knowledge, but I'm still pretty much a noob!
Bump?
Nyahaha1171 said:
Hello friends,
I have the Z for almost two years now, and have had a issue for a long time; here goes:
A long time ago, I started flashing roms, and everything was all right. After a few months I noticed that I had no H+ any more.
Because I thought that the TELE-2 service was horrible I left it. Eventually I thought I was shut off, and because I'm more of a WiFi user, I left the issue.
Now, after a year, I decided to call TELE-2 and they tried to help me restoring my APN settings. Everything was all right but I still can't use 3g.
I can make calls, but as soon as I turn off WiFi, my network connectivity disappears and shows a exclamation mark.
entering *#*#4636#*#* gives me some information, but I'm not sure what to make of it. Roaming is enabled, HTTP client test gives:
FAIL: IOexeption.
I'm thinking this has something to do with my modem/ baseband?
Can someone point me to a correct thread because I'm not even sure what this issue is called.
Or perhaps teach me how to treat network connectivity issues in the future?
If further information is needed I'll fill it in. Remember, I have some knowledge, but I'm still pretty much a noob!
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Well, I would think you have either unlocked bootloader wrongly (usually slight chance) or flashed wrong FTF/ROM for your device.
Now I would suggest you go to STOCK ROM for your device first. You can flash it via flashtool
You would need FTF from general section and also flashtool which you can get from here
http://www.flashtool.net/index.php
You can search xda for how to use it. If you still have questions, quote me and I would be glad to help
Hnk1 said:
Well, I would think you have either unlocked bootloader wrongly (usually slight chance) or flashed wrong FTF/ROM for your device.
Now I would suggest you go to STOCK ROM for your device first. You can flash it via flashtool
You would need FTF from general section and also flashtool which you can get from here
You can search xda for how to use it. If you still have questions, quote me and I would be glad to help
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Yes, I tried it already, I found a Dutch Generic FTF, flashed it but it didn't work. If I remember correctly there was a option to only flash the Baseband/Radio.
I expected that something like that was broken and that reflashing the original might fix it. But alas, bad luck. Would it be a good idea to learn how to logcat?
Would it be helpful if I provided these?
Thanks in advance.
Nyahaha1171 said:
Yes, I tried it already, I found a Dutch Generic FTF, flashed it but it didn't work. If I remember correctly there was a option to only flash the Baseband/Radio.
I expected that something like that was broken and that reflashing the original might fix it. But alas, bad luck. Would it be a good idea to learn how to logcat?
Would it be helpful if I provided these?
Thanks in advance.
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I would like you to check on your xperia Z box it's exact model number with baseband and every other detail you can provide. Also, tell me if you got it sim free or had a contract or something like that. Are you on unlocked bootloader ?
Hnk1 said:
I would like you to check on your xperia Z box it's exact model number with baseband and every other detail you can provide. Also, tell me if you got it sim free or had a contract or something like that. Are you on unlocked bootloader ?
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On a contract, but warranty doesn't matter. Unlocked Bootloader, Rooted, currently running 5.1 Resurrection.
All right, here goes:
- C6603
- GSM/GPRS/EDGE 850/900/1800/1900& UMTS/HSPA Bands 1/5/8 & LTE 1/3/5/7/8/20
- SI 1270-4181.6 NL
- S/N: CB5A1TNCA0
Let's hope this suffices. I presume that by flashing a ROM with wrong Baseband in the
past my phone can't communicate with the towers in my area; because every part of the world uses different frequencies?
Nyahaha1171 said:
On a contract, but warranty doesn't matter. Unlocked Bootloader, Rooted, currently running 5.1 Resurrection.
All right, here goes:
- C6603
- GSM/GPRS/EDGE 850/900/1800/1900& UMTS/HSPA Bands 1/5/8 & LTE 1/3/5/7/8/20
- SI 1270-4181.6 NL
- S/N: CB5A1TNCA0
Let's hope this suffices. I presume that by flashing a ROM with wrong Baseband in the
past my phone can't communicate with the towers in my area; because every part of the world uses different frequencies?
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Can you check which frequencies your network provider uses ?
Usually it's available on their websites. In the mean time I'll look for a ROM you can flash and see if that helps! We might be going to STOCK ROM !
Also check which model does your custom ROM shows!
In the pictures, you can clearly see the difference in basebands between C6602/03 models.
Hnk1 said:
Can you check which frequencies your network provider uses ?
Usually it's available on their websites. In the mean time I'll look for a ROM you can flash and see if that helps! We might be going to STOCK ROM !
Also check which model does your custom ROM shows!
In the pictures, you can clearly see the difference in basebands between C6602/03 models.
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All right. I've tried to find out what frequenties my provider uses, asked around on the forum and it seems no one is willing to help me.
It seems they are not willing to disclose frequency information and keep changing subjects; also when other people ask this question.
This might make things a little harder. Also, you advised me to try out stock again, I'm willing to do this, but I have to say:
I hate Google. I hate them more than anything and would like to leave the stock experience as fast as possible.
Let us see what the steps are I should take now.
- Flash Stock ROM/Baseband
- ???
- Profit
As mentioned earlier, I tried this before, and it didn't work. So I must be missing something. Just in case I didn't explain my self well enough;
I can make calls, I can't use 3G/HSDPA. When using network monitor, everything fails, unless I reconnect with WiFi. My Bootloader is unlocked, and I
am rooted. Resurrection Team uses Evo kernel (Which I hate because it's pretty unstable.), However, My issues predate the kernel by far.
It seems I'm really failing in correctly flashing my device, because there always seems to be something wrong.
Either it gets extremely laggy, or it randomly reboots (2 to 3 times a day. Unable to reproduce.), No audio when calling unless on speaker and a plethora of other issues.
This could also explain why my internet doesn't work. But it seems unlikely for me to fail in correctly flashing my device for 2 years, don't you agree?
EDIT: Can't even use *#*#service#*#*, doesn't work like everything else.
Nyahaha1171 said:
All right. I've tried to find out what frequenties my provider uses, asked around on the forum and it seems no one is willing to help me.
It seems they are not willing to disclose frequency information and keep changing subjects; also when other people ask this question.
This might make things a little harder. Also, you advised me to try out stock again, I'm willing to do this, but I have to say:
I hate Google. I hate them more than anything and would like to leave the stock experience as fast as possible.
Let us see what the steps are I should take now.
- Flash Stock ROM/Baseband
- ???
- Profit
As mentioned earlier, I tried this before, and it didn't work. So I must be missing something. Just in case I didn't explain my self well enough;
I can make calls, I can't use 3G/HSDPA. When using network monitor, everything fails, unless I reconnect with WiFi. My Bootloader is unlocked, and I
am rooted. Resurrection Team uses Evo kernel (Which I hate because it's pretty unstable.), However, My issues predate the kernel by far.
It seems I'm really failing in correctly flashing my device, because there always seems to be something wrong.
Either it gets extremely laggy, or it randomly reboots (2 to 3 times a day. Unable to reproduce.), No audio when calling unless on speaker and a plethora of other issues.
This could also explain why my internet doesn't work. But it seems unlikely for me to fail in correctly flashing my device for 2 years, don't you agree?
EDIT: Can't even use *#*#service#*#*, doesn't work like everything else.
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Thank you so much for your detailed response. We love as much information we can have to answer your queries better.
I was trying to find out your network baseband because this would help me establish which STOCK ROM to flash. To inquire about your baseband, call your network provider from your phone and ask them these questions. Tell them you need to know for a phone you bought internationally and want to know if baseband matches or not. They would tell you in a moment.
I am sure you must know alot about flashing but sometimes, some roms are specific for certain models. Like it might be for a different baseband but not for other. Usually flashing roms doesnot play with your basebands but if you got some home brewed rom which is made over stock, this can actually mess up your device. Same goes for kernels if they are directed at a particular model, and it can act differently.
I am not sure why you blame Google as Sony is responsible for producing this phone so maybe enlighten me a bit ?? Sony has got custom UI , not actually Google.
What I would suggest is that flash an older FTF like KITKAT or Jeally Bean to your device and see if it works. Next if it doesnot, update your device using SONY COMPANION and not flashtool. Sometimes this also helps.
By the way do you have an official Sony care near your place ?
Hnk1 said:
Thank you so much for your detailed response. We love as much information we can have to answer your queries better.
I was trying to find out your network baseband because this would help me establish which STOCK ROM to flash. To inquire about your baseband, call your network provider from your phone and ask them these questions. Tell them you need to know for a phone you bought internationally and want to know if baseband matches or not. They would tell you in a moment.
I am sure you must know alot about flashing but sometimes, some roms are specific for certain models. Like it might be for a different baseband but not for other. Usually flashing roms doesnot play with your basebands but if you got some home brewed rom which is made over stock, this can actually mess up your device. Same goes for kernels if they are directed at a particular model, and it can act differently.
I am not sure why you blame Google as Sony is responsible for producing this phone so maybe enlighten me a bit ?? Sony has got custom UI , not actually Google.
What I would suggest is that flash an older FTF like KITKAT or Jeally Bean to your device and see if it works. Next if it doesnot, update your device using SONY COMPANION and not flashtool. Sometimes this also helps.
By the way do you have an official Sony care near your place ?
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I blamed Google, because I genuinely hate them. They step on people, and violate human rights many people died defending. But that's a different story. Alas, I eventually flashed Stock 10.3.1.A.2.67; the first rom my phone came shipped with. It didn't work either. I'm starting to think that something might be broken because I don't have warranty any longer that would be a bummer. But let's continue. I can't use Sony update service because my bootloader is unlocked. And last time I checked it couldn't be relocked right? Also, there isn't anything like a Sony center near me.
Nyahaha1171 said:
I blamed Google, because I genuinely hate them. They step on people, and violate human rights many people died defending. But that's a different story. Alas, I eventually flashed Stock 10.3.1.A.2.67; the first rom my phone came shipped with. It didn't work either. I'm starting to think that something might be broken because I don't have warranty any longer that would be a bummer. But let's continue. I can't use Sony update service because my bootloader is unlocked. And last time I checked it couldn't be relocked right? Also, there isn't anything like a Sony center near me.
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i think you have lost some values from TA backup. Use flashtool to relock it and see if that helps. Did you make a TA backup when you unlocked it ?
Hnk1 said:
i think you have lost some values from TA backup. Use flashtool to relock it and see if that helps. Did you make a TA backup when you unlocked it ?
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Nope, saw a thread coming by this morning, also about TA partitions. I'm afraid that at the time I wasn't aware yet of the TA. Is this really bad or can it still be saved? When flashing
a rom, does it get overwritten?
Also, the SI number on my box says 1270-4181.6, yet the customization version on the phone states that I'm running 1270-4975_R3B. Even though I found a Dutch version.
Is this correct?
Nyahaha1171 said:
Nope, saw a thread coming by this morning, also about TA partitions. I'm afraid that at the time I wasn't aware yet of the TA. Is this really bad or can it still be saved? When flashing
a rom, does it get overwritten?
Also, the SI number on my box says 1270-4181.6, yet the customization version on the phone states that I'm running 1270-4975_R3B. Even though I found a Dutch version.
Is this correct?
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TA numbers are device specific and if lost, they can result in WIFI and Bluetooth problems for most users but it is rare. Sometimes relocking bootloader can fix these as well but you said you havenot been able to . Are you connecting in fastboot mode for that using flashtool?
I think you should look at this thread for SI number and try to change it accordingly. Remember only the first link is Xperia Z specific and other links for other devices which might work to change your SI
http://forum.xda-developers.com/xperia-z/general/info-xperia-z-firmware-customizations-t2287283
http://forum.xda-developers.com/xperia-u/general/change-si-easy-t2005562
http://forum.xda-developers.com/xperia-u/general/change-si-easy-t2005562
TA partitions have been successfully repaired by SONY service centres. you can mail them your phone and wait for them to return it back. Make sure you email/call before you dispatch your phone and make details accordingly!
Nyahaha1171 said:
Nope, saw a thread coming by this morning, also about TA partitions. I'm afraid that at the time I wasn't aware yet of the TA. Is this really bad or can it still be saved? When flashing
a rom, does it get overwritten?
Also, the SI number on my box says 1270-4181.6, yet the customization version on the phone states that I'm running 1270-4975_R3B. Even though I found a Dutch version.
Is this correct?
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Hey I remember that you have not tried this so I thought you should give it a try.
Sony Emma Flashtool
http://developer.sonymobile.com/services/flash-tool/
How to use it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8azjXu4etI
Try repairing your phone with this and see what happens.
Quote me in case you expect a reply. Good Luck
Hi you all! Please help a girl in trouble!
Some time ago I flashed 3SE rom (1276-2189_14.5.A.0.242_R1D) on my phone because ..well.. the Nordic combined lollipop update took ages and I didn't wanna wait no longer.
The flashing went well and the phone worked properly. About one month ago the usb-cover came off so I sent it to get repaired.
Yesterday I finally got my phone back after three weeks and was such a happy girl. I flashed the customized NCB (1276-9897 14.5.A.0.270_R1D) to get rid of the 3-logo when booting. Then I moved all my photos n stuff on the phone... and first after this I inserted the SIM-card - only to notice that the phone does not work.
It won't connect to network. Says stuff like "invalid card", "emergency calls only". Everything else seems to be OK. I have tried a couple of SIM-cards that work in other phones, but nothing. The cards are not home cut, they are original micro sims. I took the sim lock off also, but it does not help.
I have tried flashing several roms, but still the same. I noticed that on some it get's some kind of signal strength, but on some roms it's just 0. I've flashed with flashtool and used also Sony PC Companion. But still the problem remains.
The IMEI can still be seen. On the phones package is the text SI 1276-2949.11 (FI, DA, IS, SV, NO). The phone is less than one year old.
Before everything got wrong the bootloader was unlocked. I checked with Flashtool to unlock bootloader and it showed the IMEI and redirected me to Sony's site, but I got a bit scared if some quarantee would get void. I don't remember the BLU redirecting me before to Sony's site if I have fiddled around with the phone and Flashtool..? The phone is unrooted and I would want to keep it that way. [Edit: it says "Rooting status: Bootloader unlock allowed: Yes"]
Now I am only very confused, and very stuck.
One thing that makes this crappier is that I am leaving tomorrow for my vacation, a trip that will last over one month... I really need my Xperia Z1 working and with me (and I really should be packing etc. instead of googleing and trying to figure out wtf I've done this time.... Unfortunately I really need that phone with me ).
Can somebody help, does anyone have any ideas?
And of course I have also tried the SIM cards with some paper behind them so that they would fit tighter.
If I try to put the APN manually it says that "Access Point Name settings are not available for this user".
I just tried once again to fix the phone with PC Companion, no luck.
Here is some info:
Model number
C6903
Processor info
Qualcomm MSM8974
Baseband version
8974-AAAAANAZQ-10270075-68
Kernel version
3.4.0-perf-ge46ae34-00767-g4bd551b
[email protected]#1
Fri Apr 17 08:24:04 2015
Build number 14.5.A.0.270.
Hello!
I can't find much to do but try to downgrade to a previous working version that was on your phone, and completely wipe everything (with stuff backed up of course) and see if the sim works, then update using PCC.
That's all I can think of, good luck and have a nice trip!
Regards,
~J2C
Just2Cause said:
Hello!
I can't find much to do but try to downgrade to a previous working version that was on your phone, and completely wipe everything (with stuff backed up of course) and see if the sim works, then update using PCC.
That's all I can think of, good luck and have a nice trip!
Regards,
~J2C
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Hi and Thanks for the hints!
The 3-version of Lollipop worked earlier, but not anymore. Unfortunately I think it is the only version I can find from those that has worked on the phone earlier. Can't seem to find the original anywhere. I have had some backups of the phones and firmwares, but my computers got messed up, so I've lost some of the roms (and of course I have tons of other stooopid backups and their backups )
I'm trying to downgrade to some 14.3. global thingie right now, but my hopes aren't too high since I've done this already few times.
And thanks! I am sure that one busted phone can't mess up my vacation even if it makes it much complicated (water resistant, good camera, gps and battery etc.) But hey, what the heck, it's summer and I'm off duty
Re_T said:
Hi and Thanks for the hints!
The 3-version of Lollipop worked earlier, but not anymore. Unfortunately I think it is the only version I can find from those that has worked on the phone earlier. Can't seem to find the original anywhere. I have had some backups of the phones and firmwares, but my computers got messed up, so I've lost some of the roms (and of course I have tons of other stooopid backups and their backups )
I'm trying to downgrade to some 14.3. global thingie right now, but my hopes aren't too high since I've done this already few times.
And thanks! I am sure that one busted phone can't mess up my vacation even if it makes it much complicated (water resistant, good camera, gps and battery etc.) But hey, what the heck, it's summer and I'm off duty
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If that doesn't work, at least u can buy a cheapo black 'n' white Nokia phone for calls
Just2Cause said:
If that doesn't work, at least u can buy a cheapo black 'n' white Nokia phone for calls
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At least they are proper phones that actually DO work.
It's a shame I don't have any of those good ones left.
No other ideas whatsoever? Anybody? Mumbo jumbo voodoo? Rain dance?
Can you see your imei in the service menu?
Yes, the IMEI is there.
Got it fixed in another country in three days!
The service company I used first had broken some chip on the phone... Won't be using their "services" anymore.
Re_T said:
Got it fixed in another country in three days!
The service company I used first had broken some chip on the phone... Won't be using their "services" anymore.
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Glad you got it fixed.
So it was a broken chip? Or did the chip get damaged when the first company tried to fix this issue?
Hello.
A friend of mine worked at a company that closed last week, and they had some demo-based Galaxy Note 8 phone that were unused. So I took one of them, and I'm now trying to make it work with my SIM Card.
I don't looks like it recognize it, phone network isn't available, IMEI is unknown, and Service Menu (that i tried to turn radio on) is blank (I accessed it trough *#0011#). I passed like 5 hours googling, but since it seems to be a very specific issue (the phone was probably locked for Demo puprposes.). I tried a custom ROM, I rooted the phone, but nothing changed.
I'm sorry if my question isn't that accurate and descriptive, got a real headache trying to find an issue tonight. Feel free to ask for precisions.
Thanks for helping, as always.
Demo units will not function as normal legally acquired devices do, no solution will work, get a really working device, xdemo units are exactly that, just for show
Changing motherboard won't do the trick ?
It will, but I would rather get a never opened device, besides, a motherboard will not be cheap