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[Q] Samsung Captivate imei changed

My dilemma started after trying everything to unlock my captivate. I used the method where you delete nv_data and a new one supposed to be created. Here is my problem the imei changed after i unlock my, i'm trying to find out how to repair it change it back. When i was unlocking my phone there was a thread saying how to repair this because it happened to quite a few people. Any help in repairing this will be greatly appreciated.

Try Factory Reset , it will re-lock ur phone and bring back ur original IMEI code. Worked for me, Firmware version, I897UCJI6., Android 2.2. Of course, u need to back up ur contacts, maybe some other apps, like Titanium Backup etc.

Hello Samnew, did you try to factory restore to 2.1? I tried it but still see some funky imei number. any help is greatly appreciated.

can i know how u unlock that phone? not using SupperOneClick?

Factory resetting your phone does NOT re-lock your phone or even touch the IMEI EFS zone. Checkout the IMEI restoration thread in the DEV section or my video on YouTube. If you still can't get it back I can also rebuild it from scratch with special hardware I have. Just pm me about that if it comes to it...
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connexion2005 said:
Factory resetting your phone does NOT re-lock your phone or even touch the IMEI EFS zone. Checkout the IMEI restoration thread in the DEV section or my video on YouTube. If you still can't get it back I can also rebuild it from scratch with special hardware I have. Just pm me about that if it comes to it...
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Can you help me out in assisting IMEI reset as i tried all the ways to restore to no use,
Thanks for your help

PM sent...
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connexion2005 said:
PM sent...
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WOW! didnt know you still came around here! Glad to see you do!

Hi
I have an issue with a captivate and was wondering if you could help me. It is running on 2.2 Froyo, I rooted it and unlocked it. My friend took it to Africa inserted a local AirTel sim card but he says it does not connect to network as he sees no bars on the top of the screen. Can you please tell me what would be the reason for that and how to rectify it. Thank You.

(help) does not appear imei numbers, airplane mode is not disabled and not sim detect

After flashing various roms not detect signal turned out that the operator does not turn off airplane mode is not displayed and does not detect sim imei says without coverage and went back to stock rom but nothing stays the same I can do please help thanks

i didnt understand your problem .-.
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MAD_psycho_Zz said:
i didnt understand your problem .-.
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I can not make calls no airplane mode is disabled and I have mentioned that coverage did not want to release my phone and I just flashee rom this problem appeared

Corrupted /efs . If you didn't make a backup of it, you can't do anything to repair it. Your phone is now like an MP4 player.

domcale said:
Corrupted /efs . If you didn't make a backup of it, you can't do anything to repair it. Your phone is now like an MP4 player.
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then I will take you to imagine me sat there if you can repair or not?and if someone with another mini me pass that backup could be repaired?

I already said this in an similar thread: I doubt it can be done, since every /efs partition on every device is unique. If you find a way to back it up from the working Mini without screwing it up, let me know .
I did some research on the Internet and tutorials for SGS and SGSII do not work for our device. I can't seem to find where the nvdata.bin file is (which is the most crucial, and contains imei and bunch of other very delicate and important stuff).
Note that changing the IMEI is illegal, and also, having two Mini's with the same IMEI won't work.

domcale said:
I already said this in an similar thread: I doubt it can be done, since every /efs partition on every device is unique. If you find a way to back it up from the working Mini without screwing it up, let me know .
I did some research on the Internet and tutorials for SGS and SGSII do not work for our device. I can't seem to find where the nvdata.bin file is (which is the most crucial, and contains imei and bunch of other very delicate and important stuff).
Note that changing the IMEI is illegal, and also, having two Mini's with the same IMEI won't work.
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then take it to the sat you recommend?

vences31 said:
then take it to the sat you recommend?
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hen I recommend having the service center of samsung?sorry bad english use google traslator

[Q] IMEI gone to generic...

Yesterday I flashed the JB rom by Crash (oh, ze irony). It worked for an hour, but then it rebooted and hung at the Samsung logo at boot. When going in to CWM i saw that the /efs could not be found, and I dont have a backup of my efs folder.
After trying nearly everything today, i cant seem to get my own IMEI back. First it was empty, now its the generic one (0049****). Currently im back on GB because i cant get on my mobile network with ICS or JB with the generic IMEI.
I tried most of the tutorials to get it back, tried the GSII_Repair tool, none of them seem to work.
I also tried the .nv/.nv.bak removal/backupping/replacing, but that doesnt seem to help either. Problem in some tutorials is that i have to move the imei folder and the .nv_data file, both of which are not present in my /efs folder.
Can anyone help me out? The phone runs stable and fine now under GB (with the generic IMEI it can work with GB apparently), but i would really like to go to ICS again

You can use (I have a developer IMEI and I use this workaroung right now.) it with ICS or JB. After a reboot you have to change the pin number. After this you'll get your network connection. That was one reason why I used GB a long time - but today I switched to JB (eybee) and had to use this way.

ThaiDai said:
You can use (I have a developer IMEI and I use this workaroung right now.) it with ICS or JB. After a reboot you have to change the pin number. After this you'll get your network connection. That was one reason why I used GB a long time - but today I switched to JB (eybee) and had to use this way.
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I dont think i really understand you. Under ICS i cant use it, because my network doesnt allow me to sign on. Under GB it does, but id rather just have ICS or JB and my own IMEI...

if you didnt make efs backup your screwed. And no nandroid doesnt back it up. No titanium backup also doesnt.
You need samsung to fix it for you, or get someone, cvxcvx, to that, if you can prove the phone is yours...
you learned the hard way.
I really think all rom makers should have in their first post a line that says back dafuq efs up first.
Anyway, the 49 is not developers, it is test emei, and yea its banned in some countries so if, like in Uk they decide to update banned imei list, you wil lose service.
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baz77 said:
if you didnt make efs backup your screwed. And no nandroid doesnt back it up. No titanium backup also doesnt.
You need samsung to fix it for you, or get someone, cvxcvx, to that, if you can prove the phone is yours...
you learned the hard way.
I really think all rom makers should have in their first post a line that says back dafuq efs up first.
Anyway, the 49 is not developers, it is test emei, and yea its banned in some countries so if, like in Uk they decide to update banned imei list, you wil lose service.
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i already thought so. Damn... Thats a hard lesson for me.

Catch22- said:
i already thought so. Damn... Thats a hard lesson for me.
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Or.... Use the method posted earlier today to modify another Qualcomm /efs and push it to your device

guitarplayerone said:
Or.... Use the method posted earlier today to modify another Qualcomm /efs and push it to your device
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i think i might have overlooked it, where can i find that?
i will try this first http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1802024

If that works its amazing.Let us know.
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any luck on that ?

cvxcvx saved my f'ing life

using remote access? How much did it cost.?

nokiamodeln91 said:
using remote access? How much did it cost.?
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Teamviewer with USB over internet, he charges 10 euro.
http://www.cvxcvx.pl/podstrona-0?lang=en

oh yeah I read it. Any ways congrats.

Repair this 004999010640000 no problem.

Hi i have the same problem please help
Hi Could you please help me i have a samsung n7000 (note 1)*The imei has changed to 00499 and it has lost service.*Could you please restore tge imei and unlock my phone at the same time please.*I really need this done*today*if you can. Im lost with out my phone. I will pay via paypal no problem . I can send you pictures of my orignal imie
Many thanks*Gary

[Q] I9305 stay on logo , problem with mount EFS. How to repair it?

Hello everyone
I've got problem with my I9305 lte. I bought it from my friend. It was working fine till my friend try to root phone with software dedicated to i9300. Galaxy right now stay on logo , goes in recovery mode and download mode. In a photo you can see cause of this thread.
I tried to flash oryginal software by Odin. Everything looks fine. Odin doesn't see any error. Galaxy still stay on logo with red error in recovery mode. I don't have backup with EFS folder... If it help i9305 is from vadofone Germany.
Could anyone help me ?

RIP, motherboard replacement is needed now

Does anyone have more positive idea ? Phone is like new , near 2 mounths of use...

Motherboard replacement....
Is that more positive??
And next time, read everything you can before you stuff around with something! Damn, the first thing I did was backup my efs folder :banghead:

I found this. I'll try it tommorow when I'll come back home. : alliance-rom.com/community/wiki/imei/
I was looking for motherboard for i9305 on ebay etc. but there is nothing...

So you have no backup of the efs folder, a phone that won't boot properly, and you obviously didn't read your link properly either.
Good luck, enjoy buying a new phone

fridgie said:
So you have no backup of the efs folder, a phone that won't boot properly, and you obviously didn't read your link properly either.
Good luck, enjoy buying a new phone
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My galaxy works right now ! There's no need to replace mothernoard.

Krasza said:
My galaxy works right now ! There's no need to replace mothernoard.
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I am in a similar situation.
Could you please share your knowledge on how you got it sorted?
Thanks
EDIT****
Sorted it.

jh787 said:
I am in a similar situation.
Could you please share your knowledge on how you got it sorted?
Thanks
EDIT****
Sorted it.
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Could you post a fix mate on how you sorted your problem? I have an S3 with the same issue - failed to mount efs. I have a back up of my efs folder on my PC.

hustlergraham said:
Could you post a fix mate on how you sorted your problem? I have an S3 with the same issue - failed to mount efs. I have a back up of my efs folder on my PC.
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I should begin with explaining my problem first.
The phone would not boot,charge or show any signs of life.
I had another S3, so i swapped the battery over and to my surprise it came on.
Luckily i could boot into download mode.
Moving onto how i sorted it.
First i went here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=33048706&postcount=1
and downloaded, extracted and flashed the Param_Bin_I9305.zip .
I then went here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2023527
and flashed all 3 sections (phone/pda/csc)
and hey presto all was sorted.
Hope this helps and if i can be of any more help or i have omitted something please ask

jh787 said:
I should begin with explaining my problem first.
The phone would not boot,charge or show any signs of life.
I had another S3, so i swapped the battery over and to my surprise it came on.
Luckily i could boot into download mode.
Moving onto how i sorted it.
First i went here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=33048706&postcount=1
and downloaded, extracted and flashed the Param_Bin_I9305.zip .
I then went here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2023527
and flashed all 3 sections (phone/pda/csc)
and hey presto all was sorted.
Hope this helps and if i can be of any more help or i have omitted something please ask
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Thanks for the quick reply mate. Will this work on my International GTi9300 do you know? Sorry I should have said that earlier. I've had all previous versions of the Galaxy models and never got a problem like this.
One guy above says a new motherboard is the only option, I left mine in for repair and because the custom binary was at 2 the warranty was Void. So they quoted me €150 just today. I can't afford that at the moment. But after so many searches here on XDA, it seems some people with the same issue as myself have managed to fix it. Thats why i am a bit sceptical, because I have my EFS folder backed up. Maybe it might work.
I should have my phone back on Monday so if you think this will work on mine I will give it a go and let you know?
Really appreciate the help.

Sorry to hear about your problem.
I did this on a I9305 which is very different to the standard I9300.
These files and methods i used are **ONLY FOR THE I9305***
The only reason i had the problem in the first place is that i flashed I9300 software onto a I9305.
Sorry i cant be of any more help but i am sure if you head over to the i9300 q+a section, someone is bound to know what you should do.
PM me with your exact issue and what you messed up on and i will try and see if i can find some helpful info

ok!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

AW: [Q] I9305 stay on logo , problem with mount EFS. How to repair it?
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What's this?
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jjpro45 said:
What's this?
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Corrected (formats) efs folder makes it empty
and the phone turns on
use ODIN
then http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1946915

Has anyone else tried this ??
My i9305 is in bootloop on yhe samsung logo. Every ROM i put tought odin goes right, then loop again.
jh787 said:
I should begin with explaining my problem first.
The phone would not boot,charge or show any signs of life.
I had another S3, so i swapped the battery over and to my surprise it came on.
Luckily i could boot into download mode.
Moving onto how i sorted it.
First i went here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=33048706&postcount=1
and downloaded, extracted and flashed the Param_Bin_I9305.zip .
I then went here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2023527
and flashed all 3 sections (phone/pda/csc)
and hey presto all was sorted.
Hope this helps and if i can be of any more help or i have omitted something please ask
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drmspidi said:
Has anyone else tried this ??
My i9305 is in bootloop on yhe samsung logo. Every ROM i put tought odin goes right, then loop again.
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Yes.... The chap on eBay who saved himself 200 quid after he agreed to sell his phone to me extra cheap but managed to fix it after I told him to have 1 last try with this method. elf

jh787 said:
Yes.... The chap on eBay who saved himself 200 quid after he agreed to sell his phone to me extra cheap but managed to fix it after I told him to have 1 last try with this method. elf
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So you were able to recovery the phone with the same symotmes as mine ?

drmspidi said:
So you were able to recovery the phone with the same symotmes as mine ?
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Yes.. you got nothing to lose and everything to gain

jh787 said:
Yes.. you got nothing to lose and everything to gain
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Oh, OK. I'll try and post the results later !!
Thanks

[SOLVED] Problem Sim Card: No calls, no sms & no 3g

UPDATE
PROBLEM SOLVED:
Go to this thread for the solution.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2548453
Hi all,
Since yesterday I've been trying to fix my phone.
It doesn't recognize my SIM card anymore.
I think it's my fault and I'll have to go to the Samsung store but I thought someone here might know a solution.
I'm aware that I did something stupid...
So here's the story:
Yesterday I flashed Cyanogenmod 10.1, I installed some apps and I noticed that already 4GB of the 7,42GB was used.
The apps only took 2 GB of the 4GB. So I went to the CWM recovery, scrolled down to mounts and storage and removed all the storage...
Then I flashed Cyanogenmod again (because everything was removed, OS included). And now my SIM card isn't working in my device anymore.
It's for sure that my SIM card isn't the problem, because when I put my SIM card in my old phone, it will work.
After flashing I got a message of Vodafone, which says that they will send the right settings for my phone to use their network.
But that message never arrived at my phone.. I also tried to manually set up the right ''settings'', but that didn't work.
I have tried anything I could. I thought maybe it will work if I install stock rom, but again, it didn't work for me.
I still think it's a software problem, but it might also be a hardware problem.
It might be useful for you to know that I live in Holland. (maybe things are working different here, idk)...

try this
try this ....
using root explorer or file explorer or what else,
open file "factorymode" in efs/factoryApp directory, it probabely says "off", change to "on" (yes "on" is the correct setting to turn it off), then save
reboot
good luck
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no need to no pay, courtesy of the developers of the forum, they are a great team, I can not remember where I saw post the solution because it happened to me.

danielsinnema said:
Hi all,
................................
I have tried anything I could. I thought maybe it will work if I install stock rom, but again, it didn't work for me.
I still think it's a software problem, but it might also be a hardware problem.
It might be useful for you to know that I live in Holland. (maybe things are working different here, idk)...
Please forgive me for my english, im not from the US or UK.
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You still got your IMEI?
If official wirmware won't work, then try this one first, and then flash your official firmware.

Solution: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2548453
The instructions written down below in this thread did NOT work!
juliàcarax said:
try this ....
using root explorer or file explorer or what else,
open file "factorymode" in efs/factoryApp directory, it probabely says "off", change to "on" (yes "on" is the correct setting to turn it off), then save
reboot
good luck
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no need to no pay, courtesy of the developers of the forum, they are a great team, I can not remember where I saw post the solution because it happened to me.
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Hi, thank you for your reply!
Unluckily for me it was already turned ON. (so this isn't the solution).
tys0n said:
You still got your IMEI?
If official wirmware won't work, then try this one first, and then flash your official firmware.
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OK, I'll try this. Thank you for your reply!
I'll come with edit if it was successful or not.
About the IMEI, Yes I have it.
Should I do something with it?
UPDATE (I tried the 1st method):
I went to the thread you linked to called ''[HOW-TO] Enable Three Button Combo [RECOVERY]''.
I don't know exactly what it does.
It enables the ''Three Button Combo'', but I thought I already had this.
I did ''Benzonat0r's way'':
1) I flashed it as PDA
2) After flashing my phone rebooted
3) Nothing changed, still no working calls, sms etc.
Now I think you meant the 2nd method.
Should I do the 2nd method, so I'll get ''a "La'Fleur" branded phone''. ?
Is it safe to flash this Russian ROM?
"I8190 серв. укр.rar" is now downloading.
I'll try this now.. Hopefully it will work.
UPDATE:
I have tried the 2nd method now.
I flashed "I8190 серв. укр.rar". (PIT, PDA and CSC).
After that it didn't boot (which is right, because it's ''La Fleur''.)
So I flashed official firmware (dutch).
After my phone rebooted, I could see immediately that it didn't work
It doesn't show the signal.. and it doesn't have signal.
I'm sure that in my region the signal of Vodafone is OK, because when I put my SIM card in my old phone it works..
I'm sure my SIM Card is fine, it must the software of my phone..
It's my fault, I shouldn't have formatted all in ''mounts and storage'' about 4 days ago...
Another isue is the language which was displayed was Russian...
Normally after I flashed official firmware the language was dutch.
What I'm going to do now is again format all in CWM recovery.
If that doesn't work for me, I'll bring my phone to the Samsung store if no other solutions found..
Anyway, thanks for your help.
If you have any other ideas please tell me.
Thanks in advance!
Greetz, Daniel.

Problem Solved 100%.
Solution: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2548453
The instructions written down below in this thread and post did NOT work!
I solved the problem myself:
I formatted again everything on my phone. (in cwm recovery at 'mounts and storage'.
I flashed stock recovery.
I flashed official firmware.
Done.
No more Russian language issue.
This thread can be closed.
The solution was a lot easier than I thought.
I think a ROM bugged my phone after I formatted all.
So as I said, problem solved.
Thank you for the your replies!
Greetz, Daniel!

Maybe you can change youre title into something usefull like: [SOLVED] Sim card Problems....;. bla bla bla.
In this way, people can find this thread if they have the same problem an use your solution instead of being sad that no one can help them...

robintjeuuu said:
Maybe you can change youre title into something usefull like: [SOLVED] Sim card Problems....;. bla bla bla.
In this way, people can find this thread if they have the same problem an use your solution instead of being sad that no one can help them...
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Done, thanks.

stock recovery
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Done, thanks.
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I saw you said you flashed stock recovery. Im quit a noob at this but i can't find where too download the stock recovery so i can flash it on odin. Or am i misunderstanding this somehow. I have the same problem as you did doesn't reconize Sim anymore...

Tbros said:
I saw you said you flashed stock recovery. Im quit a noob at this but i can't find where too download the stock recovery so i can flash it on odin. Or am i misunderstanding this somehow. I have the same problem as you did doesn't reconize Sim anymore...
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Well, actually the problem wasn't fully solved..
I don't know why I wrote that, later I made a new topic about this problem.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2548453
In that topic I described exactly what you have to do to solve this problem.
Good luck!
If that didn't work for you, don't hesitate to ask me again, I'll help you.

danielsinnema said:
Well, actually the problem wasn't fully solved..
I don't know why I wrote that, later I made a new topic about this problem.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2548453
In that topic I described exactly what you have to do to solve this problem.
Good luck!
If that didn't work for you, don't hesitate to ask me again, I'll help you.
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Ok thx i'll check that out!