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Does anyone have any information or insight in to what role, if any, the SIM might play in preventing restoral to 100% stock. The question, of course, assumes the SIM is left in when mod the phone with another ROM, kernal, etc.
over at the i9000 forum they say when flashing or restoring if you dont remove the sim it will lock the phone.
tjsooley said:
over at the i9000 forum they say when flashing or restoring if you dont remove the sim it will lock the phone.
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I did have that happen to me on my first try of an I9000 Froyo ROM (forgot to take it out). Since then, I've done a lot of flashing and not had that happen again (left it in cause the directions for the ROM's I was flashing said nothing about taking the SIM out).
Can someone please help?
Few days ago my phone stopped recognizing sim cards. No mather what I've tried, it still won't work.
It's acting like there's no sim card inserted.
IMEI is still there
I would appreciate any help.
I posted a picture of the problem.
janjevac said:
Can someone please help?
Few days ago my phone stopped recognizing sim cards. No mather what I've tried, it still won't work.
It's acting like there's no sim card inserted.
IMEI is still there
I would appreciate any help.
I posted a picture of the problem.
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Well, I'm not sure about the problem; if you are on a custom rom, it might be because of that, or incorrect flashing. Try using another ROM, and if problems persists try Stock ROM meant for your region. (it might be possible that you flashed a ROM for a different region and because of that you might have a problem..)
AND NEVER POST YOUR IMEI NUMBER ONLINE.
http://forums.meteor.ie/t5/Unlocking-Codes/Never-post-your-IMEI-number-on-the-web/td-p/36899
DeathMetal King said:
Well, I'm not sure about the problem; if you are on a custom rom, it might be because of that, or incorrect flashing. Try using another ROM, and if problems persists try Stock ROM meant for your region. (it might be possible that you flashed a ROM for a different region and because of that you might have a problem..)
AND NEVER POST YOUR IMEI NUMBER ONLINE.
http://forums.meteor.ie/t5/Unlocking-Codes/Never-post-your-IMEI-number-on-the-web/td-p/36899
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Thanks for the advice about IMEI number, i didn't think of that because i went crazy because my phone doesnt work.
I'll try with stock rom.
I flashed original stock rom on the device, but the problem remains. Does anyone know the solution, I am going crazy
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pop your sim card out for 15 min. then put it
back in your phone.
In the second pic it is clearly showing 1 bar of signal
So how can you say sim is not being detected
No way out here
dheeraj (dhlalit11) said:
In the second pic it is clearly showing 1 bar of signal
So how can you say sim is not being detected
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Did you notice the the SIM symbol with question mark inside it?
The phone acts like there is no SIM card inserted when it is inside all the time.
pryerlee said:
pop your sim card out for 15 min. then put it
back in your phone.
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Thanks for the advice, but that didn't work. I tried several SIM cards. Same thing every time.
have a read tho these answers, maybe you'll find a solution http://bit.ly/17Ku2cc
I just got a used AT&T Vivid with what turns out are 2 anomalies that I failed to observe initially.
First I tried to put my ST sim card out my AT&T SGS, and get no service. No big shock initially since I have to change the APN info. Couldn't do that cause option is dimmed.Checked further, No IMEI, IMEI SV, or baseband. Took sim out and observed that I get NO sim error at startup, just "no service". Tried an AT&T sim from a friends Vivid, same result.
I was hoping that the sim card reader just might be bad, a cheap easy fix and apparently some what of a common issue. Haven't ordered one yet until I get more info on whether the no sim error and no IMEI etc are related and it's not a more serious hardware issue. I don't have a problem with repairing hardware if needed.I'm a noob here, but have a brain like a sponge, so any thoughts on how to proceed with diagnostics would be appreciated. Thanks in advance
No imei is really bad...
No one here can help you recover it without a proper backup... I have no idea how to back it up nor restore...
If you don't figure it out I'd have to suggest flashing to stock... prolly via ruu and go to an at&t store...
Sent from my Vivid 4G using Tapatalk 2
I don't think (but don't know 4 sure) that this phone is anything other than an out of the box stock configuration. I don't have service with AT&T so I don't know how much help they would be. I did check with them to make sure IMEI printed on the phone wasn't blacklisted and it's OK. All I have done was to do a factory reset to clear all the PO's stuff.
Does anybody have any more ideas? I am wondering if I don't need to replace the motherboard and or just the simcard/sd part. Changing the motherboard would mean a different IMEI right?
No imei means something went wrong with the bootloader. It's unlocked? Did you try to S-OFF?
I believe flashing a rom stock via RUU (that's it, flashing the PD.zip file) maybe can fix the problem.
At worst you must change the motherboard and yes, you will have a diferent imei.
I may be wrong, but I see no sign that anybody has done anything to change ROM or anything else on this phone. I'll try to do a S-off, and unlock it since I want to use it on ST anyway.
hello,
i've also same problem here
flashed with stock rom but no luck ,
bootloader locked and s-off
searched forum but no success story
i think i'll return it
Well I finally got a new SIM/SD card reader and installed it. No change.Tried ST, AT&T, and T-mobile sims
Still get no SIM error when booting with or without a SIM card, has an X on signal strength, and it doesn't even say "no service".
Same as to IMEI etc. info, nothing shows up.
Am I going to have to change mainboard? Or is it possible firmware/ROM changes could fix it?
javierarenas said:
No imei means something went wrong with the bootloader. It's unlocked? Did you try to S-OFF?
I believe flashing a rom stock via RUU (that's it, flashing the PD.zip file) maybe can fix the problem.
At worst you must change the motherboard and yes, you will have a diferent imei.
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Unlocked the bootloader tonight, no problem. Will try s-off tomorrow.
Where can I get a stock rom file?
I'll only ask this dumb ? once: Is the OS (JB,GB,ICS) different than the rom? I'm still running gingerbread 2.3.4, should I got to ICS or? Will that have any affect on the imei issue?
I might just be getting some experience with this phone if I have to do it all over with another mainboard.
OK, so I decided to play with this phone again after my SGS1 was freaking out yesterday. I finally found and used a phone dialer code do download the ICS update, and it downloaded (via wi-fi), installed and rebooted fine. In fact It apparently fixed my IMEI and SIM card problems because when it booted the first time with ICS it showed a big icon "no SIM installed" ya hoo!! checked IMEI in settings, all was good. Played around with settings/menus a bit to familiarize myself with the differences, then restarted...NO IMEI again, and no sim error without any SIM installed On the next 5-6 restarts it worked fine all but once, (total on time of around an hour) but now every restart (10+) it's back to same original issue: no IMEI shown and no SIM error. I still have no AT&T compatible SIM card to really test it but if it doesn't give me a SIM card error (no SIM card installed) it's a moot point.
It really puzzles me that it appeared to work at all if I have a bad mainboard. My daughter in-law has a Vivid with a bad screen she's going to give me to use for parts (mainboard) but I'm not sure if there's not still some hope of salvaging the current one.
Comment, thoughts etc... Please
Hiya!
Hate to be a pest, i did use the search button, but to no avail!
I got a used i8190n that works perfectly fine in all aspects except for registering for a mobile network! and that is for calls and sms services only, as the mobile data, 2g and 3g both work well!
there are similar cases posted on the forum, but none that replicate my case exactly: i did try different roms, different sim cards, mobile data works but no calls or sms! total mistery!
any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks a bunch, cheers!
Found one...
BUMP!
Tried a few ROMs from different regions, none of them show any signs of improvement!
Funny enough, all of them display 'Not connected to network' message when trying to place a call, all the way until i started flashing different modems, and all of them started showing the dialling screen for a split second, and then display the 'call ended' screen, but that only happens with the XXALL3 modem!
any help would be greatly appreciated from here, any better modems out there?
Thanks!
theseriojca said:
BUMP!
Tried a few ROMs from different regions, none of them show any signs of improvement!
Funny enough, all of them display 'Not connected to network' message when trying to place a call, all the way until i started flashing different modems, and all of them started showing the dialling screen for a split second, and then display the 'call ended' screen, but that only happens with the XXALL3 modem!
any help would be greatly appreciated from here, any better modems out there?
Thanks!
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Try [Tutorial] Why my IMEI missing & NO network? for clarification and [GUIDE] Recover your IMEI in 9 steps for potential solution.
Check the validity of your IMEI code while dialing *#06*.
Check the validity of your IMEI code while dialing *#06*.
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Thanks for your reply, *#06# brings up a valid IMEI that i checked on a few websites and it is attributed to my phone
Any other ideas at all?
Thanks!
theseriojca said:
Thanks for your reply, *#06# brings up a valid IMEI that i checked on a few websites and it is attributed to my phone
Any other ideas at all?
Thanks!
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Is your phone by chance sim carrier locked? Flashing the proper baseband and possibly modem should at least fix it on firmware/software level. Regarding the last mentioned; whats your region?
ImproAptoVictum said:
Is your phone by chance sim carrier locked? Flashing the proper baseband and possibly modem should at least fix it on firmware/software level. Regarding the last mentioned; whats your region?
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hi
the phone is carrier unlocked, as per the service menu, and according to the imei it's in the the UK region, i tried flashing Vodafone, EE, O2 UK roms and stock generic, even an asian one, just in case, no success!
upon reading some more, i looked into the efs folder (and made a copy of it), it's missing the nv_dat etc files, any idea if i can just get an efs folder off another phone and copy it in, or how would i go around all those files missing? i tried the 'NV rebuild' didn't help either!
thanks a million!
theseriojca said:
hi
the phone is carrier unlocked, as per the service menu, and according to the imei it's in the the UK region, i tried flashing Vodafone, EE, O2 UK roms and stock generic, even an asian one, just in case, no success!
upon reading some more, i looked into the efs folder (and made a copy of it), it's missing the nv_dat etc files, any idea if i can just get an efs folder off another phone and copy it in, or how would i go around all those files missing? i tried the 'NV rebuild' didn't help either!
thanks a million!
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Its not advised to (fully) replace the efs partition (folder/files) with one from another device. The efs partition contains your IMEI, among other vital data, which is unique. Since you have a backup (make sure its a proper one or better few), you might try to replace the efs partition with one from another device (I8190N) to see if thats the cause of your problem (restoring backup if not). However, you have to change the IMEI manually after replacing the efs partition with the one thats initially assigned to the device.
great stuff, thanks!
btw, when i said i backed-up the efs folder, that's a 13kb efs folder, which is no good as far as i know
googling for an efs folder for i8190N brings me here first, and than here
and none of them really work for me, i tried the modemfs file, no luck.
any idea where i can find a good i8190N efs folder and, if the swap works, how can than edit my IMEI into it?
thanks!
And again...
dunno what am i doing wrong, got a i9100p Galaxy S2 off ebay again, and again, as soon as i plug my o2 sim card in it, same story! plenty of 3g but no voice/text service! went on and got the S2 totally stock and got a new sim card from o2, no luck! the mystery persists, any ideas at all would be greatly appreciated!!
theseriojca said:
dunno what am i doing wrong, got a i9100p Galaxy S2 off ebay again, and again, as soon as i plug my o2 sim card in it, same story! plenty of 3g but no voice/text service! went on and got the S2 totally stock and got a new sim card from o2, no luck! the mystery persists, any ideas at all would be greatly appreciated!!
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tried a sim card from a different provider?
did you try that new sim card at the O2 store?
yep, tried a EE card in it, no result. the new o2 sim didn't work either, so it's gotta be the phone!
goddammit!
I cant believe there is no solution to this problem. I can't believe the risks of rooting and customizing a phone may be so great... it *IS* possible to definitely brick a device after all...
So i suppose I am yet another guy who lost their phone playing with these #¤%"#¤% ROMs on XDA.
I'd like to know how your story ended.
Long time omnirom user here with an issue I cannot find a fix for.
In my country there's a cell operator called RCS-RDS that has always had very good rates and unlimited 3g internet but, up until recently, very bad coverage. I have used 2 sim cards from this operator whenever I was in their coverage area for years now without a problem.
Last month RDS, has signed a national roaming agreement with VODAFONE so that you can use their network for service whenever you're outside RDS's coverage area. To use this national roaming service however, I had to replace the sim cards I had from RDS with new ones which, they say, operate in the UMTS 2100 band. I've checked the I9305's specs, and that band should be supported without a hitch.
Problem is however, that if I try to use either of the 2 sim cards, the phone gives me a no sim card error message and will behave as if there's no sim in the phone.
I'm using the radio recommended by mccamblesmith, the I9305 omni rom developer, in the omni rom development thread, and I have tried flashing every radio I could find, from the newest 4.4 radios to some very old 4.3 ones, but no change, and I've tested the two sim cards on other phones, including an S4, a beat up old Allview, an even older and more beat up Huawei U1220 and a 3G USB dongle, and both sims worked flawlessly on all of those.
I've also tried getting help on omnirom's irc channel, but the place is dead.
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Long time omnirom user here with an issue I cannot find a fix for.
In my country there's a cell operator called RCS-RDS that has always had very good rates and unlimited 3g internet but, up until recently, very bad coverage. I have used 2 sim cards from this operator whenever I was in their coverage area for years now without a problem.
Last month RDS, has signed a national roaming agreement with VODAFONE so that you can use their network for service whenever you're outside RDS's coverage area. To use this national roaming service however, I had to replace the sim cards I had from RDS with new ones which, they say, operate in the UMTS 2100 band. I've checked the I9305's specs, and that band should be supported without a hitch.
Problem is however, that if I try to use either of the 2 sim cards, the phone gives me a no sim card error message and will behave as if there's no sim in the phone.
I'm using the radio recommended by mccamblesmith, the I9305 omni rom developer, in the omni rom development thread, and I have tried flashing every radio I could find, from the newest 4.4 radios to some very old 4.3 ones, but no change, and I've tested the two sim cards on other phones, including an S4, a beat up old Allview, an even older and more beat up Huawei U1220 and a 3G USB dongle, and both sims worked flawlessly on all of those.
I've also tried getting help on omnirom's irc channel, but the place is dead.
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i understand the issue here, but dont know how to fix it easiest way without loosing all your data and personal stuff etc.
it seems the issue is not modem related but i think its related with the roms settings you applied but dont know what exactly. all i can say is make a nandroid backup to external sd of current rom and flash back your official stock firmware with odin, root and install recovery and flash omni again, then try the sim cards again. if it does not work you can always restore the nandroid backup from recovery.
i hope this helps
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MaHo_66 said:
i understand the issue here, but dont know how to fix it easiest way without loosing all your data and personal stuff etc.
it seems the issue is not modem related but i think its related with the roms settings you applied but dont know what exactly. all i can say is make a nandroid backup to external sd of current rom and flash back your official stock firmware with odin, root and install recovery and flash omni again, then try the sim cards again. if it does not work you can always restore the nandroid backup from recovery.
i hope this helps
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Due to a HDD failure a while ago, I no longer have the nandroid or the stock rom I saved from before I CFW'd the phone. Would changing to something like SlimROM or the likes help?
touchbattle.mika said:
Due to a HDD failure a while ago, I no longer have the nandroid or the stock rom I saved from before I CFW'd the phone. Would changing to something like SlimROM or the likes help?
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well you can always make a nandroid backup at any time in recovery mode, you know that right? cant tell if changing CFW will help but you can try it..
Edit: if i were you, i would make backup and put anything else important in internal or external sd to my pc temporary and wipe everything system/caches/dalvik/internal memory and then flash another custom rom or flash back omni again
MaHo_66 said:
well you can always make a nandroid backup at any time in recovery mode, you know that right? cant tell if changing CFW will help but you can try it..
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I know I saw a de-knox-ed stock 4.3 a while back, but can't find it again, would you happen to know anything about it?
touchbattle.mika said:
I know I saw a de-knox-ed stock 4.3 a while back, but can't find it again, would you happen to know anything about it?
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you on old or new bootloader? old without knox counter, new with knox counter
MaHo_66 said:
you on old or new bootloader? old without knox counter, new with knox counter
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I'm on old bootloader. The phone shipped with 4.1.2.
touchbattle.mika said:
I'm on old bootloader. The phone shipped with 4.1.2.
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Here you go, download mod 7 and flash with odin maybe you will need to flash the custom recovery of your choice over again and then you can flash the supersu update zip in my odin guide (in my signature) to get root acces.
MaHo_66 said:
Here you go, download mod 7 and flash with odin
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You sir are my hero. I've tried pacman rom and still no sim, trying this now.
touchbattle.mika said:
You sir are my hero. I've tried pacman rom and still no sim, trying this now.
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allright hope this helps
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allright hope this helps
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No luck. Even after flashing stock 4.3 it still behaves as thoigh there's no sim.
touchbattle.mika said:
No luck. Even after flashing stock 4.3 it still behaves as thoigh there's no sim.
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i dont know what else you could do is your imei number oke?
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i dont know what else you could do is your imei number oke?
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Yes, every other sim card i've tried works perfectly. These 2 UMTS sims are the only cards it won't accept.
touchbattle.mika said:
Yes, every other sim card i've tried works perfectly. These 2 UMTS sims are the only cards it won't accept.
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cant help you further man, im sorry perhaps somebody with more knowledge about these kind of things could help you out..
MaHo_66 said:
cant help you further man, im sorry perhaps somebody with more knowledge about these kind of things could help you out..
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Thank you for everything, might as well go back to omni.