Bought a Nexus 6 from someone, google play edition, and suddenly the thing can't be recognized on my network. I find out that my device has no imei. Now the device was rooted when I bought it and was fine and this happen out the blue. I've tried master reset and unrooting and rooting again. Does anyone know a solution to this issue. I'll pay someone to fix this for me. I've done many searches in the last two days and have found nothing. The phone is not blacklist. Help please.
Sounds like you brought a device that had a good IMEI number at first but apparently the seller probably didn't paid his bill if it's a t-mobile phone and finance or decided to reported stolen and do some kinda insurance scam.
What you're asking for is also illegal and I'm pretty sure you're not going to get any help here because it's against XDA policy.
I suggest you look on craigslist for this type of service which I seen ads for
dont factory reset, just flash the factory img. no, tmobile doesnt remove imei numbers, they report the imei number to a database that will prevent the stolen phone from being used on any provider.
Who is your service provider? What network are you trying to activate the device on?
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shook187 said:
Sounds like you brought a device that had a good IMEI number at first but apparently the seller probably didn't paid his bill if it's a t-mobile phone and finance or decided to reported stolen and do some kinda insurance scam.
What you're asking for is also illegal and I'm pretty sure you're not going to get any help here because it's against XDA policy.
I suggest you look on craigslist for this type of service which I seen ads for
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It doesn't sound like this at all. The device doesn't have its IMEI remotely wiped just because it 's been reported as stolen.
OP needs to try loading a factory image onto the device, it sounds like the partition that covered that stuff might have been wiped, or may be damaged. Check https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images and go through the motions for flashing the factory image. If that doesn't work, your best bet would probably be to lock the bootloader and contact Google.
shook187 said:
Sounds like you brought a device that had a good IMEI number at first but apparently the seller probably didn't paid his bill if it's a t-mobile phone and finance or decided to reported stolen and do some kinda insurance scam.
What you're asking for is also illegal and I'm pretty sure you're not going to get any help here because it's against XDA policy.
I suggest you look on craigslist for this type of service which I seen ads for
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Fixing a borked IMEI isn't against XDA policy, that's such an ignorant or superstitious assumption. Qualcomm based devices have been forgetting their IMEIs for years, my first experience of that was with a Galaxy S. Re-flashing stock img from google could fix it.
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Fixing a borked IMEI isn't against XDA policy, that's such an ignorant or superstitious assumption. Qualcomm based devices have been forgetting their IMEIs for years, my first experience of that was with a Galaxy S. Re-flashing stock img from google could fix it.
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no, fixing imei numbers isnt against any rules on xda, since it does need to be done fairly often. what is illegal is changing imei numbers.
simms22 said:
no, fixing imei numbers isnt against any rules on xda, since it does need to be done fairly often. what is illegal is changing imei numbers.
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Exactly. I hope @shook187 edits the post to remove inaccurate and misleading info so other noobs won't join his cult of fearful superstition. IMEIs aren't magical, dangerous or evil and sometimes we OCF-disordered folk need to recover them.
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dont factory reset, just flash the factory img. no, tmobile doesnt remove imei numbers, they report the imei number to a database that will prevent the stolen phone from being used on any provider.
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Yea I flashed factory image and still nothing. Imei everywhere is blank... Nothing no 0s or anything. Thanks for your help.
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Who is your service provider? What network are you trying to activate the device on?
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T-Mobile they said they told me that the device was not blacklist and that my imei was not communication to their network. So definitely sounds like imei been erased. Maybe when flashed. I see others have the same problem with different devices when flashing custom Roms.
Thanks for your help.
Thanks for your help everyone. I've tried everything I've seen online except messing with the efs folder which I'm not experienced enough to do. I guess next step is to see if Google could help me or maybe Motorola.
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T-Mobile they said they told me that the device was not blacklist and that my imei was not communication to their network. So definitely sounds like imei been erased. Maybe when flashed. I see others have the same problem with different devices when flashing custom Roms.
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i have seen imei numbers disappear and not come back only when someone restored a nandroid backup from another phone, where he restored the other phones imei. then couldnt get his imei back. besides that, a factory img flash should restore the imei.
last question
My friend here is suggesting that I back-up my efs folder from this water damaged nexus 5 that I have and restoring it to the nexus 6. He "claims" he has done this before with two different devices that were similar. Now, to me this sounds like it may be illegal however both phones are mine and neither is reported stolen. I guess the big question is will this work or will it kill my phone. And if I try it will the damage be irreversible. Thanks!
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My friend here is suggesting that I back-up my efs folder from this water damaged nexus 5 that I have and restoring it to the nexus 6. He "claims" he has done this before with two different devices that were similar. Now, to me this sounds like it may be illegal however both phones are mine and neither is reported stolen. I guess the big question is will this work or will it kill my phone. And if I try it will the damage be irreversible. Thanks!
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can try, i dont think itll work though. no harm in trying though. if you are trying to change your phones imei then it would be illegal i guess
simms22 said:
i have seen imei numbers disappear and not come back only when someone restored a nandroid backup from another phone, where he restored the other phones imei. then couldnt get his imei back. besides that, a factory img flash should restore the imei.
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I called the guy I got the phone from and he said he just rooted and flashed a stock ROM. No backups though. Dang. He said he didn't do anything unusual or different the normal.
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I called the guy I got the phone from and he said he just rooted and flashed a stock ROM. No backups though. Dang. He said he didn't do anything unusual or different the normal.
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and youre sure that flashed the stock img?
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if you have twrp recovery installed, check if you can make a backup of your current imei(efs folder).
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and youre sure that flashed the stock img?
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if you have twrp recovery installed, check if you can make a backup of your current imei(efs folder).
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Yes I flashed the stick IMG myself via the bat script extracted from the IMG folder. The phone does not have a custom recovery. Should I flash one or can I back the efs through cmd
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Yes I flashed the stick IMG myself via the bat script extracted from the IMG folder. The phone does not have a custom recovery. Should I flash one or can I back the efs through cmd
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probably can via a command, but the only way i know of is through the recovery.
My note 2 lost imei number and everything else and after sitting for months I decided to fix it . after several attempts I flashed a stock modem and the damn numbers came back and was working again once you fix it you will be pissed at all the time you wasted . good luck.
Use this for everything http://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-6/development/toolkit-wugs-nexus-root-toolkit-v1-9-8-t2947452. It does a lot
Go to the first page and download the tool program
Just my 2 cents, my Nexus 6 lost its imei too... aftr I flashed Stock for somereason the radio part did not work.
anyways a friend of mine lend me his phone and in desesperation I copied his EFS folder and recovered in mine! and I got my phone back, the cool thing is that I got my old IMEI and not his, which is good. So probably the IMEI is not stored in the EFS
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Hav to note one thing, Mine is a Tmo Nexus my friends is a Googe PLay Edition one
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Hello, I searched for a solution and I cannot find it...
I bought a captivate from ebay and it was rooted and Cog ROM, and I dont have a backup of the original nv_data.bin file.
any idea is someone is close to a fix? I cannot make any calls with this 004999010640000 IMEI, my carrier blocked?
please help!
best regards!
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Hello, I searched for a solution and I cannot find it...
I bought a captivate from ebay and it was rooted and Cog ROM, and I dont have a backup of the original nv_data.bin file.
any idea is someone is close to a fix? I cannot make any calls with this 004999010640000 IMEI, my carrier blocked?
please help!
best regards!
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Are you sure you didn't buy a phone that was reported stolen?
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Are you sure you didn't buy a phone that was reported stolen?
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Don't know if he can be sure on that...it was purchased on EBay after all.
I dont think was stolen, I have the original box, instruction manual etc...
I cannot made any voice calls, but 3G data network is working .
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Don't know if he can be sure on that...it was purchased on EBay after all.
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Easy way to find out. Call ATT from a working phone.
But if you have the box, I assume you checked the IMEI from the box and it doesn't match the phone IMEI? Maybe use Odin one click to JF6 to see what that will do. What batch phone do you have? If it is 1008 make sure you read up about the 3 button fix for it if you go back to JF6.
correct, IMEI from the box and it doesn't match the phone IMEI 004999010640000... Odin doesnt do any thing to the imei and is a 1006 phone...
I don't know what else you can do. Unless somebody knows how you can modify the imei in the code. I am surprised using coding didn't help at all. Sorry man wish I knew more to help you. I would call att and ask about your phone imei.
This is my captivate. There are many like it but this one is mine.
There are threads in development specifically about this.
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Sounds pretty shady to me. You need to contact the seller and probably eBay and PayPal as well. Get your money back.
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this might be able to be fixed
first I would contact the seller, if that goes no where
try this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=10184595#post10184595
try what worked for me
first return to stock jf6 eclair.
then try the following?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=881162
Im going to try this, any idea how to delete the efs folder?
the http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=8983897
how to delete efs folder
you must be rooted, then i would purchase root explorer from the market its a great investment. then navigate to root. there is a folder named efs there. for safe keeping, copy that folder to a safe place first.
mattbeau said:
you must be rooted, then i would purchase root explorer from the market its a great investment. then navigate to root. there is a folder named efs there. for safe keeping, copy that folder to a safe place first.
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you don't have to delete the EFS folder. Just delete (or overwrite) the nv_data files and replace them with the corrected nv_data files or original backups.
once your rooted you can see the files with root explorer. Android Mate was a good alternative but they have changed it some so not sure how convenient it is anymore.
WOW! I just found a backup of nv_data.bin, I adb push it to the efs folder and removed the battery ... I got my IMEI back!
Is there way to change IMEI on captivate?
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Is there way to change IMEI on captivate?
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It is Illegal and no
There is currently no way to do this as the algoriythm of the EFS nv_data.bin is unknown publicly. I may attempt to dissect it for resurrection purposes one of these days.
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It is Illegal and no
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i could be wrong but i think the poster wants to restore their original IMEI that was likely changed to a generic by a particular flash.
I think it would be hard to make the argument that changing an incorrect/corrupted IMEI back to the devices original/proper imei is illegal.
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i could be wrong but i think the poster wants to restore their original IMEI that was likely changed to a generic by a particular flash.
I think it would be hard to make the argument that changing an incorrect/corrupted IMEI back to the devices original/proper imei is illegal.
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If thats the case, there are a couple threads on restoring it and the nvdata files.
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If thats the case, there are a couple threads on restoring it and the nvdata files.
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I know...one of them is mine =)
I haven't been able to fully test on a gingerbread rom because i haven't ended up witha corrupted imei on one. I have had the improper product code on every GB rom however and did test this and it will fix your product code on a GB rom. In the past i had corrupted IMEI's on froyo roms and using this fix to restore product code always restored my IMEI to its original as well. Its worth a shot if you have corrupted product code and/or imei on GB. It just test on mosaic and fixed my product code to the proper US ATT code.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=881162
Questions and Suggestions.....
I just got a second captivate, this one WITHOUT a cracked screen!! Now i realize i could just teardown and swap the main board, or the digitizer itself, but... that would be too simple!
Or i could just call my provider and change my imei with them... but who wants to talk to their provider??
Or.... i could do something fun and learn, by cloning my phone. from what i understand, all i would need to change is my IMEI, contained in my EFS.. and i have several backups of my good efs, and could easily backup the new one.
Is it simply as easy as copying the efs folder over with root privilages? or better to do an ADB dd (data dump) then tar it and odin? or ADB push/flash....
Is there anything im not considering? Is there any real risk if I have my EFS backed up? Any other ideas? suggestions? discussion?
any neat/interesting things to do with a copied phone set?
I have mine dd'ed and ready to flash with heimdall(i don't think ODIN will touch the EFS partition, but Heimdall will if you put it in there) So IDK, I would talk to conexxion2005 or AdamOutler about this!
thats what i was thinking...
Yahh, Or contact Benjamin, I forgot his last name, but he made Heimdall
Just dd the efs partition and flash it with heimdall. Thats all you have to do.
Code:
dd if=/dev/block/stl3 of=/sdcard/sdext/efs.rfs
do the same with your new phone to make a backup of it. Change the name of the efs file so you dont overwrite it. When you get done, swap the serial number stickers. I didnt tell you all this. Its illegal
it's personal development for learning purposes.
This is why I value second opinions.
now to get 2 (active) sims for the same imei.....
they both have ICS RC3.1 on them ive had the one a few hours.
one with silver speaker mod, one with out. if you dont know silver speaker mod, GO FIND IT NOW! READ THE FIRST 4 PAGES AT LEAST!
this is what ive been dealing with for the past 2 months......
but it works just fine....
I dropped it a good 10 feet, but it was fine, 20 minutes later took out of my pocket to see this...
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/19201431/Images/cracked%20to%20****%20but%20works.jpg
Lol my sister's looks exactly the same!
Just flashed it yesterday, it's weird to feel all those cracks under your thumb, and it still works.
I'm not sure DDing then flashing it to another device will have the correct effect but it's worth a shot. I can do remote IMEI repair for the Infuse and Vibrant 4G but their EFS structure is different from the Captivate. I know for a fact you can't just throw nv_data.bin files around and expect the IMEI to follow as it won't. However, DDing the zone then flashing could result in the desired effect.
LET US KNOW!
How would I know for sure? By checking the about> phone?... Running ice cream sandwich so I'm not sure if the dialer codes will work
I wonder if any of this would help me with my borked IMEI? I'm on the network default IMEI (the one ending in 0000) and I really want my original IMEI back...
Any ideas?
Do you think it would help flashing to stock including CSC files? Then immediately booting into stock recovery to force it to apply this CSC?
I know it does some funky things in that first recovery boot.. Applying settings and such...
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I wonder if any of this would help me with my borked IMEI? I'm on the network default IMEI (the one ending in 0000) and I really want my original IMEI back...
Any ideas?
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This would only help if you had a backup of your original
IMEI
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This would only help if you had a backup of your original
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crap.
Any ideas on how/who might be able to help me?
There is a guide in the captivate development section on how to restore imei
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There is a guide in the captivate development section on how to restore imei
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thanks, but I tried all that already. I'm looking for someone who can decrypt/hex edit my original IMEI into my nv_data.bin...
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I'm not sure DDing then flashing it to another device will have the correct effect but it's worth a shot. I can do remote IMEI repair for the Infuse and Vibrant 4G but their EFS structure is different from the Captivate. I know for a fact you can't just throw nv_data.bin files around and expect the IMEI to follow as it won't. However, DDing the zone then flashing could result in the desired effect.
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It worked for me.
I have tried to find more about my situation but asking seems to be the only way since all the info is either scattered or not available!
For two weeks I've been trying to fix my note from this ics emmc bug which made me loose efs folder and I have tried several methods with no luck, so I thought that repartitioning sd might kill the bug, so I repartioned just (parts)7,9,10,11 and also went for efs part that was empty anyway thought it might clear bad blocks, although afterwards I flashed efsfix.zip from another thread on here somewhere, because of which network and everything works just no lock screen and power button dialog? And when I flash any rom stock/custom it says (in red) error mounting efs, I found a solution for that by using terminal emulator and commanding "mount", But gotta do it manually afer every reboot?
And my imei is not the same as under my fone, how could I manually edit the imei and insert original fone info?
Could anyone help or guide me to a link so that I can recreate efs partition to ext 4 and the sort out other issues?
Edit: info in-depth!!
Thanks!
Does anyone know how to create/recreate an efs ext 4 partition on galaxy note? Is there a command or certain way to mount efs part as ext 4?
without efs backup you have lost your emei. Unless you resort to illegal methods in most countries (expensive z3x box)
At this point, just go to Samsung and have them illegally legally restore it lmao, they somehow are allowed to do it.
Anyway, how did you analyze its efs thats corrupted, cause if you can flash gb from pc odin succesfully its not super bricked
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recreate can be done by flashing gb with pitfile and option clear efs. Then you should get generic emei. Which stupidly is also blocked in some countries.
That emei stuff is so overrated by secret agencies.
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Thanks for the reply baz77.
Basically, I wasnt aware of this emmc wipe bug when I bought Note, I got my rom flashing experience and knowledge from SGS2, so after like a week of purchase I tried to flash ICS stunnner on my Note with squeaky clean, but resulted in getting my fone back from samsung after being revived, took 3weeks to return.
At this point I still didnt know about the bug because I had assumed that my own doing caused the super hardbrick, till I flash a criskelo rom with a wipe and my problems started off with not registered on network, after that I have been krazily searching and flashing to have the fone working flawless again without having to send the fone back to samsung becasue of the wait and tiny chips n crack on my fone.
And I figured that efs is corrupted by googling and gathering info about my particular problem and everything pointed towards efs being corrupted!
I am really hoping for them release a fix and I can get my fone back working as a whole again!
Edit: added missing words! Lol
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Could I plz ask, where can I get the stock gb with pit file samsung
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baz77 said:
recreate can be done by flashing gb with pitfile and option clear efs. Then you should get generic emei. Which stupidly is also blocked in some countries.
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Apparently, pitfile and efs clear option doesn't work, I tried GB with pitfile got the red 'error mounting efs' and tried stock UK ICS 4.0.3 from (thanks to) Dr.Ketan but Ive still got the error and no lockscreen and faulty power button?!? Plus:- Sim Network is gone :banghead: , i'll just have to flash that efsfix.zip and do the terminal "mount" procedure again!!! manually!
"Probaly Leagality issues there" I'll try the same pitfile procedure with rom from another country if it doesnt work then dont really want to but guess this fone's going back to Samsung for repairs before I sell it off.
Many Thanks for your help!!
<<SUNG>>from my <<SAM>> GT-N7000
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At this point, just go to Samsung and have them illegally legally restore it lmao, they somehow are allowed to do it. 2
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I have the custom binary count reset, so they shouldnt have any problems with repairing illegally then?? With stock UK ICS 403 Rom from this forum!?!
<SAMSUNG><ASONG> From GT-N7000!
I thought each rom had efs file, not so sure anymore. download and install 7zip, open the tar md5 rom file with it and ignore the warnings. should be efs. img in there, if not best download one, same csc as you have, if you know what it was before it became corrupt. I think kj4 has one, so you can flash whole gb rom with options efs clear and the pitfile.
If that fails, then perform a factory reset with code, do this only from gb, *2767*3855# in dialer. That might force the efs to reset itself to generic. Should not be needed, but hey it cant harm trying on gb. note own risk
If that fails, flash stock ics which you had in first place and ask them to fix it.
You need them anyway to get original emei back, which is why I said best go there. However if you still want to try above could give you a working emei. Its generic test emei and blocked in some countries thought, so if you need to travel...
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baz77 said:
I thought each rom had efs file, not so sure anymore. download and install 7zip, open the tar md5 rom file with it and ignore the warnings. should be efs. img in there, if not best download one, same csc as you have, if you know what it was before it became corrupt. I think kj4 has one, so you can flash whole gb rom with options efs clear and the pitfile.
If that fails, then perform a factory reset with code, do this only from gb, *2767*3855# in dialer. That might force the efs to reset itself to generic. Should not be needed, but hey it cant harm trying on gb. note own risk
If that fails, flash stock ics which you had in first place and ask them to fix it.
You need them anyway to get original emei back, which is why I said best go there. However if you still want to try above could give you a working emei. Its generic test emei and blocked in some countries thought, so if you need to travel...
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Hey baz77,
I tried the same pitfile method with a GB236 Rom built from HongKong and flashed it twice, because I read on this forum somewhere that in the event of errors, missing files and apps after a flash, roms should be flashed atleast once more to get'em fully loaded but unfortunately even that method failed to mount the efs part.
Afterwards, I was just googling for more solutions and I decided to download and flash another GB236 rom Open europe built (wipe version) from Dr. Ketan's stock rom deposites and to my joyous surprise there were 2 extra tar. files, one named efs.md5.tar, so I quickly got my fone in download mode and flashed the rom with pitfile and when that was done, I got the fone back in download mode and Flashed the efs.tar (PDA), CSC, Modem (PHONE) and for the first time in 2 weeks the fone booted up normally as it should with the welcome screen, working lock screen and power button dialog! pheeeewwww!!!
But the imei is still not the same as under the hood, but I guess since the efs part had been corrupted, my fones probabaly using the emergency imei, Im using Alliance v1 with no apprent faults or errors.
i'll flash the GB Rom and try the factory rest code method by you and if it works then dont have to go to samsung and if doesnt then i'll keep using the fone as it is for as long as I have it and keep looking for solutions, if nothing happens then i'll get it sorted from samsung before selling it.
Your help is much appreciated, Thanks baz77!!! :thumbup: :thumbup:
<SAMSUNG><ASONG>from<GT-N7000
back then.. there was an application on playstore that can fix IMEI issues... its called GSII repair.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...GwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5oZWxyb3ouR1NJSV9SZXBhaXIiXQ..
It worked mostly on all phones that I have heard of.. including the Note's of my friends whom their IMEIs got toasted.
See if you can give that a shot bud..
Ps. by the way.. most corrupted IMEIs have a mocked imei of 004999010640000
Others said that they were able to restore their original IMEI by flashing to stock GB, root the phone and install Root explorer, after that, you need to go to /EFS folder inside your phone(thru root explorer) and backup first your orig ' nv_data.bin ', now if you see a nv_data.bak in there with a previous date different from the bin file, then delete accordingly the nv_data.bin and rename the bak file to nv_data.bin reboot phone and check if orig IMEI is back on your phone.
Now this isn't applicable if your bak and bin files for ( nv_data) are all on the same date though.
don't try this yet unless your willing to give all possible options to restore back your original IMEI. Don't forget to try first the link I showed to you at the top.
Cheers.
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letters_to_cleo said:
back then.. there was an application on playstore that can fix IMEI issues... its called GSII repair.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...GwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5oZWxyb3ouR1NJSV9SZXBhaXIiXQ..
It worked mostly on all phones that I have heard of.. including the Note's of my friends whom their IMEIs got toasted.
See if you can give that a shot bud..
Ps. by the way.. most corrupted IMEIs have a mocked imei of 004999010640000
Others said that they were able to restore their original IMEI by flashing to stock GB, root the phone and install Root explorer, after that, you need to go to /EFS folder inside your phone(thru root explorer) and backup first your orig ' nv_data.bin ', now if you see a nv_data.bak in there with a previous date different from the bin file, then delete accordingly the nv_data.bin and rename the bak file to nv_data.bin reboot phone and check if orig IMEI is back on your phone.
Now this isn't applicable if your bak and bin files for ( nv_data) are all on the same date though.
don't try this yet unless your willing to give all possible options to restore back your original IMEI. Don't forget to try first the link I showed to you at the top.
Cheers.
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Hi Letters_to_cleo,
Thank you for the suggestions mate, at the moment Im on Alliance v.1 403 rom, and I have just tried the fix from your link, did the steps1 & 2 restarted checked imei and it's the same serial (#to#) as you have stated, then i tried the step 3 which indicated that the nv_data.bin file is missing from that folder.
I have already gone to certain extents to return the fone in its generic state, so it won't matter if I tried once more besides trying repairs on GB rom is probably much safer then on ICS builts as long as the fone doesnt die on me,(completely again!), I 'll try your 2nd method in a bit and report back after!
Thanks for the support!!:thumbup:
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yeah that app wont work if you dont have efs backup. It distills from original. bak file the emei, now with the reflash of efs, even before you had lost it. only generic stuff left.
you need as mentioned before to go to samsung to repair emei, or find a phone place that can do it. You can yourself but in most countries its illegal. You need z3d box or equivalent for that, 150$$$$ lol, I have seen people who bought it offer that service for small fee. But be careful as ot could be illegal in your country, even if its going from generic emei to original emei lol.
Oh and you are welcome, been there done that, with the efs stuff. Samsung fixed mine.
My help is free, now if another has this you know how to help them
After Samsung fixes it,stay on gb, root phone and backup efs on multiple locations(pc, cdrom, floppy disk, bank vault you get it) In future when you buy android do that first. How to is in dr ketans toolbox thread in general section.
edit efs backup is not in nandroid, nor titanium backups. In fact still to date there is not one solution that can back everything up on your phone.
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letters to cleo, corrupt emeis are empty or 0000000000000000000000000,
the 490000 emei is given when resetting efs. That is not corrupt anymore to my knowledge
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oh I ran into missing lockscreen issues after fully fixing it, I have in my profile then statistics started a thread which links to a solution for that
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Hi Enseven reporting,
@Letters_to_cleo, the methods you suggested dont work but thanks for trying to helping, i didnt find the bak file in efs folder but there 2 nv_data files, and they're both dated from Jan2011, renaming them just disable's the network and doent change the imei#, it remains the same!
@baz11, Yes mate, you are right this fone's going back to samung bcuz im not looking to $pend 150 on some box that I wont even use twice.
Im not really that fussed about imei not being as same on fone hardware, just as long the fone works, but like you said it probably is illegal to sell a fone with messed up serial no.
And on top of that fone's price would drop for having software issues, only wanted to fix it so that I could sell it on without loosing much $$ from the original price I paid for it, it'll be disapointing since Ive only had the fone for just over 2 months.
And I did manage to fix the welcome/lockscreen/power button issues by flashing efs.tar I got from that wipe version Open Europe Rom but even after the flash, it restore's the needed files but doesnt really prompt the features so I gotta insert this command through terminal emulator: "echo n- ON> /efs/imei/keystr" "sync"and factory reset, then the fone reboots normally with everything working but the IMEI ofcourse!
Wonder if your lockscreen fix works ive looked for it on your profile's statistic's tab but uable to find it, could you plz provide a link. Thanks
Ive tried all methods with some luck and no further progress apart from having to buy expensive equipment, so I guess i'll keep using the fone and looking for any miraculous solution till I resort to Samsung.
P.S: If they cant find a fix for the emmc bug by working on scripts , they should atleast invent a nano tech powder (gadget bug killer) to sprinkle on the motherboard, LOL!!!
because this problem goes way back, like another user said on here you could make a movie about now, and ithink it started off as a scifi now its a scifi/thriller, "shall I wipe before flashing & risk hardbrick Or shall I wait for samsung to pace up the support!!!
Thanks to xda and memebrs for being online 247 and all the support though!!
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Hi En7,
Sorry to hear my steps didn't work on your phone bud.
I checked some forums here in XDA and I've come across this one: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1804117. (I'm not sure though if you have come across that link before or not).
It is for the S3 forum but there's a tool in there that you can try to download and run to somehow restore your corrupted IMEI. It's worth taking the risk I should say but who knows..any given tool/info is highly useful and it could be a clear shot in bringing back your original IMEI back right?
Cheers bud!
lol that cracked me up nano powder hahaha good one.
you found the lockscreen fix, its the same fix I found while back from some guru.
I guess you can change emei to original with someone who has such a box. Finding is not to difficult, just need to go to a shop that can repair emei. Preferably Samsung thought, Just go to a samsung service centre, or store where you bought phone. Best unroot and put stock firmware that matches your phones original csc, to avoid anoying questions. Just tell the truth you updated phone and emei was gone/changed and you want original imei back. Samsung can fix it. Note, this time dont use pit or clear csc. Its not needed anymore.
I searched hard and long when I had that issue with emei, wasnt without a backup able to change it back to original, other then Samsung or such a box.
It annoyed the crap out of me. I can relate to what you were going through.
Everybody is nandroid this titaniun backup that, apparently efs is the only thing not standardly backed up with any standard mainstream solution.
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oh, and good idea, maybe you should write a scifi thriller
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I have a G5S plus (xt1806) on sprint. Every rom I flash results in me not having LTE, and 3G cuts in and out unreliably. I have checked and my imei is still there. I have flashed the modems, and I have restored my efs backup to no avail. This has happened on every rom, no matter if I clean flash, dirty flash, I end up with the same result. Does anyone have any insight on this?
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I have a G5S plus (xt1806) on sprint. Every rom I flash results in me not having LTE, and 3G cuts in and out unreliably. I have checked and my imei is still there. I have flashed the modems, and I have restored my efs backup to no avail. This has happened on every rom, no matter if I clean flash, dirty flash, I end up with the same result. Does anyone have any insight on this?
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I had a similar issue on Verizon. When I got the phone I never inserted my new sim card & connected to the network before I unlocked the bl, flashed TWRP, custom ROM, etc. Every ROM I flashed had the same issue as you describe in your post.
Solution: I backed everything up to a pc & fastboot flashed back to stock & started over. Everything has been fine ever since.
***Keep that efs backup you made too - just in case you lose IMEI on your return to stock; efs restore should fix it.
Bob nesta said:
I had a similar issue on Verizon. When I got the phone I never inserted my new sim card & connected to the network before I unlocked the bl, flashed TWRP, custom ROM, etc. Every ROM I flashed had the same issue as you describe in your post.
Solution: I backed everything up to a pc & fastboot flashed back to stock & started over. Everything has been fine ever since.
***Keep that efs backup you made too - just in case you lose IMEI on your return to stock; efs restore should fix it.
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Yea, I've tried reverting back to stock. I get back my service after restoring efs partition, but whenever I do it again, service is broken. I am at a loss.
L4ndon said:
Yea, I've tried reverting back to stock. I get back my service after restoring efs partition, but whenever I do it again, service is broken. I am at a loss.
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Fwiw - I worked with another Sprint user a while back who could only get reliable service with the original firmware - that which came with the phone when purchased. Fortunately he had a bu of that and it was the only thing that worked. There is a thread about checking/fixing permissions on your persist partition that may help. Check it out - ya never know.
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Fwiw - I worked with another Sprint user a while back who could only get reliable service with the original firmware - that which came with the phone when purchased. Fortunately he had a bu of that and it was the only thing that worked. There is a thread about checking/fixing permissions on your persist partition that may help. Check it out - ya never know.
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I really dislike how sprint deals with unlocked phones, they never play nice, I have had carrier specific issues with them in the past. If it wasn't for my grandfathered truly unlimited plan I would switch in a heartbeat.
And yea, I'll be sure to check that thread out, thanks!
L4ndon said:
I have a G5S plus (xt1806) on sprint. Every rom I flash results in me not having LTE, and 3G cuts in and out unreliably. I have checked and my imei is still there. I have flashed the modems, and I have restored my efs backup to no avail. This has happened on every rom, no matter if I clean flash, dirty flash, I end up with the same result. Does anyone have any insight on this?
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I had the same problem. I made a thread about it and somebody gave the solution. See if it works for you. https://forum.xda-developers.com/moto-g5s-plus/help/4g-to-t3829195
L4ndon said:
I really dislike how sprint deals with unlocked phones, they never play nice, I have had carrier specific issues with them in the past. If it wasn't for my grandfathered truly unlimited plan I would switch in a heartbeat.
And yea, I'll be sure to check that thread out, thanks!
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I had initially had this in my previous reply - Sprint has always been special - but I deleted it, should have left it in. I've heard many bad stories from Sprint users in the past, going back years. Just glad I always stayed away from them (they have no coverage in my neck of the woods anyway).
Good luck!
PS - the link in the above post has the instructions to set correct permissions on affected files in persist partition - they came from the thread I mentioned.
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