I was looking to flash my girlfriends S6 to a custom rom and at some point made a mistake, getting the error "Custom binary blocked by activation lock" and being unable to boot the device. At this point I flashed the device to stock firmware and then the phone booted fine, I type in the activation email and password (in which the wrong email had been used and needed to be changed when originally set up) and it let me in fine. Then, I got a notification asking me to confirm the email which wouldn't work because it's the wrong email, so I selected sign out. Now it wont allow me to add a samsung account or access any samsung account related things, and not allowing me to turn off activation lock or change the account. I'm not sure what to do..
Kharion said:
I was looking to flash my girlfriends S6 to a custom rom and at some point made a mistake, getting the error "Custom binary blocked by activation lock" and being unable to boot the device. At this point I flashed the device to stock firmware and then the phone booted fine, I type in the activation email and password (in which the wrong email had been used and needed to be changed when originally set up) and it let me in fine. Then, I got a notification asking me to confirm the email which wouldn't work because it's the wrong email, so I selected sign out. Now it wont allow me to add a samsung account or access any samsung account related things, and not allowing me to turn off activation lock or change the account. I'm not sure what to do..
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Hi All,
I got my samsung captivate rooted successfully. i got the so called unlock code from nv-data.bin file. when i gave the unlock code on my phone, it said the unlocked failed, but i was able to use radio of my new sim. I am able make calls and stuff, but i am not able to to use data network on my phone. I am not able to configure an APN setting in my phone. It doesnt get added when i click save button.
I am confused guys....please help me counter this issue.
TIA
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Hi guys, I am officially screwed.
I had stock rom (unrooted) on my Note till yesterday. Suddenly it was just showing the GT N7000 screen and wont go forward even upon restart. Even the Samsung logo wouldn't appear on restart. So I went into recovery mode, installed PhilZ-cwm6 - Safe Stock Based Kernel from SD card, and wiped data, cache and dalvik cache and restarted without any problem. (Ofcourse all my data was gone but no problem)
After restart the Network signal was good, Data was working (could send and receive whatsapp etc.) ,however when tried to make a call it displayed "Not registered on network error".
On pressing the power button the screen turns off but does not get locked, main page is shown as it on pressing the home key.
There is no power menu too. The device would just turn off completely on pressing power button to access the power menu (Menu with restart and other options).
I flashed with custom Paranoidandroid rom but it displayed no network signal, so I tried flashing stock rom again with ODIN but the above problems still persist. Also, strangely there was no setup screen on starting the phone (which has always come on flashing a rom).
Read some where about keystr file being missing. Checked the /efs/imei/keystr it all there with text as ON in it.
Please help. I have messed up this phone many a times but was always able to recover it thansk to xda threads. I am even taking a leave from office for today.
Check your IMEI. Does it start with 0049...? The symptoms you wrote are typical for a developer IMEI.
ThaiDai said:
Check your IMEI. Does it start with 0049...? The symptoms you wrote are typical for a developer IMEI.
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Yeah it does...am I in trouble?
tshrjain said:
Yeah it does...am I in trouble?
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Depends...
Your IMEI isn't the original anymore (remove battery and you'll find a sticker with your original one). This happens sometimes - I never saw an explanation why and when - when you install a Custom Rom.
If you didn't backup your /efs-partition you can't get it back by yourself. There is a member who offers a solution (he connects remotely to your device/PC and restores the old number) for small money (see cvxcvx.pl).
Workarounds:
- Change your SIM Pin every time after a reboot (you can simply use your old pin as new pin again, this works). Then you'll have a working SIM and network connection.
- On a TW based ROM you'll have to use an android.policy.jar from a leaked ROM (XXLSC). I used this because it doesn't check the IMEI and so you do not have the restrictions like you wrote: no SIM Pin request, no menu, immediate Power shutdown. I used this with my Pristine Roms because I have this developer IMEI since a repair in Thailand...
- Switch back to GB, it doesn't have the IMEI check too.
My actual workaround: disabled SIM Pin and using my own build "Pristine CM10.1".
ThaiDai said:
Depends...
Your IMEI isn't the original anymore (remove battery and you'll find a sticker with your original one). This happens sometimes - I never saw an explanation why and when - when you install a Custom Rom.
If you didn't backup your /efs-partition you can't get it back by yourself. There is a member who offers a solution (he connects remotely to your device/PC and restores the old number) for small money (see cvxcvx.pl).
Workarounds:
- Change your SIM Pin every time after a reboot (you can simply use your old pin as new pin again, this works). Then you'll have a working SIM and network connection.
- On a TW based ROM you'll have to use an android.policy.jar from a leaked ROM (XXLSC). I used this because it doesn't check the IMEI and so you do not have the restrictions like you wrote: no SIM Pin request, no menu, immediate Power shutdown. I used this with my Pristine Roms because I have this developer IMEI since a repair in Thailand...
- Switch back to GB, it doesn't have the IMEI check too.
My actual workaround: disabled SIM Pin and using my own build "Pristine CM10.1".
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Thanks, I guess I'll just need to take it to service centre. Could you please tell me how to go back to Stock ROM and Kernel so that there are no counters or root that may make Samsung ppl not repair the phone.
I was able to get back Lock screen and Power menu using instructions to recover imei here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1264021
with little modifications to it as I could not find original file.
However, my IMEI is still the fake one and still can't register to network.
Also the set up screen appeared on doing the above procedure.
Changing SIM Pin isn't helping in registering to network.
I root and unrooted my note 4 following the proceedures in this galaxynote4root.com site and when I unroot it using 5.1.1 stock firmware in this sammobile.com site and do a factory reset, my phone is locked because of ab abnormal factory reset, and when I sign in my samsung account it says processing failed, I tried wrong password and it says invalid id or password, tried bypassing into settings and adding samsung account but it does nothing, just goes back in add account, and the reactivation lock is unchecked, when I tick it and click accept, it is still uncheck, what should I do ? anyone please help me, I'm pretty screwed here
I'm hopeful somebody more experienced with this stuff than I can help me here:
My Galaxy S6 (sm-g920a) was working fine on Android v5.1.1 (lollipop) until a few days back when it suddenly popped up a message saying "not registered on network". After some searching online, I looked at the IMEI # and it showed 350000000000006, which was definitely not the original number. I thought perhaps updating the operating system to v7.0 (nougat) would solve the problem, so I did that but it didn't help. I put in a friend's SIM in case my SIM card was the problem but that didn't help either. On top of that, I'm not sure how but at this point, a Samsung Knox Mobile Enrollment app popped up and said my phone was part of an enterprise and it would not let me move past that unless I enabled wi-fi to download additional software called MDM. I shut off the phone before it could install the MDM app, but now I'm at a point where I think I'm worse off than when I started. ...Is there a way to turn off this Mobile Enrollment app, correct the IMEI and get this phone working again? I can't access most functions of the phone after it's fully booted, except some Settings, because that Knox Mobile Enrollment app seems to disable/lock down all the rest.
Add'l Info:
I had successfully installed flash a Eng Root Boot file to obtain shell root according to instructions in ( https://forum.xda-developers.com/at...ot-att-samsung-g920a-s6-g925a-s7edge-t3564637 ) but my attempts to install SuperSU manager failed with a message indicating that "smu_protection" prevented making /system writable.
Then I followed other instructions (https://forum.xda-developers.com/s7-edge/how-to/guide-how-to-fix-check-drk-imei-issues-t3379516) despite them being for the Galaxy S7, and installed combination firmware COMBINATION_ATT_FA50_G920AUCU7ARA1.rar, booted up, typed " *#06# " powered down, replaced with stock ROM G920AUCU6EQCF. No luck, and from my reading, that may mean the EFS is also corrupted.
Any help is much appreciated.
My father passed away unexpectedly last year, leaving behind his S10. We have no pw, pin, or Google account access.
Fast-forward, and my brother needs a new phone. The most affordable option is using dad's old one.
Factory reseting the device has still left it connected to his old Google account.
If I flash stock firmware, can I get around needing access to his Google account?
No, flashing firmware via Odin will not remove FRP.