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Sprint S4 Carrier Flashing/Akey/SPC

So i have seen many guys charging a good amount of money for this, DFS is charging like 50$ per phone. Many guys are struggling to get thr phone working since they are unable to flash Akey/SPC which is needed for some carriers like Reliance, TATA in India atleast.
I'm not going to put usual diag setup stuff right now, or may not able to update it at all.
The below commands should be sent step by step as mentioned through DFS or CDMA workshop or any other tools which you prefer to use. Also you need to first send the 16 digit password for your phone model. I believe for L720 it is "2012112120131219"
----To change SPC to 000000 or any anything
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4B13030000000000
4B130F006E766D2F6E756D2F383500
4B1308006E766D2F6E756D2F383500
4B13020041020000B60100006E766D2F6E756D2F383500
4B1305000000000000000000303030303030
4B13030000000000
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In the second last line i.e. "4B1305000000000000000000303030303030", the last 12 digits are your SPC hex value, if you want to change it to anything else like 123456, you need to edit the last 12 digits and make it look like "4B1305000000000000000000313233343536"
----To change the A-Key to anything, in the below case, akey decimal to be flashed is 11111111133333333785 (the akey hex will be: 9A3298B4E238A719)
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4B13030000000000
4B130F006E766D2F6E756D2F323500
4B1308006E766D2F6E756D2F323500
4B13020041020000B60100006E766D2F6E756D2F323500
4B130500000000000000000019A738E2B498329A
4B13030000000000
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In the above cmds, if you take a close look at the last 16 characters in the 2nd last line and the mentioned akey hex, you maybe observe that the akey hex in the cmd is in a reverse manner. You can change generate your akey online or via regular tools like DFS and arrange it in the similar manner to flash. You might need to downgrade your modem in order to get this working, please post here if it works without downgrading the modem.
This has been tested on 2xGalaxy Victory and one Sprint L720, so please test and report if this works for you.

funkym0nk3y said:
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if this has been posted in wrong section, then please pardon my ignorance and kindly move it to appropriate section.
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Good write up. I flash phones and make tutorials. Some people on here claim they can do this and do that but, haven't written a clear guide yet on how to do it. Lol But, my guides are free and to the public.
Also this should be in the general section. Development is only for roms, etc.

as for resetting the SPC, you will need to downgrade the modem from MF9 to MDL or MDC... i have tried it with MF9 and didn't work...
thanks for sharing

PapaDocta said:
as for resetting the SPC, you will need to downgrade the modem from MF9 to MDL or MDC... i have tried it with MF9 and didn't work...
thanks for sharing
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If you dont mind someone asking, how do you downgrade the modem? I tried to downgrade the complete os from samsung-udpates but nothing has worked for me.... any other suggestions??? thx in advance

to downgrade the modem just download the old modem's tar file and flash it via odin.. it should work without any problems

PapaDocta said:
to downgrade the modem just download the old modem's tar file and flash it via odin.. it should work without any problems
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I actually tried that and still nothing! Maybe i just have a phone that wont take....? I have tried several os downgrades and last resort was the modem downgrade and still the same result: UNABLE TO USE THE 16 DIGIT PASSWORD TO ACCEPT ON WORKSHOP.....
I appreciate your input and help brother thx again.

If you're serious about flashing phones you should invest the proper amount of money, in the proper tools.

slawson said:
If you're serious about flashing phones you should invest the proper amount of money, in the proper tools.
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TKS BRO

Thank you this is the only thing i have seen that has actually had some success, at least i did not get any errors but how do i know if the akey is in if i press read i just get a lot of cps errors. DOes the trial version of dfs not let you do anything in the cave ?
anyway thanks again hopefully this works.

Many parameters on a number of phones are write only, so you won't be able to read them.

flashing rom fear
So I got my phone working on my cdma carrier in Indonesia. But now I am concerned about flashing New roms esp using Odin and factory resetting. Will I lose my settings with a factory reset?
How do I flash roms and still keep my network settings?
Thanks

jarcher12 said:
So I got my phone working on my cdma carrier in Indonesia. But now I am concerned about flashing New roms esp using Odin and factory resetting. Will I lose my settings with a factory reset?
How do I flash roms and still keep my network settings?
Thanks
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To answer my own question since nobody else did
Dont worry i just installed the one click mf9 rom and am now free of nags for reboot and the annoying register phone on sprint. very happy with the phone and its performance, blows my old epic out the water.

Hi,
did anyone try to change the akey for Sprint Note 3... ? N900P
thanks in advance...

Add to my Framily!!!!
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Thank You!

jarcher12 said:
So I got my phone working on my cdma carrier in Indonesia. But now I am concerned about flashing New roms esp using Odin and factory resetting. Will I lose my settings with a factory reset?
How do I flash roms and still keep my network settings?
Thanks
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Using cwm to flash another rom
Sent from my SPH-L720 using XDA Premium 4 mobile app

I have a Sprint SPH-L720. I tired to use the command 4B1305000000000000000000303030303030 it accepts it but responds back with a differnt command and the SPC doesn't change.
I did downgrade the baseband to both MDC and MDL with it still not working.
Any ideas how to change the SPC to 000000?

Been awhile but I thought I posted an update. Downgraded to the MDC modem and tired again and it solved my problem.
Thank you for the awesome post.

Using the command
please how will i make use of this command.
i am currently using Sprint SPH-L720T
any other methods of changing spc?

Okijaamaka said:
please how will i make use of this command.
i am currently using Sprint SPH-L720T
any other methods of changing spc?
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You need a PC software such as DFS to send these command to your phone. You also have to enable diag mode in your phone before connecting it to the PC's USB.

rizapn said:
You need a PC software such as DFS to send these command to your phone. You also have to enable diag mode in your phone before connecting it to the PC's USB.
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i have DFS but do you have step by step on how to connect it?
please. want to change my spc to 000000

[Q] Moto XT1060 Verizon Unlock Bootloader

Hi Everyone... I have Moto XT1060 Verizon and phone not loading...when I try to load boot menu...phone shows that phone is Locked! Maybe someone can help me, what I need to do?

diforgea said:
Hi Everyone... I have Moto XT1060 Verizon and phone not loading...when I try to load boot menu...phone shows that phone is Locked! Maybe someone can help me, what I need to do?
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First, please tell us how you got in this situation. What did you do that ultimately led to the inability to boot?
Additionally, it is perfectly normal for your phone to have a locked bootloader. All Verizon variants (except the Dev edition) are not able to have the bootloader unlocked, unless you are able to get a code from the 'China middleman' (use search if interested).

samwathegreat said:
First, please tell us how you got in this situation. What did you do that ultimately led to the inability to boot?
Additionally, it is perfectly normal for your phone to have a locked bootloader. All Verizon variants (except the Dev edition) are not able to have the bootloader unlocked, unless you are able to get a code from the 'China middleman' (use search if interested).
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I tried to update my Android version from 4.2 to 4.4...after i updated Android phone starts rebooting each time (in 20 seconds when loading)...after that I read on some forum that I need to Erase Data (smth like that) and to install clean Android from bootmenu...and after i rebooted my phone - phone not loads anymore (when I try to load boot menu - phone shows that phone is Locked! )

diforgea said:
I tried to update my Android version from 4.2 to 4.4...after i updated Android phone starts rebooting each time (in 20 seconds when loading)...after that I read on some forum that I need to Erase Data (smth like that) and to install clean Android from bootmenu...and after i rebooted my phone - phone not loads anymore (when I try to load boot menu - phone shows that phone is Locked! )
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OK your phone has always been locked - you just didn't notice it before. Not to worry... This is easily fixed. Please find the thread in the general forum "return to 100% stock" and follow the instructions to flash the entire sbf for you phone. All the links to everything you need including the firmware files themselves are in that thread.
Be careful to NOT downgrade.... It will brick your phone. Only flash the same or later firmware than what is already on it.
Good luck. You will be fixed up in no time if you follow those instructions.
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samwathegreat said:
OK your phone has always been locked - you just didn't notice it before. Not to worry... This is easily fixed. Please find the thread in the general forum "return to 100% stock" and follow the instructions to flash the entire sbf for you phone. All the links to everything you need including the firmware files themselves are in that thread.
Be careful to NOT downgrade.... It will brick your phone. Only flash the same or later firmware than what is already on it.
Good luck. You will be fixed up in no time if you follow those instructions.
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many thanksssss!!!!!!!!!!!!!! it works!!!! i thought my phone was already brick

[xt1068] Moto G 2014 bricked more than once, which stock firmware to use?

Hello all, a while ago my Moto G runnning CM 12.1 suddenly crashed, got stuck in bootloop and upon factory reset it got bricked with access just to the bootloader. I brought it to a friend who was able to install stock firmware and then CM 13, the phone worked fine for a few days just to have the same issue all over again.
I did as he told me, and basically went through the process of flashing stock firmware as per this post., but it fails when flashing motoboot. My friend said he "bombed" the device with all the (failed) commands anyway until the phone was completely dead for a few hours, then recharged it and was finally able to flash the firmware. I tried doing the same but I never got past the motoboot bit as mentioned above.
I used
RETAILDSDSALL_XT1068_5.0.2_LXB22.46-28_cid7_CFC.xml
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firmware but I now I'm wondering whether it is the wrong file. The info on the phone box's label says
MOTOROLA,XT1068,RETAIL,EURO, BLK 8GB
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(I am indeed in Europe).
If it can help, other writings and figures are:
Model: SM3928AE7T1
Type: M0FB9
SeQ#: 26024621
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I've scoured many posts but haven't really found any specific answers as to how to identify the correct firmware out of those up for download, I can provide other info if needed. The phone has been revived before so I guess it is doable again, thanks for your help and have a good year everyone! :highfive:

[solved] IMEI Recovery help! Lenovo K3 Note

For the past half a year, I have been using Carbon rom on my Lenovo K3 Note, and it was fine, until it started slowing down. So, I decided to change it to another rom (Nexus), and the next thing I know, my SIM card is no longer detected.
Turns out, the IMEI was wiped.
How would I go about restoring this?
The things I have done:
MauiMETA = Never detects my phone. Places it into meta mode, but the light never turns yellow. Tried on 3 computers, and had no success on getting it to work. For two of the three, I couldn't find drivers for mt65xx and CDC.
MTK Droid Tool: The option to change the IMEI remained permanently greyed out, and was never given the option to change it.
Official rom: Didn't work. Currently using it, and still the same error (Null). Tried factory resetting it, no change.
Engineering mode: Always gave me an error when trying to enter command, never accepted it.
IMEI.EXE: Everything worked, except the IMEI's never changed in my device.
Have tried multiple roms, multiple wipes, SPFlash, CWM (Even ended up installing it again because I wiped my entire phone with SPFlash), and pretty much every trick I could find.
I need this think working in 12 hours.
EDIT: Problem was resolved with trying "official" roms until one allowed me to update within the rom. The Update that was installed via Lenovo's bootloader fixed it. The finished product was that of an untouched phone; I had to reinstall a bootloader, root, and a new rom.

If flashing stock doesn't help, and you have no kind of backup of where the imei resides, you likely need a service center to hopefully help.
But know that any talk of manually inputting imei numbers is not allowed on XDA, as its illegal in most areas.
Good luck!

Darth said:
If flashing stock doesn't help, and you have no kind of backup of where the imei resides, you likely need a service center to hopefully help.
But know that any talk of manually inputting imei numbers is not allowed on XDA, as its illegal in most areas.
Good luck!
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So it isn't as simple as entering the two codes under my battery into some location, and rebooting?
I'm currently in Europe, and have no idea how any of that works (Studying abroad).

RocketPenguin1 said:
So it isn't as simple as entering the two codes under my battery into some location, and rebooting?
I'm currently in Europe, and have no idea how any of that works (Studying abroad).
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That talk is not allowed, as I said. Inputting numbers falls under tampering and is illegal in most areas, as I said.
So try flashing stock, if you can. But without some sort of backup, you may be out of luck unfortunately.
Please keep number inputting talk off XDA, or I will need to close this thread. :good:

UPDATE: So, I flashed another "official" rom, which initially didn't work. However, it did give me the option to upgrade, which I did. With that upgrade, the IMEI is back, and my SIM card works.
Thing is, the ROM is almost entirely in Chinese.
How would I change my rom without wiping the IMEI?

Please post the link to download the ROM you used.
I have the same issue and even service centers failed to attempt this.
Thanx and regards
Raju
Chennai

You can easily rewrite imei number using snwriter tool, google it.

Redmi Note 9 - How do I restore my IMEI? I don't have a backup of my nvram/nvdata but I have the numbers.

How do I write IMEI along with baseband version back to my phone? I really don't want to risk bricking it again, that's enough stress for me in the past two days
I heard that I can only flash IMEI 2 back to it, and if I want flashing IMEI 1 as well I'd need to install a custom rom on the phone. So if that's a solution I'd love if someone could help me with it. MIUI 13 is slow and laggy af (which is the reason I bricked the phone in the first place, to install a better ROM).
But here's something, when I flash the phone's firmware through fastboot, issues start to rise (as per my experience with it so far), but through SP Flash Tool, it's alright. So I'd love to know if installing custom ROMs using the tool would be alright, if not then if recovery is required or if fastboot is fit for the job. If that's an issue I'd love if someone could give me advice when it comes to it.
Old post 1: (not my current situation)
"Long story short, I bricked the phone and after months, I've finally been able to repair it (downgraded from MIUI 13 to MIUI 11), but I lost my IMEI. I have the phone's two IMEI numbers, but I could not find any tool to help me write it to the phone. Either that, or I don't know whether the phone should be turned on or off, or if there's any special mode that's required for that matter.
Help would really be appreciated."
Old post 2:
"It happened after manually installing engineering ROM on it, now I can only doubt it's BROM mode that's working and nothing else, but I'm not sure. SP Flash Tool doesn't want to work with the phone since I want to flash the stock rom back. I really need help please."

YLTN said:
Long story short, I bricked the phone and after months, I've finally been able to repair it (downgraded from MIUI 13 to MIUI 11), but I lost my IMEI. I have the phone's two IMEI numbers, but I could not find any tool to help me write it to the phone. Either that, or I don't know whether the phone should be turned on or off, or if there's any special mode that's required for that matter.
Help would really be appreciated.
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Install Engineering ROM and then write imei using available tools.

mvikrant97 said:
Install Engineering ROM and then write imei using available tools.
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I fear that if I install the ROM, the phone might brick again

YLTN said:
I fear that if I install the ROM, the phone might brick again
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Why?

mvikrant97 said:
Why?
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The reason why my phone broke in the first place was due to flashing a misc.bin file after following a YouTube tutorial. It was part of a process to download twrp on the phone unofficially. Since then I started looking for ways to fix it until I finally found a post that had to do with fixing nvdata corruption (which was the error I had prior to fixing the phone) which helped.
So yeah, I don't think I can trust flashing ROMs on my phone as much as before, but I'll still try the engineering ROM thing.

mvikrant97 said:
Why?
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So um...it bricked. This time worse than before. It doesn't turn on at all no matter how long I press the power button. It was after I manually flashed eng rom.

YLTN said:
So um...it bricked. This time worse than before. It doesn't turn on at all no matter how long I press the power button. It was after I manually flashed eng rom.
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Does it shows up in device manager?

mvikrant97 said:
Does it shows up in device manager?
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Yep, it doesn't show up as it's name or "Android", it shows up as MediaTek USB Port (COM3), that's why I doubted it to be in BROM mode.

YLTN said:
Yep, it doesn't show up as it's name or "Android", it shows up as MediaTek USB Port (COM3), that's why I doubted it to be in BROM mode.
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By the way, after trying to connect to it using mtkclient, I got this error:
DeviceClass - [LIB]: ←[31mCouldn't get device configuration.←[0m

YLTN said:
By the way, after trying to connect to it using mtkclient, I got this error:
DeviceClass - [LIB]: ←[31mCouldn't get device configuration.←[0m
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Hold on, it worked now for some reason when I disconnected the battery, but it keeps connecting and disconnecting so that's an issue.
I'll try to reconnect the battery and see.

YLTN said:
Hold on, it worked now for some reason when I disconnected the battery, but it keeps connecting and disconnecting so that's an issue.
I'll try to reconnect the battery and see.
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Please install LIB USB drivers.
Visit this tutorial here on xda

mvikrant97 said:
Please install LIB USB drivers.
Visit this tutorial here on xda
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Bro, thank you so much, the phone's unbricked now. I couldn't believe my eyes
But for now, is there any solution for the IMEI problem?

YLTN said:
Bro, thank you so much, the phone's unbricked now. I couldn't believe my eyes
But for now, is there any solution for the IMEI problem?
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I always recommend a NV Backup before messing up with your own device, that's all I know.
Download the file attached here but remember you can fix only second IMEI using this method. Please don't try to fix both IMEI or NV Data will be corrupted again.
Video Tutorial to Follow Video Tutorial

mvikrant97 said:
I always recommend a NV Backup before messing up with your own device, that's all I know.
Download the file attached here but remember you can fix only second IMEI using this method. Please don't try to fix both IMEI or NV Data will be corrupted again.
Video Tutorial to Follow Video Tutorial
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The guy in the video is using MIUI 12, I have MIUI 13. I don't know if that's an issue but someone in the comments said something about MIUI or so. I'm not a professional but many times when I see tutorials they're very specific with the MIUI version.
Also, I'm not sure how to back up nv data, do I use mtkclient or is it somewhere in the attachment you sent me?
And one more thing, my phone's baseband version is unknown, could that affect the process?

YLTN said:
The guy in the video is using MIUI 12, I have MIUI 13. I don't know if that's an issue but someone in the comments said something about MIUI or so. I'm not a professional but many times when I see tutorials they're very specific with the MIUI version.
Also, I'm not sure how to back up nv data, do I use mtkclient or is it somewhere in the attachment you sent me?
And one more thing, my phone's baseband version is unknown, could that affect the process?
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You don't need the backup anymore and you can follow the tutorial in the video irrespective of the MIUI version you have.
I have also attached the files that are used in the video.

mvikrant97 said:
You don't need the backup anymore and you can follow the tutorial in the video irrespective of the MIUI version you have.
I have also attached the files that are used in the video.
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Alright then, I'll follow the steps and tell you the results once I'm done.

mvikrant97 said:
You don't need the backup anymore and you can follow the tutorial in the video irrespective of the MIUI version you have.
I have also attached the files that are used in the video.
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The phone keeps rebooting when connecting it to Maui META. Like it shows META MODE at the bottom of the screen but then it turns off. Now it's bootlooping. I guess I'll have to flash MIUI on it again. At least I still have access to fastboot and recovery.
Update: NV Data corrupted after flashing MIUI, but I got a solution that hopefully works.
Update 2: After flashing MIUI 11 (along with some other nvdata and nvram files, i think they're just empty), it works now and the error is gone. But as I said IMEI issue's still there. Maybe I would need engineering ROM for this one? Although it bricked my phone before.
Also, the phone started bootlooping before attempting the Maui META thing, so maybe it's either the manual formatting of partitions or the files I flashed on it.

YLTN said:
The phone keeps rebooting when connecting it to Maui META. Like it shows META MODE at the bottom of the screen but then it turns off. Now it's bootlooping. I guess I'll have to flash MIUI on it again. At least I still have access to fastboot and recovery.
Update: NV Data corrupted after flashing MIUI, but I got a solution that hopefully works.
Update 2: After flashing MIUI 11 (along with some other nvdata and nvram files, i think they're just empty), it works now and the error is gone. But as I said IMEI issue's still there. Maybe I would need engineering ROM for this one? Although it bricked my phone before.
Also, the phone started bootlooping before attempting the Maui META thing, so maybe it's either the manual formatting of partitions or the files I flashed on it.
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Try flashing the ENG rom and try fixing your IMEI

mvikrant97 said:
Try flashing the ENG rom and try fixing your IMEI
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So I ran into another issue. it tells me I need "exaid-verified.img" and that verified boot is enabled, which is not present in the ENG ROM folder.

mvikrant97 said:
Try flashing the ENG rom and try fixing your IMEI
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Btw one more thing, I can update my phone right? Like, it won't break my phone? I'm good with MIUI 11 but I wonder if updating it would fix baseband version.