Hey all! I've been scouring this forum and Google for information about fixing a missing IMEI on the S4 Active. I just bought this one and can't get it working. I've tried updating firmware and I've tried using Odin 3.07 to flash the ML2 modem.bin file but that doesn't fix it. I'm at my wit's end on this thing. Can anyone help me with this? Thanks.
I'm on Android 5.0.1 OC6 and I've seen somewhere on here where someone says that they were able to get OC7 to work by flashing the ML2 modem.bin, but I can't find anywhere that I can update to OC7.
Edit: I forgot to mention that Service Mode is blank.
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Didn't someone get JME Rom working on CDMA Sprint Tabs? By changing the build name around?
I cant find the post, but who ever it is, please give us more details. How'd you do it? Do you recommend it? How is it holding up? Does it brick anything (GPS, MODEM?)
Thank you!
I did it to my Sprint Galaxy Tab, original post here (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=929898)
I had to remove movinand.mst and it flashed fine using Odin, I just followed the directions there.
HOWEVER, the way I did it will make the Tab WIFI Only with no known way to get back until someone can figure out how to dump the sprint stock modem.bin.
That is fine with me as I did not want the 3G, but did want the Bluetooth HID. (now my Bluetooth Mouse and Keyboard work)
You might be able to pull the modem.bin file out as well as movinand.mst but I have no idea what that would do, sounds very risky.
M.
did that brick your GPS though?
I use it as WIFI Only as well.
How does the JME run on the tab?
Can you upload the exact JME rom you updated for us CDMA users who are kind of new at this? That is if you still have the version you edited for the Sprint?
If there's one thing I learned with flashing ****.... as long as you don't **** with the radio you can't really mess it up. With that said, don't flash a new modem (radio)
exactly then, cant we just have all these ROMs take out the Modem.bin, wouldn't it be flashable to CDMA then? or no
Yes it borked the GPS as I flashed with the modem file to get rid of sprint, works fine so far and I can use my Bluetooth mouse and keyboard now, had to reinstall all apps though.
I just Flashed Roto's JMG last night, will see how that goes.
I used the ROM from here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=894763 and took out movinand with 7zip.
I assume you could take out the modem file as well or try the update version.
I would put in a request to Rotohammer to make one for the CDMA tabs without modem and movinand to be safe.
No idea if flashing without the modem file will fry the CDMA modem as I cant test this do to no one being able to get the stock Sprint modem dumped yet.
M.
I have no experience in doing this so I was curious on just how someone would go about dumping the stock Sprint Modem? also would we be able to use the epic 4G's modem since it's similar? or would that not work due to the epic having 4G and being a different device? If I knew what direction to go I'd certainly be interested in getting in to this more.
Now if someone can just confirm how to flash without killing the modem, we'll be cooking with gas!
Morolinith said:
Yes it borked the GPS as I flashed with the modem file to get rid of sprint, works fine so far and I can use my Bluetooth mouse and keyboard now, had to reinstall all apps though.
I just Flashed Roto's JMG last night, will see how that goes.
I used the ROM from here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=894763 and took out movinand with 7zip.
I assume you could take out the modem file as well or try the update version.
I would put in a request to Rotohammer to make one for the CDMA tabs without modem and movinand to be safe.
No idea if flashing without the modem file will fry the CDMA modem as I cant test this do to no one being able to get the stock Sprint modem dumped yet.
M.
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I killed my modem but I need to figure how to get it to mount my sd card.
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Sprint: SPH-P100 firmware
I saw an article on: http://www.samsunguniverse.com/forum/topic56.html
and got a link from:[email protected] to donload the stock rom for flashing...
download site: http://depositfiles.com/files/elmpfgeel & http://fileshare.in.ua/4106185
This has 5 files:
SPH-P100.DJ30.tar
modem.bin
Odin3v1.31.exe
Odin3.ini
pit.pit
paragpatil said:
I saw an article on: http://www.samsunguniverse.com/forum/topic56.html
and got a link from:[email protected] to donload the stock rom for flashing...
download site: http://depositfiles.com/files/elmpfgeel & http://fileshare.in.ua/4106185
This has 5 files:
SPH-P100.DJ30.tar
modem.bin
Odin3v1.31.exe
Odin3.ini
pit.pit
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I know that file name is floating around as a flashable "almost stock" ROM that has the Epic 4G modem inserted, so you can recover your sprint tab but lose gps. I would get someone who has already borked their gps by flashing to test it and see if it fixes it before everyone goes flashing this ROM.
If I was doing a restore using the files posted I would not flash the modem.bin. That's what breaks the Tab, not the software.
Need help I bricked my Galaxy Tab by Sprint trying to flash Overcome. Now I am stuck at the Galaxy/Samsung screen of death. Computer recognizes sometimes and others not. Is there a way to get it into download mode again or a I screwed.
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Need help I bricked my Galaxy Tab by Sprint trying to flash Overcome. Now I am stuck at the Galaxy/Samsung screen of death. Computer recognizes sometimes and others not. Is there a way to get it into download mode again or a I screwed.
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Well you can't get any worse, so try this file to load;
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=11139968&postcount=10
Keep trying to get it into download mode, down volume and power depressed together.
Hello everyone, just looking for a bit more of information on this issue, want to make sure nothing else i can do. So i have a Galaxy S4 Active i537 USA AT&T Version, it was a friends phone he tried to root the phone and seems he had no idea what to do so now the phone seem to be soft bricked, i can access the recovery and download mode tried to flash several stock rom using odin 4.3 and 4.2.2 and it fails as soon it starts tried factory reset thru recovery it goes thru but then it errors out no message just error and phone reboots not sure what else to do i have tried looking for a 4.4.2 stock odin flash rom but cant seem to find one other then an OTA. if anyone has any idea or has experience this problem and can help me out would be great. And to add on this if i just turn the phone on normally phone gets to the AT&T Orb Logo spins once then stuck there.
"Problem Solved if anyone has an issue similar to this i let me know i can try and help"
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rv0206 said:
Hello everyone, just looking for a bit more of information on this issue, want to make sure nothing else i can do. So i have a Galaxy S4 Active i537 USA AT&T Version, it was a friends phone he tried to root the phone and seems he had no idea what to do so now the phone seem to be soft bricked, i can access the recovery and download mode tried to flash several stock rom using odin 4.3 and 4.2.2 and it fails as soon it starts tried factory reset thru recovery it goes thru but then it errors out no message just error and phone reboots not sure what else to do i have tried looking for a 4.4.2 stock odin flash rom but cant seem to find one other then an OTA. if anyone has any idea or has experience this problem and can help me out would be great. And to add on this if i just turn the phone on normally phone gets to the AT&T Orb Logo spins once then stuck there.
"Problem Solved if anyone has an issue similar to this i let me know i can try and help"
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I'm trying to use Odin to Fix my soft bricked i537 AT&T version, however I can't find the stock firmware for the S4 active anywhere. Can you please send me a link if you have one. And how did you solve the problem. I'm not sure using Odin will even solve my problem, however it seems similar to yours. Thanks in advance.
immij said:
I'm trying to use Odin to Fix my soft bricked i537 AT&T version, however I can't find the stock firmware for the S4 active anywhere. Can you please send me a link if you have one. And how did you solve the problem. I'm not sure using Odin will even solve my problem, however it seems similar to yours. Thanks in advance.
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It seems bricking your phone is a common samsung thing. Look at this thread I have laid out how to fix it----->>> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2768220
Get my upgraded ota here --->>> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2722073&page=24
Follow instructions carefully and be patient.
Hi, I hope you guys can help me get this phone back to usable state. Recently I got a S4 Active i537 that was stuck on ATT logo, so I did a little research on how to restore the stock firmware to get it working again and came across with various threads; I finally downloaded the I537UCUBML2 stock rom and used Odin 3.07 to flash the files all worked fine except the BL_I537UCUBML2_2244695_REV06_user_low_ship_MULTI_CERT.tar but th phone booted anyways so I thinked that was the end of my problems. But after putting a sim the phone did not get any signal so I checked the about screen on settings and found that the IMEI and BaseBand were blank.
I did another search to fix that and finally could make the imei and baseband came again by flashing the Modem.bin 50,791kb file found in the GPS IMEI FIX THREAD but after getting signal I realized the phone was completely muted and calls were not working, at first I believed it was a hardware problem but now Im pretty sure that it must be some software issue because it wont even play music, ringtones. When trying to open a mp3 it shows a message saying Unsupported.
Back when it was stuck on ATT logo it was making the att boot sound so Im pretty sure that the problem its in the software itself. Please help me find the correct rom/firmware to get it working again.
doryan.14 said:
Hi, I hope you guys can help me get this phone back to usable state. Recently I got a S4 Active i537 that was stuck on ATT logo, so I did a little research on how to restore the stock firmware to get it working again and came across with various threads; I finally downloaded the I537UCUBML2 stock rom and used Odin 3.07 to flash the files all worked fine except the BL_I537UCUBML2_2244695_REV06_user_low_ship_MULTI_CERT.tar but th phone booted anyways so I thinked that was the end of my problems. But after putting a sim the phone did not get any signal so I checked the about screen on settings and found that the IMEI and BaseBand were blank.
I did another search to fix that and finally could make the imei and baseband came again by flashing the Modem.bin 50,791kb file found in the GPS IMEI FIX THREAD but after getting signal I realized the phone was completely muted and calls were not working, at first I believed it was a hardware problem but now Im pretty sure that it must be some software issue because it wont even play music, ringtones. When trying to open a mp3 it shows a message saying Unsupported.
Back when it was stuck on ATT logo it was making the att boot sound so Im pretty sure that the problem its in the software itself. Please help me find the correct rom/firmware to get it working again.
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Flash the NE3 firmware so you'll be on 4.4.2 and see if that fixes things. If not, report back.
Would you please share the link to that? I don't want to mess this phone even worse by downloading wrong files. Thank you
doryan.14 said:
Would you please share the link to that? I don't want to mess this phone even worse by downloading wrong files. Thank you
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It's stickied, you can't miss it.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2892445
Im glad to announce that your advice worked like a charm! I used the 444 OTA file pushed with ADB and phone is now fully functional, rooted and region unlocked due to I'm in Central America. Thanks a lot and keep up you rock!
Posting here as the AT&T board is dead
I am in the UK with an unlocked AT&T Note 5 and I cant use the Gear VR as I need the update that enabled it.
I have tried every way to upgrade the firmware using SmartSwitch, Kies etc and every time I end up with stock firmware.
Is there a way for somebody with the updated firmware to somehow upload it so it can be flashed through odin?
Thanks for any help that may come my way it will be really appreciated.
Download latest firmware from www.samfirmware.com and flash with Odin?
help
I have the same problem... Did you find a way to upgrade?
same problem... i wish samsung wasn't so terrible
Just use odin
My Mother in law just updated to N910T3UVS3EPK2, and she no longer has any service. IMEI is fine, but Service State is Radio Off, searching for networks returns an error, etc. It's also recognizing the Sim because it says no sim if you take it out. I tried to flash via odin back the EPJ2 modem, but it failed. I also tried flashing EPJ2, and that also failed. I'm wondering if the Modem didn't get upgraded in the latest OTA? I'd like to try flashing the newest modem for N910T3UVS3EPK2, but I haven't found it anywhere.
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!
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My Mother in law just updated to N910T3UVS3EPK2, and she no longer has any service. IMEI is fine, but Service State is Radio Off, searching for networks returns an error, etc. It's also recognizing the Sim because it says no sim if you take it out. I tried to flash via odin back the EPJ2 modem, but it failed. I also tried flashing EPJ2, and that also failed. I'm wondering if the Modem didn't get upgraded in the latest OTA? I'd like to try flashing the newest modem for N910T3UVS3EPK2, but I haven't found it anywhere.
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!
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Download the stock "EPK2" firmware, remove the ".md5" extension and extract the contents. Look inside, find the "modem.bin" file, and then flash it in Odin in the third slot. Odin can flash .bin files but only if loaded in the third slot (CP). I looked but I couldn't find the extracted bootloader/baseband set anywhere either.
JohnnyAn said:
My Mother in law just updated to N910T3UVS3EPK2, and she no longer has any service. IMEI is fine, but Service State is Radio Off, searching for networks returns an error, etc. It's also recognizing the Sim because it says no sim if you take it out. I tried to flash via odin back the EPJ2 modem, but it failed. I also tried flashing EPJ2, and that also failed. I'm wondering if the Modem didn't get upgraded in the latest OTA? I'd like to try flashing the newest modem for N910T3UVS3EPK2, but I haven't found it anywhere.
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!
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Modem pk2
https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=673368273298919303