[Q] lost 3g and gps after recovery - Galaxy Tab General

I have a Verizon galaxy tab. During the installation of CWM, my tab was locked up.
I used the recovery image that was mad by Clockworkmod during the process to get back to where I had started. When doing so, I ended up with no gps or 3g functions. The airplane mode is always on, and cannot be turned off.
I have tried installing a stock rom for the US verizon tab, with the same result, no 3g or gps and airplane mode locked on.
I am not sure what got lost in the recovery, and have not been able to find a answer in any searches I have done.
Any help on getting these functions back would be appreciated.

Same issue with Sprint Tab
I had the same issue with my Sprint Tab after installing a basic "Relax and Sleep" app. I fought it for 5 days with the help of Samsung and Sprint. We master reset and data wiped. We tinkered with multiple settings under the secret codes. In the end, Sprint said that they don't cover or service the device. They refused to swap out the device or do anything. Samsung said that I had to send it to them to repair and they would return it in 5-10 business days.
After multiple phone calls, I sent an email to every corporate email address I could find at Sprint. If I hadn't bought my Tab at a Third party vendor (Radio Shack), Sprint was willing to let me out of my contract. In the end I had to settle for 2-3 weeks without my 35 day old toy and a one month credit.
If you find a solution or the root of this problem, I would love to know.

What do you see when you type *#1234# into the phone dialer?

No phone dialer on a verizon tab, so I can't enter that.
Still looking for help in understanding what turned my radio off and how I can get it back.

Some additional information.
I reflashed the stock rom again to my tab. After doing so, I proceeded to re-download some of the apps I had on prior to the flashing. One of these is Z4root. When I opened the app to root the tab, it said the tab was already rooted.
This makes me wonder, is there any area of the file system that is not getting touched when I flash the new rom to the tab? If so, is this where the problem I am having with the radio being off, located.
Any thoughts?

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Sprint : Fix Error # 16 without calling or chatting

Quick disclaimer, yes I am a noob with an Epic4G. My experience extends only as far as my rooting and flashing roms and modems for the past couple years, and recently PRL's using QPST. That being said...
Prelude:
Due to ever decreasing signal with Sprint in my area, I recently attempted to put my phone on 100% roaming on Verizon towers - I went through a few different Verizon PRL's - the first couple would work briefly then would give me a "Welcome to Verizon Message" - the last one worked a couple times and then I got the "Error number 16" message every time I tried calling out. At this point I left my phone on roaming and tried to push the roaming data over their 'limit' to see if I could get booted w/o ETF. I gave up after 1.5gb of roaming data, reflashed to stock, switched PRL's back to Sprint, rooted, and discovered that the "Error number 16" had followed me back to my Sprint PRL and stock GB ROM w/EC05... After some further attempts and research it looked like I was going to have to call or chat - but given I had just suddenly downloaded 1.5gb in a couple days on roaming I did not want to have to explain that...
Simple solution (kinda):
Requires any old sprint phone, working or not.
1> On your phone with the Error 16 : Factory Reset your phone so that it will try to "Hands Free Activate" upon next boot
--- You can do this via Odin Reset Phone EFS or the ##xxxxxx# MSL reset
2> Power down the phone - do not let it start up at this point - if it tries to off a reboot, pop the battery.
3> Go on sprint.com, log into your account
4> Click the drop down menu for your device and select "Activate New Device"
5> Put in the MEID for whatever old phone you have that you aren't currently using (I had a broken EVO Shift that I used)
6> Watch as sprint "activates" the "new" phone until you get the screen with the programming instructions
7> Immediately go back to your devices and "Activate New Device" again
8> This time put the MEID in for the phone that has the Error 16
9> When the phone is activated on Sprint's website and you see the programming instructions, power it on and let the Hands Free Activation do its thing
Viola, Error 16 is now gone. Root, flash, whatever you want. I am back on CM7.2 with no more Error 16s at all. I would use CM9 but it is not truly stable on the Epic4g. I am not 100% sure if you really have to reset your error-ed phone first, but I wanted to make sure it did not try accessing my sprint account in any way except to try to activate from scratch. I am sure someone much more experienced than me can take and rewrite this better or more accurately but here you go. Clear Error 16 from your Sprint Phone in 5-10 min without calling or chatting with Sprint. Just need an old phone that doesn't even have to power up or work.
sprint error 16
So on a technical discussion.. what causes the error 16 issue? what is causing sprints system to trip that error code? I can confirm the activation of another phone then putting the phone back will fix the issue but I guess the question is why...

[Q] Verzion 900V probelm

I purchased a S5 G 900V (Verizon) on the 15th (of May) after my last phone died (Razr)... 2 months after the insurance expired of course. The S5 seemed to work fine for the first 3 days and like most I was setting it all up (w/exception of a few root only apps since the verzion phone is locked up).
This last Tuesday late afternoon the phone wouldn't turn on so I did a battery pull and when it booted up it had an unlocked icon (lock that was unlocked) display on the device and the word "custom" displayed under the open lock. The phone would go to sleep and not wake up without a battery pull each time. Device status under the settings area was also the word "custom". I had purchased the device from Best Buy along with insurance at our local mall... and at 7 pm after trying to get the phone to work correctly took it back to the store. The person that had sold me the phone was there along with one of the managers/assistant managers and they both keep telling me it was my own fault for attempting to root the phone (which I didn't do). They fought with the phone for and hour or so and couldn't get anything to work correctly... still getting the unlocked icon and custom word. I was told that if I could get it unrooted they would exchange the device for me, but they couldn't do anything with the phone until I could get it back into ua unrooted status. The assist manager did point me out to another website that explained the use of ODIN and where to get the stock Verizon rom.. which took a good few hours to d/l due to their slow server (not complaining, I'm glad they had it for me to begin with).
I set up and attempted to unroot the device with no avail. Did a factory wipe clean out cache etc etc the ODIN program kept saying it worked and I would be presented with all the normal new phone settings and hoops to jump thru as if it was just being activated... but on a restart the open lock and custom was still there.
Yesterday while looking over forums I noticed the phone was downloading an app I had already downloaded. I looked at the phone and it seemed as if it was re-installing some of the basic play store apps I had! I rebooted the phone and no lock appeared and under the Device status custom was gone and "original" was in it's place. I packed all my boxes and cables up and after work today took the phone in and had them exchange it for a new one. The same assistant manager was there when I had first taken the phone in when I had experienced the strange behavior.
She (the assistant manager), had no problem exchanging it since it didn't have that error showing up.
My major concern is if somehow if/when I connected the phone to my desktop did it (either the phone or computer) try and transfer files that made the phone act up in the first place? I have a rooted Nexus 7 and the Razr I had had ... had also been rooted. I don't think I have anything besides Samsungs device manager and Wugs Nexus Root toolkit, but those shouldn't mess the S5 up I have Eclipse installed but it doesn't launch without manual opening. I would both hate it if I had the same thing happen to this new phone but also dislike the idea of not plugging the phone in to transfer media if I wanted to.
Any ideas... or think it was a bad first phone?

[Q] I'm having problems with VZW N3 after flashing to Tmo

I followed all the steps that I could find about flashing to T-mo and I have Voice/SMS/MMS but HS+/3G data. I tried the all things service mode steps, but I'm not rooted. Pretty leery about that, having never done it before and don't want to brick the only phone I have at present. When I restart the phone it cycles through the VZW start up 3-5 times, but it does finally boot and show service as Tmobile. Which made me wonder if I should go ahead and root and use Tmo's latest ROM. Also when I plug my phone in to my laptop I get nagged by Kies to update, so far I haven't but should I do so? I have the voice mail indicator from VZW and it won't go away, and all of my numbers I dial out have the +11 in front of them. I changed the dial setting to stop it from being dialed but it continues to happen. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Q] Verizon Setup Wizard?

So yesterday I installed Cyanogenmod incorrectly and was freaking out. I was able to somehow get into ODIN mode and and flash a stock OS. But now it's bringing me to the Verizon Setup Wizard... It goes all the way to the activating screen, craps out and ask's me to either use wi-fi or shut off my phone. The phone was obviously already activated months ago. So after rebooting I click on the wi-fi only button and it brings me to E-Mail setup. After I clicked skip it kept bringing me back to E-Mail setup. I tried clicking and holding and nothing worked. Thing is, I think my old data is still on the phone because not only did it automagically connect to my home network, it displayed all of my other saved networks. So idk what to do at this point and I'm hoping someone can help. I don't know if some may have seen my other cry's for help with different issues these past 3 days but thanks to all of you again if you happen to be reading.
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TheCottonKid said:
So yesterday I installed Cyanogenmod incorrectly and was freaking out. I was able to somehow get into ODIN mode and and flash a stock OS. But now it's bringing me to the Verizon Setup Wizard... It goes all the way to the activating screen, craps out and ask's me to either use wi-fi or shut off my phone. The phone was obviously already activated months ago. So after rebooting I click on the wi-fi only button and it brings me to E-Mail setup. After I clicked skip it kept bringing me back to E-Mail setup. I tried clicking and holding and nothing worked. Thing is, I think my old data is still on the phone because not only did it automagically connect to my home network, it displayed all of my other saved networks. So idk what to do at this point and I'm hoping someone can help. I don't know if some may have seen my other cry's for help with different issues these past 3 days but thanks to all of you again if you happen to be reading.
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if there s old data and u get problem
so go to recovery mod and wipe all data
then reinstall another compatible rom and run
(i said another rom cause this may have bug, so go to sammobile and search for compatible rom)
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Roaming Data keeps switching to Verizon

I was running tx_dbs_tx Hybrid X 3.0 up until this morning when my phone suddenly kept popping up the Data Roaming Guard. Whenever I would attempt to make a call, it would alert me to a Verizon error to reboot my phone -I am on Sprint. I flashed with Odin the stock OK1 software, and besides having Knox and ItsOn back on my phone and battery life being horrible once again, I am still receiving the Data Roaming Guard splash screen and still receiving the Verizon error when making calls. I was able to make a single call after using the Activate Device self-service, but it didn't even last 20 minutes.
Again, back on stock OK1 ROM from Sammobile, re-rooted with Freeza's OK1 stock kernel, SuperSU Beta 2.52, any help would be greatly appreciated.
BGray210 said:
I was running tx_dbs_tx Hybrid X 3.0 up until this morning when my phone suddenly kept popping up the Data Roaming Guard. Whenever I would attempt to make a call, it would alert me to a Verizon error to reboot my phone -I am on Sprint. I flashed with Odin the stock OK1 software, and besides having Knox and ItsOn back on my phone and battery life being horrible once again, I am still receiving the Data Roaming Guard splash screen and still receiving the Verizon error when making calls. I was able to make a single call after using the Activate Device self-service, but it didn't even last 20 minutes.
Again, back on stock OK1 ROM from Sammobile, re-rooted with Freeza's OK1 stock kernel, SuperSU Beta 2.52, any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Do you live in a 4G Sprint area? If not this EXACT same thing happened to me and my wife right before they started 4G in our area. Even service calls went to Verizon first. Evidently even the Sprint reps had no idea that 4G was getting turned on in my area, they had me do all the #* dialer codes and both our phones said we were in roaming for like a day or two.
ianmb said:
Do you live in a 4G Sprint area? If not this EXACT same thing happened to me and my wife right before they started 4G in our area. Even service calls went to Verizon first. Evidently even the Sprint reps had no idea that 4G was getting turned on in my area, they had me do all the #* dialer codes and both our phones said we were in roaming for like a day or two.
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Yes, San Antonio was one of the first markets with Sprint to have 4G WiMax and then 4G LTE. It had been running just fine for months, but suddenly stopped working. Even after flashing stock back on without root or any added apps besides Sprint's auto-downloads, it still had the problem. Took it to the store yesterday and baffled them all for 2 hours before they ordered me a replacement. They even tried a new sim card because I told them that I've had problems intermittently in the past with the Roaming Guard popping up and forums stated it could be a bad sim card. The Sprint # codes wouldn't even work. Anyways, they ordered me a replacement- won't have it until Tuesday but thanks for the response. I had never heard of anything like this happening before and it struck me as odd. I even checked the settings for the network and they all checked out fine, Sprint store reps did the same and were just as perplexed as I was.
Mine was doing almost the same. Seemed like it had to go to verizon when it would go between towers. Then back to sprint. So I did the ##72786# that is suppose to launch the hands free activation. Although it didnt launch it(due to custom rom), it did run the provisioning stuff and fixed mine. Hasn't went to roaming yet.
No promise it will work. But hopfully it will fix yours. Assuming you are on a note 4.
Txdaredvl said:
Mine was doing almost the same. Seemed like it had to go to verizon when it would go between towers. Then back to sprint. So I did the ##72786# that is suppose to launch the hands free activation. Although it didnt launch it(due to custom rom), it did run the provisioning stuff and fixed mine. Hasn't went to roaming yet.
No promise it will work. But hopfully it will fix yours. Assuming you are on a note 4.
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Yes, I am on Sprint Note 4, but the pound codes wouldn't even work. As soon as I put in the last # sign it just cleared out the dialer. I found a complete list of # codes on sammobile or samfirmware site, can't remember which, and even Sprint attempted them. I had flashed back to stock available on Sammobile prior to going to Sprint, but it still didn't work. You don't think different flashes or ROMs or kernels could have caused this do you?
Anyways, I have the insurance through Sprint and have a new one on the way Tuesday. I just hate not being able to figure out a software related problem. I was also trying to find a way to do it manually while rooted, but couldn't find the right edits because I cannot even remember how to get into the correct settings at the moment-mind cluttered with too many projects.
I appreciate all of the responses though and really enjoy learning about my device on xda and hope to either create my own apps or even cook a ROM in the near future.

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