Hi,
I got my phone abroad Galaxy S passport records, and I'm tired of you had your 3 months after using the version of Froyo MIUI I decided to install. I installed 3 days ago but I did not know what happened to the EFS. And now the phone's IMEI number 40000 0049990. .. this was not the original. phone line is running, but canceled. now what should I do to return the old IMEI number, or Waiting for your help Thank you in advance masters.
I have no idea what you're saying, but if you're having problems with your IMEI, then just search for "IMEI" and the first 5 or so articles might be what you're looking for.
this problem. MIUI for downloading the IMEI number has changed. What should I do now, and I have no idea
If you don't have a backup of the efs-folder you are screwed. Phone needs a new mainboard.
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flash back to a stock firmware using ODIN, and you'll get the IMEI back
Download a firmware from samfirmware.com for your phone, flash it with odin, if it doesn't work with the firmware with 3 files (pda,modem and csc) try another with one file (like "JVH_JV3_JPO.tar") and your imei should be restored.
After, install root explorer and copy efs folder to sdcard and after on your computer. Keep it safe in case you will need it later.
Reflash an official froyo firmware using ODIN and you should be up and running, had the same problem when i tried MIUI a while back and thats how i got it sorted.
Hope it works out for you
flash to base
flash to base and after that flash to the new rom and look at the RE in the odin pro
It is possible to get the IMEI back? Super.
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I installed the original rom and has become a darky IMEI thanks a lot to address. kullanabiliyorum phone now
IINexusII said:
flash back to a stock firmware using ODIN, and you'll get the IMEI back
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This should work, it did for many others and also me.
Goodluck.
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Restore IMEI with Backup
Hello I also have a problem with my IMEI. I flashed the latest miui version but backed up my efs folder like it was described by the miui-team.
Now I want to restore my old and original IMEI but don't know how to.
Hope you can help me and I know it must be really easy for you.
Greetings from Hamburg,GER
addicted90
All I had to do was to copy the nv_data.bin and nv_data.bin.md5 files from the backup back to the /efs folder on the phone and reboot.
bodobari said:
I installed the original rom and has become a darky IMEI thanks a lot to address. kullanabiliyorum phone now
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kullanabiliyorum? WT:...
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I'm quite new to Odin but have spent the last 2 days researching it and its uses..
The problem I have, is that I flashed a ROM from over at Samsung Nexus S forum along with about another 25-100 people,
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1034130&page=118
the ROM in question re-wrote the IMEI numbers on all the phones to the same number, causing some networks in some country to deny access and in other countrys not causing any imidiate problems, but that could change anytime.
I've read that if I flash back to stock with Odin with a .pit file and Re-Partition ticked, that Odin will cause the phone to re-write all partitions and correct this.
NOW PLEASE CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG. or point me in another direction if you know of one.
I've got the correct ROM for my region but cant find the Samsung Nexus S .pit file anyware.
Can someone tell me if I have to use a specific .pit file for the Samsung Nexus S and if so where I can download it from.
Looking for a good Dev with exceptionable skills in this particular area ????
Many thanks in advance.
Do you have a backup of your EFS folder?
Did you do a nandroidbackup?
Flashing a new rom, will not exchange your IMEI back to what it was. Restoring a backup or overwrite the EFS folder with your old backup will tho.
edici said:
Do you have a backup of your EFS folder?
Did you do a nandroidbackup?
Flashing a new rom, will not exchange your IMEI back to what it was. Restoring a backup or overwrite the EFS folder with your old backup will tho.
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No didn;t have efs floder backed up and tried restoring from several back ups but that doesn't work.
Thanks anyway
This morning my friend give to me a gs2 new but i haven't read what version is.
But i started to download the new lightnening 6.1 and open Odin .
All seems to be correct but after the reboot the sim card dont work.
I try everything ! But the only way to use the phone is flashing by odin the KH3 firmware .
Can anyone tell me if i made some wrong thing ?
The gs2 can be rooted first ? no ?
i can flash the 6.1 lightening in every case or not ?
Thank's
lucalaco said:
This morning my friend give to me a gs2 new but i haven't read what version is.
But i started to download the new lightnening 6.1 and open Odin .
All seems to be correct but after the reboot the sim card dont work.
I try everything ! But the only way to use the phone is flashing by odin the KH3 firmware .
Can anyone tell me if i made some wrong thing ?
The gs2 can be rooted first ? no ?
i can flash the 6.1 lightening in every case or not ?
Thank's
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Where do you live, what country?
Before you flashed with Odin, did you close Samsung Kies with windows taskmanager (Kies Trayagent and KiesPDLR )?
What the hell! I got the same problem today and I think i´m a quiet experienced user... Under "Baseband" there is just "Unkwown" stated I flashed manually Modems in Odin, restored a backup and tried it in a Stock-rom... This all happened after flashing the Frankenstein KH4.
Not wiped your IMEI i hope....
*#06#
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It seems that you lost your IMEI number. If you have backed up your /efs folder you can easily restore it. If not you might be able to get a generic IMEI which lets you use your phone again.
There are several threads here on xda and oder sites. There is even a youtube video how to restore your IMEI. Good luck.
My efs folder is backed up and still on my sdcard... I just have to overwrite the old efs folder right? Because i´ve done this and nothing changed. The phone is just completly ignoring my simcard (I also tried different simcards).
PS: And yes *#06# gives me an erased field
Flash back to stock KH3, root it, backup the /efs folder, flash Lite'ning and restore the /efs folder from the backup
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I tried now almost everything! Flashed stock, flashed Lightning, restored backup folder and tried to restore a generic one with the youtube tutorial but everything does´nt help meto get rid the proplem with the undetected simcard...
One is your IMEI correct
Two have you flashed a clean stock rom ONLY
Three have you cleaned the sim card contacts and on the phone
Four dialling *#1234# are you showing the correct CSC.
Five are you getting a network connection when entering manual details of the network APN etc .
As you have broken a new phone within a day i suggest you take it to a service centre .
Follow that up by reading the guides before flashing as plainly you don't understand what you are doing .
jje
I´ve just flashed stock KH4. The result was the gone IMEI! I own this device now since two months! Dude dont blame me for this... I´m just not able to restore my backed up IMEI.
My english is not the best but you're a real british guy and you have the possibility to write useful and understandable, particularly with this amount of posts.
Maybe your SGS2 was locked on some network. But.. if you erased EFS, you have to copy back all files and reboot phone. How did youo backe up /EFS? There is a HC-kTool app somwhere on XDA which can backup and restore EFS.
If you manage to restore EFS, run sgs2 sim unlock app to find unlock code (if its sim-locked)
You should explain how did you backup /efs and how did you tried to restore. Maybe restore procedure is not correct.
it´s an fully unlocked device. I have a tar packed backup of the efs folder on my sdcard, but can´t remember when and why I´ve done this. Until now I just overwrote the old efs folder with the original one (i´m not quite sure if it´s a real backup. Is there any way to find that out?) , but is it normal that I don´t even got an generic IMEI?
I had the exact problem with my cousin's SGS II, brand new phone on orange network, when I flashed Lite'ning rom 6.1, got no baseband and no IMEI, flash back to stock XXKH3 and everything fine. Problem for Mr Lite'ning to sort I think. Thing is my release SGS II runs it fine
Hello,
i googled and searched for hours but can't find a solution for my problem. It looks like i lost my whole EFS Folder when i wanted to flash Galnet MIUI and after that CM7.1 because it failed.
So:
- CAN'T Flash ANY CWM zip (Status 7 error)
- CAN'T use mobile connection (No SMS,no Calls,no Internet etc.)
- NO Backup of the EFS folder ...
- Able to flash any ODIN/Heimdall ROM
- Up and Downgraded 100 times from FROYO to Gingerbread and so but still no EFS rapair :/
HELP,please ...
UPDATE: If anyone is wondering what i have done - i sent it to Samsung and they repaired it for free and even 4 months later it works like a charm (with ICS )
Flash any ROM using repartition. If that doesn't help, flash any modem / kernel after flashing ROM.
Already done that,no change...
Uwe303 said:
Already done that,no change...
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Search for Ezodin rom or something like that on forums or try flash froyo
Try this out....not sure if it will help but give it a go.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=991792
Hope it helps
galaxy89 said:
Try this out....not sure if it will help but give it a go.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=991792
Hope it helps
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Yes man thats whay i say butt i didn't remember
Try this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1261948&highlight=imei+unknow
miui creates a backup by itself in sdcard named backup
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Check your internal SD card, it should be there.
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if you don`t have a backup of your efs folder... your imei is lost forever.... you`ll have a service imei 0040etc .Efs folder will be automatically rebuilt but this will not get your imei back... i sent my phone to a Vodafone service for another problem and didn't canceled my warranty so its no problem
Nothing what you posted works. salesale's link was good,but i dont have a backup on my sdcard so its useless ...
I was NOT able to flash MIUI/CyanogenMod so i even dont have this backup ... and all my sdcard backups are only folders like DCIM/Music/Videos but not the whole sdcard. Before i tried to flash MIUI i backuped my whole sdcard but theres no efs folder there with a backup :/
I think i cant send my phone to samsung. they will cancel my warranty because i cant call and say my IMEI / efs folder was deleted without any reason. they know i have flashed and have fu**** up my phone.
Any other suggestions? :/ can someone send me his efs folder? Maybe the phone restores the imei when i follow the tutorial from salesale's link
Flash the latest official firmware for your country and Just go to the service center and tell them that your phone doesn't work after update with KIES.
That's all! You don't know why this happened
Since there is no need to open the phone, your IMEI needs only to be rewritten. If the service center's staff is OK, they will easily recreate your IMEI without much efforts.
celeronix said:
Flash the latest official firmware for your country and Just go to the service center and tell them that your phone doesn't work after update with KIES.
That's all! You don't know why this happened
Since there is no need to open the phone, your IMEI needs only to be rewritten. If the service center's staff is OK, they will easily recreate your IMEI without much efforts.
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Yes play stupid.. it will work
I remember reading a thread where someone had a programme that i think he made, to restore a lost efs folder with the correct imei, Ill have another quick search but its out there, you just need to find it...
Can't find it,sorry ...
Right well i've just been searching since i posted and found these.....
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=842775&highlight=restore+imei
http://darkyrom.com/community/index...40000-instead-of-unique-original-number.1876/
http://forum.samdroid.net/f28/complete-imei-restore-how-1817/
http://forum.gsmhosting.com/vbb/archive/t-1206374.html
I realise the samdoird link is not for the i9000 but im sure they will be able to do the same for your phone...
OMG 30 mins searching and reading!!
salesale said:
Try this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1261948&highlight=imei+unknow
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Check user nokia8260's method in the link from salesale.
He does some edit on /efs/imei/mps_code.dat to match CSC.
Not sure if you need to flash a stock ROM + 512.pit + rooted kernel to establish a basic filesystem.
Warning: Have not tried this myself, please read and decide.
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Uwe303 said:
Nothing what you posted works. salesale's link was good,but i dont have a backup on my sdcard so its useless ...
I was NOT able to flash MIUI/CyanogenMod so i even dont have this backup ... and all my sdcard backups are only folders like DCIM/Music/Videos but not the whole sdcard. Before i tried to flash MIUI i backuped my whole sdcard but theres no efs folder there with a backup :/
I think i cant send my phone to samsung. they will cancel my warranty because i cant call and say my IMEI / efs folder was deleted without any reason. they know i have flashed and have fu**** up my phone.
Any other suggestions? :/ can someone send me his efs folder? Maybe the phone restores the imei when i follow the tutorial from salesale's link
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Just restore your phone to official firmware and call Samsung, tell them your phone doesn't recognize your similar card anymore and can't make or receive calls or text, thats what I did when i messed up my efs on my galaxy s 4g and i got it back within 2 weeks.
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Uwe303 said:
Nothing what you posted works. salesale's link was good,but i dont have a backup on my sdcard so its useless ...
I was NOT able to flash MIUI/CyanogenMod so i even dont have this backup ... and all my sdcard backups are only folders like DCIM/Music/Videos but not the whole sdcard. Before i tried to flash MIUI i backuped my whole sdcard but theres no efs folder there with a backup :/
I think i cant send my phone to samsung. they will cancel my warranty because i cant call and say my IMEI / efs folder was deleted without any reason. they know i have flashed and have fu**** up my phone.
Any other suggestions? :/ can someone send me his efs folder? Maybe the phone restores the imei when i follow the tutorial from salesale's link
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EFS backup not required. Do you have EFS folder? I lost my imei. With these instructions I have recovered imei and network, signal. Good luck
I have a efs folder but its completly empty! So how can i edit these things,when its empty? Can i somehow restore them? I dont even have a developer IMEI (0049 ...)
Hello everyone,
I am trying to fix my IMEI on SGS3 but without success. I cannot select RMNET+DM+MODEM in hidden menu (*#7284#). On UART there is only (MODEM, PDA) and USB (MODEM, PDA).
I've even tried SGS3-Exploiter-GeeK.exe but when I select this mode nothing happend, it just goes back to MTB+ADB.
TNX
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=31051731
exploit20 said:
Hello everyone,
I am trying to fix my IMEI on SGS3 but without success. I cannot select RMNET+DM+MODEM in hidden menu (*#7284#). On UART there is only (MODEM, PDA) and USB (MODEM, PDA).
I've even tried SGS3-Exploiter-GeeK.exe but when I select this mode nothing happend, it just goes back to MTB+ADB.
TNX
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try using HC-kTools app from play store...
Dehaani thank you but I know already for that thread... I cannot enter that diag mode... :/
and don't have backup to restore using hc-ktool
dehaani said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=31051731
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exploit20 said:
Hello everyone,
I am trying to fix my IMEI on SGS3 but without success. I cannot select RMNET+DM+MODEM in hidden menu (*#7284#). On UART there is only (MODEM, PDA) and USB (MODEM, PDA).
I've even tried SGS3-Exploiter-GeeK.exe but when I select this mode nothing happend, it just goes back to MTB+ADB.
TNX
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Are you using International or US Galaxy S3 ?
Methods using Diag mode and software like SGS3-Exploiter-GeeK or QPST (Qualcomm Product Support Tools) are made to work ONLY with the United States variant of Galaxy S3 (based on Qualcomm SoC).
Now, I don't know software to fix International SGS3 without EFS folder backup (Sorry :crying: ) when nv_data.bin and .nv_data.bak are broken.
lelinuxien52 said:
Are you using International or US Galaxy S3 ?
Methods using Diag mode and software like SGS3-Exploiter-GeeK or QPST (Qualcomm Product Support Tools) are made to work ONLY with the United States variant of Galaxy S3 (based on Qualcomm SoC).
Now, I don't know software to fix International SGS3 without EFS folder backup (Sorry :crying: ) when nv_data.bin and .nv_data.bak are broken.
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I had this problem on my S£ (international) a while back. It happened after flashing cm10, I had a generic IMEI code. I f'd around with it a bit using root explorer and the EFS folder and the .bak files but this did not work.
I tried ktools etc. nothing seemed to work..
oddly enough, i got it back by flashing back to the stock ics rom via Odin, since then my IMEI has been fine after flashing JB roms.
worth a try!
@lozfromcorby : I just saying they have not software to do that now on I9300. But I'm agree with you ! Sometimes, we can recover wrong IMEI when flahsing stock ROM.
Yep it's international ((
Ok I will try to flash stock rom again :/ I will post result here....
TNX
lelinuxien52 said:
Are you using International or US Galaxy S3 ?
Methods using Diag mode and software like SGS3-Exploiter-GeeK or QPST (Qualcomm Product Support Tools) are made to work ONLY with the United States variant of Galaxy S3 (based on Qualcomm SoC).
Now, I don't know software to fix International SGS3 without EFS folder backup (Sorry :crying: ) when nv_data.bin and .nv_data.bak are broken.
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IMEI is still corrupted after going back to stock ROM
I've tried with my friend Z3X box to repair IMEI but without success ...
exploit20 said:
IMEI is still corrupted after going back to stock ROM
I've tried with my friend Z3X box to repair IMEI but without success ...
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Why do you care anyway when your device is working? You corrupted it so deal with it.
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exploit20 said:
IMEI is still corrupted after going back to stock ROM
I've tried with my friend Z3X box to repair IMEI but without success ...
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I have seen that the Z3X box can fix all Samsung Galaxy devices excepted SGS3 !
I think you need send your phone to repair center.
But before, you can try this :
Save remaining files contain on your EFS folder. For that, use EFS Tool Pro for example :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1308546
Try this tutorial (with a full official stock firmware/kernel | Flash it with ODIN before trying repair) :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1264021
Caution : DO IT ON YOUR OWN RISK.
If it doesn't work, you must :
- reset binary counter (with Chainfire tool : Triangleaway)
- perform total wipe data / wipe cache (from recovery mode)
- flash the latest stock firmware corresponding to your region
- verify the phone status : must be "Normal" and not "Modify".
Device is working... but no network thats why ((
Jack Barrett said:
Why do you care anyway when your device is working? You corrupted it so deal with it.
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Thank you, it seems thats the only thing I can do right now :/
lelinuxien52 said:
I have seen that the Z3X box can fix all Samsung Galaxy devices excepted SGS3 !
I think you need send your phone to repair center.
But before, you can try this :
Save remaining files contain on your EFS folder. For that, use EFS Tool Pro for example :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1308546
Try this tutorial (with a full official stock firmware/kernel | Flash it with ODIN before trying repair) :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1264021
Caution : DO IT ON YOUR OWN RISK.
If it doesn't work, you must :
- reset binary counter (with Chainfire tool : Triangleaway)
- perform total wipe data / wipe cache (from recovery mode)
- flash the latest stock firmware corresponding to your region
- verify the phone status : must be "Normal" and not "Modify".
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I had the same problem tried different ways but no luck so I have sent off to Samsung been 2 weeks now, luckily for me a service centre isn't that far from me so I didn't have to pay postage
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I might be able to help you. Pm me your efs backup + partition backup made with efs pro. If the information is still present I should be able to recover it.
@can't see who in tapatalk
Could you tell me which ics stock room version helped you recovering your imei?
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I have a temporary solution for you. if you still have the backup of the the EFS folder in your internal or external sd card than follow the following steps,
1. copy ALL the files from the EFS BACKUP FOLDER.
2. go to the root of your your phone with root explorer of ES file explorer and find the folder EFS. it should be with all the system folders like acct, config,data,dev,efs,etc so on and on.
3. now paste all the copied files in to EFS folder. tap on REPLACE THE FILES if ASKED...
4. close the app. and go to the home screen and wait for few seconds.
if your simcard have pin than it will ask the pin after few seconds and if it doesnt have any pin than it will just get the network.
good things is you have your IMEI number restored and can use the phone like regularly. NO PROBLEMS AT ALL. WITH NETWORK.
bad thing is NEVER LET YOUR PHONE SWITCH OFF. If it will switch off than you will have to follow all the steps again... annoying but works... let me know the progress buddy... best of luck...
Your other option is to to flash the stock rom but not let it finish. You will get a loop screen. Then just send it off for repair saying it doesn't turn on.. It will be diagnosed as a broken bootloader and fixed and the imei number will be back to the original. This happened with my old s1
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No, I don't have a backup of the EFS folder I will try to send EFS folder to Spocky12 and hope that he can recover information...
Chaitanyapatel8880 said:
I have a temporary solution for you. if you still have the backup of the the EFS folder in your internal or external sd card than follow the following steps,
1. copy ALL the files from the EFS BACKUP FOLDER.
2. go to the root of your your phone with root explorer of ES file explorer and find the folder EFS. it should be with all the system folders like acct, config,data,dev,efs,etc so on and on.
3. now paste all the copied files in to EFS folder. tap on REPLACE THE FILES if ASKED...
4. close the app. and go to the home screen and wait for few seconds.
if your simcard have pin than it will ask the pin after few seconds and if it doesnt have any pin than it will just get the network.
good things is you have your IMEI number restored and can use the phone like regularly. NO PROBLEMS AT ALL. WITH NETWORK.
bad thing is NEVER LET YOUR PHONE SWITCH OFF. If it will switch off than you will have to follow all the steps again... annoying but works... let me know the progress buddy... best of luck...
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Sorry buddy... I hope you will recover it...
exactly the reason i stopped messing around with my s3 :| i had screwed up my s2 like this and all the efs backups were corrupt too -_- hope you get your s3 fixed man.
i have z3x box.
when trying to repair imei
make *#9090# and select RM DUM OVER MODEM (4 or 5) (Now service mode, Just Black Screen)
after phone restart and Clear EFS Folder.
Now, Phone NO Network. No Read SIM CARD
What do I do now
ufukkoktas said:
i have z3x box.
when trying to repair imei
make *#9090# and select RM DUM OVER MODEM (4 or 5) (Now service mode, Just Black Screen)
after phone restart and Clear EFS Folder.
Now, Phone NO Network. No Read SIM CARD
What do I do now
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I would say restore via Odin.
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tino_b said:
I would say restore via Odin.
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I Try new firmware flashed 3 time.. but not solution
Phone completely clear EFS folder. dont have Backup.
Did you fix it i have the same problem?
ufukkoktas said:
i have z3x box.
when trying to repair imei
make *#9090# and select RM DUM OVER MODEM (4 or 5) (Now service mode, Just Black Screen)
after phone restart and Clear EFS Folder.
Now, Phone NO Network. No Read SIM CARD
What do I do now
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Hi mate do you know how to get out of service mode?
Well in here we are only a few box owners, I do not have z3x,I only have spt, asansam and riff, but if I where you I would head over to gsmhosting to the official product section
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jay7862 said:
Hi mate do you know how to get out of service mode?
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Have you tried with a sat stock rom? In SGS flashing a stock rom imei came back.
If you decide it and don´t find the files, send me a mp
Luck
jatar said:
Have you tried with a sat stock rom? In SGS flashing a stock rom imei came back.
If you decide it and don´t find the files, send me a mp
Luck
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hi , need efs files for i9505 for efs pro , imei lost and efs folder clear , can any body send efs from one good phone hier on forum ?
sen_igor said:
hi , need efs files for i9505 for efs pro , imei lost and efs folder clear , can any body send efs from one good phone hier on forum ?
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Dont think that will work.each phone has his own imei.
Hate to say this but if u dont have ur imei backed upped i think ur screwed.
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flash stock rom and do reset / factory reset to make it back to official roms to get back warranty, then send it to Samsung service centre.They will get ur imei as normal..
it done less than an hour..
Discussion of changing IMEI methods are not allowed as its illegal in most countries.
If you didn't read the giudes and didn't backup before messing with your phone then tough, should have read them in the first place and you won't find help on IMEI changing on here.
Thread closed.