REMINDER about /efs - Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)

Well gentle man. I failed to back up my /efs folder. I lost my imei and can only get an edge connection. This is just a friendly reminder to please back up your /efs folder. I did not know about doing this until it was too late. I'm my s3 was not salvageable. But still works with Wi-Fi.
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I thought we couldn't back that up yet?
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corythug said:
I thought we couldn't back that up yet?
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Inapplicable advice. Sorry.

Diviance said:
Provided you are rooted (which, if you aren't the folder isn't really in danger) you can use Root Explorer to copy it directly to the sdcard, or download dropbox and stick it in the dropbox folder and cloud back it up too.
Or Spideroak. Or Box.
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Oooh ok, thanks. What directory is it located if you don't mind?
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It is in the root of your phone. It is the file called efs.
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Which is weird because I have the file bit have no way of fixing it
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Ah, seems my advice from above is not applicable to the S3 series. Samsung moved where the IMEI is actually located or something because, from what I have found, it is not located in /efs.
So uh, for the moment aside from literally backing up every single partition on your device I do not know of a working method of backing up your IMEI to prevent corruption.

dont feel to bad mac your not alone. quick question what recovery did you flash cwm touch? twrp

deeznutz1977 said:
dont feel to bad mac your not alone. quick question what recovery did you flash cwm touch? twrp
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We need to focus on finding what is causing this so it can be avoided. It seems to be related to flashing a recovery. Please post any details that we can use to find a pattern.
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its a known issue with all of the lte sgs 3's. backing up /efs wont help as there is no nv_data.bin which contains the imei number.
heres an ongoing thread about it http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=28710945

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We need to focus on finding what is causing this so it can be avoided. It seems to be related to flashing a recovery. Please post any details that we can use to find a pattern.
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Bump...a lot of people don't know about backing up their IMEI. This post should be stickied or something.

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We need to focus on finding what is causing this so it can be avoided. It seems to be related to flashing a recovery. Please post any details that we can use to find a pattern.
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I've flashed half a dozen CWM recovery versions so far and haven't "lost my imei" yet, and don't see why it would.
(FWIW, I'm currently using http://download2.clockworkmod.com/recoveries/recovery-clockwork-touch-5.8.4.7-d2att.img for ATT and simply dd'd it over partition 18 like all the rest. CWM-flashable versions shouldn't make any difference, though)

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I've flashed half a dozen CWM recovery versions so far and haven't "lost my imei" yet, and don't see why it would.
(FWIW, I'm currently using http://download2.clockworkmod.com/recoveries/recovery-clockwork-touch-5.8.4.7-d2att.img for ATT and simply dd'd it over partition 18 like all the rest. CWM-flashable versions shouldn't make any difference, though)
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DD is much safer as you're just doing a block copy from one device to the other so it's a kernel level copy that is pretty safe as long as you're targeting the right partition. However flashing things could go wrong and it could overwrite a partition or unmount it or something that could lead to these issues
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Okay so I have T-Mobile. I rooted using Odin. I installed cwm via Odin. On the 23rd of last month. What caused me to lose imei was that I flashed an updated cwm via Rom manager. The cwm I.flashed was the one that wouldn't let you restore any back ups from your back up restore file. But I flashed the aokp release 3 as well..I did a complete wipe. Then installed from as card. Then had no signal
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Okay so I have T-Mobile. I rooted using Odin. I installed cwm via Odin. On the 23rd of last month. What caused me to lose imei was that I flashed an updated cwm via Rom manager. The cwm I.flashed was the one that wouldn't let you restore any back ups from your back up restore file. But I flashed the aokp release 3 as well..I did a complete wipe. Then installed from as card. Then had no signal
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I lost mine when i pushed the clockworkmod touch then flashed it then aokp. btw i still have calls and edge

Is this a carrier specific issue?
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I did pretty much the same exact thing.
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MacTheRipperr said:
Okay so I have T-Mobile. I rooted using Odin. I installed cwm via Odin. On the 23rd of last month. What caused me to lose imei was that I flashed an updated cwm via Rom manager. The cwm I.flashed was the one that wouldn't let you restore any back ups from your back up restore file. But I flashed the aokp release 3 as well..I did a complete wipe. Then installed from as card. Then had no signal
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Did you flash CWRT 5.8.4.7? I'm still on 5.8.4.5 and have flashed many things without losing my IMEI. Could the new CWR be the source of the problem?
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I had the cwm used in the very first root method. I updated to the one right before touch and bam everything was gone.
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The reason why i will never flash a custom ROM on my SII

For some month's ago i had a Galaxy S Plus and i liked it, but i wanted to flash a custom ROM on it. So i updated it with Odin to the newest stock firmware, and i innstalled Clockworkmod so i could flash a custom ROM.
So i flashed the custom ROM (MoonRom) on it using AROMA innstaller and it went successfully. And i used the ROM for one day, and it was fast, and so on, and had a funny sound when u pressed on the dialer keypad, like a water drop sound
I liked the ROM, but i wanted it back to stock (warranty reasons) .So i put to phone into download mode and i used Odin + the pit file and flashed it back to stock firmware and wiped out and formatted everything on it using recovery mode.
And later i used the phone dialer, and the keypad sounds from the custom ROM was still there, after i reflashed it????
I was extremely confused i flashed a billion stock firmwares on there and that water drop sound when u tapped the dialer keypad was still there. I had formatted it and everything and it was still there after flashing back????
I know own a Galaxy S II, and i will never flash somethign custom on there i am afraid that if i do that and then reflash back. Something on the old rom will ble left.
After that i gave my mom the phone. And i was extremly confused...
Maybe the keypad sound is left on the sd card?
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Maybe the keypad sound is left on the sd card?
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i flashed it with and without the sd card. But it was still there...
CWM won't always be able to wipe everything, on my phone it can't wipe the boot partition
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I will still not flash anything custom on there...
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I will still not flash anything custom on there...
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As you wish
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Strange, but I wouldn't give up Roms just because of a water drop sound. To each his own.
Agree with the guy above me. Stock, the phone has way too much bloatware.
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CWM won't always be able to wipe everything, on my phone it can't wipe the boot partition
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So do you know any way to get the keypad sounds back??? And also the keyboard sounds are also left from the custom ROM.
If you flashed back using Odin then its impossible that the sounds remain.
I can make you a flash package that should enable the stock samsung sounds if you really want it? You just have to tell me what firmware you will be running i.e. Gingerbread or ICS?
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If you flashed back using Odin then its impossible that the sounds remain.
I can make you a flash package that should enable the stock samsung sounds if you really want it? You just have to tell me what firmware you will be running i.e. Gingerbread or ICS?
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Hello I sold the phone to my mom, and she dont want me to play around with her phone. But thanks for suggestion
I made this post just to try sort things out why the old rom sounds is still there, and i used ODIN + the pit filed when i flashed the Galaxy S Plus.
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I made this post just to try sort things out why the old rom sounds is still there, and i used ODIN + the pit filed when i flashed the Galaxy S Plus.
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User error. If you used odin, nothing will remain from a previous flash.
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Thanks for this, please, share more of your opinions -___-
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Don't mean to be rude or anything but why should we care whether you will or won't flash another custom rom again?
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Don't mean to be rude or anything but why should we care whether you will or won't flash another custom rom again?
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This.
Edit:By the way my uncle is a giraffe,hope it helped.
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Flashing roms, tinkering, working out issues and resolving them, making device better is what XDA is about and where the enjoyments is, If you dont like that or dont have the aptitude, patience to learn why are you even here or have a Android device?
My suggestion is to get a Nokia 3310 or an iPhone, Or at least do not come here and bore us with stories about why you dont want to flash your phone.
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Cool story bro , now please give me back my 2 mn lost on this useless topic.

How to use twrp to replace clockwork recovery -- uninstalling clockwork?

I want to uninstall clockwork completely, remove all instances of it and move to twrp. What is the best way I can do this? right now I see that cwr is using roughly 3gb of my storage (8gb) model, so I need to know the correct procedure to removing it. Thanks
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I want to uninstall clockwork completely, remove all instances of it and move to twrp. What is the best way I can do this? right now I see that cwr is using roughly 3gb of my storage (8gb) model, so I need to know the correct procedure to removing it. Thanks
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download the twrp package and flash it with fastboot.
Alternatively: go to twrp thread, follow directions.
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download the twrp package and flash it with fastboot.
Alternatively: go to twrp thread, follow directions.
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I know how to install twrp, I just want to know the correct process to remove all instances of clockwork mod from my device so I can free up some space
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ikn0wagh0st said:
I know how to install twrp, I just want to know the correct process to remove all instances of clockwork mod from my device so I can free up some space
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CWM lives in the recovery partition which doesn't show up as part of your storage, how is it using up so much space?
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CWM lives in the recovery partition which doesn't show up as part of your storage, how is it using up so much space?
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No idea..I have one backup and its taking up almost 3 gigs of space.
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No idea..I have one backup and its taking up almost 3 gigs of space.
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That's nandroid backups, those have nothing to do with CWM other than you made them with it, just delete the folder. CWM itself is exactly 6635520 bytes and isn't on a partition you can look at in a file explorer.
cool. I just installed twrp, deleted the clockwork folder and freed up a bunch of space. I have no idea why clockwork was taking up so much space. I had one backup. That's it. My twrp backup is 500megs.
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cool. I just installed twrp, deleted the clockwork folder and freed up a bunch of space. I have no idea why clockwork was taking up so much space. I had one backup. That's it. My twrp backup is 500megs.
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No Idea, there have been some odd things reported with the new v6 versions of CWM, could be some sort of bug. It sounds almost like it backed everything up 2 or 3x in 1 backup based on my rough math.
My back up is 20 mb, is that wrong
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My back up is 20 mb, is that wrong
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Sounds like it was never able to finish. I would re-do that backup
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My back up is 20 mb, is that wrong
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Yes your backup should definitely be larger than that. I have several I will open them and see what size they are, I'm guessing 500 mb to 1 GB approximately. Will update soon with the total.
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My back up is 20 mb, is that wrong
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Sounds like it was never able to finish. I would re-do that backup
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Your backup should be the total size of the stuff in your device - the compression, i'm not sure how heavy the compression CWM uses for Nandroids is, but 20mb is way too small to be the full thing.

Loss of storage after ota mf3 root???

I recently let the ota update of mf3 on my galaxy s4 I then proceeded to root it only to get the wifi tether Apk but was unable to do so. I ultimately I noticed the device only shows roughly 800mbs of storage available with only 8 gbs used including the 6.38gb system memory I have a 64gb micro sd with Everything on it instead of on my devices storage in the graph under storage in settings free space is half of the graph although in its own category it only shows 800mbs free
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Have you tried factory reset?
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I was told I could not factory reset after rooting mf3 that it would or I guess could brick the phone and then there would be nothing I could do to recovery at that point.
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Okay then, try using any file explorer and look for huge files, etc.
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I use Smanager and there is NOTHING on this phone I've been through every file and I can't seem to find a thing
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Rooting does not mess with your storage. You did something wrong
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You can see that the available space is only 765mb but up top it appears to have a ton of available space
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You can see that the available space is only 765mb but up top it appears to have a ton of available space
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That's your internal sd card. Android uses a bunch of it.
I don't think it's the root that did it it's just the root keeping me from doing a factory reset I had root before with mdl and at one point been running the Google edition rom then used Odin to go back to factory had root again but just stuck with touch wiz after that I'm assuming something got gunked up somewhere that is keeping an extra system software that I can't seem to get to or remove since at no point since having the phone did I even have mov/pics/music/apps ect to account for all the missing storage
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Never should have gotten the ota. Now you have to live with a neutered system.
Yeah I Def regret letting the ota go through but I'm stuck for now the misc files showing 6.38gb is the the system files im still missing oh like, 6+gb somewhere
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Does anyone know for sure that if I do a factory reset through the phone that it will screw it up once I gained root I did nothing else I didn't try and make a back up or recovery
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Every phone that I have factory reset with root has just lost root. Where did you read that doing so will brick you?
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I read on here that once you root the new mf3 version there is no current way to go back to stock
Is that not true? I don't want to try and screw myself
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Hmm... I will do some research into this. It just sounds a bit off to me.
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I was told I could not factory reset after rooting mf3 that it would or I guess could brick the phone and then there would be nothing I could do to recovery at that point.
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Doing a factory reset on your phone has nothing to do with the root, it will not brick it. I know this from my own experience with the MF3. You will simply just lose root. Period.
OK great does it matter that before I did the ota update that I had twrp recovery and when the phone boots up it still has the custom boot screen with the unlocked lock?
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OK great does it matter that before I did the ota update that I had twrp recovery and when the phone boots up it still has the custom boot screen with the unlocked lock?
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It shouldn't matter from what I have read. I'm not sure myself, but again based on what I read you should be just fine.
Well its official I cannot retire back to factory through the phone I tried under the account-restore/backup option and reboot with volume up both throw it in Odin mode saying cannot boot normal blah blah blah leaving me to boot volume down to get phone to reboot properly I guess I'll have to wait
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Rooting noob needs advice

Hi guys, new to the forum and a total noob rooting and custom roms etc. I have a note 3 SM-N9005 which i have just "successfully?" rooted with supersu flashed with clockwork recovery and am now running CM11 I installed the google apps package and it all seems to be running well apart from a few glitches. Does all this sound right? And how does it update? I'm aware that I am not running an official CM version but when that becomes available how do i get that running? Do I have to go through the process again?
Thanks in advance for the first of many stupid questions
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You said you have SM-N9005 but the signature is SM-N9000. What is the problem.
Cyanogen build is reporting wrong is all. Nothing to worry about. Build.prop just needs changed... Now to answer the question. .
If you stay on the base you're on now you can dirty flash new builds over. But if you are changing cm from different devs you'll need to wipe and install from scratch.
You're better wiping and installing from scratch as it tends to solve 99% of issues.
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Cyanogen build is reporting wrong is all. Nothing to worry about. Build.prop just needs changed... Now to answer the question. .
If you stay on the base you're on now you can dirty flash new builds over. But if you are changing cm from different devs you'll need to wipe and install from scratch.
You're better wiping and installing from scratch as it tends to solve 99% of issues.
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Thanks for the response! I followed the instructions outlined in this post
ibtimes.co.uk/android-4-4-2-kitkat-arrives-galaxy-note-3-via-cyanogenmod-11-rom-how-install-1431052
I used the rom in the download link and used the programs they suggested to install it. What is the version of the rom they have listed?
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Thanks for the response! I followed the instructions outlined in this post
ibtimes.co.uk/android-4-4-2-kitkat-arrives-galaxy-note-3-via-cyanogenmod-11-rom-how-install-1431052
I used the rom in the download link and used the programs they suggested to install it. What is the version of the rom they have listed?
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This build is the one that Ibtimes listed
EDIT: Also for builds with some additional features, there is temasek's build, ProBAM and BAM - but obviously it is up to you which one you choose and to which one you prefer. - Pong's build was the first main build here at xda, and he's been doing daily updates to fix errors, a lot of people seem happy and content with that build right now, so unless you are looking for something different, you could stay on it without any major issues
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This build is the one that Ibtimes listed
EDIT: Also for builds with some additional features, there is temasek's build, ProBAM and BAM - but obviously it is up to you which one you choose and to which one you prefer. - Pong's build was the first main build here at xda, and he's been doing daily updates to fix errors, a lot of people seem happy and content with that build right now, so unless you are looking for something different, you could stay on it without any major issues
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Thanks. I had a look at PROBAM and flashed that on. I really like it. The only problem I had was with instruction number 7 select recommended kernel for first install.
What does this mean? The ROM is working fine and I couldn't find an option on cwm recovery. Lol I can just imagine the heads shaking reading this
Thanks
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Thanks. I had a look at PROBAM and flashed that on. I really like it. The only problem I had was with instruction number 7 select recommended kernel for first install.
What does this mean? The ROM is working fine and I couldn't find an option on cwm recovery. Lol I can just imagine the heads shaking reading this
Thanks
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Can't select a kernel on installing that. Well not that I seen anyway, it includes a custom CM kernel - wouldn't worry about it too much.
But when custom kernels for CM do come round, flashing is pretty simple, just boot into recovery and flash the .zip. -- just be careful setting voltages etc cause what works for others won't work for you sometimes and may bootloop your phone. (it can be fixed) - As for the shaking heads, I wouldn't worry too much, we all started somewhere
Cheers radicalisto you've been a big help
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Also since I've started playing around with rooting and flashing my phone displays the wrong model number SM-N9000 instead of 9005. What is up with that?
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Also since I've started playing around with rooting and flashing my phone displays the wrong model number SM-N9000 instead of 9005. What is up with that?
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This question i've asked in the post #2
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This question i've asked in the post #2
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Any ideas?
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Any ideas?
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Go to Play Store, search for an app Check Fus, run it and post the screenshot. I will tell you what model do you have
Or use my app to check for the Model: Phone INFO
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Your phone is likely black N9005 for Australia XSA region
May be something wrong with your build.prop file. Check it and modify as need
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Use my app Phone INFO to check for the phone info instead.
Thanks
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Thanks
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So what info did you get?
Can you post some screenshots from my app?
Thanks.
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Sorry vngnguyen, I'm not to concerned with it any more
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SM-S920L stock rom

Looking for stock rom. I'm bricked with download mode stuck at bootlogo. I made a backup prior bit cannot flash anything at all. I tried flashing .pit file still nothing. If I flash pit file with stock rom, I may get somewhere?
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adrwill2000 said:
Looking for stock rom. I'm bricked with download mode stuck at bootlogo. I made a backup prior bit cannot flash anything at all. I tried flashing .pit file still nothing. If I flash pit file with stock rom, I may get somewhere?
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I had the same problem on a different phone if you go into the TW RP or CWM you should be able to do a factory reset that's the only way I was able to fix my other phone not being able to flash anything after brick so give that a shot and let me know what happens
DanHutchins said:
I had the same problem on a different phone if you go into the TW RP or CWM you should be able to do a factory reset that's the only way I was able to fix my other phone not being able to flash anything after brick so give that a shot and let me know what happens
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I can't get Into recovery mode either. It gets stuck at the Grand prime splash screen with download mode in the upper left hand corner.
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There is another thread on this phone not sure if it will help still unable to get a stock rom for this version of the phone
I seen someone else shared a link to a stock rom on another thread on here..
NullByte04 said:
I seen someone else shared a link to a stock rom on another thread on here..
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They did but not for the SM-S920L. There is still no rom including stock for this phone.
I'm not sure what that rom is. It was posted in the dev forum and op offered almost no details. All I know is that the file name is SM-S920L3.tar and it weighs in at 1.4GB.
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I'm not sure what that rom is. It was posted in the dev forum and op offered almost no details. All I know is that the file name is SM-S920L3.tar and it weighs in at 1.4GB.
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In that case they must have put it up just recently. Things are starting to look up for us after all.
Maybe, I'm not going to be the guinea pig here and risk my phone on some unknown rom without a custom recovery available to backup and restore my phone should something go wrong.
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Maybe, I'm not going to be the guinea pig here and risk my phone on some unknown rom without a custom recovery available to backup and restore my phone should something go wrong.
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I agree....
DanHutchins said:
I agree....
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Anyone tried it yet...?
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Oh and i got mine running again. Must have been bad connection. I switched to the laptop and bam, stock recovery installed. Sometimes it's the little things.
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Anyone tried it yet...?
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I am in same boat as you not wanting to be the guinea pig.
I happened to pick up a 2nd device...I'll try it if someone can provide a link?
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adrwill2000 said:
I happened to pick up a 2nd device...I'll try it if someone can provide a link?
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Here you go...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/gra...-download-sm-s920l-straight-talk-usa-t3265004
Cool. I'm downloading right now. I'll let you guys know how it goes.
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Anyone have any news on recovery and custom ROM for this phone?
adrwill2000 said:
Cool. I'm downloading right now. I'll let you guys know how it goes.
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Thanks, man! I'm having a few issues that I can live with with my phone, but if this works ok, I might just flash it. Oh, and I spoke with a few Straight Talk CS reps and they say that neither Tracfon, nor Samsung are going to release a stock ROM for 5.0.2. Perhaps some day we'll get an update to 5.1.1.
Ok so I it flashed in about 3 minutes for me with a pass. I noticed a set bit warranty: cache and system. I pulled the battery and then powered back on and got this:
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
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adrwill2000 said:
Ok so I it flashed in about 3 minutes for me with a pass. I noticed a set bit warranty: cache and system. I pulled the battery and then powered back on and got this:
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adrwill2000 said:
I factory reset and wiped cache and tried it again and got the same results. However this time after wiping cache it did boot up but there is one problem as you shall see here:
this is for a core prime. SM-G360M international model.
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