HOW TO: Fix IMEI null/baseband unknown for galaxy S3 (intl) - Galaxy S III General

FLASH PERSUES KERNEL !!!!!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1691401
and thank andreilux !

this has nothing to do with fixing imei though

Glebun said:
this has nothing to do with fixing imei though
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but it fixed mine

A factory reset or stock rom flash may well have given the same result as your EFS folder was still intact .
Title is misleading as many many users are going to expect this to fix a broken EFS/IMEI.
jje

MM.626 said:
but it fixed mine
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because your imei was still there, it just wasn't displayed. this will have no effect on a messed up imei

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My IMEI SHOWING 000000..IF ANY DEV SOLVE MY PROBLEM I WILL DONATE

HI
my imei showing 000000000....i flashed my phone and lost my imei....
If any dev restore my imei i will surely donate.
Thanx in advance
srinivas07 said:
HI
my imei showing 000000000....i flashed my phone and lost my imei....
If any dev restore my imei i will surely donate.
Thanx in advance
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had you backed up your efs folder before../???
neo1691 said:
had you backed up your efs folder before../???
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NO i didnt back my efs folder
srinivas07 said:
NO i didnt back my efs folder
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if you would have backed up your efc then we could have flashed your imei via odin!!
i dont know any other solution. Hope some expert will look into this
Flash any stock rom 1st.. see if it is back..
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ranadip.bswas said:
Flash any stock rom 1st.. see if it is back..
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yaa i had given a try to all those....still it shows 000000000000
On a lighter note --
Steal someone's efs backup, flash it, generate/get a valid IMEI from one of those sources who were doing good business during the "Chinese Phone" fiasco in India and force feed that IMEI
Tianhe said:
On a lighter note --
Steal someone's efs backup, flash it, generate/get a valid IMEI from one of those sources who were doing good business during the "Chinese Phone" fiasco in India and force feed that IMEI
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should i use the efs which is of only g3 one's or can i use any android one's???
Srinivas buddy - i would like you to note that i am no techno whiz and therefore my comments on this problem may also be taken with a pinch of salt. If i had to hazard a guess, i would surely try a efs backup from G3 rather than any other phone. The problem which will arise after you have flashed the efs & its succesfully working, is that there will be potential conflict of the IMEI in case both phones are active. Therefore, it is imperative to change the IMEI at once - and people do say that getting a valid IMEI is possible
To repeat myself - i am in no way responsible for any damage which may result from the above and hope that the DEVs have a better solution than my wild-ass theory
Tianhe said:
Srinivas buddy - i would like you to note that i am no techno whiz and therefore my comments on this problem may also be taken with a pinch of salt. If i had to hazard a guess, i would surely try a efs backup from G3 rather than any other phone. The problem which will arise after you have flashed the efs & its succesfully working, is that there will be potential conflict of the IMEI in case both phones are active. Therefore, it is imperative to change the IMEI at once - and people do say that getting a valid IMEI is possible
To repeat myself - i am in no way responsible for any damage which may result from the above and hope that the DEVs have a better solution than my wild-ass theory
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ok...but im a little bit confused...can u clearly explain me...sorry for that
What i mean is that when you "borrow" the efs backup from another phone and flash it to yours - then both the phones will have same IMEI since both carry the same efs information. This may cause problems when both the phones are active on the cellular network and i believe it may also be illegal. Therefore, it is important that you should get a new IMEI number as soon as possible.
Please remember that this is all guesswork and not recommended. However, if you dont care about possibly bricking your phone then atleast choose a efs backup from a phone which is exactly the same model as yours & running the same build / firmware + consult the DEVs before this
Tianhe said:
What i mean is that when you "borrow" the efs backup from another phone and flash it to yours - then both the phones will have same IMEI since both carry the same efs information. This may cause problems when both the phones are active on the cellular network and i believe it may also be illegal. Therefore, it is important that you should get a new IMEI number as soon as possible.
Please remember that this is all guesswork and not recommended. However, if you dont care about possibly bricking your phone then atleast choose a efs backup from a phone which is exactly the same model as yours & running the same build / firmware + consult the DEVs before this
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ok i got it...but how can change my IMEI ??is there any software for that??
i don't know wheather it will work or not, but just try this,
copy and paste efs folder of some other galaxy 3 to system folder using root explorer and edit .imei file with text editor and type your imei which will be there in bill or it will be on box and save it.
d92s said:
i don't know wheather it will work or not, but just try this,
copy and paste efs folder of some other galaxy 3 to system folder using root explorer and edit .imei file with text editor and type your imei which will be there in bill or it will be on box and save it.
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ok i would try it
http://www.msai.in/manufacturer.html
Check the above link and get yourself a valid/genuine IMEI number instead of getting into trouble!
if everything else fails, flash the official eclair and update it to froyo via kies. then take it to a samsung centre and say you lost your imei during official update through kies. they ought to fix it
maverickgenius said:
if everything else fails, flash the official eclair and update it to froyo via kies. then take it to a samsung centre and say you lost your imei during official update through kies. they ought to fix it
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Yup mave is right ..its a perfect solution..
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I think this will not work...
No IMEI no Support.
gagan007 said:
http://www.msai.in/manufacturer.html
Check the above link and get yourself a valid/genuine IMEI number instead of getting into trouble!
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I gonna try it today
deskjeti said:
I think this will not work...
No IMEI no Support.
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I think its pretty much worth a try, to be completely on the safe side u could just flash a firmware with bootloader, when Odin is at bootloader flashing pull the USB cable and the battery, your phone will be a brick then. Just go to service center and tell them that it didn't turn on after a firmware update with kiss.
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Lost my IMEI...help me to restore[im ready to donate]

HI
I lost my IMEI i havn't backed up efs folder...could any one make my IMEI restored??
plss help me !!
I will surely donate for your work.
srinivas07 said:
HI
I lost my IMEI i havn't backed up efs folder...could any one make a custom rom with my IMEI??
plss help me !!
I will surely donate for your work.
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custom roms cannot generate your IMEI ..
What caused you to lose it? Any kernel you flashed?
rudolf895 said:
custom roms cannot generate your IMEI ..
What caused you to lose it? Any kernel you flashed?
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i have flashed with burks rom from then my imei showing 000000000....i havent flashed any kernel......!!
srinivas07 said:
i have flashed with burks rom from then my imei showing 000000000....i havent flashed any kernel......!!
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try flashing fugu kernel over it..
yaa tried it.....still the same.............
srinivas07 said:
yaa tried it.....still the same.............
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there sadly there is nothing you can do.
rudolf895 said:
there sadly there is nothing you can do.
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I had taken to samsung show room and cooked a story that I tried to upgrade to official froyo and lost my IMEI.....they hav said that it would cost around 6000 rupees !!
rudolf895 said:
there sadly there is nothing you can do.
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Why does this happen?? I mean does the /efs partition get unmounted?? Or something else??
If it gets only unmounted, can t we mount it back using terminal or something??
Or is ODIN the only way by which we can remount it??
srinivas07 said:
I had taken to samsung show room and cooked a story that I tried to upgrade to official froyo and lost my IMEI.....they hav said that it would cost around 6000 rupees !!
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Press them that it is not your fault. It happened due to your official upgrade. New IMEI does not costs more than 50 rs. Ask them there names and tell them that u will go to consumer forum against them as they are trying to cheat u. Write few mails to samsung support telling your fabricated story and response of service center. Threaten them about court case if they refuse to help.
please help,i have a phone now that doesn't show imei at all and, doesn't recognize sim card...what did i do wrong???how to fix it?
Search in the xda g3 section, there was somewhere a thread about this.
i searched for two days....nothing...
There is an efs.7z attached file in imei backup thread. It mày help you
yeah found that to,copyed with odin,still nothing...
I Had also lost my EMEI.
Just went to the samsung center and behaved as if i knew nothing.
Just told that the phone is not catching the network.
They themselfs identified that the IMEI was lost and they will have to re-write the IMEI (which is written at the back of the cell).. they kept the cell for a day and fixed it with the same old IMEI.
Since the mobile was still in warranty i paid nothing.
i took it also to a repair center,but mine is not under warranty...i will have to pay 30-50 euros now......
srinivas07 said:
HI
I lost my IMEI i havn't backed up efs folder...could any one make my IMEI restored??
plss help me !!
I will surely donate for your work.
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@Srinivas - Just to make u feel better...don't take it as a serious matter though i don't know if it's rectifiable but why do u need an IMEI for..
I mean seriously it won't even come in use even if u lost ur phone(It's India)..sadly it's true !!!
As far as selling it in the future is concerned...i guess no vendor will hav any problem here (might suffer by 100-200 bucks) but thats it !!
srinivas07 said:
HI
I lost my IMEI i havn't backed up efs folder...could any one make my IMEI restored??
plss help me !!
I will surely donate for your work.
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hahahaha...just noticed even i have lost my IMEI...must hav happened when i flashed Burak's ROM some time back
Lesson #1 : Do not flash Burak's ROM!
Pwng3 said:
Lesson #1 : Do not flash Burak's ROM!
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Lesson 1:- Back up imei b4 playing with phones

Deleted folder EFS and the backup EFS files

Hello
One user here in the CZ came to a complete folder with EFS and backup files.
Telephone module, therefore, does not work.
Is there any solution?
Thanks
I think you may need to send it back to Samsung - you need the nv_data.bin.md5 file in /efs to get the correct IMEI number for your handset - without this I don't think you can get your IMEI back?
And please don't post requests for help in the Dev forum either, k?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=15666725
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nofam said:
And please don't post requests for help in the Dev forum either, k?
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I'm sorry I was wrong ....
PATLEN said:
Hello
One user here in the CZ came to a complete folder with EFS and backup files.
Telephone module, therefore, does not work.
Is there any solution?
Thanks
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Please let me know, if is any solutions.
SG2 shows unknown IMEI, no signal.
Everything else is OK.
Thanks for your reply and help.
sileshn said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=15666725
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But this user have backup of EFS, i dont have it
No solution if you wiped EFS and have no backup of EFS .
Return phone to Samsung for repair .
jje
JJEgan said:
No solution if you wiped EFS and have no backup of EFS .
Return phone to Samsung for repair .
jje
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And what about nv_data.bin from another phone ? IMEI collision ?
Return phone to Samsung for repair - its another option to change mother board or not ?
If you have no backup, that's a warranty job, and they will likely decline to fix under warranty since it was caused by user stupidity.
Rob1980 said:
And what about nv_data.bin from another phone ? IMEI collision ?
That may end up before the courts of law as IMEI manipulation is an offence .
jje
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But what if i have my IMEI number on the box to the phone, then it can be done or??
slitex said:
But what if i have my IMEI number on the box to the phone, then it can be done or??
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Doesn't help. You need the actual matching files from efs.
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There are people who know how to generate correct nv_data file
It can be done with i5700 and with i9000, I guess i9100 won't be so different
http://forum.samdroid.net/f28/complete-imei-restore-how-1817/

[Q] GT-I9505 IMEI Null

Hi everyone, I have a huge problem in my hands and wanted some guidance from you guys.
Recently I bought the GT-I9505 in the US and then I moved back to Brazil, once I got here I got an update OTA from 4.2.2 to 4.
After this update my network signal was gone , then after some research I found out that my IMEI number is lost. When I dia *#06# it appears that the IMEI is Null. My question is , is there any way of fixing it or is my phone gone forever? If I send it to mobile phone service is it possible that they fix it?
Thanks in advance guys... This forum is incredibly helpful
i am also having the same problem, after updating from 4.2 to 4.3 imei null and baseband unknown. i will let u know if i found some thing, i am trying to fix from last month, still no luck
hahmad78 said:
i am also having the same problem, after updating from 4.2 to 4.3 imei null and baseband unknown. i will let u know if i found some thing, i am trying to fix from last month, still no luck
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Have u tried taking it to a mobile assistance store?
thibeirao said:
Have u tried taking it to a mobile assistance store?
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no, i am trying to get it right myself, actually i am using sgs3 right now, so in a mood for experiments. h
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2192025
this will help you
AbdoAdel said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2192025
this will help you
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I tried that but it didn't change my baseband
hahmad78 said:
no, i am trying to get it right myself, actually i am using sgs3 right now, so in a mood for experiments. h
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Any luck?
no still no luck, installed new os, factory reset many times, tried to restore nv ram data, but of no use.
now i am looking for someone else i9505 so that i could get backup of efs from there and than try it. what about you? what options you have tried uptill now

N9005 Soft brick ... please help

hi all
i will try to tell my story in short
i have installed CM11 in my phone and it was just fine then i didnt like the rom for some reason so I've installed the stock rom back
then i dicovered that my phone acting wired
following Symptoms which my phone has :
IEMI : unknown
baseband : unknown
No service
phone crashes
i will be thankful for any help.
err....
have you backup your EFS folder before ??
memo880 said:
hi all
i will try to tell my story in short
i have installed CM11 in my phone and it was just fine then i didnt like the rom for some reason so I've installed the stock rom back
then i dicovered that my phone acting wired
following Symptoms which my phone has :
IEMI : unknown
baseband : unknown
No service
phone crashes
i will be thankful for any help.
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Check what ver do you have now. You can download the latest firmware from your country on Sammobile then flash again via odin. after flashing try to clear data and cache on recovery. Hope it fixes your problem.
w1ndfly3r said:
err....
have you backup your EFS folder before ??
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unfortunately No.
[email protected] said:
Check what ver do you have now. You can download the latest firmware from your country on Sammobile then flash again via odin. after flashing try to clear data and cache on recovery. Hope it fixes your problem.
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Doesn't Work.
memo880 said:
unfortunately No.
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hmmm... im afraid your phone are useless now..
btw, i have read somewhere that there is a way to recover your IMEI but i cant remember where it is.
Try to connect your phone from the KIES program in a mode of emergency restoration of firmware by Model phone type and Serial Number of the phone. This may take several hours. To do this, you need a good internet.
porcelana said:
Try to connect your phone from the KIES program in a mode of emergency restoration of firmware by Model phone type and Serial Number of the phone. This may take several hours. To do this, you need a good internet.
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No Luck, Thank though.
memo880 said:
No Luck, Thank though.
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That s modem problem. Flash back old modem and you get back IMEI
rayman95 said:
That s modem problem. Flash back old modem and you get back IMEI
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Is modem file called CSC ?
if so i tried many times i think it has to do wiht EFS file maybe.
anyway appreciate your reply
I'm wondering is there anyway to restore my EFS file back or some how re generate it ? By me or by company? or my phone is totally useless now :crying:
memo880 said:
I'm wondering is there anyway to restore my EFS file back or some how re generate it ? By me or by company? or my phone is totally useless now :crying:
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Always do backups!!
You need to go read this . From experience you're going to probably have to repartition your phone, but if you follow the steps, it works. I've done it twice now on a gs4 active and a gs3.
Good luck
Megaflop666 said:
Always do backups!!
You need to go read this . From experience you're going to probably have to repartition your phone, but if you follow the steps, it works. I've done it twice now on a gs4 active and a gs3.
Good luck
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No change....
memo880 said:
No change....
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Did you find a pit file and repartition it?
Megaflop666 said:
Did you find a pit file and repartition it?
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yes several times..
i dont know why no sounds and low performance.
Sounds like you rocked that things world
Megaflop666 said:
Sounds like you rocked that things world
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I do realize that , well i counted on XDA-DEVELOPERS
WAKE UP DEVELOPERS, I have come with new challenge for you all
memo880 said:
I do realize that , well i counted on XDA-DEVELOPERS
WAKE UP DEVELOPERS, I have come with new challenge for you all
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Can't blame that one on xda. Lol
I'm researching a couple things i thought of, but the biggest thing i hope you learned is to have a backup of your efs somewhere safe, and anyways do backups before you do any rom changes or mods.
Megaflop666 said:
Can't blame that one on xda. Lol
I'm researching a couple things i thought of, but the biggest thing i hope you learned is to have a backup of your efs somewhere safe, and anyways do backups before you do any rom changes or mods.
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just help me out and you have my word for that i do every day, lol anyway thanks
memo880 said:
Is modem file called CSC ?
if so i tried many times i think it has to do wiht EFS file maybe.
anyway appreciate your reply
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its not called csc..
flash a modem and test

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