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[Q] SM-N900 (The Americas) Region-Lock

Hello,
I post this thread, helpless finding a solution..I hope it is not a duplicate..
My uncle bought me a SM-N900 Unlocked Note 3 from Bestbuy Florida, USA. He did not touch the phone till he brings it here, Turkey. When he deliver me the phone i could not use it with my Turkish sim card and i was shocked of course.. I searched for solutions on the net and found some answers about it. Here is (actually are) what i did to overcome;
1) Firstly i rooted the phone and tried the Region Lock Away app from Chainfire, unluckily the app doesnt support my model, i found out from the forums (or it was what i understood)
2) Next i communicated with Samsung Turkey and deliver the phone to Technical Support. After 10 days they gave me the phone back telling that they tried a code to unlock it, but it didn't work so they gave back the phone unfixed.
3) I searched for reliable unlocking sites, tried 4 of them but no result. Now i am also coping with refunds..
4) I take the risk and tried custom ROMs hoping that it would help but it also did not solve my problem as i found out that region lock is not a security system that is bound with the firmware..(as my understanding it is a whitelist that is embedded with the baseband (?) (bios?))
5) The last thing i tried was changing the firmware, i removed the TTT (Trinidad&Tobago) firmware and installed Saudi Arabia Firmware.. But no solution..
Now i have a 800$ phone (not even including the extra fees to register the phone in Turkey…) and not working as a phone...HOW NICE!!
Regards,
P.S. HELP MEEEEE!!!! (((

Gosh it should be working.
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Gosh it should be working.
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i've the same problem

Galaxy S4 Gt-i9500 network problem

Hi All
i have GT-i9500 international . IMEI were changed to work on Turkish mobile networks.
it was working but after upgrading to 4.4.2 Network register but always : Emergency calls only.
i can call 112 normally .
when i go to mobile networks and search: i find my network : Turkcell. and when i choose it " Registered on network.
but : emergency calls only.
in service mode : IMEI CERTI:Fail
i downgraded to 4.2.2 but the same problem.
when i dial : *#0011# : UMTS: Home(CS+PS)
when i chose back from menu nothing happen.
i tryed all solutions in XDA and Others , tryed all modems. the same problem
i am using the firmware: I9500XXUBMH1_I9500OJVBMH2_I9500XXUBMG9_HOME.tar.md5
i cant install any other rom with Odin. just this.
service mode just stick on first page.
any idea to help please?

none
i cant help ,wait for ohther peolpe

* restore your efs backup
* It's very weird that you can not install other firmware. Remember that you can not do MG9 downgrade modem. Try install Kitkat with pitfile.

I used to root my Samsung S3 phone with different types of custom roms but most of them drained out my S3 bsttery fast. Due to this experience, I'm scared to root my Samsung S4 which is still in it's original rom and already updated to 4.4.2. When I looked at your screen shots, I kept wondering why your android OS was so high. I was thinking perhaps it was due to your phone being rooted? Is it because most custom roms drain battery faster than original roms? My S4's battery lasts much longer than my S3. I can put aside my phone with the wifi on and battery at 100% when I sleep. When I wake up, the battery is around 98%.

i have same problem anyone can help me plz
thanks in advance

any idea please

vbfather said:
any idea please
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Hi mate,
The problem in the case above is that the phone lost its IMEI , if your case is the same and you do not have a efs backup , you will have to go to a service shop to have it fix , they need a tool like z3x or similar to fix it
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s4/help/registered-network-t2810940/page3

thank u,
my IMEI is fine its repaired IMEI "cause here in turkey somehow we have to do that" but as written above i get no network after return it to 4.2.2
any idea?
thanks in advance

No phone calls?

Hey guys, I come here very often and now I'm going to have to open this thread because I've seen absolutely no posts about my problem..
My S6 Edge+ is currently unable to make any calls and I don't know why..:crying: the strange part is that I can still send text messages and use my SIM's mobile data... Another weird thing is that whenever I reboot the phone, my WiFi passwords are forgotten..
Can any one help me? I'm currently running android 6.0.1 and I am considering downgrading it to 5.0.1 to see if it solves the issue...

Still needing help..
No one?? I really need some help since I've tried 4 different roms and modems ano nothing seems to work....

Have you wiped everything and then flashed a stock rom?
/CK

CyberDrag0n said:
Hey guys, I come here very often and now I'm going to have to open this thread because I've seen absolutely no posts about my problem..
My S6 Edge+ is currently unable to make any calls and I don't know why..:crying: the strange part is that I can still send text messages and use my SIM's mobile data... Another weird thing is that whenever I reboot the phone, my WiFi passwords are forgotten..
Can any one help me? I'm currently running android 6.0.1 and I am considering downgrading it to 5.0.1 to see if it solves the issue...
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Which variant do you have and which MM firmware did you flash? Check your modem, imei, network operator etc and provide that info here.
Also wifi password IMO related with
Code:
ro.securestorage.support=true
this line in build.prop. I would suggest you to add this line under 'ADDITIONAL_BUILD_PROPERTIES' in build.prop but assume you havent rooted your device. If have, add it.
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I've downgraded to 5.1.1 and it didn't work, I have the international version of the s6 edge plus and now I'm looking for a new ROM to test to see if I can solve it.. I've checked my imei in two different websites and on imei.info it comes clear, but the other site gives me a blacklisted warning, which makes me think since I bought it online second hand... it probably was reported stolen or lost and now it's blocked... which ise rather inconvenient. .
If I go to SIM Card Status it says "Not Available" everywhere, but on imei information it says my imei and on IMEISV the value is 01. It's network unlocked and right now I'm about to flash a new ROM, probably stock..

Hello, I have the same problem at boot after I receive the call when making a call nothing remains of numbering you have a solution? thank you cordially guillaume

Hi guys, I know this is a really old thread but I'm here just to say that the problem was with the IMEI, it was blacklisted..
I changed it with a friend and then everything worked fine..
Thanks for you help mates!

CyberDrag0n said:
Hi guys, I know this is a really old thread but I'm here just to say that the problem was with the IMEI, it was blacklisted..
I changed it with a friend and then everything worked fine..
Thanks for you help mates!
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how to check for imei blacklisted ?

natrajshekarj said:
how to check for imei blacklisted ?
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You can go to imei.info and there's a paid check.

galaxy note 3 model SM-n9005 no backup efs null/null IMEI

hello everyone i just want to ask if any way can i retrive my efs.? i bought the note 3
(sm-n9005) international version from uae (qatar) and went back at the phillines by the way i'm filipino, last june 2,2017 i did upgrade my software to 5.0 from 4.4.2 and finish download the firmware then install.. while installing my note 3 didnt finish the installing got empty battery.. and try to swith on everything work but the IMEI unknown and no network i've try to change my sim card didnt work.. so went to samsung service center they said they cant repair this EFS issue... anyone can help me with this issue please.. thanks a lot in advance..

Samsung said not repairable and you have no backed up EFS folder .
You can search the forum for thousands of identical post see if you can work out a fix .

Rohychie said:
hello everyone i just want to ask if any way can i retrive my efs.? i bought the note 3
(sm-n9005) international version from uae (qatar) and went back at the phillines by the way i'm filipino, last june 2,2017 i did upgrade my software to 5.0 from 4.4.2 and finish download the firmware then install.. while installing my note 3 didnt finish the installing got empty battery.. and try to swith on everything work but the IMEI unknown and no network i've try to change my sim card didnt work.. so went to samsung service center they said they cant repair this EFS issue... anyone can help me with this issue please.. thanks a lot in advance..
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Well first of all, WHY DID YOU TRY TO UPDATE WITH LOW BATTERY?!?! I'm pretty sure you get warned EVERYWHERE to have AT LEAST 70-80% in every update ever to avoid problems like this. I'd honestly take it to a non-official repair center. I once had this problem on a Note 1, tried searching everywhere on the net but no luck. Just took it to this one person that specialized on repairing phones and he did it for about $5 dollars. Every fix I found on the web involved having a backup of you /EFS which I didn't have. Mistakes are for you to learn, hopefully you know better in the future.

okey.. thank you for respond

JJEgan said:
Samsung said not repairable and you have no backed up EFS folder .
You can search the forum for thousands of identical post see if you can work out a fix .
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samsung technician suggest that easy way to repair about my issue for note 3 is to changing the board.. but its to expensive to replace new board for note 3

ShaDisNX255 said:
Well first of all, WHY DID YOU TRY TO UPDATE WITH LOW BATTERY?!?! I'm pretty sure you get warned EVERYWHERE to have AT LEAST 70-80% in every update ever to avoid problems like this. I'd honestly take it to a non-official repair center. I once had this problem on a Note 1, tried searching everywhere on the net but no luck. Just took it to this one person that specialized on repairing phones and he did it for about $5 dollars. Every fix I found on the web involved having a backup of you /EFS which I didn't have. Mistakes are for you to learn, hopefully you know better in the future.
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okey.. thank you for respond

Help please... Note 3 n9005 BTU doesn't detect my network operator after flashing

Hi guys,
At the beginning thank you for taking a look and spending your time reading it - I'm just trying to be precise.
Just to clarify - I've spent 11 hours yesterday and 10 hours (and counting) today reading and browsing XDA and different forums, searching/figuring out/trying to find solution,
but I think I gave up on my own and will need your help.
Few days ago I bought myself another same Note 3 SM-N9005 (primarily locked to EE, but unlocked with provider), as my old one (which was factory unlocked).
I had issues with signal (after slight water damage a year ago) - not major, but annoying enough to make me get another one.
So I switched to new Note 3 and decided to check new custom ROMs on my old one.
First I installed stock 5.0 - all worked fine, battery life improved etc.
Then tried Fougat rom and AryaMod - and here the problems began. While using one of those ROMs I inserted Polish SIM card.
Message appeared that I'm on roaming, to switch it on/off etc (don't remember what message exactly appeared as I didn't really pay much attention to it at that time)
I recently ordered new pay monthly Virgin SIM card for my partner. When it arrived I've put it in my old Note 3 and "Emergency calls only" message appeared.
I thought SIM wasn't active yet, so contacted Virgin just to be informed that the card is active on their end (I've put it in my new Note 3 and it was actually working).
A bit confused I put my O2 card into old Note 3 and it connected to the network without any problems.
So I started searching for a solution.
I found out that when I searched other networks on my (modified, old) Note 3 it only found O2 - UK, vodafone UK and 3UK.
I checked the same on my new Note 3 and it found O2, vodafone, EE (whose towers Virgin uses) and 3 UK - so all of them.
I thought that maybe EFS, modem, kernel or bootloader have been corrupted/conflicting, so made TWRP backup of my new Note 3 and old Note 3 (for old just to create serial number folder).
Then I replaced old Note 3 backup with new one, so TWRP could find it and restore the whole image from new Note 3, where everything works (Lollipop EE network version).
That didn't do the trick. Restored AryaMod backup - nothing. Old device still comes with "Emergency calls only" when Virgin SIM card is inserted, but it works with O2 card.
I tried different modems, bootloaders.
I checked the IMEI and it's intact.
At the moment I'm back to Stock Lollipop 5.0 [N9005XXSGBPL6_N9005BTUGBOJ1_BTU] and the problem still persists.
When I flashed the stock ROM and inserted Virgin SIM standard pop-up window appeared with network selection where I've chosen obviously Virgin.
When searching now for available networks it comes up again with only O2, Vodafone and 3 - no EE/Virgin.
For some reason it doesn't find/connect to EE towers.
Baseband: N9005XXUGBOJ1
Kernel: 3.4.0-4540543
Build Number: LRX21V.N9005XXSGBPL6
Network: Unknown
Mobile Network Type: Unknown
Service State: Voice: Out of service/Data: Out of service
Mobile network state: Disconnected
Thanks for reading and apologies for long post.
If I missed anything please let me know.
Hope you guys will be able to help and direct me what to do to get it working again

Very difficult to follow your rambling post .
Step one is IMEI the right one .
Two correct baseband and CSC for your network ??

JJEgan said:
Very difficult to follow your rambling post .
Step one is IMEI the right one .
Two correct baseband and CSC for your network ??
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Sorry, I know it's long and quite rambling. I'll start new thread with just quick explanation.
Answering your question - yes, tried different modems and used EE and BTU firmwares.
Phone was bought factory unlocked (new), so BTU version should work, but it doesn't.

@JJEgan
https://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-note-3/help/phone-doesnt-detect-network-operator-t3661897

Please ask a mod to delete this thread .
Sent from my SM-N930F using XDA-Developers Legacy app

JJEgan said:
Please ask a mod to delete this thread .
Sent from my SM-N930F using XDA-Developers Legacy app
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Who is mod in here? Sorry, not very experienced in forum.

Thread can be closed - phone after couple of days eventually connected to the network itself. Weird.

nadaall said:
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Done.
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