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[Q] TAB with IMEI corrupt

Galaxy Tab (P1000) with IMEI corrupt i dont have EFS backup as well
whats the best possible way to get original imei back?
Forget to add my EFS folder is completly empty no files in there atall
wbr

ok i have downloaded SUPERUSER from market place which can show me FILES inside EFS FOLDER what now?
anyone?

anyone can please post me fresh working BACKUP of EFS folder for GALAXY TAB
please

sorry, each efs is unique to each tab. basically your stuck with that strange imei but it should work without any problem and also the tab should unlocked now

In india the corrupt IMEI is blacklisted in every network so it cant register
i know each EFS is unique but i have seen no other way yet to fix IMEI back to original one in case you dont have a backup i really wanna do some experiments with some working EFS backup
Maybe it will result into solution please PM me the backup link if you feel uncomfortable in posting here please

If you don't have a backup you're screwed. In addition to each EFS being unique the IMEI is actually encrypted as well. Unfortunately I don't think anyone is going to be sending you their IMEI.

Question about efs folder

I'm selling a note 3 on ebay but I'm scared about my phone efs folder.
Let's suppose the buyer has another note 3 and he damaged his efs folder and now he has no network..
Could he buy my phone and take my phone's efs folder backup and and restore his phone network problem?
I ask you this because after he repairs his phone he could resend me my phone not working..
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mouse100 said:
I'm selling a note 3 on ebay but I'm scared about my phone efs folder.
Let's suppose the buyer has another note 3 and he damaged his efs folder and now he has no network..
Could he buy my phone and take my phone's efs folder backup and and restore his phone network problem?
I ask you this because after he repairs his phone he could resend me my phone not working..
Samsung SM-P9005 - Tapatalk
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EFS folders and IMEI numbers are specific to individual phones, it cannot be used to other phones as far as I know.
No one can use your phones Efs folder backup to restore his phone network problem.

Thank you very much!!
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mouse100 said:
I'm selling a note 3 on ebay but I'm scared about my phone efs folder.
Let's suppose the buyer has another note 3 and he damaged his efs folder and now he has no network..
Could he buy my phone and take my phone's efs folder backup and and restore his phone network problem?
I ask you this because after he repairs his phone he could resend me my phone not working..
Samsung SM-P9005 - Tapatalk
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I'm not sure if the buyer can use your efs backup to restore imei on his phone (I doubt that he can).
However even if he can do that, this will NOT affect your phone's imei and will NOT make your phone not working.

Imei unknow

Hi,
my i9505 have IMEI unknow.
It work perfect, phone, wifi etc., LTE etc.
I think that the imei is ok but is hidden.
How can I repair it ?

ronny06 said:
Hi,
my i9505 have IMEI unknow.
It work perfect, phone, wifi etc., LTE etc.
I think that the imei is ok but is hidden.
How can I repair it ?
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Hi mate ,
Not clear your problem , you can call , you have data , what you mean hidden? what do you get when you type *#06#? same imei as in the sticker behind your battery?

Hi,
if I type *#06# i see "IMEI /01" only. I not see other numbers.
When I go to settings --> info I see IMEISV /01 and IMEI: unknow.
I also check EFS folder with root explorer and it seems is ok because inside have other folders and in particular imei folder with file mps_code.dat.
Thank you

ronny06 said:
Hi,
if I type *#06# i see "IMEI /01" only. I not see other numbers.
When I go to settings --> info I see IMEISV /01 and IMEI: unknow.
I also check EFS folder with root explorer and it seems is ok because inside have other folders and in particular imei folder with file mps_code.dat.
Thank you
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If the phone works and makes calls, don't mess with it.
Messing with the IMEI is likely to break it.
This is a classic case of "If it ain't broke, don't fix it"
Who cares if it displays an UNKNOWN instead of a number? All the IMEI does is authenticate your phone on the cell network. If it's authenticating it, then it's working. Don't mess with it.

ronny06 said:
Hi,
if I type *#06# i see "IMEI /01" only. I not see other numbers.
When I go to settings --> info I see IMEISV /01 and IMEI: unknow.
I also check EFS folder with root explorer and it seems is ok because inside have other folders and in particular imei folder with file mps_code.dat.
Thank you
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Skipjacks said:
If the phone works and makes calls, don't mess with it.
Messing with the IMEI is likely to break it.
This is a classic case of "If it ain't broke, don't fix it"
Who cares if it displays an UNKNOWN instead of a number? All the IMEI does is authenticate your phone on the cell network. If it's authenticating it, then it's working. Don't mess with it.
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+1 @Skipjacks
Question just out of curiosity when you dial the 06 code you do not get the 15 digit code?

MAX 404 said:
+1 @Skipjacks
Question just out of curiosity when you dial the 06 code you do not get the 15 digit code?
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I run AOSP roms. They don't use those codes. So I can't test that.

@MAX 404
When I dial 06 code I see unknow application.
When I dial *#06# I see "IMEI /01"

Skipjacks said:
I run AOSP roms. They don't use those codes. So I can't test that.
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ronny06 said:
@MAX 404
When I dial 06 code I see unknow application.
When I dial *#06# I see "IMEI /01"
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Hi
Skipjacks , i meant the question to ronny06 anyhow thanks for the info ,is useful, did not know that happen in AOSP roms
ronny06 as Skipjacks said , if is working do not touch it ....are you in stock rom?

MAX 404 said:
Hi
ronny06 as Skipjacks said , if is working do not touch it ....are you in stock rom?
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I want to sell my phone and I cannot sell it with this problem.
Now I'm in stock ROM

ronny06 said:
I want to sell my phone and I cannot sell it with this problem.
Now I'm in stock ROM
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Hi,
It has been always like this?
The only thing i can think of is to reflash a stock rom ( odin) and see if it helps, maybe is firmware related , BEFORE you do make sure you have a copy of your EFS folder

MAX 404 said:
Hi,
It has been always like this?
The only thing i can think of is to reflash a stock rom ( odin) and see if it helps, maybe is firmware related , BEFORE you do make sure you have a copy of your EFS folder
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The problem was then I installed new 4.4.2.
I tried to install another stock rom but without success.

ronny06 said:
The problem was then I installed new 4.4.2.
I tried to install another stock rom but without success.
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Why ? what is the problem,,,
You can only install 4.4.2 rom not older .

ronny06 said:
I want to sell my phone and I cannot sell it with this problem.
Now I'm in stock ROM
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Put another SIM card in it. See if it works. If it does, then sell it with confidence. (I bet it would work)
Past that what you are asking for now is how to change the IMEI, even if you are asking how to change it to the actual IMEI. It's the same steps as changing it to a stolen IMEI so we do not discuss that on XDA.

Skipjacks said:
Put another SIM card in it. See if it works. If it does, then sell it with confidence. (I bet it would work)
Past that what you are asking for now is how to change the IMEI, even if you are asking how to change it to the actual IMEI. It's the same steps as changing it to a stolen IMEI so we do not discuss that on XDA.
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It is not true. I do not want to change imei of my phone. I know very well that it is illegal!
I only want to solve the problem of IMEI / 01 because it does not seem right to me to sell with this issue.

ronny06 said:
It is not true. I do not want to change imei of my phone. I know very well that it is illegal!
I only want to solve the problem of IMEI / 01 because it does not seem right to me to sell with this issue.
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I will say this again....if you want to change it from UNKNOWN to a number, then that is changing it. Even if you are using a legitimate IMEI for the phone. The procedure to do that is the same procedure that is used for illegally changing it from a bad IMEI to a working IMEI from a donor phone.
I don't believe you are trying to do anything illegal, but the process to do what you are asking is the same process as doing it for illegal reasons. Therefor, we don't discuss it here.
Again though, your phone isn't broken. It's working fine. So you should be able to sell it without issue. You can confirm it's sellable by putting the buyer's sim card in the phone to test it for a connection to a tower. If it works, it's a good phone.
Also stop looking up the IMEI with the 06 code.
Look in SETTING -> ABOUT PHONE -> STATUS
That should show your IMEI there. If it shows it there, then stop worrying about it. It's just the text code that's being goofy, not the actual IMEI.

no wifi no imei after restoring from stock recovery

Hi, everybody. A friend of mine is stuck with no wifi, so no mac address registered and no imei.
I need somone to check for if the file containing this info is nv_data.bin or .nv_data or anything like this because I can't any file close to this one. I found a method to restore from nothing but I need I think a file called nv.qcn. And I could manualy editing the file to add my own imei and mac address.
Can someone help me?

Nobody has qcn backup? Pleeeease!

You need to be careful with files like those. Have you tried a factory reset? Using MifFlash doesn't wipe data, if that's what you're worried about. It will probably be a good idea to backup to PC or microSD card, though.
After resetting and still no IMEI, I'll suggest this guide. It helped me restore mine when it accidentally got wiped a while back.

Generate efs.img file from my personal IMEI number

Hi all,
I've been using this forum for years and years, always finding solutions to my rooting, rom or whatever problems but I'm getting to the bottom of it with this new one.
Here is the situation :
- I tried to install a ROM, it crashed, got my EFS partition delete.
- I didn't have any backup (I know, I know, I screwed up)
- I asked a friend with the same phone to send me a TWRP backup of his phone
- Now, I have a working S8, but with no IMEI
I still have my IMEI number from my phone that I would like to inject into the EFS partition. Is there a way to do that ? I don't want to change IMEI, I only want to reinstall mine. I'm trying to find IMEI tools to do that, but in a legal way (I know it's illegal to talk about IMEI change here). Or maybe an idea would be to generate efs.img files ?
If anyone has a good idea, I'll take it !
Thanks

PonyoDC said:
Hi all,
I've been using this forum for years and years, always finding solutions to my rooting, rom or whatever problems but I'm getting to the bottom of it with this new one.
Here is the situation :
- I tried to install a ROM, it crashed, got my EFS partition delete.
- I didn't have any backup (I know, I know, I screwed up)
- I asked a friend with the same phone to send me a TWRP backup of his phone
- Now, I have a working S8, but with no IMEI
I still have my IMEI number from my phone that I would like to inject into the EFS partition. Is there a way to do that ? I don't want to change IMEI, I only want to reinstall mine. I'm trying to find IMEI tools to do that, but in a legal way (I know it's illegal to talk about IMEI change here). Or maybe an idea would be to generate efs.img files ?
If anyone has a good idea, I'll take it !
Thanks
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You can't. Imei is cert protected. It has to be wrote to the device with a new cert file. Paid service my friend only way. Try flashing your stock firmware with proper baseband and such. Btw imei isn't in the efs like it used to be. That's about all of the help you will find here on it

Hi !
That's what I was afraid of, bu thank you for your answer !

Got some help from @BIOKNOX
It sounds sketchy but it works ! Thanks to you !

PonyoDC said:
Got some help from @BIOKNOX
It sounds sketchy but it works ! Thanks to you !
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Share? I have a friend on a different phone that needs ideas. PM me if you wish. Thanks!

Hi.
I'm in same case. I losted my phone IMEIs and i'm unable to use my g960F DS.
My 2 IMEIs show only zeros. And restore efs didn't worked for me.
I wrote phone's IMEIs on paper in case with ID too.
I try secerals ways but no success.
I will be good to share the process to have success.
Thx a lot

PonyoDC said:
Got some help from @BIOKNOX
It sounds sketchy but it works ! Thanks to you !
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Is there a link to the solution?

Ok so the @BIOKNOX account has been removed. Thanks for nothing, industry!
Can we have a solution to the technical problem, please? (No need to state that looking for official service was a hopeless adventure.)
How can the Problem
"IMEI zeroed out on screen. Original IMEI available on package"
be solved, please?
Official answers welcome. PM welcome.