Defy - CM11 back to factory - Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Defy - CM11 back to factory - Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Long story short. Picked up a used Defy locked to Telus (Canadian). Rooted phone. Installed TWRP. Installed CM11 as per this site, took a while to find all the needed files, but it works. A little slow, but works and thanks to everyone who made this happen.
My problem is now the sim is still locked to Telus. I need it unlocked to use on Wind. (same system as TMobile) I tried soft unlock but without a telus sim to start from it will not work. Unlock code will only work on factory phone or so it seems. How can I get this phone back to factory or close to factory?
I am a dumbass and didn't backup original rom (sbf file). I think i should be able to get away with a Tmobile sbf but I can not wrap my head around getting the phone to take a stock froyo rom? I believe the problem is ext4 vs ext3 and I have tried everything I could find reverting but not have had any luck.
Can someone provide a NOOB like me some direction or a link to still active links to the needed files.
Thank you
Steve

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Unroot before taking in to T-Mobile?

Hi, I have a rooted G1 running a CyanogenMod rom and some theme or other (I think it is AeoroBlack or something like that?) Anyway, I've been having some issues with my phone being able to connect to T-Mobile's network, both the data (both Edge and 3G) and the phone signal. I've done some troubleshooting on my own and with tmob tech support over the phone, and it's at the point that my next step is to do a "sim swap." there is a very good chance, though, that I'm going to have to take it into a T-Mobile store sometime soon, either to get a replacement G1 or a new sim card. My question is, if I shop up with a rooted, modded, and themed G1, are they just going to tell me I'm S.O.L., and I voided the warranty? Even though it is still under HTC's warranty, and I have T-Mobiles equipment protection plan? My question is, if I do bring it in, should I switch it over to T-Mobile's official build before doing so? If so, is there an easy way to get everything back to the way I have it after I'm done with them, or if I get a new phone? Thanks for your help!!!

I would just leave your phone in the car and take in the sd. If the new SD doesnt fix it then I would think about unrooting it.
Have you tried doing a wipe and reinstalling your ROM yet?

When you say sd, you mean sim, right? Also, I haven't tried wiping yet, I was about to upgrade to the newest cm rom anyway, which requires wiping. If I do that, will a nandroid backup save all my stuff, or will that take me back to the old rom? I am still unclear on how nandroid works. If I install nandroid, I have to install adb, a new radio, and fastboot too, right? Thanks again for all the help!

I work for tmobile
I work in a t-mobile store and if u come in with a rooted phone I would high-five you! but u should be fine if it is just a SIM swap. if anyone asks about the theme just say it is Fresh Face or what ever it is call(it is an app in the T-mobile app pack). Now as for getting a new phone you will prob have to send it in, but for a SIM swap they shouldn't give u any trouble after the initial troubleshooting questions. Point is most t-mobile employees wouldn't know a rooted phone if it hit them in the face.

I did a SIM swap without having to remove root, but the reps did tell me they could exchange my phone unless it was running stock ROM. I had to remove root before I could get my phone warrantied.

Solved: Sim Unlock Fails With Valid Code

I picked up an AT&T (US) Atrix off craigslist that had an issue where it would show 'Sim Unlock' everytime you tried to use a SIM card, even one from AT&T. I purchased a SIM unlock code, but when I entered it, it would immediately report the request was unsuccessful (like it wasn't really sending out the request). I tried three different SIM cards, two from T-Mobile and one from AT&T and always the same issue. The previous owner of the phone had also purchased an unlock code (which matched the one I purchased), and tried to enter it over 20 times.
After digging through all the forum posts, I found two people that had the same scenario and were able to finally resolve it. In both cases, the person was able to fix the "unlockable" phone by flashing the radio (usually through at least two different versions).
The phone I have had standard OTA 2.3.4 (4.5.91) with radio N_01.77.30P. It works fine on WIFI, nothing else is wrong with the phone. It was not rooted nor was it boot unlocked.
Here's what I did to fix it...
I unlocked the boot loader, installed CWM, and rooted it (all stuff from the standard guide in this forum). I then did the following sequence:
1) wipe cache and flashed radio N_01.100.00R_gb_retail_22sep2011.zip
- tried the unlock code, failed immediately
2) wipe cache and flashed N_01.77.33P_can_bell.zip
- tried unlock code and it worked!
3) wipe cache and flashed N_01.77.36P_usa_att_.zip
- just wanted the latest radio
(Radio zips are all available in the forum post labeled 'Atrix RADIOS', http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1339047)
Now I am able to use both T-Mobile and AT&T SIM cards without any unlock messages. Phone works perfect!
Also, I think this shows that there is no hard lock on the Atrix. The previous owner entered the unlock code at least 20 times, and I did it probably 10 times, and yet after this process, I was still able to unlock it (with that same code).
Thanks to those who posted their working scenarios in the sea of postings on failures. I would have never resolved this without those nuggets!
P.S. I think you could even fix this issue without boot unlocking/rooting by just using SBF radio flashes, but I wanted to use CWM instead.

Although I never had the problem you experienced, I am glad you posted this. More people need to post how they solved it too. Good job.

MAN, THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!
I OWE YOU MY LIFE!!
Six months with a unlockable atrix ended yesterday!!!
These steps truly work!
thanks again!

mobileweasel said:
Although I never had the problem you experienced, I am glad you posted this. More people need to post how they solved it too. Good job.
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Hope all people will be like him...
its a blessing!
Thanks

Thank you xcguy, problem solved and mobile working now!

Too late for my previous Atrix but thanks alot anyway! if you only wrote it a week ago...

Great solution.Thanks man.
All work now.

THANK YOU SO MUCH!
I just moved to Norway with my CYAN Atrix, and I have been going through this problem. I just thought I was an idiot, or ATT was an idiot...
U win!

I bought a sim locked attic,the unlock code din't work, after flash the official rom, the code worked.
Sent from my MB860 using XDA App

ztxabc said:
I bought a sim locked attic,the unlock code din't work, after flash the official rom, the code worked.
Sent from my MB860 using XDA App
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hello the same Q could you help me?
一样的问题！能帮帮我么！qq 40099838 ！
我有个att的mb860
朋友给的，但是没有解网络锁
插sim卡就锁
淘宝买解锁码也不行

It's really really a great solution, it's really really did work, I successed already. Thank you very much.

ztxabc said:
i bought a sim locked attic,the unlock code din't work, after flash the official rom, the code worked.
Sent from my mb860 using xda app
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兄弟，我试着做但是不行！不知道哪里错了能帮帮我么？

xcguy said:
I picked up an AT&T (US) Atrix off craigslist that had an issue where it would show 'Sim Unlock' everytime you tried to use a SIM card, even one from AT&T. I purchased a SIM unlock code, but when I entered it, it would immediately report the request was unsuccessful (like it wasn't really sending out the request). I tried three different SIM cards, two from T-Mobile and one from AT&T and always the same issue. The previous owner of the phone had also purchased an unlock code (which matched the one I purchased), and tried to enter it over 20 times.
After digging through all the forum posts, I found two people that had the same scenario and were able to finally resolve it. In both cases, the person was able to fix the "unlockable" phone by flashing the radio (usually through at least two different versions).
The phone I have had standard OTA 2.3.4 (4.5.91) with radio N_01.77.30P. It works fine on WIFI, nothing else is wrong with the phone. It was not rooted nor was it boot unlocked.
Here's what I did to fix it...
I unlocked the boot loader, installed CWM, and rooted it (all stuff from the standard guide in this forum). I then did the following sequence:
1) wipe cache and flashed radio N_01.100.00R_gb_retail_22sep2011.zip
- tried the unlock code, failed immediately
2) wipe cache and flashed N_01.77.33P_can_bell.zip
- tried unlock code and it worked!
3) wipe cache and flashed N_01.77.36P_usa_att_.zip
- just wanted the latest radio
(Radio zips are all available in the forum post labeled 'Atrix RADIOS', http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1339047)
Now I am able to use both T-Mobile and AT&T SIM cards without any unlock messages. Phone works perfect!
Also, I think this shows that there is no hard lock on the Atrix. The previous owner entered the unlock code at least 20 times, and I did it probably 10 times, and yet after this process, I was still able to unlock it (with that same code).
Thanks to those who posted their working scenarios in the sea of postings on failures. I would have never resolved this without those nuggets!
P.S. I think you could even fix this issue without boot unlocking/rooting by just using SBF radio flashes, but I wanted to use CWM instead.
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i tried many radios but they didn't work, i got the code from at&t and it still says that its unsuccessful, does region affect which radio to use?
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ztxabc said:
I bought a sim locked attic,the unlock code din't work, after flash the official rom, the code worked.
Sent from my MB860 using XDA App
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umm where do u get the official rom? does anyone have a link?

This is strange and wonderful to know.

I need Atrix radios for an unlocking code problem.
I am having trouble unlocking my Atrix, and it seems that that this is the only solution I have found that may possibly solve it:
I unlocked the boot loader, installed CWM, and rooted it (all stuff from the standard guide in this forum). I then did the following sequence:
1) wipe cache and flashed radio N_01.100.00R_gb_retail_22sep2011.zip
- tried the unlock code, failed immediately
2) wipe cache and flashed N_01.77.33P_can_bell.zip
- tried unlock code and it worked!
3) wipe cache and flashed N_01.77.36P_usa_att_.zip
- just wanted the latest radio
(Radio zips are all available in the forum post labeled 'Atrix RADIOS', http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1339047)
Now I am able to use both T-Mobile and AT&T SIM cards without any unlock messages. Phone works perfect!
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The problem is that I have been unable to find these radios anywhere. Every link I have found is broken, as people are generally interested in "the latest and greatest" radio. Does anybody have access to the radios listed above? Especially the N_01.77.33P_can_bell.zip Thanks in advance for any help!

Wow
I just wanted to say thanks for your post I've been going crazy with this whole unlocking situation and your method fixed it!!

cant find the radio... link broken
N_01.77.33P_can_bell
cant find the radio... link broken

Awesome solution
Thanx so much for this solution man. You are a life saver. Hats-off for figuring it out that it will be solved by flashing a radio file. I wonder how you ever thought of that. Brilliant.

Thanks.!
Thanks.
I working excelent.!

[Q] Please Help. Very strange problem with my phone.

Hello,
I'll start from the beginning so maybe someone can figure out exactly whats going on with my Galaxy S4.
So my carrier is Telus and I had just a rooted 4.2.2 and everything has been fine since day 1 of rooting. 2 nights ago I noticed the stock Google Edition ROM was out and I decided to give that a try. I flash the 4.3 Google Edition ROM which said Canada (Bell/Telus/Rogers) and I was using that for about 24 hours. Everything was great, however I noticed I lost my 4G/LTE connection. So without being connected to WiFi I had no data plan basically, everything was on, carrier was selected all the APN settings were correct so I was lost. Completely confused as to why this is happening I just decided to restore to stock, unroot and start from scratch. I used Oden to restore the stock ROM from Telus back to android 4.2.2
Now, once that came back, still the same problem and what I noticed was it installed all the Bell Mobility stock software and when I plug the phone into Kies it's listed as a Bell Mobility device. How is this possible? I used the Telus stock ROM to restore, once that I've used before without any issues at all.
Any help would be appreciated, if you have any questions let me know.
Thanks.

Kritik31 said:
Hello,
I'll start from the beginning so maybe someone can figure out exactly whats going on with my Galaxy S4.
So my carrier is Telus and I had just a rooted 4.2.2 and everything has been fine since day 1 of rooting. 2 nights ago I noticed the stock Google Edition ROM was out and I decided to give that a try. I flash the 4.3 Google Edition ROM which said Canada (Bell/Telus/Rogers) and I was using that for about 24 hours. Everything was great, however I noticed I lost my 4G/LTE connection. So without being connected to WiFi I had no data plan basically, everything was on, carrier was selected all the APN settings were correct so I was lost. Completely confused as to why this is happening I just decided to restore to stock, unroot and start from scratch. I used Oden to restore the stock ROM from Telus back to android 4.2.2
Now, once that came back, still the same problem and what I noticed was it installed all the Bell Mobility stock software and when I plug the phone into Kies it's listed as a Bell Mobility device. How is this possible? I used the Telus stock ROM to restore, once that I've used before without any issues at all.
Any help would be appreciated, if you have any questions let me know.
Thanks.
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I'm wondering if the 4.3 rom managed to update your EFS or CSC data... I'm no expert in these areas (and I'm on AT&T), so I don't think I can be much of a help. But this might be something to look into. Also be sure you wiped data too (you didn't mention it).
Also, I'm wondering if you have the correct Odin file for your carrier (if there is such a thing as a difference?)? I know with older handsets, it was possible for AT&T to push out APN settings, etc. from the carrier's end, forcing updates to your handset. Not sure if that's still possible or not.
If you have a nandroid backup of your ESN partition, you might try to restore that. Don't try to restore someone else's backup, or you'll mess up your IMEI and such.

Aou said:
I'm wondering if the 4.3 rom managed to update your EFS or CSC data... I'm no expert in these areas (and I'm on AT&T), so I don't think I can be much of a help. But this might be something to look into. Also be sure you wiped data too (you didn't mention it).
Also, I'm wondering if you have the correct Odin file for your carrier (if there is such a thing as a difference?)? I know with older handsets, it was possible for AT&T to push out APN settings, etc. from the carrier's end, forcing updates to your handset. Not sure if that's still possible or not.
If you have a nandroid backup of your ESN partition, you might try to restore that. Don't try to restore someone else's backup, or you'll mess up your IMEI and such.
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Yeah sorry I forgot to mention some stuff. I have wiped data and factory restored before flashing the stock ROM in Odin as well as wiped everything again as soon as its complete. Right when it boots up the APN info is all wrong. I have data now if I set it up myself but its just sitting on H+ rather than LTE/4G. Also it seems to install the Bell bloatware rather than the Telus bloatware, so something within the phone still thinks its a Bell phone. I'm stumped, so is the Telus guy who was trying to help me with it today. I know I'm using the right .tar stock file from Telus because I've used it before. Man this really stinks!
EDIT: I'm not sure if this is valuable info to add but I just noticed when doing a factory reset it says the CSC that's applied and its labelled as BMC which is Bell Mobility. This is a Telus phone so I'm assuming my problem is somewhere right from there.

ALRIGHT!
I fixed it... I found a tutorial on how to change the CSC with the key command
"*#272*Device IMEI#"
Then it showed a list of carriers and I chose the right one, rebooted and it restored everything and presto. 4G/LTE is back on.

Kritik31 said:
ALRIGHT!
I fixed it... I found a tutorial on how to change the CSC with the key command
"*#272*Device IMEI#"
Then it showed a list of carriers and I chose the right one, rebooted and it restored everything and presto. 4G/LTE is back on.
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Super-awesome! Glad to hear you got it figured out!

[Q] Galaxy S4 SGH i337m Sim/Network Unlock Help

Ok, I'm going to try to make a long story short, i hope that i've posted in the correct forum, I've been scouring this forum and others but nothing I've found has quite fixed my issue.
Got my S4 locked to Bell in Canada. Heard it was really easy to unlock [service menu *#0011# method] but once I got to Indonesia [for travel] expecting to be able to use my phone I found that the service menu was no longer available. Ok, no problem, there must be other ways;
I ended up paying for an unlock code from a site, it didn't work. In fact, immediately after I press 'unlock' it would say 'network unlock unsuccessful'.
I thought they gave me a faulty code but when the code I bought FROM Bell was the exact same one, and had the exact same problem I figured it was likely 'region locked'
I ended up flashing a stock rom with odin, one from a weird unlocking site, and eventually I got it working. The only problem was that whenever I'd go into screen lock I'd lose reception and have to airplane mode on and off to get it again.
After Indonesia I went to Turkey, was unable to connect at all with one of their service providers, but had no problems with Vodafone. I think this may have been a side effect of regionlock away app, I needed to use that as well.
Once I got back to Canada I went custom recovery with cwm and flashed Cyanogenmod. This was fine, no reception problems, 10.2 - 11 was all good.
NOW I am in Poland, and getting the same problem I had in the first place. Whatever Cyanogenmod did, re-locked my device, in some way, I'm guessing.
I'm now rooted, with TWP recovery, running Android 4.4.4 Dave GPE rom, and would REALLY like to be able to use my Polish sim card with this fantastic setup. Chainfire's regionlock away app does not work, gives me a CSC error message. My phone now says it's an i9505 instead of i337m
Anything I have overlooked? Any way I can get this fully unlocked and working the way I want it to?
*NOTE* I can't access *#0011# service menu, even though I flashed [i think] stock dialer.

You are not in the correct section
You need to be in this section.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s4-att/general
I can help you a little though. If the unlocking methodes fail, then it's usually because you don't have an older modem. You need to look for the modem you should flash in order for it to work. Afterwards you can flash the modem again you are on now. If you can't find it, just flash an old modem and try.
I find it hard to believe that Cyanogenmod could have caused this though.

Cool, that will be my next phase of attack. I appreciate the redirect and thoughts (Y)

Smg935p conversion

So i have the smg935p but i am new to flashing roms and have been learning trial and error. I initially flashed a custom rom to the 9bit amd essentially soft bricked the phone. I did more research and flashed the stock rom(or so i thought) now my software version is G935AUCU8ARJ1. I have since had the phone unlocked by spint but now every sim i put into besides the original is showing invalid. Any ideas as ti what i can do about unlocking this phone to any carrier? I am currently using straight talk which i never wouldve switched if id known about the hotspot issue. Also if anyone knows how to bypass that issue that would also be wonderful. Can i perform this unlock or task of doing such without a computer?

9974chig said:
So i have the smg935p but i am new to flashing roms and have been learning trial and error. I initially flashed a custom rom to the 9bit amd essentially soft bricked the phone. I did more research and flashed the stock rom(or so i thought) now my software version is G935AUCU8ARJ1. I have since had the phone unlocked by spint but now every sim i put into besides the original is showing invalid. Any ideas as ti what i can do about unlocking this phone to any carrier? I am currently using straight talk which i never wouldve switched if id known about the hotspot issue. Also if anyone knows how to bypass that issue that would also be wonderful. Can i perform this unlock or task of doing such without a computer?
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If you previously owned it, you can try contacting Sprint to get it Sim unlocked. You might have better luck finding an unlock service on eBay though

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