A while ago I lost my IMEI. I was able to restore it to the developer IMEI 00049...
but could not get my orignal IMEI back. I tried everything I read on my search but since I had no backup of my /efs I had no success.
Now I found a interesting thread on samdroid forum. Somone claim he can repair your corrupt IMEI by sending you a new, correct nv_data.bin. You only have to send him a picture of you original IMEI (on the battery) and 10$.
It seems that he was already successful with repairing IMEI numbers on the SGS.
What do you guys think. Can you trust him? I mean he could use or sell your IMEI for his own purposes. Do you think this will eventually work?
Here is the samdroid thread:
http://forum.samdroid.net/f70/repair-imei-s2-5729/
Yeah yeah I know, why didn't I keep the sticker on the back of the phone?
Hindsight's a wonderful thing, looking back!
I appear to have bricked my device. I have the exclamation mark in a triangle, with the following message:
"An error has occurred while updating the device software. Use the Emergency recovery function in the Smart Switch PC software"
I have the box which the phone came in so have the IMEI number, but need the serial number to use on Smart Switch.
Phone is SM-G935F model, which was running TEKXnesis rom, rooted. I was attempting to reinstall stock firmware, as I was having issues with the phone (Rom is excellent I hasten to add), and that's when the problem arose.
I can't boot into download or recovery (TWRP 3.0.2.0 was installed).
I have Googled but have drawn a blank, so any ideas would be most helpful.
Thanks
aldbeagle
There's a small letter that show serial number (s/n) along with your imei in the lower part on the back of the phone under the glass.
Sent from my SM-G935F using Tapatalk
Cheers, never knew that, but under the light of my trusty S3 torch it's clearly visible.
Have managed to get my S7 Edge back by flashing TWRP via Odin directly to the phone without being able to get into download mode.
Thanks again
aldbeagle said:
Cheers, never knew that, but under the light of my trusty S3 torch it's clearly visible.
Have managed to get my S7 Edge back by flashing TWRP via Odin directly to the phone without being able to get into download mode.
Thanks again
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Does the SN the on the G930U start with A3? I am in the same situation you were in and neither that or the IMEI is working. Any thoughts?
GalaxyS7Guru said:
Does the SN the on the G930U start with A3? I am in the same situation you were in and neither that or the IMEI is working. Any thoughts?
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I'm in the same situation but the problem is that i replaced the back on my phone a while back so any where else we can find the serial number
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No joke, this happened to me on Thursday as well. I was in the same boat as I took off the sticker and it's nowhere to be found on the box. What I did was I went to Samsung customer service live chat and gave them my imei and they gave me my serial. Then I was able to use kies3 and flash stock back again. I seriously thought I had completely screwed my phone and have to shell out 80 bucks for a repair shop to do it. Hope this helps as it worked for me. Good luck!
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QuickEzRepair said:
I'm in the same situation but the problem is that i replaced the back on my phone a while back so any where else we can find the serial number
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No joke, this happened to me on Thursday as well. I was in the same boat as I took off the sticker and it's nowhere to be found on the box. What I did was I went to Samsung customer service live chat and gave them my imei and they gave me my serial. Then I was able to use kies3 and flash stock back again. I seriously thought I had completely screwed my phone and have to shell out 80 bucks for a repair shop to do it. Hope this helps as it worked for me. Good luck!
Why not just goto Settings 》About device 》Status
Scroll down there and you will find your serial number.
lyriquidperfection said:
Why not just goto Settings 》About device 》Status
Scroll down there and you will find your serial number.
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Lol, did you read the thread bro.
homer285 said:
Lol, did you read the thread bro.
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My bad totally missed the bricked bit!
lyriquidperfection said:
My bad totally missed the bricked bit!
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smack baby lol!
did you find a way to get the s/n number dude? i'm in the same situation, I removed the sticker and lost the box.
cjosh said:
did you find a way to get the s/n number dude? i'm in the same situation, I removed the sticker and lost the box.
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Samsung phone info app from play store if your phone is operational
you can also get your serial number... on the phone box.
lyriquidperfection said:
Why not just goto Settings 》About device 》Status
Scroll down there and you will find your serial number.
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Sadly that also only shows a software serial number sometimes
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Portauxbastard said:
No joke, this happened to me on Thursday as well. I was in the same boat as I took off the sticker and it's nowhere to be found on the box. What I did was I went to Samsung customer service live chat and gave them my imei and they gave me my serial. Then I was able to use kies3 and flash stock back again. I seriously thought I had completely screwed my phone and have to shell out 80 bucks for a repair shop to do it. Hope this helps as it worked for me. Good luck!
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No joke, this happened to me on Thursday as well. I was in the same boat as I took off the sticker and it's nowhere to be found on the box. What I did was I went to Samsung customer service live chat and gave them my imei and they gave me my serial. Then I was able to use kies3 and flash stock back again. I seriously thought I had completely screwed my phone and have to shell out 80 bucks for a repair shop to do it. Hope this helps as it worked for me. Good luck!
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So you were able to talk to Samsung through live chat and they gave it to you from IMEI?
Which site and chat did you use if you don't mind? I did a mobo swap and only have a software S/N in settings.
hey everyone a bit of a different problem my Samsung S6 Galaxy Edge Plus was stolen and I file the police report and I asked for the serial number however I don't have it and I recently changed over to Tmobile so I can't look into my Verizon account and see if they have the serial number I'm about to check TMobile account but I don't remember seeing it on there previously is there any way else to find out what the serial number of your phone is it is still under my possession because I had purchased it right before it was stolen
For all those whom have lost your imei or serial number on your S7 if you dont have the box or the backing has been replaced,
If you remove the backing to the phone there is actually a sticker on the battery with a gold tab at the bottom of the phone that contains your imei number and also serial number.
Samsungs print the imei number on the devices 4 times 1st in ☆#06# 2nd is lasered onto the backing at the bottom 3rd is the sticker atached to the backing when first purchased & 4th is the sticker under the backing of the phone located on the battery at the bottom,
If you have lost your imei & not serial number also and cannot retreive it with stock firmware installation then use Z3X 29.8 cracked with the loader open the Z3x tool go to repair enter the imei printed on the sticker and click the repair button your phone will restart and your imei will be back you must have your phone rooted for Z3x to work however i have tested this repair on android 6.0,7.0 & 8.0 with Z3x cracked it changes the imei every time,
Dont try to change the imei to another different not matched to your phone and patch certificate as it will not work patch certificate only works in 6.0 if you change it to another go to ☆#0011# you will see at the bottom the imei say NG when it should say ok so domt change the imei and try to patch cert you can also set the sim count to 2 with 2 imei numbers also on the G930F to make it a dual sim as i have inspected plenty of G930F board and they all have printed on them G930F/G930FD/G930W8 i have also inspected the sim slots and they do indeed have the pins required already built in to the reader the only thing that is needed to change to dual sim is the dual sim card sim slot and set 2 imei number in the box and set sim count to 2 and voila z3x does the rest. Pls note though you cannot change the serial number on them with z3x thus serial number is what linked to the modem HW ID to allow the phone onto the carrier networks the best ive been able to do with android 7.0 & 8.0 on the V2 firmware is change the imei and when putting a sim card in getting the option for VOLTE however wont register on network and imei is still NG instead of OK in ☆#0011#
Anyway enough ranting of mine hope this can help someone and apologies for reply to an old thread guys im really baked and really bored buisness is slow today haha sunday in australia...... trying to figure out FRP removal on G930F V2 bootloaders also turns out if you extract the firmware with winrar then extract the AP file with 7zip then go to meta data inside that is a file called FOTA.zip well samsung have added there very own password to protect such file on the archive took a while but fotatest1234 isnt a very secure password samsung once extracted enter and find the build.prop enter that and theres all the information to edit the settings to enable ADB by default ive done that packed it all back up but just cant get it to flash ive used .imgTO.tar to convert the file to an MD5 that odin will accept and i get the message leave CS... which means odin has loaded the file and has found no error in the binary but as soon as i hit start odin will crash mabe it has something to do with odin and the edited build.prop or the way im packing the firmware back up anyone know what im doing wrong ? Any help greatly appreciated while im here
Hi Guys,
This is my first post here and also I am fairly new to android, so I apologize in advance if I violate a forum rule or ask an obvious silly question. Anyway,I Recently, I received a Samsung A5 2016 Dual Sim from my friend which did not boot up. Apparently he had installed an app which caused this situation. Then he had tried to install multiple firmwares with Odin on it without success. Anyway, I received the phone and first strange thing that I found was that product name in download mode was SM-A5108 which was different from A510FD which was on the phones box. This probably was the main reason behind not being able to flash any A510FD firmware on phone. So I flashed a A5108 firmware on it booted up to android. But there was 4 issues there:
1- No baseband version was available.
2- No IMEI information for either of sim card slots and of course not detecting any of sim cards.
3- Very sensible lag and delay on loading apps and working with menus.
4- Also A5108 is apparently available for china region so menu was Chinese and other region specific apps was on it.
I found out the original firmware on it was A510FD so searched a little bit and found out it is possible to restore a backup from A510FD. I downloaded a backup file from internet and restored it using TWRP (Data, System, Boot). After restore, phone booted up with A510FD but once again with null IMEI and also lagging. Right now baseband version is available and device model on about section is A510FD. I know all radio related information is on EFS but I have no EFS backup right now and restoring EFS is not an option. Is there any way to fix IMEI issue now?
I can provide exact build number and any other information about phone and firmwares that I used in case it is required for better troubleshooting.
check you phone model by imei or serial from the box or from back of the phone, if someone messed up that phone is hard to be sure what model is
remosam said:
check you phone model by imei or serial from the box or from back of the phone, if someone messed up that phone is hard to be sure what model is
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I forgot to mention there is no IMEI on phone's box or phone itself. But phone's model (A510FD)is printed on box. Also battery is non-removable so not able to check inside of phone for IMEI.
If there is no other option you could remove the back glass panel to see the IMEI number there is a sticker underneath it i replaced the screen of mine and i saw this sticker. You need to be carefull taking off the panel tho cuz you coul rip off the sticker if you're not careful.
Thank you for responding. Okay, Let's suppose I found out IMEI by opening phone's back panel. What is the next step? How could I use these information to recover IMEI to phone? Is there any chance that IMEI information is at EFS partition but due to wrong firmware upgrade it is not working?
I forgot to take backup of my original EFS and now my IMEI 0 .
I tried some methods to recover IMEI
1) go back to stock rom and take efs backup but there also IMEI is 0 .
2) try to generate IMEI
Etc. Etc.
But I'm failed to recover my IMEI
Anyone knows how to recover IMEI ??
Sach27298 said:
I forgot to take backup of my original EFS and now my IMEI 0 .
I tried some methods to recover IMEI
1) go back to stock rom and take efs backup but there also IMEI is 0 .
2) try to generate IMEI
Etc. Etc.
But I'm failed to recover my IMEI
Anyone knows how to recover IMEI ??
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I too have lost mine not realizing this is a problem reverting back from oreo to stock
from my understanding the iemi is on your sim tray, but as far as EFS i have no idea whats in the file it self. I hope this gets worked out i cant even use my phone and im pissed
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https://forum.xda-developers.com/g5-plus/help/restore-imei-0-moto-g5-xt1687-t3739808
worked for me. flashing pixel. im just guna use pixel because its working whatever. but from there you can back up ur efs
PixelExperience_potter-8.1.0-20180117-1338-OFFICIAL
vonwap said:
I too have lost mine not realizing this is a problem reverting back from oreo to stock
from my understanding the iemi is on your sim tray, but as far as EFS i have no idea whats in the file it self. I hope this gets worked out i cant even use my phone and im pissed
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https://forum.xda-developers.com/g5-plus/help/restore-imei-0-moto-g5-xt1687-t3739808
worked for me. flashing pixel. im just guna use pixel because its working whatever. but from there you can back up ur efs
PixelExperience_potter-8.1.0-20180117-1338-OFFICIAL
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So did you recover your imei in pixel experience rom?
u can recover u r imei in omni rom or pixel expirence
Hi there! this is my first thread. i bought a new mainboard for my s7 edge cuz my original one fried. i saw that the mainboard had its imei erased and it doesnt have a serial number. i did flash it with a custom one ui rom. right now i tried to edit the two svc files in the "sec_efs" folder by changing the device id with the imei from my original board and the serial number also from the original one and i still dont have imei or sim conectivity. any suggestions to what to do?
Whatever it is, it's not good...
smecherasu15 said:
Hi there! this is my first thread. i bought a new mainboard for my s7 edge cuz my original one fried. i saw that the mainboard had its imei erased and it doesnt have a serial number. i did flash it with a custom one ui rom. right now i tried to edit the two svc files in the "sec_efs" folder by changing the device id with the imei from my original board and the serial number also from the original one and i still dont have imei or sim conectivity. any suggestions to what to do?
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Have you your first s7 edge efs backup..... Just flash it.... It's must necessary a twrp efs backup... After that everything will be done