IMEI=0 - Moto G4 Plus Questions & Answers

i installed a firmware and had a command to delete all. but I have a backup made with TWRP. is there any way to restore the IMEI?

You will have to flash your stock firmware.

dedq said:
You will have to flash your stock firmware.
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sorry I'm new. I have to search again for a firmware? my backup doesn't work?

If you have a backup in TWRP, IMEI is in "Efs" part.
If you don't have that, flash the stock ROM again and that is how we were going to get your code back.

dedq said:
If you have a backup in TWRP, IMEI is in "Efs" part.
If you don't have that, flash the stock ROM again and that is how we were going to get your code back.
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right. I have 2 separate backups from 2 different years. but neither has a folder or file named efs

JulianCox said:
right. I have 2 separate backups from 2 different years. but neither has a folder or file named efs
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It doesn't need to have a folder which is under that name. You have to select the backup from your TWRP recovery and there you will find the folder. You cannot find it using file manager.
If you cannot find it even in TWRP recovery when restoring backup, you need to flash your original ROM and your IMEI number will be back.

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[Q] Online nandroid restore. how?

When I enter into CMW recovery, and click restore, it only shows the backups i have created in recovery mode, well before flashing a new rom I made a backup with Online Nandroid, but I can't seem to restore it because it doesn't show up in the restore recovery screen. Also, I can't seem to find the path for the restore files from the recovery backups.
Brendan12695 said:
When I enter into CMW recovery, and click restore, it only shows the backups i have created in recovery mode, well before flashing a new rom I made a backup with Online Nandroid, but I can't seem to restore it because it doesn't show up in the restore recovery screen. Also, I can't seem to find the path for the restore files from the recovery backups.
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Not familiar online nandroids at all, but I'm guessing it stores it somewhere other than /data/media/clockworkmod. You'll have to move the nandroid to the default CWM folder most likely.
CMNein said:
Not familiar online nandroids at all, but I'm guessing it stores it somewhere other than /data/media/clockworkmod. You'll have to move the nandroid to the default CWM folder most likely.
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Sadly that did not work, it backups with .tar files that CMW isn't capable of reading.. So, I have to use a previous restore.
Brendan12695 said:
Sadly that did not work, it backups with .tar files that CMW isn't capable of reading.. So, I have to use a previous restore.
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Bummer. As a last resort you don't happen to have CWM set to back up as "dup" under backup type do you?
CMNein said:
Bummer. As a last resort you don't happen to have CWM set to back up as "dup" under backup type do you?
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Nope, I did check to make sure and it was set to default.
Can you post the log file at /data/local/tmp/onandroid.log
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Can i restore backup from another phone?

I've got 2 sets of note 3, and both rooted and flashed with custom rom. I did a backup on one of them for the stock firmware before i flashed the custom rom. Question is, can i use the backup for the stock rom and restore it on the other note 3? Will there be any issues?
Thanks!
ck_jun said:
I've got 2 sets of note 3, and both rooted and flashed with custom rom. I did a backup on one of them for the stock firmware before i flashed the custom rom. Question is, can i use the backup for the stock rom and restore it on the other note 3? Will there be any issues?
Thanks!
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Which backup program ?
bekasulaberidze said:
Which backup program ?
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CWM backup. booted into recovery then did the backup..
ck_jun said:
CWM backup. booted into recovery then did the backup..
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Restore just the System partition and the Boot partition. It should work.
Out of curiosity, why not use odin?
FeralFire said:
Restore just the System partition and the Boot partition. It should work.
Out of curiosity, why not use odin?
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Will that unroot the phone and get it back to stock firmware (the backup is stock firmware)
what i was trying to do is to get the phone back to stock as much as possible.
When you said odin, you mean download a stock firmware and use odin to flash it?
ck_jun said:
Will that unroot the phone and get it back to stock firmware (the backup is stock firmware)
what i was trying to do is to get the phone back to stock as much as possible.
When you said odin, you mean download a stock firmware and use odin to flash it?
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Yes, it will restore everything to stock, exactly like the backup.
But, you should use odin. It will restore everything to stock.
FeralFire said:
Yes, it will restore everything to stock, exactly like the backup.
But, you should use odin. It will restore everything to stock.
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Thanks! but can you tell me more? If i have that backup, what advantage does odin has over downloading a stock firmware?
ck_jun said:
Thanks! but can you tell me more? If i have that backup, what advantage does odin has over downloading a stock firmware?
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Well, for one, odin will restore EVERYTHING to stock. Including the recovery.
Second, the recovery will probably reject the backup if it checks for MD5, you might have to disable it before restoring.
Third, it is more convenient.
ck_jun said:
I've got 2 sets of note 3, and both rooted and flashed with custom rom. I did a backup on one of them for the stock firmware before i flashed the custom rom. Question is, can i use the backup for the stock rom and restore it on the other note 3? Will there be any issues?
Thanks!
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if you want to restore the data it should be no problem. i already test it on all of my phone.
FeralFire said:
Well, for one, odin will restore EVERYTHING to stock. Including the recovery.
Second, the recovery will probably reject the backup if it checks for MD5, you might have to disable it before restoring.
Third, it is more convenient.
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I sadly had to go through that on my old note 2 (super slow connection in my country), well what i found out that to skip md5 check in TWRP, i had to backup my EFS (just to let twrp create its folders and settle up) then i moved the backup from another phone to the folder twrp just created, Restored system and /data with no problems
When the recovery check for MD5, open MD5 file on notepad, clear everything and save it. The recovery will not reject it. Trust me :laugh:

[Q] SM-N900 EFS nv_dat.bin corrupt EFS etc Pease HELP!!!!

I have a sm-n900 exynos and I have lost my imei and baseband during a Samsung flash. I have a TWRP backup, efs.img backup by dr.ketan's backup tool but nothing is able to restore my efs. I have scanned emmc blocks for bricked blocks and all blocks come back as non-corrupted. may be the partition is corrupted .how do I erase my efs partition to rebuild it. I have tired to flash PIT from ODIN but that too doesn't work.
tried this post http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...567133&page=36
but need a guide to identify the partitions and how to rebuild them. by any chance anyone know if I could extract twrp backup to files to restore efs or from efs.img so I can use the nv_data.bin, since tried restoring the backups and it didn't restore I feel the partition might be corrupt and hence not being re-written. so might be I have to rebuild the partitions by formatting as explained in this thread. but I don't know exactly the steps for exynos variant. I tried using terminal on twrp but mkef2 command shows mmbcblkp03 doesn't exist which as I have read in posts is the efs partition on this phone and reboots to twrp recovery. and mmbcblkp12 show filesystem too small and reboots to twrp recovery
Can some one upload sm-n900 efs folder may be can try and edit nv_data in hex editer
mithudas28 said:
I have a sm-n900 exynos and I have lost my imei and baseband during a Samsung flash. I have a TWRP backup, efs.img backup by dr.ketan's backup tool but nothing is able to restore my efs. I have scanned emmc blocks for bricked blocks and all blocks come back as non-corrupted. may be the partition is corrupted .how do I erase my efs partition to rebuild it. I have tired to flash PIT from ODIN but that too doesn't work.
tried this post http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...567133&page=36
but need a guide to identify the partitions and how to rebuild them. by any chance anyone know if I could extract twrp backup to files to restore efs or from efs.img so I can use the nv_data.bin, since tried restoring the backups and it didn't restore I feel the partition might be corrupt and hence not being re-written. so might be I have to rebuild the partitions by formatting as explained in this thread. but I don't know exactly the steps for exynos variant. I tried using terminal on twrp but mkef2 command shows mmbcblkp03 doesn't exist which as I have read in posts is the efs partition on this phone and reboots to twrp recovery. and mmbcblkp12 show filesystem too small and reboots to twrp recovery
Can some one upload sm-n900 efs folder may be can try and edit nv_data in hex editer
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Could you provide more details about the backup you have:
- What files do you have? What is the name of these files, and also the file sizes?
vndnguyen said:
Could you provide more details about the backup you have:
- What files do you have? What is the name of these files, and also the file sizes?
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I HAVE efs.img created my Dr. Ketan's EFS tool and which had worked succefully so presume it's a good copy, I have a completeTWRP backup of installed VNROM 13.1 which doesn't have the new baseband problem of NE3 in vnrom 14, and have used to rstore efs earlier and has worked successfully.
files I have
efs.img 20 Mb
attached screenshot of twrp backup
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georgesmh said:
Did u try to flash the previous modem?
Anyways this is an EFS backup
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If that's your EFS back up, I'd remove it, or someone else is gonna enjoy your IMEI
radicalisto said:
If that's your EFS back up, I'd remove it, or someone else is gonna enjoy your IMEI
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Haha damnn thanks dude I didnt know
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georgesmh said:
Haha damnn thanks dude I didnt know
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Keep your EFS info as private as you do your ATM card Pin number my friend :good:
georgesmh said:
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I know its risky but could you please please send me the efs, once my device gets its base band and is up and running i will restore my own efs backup. I dont need to use your iemi and trust me i wont. I would be grateful for to you pleade help me . Tou xould pm me the upload please. A beey veey himble and desperate request.
mithudas28 said:
I HAVE efs.img created my Dr. Ketan's EFS tool and which had worked succefully so presume it's a good copy, I have a completeTWRP backup of installed VNROM 13.1 which doesn't have the new baseband problem of NE3 in vnrom 14, and have used to rstore efs earlier and has worked successfully.
files I have
efs.img 20 Mb
attached screenshot of twrp backup
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So it seems you have the correct backup for your device. Some more questions:
1- Can you show the link to the EFS tool you have used to make a backup?
2- What is your difficulty now? You don't know how to restore? Cannot restore? Or you already restored but the problem still persist?
Please be noted that you have to restore ALL efs-related partitions, NOT only 1 partition.
At the moment, my app 'IMEI Backup ★Samsung★' can only restore from the backup that has been made by it. But I will add the ability to restore from the backup which was made by other apps, may be in the next release.
vndnguyen said:
So it seems you have the correct backup for your device. Some more questions:
1- Can you show the link to the EFS tool you have used to make a backup?
2- What is your difficulty now? You don't know how to restore? Cannot restore? Or you already restored but the problem still persist?
Please be noted that you have to restore ALL efs-related partitions, NOT only 1 partition.
At the moment, my app 'IMEI Backup ★Samsung★' can only restore from the backup that has been made by it. But I will add the ability to restore from the backup which was made by other apps, may be in the next release.
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yes i tried to restore both the baxkups and even the whole twrp backup but unfortunatly the system gets restored but not the imei. The link for the tool
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...+tool&pcampaignid=APPU_ALKrU4PHMMy5uAS4yYDYDA
mithudas28 said:
yes i tried to restore both the baxkups and even the whole twrp backup but unfortunatly the system gets restored but not the imei. The link for the tool
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...+tool&pcampaignid=APPU_ALKrU4PHMMy5uAS4yYDYDA
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That means the above-mentioned app does not work correctly with the restoring job?
Has your phone been rooted? If yes, I will guide you some steps to restore manually.
Yes its rooted and has twrp recovery . It would be just great if you xould guide me
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Hi , i have One question , is there a way to send the nv_data. Bin by adb command ?
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Hi, please, can someone upload his efs.IMG from sm-n900 ?
I want to write it inside my phone to try with a box if it possible to write after my imei loosed.
I have null/null and no backup from telephone!

Messed my phone up :( via the good ol' "baseband unknown" issue

I was doing some rather regular restores from TWRP when all of a sudden I lost my Baseband with no [apparent] way to recover it.
I flashed 4.4 and 5.0 stock ROMs. Nothing. I flashed the modem [CP_N9005XXUGBPB1_MODEM.tar.md5] a zillion times. No luck.
I tried flashing this baby, made by a fellow XDA'er:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2507403
It's based on a script that supposedly fixes this issue. Also no luck. Still stuck on "unknown" baseband, no mobile network
Any help is MUCH appreciated. It's 00:18 and for the past 3 hours I've tried to recover from this...
P.S.: I have a full backup of ALL my partitions, so I think I can recover from this. Somehow...
Can you restore your EFS folder from a backup?
audit13 said:
Can you restore your EFS folder from a backup?
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Well, I tried to restore the entire OS via TWRP from my full backup. And now, since you mentioned it, I also tried restoring ONLY the EFS. No go
Do you have an actual backed up EFS folder .
JJEgan said:
Do you have an actual backed up EFS folder .
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I have these files among my TWRP backup files:
efs1.emmc.win 14 MB
efs2.emmc.win 3 MB
efs3.emmc.win 3 MB
I always back up all partitions.
Upon restore, I can see an "efs" folder in the root (along side etc, acct, mnt etc) but the folder is empty.
I have NOT taken any manual backups of the efs folder (as in copy the folder itself), nor did I use a tool such as EFS Professional. I found out about these too late
I was hoping that TWRP does what it says when it "backs up" data. Am I to understand that I just destroyed my phone because TWRP didn't back up my efs?
Sadly thats not an EFS backup .
A shop with a JTag should be able to fix it .
JJEgan said:
Sadly thats not an EFS backup .
A shop with a JTag should be able to fix it .
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Ouch. Much appreciated, despite the bad news .
I'm quite angry on TWRP now. What did they mean by "efs" backup, if there's no actual backup?
So this means they have to access the phone motherboard to do... what? What should I ask them to do? Flash me a new IMEI?

Quick restore question

Hello everyone. I now have the TWRP Nougat back up on my computer and want to restore it on my phone but how do I do it? I replaced the BACKUPS folder with the downloaded one and it can't find anything to restore..
Edit: I now realized that I need to flash the restore point, right?
oliake said:
Hello everyone. I now have the TWRP Nougat back up on my computer and want to restore it on my phone but how do I do it? I replaced the BACKUPS folder with the downloaded one and it can't find anything to restore..
Edit: I now realized that I need to flash the restore point, right?
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Go to twrp, do any small backup(boot), connect to pc, copy from pc your old backup.
F.e.:
Sdcard/twrp/backups/serialNo/2017...... name of backup/here shuld be files.
dzidexx said:
Go to twrp, do any small backup(boot), connect to pc, copy from pc your old backup.
F.e.:
Sdcard/twrp/backups/serialNo/2017...... name of backup/here shuld be files.
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Thank you!!

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