Don't forget if you can't wait for voodoo you can use odin to flash the fascinate software it works everytime and run there roms and kernels but you have to use odin first for the fascinate do this at your own risk I'm not responsible for your mistakes I will keep up on this thread if you need help or questions
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Don't forget if you can't wait for voodoo you can use odin to flash the fascinate software it works everytime and run there roms and kernels but you have to use odin first for the fascinate do this at your own risk I'm not responsible for your mistakes I will keep up on this thread if you need help or questions
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Absolutely nothing about this sounds like a good idea and honestly it seems a bit irresponsible to even suggest it.
I used it for along time that way I have tested it many times and it works fine voodoo and all never had a problem I wouldn't have said anything if I didn't try it first it works every time for me
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Using the pit file from fascinate with odin will map every thing to the right spot only the software is different between phones I have done it ran super dark rom oc/uv kernel voodoo 5 lag fix and all even the recovery for it I still have nandroid back ups on my phones sd for 5or
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The only reason I'm not still using it its so I can check out what's new for
Mez I had no problems with it
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There are lots of things you can use from fascinate forum such as window animations they have for metamorh if you dont know what that is then ya dont do it but ive worked on all the galaxy s versions. That being said i have used fascinate modem radio stock software custom roms rooted it custom kernels and all without problems but thats me not you do at your own risk but i will try to do anything i can to help with this process maybe it will work for the cell south showcase still same hardware then they could have froyo
I was posting about this before we even had our own place on xda
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Yes, we know.
If you are comfortable fooling with hardware that's awesome. The problem is 99% of the people who visit these forums are not. If you want to talk about stuff like this join us in IRC. You many be a great help. But don't encourage thousands of users to to go off willy nilly and flash verizon software to their USCC devices. It is not proper and can damage your phone. You're very lucky that it hasn't for you.
I wasn't trying to twist any arms into doing this I'm not the first person to do this I'm not trying to twist any arms jusy saying its possible and I would help I don't recommend any other phones software just the i500 stuff
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My question is if I have a Verizon Fascinate(which I do) can it be made to work on USCC and whats involved in that. I have one laying around and flashed the USCC froyo leak to it and it booted and everything was good except the main part, the phone (modem). It always stayed in airplane mode. I flashed back to a Verizon firmware and all was well with the phone again. I know USCC would have to add the MEID number to their database, but not sure about the rest.
I've done this. Just don't overwrite the modem or you are ****ed...
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Could you provide a little more info? Im guessing u mean the verizon modem? Did you have to flash a USCC PRL to it after the USCC software flash? Any info would be appreciated. Thanks
EDIT: Ok, reflashed leaked froyo, flashed verizon modem.bin and now I have a verizon fascinate with uscc software and verizon modem that is still talking to the verizon network. I just need to figure how to flash a uscc prl to it and get it off of verizons towers. Then of course the MEID of the phone needs to be added to the uscc database to allow for it to work on the network. Sounds good to me.
To be honest I don't think it has to be added to the database. I know people who have hooked up Alltell phones, and verizon phones to USCC.
Also all I think you need to do is flash the USCC modem, along with the software, call a CSR and tell them you want to add a "Mesmerize" to the account give ESN, and it should work. There was a topic in Epic 4G to use it on Boostmobile, so if theyre isnt a modem, maybe you can edit the verizon one with all the correct info?
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I don't mean to start a riot here but does anyone know how to (or has the links to) put a Fascinate ROM on a Mesmerize device?
I know there are huge risks by trying this & if done incorrectly can lead to a headache. I'm a risk taker & want to have something new to play with & try. I googled around but all I can find is people referring to doing it but not what they did.
Also if you know how & don't want to post it publicly to avoid creating more trouble-makers a PM would be great too.
Thanks in advance for anyone that takes the chance of helping me.
I can help pm me I have everything you need to do this I have done this many times
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How about the reverse? I've mesmerized my fascinate but have texting issues and only 1x data. I see it switch to 3g but never world when its in that mode. I gave uscc service. I can make and receive calls and receive texts. I've imported an apn.xml from my girls mesmerize that I flashed the froyo leak to. I've also used qpst to set my user and pass for data mimicking her during except using my number where applicable.Tia
Just flash modem only back to vzw
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Actually am using vzw modem, newest one from fascinate forum. The uscc modem doesnt work at all. Any recommendations?
Thats strange vzw and uscc modems both work on my mez 3g and all
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Ok so I just started flashing vzw modems to see if I could make any progress and managed to get my txting issue resolved with DI01 modem. Still just 1x inet, no 3g.
Mesmerbelly, I'm working with a fascinate here not a mesmerize, but noticed you said uve flashed both provider modems to your mez. Can you think of any reason y it wouldnt be a 2way process. I appreciate all your help.
I am not sure but I'd say it works on the mesmerize because uscc roams from them anyway. I doubt that vzw uses uscc's stuff. Not educated just guessing lol. Also uscc has always used different text stuff. Same way back on tp2 for me
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Try updating your prl???
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You I've done the prl update. Had to use QPST to originally flash an older uscc prl just to get it on the uscc network. I then did a prl update to get the newest one. I'm stumped, still happy though cause I got a new phone for free and the only thing that doesnt work is 3g access. This whole procedure has allowed me to alter my uscc account to have a mesmerize, so in a few weeks i can do an insurance claim and get a real one and just sell this fascinate.
Lol thats funny but they will ask you to ship the old one back unless you say you lost it then they will put the imei number on a lost list and no one can use it so you cant sell it
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I was just going to say I lost it, then wait a while then "find" it and call and have it removed from the lost and stolen list. Since I was the original owner it shouldnt be a problem.
That may work not sure when out comes off the lost list of the insurance will want you to send it in tho good luck
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That may work not sure when out comes off the lost list of the insurance will want you to send it in tho good luck
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Terms for cancellation of your entire contract.
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Terms for cancellation of your entire contract.
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Only if you get caught my friend, only if you get caught.
FIXED.
Go to my post to see what I did!
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Ok... The amount of problems I have experienced going from SC Rom, SimpleClean or whatever it was, to Heinz57 is extremely ridiculous... I'm going to skip all that I've done and go straight to the problem. Heinz 57 requires me to have EC10 kernel and radio or whatever. Well being on SC I had EC01. The only thing I found was to go to stock to get EC10 kernel and radio. Well, the very first time I flashed a rom, I was a noob, and forgot to freaking backup my stock rom, so I lost my stock Cellular South rom. In trying to get CWM and all this crap fixed and working, I eventually got Heinz57 installed, but I didn't have Cell Data, you know, like the internet. I could make calls, text, blahblah, but no 3G or anything like that. Then it hit me, this happened when I installed some stock rom that was for U.S. Cellular or some bull, but when I read it, it was for my phone, which is Mesmerize, and it was EC10, and one of the posts in there said it would take everything, even the radio. Well apparently something went wrong, so I'm thinking, why not get the stock rom for US Cellular for 2.1 and then use Kies to upgrade to 2.2, well apparently that's all it did was upgrade it. Because my phone was still US Cellular. Basically I either need the stock rom for Cellular South (2.1 or 2.2). I GUESS? Will that fix my radio? Is there just a radio I can flash with Odin? I've tried some EC10 radio I found in the Facinate forum (For some reason everything in the Mesmerize forum points to the Facinate forum, whatever. Lol), but it didn't do anything. Maybe EC10 just won't work on my phone? Do I go back to EC01 then just say whatever and try installing Heinz on that? I don't know I'm so lost haha. Any help is appreciated. Thanks.
EDIT: Sorry, the radio I flashed was EC01, not EC10.
This one: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1029436
EDIT2: So with @davidbruington informing me that I have a Showcase, I tried installing the EB11 files and Radio. No change. Same thing.
CS Showcase should have originally came with DJ20 radio.. I too made the mistake of flashing a Fascinate radio trying to get my TXTs to work with Evil Fascinate rom "awesome ROM BTW". Well I got TXTs working and lost data. Afterwards I have flashed all the Showcase ROMS, even the one with EB11 which supposedly works with the Showcase and data is STILL broke. So something gets changed flashing to a fascinate/mesmarize radio and back. If I knew what to look for I'd open up CDMA workshop and change it back. Anyone have any ideas? I will also add that after flashing to EB11, *228 gives me a programming failure everytime I try.
Both of you are running radios not built for cell south. Go to irc and get help. And stop flashing odin files not for your phone if you don't know what you're doing. Roms don't include a radio, so flashing them isn't going to fix your problem.
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Not to mention, if you have cell south then you have a showcase, not a mesmerize. Hopefully that'll help you in the future. They are different, even if just slightly.
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This isn't my first goat roping.. I've been flashing phones since the early Nokia days. I'll tell you what there isn't though, I list of radios and what hardware/carrier they are good for. I have a T-Mobile HD2 and soon a G2X and at least in the HD2 thread they warn which radios are ONLY for the T-Mobile variant.. in a RADIO Sticky thread. Can you blame me.. EVERY one of these phones whether a Fascinate, Mesmerize.. or in this case a Showcase "branded as a Galaxy S" all have the hardware model number of SCH-i500! I only found the Mesmerize threads warning of problems AFTER I had convinced myself that the phone in my hand was a Fascinate after searching the model number on google, and the first stop was XDA Fascinate forums. I think XDA needs to invest in grouping the phones better as the list on the main page is growing out of control.. would also help in the confusion and problems such as what I have encountered.
It's not xda's fault you assumed that everything for a fascinate would work for a showcase. A little research would have yielded the obvious answer that no, they are not all the same. Why else would there be separate forums for them? And separate versions of roms for the mes/showcase? Because they are different. And the radios are not universal, which is why you no longer have data. Again, go to the mes irc and they can get you back on track with a showcase flash.
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What I am getting at is that ALL of these SCH-i500 model phones shouldn't have their own main thread.. mesmerize, fascinate, galaxy s, showcase, etc etc.. just because carrier X has given them a unique branding name.. hell, I didnt even know this phone was a "Showcase", it says Galaxy S on the back of the cover.. if you look here under galaxy S it has a model of i9000! If the hardware is in fact identical, the main thread should be devoted to it.. such as HTCs code names. Yes.. assumptions are bad but I did do a good bit of research.. it was only until I F'd up and had to search for the problem I was having that even more searching revealed that the phone I had wasn't a fascinate. Now the problem at hand.. the phone isn't bricked, its just the radio flash has changed something.. and even flashing back to a compatible radio didn't change this certain thing back. If it could be changed it should be able to be changed back.
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What I am getting at is that ALL of these SCH-i500 model phones shouldn't have their own main thread.. mesmerize, fascinate, galaxy s, showcase, etc etc.. just because carrier X has given them a unique branding name.. hell, I didnt even know this phone was a "Showcase", it says Galaxy S on the back of the cover.. if you look here under galaxy S it has a model of i9000! If the hardware is in fact identical, the main thread should be devoted to it.. such as HTCs code names. Yes.. assumptions are bad but I did do a good bit of research.. it was only until I F'd up and had to search for the problem I was having that even more searching revealed that the phone I had wasn't a fascinate. Now the problem at hand.. the phone isn't bricked, its just the radio flash has changed something.. and even flashing back to a compatible radio didn't change this certain thing back. If it could be changed it should be able to be changed back.
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All galaxy s phones are not the same, which is exactly why they have separate forums. You have not flashed a radio that is compatible for your phone because, as I said, roms do NOT include the radio. There is not a standalone radio flash available for the showcase. Your only option to get this fixed is to go to the mes irc chat and get what you need there.
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I've been to the mesmerized IRC channel and I have d/l the EB11 Showcase rom which in fact included the radio. It did not fix the data issue. Are you trying to say all SCH-I500 model phones are not the same hardware apart from differing software? Do they have different ram or flash ammounts? From everything I've seen they are identical: 1 GHz Hummingbird Cortex A8, 384 MB RAM, 512 MB ROM... difference ROM/software. As I've said before.. somehow flashing the fascinate radio "EC01" has changed some internal register and flashing back to the EB11 SC radio will not change the appropriate register back. I've seen much harder problems fixed by people of the XDA forum.. just not enough users with SC phones to warrant an investigation by the people who would know how to correct this particular problem.
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The hardware is probably identical except the actual wireless transceiver that is built for each carriers network. In some cases, you can use a different radio (the software that operates the transceiver) and it will work. But the problem with any software not written expressly for your device is not the device itself, rather the problem is that the software does not contain the proper id, settings, and configuration for your carrier. That is why everything on xda always carries with it the "at your own risk" disclaimer.
That being said, most of the folks in the irc are experienced devs, who would probably be glad to try and help you remedy the pickle you're in, if you asked nicely. If you go in there with a "this is your fault, fix it" sort of attitude, then you may be **** out of luck.
Do you have to brown nose them? No. But it couldn't hurt. They put up with a lot of **** here, and fortunately they keep providing us new and exciting software to experiment with. For free.
That's my two bits. Do what you will.
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I have all the respect in the world for the development.. they make our phones more than just a communicating device but a fun gadget and hobby for some. I'm well aware of the risks for this hobby.. I've had my share of mistakes believe me. Its more a gripe about xda-dev forum than this device.. back when there were only a dozen phones on here it was hard to mistake them apart.. I bought an O2 xda II s because there wasn't a GSM phone like it at the time.. now we have literalle a hundred different model phones and now different branding of the same phone on different carriers.. organization here is critical.. almost overwhelming. My first search gave me a result.. but not exactly the correct information. Cellular south is not large enough to have their own device threads.. I've known that for a long time. The only info I had was it was called a galaxy s and had a model of sch-i500. My search of galaxy s landed a model of i9000.. I knew that was not correct so I figured CS just slapped the name galaxy s on another device.. marketing blah. My next search of the model landed the fascinate device which looked identical so I figured I had it.
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Well, now that we have berated you enough (Lol) lets see if we can help you remedy the situation. So calls and texts work, but no data. Is there a data icon? 3g or 1x?
If you can gain access to the hidden menu you may be able to learn a bit more about whats causing this. At one point my phone (for whatever reason) was stuck in 1x only. I opened the hiddenmenu and changed it to force evdo (3g) waited till it changed to 3g mode, and then switched it back to hybrid.
Sometimes tinkering makes a world of difference. Im not really sure what else to tell you from here... I'm no dev by any means.
Btw, some of the info in the hiddenmenu is generic. For example, I have uscc yet even on a stock rom some of the messaging configurations have crap related to vzw (verizon wireless). If you screw something up, a fresh reflash of the Odin package should set the hiddenmenu options back to default again.
Hopefully someone with more experience than me, who knows all about radios and the like, will step in and direct you further.
Edit: Btw, wolfstar, I'm sorry dude I didn't mean to hijack your thread. My dumb ass didn't pay close enough attention to realize that there's two people in this thread with similar problems...
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Not a problem, lol. I did get my problem fixed though. I'm not gonna lie, I have NO idea how, but I did.
To answer your question, no, I did not have 3G or 1x by my signal. Just the signal bar.
To answer how I fixed it, I wish I could tell you guys. I went to the IRC and someone pointed me to a stock ROM which I flashed, and it didn't work. That was an EB11 rom I do believe. Then I did some searching and apparently I found out that no one really has the full stock EB11 rom because the modem would never get fully flashed, and I was like, maybe that's my problem because I went from EC10, which was not supported for my device but for some reason still gave me signal to call people and what have you, to EB11. Well I was like, since there is no EB11 I'll go to the one below which is DJ20. When I did, it didn't work. I was so disappointed. Turned out the DJ20 rom didn't have the modem in it at all, because I check my About Phone menu and I still had EB11 for the baseband. Well I did the *228 just for the giggles, (NOTE: I have been doing the *228 every time I flashed a rom when trying to fix my issue, just to see if maybe it will fix something.) and let my phone reboot. When it turned back on, still no data. This was my last straw, because I had honestly run out of every option I had left. I set it down to think what else there could be to do, picked it back up and unlocked it and BAM, 3G. I have no idea how, or why, but somewhere in what I did it fixed it. Maybe when I went back down to DJ20 and did *228 it downloaded what little bit I was missing in the transition from DJ20 to EB11. It's my only hypothesis.
Thank you guys for all the help. I know you guys didn't have the answers but at least you tried.
ALSO. I did go through my settings with each flash, to make sure they were correct, and they were all on. So I know that my data was on in each flash.
I hope that maybe someone can use this little bit of info one day to either AVOID this or FIX it. Goodluck!
Glad you got it fixed! yeah I remember reading something about cell south demanding its packages removed or something? Apparently they are uberstingy. Anyway, good job and thanks for posting it here for others.
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crap.. I could have sworn I too flashed back to a dj20 rom but maybe not. The roms contain APN settings correct? would anything BUT an original Showcase rom in theory not work? It doesnt make sense because even after flashing to the EB11 Showcase rom my data still did not work.. its almost like there is some NVRAM that stores APN settings that must be set by an original flash. Wolf,after you flashed EB11 did *228 give you a failure every time you tried it?
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crap.. I could have sworn I too flashed back to a dj20 rom but maybe not. The roms contain APN settings correct? would anything BUT an original Showcase rom in theory not work? It doesnt make sense because even after flashing to the EB11 Showcase rom my data still did not work.. its almost like there is some NVRAM that stores APN settings that must be set by an original flash. Wolf,after you flashed EB11 did *228 give you a failure every time you tried it?
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No, every time I did *228 it was always successful and it would reboot my phone, but even after it rebooted it was still the same. Check your About Phone and see if you have the EB11 Baseband, if you, try what I did and get the DJ20 ROM and do the *228.
I can gladly say that I still have 3G/1x with no problems.
ok, so i rooted my showcase from element mobile using SuperOneClick, worked, then i put CWM on my showcase using Odin and that worked. but when i tried putting VOODOO on my showcase i couldnt get the link in the thread to open so i went to the project-voodoo.org website and took their 5.5 Froyo off the top of the list and again used Odin and it said it worked. But now when i try to turn on my showcase it tells me it is an I9000 instead of an I500 and the bootlogo gets a half second in then freezes. i cant even get to the red recovery list, it gives me the stock blue one... i really dont want to buy a new phone so please anybody help?
Who is your cell phone provider.
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Who is your cell phone provider.
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coveyb said:
Element Mobile
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Uh oh...
You may have just learned the hard lesson of flashing things not built for your phone/provider. I have never seen anyone with that provider on here so I doubt anyone has a restore for it. Don't give up yet but it's not looking good.
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yeah, ive been looking everywhere for something to get me back to froyo or anywhere working for that matter but this is killin me right now.
These cell providers are going to have to start naming there phones something other than showcase. I've been looking on the web and all I can find is cell south and ntelos. Sorry, hopefully the more experienced guys on here can come up with something.
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i wish i could just reset everything...
Unfortunately without the stock files it will be almost impossible to "reset" the phone back to its original state. If you have a friend in your providers local office I would suggest cashing in a favor. There is still a possibility one of the XDA guru's may run across something so try and hang in there if ya can. One question. Is this prepaid or contract? When searching other forums there are some labeled prepaid and such and I personally have never heard of this provider.
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Unfortunately without the stock files it will be almost impossible to "reset" the phone back to its original state.
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i might be able to get one of the nice ladies in the office to put it back to stock for me.. and its a contract, when verison took over alltel my alltell store stayed alltell and then got bought out by a local tv,landline,and internet company and named the mobile portion Element Mobile, its like six months new..
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i might be able to get one of the nice ladies in the office to put it back to stock for me.. and its a contract, when verison took over alltel my alltell store stayed alltell and then got bought out by a local tv,landline,and internet company and named the mobile portion Element Mobile, its like six months new..
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If you have insurance you could always "lose" it and only have to pay the $100. Maybe not ethical but to each his own.
^ I've had to do that when I was with cingular.
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that was the plan till i forgot i didnt have insurance on it... i put insurance on all my phones but i have no idea why i didnt for this one. im wondering if i can get her to send me the stock files through email and tell her i know how to do all that so then the dev gods on here have them
If you did get the stock ROM and kernel files then that would work. Problem may be that those files are normally quite large so emailing them may not be possible. But that's deffinately an idea. I would first see if they will fix the phone for ya. Then if you can get the files that's just a bonus at that point.
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alright thanks for helpin me out, now its just up to Element..
Please keep us posted. Wanna make sure you get your phone fixed. Know how it is to have a busted phone.
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they told me i had to buy a new phone... screw that hah but i got a friend i work with thats doin some research and tryin to figure stuff out
Damn, hate to hear that. Hope something works out for ya.
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they told me i had to buy a new phone... screw that hah but i got a friend i work with thats doin some research and tryin to figure stuff out
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Did you admit to rooting it?
only after the manager said even if i rooted it they would do what they could cuz he has three rooted phones and showed me one. he tried to look up stuff for me to do but he said the I500 is rare and there isnt much on Element mobile or the Showcase to help on fourms
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only after the manager said even if i rooted it they would do what they could cuz he has three rooted phones and showed me one. he tried to look up stuff for me to do but he said the I500 is rare and there isnt much on Element mobile or the Showcase to help on fourms
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Do they not have techs? A tech should have the software to restore it back to stock.
I was thinking about trying to flash an epic 4g radio to the mezmerise similar to the fascinte radio to mezmerise method.... I am assuming the experts would advise against this.... but I guess the real question is... will this permanently brick my phone, or could I theoretically just odin back to stock if it jacks my phone up too much?
My suggestion is that if you aren't sure exactly what your flashing is going to do its not a good idea in fact its a very bad idea....won't work anyways 4g isn't just software or firmware its different hardware.
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I understand that the 4g radio is a completely separate thing, and while there may be worthless software added, perhaps the 3g radio is similar... Either way I have seen unbrick guides that should technically unbrick just about anything. This is why I want to take such a careless risk, as there is no sprint radio for the i500 devices. I dont imagine a verizon radio helping me with getting this sucker to work properly with my boost account while a sprint radio would help greatly.
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I understand that the 4g radio is a completely separate thing, and while there may be worthless software added, perhaps the 3g radio is similar... Either way I have seen unbrick guides that should technically unbrick just about anything. This is why I want to take such a careless risk, as there is no sprint radio for the i500 devices. I dont imagine a verizon radio helping me with getting this sucker to work properly with my boost account while a sprint radio would help greatly.
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so how did the flash go?
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My ballzieness shrunk back down to a logical level when the alcohol wore off, and I am now afraid to attempt such a thing as it seems idiotic to me now.
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My ballzieness shrunk back down to a logical level when the alcohol wore off, and I am now afraid to attempt such a thing as it seems idiotic to me now.
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Haha that's funny **** right there bud! Im glad you didn't bork your phone while drunk as I have found its harder to read how to fix things when the screen is fuzzy and the room is spinning! Even tho it is likely that if you can get to download mode you can fix these phones.
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well, i had thoroughly researched bringing the mesmerize back from really stupid flashes... like people flashing captivate roms to their i500... so I honestly think it would have been a series of odin flashes. but regardless, dumb idea, and i have full 3g working on a pick n pack mesmerize rom/radio.
I hear people referring to IMEI and that may lose it of they flash a custom ROM? What does this to refer to and what are the implications?
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If you flash a non TW ROM you could lose your IMEI, which allows you to log on to the Verizon network. If it gets borked you'll have to restore a back-up or try to restore from the IMEI number in the battery compartment. There are a couple of great threads on hot to do it. Just Search. I just backed-up mine and it was really easy. Don't forget to thank the DEV. They are amazing. If i could have children I would want one of there's.
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I hear people referring to IMEI and that may lose it of they flash a custom ROM? What does this to refer to and what are the implications?
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You can lose it with a TW rom as well.
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Consider the IMEI as a serial number of sorts that's unique to your device (though not necessarily true) so that it can identify itself to the network through the sim card. Also consider that it can be corrupted and removed for many unknown reasons at this time.
Moral of the story: Back it up before making any changes to the phone.
This method backs it up from stock while your IMEI is still intact: http://rootzwiki.com/topic/32397-tutorial-imei-backup-nv-with-qpst-us-variants/
This method with attempt to repair said IMEI when it's gone south/missing: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1802024
tu3218 said:
You can lose it with a TW rom as well.
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Actually if you're on stock rom/kernel then you don't have to worry about randomly losing your IMEI. It only seems to occur when flashing or running a custom kernel. This means a custom touchwiz kernel can cause it.
Some people are saying its not a preventable issue. I'm sure I'm not alone in thinking that's unacceptable. I'm hopeful one of the many smart devs working on this phone can figure it out. This phone has overcome too much to be gimped by an issue like this. The IMEI issue essentially makes running custom kernels impractical for people who cannot afford to lose their phone's basic functions; it can happen at any given time.
I'll continue to hope that since this issue exists across all carrier editions it will be solved.
Div033 said:
Actually if you're on stock rom/kernel then you don't have to worry about randomly losing your IMEI. It only seems to occur when flashing or running a custom kernel. This means a custom touchwiz kernel can cause it.
Some people are saying its not a preventable issue. I'm sure I'm not alone in thinking that's unacceptable. I'm hopeful one of the many smart devs working on this phone can figure it out. This phone has overcome too much to be gimped by an issue like this. The IMEI issue essentially makes running custom kernels impractical for people who cannot afford to lose their phone's basic functions; it can happen at any given time.
I'll continue to hope that since this issue exists across all carrier editions it will be solved.
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First of all thanks for sharing...
So I have already installed a custom rom ( currently synergy r39) and a custom kernel imoseyon 0.2.2...
So I better go make a back up ASAP ...
I lost mine once while running an unofficial cm nightly. I flashed it and everything worked fine. Then I restarted the phone and I lost my imei. It was a pretty quick fix because I backed up efs.bin file. I then used the qualcomm tool to restore the imei and then I pushed the efs.bin backup over the current one. I then reflashed that cm nightly again and I was working again. It took about 25 min. The only downside is if this happens and you don't have a computer you can't use your phone till you get to one.
Best thing is to not panic and check the threads here. It's an easy fix. I wouldn't be worried.
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Div033 said:
Some people are saying its not a preventable issue. I'm sure I'm not alone in thinking that's unacceptable. I'm hopeful one of the many smart devs working on this phone can figure it out. This phone has overcome too much to be gimped by an issue like this. The IMEI issue essentially makes running custom kernels impractical for people who cannot afford to lose their phone's basic functions; it can happen at any given time.
I'll continue to hope that since this issue exists across all carrier editions it will be solved.
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This issue has pretty much scared me away from flashing. The set up I have going is working, so I'm hesitant to take nightlies for a test drive and increase my chances of being without a phone until I can cuss enough to get it fixed.
Sent from an overpriced Verizon tower.
I'm curious if the AT&T or Sprint Galaxy S III owners are seeing this IMEI issue much, as well.
- ooofest
ooofest said:
I'm curious if the AT&T or Sprint Galaxy S III owners are seeing this IMEI issue much, as well.
- ooofest
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All variants are.
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ruben8448 said:
I lost mine once while running an unofficial cm nightly. I flashed it and everything worked fine. Then I restarted the phone and I lost my imei. It was a pretty quick fix because I backed up efs.bin file. I then used the qualcomm tool to restore the imei and then I pushed the efs.bin backup over the current one. I then reflashed that cm nightly again and I was working again. It took about 25 min. The only downside is if this happens and you don't have a computer you can't use your phone till you get to one.
Best thing is to not panic and check the threads here. It's an easy fix. I wouldn't be worried.
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Had a couple questions for you as I'm running the CM10 alpha and about to move to the nightlies. Is there any advantage to backing up the efs.bin file as opposed to creating the QCN file that is described in the IMEI backup threads? Can you use QPST to backup the efs.bin? It sounds like its better to have both than just the QCN file. Sorry I don't know what exactly the efs.bin file is so apologies if I'm not making sense.
Thanks!
xsteven77x said:
All variants are.
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Yeah, I have been getting that impression from reading around since my post.
I'm not going beyond root for this phone until something more definitive to prevent the IMEI issue can be found.
I must have flashed ROMs on my Incredible hundreds of times, quite casually, and it seems best to avoid the problems we're seeing with people who have attempted to restore their identifier and still have roaming indicator showing, etc.
- ooofest