Galaxy s 4g corrupted imei - Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)

Hi all
I bought a galaxy s 4g from ebay usa, shipped it to my friends place in new jersey who delivered it to me in india.
Later I found out that the phone has corrupted imei due to which I cant register it to any network here in india. I tried searching for recovering the imei but all in vain. So any of u ever been to this situation and come out of it, plz share what method u used to recover it.
And if anyone one know any solution plz share it.
Thanks
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I bet your seller tried to mess with trying to unlock it. Am still new with this phone so i dont know if i will bemuch help. Are u rooted?
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There is another thread around here starring a few solutions. I think the one that works for most is to pull the battery for ten minutes or more.
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Yup I am rooted .
Can u help me find the thread that contains the solution
I found out that there are some tool which can repair the imei spt box and z3x.
Had anyone tried them before.
Plz guys help me out
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Check out this thread in our Q&A Section.
[Q] Imei corrupt... how to fix it?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=12807550
I hope this Helps.

I finally able to recover my imei.
All thanks to odia. The guy is a genius and genuine. he write a new nv_data file with my imei and that actually works.once again thanks to him.
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imei is corruped any help?

it shoes a bunch of grabage..any help on how to restore it?
what happened to it to get it that way?
I have the same problem no way of fixing it to my knowledge I guess ill have to send it under warranty no other choice
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Did you try to unlock it with a program? Cause there is a thread that addresses this that talks about fixing the "null/null" problem. Even if it is not the same problem, try their fix cause it supposedly fixes the imei
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Hard Brick - qhsusb_dload mode - Help

Was Trying to Root the phone and reboot went into qhsusb_dload mode - Hard Brick... can anyone help to get bin file to restore
It's done dude.... Sorry
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What were you doing when this happened.
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Phone will not power on and will have blank screen. PC will detect the phone in QPST mode
Yea it hard bricked. From my knowledge there is no fix.
We're you messing with Odin when this happened. What was the last thing you were doing with it working?
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It seems like there have been a disproportionate amount of people running into this problem...it makes me nervous.
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Especially when, op's are so strangely adverse to telling us how it happened.
It's ok ro tell us if u were doing something stupid. We all do stupid stuff to these devices at some point or another, you now have the ability to tell us @ least 1 thing NOT to do.
That's why this works...
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I'm guessing he clicked something in ODIN he shouldn't have.
I was trying to install SKY ice cream ROM and was following - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=21507135#post21507135
When i run odin it just run into errors and reboot was blank screen... i don't know what happen... i have done this before many times but this was my bad luck i guess
Was your battery low when you did this?
Have you tried pulling the battery for a few minutes?
I tried all option no luck... Ordered USB jig to see if that helps... other option is to get bin file and flash using QPST... I think someone who knows and are expert need to extract the bin file from the phone using QPST.
Jig won't work. I'm guessing you mucked something up in Odin.
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any idea if i can charge my battery using the phone now... doesn't give me any indication of charging
You can get a charger on eBay for $4 shipped.
Cheap Chinese crap but it works for me and my cheap Chinese spare batteries.
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I ordered from USA based ebay seller and got it in less than a week.
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nkamurlekar said:
I tried all option no luck... Ordered USB jig to see if that helps... other option is to get bin file and flash using QPST... I think someone who knows and are expert need to extract the bin file from the phone using QPST.
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If anyone knows how to get the device recognized as a COM port, I can take a shot at it. Got real familiar with QPST when I flashed an Epic over to Virgin Mobile.
Fortune090 said:
If anyone knows how to get the device recognized as a COM port, I can take a shot at it. Got real familiar with QPST when I flashed an Epic over to Virgin Mobile.
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Doesn't download mode do that? Excuse me if I'm wrong.
Edit: LOL not if your bricked it doesnt. Could we use a working skyrocket to get the correct files to fix a bricked one using QPST?
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cdshepherd said:
Doesn't download mode do that? Excuse me if I'm wrong.
Edit: LOL not if your bricked it doesnt. Could we use a working skyrocket to get the correct files to fix a bricked one using QPST?
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Download mode does, yes, but you can't read or write from QPST in it. You get a "Phone did not answer/respond/whatever" error back.
What I would say needs to be figured out first is how to get a non-brick and a bricked one recognized as a COM port. Really annoying, but QPST doesn't work otherwise...
Sorry for the question, but what exactly is QPST? I've never heard of that before.
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plwalsh88 said:
Sorry for the question, but what exactly is QPST? I've never heard of that before.
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Qualcomm Product Support Tools. It's a program used by Qualcomm to program Qualcomm chips in phones. Can flash/backup software, program the phone's service, check/change EEPROM settings, EFS settings, etc. It's free software, but I do NOT recommend looking through it and tweaking things if you don't know what you're doing... Quite a bit in there that's really easy to mess up.

Can anyone help restore my IMEI on my Tmobile Galaxy S3?

Guys?
Yesterday I flashed newest version of freeGSM update 5 after that I lost my IMEI I started reading and unfortunately I did not back up my EFS folder now I cannot find my.. Nav_data file which I'm guessing I need to restore.... Please help I have about a month with the phone..
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Jarule51082 said:
Guys?
Yesterday I flashed newest version of freeGSM update 5 after that I lost my IMEI I started reading and unfortunately I did not back up my EFS folder now I cannot find my.. Nav_data file which I'm guessing I need to restore.... Please help I have about a month with the phone..
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did you get it fixed? i lost my iemi too

Free unlock code

This seem to work over at the O2X forum with 0 complaints . Just sent in my request. Give it a try and see if we can unlock for free
http://freemyblackberry.com/other-phone-brands.php
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Tried this a few days ago, worked well. Sucks that this phone doesn't operate on many networks in Canada.
Gonna try it later on today will post back results. Thanks for the link TC
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Thanks for the link. I'll give it a shot. I've got my doubts but meh.. I'm young.. I'll adjust
Requested. Will post if it works.
Hm, Anyone know how I can input my SIM Unlock Code? I tried putting an invalid SIM (Rogers SIM and a Bell SIM) but I can't get to the SIM Unlock page. I also tried the 2945#*999# But it gets stuck at USSD Code running on the WIND Sim card and doesn't work on any other SIM.
Are you running a stock ROM? I did it with mine using the special menu, but I had to flash the stock ROM in order to do it.
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Hi G2xer,
Thanks for sharing this great site. I am a Canadian Wind user. By following the instruction, I am able to get an unlock code to unlock my phone.
For all the Wind user out there,
If you are on CM7 based rom, you will need to restore back to stock rom first. Otherwise, you will not be able to get to the unlock screen.
Thanks,
Hi all,
Works great as advertised. Thanks to the OP for sharing this gem.
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afung01 said:
Hi G2xer,
Thanks for sharing this great site. I am a Canadian Wind user. By following the instruction, I am able to get an unlock code to unlock my phone.
For all the Wind user out there,
If you are on CM7 based rom, you will need to restore back to stock rom first. Otherwise, you will not be able to get to the unlock screen.
Thanks,
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Darn.. I think I lost my Nandroid of the 2.2 Rom.. Lemme go try and find another one and see if it'll work. Thanks for this tip.
Worked for me too guys! No problem. Always a pleasure to help someone out in any way!
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im still waiting for mine. i submitted about 4 days ago
If you report a missing phone to your carrier along with the imei they can disable the phone..
danshuynh said:
If you report a missing phone to your carrier along with the imei they can disable the phone..
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Not relevant to this thread
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Yuvin said:
Darn.. I think I lost my Nandroid of the 2.2 Rom.. Lemme go try and find another one and see if it'll work. Thanks for this tip.
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Any stock based Rom would do.
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Got my code the next day and also had to revert to stock to unlock.
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Lol lame I never heard a word back
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xBkKx said:
Lol lame I never heard a word back
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Could be a scam to get IMEI numbers to clone phones/enable activation of stolen phones.
Core Memory said:
Could be a scam to get IMEI numbers to clone phones/enable activation of stolen phones.
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I figured as much but was hopeful since everyone else seemed to be successful in getting one lol
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Worked for me, but doesn't mean it's not a scam....
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Phone Book Search Problem

My phone book search become case sensitive.
For example if I have a phone book entry as "David Paul", then to locate the same I have to put first or last name in search window with the same format (D or P Capital). If I put "david" or "paul" in search window then it doesn't work.
Few days back there was no such problem.
Can any body guide me, how to correct this...
Thanks in advance.
Regards,
Sadanand Sapkal
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Maybe try looking at the settings and see if you can find something there?
What app do you use ?
Thanks friends.
I have gone thru the settings, but nothing there related to my issue.
I am using Samsung Google Nexus S 4G, rooted, using Custom ROM of Slimbean with OS 4.2.2, using stock app only for Contacts.
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So then try extracting the contacts app from an older version of the ROM found within the zip in the system then app folder, it might be called secContacts.apk. Move it into the /system/app directory of your current ROM and it might work. If not, tell me.
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@OP try flashing this: http://d-h.st/J3Y
boomvausstat said:
So then try extracting the contacts app from an older version of the ROM found within the zip in the system then app folder, it might be called secContacts.apk. Move it into the /system/app directory of your current ROM and it might work. If not, tell me.
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Hi Dear, thanks for your efforts.
I have tried as you suggested, but it doesn't work.
@ imaconeheadXD
Thanks Dear for your efforts.
I have flashed your suggested file, but it doesn't helped to solve my issue.
sadanand.sapkal said:
@ imaconeheadXD
Thanks Dear for your efforts.
I have flashed your suggested file, but it doesn't helped to solve my issue.
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Ah sorry man idk what else to do to fix it, hopefully someone else will be able to help!
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I'm sorry, I really wish I knew how to help or what else to suggest, but I'm stumped :/. Hopefully someone else on here will be able to help you. Good luck.
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My problem solved.
Thanks all for looking in to my issue.
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sadanand.sapkal said:
My problem solved.
Thanks all for looking in to my issue.
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That's good! May I ask how you fixed it?
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Actually in the process of fixing this small issue I might have mis-handled few system files and my mobile had stopped working, network signals had completely vanished and I am not able to use my phone for calls as well as texts.
Then some body had suggested Odin Restore, which is something difficult for me, but while searching the remedy I got a ROM in xda only, after flashing the same, my phone got started and the contact search issue has also resolved.
In have attached the image of flashed ROM.
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