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[Q] No cell after 2.3.6 (and many attempts to fix it)

ok here goes, first off, i apologize if this is in any way redundant to someone's else question. with the amount of people whose phone got wrecked with the 2.3.6 update im sure somebody has had the problem im having.
like many people i just clicked "install" when google pushed the 2.3.6 ota. my phone was running 2.3.4. rooted. when it rebooted, i was greeted with the android exclamation mark.
i happened to have a clockwork backup so i tried restoring my backup. and restore it did, but not the radio. after the google update my radio was something like NO GSXXK1 or so. i tried the radio fix here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=14564429&mode=linear#post14564429
i tried reflashing the stock 2.3.3 rom from google, wiping the bootloader and all. ive in fact tried many many things that ive read on xda and google forums.
now, ive managed somehow to have a running 2.3.4 with cell signal. using the efs file copy method in he link above. that restored my 3g and ability to place phone calls but sms arent working. i did the *#*#4636#*#* thing and notice that smsc is 00, i tried to set to the right value of +17057969300 for Rogers canada but all i get is an update error followed by a crash.
and now, funny, my search button is acting weird, like an eye that keeps twitching.
im not very knowledgeable in this stuff, just enough to get by and install custom roms but clearly im in over my head now.
why did copying my 3 efs file in the root of the sd card restore signal? i dont think these files really belong there, so just what the heck happened?
is there a way i can restore my nexus S to google stock rom when they shipped the phone? i mean, a complete wipe, sd, boot, radio...everything.
if i can start back with the stock phone, i can re-root again and start fresh.
any ideas please??
im physically tired of reading everything, misleading information and constantly flashing back and forth hoping its gonna work. oh and mandatory angry comment: thank you google for effing up my phone!
edit:
the only stock rom i tried i the 2.3.3 stock update available in clockwork. made no results.
current specs:
my phone is a i9020a
current baseband : NO DGSXXKD1
current build: GRJ22
android ver: 2.3.4
core: 2.6.35.7-ge382d80 [email protected] #1

Follow my last thread posted
Sent from my Nexus S using xda premium

Thanks dude, i had actually done that and did manage to get a signal back. its SMS that just wont work and when do the INFO thing to set the right value, i either get update error or a crash.
i installed stock rom 2.3.4 and install radio uckd1. that made my signal work even without having to move the efs files on the root of the sdcard. but still no sms.
is anybody else getting sms problems? this was working before the 2.3.6 fiasco.
im with rogers canada, in ottawa.

ok, just to loop the loop on this one and hoping it will be of use to somebody else.
my sms issue wasnt related to my phone at all, once i had a signal back, that's as far as the phone was concerned.
i placed a call to rogers to let them know i couldnt sms anymore.
long story short, they tried many things but ultimately, its doing the "hard" reset on the network for my phone that did it. im sure there a better name for it but basically they erased my phone from their network, i had to wait about an hour for the change to propagate. when i powered the phone back, it resynced everything and sms was back online without a single thing to do.

[Q] Service is toggling after flashing JB on i727

I have two questions 1) is my only way to fix this to go back to stock ICS using ODIN? 2) Once i get back to that, what do i do in order to get to a working version of JB? is it as simple as trying another ROM? Is it ok to skip ICS and just flash another version of JB?
Background if you want it....
Followed vincon guide : http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1773659
Started with Stock ATT 4.0.4
CWM via odin
baseb: UCLI3
I flashed JB [ROM] [4.1.2] [UCLL3] Stock Debloat to my i727 last night. Everything went seemingly smooth, everything worked with a strange exception being my exchange account wouldn't authenticate.Today my service is off about 95% of the time, then it will come on and ill get a text or two, then it goes off. voice calls dont work at all. LTE data is hit or miss.WiFi works
In phone status under network type its toggling: UTMS:3 to HSPA:11 to HSPAP15 to no service...then it drops everything and service state will say out of service and disconnected.
My IMEI is correct, I confirmed that.
It tried dialing the *#*#XXXX#*#* thing, that just said no connection and ended.
I started to go down the path of looking to flash a new radio, but that just doesn't seem like the answer to me... obviously the risk of me being wrong is high. i did check the MD5 numbers on other radios though and they came back as mismatched, so i did nothing there.
Also i wiped cache 3 times, as well as dalvek
Is there a simple solution that Ive missed or do i need to go to stock via ODIN? What, if anything, did i do wrong>

If you didn't flash corresponding UCLL3 baseband - AFAIK intermittent service is expected.
If you need to flash baseband - flash the latest UXUMA7 baseband.

Well i've actually had the exact same problem, in several variations and on several androids and here's my conclusions:
1 Magnetic storms and grid issues with the carrier. There's not much to do about these, except maybe for a making a tin hat for your phone. But, on a second thought this would also kill the signal
2 If the issue persists for more than a couple of days then the other thing for me was = radios that just didn't work with my carrier or rom. Changing these showed instant results.

I actually had this exact problem but for me it was on the carrier end. I tried every ROM and radio out there to no avail. After about a month and my parents also experiencing the issue, we called the carrier and they had it fixed in about two weeks.
Sent from my SGH-I727 using xda app-developers app

thanks for the help -
gonna try latest baseband and see how it goes

bgcole said:
thanks for the help -
gonna try latest baseband and see how it goes
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It worked. Thanks again to all.

That's good to hear

[Q] Phone Won't Make Calls - Please Help!

Hi all,
So like most of you, I flashed to the newest version of CM (10.1.0.2). After doing that, my phone wouldn't read my sim card, so I tried the latest nightly released on 7/1/2013 and it worked! Only problem....my phone wouldn't make phone calls/texts/ I wasn't connected to the network.
So then I flashed to a stock rom via odin, did a factory reset, and upgraded to the latest OTA. Problem is, I have 4G, I can text, use data, etc. But my phone won't make phone calls. Every time I try, it says "dialing" and then the call ends.
Is anyone else experiencing this problem; does anyone have a solution? I could really use the help.
Thanks so much,
El dep.

deputyvanhalen said:
Hi all,
So like most of you, I flashed to the newest version of CM (10.1.0.2). After doing that, my phone wouldn't read my sim card, so I tried the latest nightly released on 7/1/2013 and it worked! Only problem....my phone wouldn't make phone calls/texts/ I wasn't connected to the network.
So then I flashed to a stock rom via odin, did a factory reset, and upgraded to the latest OTA. Problem is, I have 4G, I can text, use data, etc. But my phone won't make phone calls. Every time I try, it says "dialing" and then the call ends.
Is anyone else experiencing this problem; does anyone have a solution? I could really use the help.
Thanks so much,
El dep.
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I've been chatting with Verizon all morning to figure out how to fix it. I'm in the same boat as you.
Update Verizon is sending me a new phone, i've gone through all of their steps to find a fix, but we can't seem to find one. My phone is stuck in roaming, and we can't seem to get it. So they are sending me a new device. Hopefully you guys will have better luck. I will no longer be placing roms on my new device.

fml
Haha this is just brilliant. I hope you come up w/ a solution. I'll let you know if anything works on my end. Fingers crossed!

[Q] SMS Won't send only receive

My XT926 does everything it should do except send SMS messages
I'm currently running cm10.1.3-rc2-xt907, though it's not worked with any of the previous CM releases or Xenon that I've installed. It did originally work on stock but I don't want to go back there!
I'm using it in the UK.
I've tried differant roms. I've flashed the GSM fix, I've tried Handcent, Go SMS Pro, but nothing works.
Can anybody help??

Pegsyno1 said:
My XT926 does everything it should do except send SMS messages
I'm currently running cm10.1.3-rc2-xt907, though it's not worked with any of the previous CM releases or Xenon that I've installed. It did originally work on stock but I don't want to go back there!
I'm using it in the UK.
I've tried differant roms. I've flashed the GSM fix, I've tried Handcent, Go SMS Pro, but nothing works.
Can anybody help??
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Yup, I have exactly the same problem. The original stock ROM did work, but since flashing a new ROM, I tried all the SMS programs, I tried changing my SMSC in the phone options -*#*#4636#*#* to be correct for my provider, didn't help at all.

Pegsyno1 said:
My XT926 does everything it should do except send SMS messages
I'm currently running cm10.1.3-rc2-xt907, though it's not worked with any of the previous CM releases or Xenon that I've installed. It did originally work on stock but I don't want to go back there!
I'm using it in the UK.
I've tried differant roms. I've flashed the GSM fix, I've tried Handcent, Go SMS Pro, but nothing works.
Can anybody help??
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Why are you running a ROM for the XT907 on the XT926? The XT907 is pretty close so it probably will work, but if you flash the correct ROM SMS should work fine.
Cyanogenmod ROMs for the XT926 are: http://download.cyanogenmod.org/?type=stable&device=xt926
For what it's worth, I am running 10.1.3 stable on mine, and I have used it on a GSM network (TMobile) without any issues with SMS sending. Make sure you have the correct APNs and edit build.prop to comment out the LTEv7CDMA line (something like that, near the bottom). That should be all you have to do.
EDIT: The 10.2 ROMs have problems with SMS, see the development forum for more info. But according to your post you are using 10.1

Cpudan80 said:
Why are you running a ROM for the XT907 on the XT926? The XT907 is pretty close so it probably will work, but if you flash the correct ROM SMS should work fine.
Cyanogenmod ROMs for the XT926 are: http://download.cyanogenmod.org/?type=stable&device=xt926
For what it's worth, I am running 10.1.3 stable on mine, and I have used it on a GSM network (TMobile) without any issues with SMS sending. Make sure you have the correct APNs and edit build.prop to comment out the LTEv7CDMA line (something like that, near the bottom). That should be all you have to do.
EDIT: The 10.2 ROMs have problems with SMS, see the development forum for more info. But according to your post you are using 10.1
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I originally installed the cm10.1.3 stable for XT926 but at the time I wasn't receiving data or able to send sms. I flashed the gsm fix found on this forum and at that point it seemed to change to xt907.
Anyway I've followed your suggestion, reflashed 10.1.3, put false against LTEv7CDMA in build.prop and rebooted. Entered the APN as per the suppliers website and still nothing.
Still no sending sms and this time no data (which I had with the gsm fix). Calls and incoming sms work fine.
I don't want to give up with my phone, any other suggestions?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/images/smilies/crying.gif

Pegsyno1 said:
I originally installed the cm10.1.3 stable for XT926 but at the time I wasn't receiving data or able to send sms. I flashed the gsm fix found on this forum and at that point it seemed to change to xt907.
Anyway I've followed your suggestion, reflashed 10.1.3, put false against LTEv7CDMA in build.prop and rebooted. Entered the APN as per the suppliers website and still nothing.
Still no sending sms and this time no data (which I had with the gsm fix). Calls and incoming sms work fine.
I don't want to give up with my phone, any other suggestions?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/images/smilies/crying.gif
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Are these dirty flashes or clean flashes? What is the network mode set to under Settings --> More --> Mobile Networks?
Also, the line you needed to # out was telephony.rilV7NeedCDMALTEPhone, is that the one you added a # in front to (or set to false)?
Edit: Can you link the GSM fix you flashed previously? I've never seen that for the 926 on 10.1.3 -- the only fixes I can find are for the 925 or 10.2?

MMS "message failed to send" when second text or later is attempted

Hey everyone,
This one has me stumped. About a month ago, while on a CM11 nightly, my texting and GPS started acting up. I tried to flash a different ROM from here but that led me to an "unknown" baseband. I ultimately ended up flashing the stock ROM found on this site was back on a 4.0.4. I used it for a few days and noticed that my 2nd text message to anyone would fail to send (as well as every message thereafter). I got frustrated with this so I flashed CM11 back on the phone. I still had this issue. I then flashed CleanROM 8.2 (last one) and I was still getting this behavior. This is with the MF1 firmware on the phone. I then decided to go back to CM 10.2.1 and sure enough, I'm STILL encountering this issue! I can send one message but the rest of them result in a "message failed to send" with an "Error code: -1" on the message details. I have a clean install on the phone now and would not hesitate to wipe again if anyone has any ideas or suggestions here. LTE is set under mobile networks. APN seems fine as well. Anyone else experience this behavior?

Talking to myself here but for anyone encountering this, you need to downgrade the firmware/baseband to MB1. I flashed that, wiped the phone, reinstalled AOSP and they appear to be working now.
My dialog with others is found here: Constantly losing reception/texts not going through!