Tried to unbrick it, now it shows AT&T world phone and gets stuck at Samsung logo. I think I need to use this(http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1193927) , but the links are dead. Is there anything I can do? I just got the phone today and don't want it to be a waste.
EDIT: Found this - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1193927 - used it but it still has AT&T, goes to samsung and then back to AT&T.
EDIT2: Got back into a previous backup, but now my IMEI is null/null and I can't do anything. I'm afraid, what can I do?
Have u ever taken a backup of efs folder ? If yes then restore it and u are done.
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rkkaranrk said:
Have u ever taken a backup of efs folder ? If yes then restore it and u are done.
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I don't think so. I've only done a NANDROID back-up and I'm not sure if that includes the EFS
EDIT: Found a folder caled backup and inside was a folder called ESF. What can I do with this? Also the IMEI is on the back of the phone, on the sticker, is this useful is anyway?
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hi, i had a rooted and unlocked nexus s, and i tried to unroot it to stock. but when i was doing this, i somehow erased my IMEI number,
am i screwed or is there anyway to get this back? help pleeease
LightsCameraAction said:
hi, i had a rooted and unlocked nexus s, and i tried to unroot it to stock. but when i was doing this, i somehow erased my IMEI number,
am i screwed or is there anyway to get this back? help pleeease
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First of all: Wrong section
Second: Yes you are screwed, your best bet would be to send it in for repair.
This is why you back up your efs folder before doing anything potentially dangerous.
Your IMEI is on your box.
Wrong section....fail
Return to stock....fail.
You are on a roll!
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Rem3Dy said:
Wrong section....fail
Return to stock....fail.
You are on a roll!
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seriously very wrong, but I cant help but giggle.
I understand the guy posting here though, he's freaking out and the Q&A section is a veritable graveyard of knowledgeable people lol. Just a bunch of us screaming help with no answers from above, sort of like Dante's Hell.
tevil said:
seriously very wrong, but I cant help but giggle.
I understand the guy posting here though, he's freaking out and the Q&A section is a veritable graveyard of knowledgeable people lol. Just a bunch of us screaming help with no answers from above, sort of like Dante's Hell.
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He still got his answer though
Wrong section! But yes, this is strange. Somehow my phone has same weakness. Few times I went back to rooted stock, and every time I've tried to root it, my EFS folder got wiped. I was trying to figure out which ROM did that, but it was never ROM, it was root process somehow :S...
but why do you keep rooting? All you need to do is install loader and then use pre rooted roms.
Because I wanted to try that option, to wipe completely and flash all stock rooted. I did that two times with no luck... Every time my EFS folder got wiped and rebuild :S...
Tenhi said:
Because I wanted to try that option, to wipe completely and flash all stock rooted. I did that two times with no luck... Every time my EFS folder got wiped and rebuild :S...
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That's not very good. Good to know though. Whose root app are you using?
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LightsCameraAction said:
hi, i had a rooted and unlocked nexus s, and i tried to unroot it to stock. but when i was doing this, i somehow erased my IMEI number,
am i screwed or is there anyway to get this back? help pleeease
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if you can find from anyone an efs backup zip with his/her imei number. and search with an hex editor or something like that. and replace your imei number into the file and flash it from recovery back.
it's just a supposition.
MYPaT said:
if you can find from anyone an efs backup zip with his/her imei number. and search with an hex editor or something like that. and replace your imei number into the file and flash it from recovery back.
it's just a supposition.
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You can't just replace IMEI, because that file is encrypted. Already tried that ...
I just got a warrantied out replacement phone and want to restore a previously saved nandroid backup. I noticed TWRP on the new phone doesn't default to the previous backup folder and backs up to a new folder. Can I re-store a nandroid from a different phone to my new one? Or is this going to cause problems?
jd1639 said:
I just got a warrantied out replacement phone and want to restore a previously saved nandroid backup. I noticed TWRP on the new phone doesn't default to the previous backup folder and backs up to a new folder. Can I re-store a nandroid from a different phone to my new one? Or is this going to cause problems?
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It should work fine.
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To play it safe, you may be better off installing everything from scratch. jiggity janx said this on the SGS3 "I thought I read somewhere recently that because backups capture phone specific data on Samsung models that you are unable to move a backup from one phone to another without overwriting some valuable individual phone information". Besides, the location of the folder would make a difference also.
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It should work fine.
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Yeah, I wouldn't do that though. I would start fresh.
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Thanks everyone. I did restore the nandroid without any issues. I would have started from scratch but I had a Corp email account which is secured and I didn't want to try and reset it up as I would have had to give a reason I was doing it and didn't want to admit I bricked the phone.
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I recently rooted my Cricket Galaxy Admire 2 (SCH-R830c) with Cydia Impactor and IM not sure exactly how but I managed to get stuck in a boot loop. I think i moved a system file by accident with a rooted file explorer.. Anyways I couldnt find a CWmod recovory compatible with this phone so i didnt make a nandroid backup, Right now I can only get into download mode with Odin 3.07 and the stock recovery mode.Problem is I cant find any stock firmware or updates for this phone, the closest one I came across is US Cellulars Galaxy Axiom (SHR-R830). All i found for the Admire 2 was source code for the stock firmware. Im open to any suggestions or ideas before I try getting a warranty trade in or just buy a new phone.
In case anyone was wondering, which I highly doubt lol I took the easy way out and bought a 2nd phone, rooted it, backed it up (like i should of done in the first place) with Online Nandroid (thanks to Ameer for making a patch) then used the nandroid file to flash my original phone which was stuck in a boot loop.
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In case anyone was wondering, which I highly doubt lol I took the easy way out and bought a 2nd phone, rooted it, backed it up (like i should of done in the first place) with Online Nandroid (thanks to Ameer for making a patch) then used the nandroid file to flash my original phone which was stuck in a boot loop.
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sorry to hear this friend, please dont feel like the community doesn't want to help out sometimes there isent a fix to some phones, it happens. i have broken allot of phones from stupid mistakes, if your gonna be in a android community or at least follow it you will make a mistake here and there
Its all good, I was only joking. Honestly I have no hard feelings at all, just a very dark and very dry sense of humor lol furthermore I was able to learn from my mistakes and now i have a secondary phone to practice on. So I can't complain
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uh oh
omarp522 said:
Its all good, I was only joking. Honestly I have no hard feelings at all, just a very dark and very dry sense of humor lol furthermore I was able to learn from my mistakes and now i have a secondary phone to practice on. So I can't complain
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actually, the cwm recovery for the galaxy axiom works on this device. speaking of which, i would really appreciate that nandroid backup you restored from. i am in the same boat that you were in, but i don't know anyone with the same phone
kman93 said:
actually, the cwm recovery for the galaxy axiom works on this device. speaking of which, i would really appreciate that nandroid backup you restored from. i am in the same boat that you were in, but i don't know anyone with the same phone
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Yeah I can send you a nandroid back up
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Yeah I can send you a nandroid back up
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Hate to revive a year old thread, but I am also in this situation.
My fingers are crossed that not only will you notice this post, but still have that nandroid backup.
I can send you contact/email info if you need it to send it to me.
firware samsung r830c
good morning, I need your help to format my samsung r830c someone could send I the firmware cricket could not use the phone urging I to send me email [email protected]
omarp522 said:
I recently rooted my Cricket Galaxy Admire 2 (SCH-R830c) with Cydia Impactor and IM not sure exactly how but I managed to get stuck in a boot loop. I think i moved a system file by accident with a rooted file explorer.. Anyways I couldnt find a CWmod recovory compatible with this phone so i didnt make a nandroid backup, Right now I can only get into download mode with Odin 3.07 and the stock recovery mode.Problem is I cant find any stock firmware or updates for this phone, the closest one I came across is US Cellulars Galaxy Axiom (SHR-R830). All i found for the Admire 2 was source code for the stock firmware. Im open to any suggestions or ideas before I try getting a warranty trade in or just buy a new phone.
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good morning, I need your help to format my samsung r830c someone could send I the firmware cricket could not use the phone urging I to send me email [email protected]
omarp522 said:
I recently rooted my Cricket Galaxy Admire 2 (SCH-R830c) with Cydia Impactor and IM not sure exactly how but I managed to get stuck in a boot loop. I think i moved a system file by accident with a rooted file explorer.. Anyways I couldnt find a CWmod recovory compatible with this phone so i didnt make a nandroid backup, Right now I can only get into download mode with Odin 3.07 and the stock recovery mode.Problem is I cant find any stock firmware or updates for this phone, the closest one I came across is US Cellulars Galaxy Axiom (SHR-R830). All i found for the Admire 2 was source code for the stock firmware. Im open to any suggestions or ideas before I try getting a warranty trade in or just buy a new phone.
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mxysptlik said:
Hate to revive a year old thread, but I am also in this situation.
My fingers are crossed that not only will you notice this post, but still have that nandroid backup.
I can send you contact/email info if you need it to send it to me.
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Please Help
omarp522 said:
Yeah I can send you a nandroid back up
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if u could send me that r830c nandroid back up file that would be highly appreciated my email is [email protected]
Urgent need
omarp522 said:
Yeah I can send you a nandroid back up
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I need that rom,,, please send it to me,,,
I appreciate your collaboration, ,,
My email is [email protected]
Anyone still have nandroid backups of the Admire 2??
Unfortunately, I am in the same boat as some other folks and I too am in need of a nandroid backup for the Admire 2.
If anyone could supply a copy, I would be most appreciative!
Thanks
i am a owner of SGH-I997 and had unlocked it previously but now somehow the IMEI number has been replaced with [email protected]# instead of the numbers like 87131 so is there any way to restore the IMEI back??? it just doesnt recognise any of the sim cards plz help
Return to stock and see if that fixes it
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magnetboard said:
Return to stock and see if that fixes it
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it doesnt help!
It looks like that your efs was messed up during a flash. Did you make a backup?
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i hadnt flashed anything but the mobile was being used normally and at first it was experienceing network dropouts and after that it suddenly didnt receive network and they say that the motherboard needs to be changed
Lost IMEI need help....
Can someone please help. I flashed a wrong kernel to the beanstalk rom and bricked my phone. I used odin to restore factory firmware and had no imei after. I found the efs.tar on here for odin to restore the imei. I got an imei back on my phone but not the correct on. When i called to have the phone put on my account i was told that the imei number is in use on another carrier. Now i have back ups of my efs folder on my computer but they are not encrypted into a tar. Can they be encrypted into a flashable tar i cud use with odin to restore my imei. Now i am a noob on the whole android flashing thing i have learned alot through trial and error i do have knowledge of pc software and hardware so im not totally in in dark. If anyone could please help it would be extremely appreciated.
My wife's new Nexus 5 recharger died yesterday after just 3 weeks of use. I contacted Google and instead of just replacing the charger they insisted on a total exchange. Ridiculous!
Here's what I need advice about.
1. The device is rooted and I obviously need to unroot and destroy its data before sending it back. Is there a simple way to do that so Google doesn't find evidence of rooting that would disqualify the warranty? I remember something about a "tamper" setting.....
2. The phone has a T-Mobile sim for a prepaid plan which I obviously need to move. Will it be necessary to reenable it because of the changed phone?
3. Because the phone is rooted I have phandroid TWRP and titanium backups. Can I just transfer the phandroid backup to the new phone and restore it even though it's a different phone? What steps do I need to be aware of?
Thank you for any help you can provide.
This is all you need http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=47156064
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1) follow the factory image thread stuck at the top of general
2) although I have no experience with T-Mobile specifically (I assume you mean T-Mobile USA, not other T-Mobiles?) a sim is a sim. Once it's activated, you insert it in any phone and it should work
3) phandroid? Do you mean nandoid? If so, yes you can restore it on another phone but DO NOT RESTORE EFS AS YOU'LL BRICK THE NEW PHONE!
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1) While you're still rooted, download BootUnlocker from Google Play and reset the tamper flag. Then reflash the factory image and lock the bootloader.
2) You should be able to transfer the SIM to the new handset and have it work. It worked for me when I was on AT&T and went from the S4 to the N5. If it doesn't work, I would assume all you have to do is call T-Mobile and add the new IMEI to their network.
3) You can restore the backups from your old phone, but DO NOT under any circumstances restore the EFS partition backup from the old phone as restoring an EFS backup from one phone to another will brick the new phone and there is no way to get back once you do this.
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3) phandroid? Do you mean nandoid? If so, yes you can restore it on another phone but DO NOT RESTORE EFS AS YOU'LL BRICK THE NEW PHONE!
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Thank you.
Yes I meant nandroid. What is an efs?
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Thank you.
Yes I meant nandroid. What is an efs?
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Read this thread carefully and backup your EFS!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/goo...t/modem-nexus-5-flashable-modems-efs-t2514095
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Read this thread carefully and backup your EFS!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/goo...t/modem-nexus-5-flashable-modems-efs-t2514095
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Further to this, checkin your backup. You may have files called EFS. Do not restore those.
Also take a backup of the new phone before restoring a backup of the old one
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I looked at my TWRP backups. Restore gives options to restore 3 items
1 boot
2 system
3 Data
None of these say efs.
Can I safely assume my backups don't include efs? I'm not sure I have another way to check.
Maybe I should skip restoring the TWRP nandroid from one phone to the other.
Just restore #3 (data) from the nandroid. Would that be safer?
Or just titanium backup?
I meant look in the backup using a file manager
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Personally I'd save myself the headache and just buy a new charger for $14. The efs backup option is in the advanced back-up menu on twrp.
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My wife's new Nexus 5 recharger died yesterday after just 3 weeks of use. I contacted Google and instead of just replacing the charger they insisted on a total exchange. Ridiculous!
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Do you have to send the current phone back before they send the replacement? If not, can't you just take the charger from the replacement phone and send the broken charger back with the replacement handset. You'd save yourself a lot of trouble.
That would be the logical thing to do........ They are sending me the replacement first.
I was thinking of doing just that but they asked for the imei of the phone I was returning so I'm worried about that messing things up.
I may call them back after the replacement phone gets here and say something like I changed my mind, will buy my own charger, and can I just return the replacement phone they sent and see if that will work.
Let's hope that will work.