i have the samsung infuse 4g and my friend unlocked it for me and the calling and textin are fine but i cannot use anything data.
the imei is like a buck of diamonds and squares and symbols.
please help its my only fone and have no money for a new/used one.
ty in advance if anymore info needed just say so.
What android os are you running? I believe you are in Jellybean 4.1.2, but correct me if im wrong.
You will need to reflash a jb rom; cm10 usually works for recovering your imei.
Search around and you should find instructions for what you need to do.
my phone is on the factory froyo ucke3 but its unlocked.
so if i follow your directions it will be ok?
If you are on froyo then flash a froyo back to stock pack with odin or heimdall. Or update to GB. It's up to you.
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Hello Everyone,
I have i896 captivate. I am currently on serendipity 7 and like it. However, I need to go back to stock rogers rom, which I did. The problem is, while booting up the phone, the order of screen animations is:
a. galaxy gt i9000
b. i896
c. rogers.
The phone boots and works fine.
Is there a way to remove the gt i9000 screen. Any advice is most welcome.
Thanks
You would need to reflash the stock rogers bootloaders. Unless you're planning on returning it for warranty repairs or something, I would recommend against it and just live with the i9000 screen.
As a matter of fact, I was planning to return it for repairs. I do have the i896 stock rogers rom, where can i find the bootloader files and how do i flash it. Thanks for the prompt response.
No idea where you'd get the stock i896 bootloaders.. sorry dude :/
I'd imagine they'd come packaged with a leaked stock i896 rom (maybe samfirmware.com?). If you find one that has the bootloaders (you can find them by extracting the rom packages and looking for sbl.bin and boot.bin), make sure you have BOTH sbl.bin and boot.bin, otherwise you'll hard-brick your phone. To flash the bootloaders, just flash the entire leaked rom with odin as usual.
No luck there. Maybe I'll live with this screen and get an upgrade in 2 months. Thanks a lot for your response
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=979133
i think this is what youre looking for. i suggest 1click odin back to att stock first like the guy states then flash the rogers files
Fantastic, works like a charm. Thanks a lot.
Does anyone have a stock nandroid or stock unrooted ROM backup of Cincinnati bells Nexus S? 2.3.4 i think it is.
I am having to return it to cincy bell for another and i would like to return it to its original state before i do.
I found one on ROM manager but it is a TMobile stock rom...my bootloader now says "carrier-tmb"
any help would be appreciated!
i have cincinnatibell and i tried loading a custom rom the fone failed to root correctly and bricked, i couldnt find any instructions so i was a smart ass and used odin to load the nexus s 4g os. it was the sprint one so it had 2.3.5 sweet! but i didnt have service. so i had to search everywhere for a different stock rom. i found one and it loaded everything worked! use odin v 1.81, find ghr78 stock rom on google. extract and hopefully you have the boot loader, csc, and pda file like i did.
if you still need it i have the CarrierUpdate file that came with the phone if you want the file i can email it to you. all you do is install it like any other rom! ha...
So my friend (lives in Canada) has an Optimus One one a plan with Koodo. I walked her through installing CyanogenMod 7.1 or whatever the latest was. You know, unlock bootloader, root phone, and get Clockwork Mod to do all the hard work. I... may have skipped over the backing up part. See, I thought you know, her phone got wiped on bootloader anyway, so why backup? Yeah, idiot
So now she can't make calls, send text messages or anything. So I can only assume it's a baseband issue. But, that's where I'm stuck. After reading, some people suggest mik's mod, or something, others give a download to a backup for an Indian ROM. One flow chart suggested installing the baseband from this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1149530 which looks useful. Except... which one do I use? And will it work on Canadian company Koodo? Will the Indian ROM work with Canadian Basebands?
Please, help would be so greatly appreciated
Garethp said:
So my friend (lives in Canada) has an Optimus One one a plan with Koodo. I walked her through installing CyanogenMod 7.1 or whatever the latest was. You know, unlock bootloader, root phone, and get Clockwork Mod to do all the hard work. I... may have skipped over the backing up part. See, I thought you know, her phone got wiped on bootloader anyway, so why backup? Yeah, idiot
So now she can't make calls, send text messages or anything. So I can only assume it's a baseband issue. But, that's where I'm stuck. After reading, some people suggest mik's mod, or something, others give a download to a backup for an Indian ROM. One flow chart suggested installing the baseband from this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1149530 which looks useful. Except... which one do I use? And will it work on Canadian company Koodo? Will the Indian ROM work with Canadian Basebands?
Please, help would be so greatly appreciated
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Hey man, so basically you were right, it's a baseband issue.
Flash version 20g/i/h whatever, I don't remember what letter but it doesn't matter.
Just follow the guide to the letter and it will work fine
Cheers mate!
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So my friend (lives in Canada) has an Optimus One one a plan with Koodo. I walked her through installing CyanogenMod 7.1 or whatever the latest was. You know, unlock bootloader, root phone, and get Clockwork Mod to do all the hard work. I... may have skipped over the backing up part. See, I thought you know, her phone got wiped on bootloader anyway, so why backup? Yeah, idiot
So now she can't make calls, send text messages or anything. So I can only assume it's a baseband issue. But, that's where I'm stuck. After reading, some people suggest mik's mod, or something, others give a download to a backup for an Indian ROM. One flow chart suggested installing the baseband from this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1149530 which looks useful. Except... which one do I use? And will it work on Canadian company Koodo? Will the Indian ROM work with Canadian Basebands?
Please, help would be so greatly appreciated
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You're on the right track, use the file attached to that post titled "P500-v20G-baseband.7z" (use 7-Zip/WinRAR/etc to extract).
Make sure you follow the instructions EXACTLY. Do NOT unplug your phone until it tells you it's completely done, and don't delete the backup it makes! I got lucky the first time I flashed, I thought it had lost communication and had unplugged my phone, but luckily it hadn't started the wipe yet and I was able to recover it.
Don't worry, you're doing the right thing. Remember to follow every single step (double check twice), and DO NOT UNPLUG THE USB, until it tells you to, as they have said above. Also to add, I have a Canadian Koodo O1, and I'm 200% that you won't have any problems whatsoever installing anything on this forum, whether it's an Indian based ROM, Chinese based, etc. Have fun modding!
Alright, so i am having a bit of an issue. And it's probably because i'm a complete noob....
So, I have a new GS3, and wanted to give my (already rooted and flashed with Cyanogenmod 10) Skyrocket to my mom to use on Simple mobile (a company using T-mobile's towers).
I read that you can flash radios for T-mobile onto the phone, and so I figured everything would work.
Here is what I did.
I unlocked the phone while in Cyanogenmod10
Flashed LiquidSmooth RC9 - read it had less bugs
tried flashing multiple Tmobile Radios
I get NO service. I cant pick any of them up..
Baseband comes up as UNKNOWN...
So i'm currently downloading ODIN and going to try to flash to stock and just start from scratch...
Any suggestions on what to do?
Do you still have an imei?
Try unlocking the phone after you've gone back to stock. I don't know how you did it with cm10. I don't think it works with anything but stock.
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No, the IMEI is blank when i do the *#06# code....
also, when i put the simple mobile sim in the phone, it automatically came up asking for the network unlock code. That's how i was able to unlock it.
Did you ever backup your imei? Flashing back to stock will hopefully bring it back if not you may have some issues. Also as mentioned above it's better to unlock from a stock ROM or at least stock based.
Alright, Flashed to stock, IMEI is back (thank god), and i'm getting service.
Now here are the issues ahead of me, and any help would be greatly appreciated.
I am on STOCK ATT ICS Rom.
I GET SERVICE (however, it's only 2g) i know i need to flash the radios for Tmobile,
Was going to use this ---> Blaze_4G_LB7_ICS_Radio_MOD ...... Direct DL, CAN BE USED FOR T-MOBILE/WIND ON ICS (from the skyrocket reference thread)
First i know i have to root, install CWM, all that.
Now, should i flash a custom rom? If so, which one would you suggest. ( i assume, i have to give her ICS, not JB, right?)
Also, you said backup my IMEI, i'll look this up in the meantime, but if you could include a link in your post on a how-to just in case i dont find it, i would really appreciate it.
Also, is there anything else i should do to get this working properly?
thank you very much for all your help.
eternalcold said:
Alright, Flashed to stock, IMEI is back (thank god), and i'm getting service.
Now here are the issues ahead of me, and any help would be greatly appreciated.
I am on STOCK ATT ICS Rom.
I GET SERVICE (however, it's only 2g) i know i need to flash the radios for Tmobile,
Was going to use this ---> Blaze_4G_LB7_ICS_Radio_MOD ...... Direct DL, CAN BE USED FOR T-MOBILE/WIND ON ICS (from the skyrocket reference thread)
First i know i have to root, install CWM, all that.
Now, should i flash a custom rom? If so, which one would you suggest. ( i assume, i have to give her ICS, not JB, right?)
Also, you said backup my IMEI, i'll look this up in the meantime, but if you could include a link in your post on a how-to just in case i dont find it, i would really appreciate it.
Also, is there anything else i should do to get this working properly?
thank you very much for all your help.
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Custom ROM is your choice. There are a lot of JB ROMS that are pretty stable. Also a new stock JB leak in the dev section. As far as backing up your imei. You'll need to root first as soon as you do get a file explorer and copy the whole EFS folder to your external SDcard. Then also copy it to your computer. The imei is held within the EFS folder. From now on do this as soon as you root BEFORE you flash anything. lol
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Custom ROM is your choice. There are a lot of JB ROMS that are pretty stable. Also a new stock JB leak in the dev section. As far as backing up your imei. You'll need to root first as soon as you do get a file explorer and copy the whole EFS folder to your external SDcard. Then also copy it to your computer. The imei is held within the EFS folder. From now on do this as soon as you root BEFORE you flash anything. lol
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Thank you very much! I'll start rooting now and back it up immediately. I would love to give her a JB rom, mainly for google now. However, that radio is for ICS. Is that going to cause a problem? or will it even work on JB?
I've been on JB for months using an ICS radio. I'm on ATT so I can't say for certain but it shouldn't be an issue. Just go to the DEV thread and spend a few hours reading up on what's available. Like I said most of the ROMs are pretty stable at this point.
FYI, on skyrocket the IMEI is stored in mmcblk0p18 and mmcblk0p19, not /efs partition. Might really want to back those up, especially before attempting a usb unlock. The /efs only really stores exports of certain properties from mmcblk0p18.
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FYI, on skyrocket the IMEI is stored in mmcblk0p18 and mmcblk0p19, not /efs partition. Might really want to back those up, especially before attempting a usb unlock. The /efs only really stores exports of certain properties from mmcblk0p18.
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Thanks for the heads up. lol I thought for sure they'd be stored in the same place they where for my SGS4G. So what is stored in the imei folder in EFS then?
A while back, I lost my IMEI flashing CM10. I restored that back, and got my phone working again, but every time I leave the local area code, my phone says that I am roaming. Being that I recently moved out of state, this means that my phone now says that I am roaming all the time. While this doesn't greatly affect anything, I would like to fix it. The problem seems to stem from my ERI (ERI version: none). Is there any way to repair this?
I too have this problem now. I recently flashed a few cm10 nightlys one after another using the built in updater and I lost my imei. After using the nv-item_reader_writer program and the nv generator I was able to restore my imei but am still without an erI
This is what I did to get my eri back after losing my imei and restoring it. There may be some steps you don't need to do but it worked for me.
1) I flashed a stock rooted TW rom.
2) Next I flashed the VRLF2 modem found here (Click spoiler to see them) : http://rootzwiki.com/topic/34053-firmware-vrbmf1-modemrpmtzsbl-verizon-sgs3-sch-i535/
3) Next, I got my eri back using the forbidden software in this thread(You're going to have to search the thread some but you're on the right page): http://rootzwiki.com/topic/32397-tu...ants/page__pid__1218913__st__220#entry1218913
4) Follow directions in OP of same thread.
5) Once you have you ERI back to 5 and your phone shows verizon network I highly recommend going to Synergy rom thread and looking for the HW keys back up zip. It can be found if you look through the attachments in that thread. Make a flashable copy of your keys with that zip and place on your sd card and in multiple other places for safe keeping.
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This is what I did to get my eri back after losing my imei and restoring it. There may be some steps you don't need to do but it worked for me.
1) I flashed a stock rooted TW rom.
2) Next I flashed the VRLF2 modem found here (Click spoiler to see them) : http://rootzwiki.com/topic/34053-firmware-vrbmf1-modemrpmtzsbl-verizon-sgs3-sch-i535/
3) Next, I got my eri back using the forbidden software in this thread(You're going to have to search the thread some but you're on the right page): http://rootzwiki.com/topic/32397-tu...ants/page__pid__1218913__st__220#entry1218913
4) Follow directions in OP of same thread.
5) Once you have you ERI back to 5 and your phone shows verizon network I highly recommend going to Synergy rom thread and looking for the HW keys back up zip. It can be found if you look through the attachments in that thread. Make a flashable copy of your keys with that zip and place on your sd card and in multiple other places for safe keeping.
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Thank you for this. I do not need iut currently and I do have a proper NVBackup but you never know . I have it on my Box account just in case and besides I could always help someone that didnt do a proper NVbackup. Quick question. What happens if you flash a 16 GB PIT on a 32 GB Model? Would it brick you or just give you a 16 GB S3? I have a 16 GB model but just curious. I need to read up on this stuff.
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Thank you for this. I do not need iut currently and I do have a proper NVBackup but you never know . I have it on my Box account just in case and besides I could always help someone that didnt do a proper NVbackup. Quick question. What happens if you flash a 16 GB PIT on a 32 GB Model? Would it brick you or just give you a 16 GB S3? I have a 16 GB model but just curious. I need to read up on this stuff.
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Since I had restored my imei with qpst all I did was use the tool to restore my eri. From what I've read it won't work unless you downgrade your modem. I didn't have to mess with the PIT files listed. I don't think it would be good to mess with those without talking to someone who knows more than I do. JMO, I don't think it would end well mixing those up. I also forgot a step, once you're back up with your eri you can upgrade your modem back to whatever is best for you. A lessoned learned the hard way for me. I haven't had to worry about losing stuff like this since the original EVO 4G.