owner of sch 1535 verizon gs3. Had full root running liquid smooth with gapps 20130301. this is my friends phone and to make a long story short he doesnt totally understand the process involved in wiping and updating or even adding to his roms. quite illieterate when it comes to the matter. So while i was at work he was messing around and wiped everything including the backups. so in this process we reverted to stock verizon through the process of the original tar and odin. well in doing this the ota came through and updated him from 4.0.4 to 4.1.2. since that point there is no working phone or outgoing sms. working however is outgoing mms and incoming mms and sms. I have once again reverted to original 4.0.4 in hope of recovering the working functions with no luck.
Any advice out there would be appreciated. I have no idea why the update wiped these functions in the first place and why the writing the factory programming would not restore them
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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!
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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
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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.
Ok, so I am somewhat new to the whole rooting and flashing of phones. I own the Samsung Galaxy Ace, from Koodo, and last night following a tutorial to install CWM4 and updating it to CWM5, followed by making a Nandroid backup and flashing Ice Cream Sunday Final, I had some issues.
The flashing went without any real problems, except one with installing CWM, but I sorted that out. I booted into the new ROM, and liked it, but after testing it I noticed it wouldn't load anything from my Koodo SIM card, like my contacts, and in the notifications bar where it shows your service carrier, it just showed a number. I was still able to send and receive calls and messages, but it was as if it didn't fully support my SIM. After finding a few things I didn't like with the ROM, I decided to use my Nandroid backup to restore, and after following a tutorial, I "successfully" restored the backup, according to Nandroid... But upon booting the phone, it was stuck on the boot logo.
After about an hour of searching, I was able to find out that CWM5 has issues restoring backups through Nandroid, and that I was screwed out of using my restore. I found the stock Koodo 2.3.4 ROM, and flashed it with Odin, and had to do a Recovery System Wipe to get out of a bootloop. I thought I was back to square one, and began installing my apps again and such with no issues.
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So, after hours of fooling around I replaced my save file with Root Explorer, like I was before, but then gave Terminal Emulator SU Permissions and used it to give the save file the right APP ID and Permissions, and it's working without freeze-ups now. I also used SQLite DB Editor to edit a fresh save on Where's My Water to reset my progress back to where I was before the update broke my save.
I am still wondering why my SIM Card didn't work properly in that ROM, and if there is a way I could make it work.
Is your model number GT-S5830D with baseband S5830DTLKI4? This is my model of the SGA and I've been reluctant to try flashing any ROMs because I can't find any success stories for this exact model. I'm also with Koodo and have concerns about how the SIM card will handle the custom ROMs too. If you do have this model, what has your experience been since your original post?
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dhx138 said:
Is your model number GT-S5830D with baseband S5830DTLKI4? This is my model of the SGA and I've been reluctant to try flashing any ROMs because I can't find any success stories for this exact model. I'm also with Koodo and have concerns about how the SIM card will handle the custom ROMs too. If you do have this model, what has your experience been since your original post?
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My model is GT-S5830D and I am on that baseband and have tried a few ROMs, all of which work. I would say try a ROM as the you should be fine, and you can always do a CWM Backup.
The SIM issues I was having has been resolved, as it is simply caused by being in Canada, and my carrier not being in the phones list, so it still displays a number, but all of my features (Calling, SMS, MMS, Data, etc) work fine.
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Ok, so I am somewhat new to the whole rooting and flashing of phones. I own the Samsung Galaxy Ace, from Koodo, and last night following a tutorial to install CWM4 and updating it to CWM5, followed by making a Nandroid backup and flashing Ice Cream Sunday Final, I had some issues.
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Where is this tutorial??? I have yet to find one for the Koodo Ace that works.
So I've been trying to upgrade my phones from a custom ROM to the official 4.0.4 releases on Nexus S 4G. So I flashed the IMM76D signed zip (flashable one) and got it working. A bit after this, I noticed that I wasn't getting SMS messages. I'm not going to bore you guys with a backstory, so I'm just going to say what I did.
I used "SMSC Updates" found on the Cyanogenmod Wiki to update my SMSC settings (tried all of the following numbers: 07918188561627F7, 07917140140000F0) after seeing it as a suggestion somewhere else about SMS issues. I re-flashed the radio (the new one that released with 4.0.4), and I still cannot get it to work.
I've tried several ROMs, too. Un-rooted, re-rooted, had problems with recovery (solved those, though), and re-rooted again. Also, attempting to use 4G settings crashes the phone.
Does anyone have any suggestions for what I should do? As far as I know, I'm able to send SMS, but not receive. Could this be a Sprint issue?
Thanks.
xation said:
So I've been trying to upgrade my phones from a custom ROM to the official 4.0.4 releases on Nexus S 4G. So I flashed the IMM76D signed zip (flashable one) and got it working. A bit after this, I noticed that I wasn't getting SMS messages. I'm not going to bore you guys with a backstory, so I'm just going to say what I did.
I used "SMSC Updates" found on the Cyanogenmod Wiki to update my SMSC settings (tried all of the following numbers: 07918188561627F7, 07917140140000F0) after seeing it as a suggestion somewhere else about SMS issues. I re-flashed the radio (the new one that released with 4.0.4), and I still cannot get it to work.
I've tried several ROMs, too. Un-rooted, re-rooted, had problems with recovery (solved those, though), and re-rooted again. Also, attempting to use 4G settings crashes the phone.
Does anyone have any suggestions for what I should do? As far as I know, I'm able to send SMS, but not receive. Could this be a Sprint issue?
Thanks.
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When you say new radio, do you mean LC1? I have had that radio for a week and all is good. If I were you I'd take a screenshot of my current setup and post it on here. I would try to, if you haven't already updating Prl and Profile and call Sprint and get them to reprovision your phone.
Hope you get it fixed soon. Sorry I couldn't be of more help..
xation:
Have you resolved your SMS issue?
My wife's S4G is doing the same thing after OTA: can't send, only receive SMS. MMS, on the other hand, are fine.
I've also tried the mentioned CM SMSC update, did not work; tried (*#*#72786#*#*) re-provision, but no luck.
Running out of ideas...
Just a follow up:
I installed Go_SMS, un-installed Handcent, and SMS started working!
Hey guys,
Just wondering if anybody can help me out here.
I updated CM10 Nightly (11-10) and it couldn't activate. Since I have changed roms and used Odin to restore back to route 66's stock rom.
I have data but I cant make a calls nor receive text messages. I also lost my IMEI but restored it through QPST.
Am I missing something?
thanks all,
-George
Hey guys so my phone doesn't send or receive texts/calls unless I restart it then I will be able to for a little then not again
I've searched everywhere and I've also tried different roms but same problem
Any suggestions?
Right now I'm running paranoid android btw
Weird issue. Wipe and Odin stock. Then ics, then jb. Then reflash twrp. If that doesn't work its a hardware issue