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[Q] SGH-T959D constantly rebooting - cannot mount internal sd card ?!

I've been really happy with my Galaxy S Fascinate 3G+ SGH-T959D... I've got that phone brand new from Telus on February 28 2011... now we are march 18th 2012... 1 year and 2½ something weeks...
This morning, my phone woke me up, I went to a meeting (recorded 2 hours of audio of this meeting), took notes on my phone, placed calls, send sms, return home for dinner, put my phone on the table, send an sms, took a small lunch in the living room while reading and I suddently hear the booting song from the phone...
I thought the battery had drain and the phone was rebooting or something... and I don't hear nothing else after. 2 hours later, I pick up my phone to place a call and I realize my phone is rebooting constantly...
I see the telus logo, the galasy S logo flying by and then it restarts over and over...
I immediately went to my telus store (where I learn the great news that my phone is no longer under warranty by 2½ weeks), and the manager did try a new sim card, try my sim card in another phone, made me reboot my phone holding volume key and power key, tried to do a factory reset...
Nothing worked, I only see the telus logo and the galasy flying by...
My phone is not rooted (I do not understand much about that) and was using the stock telus android 2.3.2 if I am not mistaken...
What the hell did happend to my phone while it was sitting on the dining table ? It destroy itself in standby mode ???
I have tried to seek information about that issue on xda but I get so many different solution, for different devices, and mainly I see this happen when people are trying to modify their phones rom or trying rooting where mine is using a stock version...
The last thing that worries me the most is that when I connect the USB cable to my PC, it detects nothing (win7 64bit) even when in recovery mode (with the yellow android logo) where the telus guy tried to see the phone on the store computer.
Anyone can help ?
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Try wipe data/factory reset. It will erase everything on the phone. The SD card will be untouched and you will still have pictures, music and recordings.

Still a no go...
AaRcSvN said:
Try wipe data/factory reset. It will erase everything on the phone. The SD card will be untouched and you will still have pictures, music and recordings.
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Hi AaRcSvN, I've done this with the telus store manager and still, I get the same exact result.
The phone seems to boot up with the music and Telus logo, then I see the flying galaxy S logo and it reboots.
I have just tried it again and it does the same thing, reboot constantly and it shows the error you see in the picutre :
"E:Failed to mount /sdcard (file exist)"
"E:copy_dbdata_media:Can't mount /sdcard your storage not prepared yet. please use UI menu for format and reboot actions"
"Meida files copy failed."
What is the UI menu ?? Where and how can I get to that menu ?
Any other input would be greatly appreciated !
Thanks again AaRcSvN

Ok the UI (user interface) menu is in the picture you took. I'm guessing you scrolled the menu with the volume controls to "wipe data/factory reset" and did that.
Other people have the same problem. You might have to set up Android SDK >> http://bit.ly/GBRP39 on your computer to do some things.
Follow this first:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1264603

AaRcSvN said:
Ok the UI (user interface) menu is in the picture you took. I'm guessing you scrolled the menu with the volume controls to "wipe data/factory reset" and did that.
Other people have the same problem. You might have to set up Android SDK >> http://bit.ly/GBRP39 on your computer to do some things.
Follow this first:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1264603
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Thanks AaRcSvN for following up... I've been reading a lot and indeed, a lot of people do report that issue but it is because they have tried to root or install custom rom... the thing that worries me is that mine was a clean device running stock provider software...
It's nice when you get some support when you are kind of lost and specially that I am far from being a wizz at handling these advance setup operations...
Thanks for your time and all the links about the SDK that I will install and will follow the xda thread you suggest me.

That's it I guess...
well, after trying methods found in the thread you submitted me to read where it seems there was a lot of hope, I read this :
"E:Can't mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p1 error you got means internal SD failure, this usually means it needs a PCB replacement (a new motherboard)"
That information was found in this post
After the manipulation found in the thread, I now have a different screen which display this :
I even have the format sd card now (which I did not have before) but even when I try this, I get a dead phone blank screen after the galaxy S splash screen at startup...
which seems to seal the faith of my phone... I know owe 320$ balance to my provider for a confirmed dead phone...
So for all people who have this issue and specially with mmcblk0p1 error, it seems that we have a dead sd card on our motherboard...
Thanks for all the great information

Confirmed dead phone mmcblk0p1 error
I sent my phone to an authorized samsung service center and they confirmed what I have read in the preceeding forum about the mmcblk0p1 sdcard error...
They need to replace the motherboard of the phone, a 300$ job...
So if you get this error, I am not saying it is not fixable but as I read, there is a good chance that your phone is dead and need motherboard replacement.
I got that error on a original phone, not running custom roms and not being unlock or rooted. The phone simply died by itself sitting on the kitchen table. On my phone, this error is due to a failing internal sdcard.
Good luck with your phone if you have the same error and if by any chance you were able to start your phone again with this error, share your findings.

wooohoooooooo !
After a couple calls and maybe two hours of my time, Samsung greatly agreed to fix my phone free of charge even though the warranty was out of about 3 weeks.
It has been a roller coaster over the phone but the final result is a fully functionnal phone.
So thumbs up for Samsung. If you are in a similar situation of being out of warranty for 2 or 3 weeks, if you think your time is worth it, call samsung and discuss calmly with the operator.
Just a note on one thing that happend to me. I bought my phone with my master card which has a double extention warranty plan. You buy something that has 1 year, the master card warranty will ad another year of corverage.
When I bought my phone, on the receipt, it was displayed 1 Galaxy S Fascinate 529$ -480$ balance in exchange of a 3 year contract. Total that had been paid was actually 56.99$.
The salesperson at Telus convince me to get the balance as I wanted to buy the phone in one shot. She explained me that if I keep my phone for 3 year, it will only cost me 56.99$ but if I end my contract, I have to pay the balance (480$/36months remaining).
What I had not though at that time is if the phone break after the warranty, you'll have to pay your balance for a non working piece of equipement. In my mind the full price of the phone was covered.
Even though I explained to master card that I needed to pay that phone if I cancel my contract and that it was a balance and not a rebate, they would only conver the initial amount at the moment of the payment which is 56.99$.
Conclusion, if you have such a warranty coverage on one of your credit card, be sure to pay entirely your item because if it has a balance, it won't be covered.
Will I buy another Samsung product? absolutely. Will I suggest to buy Samsung product to someone else? absolutely. I am pleased with their service and I am pleased that they actually care about their customers. It was nothing for them to authorized that repair and they made a long time Samsung customer happy that will spread his story positively.
Thanks Samsung and everybody that help on the forum !

[Guide] Unbrand HTC 8X

Hi
i have successfuly unbrand my locked,vodafone branded 8X and flash a Stock HTC rom ! :victory:
the process has been tested on PM232****/c620e Device & also 8S using different filename....
this process bypass the CID check like Wp7 goldcard & can also fix some bad flash/reboot loop.
Caution!
use at your own risk.
I take no responsibility for any conflict or damage to your device
Requirements:
-An Y-cable
-sd card or usb drive key
-the 3 .nbh extracted from those 2 exe using winrar:
official rom HTC_Europe_2.00.401.03
ACDU FIX*
-RUU_Signed.nbh
-UEFI_signed.nbh
-ACDU_UEFI_PROV_KEY.nbh
How to flash:
1- Format your sdcard or usb key in fat32
2-Copy the file .nbh you want to flash to the usb key
3-Rename it ACDUDIAG.nbh
4-Connect the usb key to the Y-cable powered
5-Shutdown the phone press camera button and connect the cable
you will see the text ACDUDIAG.nbh on top left during 1 second
then the flash will start.
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For my european device with Bootloader 162966 i have flash in this order:
-UEFI_signed.nbh
-ACDU_UEFI_PROV_KEY.nbh
-UEFI_signed.nbh
-RUU_Signed.nbh
-ACDU_UEFI_PROV_KEY.nbh
-UEFI_signed.nbh
* Notice:
(try different order for flash files if you have problem or if stuck on bootloader screen with uefi message)
I have used this step but i think you can directly flash
UEFI_signed.nbh then -RUU_Signed.nbh without Acdu depending on your software version

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tofu- said:
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Sadly doesn't work on an Orange handset (UEFI 161722). It sees the nbh file, scrolls through a list of partitions, and then ends up at the bootloader after 2-3 seconds.

David Horn said:
Sadly doesn't work on an Orange handset (UEFI 161722). It sees the nbh file, scrolls through a list of partitions, and then ends up at the bootloader after 2-3 seconds.
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D'oh - bootloop.
Remember those images posted of the Windows recovery menu on a Windows Phone? Well, they weren't fake.

David Horn said:
D'oh - bootloop.
Remember those images posted of the Windows recovery menu on a Windows Phone? Well, they weren't fake.
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Woohoo! It worked (eventually). Not entirely sure the instructions above are entirely in the right order, but a random combination followed by a hard reset and re-flash got me back into Windows. The question is, has this fixed the missing features that Orange for whatever reason stripped out?
Update: Yep, there they are... Though I am somewhat disappointed that I don't get to take the phone back to the shop with the Windows Recovery Menu on display.

Would this work on my Canadian phone (Bell Mobility), even though the RUU if for the European version?
EDIT: Ummm, it seems my phone is a PM2330002 and not PM232xx...

Portuguese (Brazil)??
I would like to know if this rom has multi-language and if has Portuguese (Brazil). would it be possible to someone who was successful in installing the rom to tell me this?

Please help!
@xboxmod
I get ACDU_UEFI_PROV_KEY.nbh file?
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Video
Could you please make a video on how to do that ...
thanks​ :good: :fingers-crossed:

Anyone know if this will work on a Verizon HTC 8X? I am a little hesitant to try and force this flash and have it brick the phone. Attached is a screen shot of the software/hardware version.
I bought this phone from Verizon due to them selling it "unlocked" and under the assumption that Microsoft/HTC would be controlling the updates and not Verizon. I was wrong, even though the phone is “unlocked” Verizon is blocking MMS and internet connection sharing even if my SIM supports said features. An HTC rep has also confirmed that Verizon is blocking such features after several support calls. Talking to Verizon they have no knowledge of any update forth coming to Windows Phone 8. Verizon refered me to HTC even after I instructed them the international and AT&T/T-Mobile verisions have the Portico update, they denied any update exists!!

Same problem
Brett VanKirk said:
Anyone know if this will work on a Verizon HTC 8X? I am a little hesitant to try and force this flash and have it brick the phone. Attached is a screen shot of the software/hardware version.
I bought this phone from Verizon due to them selling it "unlocked" and under the assumption that Microsoft/HTC would be controlling the updates and not Verizon. I was wrong, even though the phone is “unlocked” Verizon is blocking MMS and internet connection sharing even if my SIM supports said features. An HTC rep has also confirmed that Verizon is blocking such features after several support calls. Talking to Verizon they have no knowledge of any update forth coming to Windows Phone 8. Verizon refered me to HTC even after I instructed them the international and AT&T/T-Mobile verisions have the Portico update, they denied any update exists!!
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Hello,
I bought the same phone at Microsoft store at Chicago.
Although it works fine in Israel, I have some problems.
I cant send SMS (it adds to all numbers +1 - like in States).
I can recieve SMS of course. I also cant share internet connection(hot spot).
I talked to HTC guys who sent me to Verizon and they sent me to F#@[email protected]# myself .
So I would like very much to set the European ROM with my PC on HTC 8x.
Can anyone tell me how to do it? I have normal USB cable to connect HTC to
my Win7 or W8 PC to transfer music or pics.
Thanks,
Aaron

Hi thanks for the post..
I'm just wondering if this will work on an 8X that has already had an OTA update?

mans550 said:
Hi thanks for the post..
I'm just wondering if this will work on an 8X that has already had an OTA update?
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this is big news! If this bypasses the cid, could you not make this a "custom" rom? Somewhat like what devs were doing with Motorola Droid X when Motorola was locking their bootloaders down and the eFuse? In theory the signatures and verifications would be "officially signed".

Where can I get "ACDU_UEFI_PROV_KEY.nbh" file from?

waiting for this ..anybody tried on at&t ...?

cannot try because no ACDU_UEFI_PROV_KEY.nbh file anywhere.

Hello. I was wondering if anyone has been able to achieve this on the Verizon HTC 8X. I'm tired of waiting for Portico from them and if I could unbrand my device then I could receive Portico as well as have the ability to group text. Also I'm not sure what you mean by a "Y Cable". If you could elaborate on that I would greatly appreciate it.
Thank you!

DrummerJDM25 said:
Hello. I was wondering if anyone has been able to achieve this on the Verizon HTC 8X. I'm tired of waiting for Portico from them and if I could unbrand my device then I could receive Portico as well as have the ability to group text. Also I'm not sure what you mean by a "Y Cable". If you could elaborate on that I would greatly appreciate it.
Thank you!
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You should check if the hard/software versions match, If they do you can try. If they don't you can still try but risk of the device not booting anymore.
Y cable is two female USB plugs connected, and a USB male plug only for +5v DC. check here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1676794

kid1988 said:
You should check if the hard/software versions match, If they do you can try. If they don't you can still try but risk of the device not booting anymore.
Y cable is two female USB plugs connected, and a USB male plug only for +5v DC. check here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1676794
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My bootloader version is 157404 which is before the version listed on page one. However since I'm a noob to Windows Phone I'd rather have someone with more experience attempt it first and let me know the results. I'd really like to get the group text feature that Verizon disabled back.

I currently see the whoopping 4 days of average phone usage after this update, it was 1.5 days max before.
Can somebody else confirm the prolonged battery life, or its just a placebo effect?

Death of g930f. Red writing in bootload. Wont boot

So yesterday my g930f uk version, died and i have no hope in getting it back up and running... Kinda hoping someone here can help me...
All that happens is its stuck on a bootload screen and i cant get no further. I can hard reset but thats it. No recovery and no download mode.
Any help at all would be appreciated
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Update:
Well my battery finally ran out. I put it on charge for 10 mins and turned it on and there was life. Booted straight up to home screen. Using the phone right now to write this.
Ran without sd card and sim and no freezing or crashes.
Powered down, put sim card and sd card in and it crashes.
Took sd card out and it's running fine now !!!!!
So must be something to do with the sd card, which works fine in my s4 and laptop
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Ignore / deleted picture (now in OP)

How did it die though? What were you doing with it when it happened? Did you flash anything? We need more details.

Try USB JIGG METHOD for download mode

-Ric- said:
How did it die though? What were you doing with it when it happened? Did you flash anything? We need more details.
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All started 5 days ago.
Day 1, working as normal then Facebook froze on a video, sound frozen on. Phone unresponsive. Forced restart, stuck on boot load loop couple of times and started normally. Normal operation rest of day.
Day 2, froze while on home screen, wouldn't boot back up, stuck on boot loop. Got into standard recovery mode, cleared cache and factory reset, had to do this a few times till finally back up and running normally.
Day 3, same as day 2. Plugged in to smart switch and went on to emergency/reinitialisation and re flashed firmware. Stuck on boot loop, cleared cache and factory reset. Back working after a few times.
Day 4 same as day 3
Day 5, downloaded evr firmware version and used odin (debug mode on and oem unlock turned off) flashed OK but still kept crashing and freezing as before.
So btu rom this time. All went OK, same problems as before, force reboot a few times and loading up to home screen before freezing again after 1 min of use. Then 4th time round that red writing came on boot loader.
I can force boot but withing half a second that writing comes back up. Can't get into recovery mode or download. No samsung logos come up. I can't turn the device off either.
All firmware was the latest version from Samsung server btu/evr/xeu. (Xeu being original firmware)
Btu and evr didn't have WiFi calling in the phone settings so wasn't going to keep them anyway.
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Sounds like a defective unit, do you have warranty? If so, just send it in and let Samsung have a look at it

-Ric- said:
Sounds like a defective unit, do you have warranty? If so, just send it in and let Samsung have a look at it
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Yeah I was thinking about doing that. I've had the device since release (pre ordered) so 2 and a half months it was fine. There was no OTA update 5 days ago. So that's what I couldn't understand.
However if I return it and it doesn't have the correct firmware on (being xeu, and I have btu on it at the moment) and they figure out ive changed firmware then it would be warranty void job.
The pc still discovers the device in that re writing mode but it won't let me flash anything to it.
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Update:
Well my battery finally ran out. I put it on charge for 10 mins and turned it on and there was life. Booted straight up to home screen. Using the phone right now to write this.
Ran without sd card and sim and no freezing or crashes.
Powered down, put sim card and sd card in and it crashes.
Took sd card out and it's running fine now !!!!!
So must be something to do with the sd card, which works fine in my s4 and laptop
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Tell us more about the SD card.
Is it partitioned? how long have you had it? does it work correctly with a laptop? have you attempted to clean the file systems in use? are many of your apps installed on it? etc etc otherwise its very difficult to say, could be anything from one app messing things up to a card that is totally frozen and needs throwing.
I've had one where it all looked good but write changes were not persistent (i.e. it was buggered) at least I could rescue the data
Having said that I have had a great many samsung phones and I have never seen the types of screen shot above.....

curioct said:
Tell us more about the SD card.
Is it partitioned? how long have you had it? does it work correctly with a laptop? have you attempted to clean the file systems in use? are many of your apps installed on it? etc etc otherwise its very difficult to say, could be anything from one app messing things up to a card that is totally frozen and needs throwing.
I've had one where it all looked good but write changes were not persistent (i.e. it was buggered) at least I could rescue the data
Having said that I have had a great many samsung phones and I have never seen the types of screen shot above.....
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I'm going to take all the data off it tonight and format the sd card.
I bought about 3 months ago from tesco, it's a San disk ultra 32gb.
I'll update later on, as far as I know, I don't have many apps stored on it, it's mainly just for music, pictures, videos and backup of sms/contacts/etc.
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Oh and no its not partitioned
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mattharper228 said:
I'm going to take all the data off it tonight and format the sd card.
I bought about 3 months ago from tesco, it's a San disk ultra 32gb.
I'll update later on, as far as I know, I don't have many apps stored on it, it's mainly just for music, pictures, videos and backup of sms/contacts/etc.
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probably worth running chkdsk / scandisk on it first.... might be as simple as a file system error.
if you're unsure you want chksk f: /f
where f: is the drive letter of the card
If you have regularly filled the drive you might also defrag it etc ... also worth checking the LOST+FOUND folder you probably wont be able to do much with it but it may give you a clue as the fact it's been having issues

curioct said:
probably worth running chkdsk / scandisk on it first.... might be as simple as a file system error.
if you're unsure you want chksk f: /f
where f: is the drive letter of the card
If you have regularly filled the drive you might also defrag it etc ... also worth checking the LOST+FOUND folder you probably wont be able to do much with it but it may give you a clue as the fact it's been having issues
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Well unfortunately it wasn't the sd card. Phone started freezing last night while not being used and no sd card in.
Either way I checked the sd card. 0 errors on it and 10% fragmented.
I formatted it anyway to make sure there is no android conflicts on there.
So I decided to flash the bootloader, flashed the rom again, and also cp/phone partition data.
This seems to have rectified the crashing for now. I've got 6 hours use out of the device with no crashes so far.
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eSim on Verizon branded Pixel 3

There are a lot of Verizon branded unlocked Pixel 3. It is reported on the web that eSim has been disabled on these. However, a quick check with *#06# shows two IMEI on this phone. So maybe eSim is there. I need eSim to use International roaming using USMobile plans. Anybody have any ideas about what happened to the eSim on this phone?

rajivtiwary said:
There are a lot of Verizon branded unlocked Pixel 3. It is reported on the web that eSim has been disabled on these. However, a quick check with *#06# shows two IMEI on this phone. So maybe eSim is there. I need eSim to use International roaming using USMobile plans. Anybody have any ideas about what happened to the eSim on this phone?
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I am fine to root this phone. Will that enable eSim?

Code:
adb shell settings put global euicc_provisioned 1

I have had a personal conversation with a representative at Google fi and Google. Unfortunately because Google has no idea how Verizon restricted the use of this function, unfortunately any pixel 3 with a sku from Verizon is unable to have this feature activated at this moment. However they expressed interest in that if I discover a way to activate it and file a bug report, they will most certainly be interested in looking into the idea of activating the future on all pixel 3s.
In the meantime they do offer a free SIM card for anyone who wants to join Google fi and has a Verizon pixel 3. They have confirmed that although the device is Verizon made or rather Verizon issued, their SIM card for Google fi does indeed work on this device. It's just unfortunate you need the physical SIM card. If you do not get the SIM card through Google you will have to pay about $10 maybe a little bit more to get it anywhere else.

rajivtiwary said:
I am fine to root this phone. Will that enable eSim?
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How to root a Verizon pixel 3/3xl please?

Pixel 3xl said:
Code:
adb shell settings put global euicc_provisioned 1
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My Phone is a refurbished one. Imei.info says it was originally purchased in Japan. With no esim option.
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I have tried adb shell settings put global euicc_provisioned 1. nothing happens. No + Appears for me to add network.
I have tried adb shell get props euicc_provisioned . It shows that the property has been set to 1.

Pixel 3xl said:
How to root a Verizon pixel 3/3xl please?
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See my recent post in the thread you commented on earlier. I think I'm getting closer. One thing that works in my favor is an existing unpatched CVE in citadel
captainwifi said:
My Phone is a refurbished one. Imei.info says it was originally purchased in Japan. With no esim option.
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I have tried adb shell settings put global euicc_provisioned 1. nothing happens. No + Appears for me to add network.
I have tried adb shell get props euicc_provisioned . It shows that the property has been set to 1.
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There is no real distinguishable way to tell whether your phone is actually through Verizon or not. The only way I pretty much was able to tell was looking through the installed applications using an activity launcher. It lists the package names such as com.package.name. one of the carrier setup applications is a Verizon application to set up a phone through Verizon. That's pretty much how I got the message this was a Verizon phone. Google says on any pixel 3 phone that has a Verizon SKU, the esim option is disabled. They don't know how Verizon did it therefore they do not have a process to activate it. They did not however deny my process did anything and seemed genuinely intrigued by the fact I even managed to get that far. That tells me I can probably do more but I only just stumbled upon this and never looked into it any further because I never had any intentions of looking into it any further. Only because I didn't think anybody had any interest in it and I stand corrected. If I come across anything else I will gladly update everybody.

captainwifi said:
My Phone is a refurbished one. Imei.info says it was originally purchased in Japan. With no esim option.
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I have tried adb shell settings put global euicc_provisioned 1. nothing happens. No + Appears for me to add network.
I have tried adb shell get props euicc_provisioned . It shows that the property has been set to 1.
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Try
*#*#794824746#*#*
In your dialer
It will give you a message esim enabled
Try and see if it works.

I got the esim enable message. Thanks. But still stuck in the checking network info loop.

This thread hasn't been active in awhile, but thought I'd add my experience.
I have a vzw pixel3, but it was bought on Woot and it was new in box, never activated. Following another thread that indicated; remove vzw sim, minimal startup but connect wifi, enable dev options, select oem unlock. It worked.
I immediately did a firmware update with latest google generic 06/05 zip. Then decided to relock bootloader. No probs, and it can still be unlocked.
Then, today, tried info in this thread. Sure enough, changed the setting to 1 and then a '+' sign showed up for additional networks. Followed though with that and 2 showed up; Google Fi and Sprint, and also an option to scan a Q code if your's wasn't listed.
So, I guess one can say that the vzw phones, so long as they haven't been activated on vzw network, can be made to work as one might like. A big **IF** though, I realize.

AsItLies said:
This thread hasn't been active in awhile, but thought I'd add my experience.
I have a vzw pixel3, but it was bought on Woot and it was new in box, never activated. Following another thread that indicated; remove vzw sim, minimal startup but connect wifi, enable dev options, select oem unlock. It worked.
I immediately did a firmware update with latest google generic 06/05 zip. Then decided to relock bootloader. No probs, and it can still be unlocked.
Then, today, tried info in this thread. Sure enough, changed the setting to 1 and then a '+' sign showed up for additional networks. Followed though with that and 2 showed up; Google Fi and Sprint, and also an option to scan a Q code if your's wasn't listed.
So, I guess one can say that the vzw phones, so long as they haven't been activated on vzw network, can be made to work as one might like. A big **IF** though, I realize.
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I can confirm I am able to reproduce exactly what you are seeing on a Vzw unlocked Pixel 3 . Unfortunately, I believe that Vzw wiped the device EID before shipping these phones. I am unable to view the individual devices EID which is required to register the device as an Esim. The processes outlined above appear to be simply software locks to keep you out of something that is not available on the device. I would love for someone to prove me wrong on this theory.

woodysgate said:
I can confirm I am able to reproduce exactly what you are seeing on a Vzw unlocked Pixel 3 . Unfortunately, I believe that Vzw wiped the device EID before shipping these phones. I am unable to view the individual devices EID which is required to register the device as an Esim. The processes outlined above appear to be simply software locks to keep you out of something that is not available on the device. I would love for someone to prove me wrong on this theory.
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I don't think you're wrong actually. I didn't go any farther than what I mentioned, iow, didn't actually add an esim account.
But research and trying to add acct, yeah, no EID is a big issue. I didn't try extensively as I don't need esim ability, but thought after what I'd done, unlock, flash generic rom, etc, that everything would be working... and mostly it is, but not esim it appears.
alas, cheers

Question "Service provider update

Since i updated to VA2, getting this message over and over:
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
Any solution????

What happens when you restart it?

ashraftheboss said:
What happens when you restart it?
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Nothing happens when i tap "Restart". Screen goes dark, when i press back, everything goes normal.
Bust the message is annoying a lot. After every 10 or 15 minutes it appear again.

I've never really seen this happen before.
Had a quick look online and this has been an issue for the S8 and S20 as well. What these people are saying is when they had 3G Sim Cards in their phone and the phone was trying to update those Sim Cards to support 4G or something along the lines.
Maybe your phone is trying something similar?
The only solutions I've found is either changing your Sim Card or wiping the cache partition, which I would only recommend after you've tried another sim card.

ashraftheboss said:
I've never really seen this happen before.
Had a quick look online and this has been an issue for the S8 and S20 as well. What these people are saying is when they had 3G Sim Cards in their phone and the phone was trying to update those Sim Cards to support 4G or something along the lines.
Maybe your phone is trying something similar?
The only solutions I've found is either changing your Sim Card or wiping the cache partition, which I would only recommend after you've tried another sim card.
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Might be an issue, but i don't think its the case for me.
Both of my sim cards are 4G, so i'm not sure about it.
Wiping the Dalvik and Cache partition also did not help.
Did not have this isuue in VA1, its happening in VA2 and VB3.

SRooks1976 said:
Might be an issue, but i don't think its the case for me.
Both of my sim cards are 4G, so i'm not sure about it.
Wiping the Dalvik and Cache partition also did not help.
Did not have this isuue in VA1, its happening in VA2 and VB3.
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What I would try is to take the sim cards out for a while, just to see if the pop-up comes back. If it does, then its most likely a software issue. If it doesn't, then it will most likely be an issue with either one or both of your sim cards. In that case, you could try each sim card on its own, just to see whether it is one of them that's triggering this pop-up. That would be what I'd do to sort of troubleshoot and get to the root of the problem.
I am on VA2 with XFE CSC right now and no problem so far. I also saw something about an app called AutoPreConfig that was a bit of an issue for S7 users. It isn't present on my phone, maybe it could be on your's?

ashraftheboss said:
What I would try is to take the sim cards out for a while, just to see if the pop-up comes back. If it does, then its most likely a software issue. If it doesn't, then it will most likely be an issue with either one or both of your sim cards. In that case, you could try each sim card on its own, just to see whether it is one of them that's triggering this pop-up. That would be what I'd do to sort of troubleshoot and get to the root of the problem.
I am on VA2 with XFE CSC right now and no problem so far. I also saw something about an app called AutoPreConfig that was a bit of an issue for S7 users. It isn't present on my phone, maybe it could be on your's?
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Have you rooted your device?

No no, haven't rooted mine. Is your's rooted?

The app that's causing this issue is called CIDManager
I rooted and deleted it. Maybe you can disable it without rooting. It hasn't had any negative effects on me as of yet.

ShaDisNX255 said:
The app that's causing this issue is called CIDManager
I rooted and deleted it. Maybe you can disable it without rooting. It hasn't had any negative effects on me as of yet.
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I don't have this app, maybe that's why I don't have the issue.

ashraftheboss said:
I don't have this app, maybe that's why I don't have the issue.
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It's hidden in system/priv-app
I think this problem only appears when you flash another country firmware on your phone. It wasn't much of a problem in Android 11 but in Android 12 I received that message over and over again too.

ShaDisNX255 said:
It's hidden in system/priv-app
I think this problem only appears when you flash another country firmware on your phone. It wasn't much of a problem in Android 11 but in Android 12 I received that message over and over again too.
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Oh that explains why I didn't see it, my bad

ashraftheboss said:
What I would try is to take the sim cards out for a while, just to see if the pop-up comes back. If it does, then its most likely a software issue. If it doesn't, then it will most likely be an issue with either one or both of your sim cards. In that case, you could try each sim card on its own, just to see whether it is one of them that's triggering this pop-up. That would be what I'd do to sort of troubleshoot and get to the root of the problem.
I am on VA2 with XFE CSC right now and no problem so far. I also saw something about an app called AutoPreConfig that was a bit of an issue for S7 users. It isn't present on my phone, maybe it could be on your's?
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Both sim cards have the same issue, nothing changed.

ashraftheboss said:
No no, haven't rooted mine. Is your's rooted?
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Yes, I always root my device. That's the reason I Switched from VIVO Y51 to Samsung Galaxy A52.

ShaDisNX255 said:
It's hidden in system/priv-app
I think this problem only appears when you flash another country firmware on your phone. It wasn't much of a problem in Android 11 but in Android 12 I received that message over and over again too.
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I live in Pakistan and software I flashed is specifically for my country.
PAK-A525FXXU4BVB3-20220217141450.zip