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[q] major screw up. Helpppp!!!

So I originally rooted my S3 using odin and a stock verizon software followed by using ez bootload unlock, ez recovery, and clockwork mod. I used the custom rom cyanogen mod, and eventually continued to update those roms when they rolled out the OTA updates. When the latest update came out on the 18th I noticed an issue with my contacts. Due to this I reverted to the 16th rom, but something went terribly wrong. At this time I tried re-rooting, tried different types of rooting and got my device working along with my contacts back, but it rendered my sim card useless. I tried everything I could find on the internet. I finally covered my tracks and took it to the verizon store. They replace the sim card, but it still didn't work. They replaced my device, and me being dumb I rooted it again. Same original rooting that worked the first time. It worked at first, but then the same issue occurred. I'm not sure what to do, I can't go back to verizon again. They will expect something this time. It makes no sense. The hardware is not an issue, there is some data error somewhere. PLEASE HELP!!!
TLDR; Crazy weird data issue maybe? Whoever can solve this will be the House of Android rooting.

a.p.mahaney said:
So I originally rooted my S3 using odin and a stock verizon software followed by using ez bootload unlock, ez recovery, and clockwork mod. I used the custom rom cyanogen mod, and eventually continued to update those roms when they rolled out the OTA updates. When the latest update came out on the 18th I noticed an issue with my contacts. Due to this I reverted to the 16th rom, but something went terribly wrong. At this time I tried re-rooting, tried different types of rooting and got my device working along with my contacts back, but it rendered my sim card useless. I tried everything I could find on the internet. I finally covered my tracks and took it to the verizon store. They replace the sim card, but it still didn't work. They replaced my device, and me being dumb I rooted it again. Same original rooting that worked the first time. It worked at first, but then the same issue occurred. I'm not sure what to do, I can't go back to verizon again. They will expect something this time. It makes no sense. The hardware is not an issue, there is some data error somewhere. PLEASE HELP!!!
TLDR; Crazy weird data issue maybe? Whoever can solve this will be the House of Android rooting.
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Why don't you try to Odin a pre-rooted Verizon stock can be found here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1984436 to see if it addressed both our your issues?

I just had some major issues with this as well. There is something wrong with the nightly versions of CM 10.1.
Like you - I flashed CM 10.1 12/18 and found that my data was not working. I then searched this forum and found that other users were having the no data issue as well. I decided that I would do the same and flash back to an earlier CM 10 release from December, but the update did not go as expected. Due to going 10.1 to 10 I had to wipe data/cache/dalvik. At this point I got CM 10 reinstalled, but the phone came up with NO cell coverage. I went to System Settings -> About -> Status and found that the phone was no longer registering my cellular network (Verizon) or phone number. My IMEI data was dead.
Luckily in my case I had already made backups of my IMEI data per this post: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1852255
I restored my IMEI and reflashed CM 10 12/16. Everything is now working as expected. Your issue sounds identical to mine - I just spent half the day fighting with the exact same issue. I definitely learned my lesson about staying so current with the NIGHTLY builds for day-to-day non-dev use. I knew it before, it just never bit me like this.
Anyways, I hope this information helps you somewhat. Good luck!

a.p.mahaney said:
So I originally rooted my S3 using odin and a stock verizon software followed by using ez bootload unlock, ez recovery, and clockwork mod. I used the custom rom cyanogen mod, and eventually continued to update those roms when they rolled out the OTA updates. When the latest update came out on the 18th I noticed an issue with my contacts. Due to this I reverted to the 16th rom, but something went terribly wrong. At this time I tried re-rooting, tried different types of rooting and got my device working along with my contacts back, but it rendered my sim card useless. I tried everything I could find on the internet. I finally covered my tracks and took it to the verizon store. They replace the sim card, but it still didn't work. They replaced my device, and me being dumb I rooted it again. Same original rooting that worked the first time. It worked at first, but then the same issue occurred. I'm not sure what to do, I can't go back to verizon again. They will expect something this time. It makes no sense. The hardware is not an issue, there is some data error somewhere. PLEASE HELP!!!
TLDR; Crazy weird data issue maybe? Whoever can solve this will be the House of Android rooting.
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You most likely lost you imei/min or something, you can check in settings>about phone>status. Easy way to correct it is to flash a older stock ICS image and use the reprovision code. Flash this in odin then type this in the dialer *2767*3855# and that should fix ya back up. Flashing anything carries a risk of dropping your imei but it happens much more on AOSP roms.

Phone stuck on "Activating... " after installing slimbean

Like the title says, my phone will not activate. I was using liquid smooth 4.2.1 beta1b. It was running flawlessly then I saw the slimbean 4.2.1 beta release and did a clean flash. When first turning on, i selected english then went to the next screen where it was stuck on "Activating... " and never activated. I booted into cwm and my backups disappeared, so i reinstalled liquidsmooth and got the same error. So then I figured it was my modem so i installed vrblk13 (i think it is... the newest one), rebooted and got the same error of not finding service. So after this I odin'd back to stock jelly bean, still no service. What could it be??
Do i need to odin back to ics or something? Im so lossed at this point as to what it could be. Settings wont even show my number as if the sim card isnt in, but it definitley is as ive taken it out and put it back in..
Any help GREATLY appreciated

jeffhoe said:
Like the title says, my phone will not activate. I was using liquid smooth 4.2.1 beta1b. It was running flawlessly then I saw the slimbean 4.2.1 beta release and did a clean flash. When first turning on, i selected english then went to the next screen where it was stuck on "Activating... " and never activated. I booted into cwm and my backups disappeared, so i reinstalled liquidsmooth and got the same error. So then I figured it was my modem so i installed vrblk13 (i think it is... the newest one), rebooted and got the same error of not finding service. So after this I odin'd back to stock jelly bean, still no service. What could it be??
Do i need to odin back to ics or something? Im so lossed at this point as to what it could be. Settings wont even show my number as if the sim card isnt in, but it definitley is as ive taken it out and put it back in..
Any help GREATLY appreciated
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After you attempt to make a call, which won't work.
Go to Settings.
Mobile NetWork
CDMA Subscription
Switch from NV -> RUIM/SIM
Reboot.
Try to see if you can make a call.

Thank you very much, that did the trick. Any chance you can explain what that did, and if i went back to 4.2 if it'd make it work? (im back to 4.1.2 pa

jeffhoe said:
Thank you very much, that did the trick. Any chance you can explain what that did, and if i went back to 4.2 if it'd make it work? (im back to 4.1.2 pa
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It flipped the phone from using MEID based authentication to RUIM authentication ( the LTE sim)
The same thing happened to me when i flashed cm10.1 I originally thought it killed my imei.

[Q] Flashing to stock - phone force closes process com.android.phone, help

Please bare with me since this is the first time having to post for an issue since I usually find an answer on your forums
So here's the situation.
I bought the photon q 4g lte from ebay and it came with the unlocked bootloader.
Needless to say it was with the stock ics and i tried to find a jellybean update because it wasn't taking the ota and ended up going with cyanogen since i had no problems before. However those phones i had before were with sim cards not cdma.
I found out i couldn't update prl or profile manually without having to do something on the pc.
So after searching left and right i found i could use rsl lite (I used 6.1.5) and eventually found the "stock" file from this post
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2095536&highlight=rsd+lite
I did the stock jellybean, got it to go through the process and it booted up with no errors.
However, when it boots into the os it pops up a force close on omadmclient_sprint_dataservice and eventually also on the process com.android.phone.
I tried putting it in airplane mode to see if the service error would go away but it didn't work for the process part crashing.
I tried re-flashing, deleting cache in recovery, doing a data/factory reset in recovery and the one time i was able to do a data factory reset within the settings menu.
I could not find anyone that said they had a rom that worked with sprint and updating prl within the rom, if anyone knows of one let me know and i will flash it through rsd.
Otherwise does anyone have an idea of what could be happening because googling the omadmclient part did not pull up anything specific and pulling up the process issue for other phones has not helped me either.

Was this a hacked GSM phone, or are you using it as CDMA?
I've never heard of people having FC issues after flashing a FXZ from RSD. Which one did you flash? Android 4.1.2 - Sprint US - 9.8.2Q-122_XT897_FFW-5 (No simlock) ?
If you are on stock, you should be able to update the PRL within the ROM.

I was trying to use it with cdma network through sprint. and yeah that was the file i downloaded, had to remove the getvar to get it working but flashed with no errors after doing that.
As for updating the prl i can barely navigate through the phone, there is no home page loading and the process pop comes up often enough that its hard to go through the settings

crispy6 said:
I was trying to use it with cdma network through sprint. and yeah that was the file i downloaded, had to remove the getvar to get it working but flashed with no errors after doing that.
As for updating the prl i can barely navigate through the phone, there is no home page loading and the process pop comes up often enough that its hard to go through the settings
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Sounds like something went wrong mate. Are you already activated on Sprint? I don't know if that would matter, it might.
I would honestly redownload and redo the RSD process.

arrrghhh said:
Sounds like something went wrong mate. Are you already activated on Sprint? I don't know if that would matter, it might.
I would honestly redownload and redo the RSD process.
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I originally tried to activate the phone through cyanogen and then when the rep said he couldnt do it because of the lack of prl to update within the rom we just setup the activation back on the old phone/ That phone is working on the network.
I re-downloaded the file just in case and re-flashed but same problem. The only thing i thought of was maybe updating the radio but since its a stock rom it should work out of the gate. whats also weird is i tried turning wifi on but it didnt work either.
Anychange you know of a rom that works with sprint. I dont care if its stock since i would probably root later again.

crispy6 said:
I originally tried to activate the phone through cyanogen and then when the rep said he couldnt do it because of the lack of prl to update within the rom we just setup the activation back on the old phone/ That phone is working on the network.
I re-downloaded the file just in case and re-flashed but same problem. The only thing i thought of was maybe updating the radio but since its a stock rom it should work out of the gate. whats also weird is i tried turning wifi on but it didnt work either.
Anychange you know of a rom that works with sprint. I dont care if its stock since i would probably root later again.
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Which one are you flashing?
Try another perhaps...? I honestly have never heard of this. It sounds like the phone might be damaged, or the RSD process just did not flash correctly.
I guess I should ask, was the phone modified at all for the GSM SIM slot mod? I wonder if having a non-Sprint SIM in is messing with it... That is just a shot in the dark.

arrrghhh said:
Which one are you flashing?
Try another perhaps...? I honestly have never heard of this. It sounds like the phone might be damaged, or the RSD process just did not flash correctly.
I guess I should ask, was the phone modified at all for the GSM SIM slot mod? I wonder if having a non-Sprint SIM in is messing with it... That is just a shot in the dark.
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so far the only rom i tried was 10.1 cyanogen and the stock rom for jellybean. However for the stock rom it doesnt let me downgrade to ics with rsd 6.1.5 do you think if i downloaded an old version i could downgrade to a lower stock rom?
Also I honestly had not looked for the cdma roms since most of what i saw was troubleshooting related for this phone but i just saw this rom -AOKP 4.2.2 (Android Open Kang Project) (CDMA&GSM) that you created - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2293892
I re-rooted and installed that one and it looks great, just wondered how you got sprint to activate the phone or if you had done it before changing the rom? Also how would the prl and profile be updated.
Lastly the wifi wasn't turning on this time either, it did work initially when i got the phone so that has me stumped.

crispy6 said:
so far the only rom i tried was 10.1 cyanogen and the stock rom for jellybean. However for the stock rom it doesnt let me downgrade to ics with rsd 6.1.5 do you think if i downloaded an old version i could downgrade to a lower stock rom?
Also I honestly had not looked for the cdma roms since most of what i saw was troubleshooting related for this phone but i just saw this rom -AOKP 4.2.2 (Android Open Kang Project) (CDMA&GSM) that you created - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2293892
I re-rooted and installed that one and it looks great, just wondered how you got sprint to activate the phone or if you had done it before changing the rom? Also how would the prl and profile be updated.
Lastly the wifi wasn't turning on this time either, it did work initially when i got the phone so that has me stumped.
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To downgrade to ICS, you need to remove some additional lines. See this post for more information on that.
However, you should be able to update the PRL on either stock ROM.
I think I said this before, but I will say it again. You need to do PRL updates, activate the phone, and get EVERYTHING working on stock BEFORE you flash ANY custom ROM. This is just standard practice - you don't want to put the cart before the horse! Get the phone working, then play with custom ROM's.

Broken Wifi and Network Modes

Hey there,
sorry to bother you people, but I'm having some issues.
I bought an almost new and (supposedly) bricked Photon Q off of ebay, to be modded by CornholioGSM, and I'm having some issues.
First of all, of course it wasn't really bricked, yet I don't know what the previous owner did to it.
It's supposedly a Sprint one, but when I fastboot-flash the official Sprint fw to it, it locks up at the end of the boot animation on 4.0.4.
With the latest official Sprint 4.1.2 sbf, it boots up, but during the initial setup keeps going "OMADMClient_Sprint_DataService has stopped" and "process com.android.phone has stopped"
I tried the CSpire 4.1.2 and it boots up with that, but MEID and everything is 0
If I flash CM10 (no difference if I choose the stable 10.1 or the nightly 10.2) over the 4.1.2 Sprint one it seems to work, but the problem is that I don't have wifi on either fw. The wifi button is greyed out and there's no MAC. (MEID and stuff is visible with CM10)
(I've seen someone post about a similar issue, where Wifi and BT were broken, but I honestly couldn't find the solution among the posts)
Oh and... I know the mod hasn't been done yet, but if I flash the GSM version of CM10, there are a lot more Network Modes available, but I can't select them. As in... I pick one, but it will stay at the previous setting. Is that normal, as long as the mod hasn't been done, or does this require fixing too?
Thanks a bunch!
Edit: Oh yeah, I used RSD Lite 6.1.5 for flashing, just for the record.

angahith said:
Hey there,
sorry to bother you people, but I'm having some issues.
I bought an almost new and (supposedly) bricked Photon Q off of ebay, to be modded by CornholioGSM, and I'm having some issues.
First of all, of course it wasn't really bricked, yet I don't know what the previous owner did to it.
It's supposedly a Sprint one, but when I fastboot-flash the official Sprint fw to it, it locks up at the end of the boot animation on 4.0.4.
With the latest official Sprint 4.1.2 sbf, it boots up, but during the initial setup keeps going "OMADMClient_Sprint_DataService has stopped" and "process com.android.phone has stopped"
I tried the CSpire 4.1.2 and it boots up with that, but MEID and everything is 0
If I flash CM10 (no difference if I choose the stable 10.1 or the nightly 10.2) over the 4.1.2 Sprint one it seems to work, but the problem is that I don't have wifi on either fw. The wifi button is greyed out and there's no MAC. (MEID and stuff is visible with CM10)
(I've seen someone post about a similar issue, where Wifi and BT were broken, but I honestly couldn't find the solution among the posts)
Oh and... I know the mod hasn't been done yet, but if I flash the GSM version of CM10, there are a lot more Network Modes available, but I can't select them. As in... I pick one, but it will stay at the previous setting. Is that normal, as long as the mod hasn't been done, or does this require fixing too?
Thanks a bunch!
Edit: Oh yeah, I used RSD Lite 6.1.5 for flashing, just for the record.
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So I'm well aware that this post is almost 2 years old but I've been looking for an answer to this same problem for quite a while now with no luck.
Did you figured it out?

NO GSM after CM10.2 Flash

Hi,
i tried to flash cm 10.2 on my photon Q today.
I had the latest official rom working for half a year but i was missing some features i couldnt get with stock.
Anyway its a simcard modded unit i use in germany i was running stock jellybean (rooted, motochopper method) until today.
First i unlocked the boatloader, flashed latest open recovery and then flashed CM10.2 latest nightly (GSM) + gapps, after that i did a factory reset with open recovery.
After i configured the new firmware i noticed that i had no gsm, it didnt even ask for the pin of my locked card. I tried to switch from CDMA to GSM but with no effect. I also tried several reboots but i couldnt change the mobile network or get gsm to work.
I then tried to flash the latest cm snapshot but it doesnt work as well, the only difference is that the phone service always crashes when i try to change the network method.
Doesn anyone else have a idea? The thing is currently useless to me...
Thanks in advance.

Sonic-NKT said:
Hi,
i tried to flash cm 10.2 on my photon Q today.
I had the latest official rom working for half a year but i was missing some features i couldnt get with stock.
Anyway its a simcard modded unit i use in germany i was running stock jellybean (rooted, motochopper method) until today.
First i unlocked the boatloader, flashed latest open recovery and then flashed CM10.2 latest nightly (GSM) + gapps, after that i did a factory reset with open recovery.
After i configured the new firmware i noticed that i had no gsm, it didnt even ask for the pin of my locked card. I tried to switch from CDMA to GSM but with no effect. I also tried several reboots but i couldnt change the mobile network or get gsm to work.
I then tried to flash the latest cm snapshot but it doesnt work as well, the only difference is that the phone service always crashes when i try to change the network method.
Doesn anyone else have a idea? The thing is currently useless to me...
Thanks in advance.
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Try this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=47978878#post47978878

i looked at the build.prop and those options except:
ro.telephony.default_network=3
dont appear in the file...
Also this talks about GSM Data problem, i cant even do phonecalls/sms, its not even asking for my sim code..
I then tried to flash back to stock but now RSD Lite 6.1.5 wont show my device... (all drivers installed).
Im really getting frustrated.
EDIT:
ok tried another PC with Win7 (mine runs 8.1) and now RSD Lite seems to work
Update: Now back to stock... GSM Works fine after i activated it... i now try to reflash cm10.2 and see what happens

Ok its working now
everything out of the box...
i dont know what went wrong the first time cause i did exactly the same as far as i know...

Sonic-NKT said:
i looked at the build.prop and those options except:
ro.telephony.default_network=3
dont appear in the file...
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Indeed this line was likely the relevant one
If missing just add it.