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SIM Card is not supported

After many issues trying to get phone working again, I was able to flash ED1stock and the phone will boot up to the android setup screen.
Problem is, I get an error message after I click Next. I have went to verizon and got a new SIM but the same message comes up. Verizon will not exchange the phone due to my wife taking the phone up when the phone would not boot and when they were looking at it, voodoo started talking to them so they Red Flagged my phone.
So now I'm stuck with a phone that will not finish the setup. At this point, I just want to get it back to stock working so I can sell it.
Here is the message that I am getting.
"Sorry, this SIM card is not supported or readable. Please contact your wireless service provider."
Any help would be great.
Thanks

It sounds like you're in the same boat as me with regards to your phone's operating status; I'm going to Verizon today to try a new SIM card. I'll let you know if that does the trick.

empyreandance said:
It sounds like you're in the same boat as me with regards to your phone's operating status; I'm going to Verizon today to try a new SIM card. I'll let you know if that does the trick.
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Please do. I did the same but it didn't work. Only thing is when I got home, I tried to re-flash the phone and I might have left the new sim in the phone that could have caused it to go bad.
Starting to think that its a radio problem. Wonder if there is a stock radio we can flash?

Well, the bad news is multiple new SIM cards did not work and many other members are experiencing the same problem. Keep your eyes out for a radio update to flash.

empyreandance said:
Well, the bad news is multiple new SIM cards did not work and many other members are experiencing the same problem. Keep your eyes out for a radio update to flash.
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If that is the reason. Don't know any other reason. I even tried to flash a couple kernels but failed also.
Only thing I could think of is the radio being the issue.

juttschallenger said:
After many issues trying to get phone working again, I was able to flash ED1stock and the phone will boot up to the android setup screen.
Problem is, I get an error message after I click Next. I have went to verizon and got a new SIM but the same message comes up. Verizon will not exchange the phone due to my wife taking the phone up when the phone would not boot and when they were looking at it, voodoo started talking to them so they Red Flagged my phone.
So now I'm stuck with a phone that will not finish the setup. At this point, I just want to get it back to stock working so I can sell it.
Here is the message that I am getting.
"Sorry, this SIM card is not supported or readable. Please contact your wireless service provider."
Any help would be great.
Thanks
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Mine has been this way since Wed. night. Sorry to say, but you are probably up a creek right without a paddle.
What were you trying to recover from? and did you flash anything prior to ed1

ShotgunSam said:
Mine has been this way since Wed. night. Sorry to say, but you are probably up a creek right without a paddle.
What were you trying to recover from? and did you flash anything prior to ed1
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I made the mistake of trying to run a backup from clockwork. That started it all. Then wiped the phone and tried to flash every rom out there to get it to work again. Nice that its booting up to android but sucks that it will not see the sim.
Can anyone point us in the right direction on this? The phone is starting to collect dust sitting here.
Has anyone been able to recover from this?

juttschallenger said:
I made the mistake of trying to run a backup from clockwork. That started it all. Then wiped the phone and tried to flash every rom out there to get it to work again. Nice that its booting up to android but sucks that it will not see the sim.
Can anyone point us in the right direction on this? The phone is starting to collect dust sitting here.
Has anyone been able to recover from this?
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This is exactly what I was trying to recover from. I had to use the "almost everything" package that Imnuts posted and then flashed ed1 and boom, no sim card.
So far I haven't been able to get a dev really to look at the possibilities.

ShotgunSam said:
This is exactly what I was trying to recover from. I had to use the "almost everything" package that Imnuts posted and then flashed ed1 and boom, no sim card.
So far I haven't been able to get a dev really to look at the possibilities.
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Hey is there any DEV's of there that could give us a hand? I'm sure there are going to be many people out there that could use a fix for this issue.
Thanks

This just happened to me. I got a new sim card, it worked, it was on an ed1 stock kernal, it then software upgraded and boom, sim card no longer works. Going in tomorrow to get another sim card with an ed2 stock kernal to see if it will keep. Anyone figure out why this is happening?
Steve

smgrajeda said:
This just happened to me. I got a new sim card, it worked, it was on an ed1 stock kernal, it then software upgraded and boom, sim card no longer works. Going in tomorrow to get another sim card with an ed2 stock kernal to see if it will keep. Anyone figure out why this is happening?
Steve
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There is a known issue with sim cards being fried frequently on this phone that Verizon is aware of.
Some people are temporarily removing the sim prior to flashing.

smgrajeda said:
This just happened to me. I got a new sim card, it worked, it was on an ed1 stock kernal, it then software upgraded and boom, sim card no longer works. Going in tomorrow to get another sim card with an ed2 stock kernal to see if it will keep. Anyone figure out why this is happening?
Steve
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I would first have to ask why are you still on ED1??? odin the latest stock EE4 package or OTA upgrade it and see what happens then... those OG roms (ED1/2) are so borked there's issues even with the odin packages
blazing through on my 4G Droid Charge

Im new to all of this hacking stuff, so I just updated to what I could find. Ill do the ee4 update tonight.
Thanks!
Steve

Try flashing EP1W from herethen flashing use the PIT file from here.

Need Fast Help SERVICE PROBLEM

OK so me and my gf decided to trade phones I have a rooted HTC Inspire and she has a samsung galaxy S2. I went into recovery wiped cache and did a fullwipe put her sim card in and get no service at all. I put my sim card back into the inspire and still get no service
Can someone help please I need my phone for work!
Got this message when I tried to connect to the ATT Network
your sim card does not allow connection to this network

Lolclint said:
OK so me and my gf decided to trade phones I have a rooted HTC Inspire and she has a samsung galaxy S2. I went into recovery wiped cache and did a fullwipe put her sim card in and get no service at all. I put my sim card back into the inspire and still get no service
Can someone help please I need my phone for work!
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Sorry, I am bit confused...you did a full wipe, didn't flash a new rom and the old one is working?...have you tried swapping SIM Cards before? because not all sim cards are compatible with unlock Inspire....search the Ace Hack Kit thread, because someone came into that problem....
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=952352
Hope it helps...
EDIT: Sorry I just saw the error message the phone is sending you...haven't you erased anything?...If the sim card is ATT it doesn't matter is the phone is rooted or not....but haven't you erased anything? try using this menu:
dial * # * # 4 6 3 6 # * # * and then go to bands pressing menu. Check if the bands there.

glevitan said:
Sorry, I am bit confused...you did a full wipe, didn't flash a new rom and the old one is working?...have you tried swapping SIM Cards before? because not all sim cards are compatible with unlock Inspire....search the Ace Hack Kit thread, because someone came into that problem....
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=952352
Hope it helps...
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I had a ton of stuff on the phone she did not want, So I did a full wipe and flashed the HD revolution rom again and still no service. I understand that not all sims will work but even putting mine back in there is no service.
Can it be something wrong with the radio?

Lolclint said:
I had a ton of stuff on the phone she did not want, So I did a full wipe and flashed the HD revolution rom again and still no service. I understand that not all sims will work but even putting mine back in there is no service.
Can it be something wrong with the radio?
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Perhaps...but if you didn't change radios, have you?...then it might not be that.
Do the following...try go flash ARHD againg or an Stock rom and see what happens....maybe you had a bad flash....
you can find stock roms here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1385016

glevitan said:
Perhaps...but if you didn't change radios, have you?...then it might not be that.
Do the following...try go flash ARHD againg or an Stock rom and see what happens....maybe you had a bad flash....
you can find stock roms here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1385016
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I just did the superwipe and flashed ARHD rom again with MY sim card in and still no service..

Lolclint said:
I just did the superwipe and flashed ARHD rom again with MY sim card in and still no service..
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Try ARDH Q&A thread they might have come with this problem in the past...I have no idea...sorry
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glevitan said:
Try ARDH Q&A thread they might have come with this problem in the past...I have no idea...sorry
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Wow.... Ok I figured it out I am a ****ing idiot. I did not put the bottom cover back on after swapping sims cause I needed the SD card. Thank you for your help tho

Lolclint said:
Wow.... Ok I figured it out I am a ****ing idiot. I did not put the bottom cover back on after swapping sims cause I needed the SD card. Thank you for your help tho
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Uppps...hahaha well, that was easy. I am glad you solved it. See ya...
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Glad you got it squared away. Please leave the swearing off the forums. Also please don't always expect a fast reply as this is not a support forum. Once again glad you figured it out.
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[SOFT-BRICKED][HELP] Lost IMEI and it all went downhill....

Boy have i had one heck of a day. So there i was driving along in my buddies car, minding my own business flashing dhacker's latest CM10 build. But then out of no where, BAM, there went my IMEI, and with it went my day. I had a backup of the efs.sbn so i thought "no biggie" and went to restore it. I couldnt find it and went to the next step and did is with the QPST software. I quickly restored my IMEI and i thought i was home free; boy was i wrong.... I noticed something was wrong: no data still.
So i had a fully intact IMEI and still no data. I headed over to IRC where i pleaded for help. I was given the number to reset your sim card, and without being told it would wipe my whole phone (silly invisiblek) i blindly killed everything on my sweet little handset and went back to square one. well maybe square 0....
My newly wiped phone turned on stock rooted. My data had been turned into Roaming, which was as good as not there . I ran back to IRC and asked about what happened. I was told to try the mms fix for CM10. this meant that i had to flash CM10. I flashed CM10 booted up and my IMEI was still intact (however my MEID soon reverted to 0's) and i still had raoming. i did all the steps and i was left in the same boat, but with mms for when i had data lol
And then i went back to IRC and chadamir said he would help me by walking me through it. He told me i needed to odin back to stock. AND HERES WHERE THE BEST PART HAPPENS: I open up odin, put my phone in download mode and flash invisbleks rooted stripped rom (which i used to root my phone weeks ago) and just like that BOOTLOOPS FOR DAYS. so... you know, as usual, no biggie, right? I flashed root66 BOOTLOOPS FOR DAYS. Maybe a little worried at this point, but i decide to sleep on it. I do, and this morning i flash a completely stock unrooted .tar and lo and behold....... BOOTLOOPS FOR DAYS.
UPDATE: I have no booted into my phone, no data still.
WHERE I'M AT RIGHT NOW:
take back to verizon and tell them it wont boot
flash more
get help from one of you fellows!
cry myself to sleep

can you get to recovery and wipe data factory reset?

OP updated: i have booted into recovery wiped data and am now in Stock unrooted, still no data. No roaming also

Happened to me, no known fix.
I went to Verizon and got a replacement. They'll ship it to you with 2 day rushed shipping.

aj8600 said:
OP updated: i have booted into recovery wiped data and am now in Stock unrooted, still no data. No roaming also
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did you try reprovisioning your device with the *2767*3855# dialer code?

droidstyle said:
did you try reprovisioning your device with the *2767*3855# dialer code?
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yess thats was what i did to get roaming
EDIT: im going to take in in right now. today is a sad day.

This is why you stay away from cm9/cm10
VERIZON GALAXY S 3

Yea I was about to go AOSP. Not anymore. This IMEI/MEID/DATA/ROAMING issue is scary and not worth it in my opinion. I hope this won't be an issue in the future but right now it's just way too risky.
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just got back from verizon. They tried FOUR F******* SIM CARDS before realizing that wasnt the problem. My new one should be here on tuesday, and im just sticking with stock roms for now

aj8600 said:
just got back from verizon. They tried FOUR F******* SIM CARDS before realizing that wasnt the problem. My new one should be here on tuesday, and im just sticking with stock roms for now
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It ticks me off that they won't replace them in store!
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aj8600 said:
just got back from verizon. They tried FOUR F******* SIM CARDS before realizing that wasnt the problem. My new one should be here on tuesday, and im just sticking with stock roms for now
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4? Damn, they only tried 1 new one on me. It took me 2 hours, can't imagine how long you were there for.
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Honestly it's best to stay stock on this phone and here is yet another reason why.
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tell me about it..... at least i had my old D1 laying around so im not phoneless

niv3d said:
Yea I was about to go AOSP. Not anymore. This IMEI/MEID/DATA/ROAMING issue is scary and not worth it in my opinion. I hope this won't be an issue in the future but right now it's just way too risky.
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That's what separates the men from the boys
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xsteven77x said:
Honestly it's best to stay stock on this phone and here is yet another reason why.
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You can always backup and restore efs.sbn too, you know. Its highly recommended before switching.
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1ManWolfePack said:
That's what separates the men from the boys
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Or maybe someone needs a phone that actually works...
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dpwhitty11 said:
You can always backup and restore efs.sbn too, you know. Its highly recommended before switching.
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i did -____-

I wish I could just blame this problem solely on Verizon, but apparently this has been happening across the board. I flashed a CM10 ROM last week but got sick of everything not functioning properly so I switched back to TW based...now I'm scared to go back :/ especially after reading this. I backed mine up, but it sounds like that may not be enough. To make matters worse, I don't have a PC to tinker around with, so no Odin for me.

Same happened to me. My imei went to 0 I was able to recover that using qpst. They my maid went to all 0s. I was able to fix that by pushing the original backup method onto my phone but I was stuck in roaming. So I activated my old iPhone in place of my s3 and tried to reactivate my s3 instead of my iPhone. It would just take me to a black screen so I took it into Verizon expecting to get a replacement phone, nope! The guy at Verizon took out my SIM card did some **** on the comp put the SIM card back in and it worked fine. Now I'm browsing 4g 3g and WiFi

droidstyle said:
did you try reprovisioning your device with the *2767*3855# dialer code?
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In a situation like this, would have made any difference if we had the bootloader unlocked?
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[Q] not getting data at all?

Heya! My friend gave me an HTC one m8 (verizon) after my at&t was stolen. I popped in the sim card and I can make calls and send txts and all but no data. I tried changing roms and flashing kernel but nothing seems to work. called att and after some adjustment they made to my account it still didnt work. went to att store to change my sim card (they said at support that it might be a sim card issue) and still I get nothing I know that I wont get LTE but having no data at all just sux. Do you know anyone who is using ATT sim card on verizon m8?? or maybe can someone give me directions on what to do? Ive been reading about it for past few days and I see that it works great for tmobile users.
Im rooter, soff, unlocked and cid 1.
please help?

e.squash said:
Heya! My friend gave me an HTC one m8 (verizon) after my at&t was stolen. I popped in the sim card and I can make calls and send txts and all but no data. I tried changing roms and flashing kernel but nothing seems to work. called att and after some adjustment they made to my account it still didnt work. went to att store to change my sim card (they said at support that it might be a sim card issue) and still I get nothing I know that I wont get LTE but having no data at all just sux. Do you know anyone who is using ATT sim card on verizon m8?? or maybe can someone give me directions on what to do? Ive been reading about it for past few days and I see that it works great for tmobile users.
Im rooter, soff, unlocked and cid 1.
please help?
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Hi my friend have the same problem, can make phone call and send SMS but no data at all. Have you maybe found some solution to this? I also wanted to try to flash other roms, but now that i have read your comment i gave up. Have you tried with cyanogenmod?

What fixes on VZW is RUU back to 5.01. Some say further but it must be Stock. Let it boot. Before doing anything else, boot into STOCK Recovery and Factory Reset. You really need to read hear as the process is covered in detail over, and over, and over, and over..........
Worth a try.

schneid said:
What fixes on VZW is RUU back to 5.01. Some say further but it must be Stock. Let it boot. Before doing anything else, boot into STOCK Recovery and Factory Reset. You really need to read hear as the process is covered in detail over, and over, and over, and over..........
Worth a try.
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Ok, so I am having a similar issue and I've tried this with no luck. I've used all RUU except for 6.0, booted immediately back into recovery (stock b/c RUU, correct me if I'm wrong), and performed a factory reset. Any other ideas? I really love this phone, but I'm starting to lose patience.

bigshot2 said:
Ok, so I am having a similar issue and I've tried this with no luck. I've used all RUU except for 6.0, booted immediately back into recovery (stock b/c RUU, correct me if I'm wrong), and performed a factory reset. Any other ideas? I really love this phone, but I'm starting to lose patience.
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Active Verizon sim card inserted? Do you have another sim to try? If no data at all after factory reset your modem might be toast.
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dottat said:
Active Verizon sim card inserted? Do you have another sim to try? If no data at all after factory reset your modem might be toast.
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It took some effort to get another sim, but that did the trick. Essentially the folks at VZW gave me a thoroughly busted SIM. All is well now.

bigshot2 said:
It took some effort to get another sim, but that did the trick. Essentially the folks at VZW gave me a thoroughly busted SIM. All is well now.
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Sounds good ...glad you got it sorted out.
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Help plz! Not getting 4g anymore

Tried getting help. I recently tried a fresh install of cm13. When it booted up it searched for a network. Went to network settings and let it look for a network. Found sprint and said it was trying to connect or register. Now I'm only getting schity 3g data sometime. No 4g. Almost seems like its not using the sim card. Tried booting up without it and it was still working?
Edit: using the g900p for sprint
Someone please help. All is appreciated
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Anybody? I'm gonna have to get a new phone if I can't figure this out. I use it for work and really need assistance
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Which CM13 rom did you use?

chippinganimal said:
Which CM13 rom did you use?
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it was the 6-27-16 nightly build. had a few little issues and tried a clean install. when it booted, it couldnt find a provider i guess so i went to settings-cell networks and tried to search. it found sprint, under network operators, tried to connect and couldnt. just sat forever saying registering. also its working the same with or without a sim card. i thought it should be using the sim card for the 4g?

steveokinevo said:
Anybody? I'm gonna have to get a new phone if I can't figure this out. I use it for work and really need assistance
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If you're that desperate go back to a stock rom. Your sprint network will work. Then when you have time play with other roms.

i have tried to go back to stock through recovery and doesnt work. im on ok4. do i need to odin that?

ive tried stock ok4 and its stuck at the booting screen with samsung. is there a one click thing for this?

steveokinevo said:
ive tried stock ok4 and its stuck at the booting screen with samsung. is there a one click thing for this?
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Use Odin to go back to complete stock. That should fix this issue. If you should then wish to do so take the OTA to MM. After you do that make a backup in TWRP that way if you screw up you can restore a full backup in minutes. I have trouble getting everything to work on the other custom roms as well. That's why you keep a good copy of a backup to restore in twrp just in case. Anway, get odin and flash the stock 0K4 tar through that, it will fix you.

Kreatur3 said:
Use Odin to go back to complete stock. That should fix this issue. If you should then wish to do so take the OTA to MM. After you do that make a backup in TWRP that way if you screw up you can restore a full backup in minutes. I have trouble getting everything to work on the other custom roms as well. That's why you keep a good copy of a backup to restore in twrp just in case. Anway, get odin and flash the stock 0K4 tar through that, it will fix you.
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after all this happened i did try the restore of my backup. was still doing the same thing. no 4g. i tried the ok4 update from http://forum.xda-developers.com/spr...t/rom-sprint-ok4-stock-tar-file-odin-t3262667 and still didnt work. let it boot for 20-25 mins and wouldnt do anything. if thats not what i should be using can you give me the right one. thx for your help btw

steveokinevo said:
after all this happened i did try the restore of my backup. was still doing the same thing. no 4g. i tried the ok4 update from http://forum.xda-developers.com/spr...t/rom-sprint-ok4-stock-tar-file-odin-t3262667 and still didnt work. let it boot for 20-25 mins and wouldnt do anything. if thats not what i should be using can you give me the right one. thx for your help btw
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Okay so you tried to Odin flash that OK4 tar? That should have worked. Do you have the 4g lte sim card? I bought my s5 used and it wouldn't connect to lte until I got my sim in the mail. Otherwise I have no clue. Did you follow those instructions exactly and make sure you wiped your phone completely before taking the tar file?

Kreatur3 said:
Okay so you tried to Odin flash that OK4 tar? That should have worked. Do you have the 4g lte sim card? I bought my s5 used and it wouldn't connect to lte until I got my sim in the mail. Otherwise I have no clue. Did you follow those instructions exactly and make sure you wiped your phone completely before taking the tar file?
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this phone was bought new, with 4g working. has worked fine up until now. took the tar file from the link, flashed with auto restart and reset time unchecked, said it passed, then got to the samsung splash screen and got stuck there. is there another link or file i could use? i really just want all stock at this point so this dam thing will work. i can do what i need after

steveokinevo said:
this phone was bought new, with 4g working. has worked fine up until now. took the tar file from the link, flashed with auto restart and reset time unchecked, said it passed, then got to the samsung splash screen and got stuck there. is there another link or file i could use? i really just want all stock at this point so this dam thing will work. i can do what i need after
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Hmm. Beyond trying to download the tar again I have no ideas. If it's pretty new maybe take it in?

Its not new anymore. Had it for like a year and a half. They won't touch my phone with custom stuff though....
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Seems to be fixed!
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steveokinevo said:
Seems to be fixed!
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What did you do to resolve this??

was it connecting to LTE before? if not then you might be best served getting a new sim from sprint, but if it was working before then id get a fresh tar.md5 and flash it in Odin. Here is the place ive been getting my tarballs from as of late. The server seems to be pretty fast and i can attest to the tar.md5s working quite well.