Hello,
While flashing my Samsung S3 from Windmobile, I didn't make copy of EFS folder, so I lost my IMEI number. I have been reading how to restore it, but nothing helps. The last resort is to flash the stock version of the firmware. However, all the link are dead, I have looked every where.
If somebody has it, please upload it. I really need to fix this.
My phone is Samsung S3 from wind mobile (Canada) - SGH-T999V
The firmware I am looking for is May 2012 Factory Stock: SGH-T999V_GLW_T999VVLALE6_T999VYVLALE6
Please help. Happy New year.
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I am having the Unlocked SAMSUNG CAPTIVATE (SGH-I896) of Canada Rogers Network. I am using the same from last December, 2010. As now the firmware of my phone is crashed and it is not even going in DOWNLOAD MODE or in RECOVERY MODE, by which I can repair my crashed firmware and also now my phone is not working.
My request to you is that can you tell me that if you can FLASH my SAMSUNG CAPTIVATE (SGH-I896) with the ROM of the mobile if you have with you, otherwise I will provide the Original Firmware Backup which I am having with me. So please tell me whether you can upgrade the firm with the ROM you have or mine.
Please help me to solve my number, as I am from India, now I cannot send my mobile to Canada back.
Thanks
Hello, i want to update my Samsung Galaxy S Plus from 2.3.5 (xxkpf) to 2.3.6 (xxkq7) but it says its for DTB (another carrier)? i have a Norwegian phone (unlocked) but is it dangerous to update, will it destroy my phone or something?
Or can i just go ahead and download. And how du i update with Odin?
-Thanks guys.
As long as you have and know how to use odin/heimdall you should be fine. I was experimenting a while back when I had my Verizon Fascinate on Sprint and I flashed the Sprint Samsung epic modem. It completely borked the entire radio, however I was able to re-flash the original modem and it was fine. Read up on the recovery options for your phone first and check the specific forum for your phone. Also in the future please ask device specific question in the proper forum.'
http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=656
Your section is here.
I am of need of some information. 3 days of bits and pieces here is where I'm at.
I rooted this phone with droids kernel and installed a few different roms only to find that I had a non locking GPS. So after several threads I found I needed to return to stock and get a lock. Here is where the problem started. I have never found a Cspire stock file for the SCH-R760 the best match I could find was a USC easy upgrade tool on samsung. Flashed the util and got a stock lock. After several buil.prop edits apn edits never could get data to work. SO I found a generic carriers stock FF24 total tar package posted by Mcadder on the USC site flashed it with odin and checked the efs clear to wipe out all the USC stuff. When I came out of the flash all device information was gone and prl was gone. So then I went into ##3282## changed all the information that I had to get voice text and prl back. So I'm now rooted with no data.
I need someone who is on Cspire to go into ##3282## and give me some information so hopefully I can get data back.
Also if anyone has a default build.prop for this phone Please post. I have asked in other post but not finding to many people with a Cspire SG2 that can help.
I can help
jasonc331 said:
I am of need of some information. 3 days of bits and pieces here is where I'm at.
I rooted this phone with droids kernel and installed a few different roms only to find that I had a non locking GPS. So after several threads I found I needed to return to stock and get a lock. Here is where the problem started. I have never found a Cspire stock file for the SCH-R760 the best match I could find was a USC easy upgrade tool on samsung. Flashed the util and got a stock lock. After several buil.prop edits apn edits never could get data to work. SO I found a generic carriers stock FF24 total tar package posted by Mcadder on the USC site flashed it with odin and checked the efs clear to wipe out all the USC stuff. When I came out of the flash all device information was gone and prl was gone. So then I went into ##3282## changed all the information that I had to get voice text and prl back. So I'm now rooted with no data.
I need someone who is on Cspire to go into ##3282## and give me some information so hopefully I can get data back.
Also if anyone has a default build.prop for this phone Please post. I have asked in other post but not finding to many people with a Cspire SG2 that can help.
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What specifics do you need from there. I see lots of information?
If you have this fixed already. Are you staying with the original load for this phone or did you find a ROM that works? I am wanting to flash my CSpire S2 and hope to find a jellybean load to work. I remember having trouble with the data on my S1 after flashing and went back to the original load.
Needed to close this. I got it all fixed and yes ,Using CodeName Android that was ported to USC then reported back to cspire.
need help
jasonc331 said:
Needed to close this. I got it all fixed and yes ,Using CodeName Android that was ported to USC then reported back to cspire.
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Hey, I'm suffering from the same problem. Accidentally flashed a US Cellular ROM and now i have no data.
Can you post the steps you took to fix this?
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Needed to close this. I got it all fixed and yes ,Using CodeName Android that was ported to USC then reported back to cspire.[/QUOTe
Did flashing a us cellular custom ROM to your cspire Samsung galaxy s2 do this or did you lose your data by updating the firmware through us cellular? What I am asking is if it is safe to flash a custom ROM made for a us cellular galaxy s2 to my cspire galaxy s2??
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tvaughn1 said:
jasonc331 said:
Needed to close this. I got it all fixed and yes ,Using CodeName Android that was ported to USC then reported back to cspire.[/QUOTe
Did flashing a us cellular custom ROM to your cspire Samsung galaxy s2 do this or did you lose your data by updating the firmware through us cellular? What I am asking is if it is safe to flash a custom ROM made for a us cellular galaxy s2 to my cspire galaxy s2??
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It was caused by running the easy upgrade tool from Samsung, designed for US cellular . I personally run stuff for the Epic4g posted here.Some say it is not wise to do so because they aren't exactly the same,but I have had little issue running CM10,PA,AOKP,AOSP.
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In July I went to New York and bought an Galaxy S4 i9500 and messing around with the device I corrupt the EFS folder losing my IMEI.
Since it wasn't bought on my country (Brazil) I don't have any support nor warranty so I send it to a friend who owns a service box ( octopus probably) and flashing the ROM he asked me what is the country of origin of my device, since I bought in the US and this model in particular isn't supposed to be selled there I don't know wich country it came from and can't fix my device. The back label says it was made in china but i guess every other phone in the world was made there too .
(I bought it from the Samsung stand in the 5th ave Best Buy so it is original)
No problem
In phone setting option there is baseband version and build number from there you can find out where the device is from originally manufactured.
But now I think you have flashed other firmware and that original information is gone.Corruption of efs folder can be from many ways either flashing roms or wiping full internal memory by not following appropriate methods corectly.
You could have make efs backup in first place before experimenting with the phone.
But now you can try the following methods.
Try to flash latest modem to see if it help through odin.
One other method is that you can find your country of origin by your imei no which is on the box. Just call or email Samsung customer service in your country, I did in my case and they can tell you from the imei number the country of origin.
alifarrukhsss said:
In phone setting option there is baseband version and build number from there you can find out where the device is from originally manufactured.
But now I think you have flashed other firmware and that original information is gone.Corruption of efs folder can be from many ways either flashing roms or wiping full internal memory by not following appropriate methods corectly.
You could have make efs backup in first place before experimenting with the phone.
But now you can try the following methods.
Try to flash latest modem to see if it help through odin.
One other method is that you can find your country of origin by your imei no which is on the box. Just call or email Samsung customer service in your country, I did in my case and they can tell you from the imei number the country of origin.
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But this country of origin will be that the imei says will be one if I flash the stock firmware will fix the device?
imei
Sterkriger said:
But this country of origin will be that the imei says will be one if I flash the stock firmware will fix the device?
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Ok Try to flash stock firmware and see if it helps and do tell me if you succeed.
You should be able to flash a stock firmware through ODIN and have the phone working again.
Then as mentioned above, before doing any work on the phone you should do a EFS backup, nandroid backup.
I remember with my previous phone (Galaxy Infuse) i was learning also how to root, tweak, modify the android and also "killed it". I was able to resurrect (in a manner of speak) the phone by loading the stock firmware the phone had when i first got it.
Good luck!
My friend said he repaired the device through the octopuss box and are sending me back. He couldnt upgrade to 4.3 because he didnt know the country of origin (like I said before). I call samsung to ask if they could say to me but here in Brazil the only company that really helps trough phone is Blizzard so I ended where I started. I found a website that using your serial number or IMEI can say where your device are from and I for my surprise it is indeed a chinese Galaxy S4. In Sammobile I found the CHN firmware that matched the time of fabrication (July) and probably its the stock firmware that I was looking for and one of the ones that I didnt tried to flash at the time.
The thing is now I'm too scared to try flashing this one to my mobile and ending ruining the device again and once more being forced to use my old ****ty iPhone. Any sugestions for me guys? (The device didnt arrive yet... i knew the serial and IMEI 'cause i noted down)
You don't have to flash firmware for country of origin. I'm in New Zealand and flash firmware from all over the world, the latest was UK firmware, with a modem extracted from Austrian firmware.
Just go to sammobile and make sure it's for i9500 and you'll be fine mate
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What is the serial number of your phone? You can find it by beneath the battery or in settings, about device, status.
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What is the serial number of your phone? You can find it by beneath the battery or in settings, about device, status.
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It's below the battery, next to the IMEI. It is a combination of letters and numbers and looks like this "S/N: XXXXXXXXXXX" (X= Letter/number)
Obagleyfreer said:
You don't have to flash firmware for country of origin. I'm in New Zealand and flash firmware from all over the world, the latest was UK firmware, with a modem extracted from Austrian firmware.
Just go to sammobile and make sure it's for i9500 and you'll be fine mate
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You are probably right but right now I a little afraid of flashing anything to my device since it just got home from repair.
I gonna stick with 4.2.2 a little longer
Hello All,
I am new to rooting phones and recently tried something on a galaxy S2. I had a korean version of S2 model SHW-250s which was locked. I lost my new phone so tried unlocking this myself...looked at some youtube videos some blogs and finally decided to use this method posted by someone:
1)Flash these two files using ODIN to convert the korean model into international version :
GTI9100_ext4.pit
9100XWLPW_I9100ODDLPC_I9100DDLPB_HOME.tar.md5 (stock ICS firmware for my country).
This successfully converted my phone to S2i9100.
2)Then to unlock I used a siyah kernel as posted by a developer :: Siyah-v3.2b8
This successfully installed SU and i checked using RootChecker apps that there is root access.
3)Then to unlock my phone i used GalaxSimUnlock app (did rooting as this app required root access)
This successfully unlocked my phone. I was able to call receive messages with new carrier.
I installed some more general apps used it for 5 days.
Sudddenly i started facing network issues. I was not able to make or receive calls. Strangely, I was getting data connection from network but not able to make or receive calls. I could not register on any network.
I tried running GalxSimUnlock app again and it said Unable to read NV data.Since I was naive i tried reinstalling the stock ROM and SIYAH kernel to see if it helps. It didnt.
When i researched further i came to know there's probably something wrong in the NV_data.bin file in EFS . But i hadnt taken backup of EFS previously. Now can anythng be done to restore the EFS and make the phone work? Please help me....
When i run GalaxSimUnlock app it shows everything in green except IMEI number which it blinks in red. But I am able to see a IMEI number and it doesnt look like something default. I am getting everything else MAC id, baseband version etc.
Thanks everybody...please forgive my language if not upto the mark as i am pretty naive about this stuff.
Please Review this thread [GUIDE] Recover your IMEI in 9 steps.
If you have specific question on the process, you can post this thread as well.
If that does not work and you need further help, please post in Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting
Hey Buddy....Thanks for replying....i just saw you have written you flashed the original ROM on your device again...but as I wrote I have flashed another ROM and didnt take back up of original one and cannot find the SKT korea S2 ROm for this one...Is it ok if i employ the procedure told by you without flashing original ROM...what is CSC? Is there anything else you wanna tell me before i start the process? please forgive for my ignorance Im quite new to all this...
You will have to ask on the thread I linked regarding the Rom. You will have the right experts for your device there.
CSC is sales code., you can check your ROM CSC by dialling *#1234# . First two digits represents country and last three represents release time.
ok thanks...i will post the question there
Per Suggestion from my Collegue @It_ler,
The kernel you have is older. Latest SiyahKernel for the stock JB ROM he has on his device is SiyahKernel S2-v5.0.1.
If you have questions about the kernel, then use the [KERNEL][REF][Q&A] Siyah 5.0+[ICS/CM10] 6.0b5+[JB/CM10.1] +DISCUSSION+. NON-DEV!!! (SiyahKernel discussion) thread.