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[Q] not getting service

Hello all.... just got my one s a few days ago
was running energy for a while
i went to axiom played for a little while and tried out trick droid 6.1.0
wasn't getting service so i went back to axiom
no service or signal there either
went back to energy... still no service
I used the stock T-Mobile boot.IMG file in the threads
Using the stock kernal as well
tried removing the sim card and putting it back in, still no luck
any ideas? I'm stuck using my one x without data
Thanks in advance!

Wipe data, wipe cache, wipe dalvik. Reinstall Rom. Fastboot flash boot.boot.IMG and fasboot erase cache. See what happens. Can explain later, on my phone now. Pm if you have questions.
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Since I assume you're rocking T-Mobile, try this: Wipe everything as mentioned above and pick a ROM that you want. After a full wipe, flash the ROM of your choice, then flash the latest T-Mobile radio zip, which can be found HERE. Get the radio version from the T-Mo US update: 1.84.... I HIGHLY suggest you use TWRP's recovery as you do NOT have to flash any boot.img's from fastboot. You can also just straight flash the radio zip from TWRP as well.
If after this you still have nothing (unlikely), go to Settings>More>Wireless settings>APNs (access point names) and tell me what shows up there. We will work from here.

Oh CSP...how I love you. I wanted to see if it worked without a radio flash just to see. At OP, what he posted is definitely a good way to go. If you're not using TWRP and are using CWM, flash radio and you'll have to fastboot the boot IMG.
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thanks for the quick reply guys
i tried what you guys said twice, still no luck
using twrp... go into network settings and in access point names,
i see tmobile data and tmobile mms
i locked the bootloader and flashed the official ruu to take it back to stock, but still no luck
thanks again

Well, you have all the APNs you need... Next bet is to go to T-Mo and see if they can give you a new SIM card. My old Nexus One killed 2 SIMs in its day.

Went to tmobile today, did a sim swap and still no luck

Next step, get a warranty replacement. If flashing the ruu didn't work, and a brand new sim didn't work. Nothing really it can be besides hardware.
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xxquicksh0txx said:
Next step, get a warranty replacement. If flashing the ruu didn't work, and a brand new sim didn't work. Nothing really it can be besides hardware.
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would i contact htc or tmobile? how would i go about doing this, because it was rooted and everything and now its back to stock

[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] IMEI question

Okay So my phones IMEI has been a bunch of 0's since maybe january of this year. I had a efs backup on my computer but someone wiped it and now i dont have that folder anymore to restore it. Ive tried a few one clicks and nothing fixed it..but my question is, can having a bad IMEI have a negative effect on my phome? What are the problems to this? And just so you all know, my phone has been running fine since the number became corrupted. I dont have any of the bad symptoms that everyone else gets.
Keep in mind, im not trying to fix it(i have lost all hope for that Lol) I just want to know what can happen because of a corrupted IMEI. Thanks In advance.

You can't receive or send data to your carrier and that is all.
Once your phone has lost its IMEI it's as good as a iPod Touch.

What do you mean data to my carrier? i wouldnt say its as good as an iPod touch since i can still make calls, text and have data. The only thing i have noticed is that when i log into my tmobile account, it doesnt show what kind of phone i have. But thats all.
Thanks for the quick reply btw.

Well the only way to get back imei to normal is to restore thru 1-click heimdall or whatever method you use to go back to stock.

I know, I've tried plenty of one clicks and none of them restored it. So I gave up on trying to restore it a long time ago. But the phone itself is working perfectly normal.

Check under /sdcard/aroma and see if there's an efs backup in there. If you installed any roms that used my aroma installer there's a good chance your efs partition got backed up.

I also noticed that yesterday before I fixed my imei with my efs backup I couldnt access voicemail at all. Ate you having that same problem?
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I don't even have an aroma folder on my SD card FB lol. But thanks for the suggestion.
And actually, I can still access my voicemail.
Well, i guess im just lucky that everything still works even with a screwed imei number.

dont mean to jack this thread but fb im having the same problem i have the aroma back up how do i restore the efs back up

dragon5944 said:
dont mean to jack this thread but fb im having the same problem i have the aroma back up how do i restore the efs back up
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I'll need to post instructions soon or post a restore zip for you guys. Are you on ICS? It might be easier to try a one click back to gingerbread and to reflash your ICS rom.
Don't expect me to make the zip but maybe a savvy user can give you instructions on restoring the backup using adb.
Basically what you'll need to do if the one click to gb and reflash to ICS doesn't work is:
Flash to gb
Reboot to recovery
Mount /efs
Untar the efs backup into /efs
Reboot and test voice, data, imei
I'd give you specific commands but I'm not at home

ok thanks i dont like the one clicks. when i use them to go back to gb my imei is unknown but when i use your gb starter pack and flash a gb rom it works great so i think ill stick with gb

th3controller said:
You can't receive or send data to your carrier and that is all.
Once your phone has lost its IMEI it's as good as a iPod Touch.
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That is not correct. I got screwed over on an eBay buy, the phone was blacklisted by T-Mobile. I've been running on a null IMEI for months with no problems. Edge, 3G, HSDPA, phone calls, texts: no issues.

USSENTERNCC1701E said:
That is not correct. I got screwed over on an eBay buy, the phone was blacklisted by T-Mobile. I've been running on a null IMEI for months with no problems. Edge, 3G, HSDPA, phone calls, texts: no issues.
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Lol thanks for correcting me, as far as I know you can't do stuff with the carrier, but I have no clear evidence of that. But if its working fine for you then I feel bad for other people who has no IMEI and can't do stuff.

th3controller said:
Lol thanks for correcting me, as far as I know you can't do stuff with the carrier, but I have no clear evidence of that. But if its working fine for you then I feel bad for other people who has no IMEI and can't do stuff.
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Huh, I wonder if it is related to the towers in their area, I've heard also of a person with an SGSIII running on T-Mobile with null IMEI. I have not been able to connect to AT&T, although I was able to connect to them with the original IMEI.

Out of ideas...

Any help here would be appreciated.
I got the s iii sunday. flashed this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1974114 to get unlocked bootloader, root, and twrp. no problem. stock with root. I tried CM10.1. things got interesting. I lost my data. roaming.
things I did to try to fix it.
factory reset
restore backup in twrp i made
flash the factory image
now im starting to get worried. read a bit about the modem, imei and the like. used the tool here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1867442 - still nothing. repaired ERL and IMEI but still no data. i downgraded the modem and tried again. no luck. is there any where to go from here? any input would be helpful.

Abe21599 said:
Any help here would be appreciated.
I got the s iii sunday. flashed this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1974114 to get unlocked bootloader, root, and twrp. no problem. stock with root. I tried CM10.1. things got interesting. I lost my data. roaming.
things I did to try to fix it.
factory reset
restore backup in twrp i made
flash the factory image
now im starting to get worried. read a bit about the modem, imei and the like. used the tool here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1867442 - still nothing. repaired ERL and IMEI but still no data. i downgraded the modem and tried again. no luck. is there any where to go from here? any input would be helpful.
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You just take a breath. OK? I was there with old miui. I had the roaming triangle. I've been doing this for a few years or so and never had this happen. I got new sim ...boom problem solved. Yes I did EVERYTHING..lol
Edit. First Odin back to stock. But that didn't work for me either but worth a shot. You tried a factory data reset from stock backup too? If that doesn't work. Its your sim card is fried. When you call out do you get the credit card option to make call? If so just get new sim. Then stick it in and it will re sign
No worries bro
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First off wrong forum this is for development not data issues.
If you read the CM 10.1 thread things that worked was flashing an unofficial CM10.1 build which you can find on rootzwiki or try using odin to revert back to stock touchwiz.
Also try going through the setup wizard on stock touchwiz rom after you go through it the first time.

Droid2drummer said:
You just take a breath. OK? I was there with old miui. I had the roaming triangle. I've been doing this for a few years or so and never had this happen. I got new sim ...boom problem solved. Yes I did EVERYTHING..lol
Edit. First Odin back to stock. But that didn't work for me either but worth a shot. You tried a factory data reset from stock backup too? If that doesn't work. Its your sim card is fried. When you call out do you get the credit card option to make call? If so just get new sim. Then stick it in and it will re sign
No worries bro
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Thanks for the input. Unfortunately, it's not the SIM, as I'm using that in the nexus as we speak.
fr8cture said:
First off wrong forum this is for development not data issues.
If you read the CM 10.1 thread things that worked was flashing an unofficial CM10.1 build which you can find on rootzwiki or try using odin to revert back to stock touchwiz.
Also try going through the setup wizard on stock touchwiz rom after you go through it the first time.
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I'll give those a shot. I thought I've tried everything suggested so I wanted to see what I missed. Thanks.
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Abe21599 said:
Thanks for the input. Unfortunately, it's not the SIM, as I'm using that in the nexus as we speak.
I'll give those a shot. I thought I've tried everything suggested so I wanted to see what I missed. Thanks.
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I had a time where i thought i lost my IMEI but i ran the setup wizard a second time and it activated.

I have an idea...
Nah, I'll save it.
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1ManWolfePack said:
I have an idea...
Nah, I'll save it.
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I knew someone was going to use that line! I was just waiting for it. Thank you very much Wolfe. I can go to bed now. Lol

First, check if your imei is intact. If so just odin back to ics stock, and to reprovision code, notw that it will delete your internal sdcard and I think extcard also. The code is *2767*3855#
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Please read forum rules before posting
Questions go in Q&A
Development is for developers to post release threads!
Thread moved

Last version of CM 10.1 has no data. Read their forum. It is in the first post on page one.
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Thanks all that provided input. i went to an ics build, flashed bootloader and the stock image, reprogrammed the imei, and did a factory format. Turned on and had data.

[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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