Hi u just bought an lg g3 and it was rooted and is missing a lot of it's stock lg apps . I want to flash it back to its factory stock firmware. I just have a question though. The phone is a sprint phone that is unlocked , will flashing it back to its original firmware make it a Sprint locked phone again ?
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Thanks for writing to us at XDA Assist. No, returning a phone to its original firmware doesn't usually affect the SIM locked/unlocked state of the device.
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Hi there,
I've got a Samsung Galasy S2 factory unlocked that came shipped with GB 2.3.4. My question is, having bought that phone sim unlocked, can I flash any firmware available for that phone present in samfirmware? I'm fed up of waiting to get the official upgrade through kies, which is taking too long for spanish phones.
My main fears comes from flashing the phone with a non-free-sim firmware. Am I obbey to use, for flashing my phone, any Open Europe firmware if I want to keep having my phone sim unlocked? or could I in contrary flash it with any european firmware?
Thanks for your support.
Hi all. My S4 was rooted on Kitkat, and I ran a software called "Dr. Fone" from Wondershare to retrieve some lost messages. The software attempted to root/unroot and seemed to have messed up my root. I tried re-rooting and while Odin said "Pass!" the phone was stuck at the Samsung logo on boot. Clearing the cache and wipe data from recovery mode did did not resolve.
I looked on Sammobile for my country and found a "jellybean" firmware and used Odin to install. It came up fine but it appears locked to one of the carriers in my country. I use this phone when I travel and would like to have it unbranded again. Is my phone screwed? I see an unbranded firmware for Russia, but reading the instructions said to make sure your phone is unlocked, but now it seems locked to a carrier with the rom I installed. Is there anyway to get out of this situation and get back unbranded. I am afraid to try the russia rom and dig myself in a deeper hole.
Any help will be appreciated.
Thanks,
Zmantaz669
Hi, thank you for using XDA Assist. Once a phone in unlocked it will remain unlocked. Can you change your APN? Branded firmware can disallow this function. If not I would flash the unbranded firmware and then change the APN to your carriers.
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Hi i have an lg g3 d852 with stock firmware. My issue is that when i removed the back off the phone it says d850 not d852 and on top it says b2_us0106 does this mean that my phone was previously a at&t phone but costco (the place where i bought my phone from) just took an at&t and flashed the rogers firmware onto it.
Sorry if my my issue is not that clear this is my first thread on xda
Xx_hasouna_xX said:
Hi i have an lg g3 d852 with stock firmware. My issue is that when i removed the back off the phone it says d850 not d852 and on top it says b2_us0106 does this mean that my phone was previously a at&t phone but costco (the place where i bought my phone from) just took an at&t and flashed the rogers firmware onto it.
Sorry if my my issue is not that clear this is my first thread on xda
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You'll find better answers by asking here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/lg-g3/help/sony-lg-g3-help-thread-t3164516
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Guys, I need your help I bought a second hand LG G Pro 2 (F350S) it came with custom rom. I decided to restore it to stock and apparently I got greeted that the phone was reported stolen and in locked mode. Is there a way to bypass this and enable adb debug and install a custom rom so I can restore back it to using custom rom. By the way, I am from the Philippines so returning this to the original owner or contacting SK Telecom is out of the question. I already sent an email to SKT if they can remove it from the black listings.
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zyper95 said:
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Guys, I need your help I bought a second hand LG G Pro 2 (F350S) it came with custom rom. I decided to restore it to stock and apparently I got greeted that the phone was reported stolen and in locked mode. Is there a way to bypass this and enable adb debug and install a custom rom so I can restore back it to using custom rom. By the way, I am from the Philippines so returning this to the original owner or contacting SK Telecom is out of the question. I already sent an email to SKT if they can remove it from the black listings.
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Nevermind I was able to bring it to the repair shop and have it bypass the cry face error, only if Tungkick was able to update a very useful tool to support this model.
Hello.
I have a Galaxy S7 that I got about 5 weeks ago. I paid to have it in the box but the person got a secondhand one. I am in West Africa but someway somehow I got a Verizon one that is unlocked for any carrier. Anyway I checked and some functions were not working. Private mode is not working, there's no software update option anywhere (I checked developer mode) and some features I've seen on YouTube are not even on the phone. I'm stuck on Android 6 and can't update so I made up my mind to flash a custom ROM but turns out Verizon's bootloader is locked which will make such a task impossible. Some days ago though, I found out that official Verizon ROMs can be flashed without unlocking the bootloader and this raised some questions which I want to ask here.
Here's the info at the about phone page
MODEL NUMBER - SM-G930V (there's Verizon on the back of the phone so I think this is true)
ANDROID VERSION - 6.0.1
BASEBAND VERSION - G930VVRU4API3
BUILD NUMBER - MMB29M.G930VVRU4API3
1. Can I really flash a stock Verizon ROM for the Galaxy S7 without bricking my phone and with a locked bootloader?
2. If I were to flash a stock Verizon ROM will the phone be locked to Verizon again? I'm asking this because this is the only phone I have and I'm supposed to use this for 2 years!
3. Should I flash the same baseband version or will another Verizon one work?
4. If all the above questions are true, where can I get official Verizon stock ROM for my device?
If you have any questions for me please let me know.
Thanks
TheMannyzaur said:
Hello.
I have a Galaxy S7 that I got about 5 weeks ago. I paid to have it in the box but the person got a secondhand one. I am in West Africa but someway somehow I got a Verizon one that is unlocked for any carrier. Anyway I checked and some functions were not working. Private mode is not working, there's no software update option anywhere (I checked developer mode) and some features I've seen on YouTube are not even on the phone. I'm stuck on Android 6 and can't update so I made up my mind to flash a custom ROM but turns out Verizon's bootloader is locked which will make such a task impossible. Some days ago though, I found out that official Verizon ROMs can be flashed without unlocking the bootloader and this raised some questions which I want to ask here.
Here's the info at the about phone page
MODEL NUMBER - SM-G930V (there's Verizon on the back of the phone so I think this is true)
ANDROID VERSION - 6.0.1
BASEBAND VERSION - G930VVRU4API3
BUILD NUMBER - MMB29M.G930VVRU4API3
1. Can I really flash a stock Verizon ROM for the Galaxy S7 without bricking my phone and with a locked bootloader?
2. If I were to flash a stock Verizon ROM will the phone be locked to Verizon again? I'm asking this because this is the only phone I have and I'm supposed to use this for 2 years!
3. Should I flash the same baseband version or will another Verizon one work?
4. If all the above questions are true, where can I get official Verizon stock ROM for my device?
If you have any questions for me please let me know.
Thanks
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Yes, you can flash Verizon stock firmware without issues, as long as you are not trying to flash an older Verizon stock firmware than the version you already have. In other words, you can upgrade, but you can't downgrade.
As for flashing a west African firmware, Nn, Verizon devices have a locked bootloader, the locked bootloader will not allow you flash anything except Verizon stock firmware. Attempting to flash anything from another region or from a different device will only result in a soft-bricked or hard-bricked device. You can only flash the Verizon stock firmware for your specific model number.
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Droidriven said:
Yes, you can flash Verizon stock firmware without issues, as long as you are not trying to flash an older Verizon stock firmware than the version you already have. In other words, you can upgrade, but you can't downgrade.
As for flashing a west African firmware, Nn, Verizon devices have a locked bootloader, the locked bootloader will not allow you flash anything except Verizon stock firmware. Attempting to flash anything from another region or from a different device will only result in a soft-bricked or hard-bricked device. You can only flash the Verizon stock firmware for your specific model number.
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Hi! Thanks for replying! So where can I get a Verizon stock firmware that is an upgrade of mine and what region should I download from? Also which version of ODIN should I use?
Thank you very much!