Help! I think I have bricked/soft bricked my phone [Vodafone] - Galaxy S6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I wanted to install a custom rom and the following happened:
I rooted using pingpongroot, I then flashed TWRM on to it. Whenever I tried booting into it it'd give activation lock message... I then went into the options and tried disabling the activation lock, that failed. Afterwards I got advice to "reset my phone" doing so made it so I couldn't boot into recovery or into the OS because of the activation lock message. I'm left with ODIN. I tried flashing CWM however it would give me the activation lock error.
I'm now lost and worried I have ****ed up my £600 phone due to incompetence. Any help is appreciated, if somebody would walk me through this on Skype or something I would be more than willing to pay.
Thank you all.

I fixed it Re-installed stock rom

Casper001 said:
I wanted to install a custom rom and the following happened:
I rooted using pingpongroot, I then flashed TWRM on to it. Whenever I tried booting into it it'd give activation lock message... I then went into the options and tried disabling the activation lock, that failed. Afterwards I got advice to "reset my phone" doing so made it so I couldn't boot into recovery or into the OS because of the activation lock message. I'm left with ODIN. I tried flashing CWM however it would give me the activation lock error.
I'm now lost and worried I have ****ed up my £600 phone due to incompetence. Any help is appreciated, if somebody would walk me through this on Skype or something I would be more than willing to pay.
Thank you all.
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flash a stock rom

godutch said:
flash a stock rom
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Did that, works fine now

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[Q] installed rom and now I have NO service.

Hey guys,
No matter what I do I can't get my service to work again. All it shows at the top is a little circle with a slash through the middle. I tried installing a custom rom but ran into some problems. So I "restored" my backup through rom manager. But i don't have service anymore. Since this happend I have tried several new roms and I still can't get the service to come back.
Some people say it has something to do with the IMEI but according to my setup I still have one.
I have been working on this problem for nearly 13 hrs none stop! Please help... I have searched everywhere.
Thanks
ptiworld said:
Hey guys,
No matter what I do I can't get my service to work again. All it shows at the top is a little circle with a slash through the middle. I tried installing a custom rom but ran into some problems. So I "restored" my backup through rom manager. But i don't have service anymore. Since this happend I have tried several new roms and I still can't get the service to come back.
Some people say it has something to do with the IMEI but according to my setup I still have one.
I have been working on this problem for nearly 13 hrs none stop! Please help... I have searched everywhere.
Thanks
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If your IMEI and all that information is correct then you may have a bad sim card resulting in no service at all. Otherwise i'd recommend using odin to go back to completely 100% stock and see if that fixes it.
Neverendingxsin said:
If your IMEI and all that information is correct then you may have a bad sim card resulting in no service at all. Otherwise i'd recommend using odin to go back to completely 100% stock and see if that fixes it.
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Thank you so much for responding. I have tried to restore stock with odin but every time odin finishes my phone still boots up my existing rom. Any quick ideas with that one?
And do you really think my sim could have just gone bad like that? It's free to get a new one so maybe I will try that as a last resort.
I don't know much about rooting but could it be my radio?
A couple of questions?
Is boot loader unlocked, if so how did you unlock, updated ver 1.4 ez-unlock can mess up and relock boot loader. Use ver 1.2 . "Verizon only"
What ROM and kernel? Make sure its for your carrier.
Any radio should be OK as long as its for you phone and carrier.
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did you try reprovisioning your device with dialer code *2767*3855?
note that this does wipe internal sd so back ur **** up!
I tired the above number in dialer but always comes up with error saying "mobile network not available".
Am I doing something wrong?
Oh.... You forgot to ad a # on the end of that number. After this everything started working again!!! Thank you so much!
ptiworld said:
Oh.... You forgot to ad a # on the end of that number. After this everything started working again!!! Thank you so much!
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1954331 I had this happen last week and this is what fixed it for me.
Christian
Neverendingxsin said:
If your IMEI and all that information is correct then you may have a bad sim card resulting in no service at all. Otherwise i'd recommend using odin to go back to completely 100% stock and see if that fixes it.
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What fixes the problem. This happened to me after flashing the latest MIUI ROM on my Verizon S3.
I tried re provisioning my phone with the number sequence below but it did not work. I also used the phone info app but I'm not sure what I'm supposed to do.

[Completed] ¿Bricked? Orange Yumo/Huawei Ascend G740, need for TWRP

Hello, I received an Orange Yumo of a friend who wanted me to fix it as a favor, and for some days I have trying to fix it.
The problem is that when it boots, all the desktop appears in black and you can't execute any app. Only the top notification bar appears, and you can enable and disable wifi, bluetooth... But only that. He told me this happened when he was using as usually his smartphone, not doing anything that was prone to this error that occured. He was root.
I tried to hard reset it but it doesn't appear to fix anything. I tried to install all of the zips I found on Internet, installed CWM, installed again all of the zips and ROMs I found, but it always fails to install... It says "Installation aborted"
I found a TWRP bootloader but it failed to change bootloader, giving me a black screen when I enter recovery, maybe because it was for the Orange Daytona. I wanted to apply a backup of another Orange Yumo in TWRP I found on the Internet.
But I haven't found any TWRP for the Orange Yumo... And it's strange. Because the backup was made using this smartphone and with TWRP.
Hope guys you could guide me more, either by finding the TWRP i didn't found or guide me in another way. Thank you.
Geiser said:
Hello, I received an Orange Yumo of a friend who wanted me to fix it as a favor, and for some days I have trying to fix it.
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You cand try to ask in this thread: Orange Yumo aka Huawei Ascend G740 Rooting, General Discussion Thread
Maybe someone have a solution for this problem.
One more discussion:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2614780
PS: I do not own this phone, so i can only help you with some advanced search. :good:
Geiser said:
Hello, I received an Orange Yumo of a friend who wanted me to fix it as a favor, and for some days I have trying to fix it.
The problem is that when it boots, all the desktop appears in black and you can't execute any app. Only the top notification bar appears, and you can enable and disable wifi, bluetooth... But only that. He told me this happened when he was using as usually his smartphone, not doing anything that was prone to this error that occured. He was root.
I tried to hard reset it but it doesn't appear to fix anything. I tried to install all of the zips I found on Internet, installed CWM, installed again all of the zips and ROMs I found, but it always fails to install... It says "Installation aborted"
I found a TWRP bootloader but it failed to change bootloader, giving me a black screen when I enter recovery, maybe because it was for the Orange Daytona. I wanted to apply a backup of another Orange Yumo in TWRP I found on the Internet.
But I haven't found any TWRP for the Orange Yumo... And it's strange. Because the backup was made using this smartphone and with TWRP.
Hope guys you could guide me more, either by finding the TWRP i didn't found or guide me in another way. Thank you.
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Hey there..
As you said that on booting, you can only swipe down the notification bar and do nothing else.
Normally such problem is caused if the home launcher is deleted and the phone is left with no launcher..
One thing that you can do is , download a launcher apk.
and push it to /system using adb..
cheers..
Thank you
Thank you both, finally on the main topic I've read the 14 pages and tried every ROM. Finally one published by KainXSS worked, that contained /system. Now it's all fixed.
Maybe it was a launcher problem... But I couldn't try, I don't know but after swapping between the failed TRPW and another special edition CWM I couldn't boot. So don't know. We will never know
Thank you again!! Solved.

[Q] Cannot turn on WiFi Moto G 1st gen us retail 4.4.4.

I am unable to turn on WiFi on my moto g 1st generation US retail global GSM. I press the WiFi toggle button and it never goes to on - just switches back to off. In the WiFi settings screen, there is no information and again I am unable to switch the toggle button to on.
The phone has been unlocked, rooted and TWRP recovery installed. I am using stock android Kitkat 4.4.4. with the xposed framework and the gravity box module. I have reset to factory and re-installed some back-ups which were created before this problem started, but still I cannot turn the WiFi on even with the factory reset or with the backups installed. I have also tried a couple of those WiFi fixer apps.
My router has been tested with other devices and is working properly.
The phone is under warranty, but I live outside the US in Japan and presume it would be a hassle to return it for a replacement, so any help would be most appreciated.
Thank you.
Rascjp said:
I am unable to turn on WiFi on my moto g 1st generation US retail global GSM. I press the WiFi toggle button and it never goes to on - just switches back to off. In the WiFi settings screen, there is no information and again I am unable to switch the toggle button to on.
The phone has been unlocked, rooted and TWRP recovery installed. I am using stock android Kitkat 4.4.4. with the xposed framework and the gravity box module. I have reset to factory and re-installed some back-ups which were created before this problem started, but still I cannot turn the WiFi on even with the factory reset or with the backups installed. I have also tried a couple of those WiFi fixer apps.
My router has been tested with other devices and is working properly.
The phone is under warranty, but I live outside the US in Japan and presume it would be a hassle to return it for a replacement, so any help would be most appreciated.
Thank you.
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Hey man, since you unlocked your boot loader, your warranty is already voided :/
Try flashing the stock recovery along with a stock zip for your model...maybe this is a kernel issue...
itouchables said:
Hey man, since you unlocked your boot loader, your warranty is already voided :/
Try flashing the stock recovery along with a stock zip for your model...maybe this is a kernel issue...
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Thanks. Will give it a go. I have a feeling it's a hardware issue though.
I too have ran into this issue, and for me it was having mismatched libraries for WiFi in /system/lib for the kernel version I was running. I would try reflashing the kernel that came with the ROM you are running.
elrod16 said:
I too have ran into this issue, and for me it was having mismatched libraries for WiFi in /system/lib for the kernel version I was running. I would try reflashing the kernel that came with the ROM you are running.
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Thanks for the advice. I flashed the kernel and that has not helped. I still have the same problem.
What is the logcat output when trying to activate WiFi? I find 3C Toolbox to be a useful app for filtering logcat, it has a free version on the app market
elrod16 said:
What is the logcat output when trying to activate WiFi? I find 3C Toolbox to be a useful app for filtering logcat, it has a free version on the app market
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Thank you for the reply. I have install 3CToolbox and gone to the logs. It looks as if the error I'm getting is "Wifi Service (1076) Invoking mwifistatemachine,setwifienabled" followed by "Wifi statemachine (1076) Failed to load driver". Is there anything else I should look at?
I would say that points to the issue being with the firmware or kernel module involved. I would suggest downloading the entire stock firmware & ROM and flashing each partition in fastboot. The ROM generally only carriers the /system partition. If that still doesn't work, it's probably hardware unfortunately.
elrod16 said:
I would say that points to the issue being with the firmware or kernel module involved. I would suggest downloading the entire stock firmware & ROM and flashing each partition in fastboot. The ROM generally only carriers the /system partition. If that still doesn't work, it's probably hardware unfortunately.
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Thanks, I'll give that a go.
You should have no problem returning your phone for warranty if it does turn out to be a hardware issue (unlocked bootloader or not) if you follow this guide and re-locking your bootloader. If it's not a hardware problem then just that guide should set it straight.
Emarian said:
You should have no problem returning your phone for warranty if it does turn out to be a hardware issue (unlocked bootloader or not) if you follow this guide and re-locking your bootloader. If it's not a hardware problem then just that guide should set it straight.
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Thanks. I restored to stock and the problem persists. One error during restore was that mfastboot would not erase user data.
Now the wifi will do one of these things: Will not turn at all (as before). Connect occasionally, then stop. Turn on, freeze and refuse to connect. I guess it must be a hardware problem, unless anyone has any other ideas. Thanks for all your help.
Forgot to add that you may have to flash the default bootloader animation to get rid of the warranty voided page on boot. Can't remember if that guide resets it or not
Emarian said:
Forgot to add that you may have to flash the default bootloader animation to get rid of the warranty voided page on boot. Can't remember if that guide resets it or not
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Yes, I'll restore everything to stock and send it back. Thanks again for all your help.

D801-20G OTA Update from t-mobile..

I got this update a few days ago on my rooted Tmobile G2. Applying the update bricked my phone, as it was stuck in a recovery boot loop. Had to use this:
http://forums.androidcentral.com/ge...ricked-lg-g2-stuck-twrp-no-download-mode.html
to get it unstuck. Also, I tried the LG Support Tool to pull the update, but it was trying to download a 1.7gig update. I cancelled it before the install process in the fear that it would bork my phone.
Has anyone gotten the update to install successfully on their phone? (rooted)
I got the update but didn't run it. I learned my lesson last time. I'd love to know what it brings and how to install it though.
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sidog said:
I got this update a few days ago on my rooted Tmobile G2. Applying the update bricked my phone, as it was stuck in a recovery boot loop. Had to use this:
http://forums.androidcentral.com/ge...ricked-lg-g2-stuck-twrp-no-download-mode.html
to get it unstuck. Also, I tried the LG Support Tool to pull the update, but it was trying to download a 1.7gig update. I cancelled it before the install process in the fear that it would bork my phone.
Has anyone gotten the update to install successfully on their phone? (rooted)
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I'm there but can't figure out how to type in terminal command, can you help me out with this? I'm stuck in the recovery boot loop.
*EDIT* nevermind I figured it out after a factory reset though UGH!
I also got the update notification. I deleted 213MB upgrade file in cashe. It was in the root of cashe folder not in /cashe/foa/. I still get the stupid upgrade notification. How can we kill it? I have Titanium backup but software MUC is not an option on our phones.
OK found how to turn it off. Long press the update, App Info pops up, uncheck show notifications. Clear cashe and then reboot.
You can use stomproot (brute force method) to root this OTA. towelroot won't work. Before applying OTA, make sure custom recovery is replaced with stock recovery. Otherwise you will end up in boot loop.
sam298 said:
You can use stomproot (brute force method) to root this OTA. towelroot won't work. Before applying OTA, make sure custom recovery is replaced with stock recovery. Otherwise you will end up in boot loop.
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Can confirm this works...thanks...autorec still works as well
If I have not installed a custom recovery, but just rooted the phone with AutoRec, will it soft brick my phone? Since I don't have TWRP or CWM, I would have no way to enter adb shell. So, it sounds like if I soft brick it, I'd have to restore factory settings to get it to boot, right? Are there any significant improvements to the 20g versus the 20e? Thanks.
I got this this morning and installed it...no issues whatsoever. Not sure what its for, but I got it.
Im stock unrooted.
I ended up going with the LG support tool method and installed the update (1.7gigs)...not really sure what the changed though. Root was lost, but I used Stump Root to get it back and everything is normal again. If anyone has the list of changes, plz post
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I also got the update notification. I deleted 213MB upgrade file in cashe. It was in the root of cashe folder not in /cashe/foa/. I still get the stupid upgrade notification. How can we kill it? I have Titanium backup but software MUC is not an option on our phones.
OK found how to turn it off. Long press the update, App Info pops up, uncheck show notifications. Clear cashe and then reboot.
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Where exactly do I "long press the update? I deleted the update file from cache but can't find this App Info popup menu. Is it within the file explorer or the settings menu?
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As long as you deleted the update you can safely press the install button...it may or may not actually power off...but if it doesn't just reboot after pressing and the notification will be gone...also to prevent it from downloading in the future you can dial 3845#*80X# and click wlan test then ota setting and click disable...you can re-enable by going through the same process and pressing enable...works for most variants
Mine tried to update: it rebooted, said it was installing while showing a progress bar and then it stopped and restarted. Nothing changed.
Does anyone know what this update is? Preliminary to the lollipop update?
Any idea why my nearly stock system didn't take the update. I am rooted with towel root and several apps disabled and frozen with Titanium.
Thanks
Gilon
you press and hold on the update in the notification bar and app info will popup.
nolig2278 said:
Mine tried to update: it rebooted, said it was installing while showing a progress bar and then it stopped and restarted. Nothing changed.
Does anyone know what this update is? Preliminary to the lollipop update?
Any idea why my nearly stock system didn't take the update. I am rooted with towel root and several apps disabled and frozen with Titanium.
Thanks
Gilon
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Same here, just rooted, no custom recovery and went through the update process. Completed update, still on e not upgraded to g
Plugged into LG Mobile Support Tool and updated that way, ran STUMPROOT and bruteforced. Rebooted and had root ^_^ Updated SuperSU binaries and rebooted once more and ran AutoRec. Now time to update everything again and remove the bloat they put back on.
Also to find the dialer code to update touch software, knock on isn't working. :silly:
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nolig2278 said:
Mine tried to update: it rebooted, said it was installing while showing a progress bar and then it stopped and restarted. Nothing changed.
Does anyone know what this update is? Preliminary to the lollipop update?
Any idea why my nearly stock system didn't take the update. I am rooted with towel root and several apps disabled and frozen with Titanium.
Thanks
Gilon
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From what I saw on androidpolice it includes in-flight wifi stuff and some patches. Probably blocking some of the older rooting methods
Took the update last night, i was rooted with stock recovery but it went through just fine. Now when i try to root via StumpRoot it says my device is rooted before i even do anything. I don't have root access though.
Anyone else experience this problem? I've already tried a factory reset but still no-go.
this "update" seems absolutely useless. however, it could be nice to get a flashable radio from it.
mannequin said:
this "update" seems absolutely useless. however, it could be nice to get a flashable radio from it.
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No change in radio...still same version
FIX
snowlin said:
Took the update last night, i was rooted with stock recovery but it went through just fine. Now when i try to root via StumpRoot it says my device is rooted before i even do anything. I don't have root access though.
Anyone else experience this problem? I've already tried a factory reset but still no-go.
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I had the same issues and figured it out!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/lg-g2/help/fix-trouble-putting-download-mode-t2979318
when i am trying to do that its says ( NO UPGRADE ITEMS TO FIX ) any idea guys.............

Oneplus one acting weird

My opo fell in water so its screen was not working. My father gave it to a mobile repair shop who repaired it for 4k. When he checked the phone everything seemed alright.He was able to call me etc etc. Then he couriered me the phone. When I got It... It had cos13 latest version. I checked everything except calling. Then I rooted my phone. Flashed oreo. I inserted my sim. It was able to detect that it was an idea sim and import contacts from it but it showed no service. I thought it was the rom. I flashed Tugapower N49. Same problem. So I thought restoring it to stock might solve the problem. Used oneplus one recovery tool to restore it to 4.4 . Still the same problem. It can detect the sim but can not catch any signal. I check my Imei number. Its still there. But I was not able to run the ping test. Then I thought of using this phone for checking roms only and use my Lumia(I hate Lumia) for calling. Rooted it again. Flashed oreo. Flashed its gapps. It show installation complete but its stuck there...... Waited for half an hour. Forced restart. oreo opened but It was nt factory reset although I had wiped it and it shut down after some time. after that my phone reached the android screen only and cant proceed further. I thought maybe force closing my phone during gapps installation did this. Tried to install tuga power.. error executing update binary. Had one more nougat rom. Installed it. Again it didn't show that starting google screen which u see when ever u open a new phone. Basically It was again not factory reset, Wiped everything except system. still this happened. Returned back to stock using recovery tool. Now I tried to install multirom so that I can install the oreo rom. after rooting multirom wasn't able to download anything. Downloaded it manualy. Flashed multirom twrp using fastboot. opened recovery . Not working. phone rebooting. Flashed the previous recovery which I was using before multirom one, That one is working properly!!! What is wrong with my phone???!!!!!
Ritvikx1998 said:
My opo fell in water so its screen was not working. My father gave it to a mobile repair shop who repaired it for 4k. When he checked the phone everything seemed alright.He was able to call me etc etc. Then he couriered me the phone. When I got It... It had cos13 latest version. I checked everything except calling. Then I rooted my phone. Flashed oreo. I inserted my sim. It was able to detect that it was an idea sim and import contacts from it but it showed no service. I thought it was the rom. I flashed Tugapower N49. Same problem. So I thought restoring it to stock might solve the problem. Used oneplus one recovery tool to restore it to 4.4 . Still the same problem. It can detect the sim but can not catch any signal. I check my Imei number. Its still there. But I was not able to run the ping test. Then I thought of using this phone for checking roms only and use my Lumia(I hate Lumia) for calling. Rooted it again. Flashed oreo. Flashed its gapps. It show installation complete but its stuck there...... Waited for half an hour. Forced restart. oreo opened but It was nt factory reset although I had wiped it and it shut down after some time. after that my phone reached the android screen only and cant proceed further. I thought maybe force closing my phone during gapps installation did this. Tried to install tuga power.. error executing update binary. Had one more nougat rom. Installed it. Again it didn't show that starting google screen which u see when ever u open a new phone. Basically It was again not factory reset, Wiped everything except system. still this happened. Returned back to stock using recovery tool. Now I tried to install multirom so that I can install the oreo rom. after rooting multirom wasn't able to download anything. Downloaded it manualy. Flashed multirom twrp using fastboot. opened recovery . Not working. phone rebooting. Flashed the previous recovery which I was using before multirom one, That one is working properly!!! What is wrong with my phone???!!!!!
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I understand the frustation,but two threads on same topic gonna make any good?
From what I can see,you basically messed up.
You need this:https://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-one/general/guide-return-opo-to-100-stock-t2826541
Mr.Ak said:
I understand the frustation,but two threads on same topic gonna make any good?
From what I can see,you basically messed up.
You need this:https://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-one/general/guide-return-opo-to-100-stock-t2826541
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Thanks.. it worked..my still the Sim problem persists. My
Imei number is still there.. whenever i insert my idea sim it recognizes it but shows no service. I can import contact from sims. If i goto mobile networks and search for connection it displays error.I tried changing apn too. Also running the ping test displayed error.
Ritvikx1998 said:
Thanks.. it worked..my still the Sim problem persists. My
Imei number is still there.. whenever i insert my idea sim it recognizes it but shows no service. I can import contact from sims. If i goto mobile networks and search for connection it displays error.I tried changing apn too. Also running the ping test displayed error.
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What does it say in baseband in about phone?
Mr.Ak said:
What does it say in baseband in about phone?
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Screenshot
Ritvikx1998 said:
Screenshot
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Okay,so both baseband and imei are there and still network doesn't work.Did you try using carriers other than idea?
Mr.Ak said:
I understand the frustation,but two threads on same topic gonna make any good?
From what I can see,you basically messed up.
You need this:https://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-one/general/guide-return-opo-to-100-stock-t2826541
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Mr.Ak said:
Okay,so both baseband and imei are there and still network doesn't work.Did you try using carriers other than idea?
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Yeah
Ritvikx1998 said:
Yeah
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It must be something with the hardware then.You've to disassemble your device and check if network antenna's broken.Follow the tutorial on YouTube.

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