I purchased a Gflex from a friend of a friend and after 4weeks the ATT phone started to boot loop. (I have Tmobile) He had mentioned he unlocked the phone but after the boot loop the phone hard restarted and i lost my 4glte options and could only call out or call in.
There was no internet options nor could i send photos or text messages nor go online to use any apps. I took it to my Tmobile store and they couldnt figure out why the phone would not pick the 4g option.
After a bit of reading I purchased a new IME number and figured I could un lock it myself. But when I reboot to choose the service provider where i unlock the phone the LG GFlex flashes a message saying its permanently locked. Seems like the phone has reached its 10 of 10 limits of unlocking the service.
This is where Im at... Do i need to Flash the phone with a fresh reboot?
is there a different way to reset the 10 of 10 entry limits?
I need a little guidance here. 1st timer.
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I have an Huawei Ascend from MetroPCS that I have rooted and updated to android 2.2. All went well for about a week until I accidentally deleted Talk, I started getting the force close for a lot of my apps and my wifi was cutting out. Today I noticed that I had zero bars and looked under phone status only to find that "My phone number" is now "Unknown". Does anyone know how to set that or do I have to go back to factory and call Metro? Also the link for the recovery package (MetroPCSStock Recovery Package with Scripts) redirects to another sight, do I have to sign up for that sight to get the recovery file? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
One other thing when I boot up my phone it has a message that reads "no UIM card Emergency calls only". Is this like a SIM card in which case Metro phone don't have those so I am probably screwed.
hey man I am having the same exact problem NO UIM card emergency calls only Please insert a UIM card I even flashed to a backup image I made liek 15 days prior to having this problem tonight and still didn't make any differnace bro I dont know wtf to do now...
Hi, a family member passed away a few months ago and I was given her phone by her sister to use if I wanted. She had the phone and charger, and thats it. I stay in the UK and the phone I use is on O2. The phone she had was the Experian L but she had her phone through a contract with virgin media.
When I initally put my sim card in and turned the phone on it said 'virgin media, this phone has been reported lost/stolen'. In order to unclock it from this security lock I needed her insurance company(through virgin) to provide me with a 4 digit pin to unlock the phone. This was very hard to get as the insurance people are different from virgin media, but after a while they agreed to give me the code if I sent a copy of her death certificate in. I did this and got the code thankfully. I was told that I wouldnt be able to use my o2 simc ard in the phone because the handset was locked on Virgin. I was told if I paid £15 I would receive the unlocking code through the post in a week or so.
I did this and got a letter through the door with the instruction on for to unlock the handset. Basically its a 16digit number that I enter and the phone become unlocked. However, after all this Ive just realised I think there is a phone lock on the phone i.e. a pin she must have set herself? I think this because when I power the phone up without a sim, all I can see is the date/time, with her name underneath, and also underneath that is a keypad. When you press any button on the keypad and hit enter it says wrong pin? That happens without a sim card so I presume it is a phone pin lock she had on her phone is that correct? If so, is there any way around this? Ideally I would like to keep whatever pictures etc are on the phone however I realise that might not be possible. Ive tried to download the sony suite however it wont allow me to use the suite because it tells me on the computer I must enter the pin on the phone to continue! bit of a nightmare to be honest.
Any help/suggestions with what I can do? Many thanks
I cant unlock through Pc Companion because Pc Companion needs the screen to be unlocked before it connects the device, and I cant do that.
factory reset
Hello, do a factory reset to the Phone, but you will loose all the information on it
Got my note back in November, rooted through odin in December. Everythings been grand and perfect.
Till I watched a video on youtube 2-3mnths ago about good rooted apps (wanted to get more daring other than xposed) loaded gsm gestures app? I think was the name. Kept it for a week, didnt use it. Uninstalled it, phone rebooted, instead of the normal "app uninstalled"
After that my phones been laggy, freezes, and freezes and turns off. Its factory wiped itself 8 times. I have countless posts on Reddit timelining everything. Long short is, tried liquid smooth to see if that would fix my problem, lost text messaging with that could only text for an hr a day, flashed stock sprint firmware and rerooted afterwards, have been slow to reload apps on phone, incase of factory reset or whatever. my phone is now taking 75+ batter pulls to get into a normal boot, every 15bat pulls it jumps into download mode "could not do normal boot ddi_mms read fail" and now an ssl text ive only seen once today, ill try and write that down if it happens again.
Finally when I get back into my phone, sometimes I have to update prl to get service again, the other day my phone lost signal and all my network settings were unselected, I had to select them all and my phone was fine, then I was on the phone and it cut me out in the middle of a call and said roaming lost or something, and I had to reapply cdma/lte on sprint.
Im beyond frustrated, im getting married in 2 weeks, and going out of country immediately after, so I need a working phone as most my business is conducted through it. I have no upgrade on sprint, and cant afford to throw out 400$ for a "new" note 4
Please please please someone help me.
Thanks for your time.
Matt
Hi,
Here's a thread on returning to stock firmware. That should give you a fresh start,
http://forum.xda-developers.com/note-4-sprint/general/stock-tar-odin-flashable-t3056478
If you want to find other options, you could ask for other ideas in your device section here,
http://forum.xda-developers.com/note-4-sprint/help?nocache=1&z=7997657528612763
Good luck!
Hey there forums.
I've been an active browser of XDA but never really created an account but I've done so to have assistance with a particular situation with my device.
So the other week, i had spent 150 dollars on a Sony Xperia XA F3115 from Vodafone, Australia and it turns out that the bootloader was locked because of Vodafone and i wasn't going to pay 50 dollars to unlock it. I alternated and browsed the internet (Mostly XDA but other sources aswell) to figure out if there were any methods of bypassing this, whether it be easy or not - I was willing to try anything that seemed like it had a chance to work, without a 100% failure rate. Reading responses to particular methods, i was drawn into one method of just reflashing the stock firmware onto the device and then rooting, flashing and doing everything from there (as the device was no longer locked by Vodafone at that point).
I have completed this task as of this morning, and the device booted successfully. As soon as i unlocked my device, i had received the general android setup window but half way through, i got spammed with "Name has stopped responding" countless times to the point where the phone was literally unusable, it would just pop up again right after closing it - So i decided to restart the device. This was probably a big mistake, it booted fine but it said "Android is updating" and had the whole "Applications updating 100 out of 255" stuff happening. Then it booted to the lock screen, which i had previously setup before i flashed the device which didn't really surprise me too much.
Then it rebooted. Now every single time i boot the device, it reboots to the "Optimizing apps blah out of blah" and then will reboot upon the notification bar popping up, but no lock screen. I decided that my best cause of action was to download another firmware and try that one instead, but I'm unable to boot my device into bootloader mode as it's impossible to happen. I turn off my device, plug it in and hold the volume down button but it refuses to work anymore.
Now that the situation has been explained, I'd really like your help to see if i can have this resolved. I'm baffled as to why Vodafone even locked it to begin with, since the phone was prepaid and had nothing to do with any sort of plans - nor was it even available as a plan. I don't have the money to buy a new phone, and they have already denied me a refund. I need this phone for work and the mistakes i made were stupid - Please, i need assistance. You're all hopefully more tech savvy than i am in the field of mobile phones.
Good evening,
Hate to bother everyone since you're all busy, however i've been trying for 2 days now to do a couple things with this new phone. This LG Aristo 2 was handed to me by a sister in law (not purchased from swappa); What we've been trying to do is have the Phone unlocked and used for T-mobile however it appears that no matter how much we try resetting the phone, booting the unlock app and being greeted with a "Unlock failed: Phone already unlocked" screen and using a different SIM. The phone will pick up the signal, turn to 'searching...' and then connect to the network again but not allow calls/data to go through, The APN settings are also correct.
So plan B is to reinstall the stock android software (kdz) from https://lg-firmwares.com/lg-lmx210ma-firmwares/; Unfortunately i'm always greeted with an error saying that it cannot complete. Unsure what else to do at this point, Any recommendations?
To clarify, the reason why I'm trying to ensure the unlock has been successful is because we plan to use for calls and data. Texting seems to work, the APNs are correct but data services and calls don't seem to go through, unsure why.
To unlock it via app, you can spend $7ish on eBay. It would take 2 days to get it unlocked.