Hi folks,
i'm new here so if i'm making a mess by posting here my problem, my apologies.
Here it goes, i'm from Portugal and i've got a S.G J5 model nº J500F, i didn't bought it brand new so in the first days of use i was gettin error in SIM service, so i went to a shop and explain to the guy what was happening and the guy told me it was imei issues and he could change it, at start it was everything ok the phone worked just fine, but i noticed the guy downgraded my android version from 6 to 5.1.1 and now the problems started again, when i install Facebook, Instagram and stuff like that, the phone crash and pop-ups with all kinds of errors ocurs, like Contacts As Stoped, Messages as Stoped, until i can't do anything in phone and need to wipe everything and make a clean install again.
The problem is, i want to upgrade my android version (my phone is rooted) but i don't know if i update it i will lose the changed IMEI that the guy put in there and then i'll not have SIM Service again.
Can somebody help me ? i'm noob in that stuff.
And i'm sorry for the bad english LOL
Thank U.
you can upgrade it, dont worry about imei, imei will be remain same as the guy change it
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Hi, well i rooted my vodafone 845 some time ago but i have serious problems now. At first i tried set cpu well it was fun but it like crashed and nothing helped, i didint know what to do, so i rooted it again like i did the first time i used fzf eclair 5.2 rom and then my camera did not always work, well i thought maybe it will work if i root it again. And it didint it f****d even more i followed alls the steps carefully but now the camera doesnt work at all and i cant even lock the phone it has no lock! When i rooted it i deleted the firmware backup so i dont have one now. I have only a New zealand fimrware from Huaweidevice com and i dont know how to write it in to phone. And a other problem is that i live in lithuania and i dont know if it will work fine with it. Guys please dont ignore this thread i dont know how to fix this phone i am a noob at rooting and rom writing. If somebody would help i would be really thankefull.
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i am from lithuania so i think i need lithuanian firmware. And huawei device com only has new zealand and they deleted the other country firmwares dont know why.
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its a long story but i'll try to keep it short, my mom's phone is the nexus 5, she moved to turkey, where phones bought from outside of turkey will stop working after two weeks or so (no gsm service) so she took the phone to a "repair" shop where they unlocked the phone, rooted it with some chinese custom rom, anyway the phone performance deteriorate significantly, so she gave it to me hoping i can fix it, so i installed nexus root toolkit and flashed stock android and unrooted and relocked the boot loader and set the tamper flag to zero, all is good by in the process im sure i messed up somehow and the IMEI now is set to zero, i cant receive signal on the phone (the signal statues keep switching between no service, searching, and no sim) even though it can recognize the network, i took the phone with me back to finland, and i asked LG if they can fix it, they told me they can try to reflash stock rom on it again, but no guarantee if its gonna be fixed or not, i thought in that case i might as well wait for marshmallow and see if it will fix it, i waited for the update for few days and today i decided to update it manually, i flashed the android 6.0 (Build Number : MRA58K) and still the IMEI is set to NULL, is there anyway i can get it fixed, i really appreciate your help and thank you for your time
Hi
Did you backup your EFS partition before using NRT? If not, chances are that you will have to return your device to the repair shop.
Try posting in this Q&A and check the other threads about IMEI/EFS: http://forum.xda-developers.com/google-nexus-5/help
Good luck.
Hello, First time here.
I was wondering if I could remove the root of my s3 and have a different IMEI number(not the original) and update? Is it ok? Is there going to be a problem if I did?
well, it's been a long time since my IMEI number was format or something (I don't know what happened tho, It's been a long time since I putted a sim card on it). I think maybe the cause of it because of my bro rooting it and installed something I don't know about it while I was gone and left the phone on him. So yeah, yesterday, I went to a cellphone repair shop to have it fix. Then after awhile ago, I have a different IMEI number and my phone was rooted again.
I was wondering if. Is it ok to remove the root and will the IMEI number will stay? or it will be removed?
And is it ok if I update it with a different IMEI number? is there going to be a problem with it?
Thank you in advance for those who will help. Forgive me for my english, I'm a filipino and I'm not used to speaking/typing english languages.
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Hello, First time here.
I was wondering if I could remove the root of my s3 and have a different IMEI number(not the original) and update? Is it ok? Is there going to be a problem if I did?
well, it's been a long time since my IMEI number was format or something (I don't know what happened tho, It's been a long time since I putted a sim card on it). I think maybe the cause of it because of my bro rooting it and installed something I don't know about it while I was gone and left the phone on him. So yeah, yesterday, I went to a cellphone repair shop to have it fix. Then after awhile ago, I have a different IMEI number and my phone was rooted again.
I was wondering if. Is it ok to remove the root and will the IMEI number will stay? or it will be removed?
And is it ok if I update it with a different IMEI number? is there going to be a problem with it?
Thank you in advance for those who will help. Forgive me for my english, I'm a filipino and I'm not used to speaking/typing english languages.
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Greetings,
Changing the IMEI is illegal in most countries. Therefore the discussion thereof is strictly prohibited on XDA.
Thread closed.
Note 2 LTE - suddenly sim locked again ???
hint: only read the Bold letters to make it short
ok, im allmost ready to give up this time...dont know how many of these threads i read allways to find a sullution to my problem, but it seams i finally have to ask for help myself.
Yeah, this is my first post, but ive been arround for a while, anyway this time, i need your active suggestions...
the History:
The phone: Samsung Galaxy Note2 GT-N7105 LTE ( t0lte ): initially locked to the Austrian Carrier A1, but i bought it allready unlocked.
Back then 2013 managed to flash and root via clockworkmod and wanam light rom, without triggering knox - thanks to you guys in here...chears again for that...
I hardened the system quite good and gave it to my mums - not touching it for years -or hardly, finally 2016 seamed to be time for an update. Didnt care much for the knox anymore and simply updated recovery to TWRP 3.0.2 and cyanogenmod 13.0 - 20161118-NIGHTLY ( recconed simplest Marshmallow upgrade ), installed the basics - thats it - left the phone with my mum again.
Got back few weeks later - i had realized my mum wasnt reachable on her phone anymore - figured she could still make calls herself, strangly she even would still be reachable when called via landline , but for some reason not from any cellular networks - so i went for a visit and thinking it might simply be a problem with her sim - i swaped her sim for mine - when turning the phone back on it now asked me for an SIM-unlock code...WTF!!! (and befor anybody asks my mums sim network was never A1 either)
- everything else seamed fin - imei and baseband still ok, sys stable as far as i could tell - only thing i noticed it had updated cm-13.0-20161122-NIGHTLY on its own...
Swaping SIMs didnt yeald any effet - so since that was the only thing that caught my eye i reverted back to 20161118-NIGHTLY and then back to my old wanamlight and finally even to original stock rom - problem persisted.
Searching i found 100 links like How to Unlock Your Samsung Galaxy S3 & Note 2 (No Rooting) , but no luck
Final resort, i even purchased an unlock code from UnLockBase but even that didnt work ...WTF!!!
So back to square one i found this Baseband Unknown and IMEI Null NOW WORKING | Samsung Galaxy Note II GT-N7100, N7105
But even if my imei and my baseband was ok i thought perhaps the efs migh have some taken some kind a hit - so i searched eveywhere and found my old 2013 backups: PIT-File and EFS-partition (DDed via terminal) - so i backedup the existing efs and restored the old-EFS-Backup back again - then i even used Kies to revert everything to the last bit.....but no luck....
..also UnLockBase-Code still doesnt work - (btw. the also provide an unfreez code but ...all the same ) so i rooted again and tried GalaxSIM unlock says unsupported Model....whatever!???!!!:crying:
only thing left is perhaps: buy a cheap mainboard via aliexpress and perhaps take allong the imei from the old motherboard...
but i hate giving up!!!
What do you guys think? ...any suggestions
...sorry for having to read all that...tried to help a little there
update: made a second thread in the N7100 forum part link
mcaustria said:
Note 2 LTE - suddenly sim locked again ???
hint: only read the Bold letters to make it short
ok, im allmost ready to give up this time...dont know how many of these threads i read allways to find a sullution to my problem, but it seams i finally have to ask for help myself.
Yeah, this is my first post, but ive been arround for a while, anyway this time, i need your active suggestions...
the History:
The phone: Samsung Galaxy Note2 GT-N7105 LTE ( t0lte ): initially locked to the Austrian Carrier A1, but i bought it allready unlocked.
Back then 2013 managed to flash and root via clockworkmod and wanam light rom, without triggering knox - thanks to you guys in here...chears again for that...
I hardened the system quite good and gave it to my mums - not touching it for years -or hardly, finally 2016 seamed to be time for an update. Didnt care much for the knox anymore and simply updated recovery to TWRP 3.0.2 and cyanogenmod 13.0 - 20161118-NIGHTLY ( recconed simplest Marshmallow upgrade ), installed the basics - thats it - left the phone with my mum again.
Got back few weeks later - i had realized my mum wasnt reachable on her phone anymore - figured she could still make calls herself, strangly she even would still be reachable when called via landline , but for some reason not from any cellular networks - so i went for a visit and thinking it might simply be a problem with her sim - i swaped her sim for mine - when turning the phone back on it now asked me for an SIM-unlock code...WTF!!! (and befor anybody asks my mums sim network was never A1 either)
- everything else seamed fin - imei and baseband still ok, sys stable as far as i could tell - only thing i noticed it had updated cm-13.0-20161122-NIGHTLY on its own...
Swaping SIMs didnt yeald any effet - so since that was the only thing that caught my eye i reverted back to 20161118-NIGHTLY and then back to my old wanamlight and finally even to original stock rom - problem persisted.
Searching i found 100 links like How to Unlock Your Samsung Galaxy S3 & Note 2 (No Rooting) , but no luck
Final resort, i even purchased an unlock code from UnLockBase but even that didnt work ...WTF!!!
So back to square one i found this Baseband Unknown and IMEI Null NOW WORKING | Samsung Galaxy Note II GT-N7100, N7105
But even if my imei and my baseband was ok i thought perhaps the efs migh have some taken some kind a hit - so i searched eveywhere and found my old 2013 backups: PIT-File and EFS-partition (DDed via terminal) - so i backedup the existing efs and restored the old-EFS-Backup back again - then i even used Kies to revert everything to the last bit.....but no luck....
..also UnLockBase-Code still doesnt work - (btw. the also provide an unfreez code but ...all the same ) so i rooted again and tried GalaxSIM unlock says unsupported Model....whatever!???!!!:crying:
only thing left is perhaps: buy a cheap mainboard via aliexpress and perhaps take allong the imei from the old motherboard...
but i hate giving up!!!
What do you guys think? ...any suggestions
...sorry for having to read all that...tried to help a little there
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You would probably have better luck asking this in your device specific forum as the members there are more familiar with your model and its particular issues, it wouldn't surprise me if someone in that forum hasn't already had this issue on this model.
forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-note-2/help
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yeah, thanks Droidriven for the suggestion - should have thought of that myself in the first place - put link at the end of the original post if youre interested
mcaustria said:
yeah, thanks Droidriven for the suggestion - should have thought of that myself in the first place - put link at the end of the original post if youre interested
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I've turned it over and chewed on it for a minute but with the troubleshooting that you've already done I can't for the life of me think of other steps for you to try because you've done everything I would do already plus I'm not familiar with your exact model. I'll keep it on simmer and hopefully a butterfly will land on my shoulder and bring something to mind that might help you. You've pretty much covered all the bases already.
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I'm sorry if this is in the wrong category , Im new to the XDA forums
So a few weeks ago , I decided to upgrade my S3 Gt-i9300 to android 4.3 from 4.1.2. I thought it was pretty easy , download the rom and then use Odin. Well I screwed up. I used this app called Updato , from which I downloaded the firmware. I didn't realize that I actually download the Poland version and there was something called Orange(pretty sure it was the SIM carrier ) and I ACCIDENTALLY installed it. Well it ended up with my SIM not being detected by my phone. Im pretty sure my SIM is fine its something wrong with the phone. Previously my region rom was Kenya ( although I don't live there) so then , I tried a bunch of stuff , like getting a rom of my own country , which didn't work... Tried to do a bunch of tricks with the battery and SIM . I think that my SIM might have been locked or something... but not quite sure. It was perfectly working before the update. So can anybody link me a rom or atleast help me? When ever I try to connect to a carrier through the settings , I get a small message at the bottom "Network registered" but then in notifications I get the message" No service: Selected service provider not available"
And if you link me a Rom please be 4.1.2 because my phone now lags and hangs a lot. Thank-you.
PS: Need help fast though.