Good morning everyone!
I'd really like to know why installing a custom rom can delete or modify the EFS folder ....
And also why the IMEI of the device is stored in it.
What developers are doing to make it happen???
I did not backup this folder and even if he had done believe it would do.
The folder can not be deleted, nor overwritten ......
I always thought that the IMEI was written on a chip can only be read and not written.
Look my search results about IMEI here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/search.php?searchid=222446237
And here too:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/search.php?searchid=222446965
This is absurd!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I lost my S3 last week and would like someone to explain to me why this happens .....
Can anyone help me???
I know that many people will read this post looking for a solution to the same problem, but I can not help.
I hope the answer of "developers".
And I hope to see here "indie" and also the "Kryten2k35"
:crying::crying::crying::crying::crying:
Read the stickies/RTFM.
Why is hard to say because all this text contains no specific details. Best answer, read the imei / efs thread in general > sticky roll-up thread
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my sister flashed a rom on her i9300 and didn't backup the efs folder. and left me with the mess.
i flashed a stock 4.0.4 rom on it but the imei is still 0049....
i tried to fix it on windows xp and w7.
there are a lot of solutions out there but none of them worked for me.
so far i tried:
1) Ariza patch
2) i created a text document using sgs3 nv item generator to use with the different recommended software.
for this to work i had to connect my s3 as a usb com port but that didn't really work because the *#7284# dial command did nothing. i used the SManager to run a script that is supposed to do the same thing. the phone did show up in the device manager, but as a samsung mobile usb modem. using USBDeview i saw that it was listed as port COM9 (COM18 on XP), and most of the guides out there show the connection as COM1.
maybe as a result the following programs that were recommended to change the nv items did not work. maybe it was for different reasons:
-Maui META 3g V6 - could not connect to phone. it only offered to connect to COM8 which was also listed as samsung mobile usb modem but was shown in USBDeview as inactive whereas the COM9 was active.
-NV items reader/writer - i picked the samsung mobile usb modem port (COM18) and connected to it, but once i tried to read or write the program would reply "failed... phone does not answer"
-CdmaDevTerm v.2 - couldn't understand how to work it and found no guides. i fiddles around trying to write an IMEI # but it kept getting stuck.
-cdma workshop 2.7 - managed to connect to the port but when i clicked the read button it replied "failed... phone does not answer" and i didn't get the phone's info. it still gave me this information:
first nv item:0
last nv item: 3994
-qpst - i couldn't even pick the port i wanted. only COM1, which was no help.
anyone has an idea what i did wrong?
thanks,
shahar.
Look at the imei thread in general > sticky roll-up. Please don't post duplicate threads. 10 times a day this is posted.
Ariza patch isn't even ANYTHING to do with this. Suggest you stop and read before you brick your device with multiple solutions.
Qpst - not for this phone
Cdma - not this phone
Imei can be fixed in mobile phone shop for £20. Please read the existing thread.
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thanks. i did try to read as much as i could before asking.
i read the imei thread, though i didn't understand a lot.
are you sure qpst doesn't work? this guy gave me the wrong impression then - {www} youtube(dot)com/watch?v=_d2Nsb23ycw[/url]
so no help here, huh?...
rootSU said:
Look at the imei thread in general > sticky roll-up. Please don't post duplicate threads. 10 times a day this is posted.
Ariza patch isn't even ANYTHING to do with this. Suggest you stop and read before you brick your device with multiple solutions.
Qpst - not for this phone
Cdma - not this phone
Imei can be fixed in mobile phone shop for £20. Please read the existing thread.
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Qpst is not for the i9300. It doesn't have anything qualcomm related inside. There are many other versions of the s3 that do. Just not ours.
Flash latest rom mg4 or later to ensure you can read efs v2. If that fails send for repair. These are not new answers. Reading is understanding. Following videos on youtube is blindly jumping off a cliff. Read the sticky threads (as I suggest) and if you don't understand anything in a particular thread ASK in that thread.
All the answers are in that thread. There are no other answers. Read. Learn. Understand. Stay away from YouTube. This is my advice to you
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thanks for the advice
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Qpst is not for the i9300. It doesn't have anything qualcomm related inside. There are many other versions of the s3 that do. Just not ours.
Flash latest rom mg4 or later to ensure you can read efs v2. If that fails send for repair. These are not new answers. Reading is understanding. Following videos on youtube is blindly jumping off a cliff. Read the sticky threads (as I suggest) and if you don't understand anything in a particular thread ASK in that thread.
All the answers are in that thread. There are no other answers. Read. Learn. Understand. Stay away from YouTube. This is my advice to you
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No problem. Just to be clear, never follow advice for other models of the s3. Only specifically the i9300. All the other models are completely different and advice from those phones may brick yours
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i have galaxy S3 ... i upgraded it from 4.1.2 to 4.2.2 jellybean I9300XXUFME3_I9300OJKFME1_ILO .... everything went good until i tried to make calls ..... (( not registered on network )) problem appeared ...
please any help ....
and what about modem_XXDME4 ? is this fix it ?
thank you
livefree159 said:
i have galaxy S3 ... i upgraded it from 4.1.2 to 4.2.2 jellybean I9300XXUFME3_I9300OJKFME1_ILO .... everything went good until i tried to make calls ..... (( not registered on network )) problem appeared ...
please any help ....
and what about modem_XXDME4 ? is this fix it ?
thank you
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Go to general forum, stickies. Read about 'EFS know this stuff.'
Hi,
We have a sticky thread all about IMEI / EFS issues. This is because if you do a search here now, you'll find literally hundreds of threads all about the same thing.
Please go to:
general > Sticky roll-up thread > "IMEI / EFS - Know this stuff"
... have a read. If you have further questions, please feel free to ask them in that thread. We set it up to try and keep the forum tidy.
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Please use the search tool before creating a new thread. Posting a thread on a topic that has been covered over and over is troll heaven. You will get eaten alive out here for such a thing.
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Good morning friends xda this day so I would ask URGENT help with a SG-i9300 S3 recently I have the phone and it was all fancy and was even Staba root a stock rom and root ps had my programs including root browser and then last night I got to make a copy of my efs folder and ps I saw that I could not because then there m failure insisted he left after me any minute network logo appeared locked and as I gave you * # 06 # and I get imei NULL / NULL baseband unknown then I get in because I read in several forums where flash was saying that making him with the original firm then I would stay again via odin intale I9300UBEMH2_I9300UVOEMH1_ARO and followed the same ... please help you? and look in the forums and had one of how to retrieve the IMEI in 9 steps and did not work l'm really desperate and scared ..:crying::crying:
please help meeee
Hi,
We have a sticky thread all about IMEI / EFS issues. This is because if you do a search here now, you'll find literally hundreds of threads all about the same thing.
Please go to:
general > Sticky roll-up thread > "IMEI / EFS - Know this stuff"
... have a read. If you have further questions, please feel free to ask them in that thread. We set it up to try and keep the forum tidy.
Thanks
Ps please be careful where you post questions. They should go in q&a. General is not for questions
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So, it seems that I have completely wiped my OS from the phone. And now i'm not able to really do anything. Wondering if you guys could lead me to a link where I can download the stock OS or something like that. Just so i'd be able to use it again because right now it's not doing anything. I was trying to install cyanogenmod and than I messed up along the way and didn't have a backup, although I thought I had made one. I really need to know if I've permanently screwed my phone because I don't have a lot of money to buy a new one.
Sammobile.com
Please read general > sticky roll-up thread > understanding the basics before rooting
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I there all, my imei changed for another one during the upgrade proccess from 4.1.2 to 4.3. Obviously i dont get network, and i cant send sms or anything network related, please help, i tried a lot of things including changing roms, and please do not point me to the QA thread as i checked every one of them without luck.My currect imei number is both on my s3 box and on the back of the phone, but i repeat is not the same as it is under system info or under the #*06*# . How can i restore my old imei?
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I there all, my imei changed for another one during the upgrade proccess from 4.1.2 to 4.3. Obviously i dont get network, and i cant send sms or anything network related, please help, i tried a lot of things including changing roms, and please do not point me to the QA thread as i checked every one of them without luck.My currect imei number is both on my s3 box and on the back of the phone, but i repeat is not the same as it is under system info or under the #*06*# . How can i restore my old imei?
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Well what modem are you using. Please ensure you are using XXEMG4 or above modem.
Read the efs 'know this stuff' thread, it may not fix your problem if you didn't back up your efs folder first -but it contains the reason for your problem and the only answers.
Duplicate question asked many times before.
No imei and no network.
please any solution to get the imei and no network back.
i intsall back an origanal rom , but the same problem occur.
please any one can hlep in finding a solution for this issue.
arnooo said:
No imei and no network.
please any solution to get the imei and no network back.
i intsall back an origanal rom , but the same problem occur.
please any one can hlep in finding a solution for this issue.
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Read the stickies!
General > sticky roll-up > imei /efs
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Already a sticky about this, please dont post duplicate threads.