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~~important~~ null imei (0000000000000000) bug

I dont know if any other guy here went through this hysterical problem but yeah would like to inform those who flash more often without surmounting about thinking before doing it..
Also dev's i think this problem should be rectified immediately! !!
Here's what happened with (not so)lucky me
I flashed cm9 beta 2 directly over cm7 by tj_style..(edit wiped out data and dalvik cache too) and then after installation found out that my IMEI no. was null(0000000000000000)
Tried every possible legit method to restore my IMEI back but to no avail.
Googled everything but sooner got frustated
In the end i ended up in the samsung customer care center, acting all dumb like i had no clue about my phone and then there was my phone without imei.
I told them(care center ppl) that "last time i sent a text to a friend.
The next day i checked my cellphone , there was no signal coverage."
You know pretending like i had no clue about what the hell was happening and made out stories.
The funny part was that the center people believed everything.
Finally they took in my phone and gave it back after 2 and half weeks(after constant inquiring about my cell xD) & finally i had my original IMEI restored (salvage)
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That was about my problem.
Still can't figure it out how my IMEI got washedoff adter flashing cm9 beta 2..
(Sigh).... .. but now I'm on the safe side. ^^
So i think its serious matter about wiping IMEI.. and it should be considred under attention.

Comeon guys i think this post needs atleast more discussion than this xD
Lol show some decency! !
lol
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anybody here to comment
this is something serious s**** happening here!!
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what is IMEI on a phone ?

IMEI(INTERNATIONAL MOBILE EQUIPMENT IDENTITY) no. is a number, usually unique, to identify GSM, WCDMA, and iDEN mobile phones, as well as some satellite phones. It is usually found printed inside the battery compartment of the phone. It can also be displayed on the screen of the phone by entering *#06# into the keypad on most phones.
The IMEI number is used by the GSM network to identify valid devices and therefore can be used for stopping a stolen phone from accessing the network in that country. For example, if a mobile phone is stolen, the owner can call his or her network provider and instruct them to "blacklist" the phone using its IMEI number. This renders the phone useless on that network and sometimes other networks too, whether or not the phone's SIM is changed.
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thousandecibels said:
IMEI(INTERNATIONAL MOBILE EQUIPMENT IDENTITY) no. is a number, usually unique, to identify GSM, WCDMA, and iDEN mobile phones, as well as some satellite phones. It is usually found printed inside the battery compartment of the phone. It can also be displayed on the screen of the phone by entering *#06# into the keypad on most phones.
The IMEI number is used by the GSM network to identify valid devices and therefore can be used for stopping a stolen phone from accessing the network in that country. For example, if a mobile phone is stolen, the owner can call his or her network provider and instruct them to "blacklist" the phone using its IMEI number. This renders the phone useless on that network and sometimes other networks too, whether or not the phone's SIM is changed.
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hmmm.. I have flashed ROMs many many times.. stock-based, CM7, CM9, MIUIv4 but never had this issue.. maybe that's why others are not reacting on your post..

yea brother i think so too
i think this happened only with (not so) lucky me..
or may be i did something wrong that corrupted my imei in efs partition of my sgm.
but neva mind hope so that it may not happen to anyone in future
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I've read about the same issue with other devices when flashing roms. In some forums, they recommend to make a backup of the efs carpet from your phone before flashing roms.

XxReApErxX said:
I've read about the same issue with other devices when flashing roms. In some forums, they recommend to make a backup of the efs carpet from your phone before flashing roms.
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yea you're right
but there ain't any procedure shown to backup efs folder of our sgm or even sg ace on the internet forums..
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well there should be some way to back up our IMEI incase..
IF I HELPED YOU IN ANY WAY OR NO WAY
CONSIDER THANKING ME

thousandecibels said:
well there should be some way to back up our IMEI incase..
IF I HELPED YOU IN ANY WAY OR NO WAY
CONSIDER THANKING ME
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mayby flash back to stock rom or 2.3.4 (KPI)
I don't know much but U can try?

coolriku said:
mayby flash back to stock rom or 2.3.4 (KPI)
I don't know much but U can try?
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its okay now
but i think it may happen im future and thats what gives me goosebumps!!
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CONSIDER THANKING ME

thousandecibels said:
its okay now
but i think it may happen im future and thats what gives me goosebumps!!
IF I HELPED YOU IN ANY WAY OR NO WAY
CONSIDER THANKING ME
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Here's a solution to your problem.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1264021

nishanty13 said:
Here's a solution to your problem.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1264021
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thanks man but i already went through it and it ain't applicable on galaxy low legacy devices..
anyways thanks..
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this seems to be a problem woth the efs folder.... you have to go to the service center

it happened to me once, when I moved from froyo to gingerbread. I talked with a guy in store in Chile and with a box that he connected to my galaxy mini, he restored my IMEI. He did not even ask for an explanation just the money (which was like USD $ 1)
Lucky me we have those guys XD

komodin28 me too.

well this problem should be explained well..
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First thing :-
IT'S NOT A BUG.

nishanty13 said:
First thing :-
IT'S NOT A BUG.
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if its not a bug then kindly mind to explain this imei contradiction..
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simcard problem

When I woke up today, my simcard was not recognized by the phone like no simcard was installed? I tried my sim in other phones and it works.Does anyone had similar problems?
my phone is an unlocked int phone.
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Yep, same happened to me just after 10 PM (PST). Unlocked International phone, N7000XXLA6
Restarting the phone didn't change anything -- had to turn it off, take out the SIM & put it back together before turning it on.

so you have resolved you problem? I tried that to but it didn't help :-(
I am going to send the phone to service, I think its the only solution for me. Samsung have put bad quality simtray in the note I think?
regarsd
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equalness said:
so you have resolved you problem? I tried that to but it didn't help :-(
I am going to send the phone to service, I think its the only solution for me. Samsung have put bad quality simtray in the note I think?
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How long have you had the phone and what have you installed lately? I know obvious questions but need more info.
A member had problems with wi-fi turning off which turned out to be a battery saver configuration issue. So maybe some software you installed or changed lately?

Hi!
I tried a new battery and I had the battery all night and in the morning I had the icon of no som card recognized.
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Same thing happened to me last week. While I was sleeping my wife got a text message from my phone stating that a new sim had been insterted into the phone and that it was stolen. I have track and protect intalled on my note to warn if someone tries to take out the sim.
This happened in the middle of the night and my note was on my bed stand charging. It looks like it lost connectvity with the SIM and the track and protect app triggered to send a text message.
The sim was detected fine when I woke up. It was just a wtf moment.

Hmmm. Had a similar problem on tmo. Apparently my sim card was old and wasnt capable of the new networks. Tmo gave me a free replacement and it worked fine. How old is your sim card? Mine was like 5 years old
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TheCanucklehead said:
Yep, same happened to me just after 10 PM (PST). Unlocked International phone, N7000XXLA6
Restarting the phone didn't change anything -- had to turn it off, take out the SIM & put it back together before turning it on.
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I have xxla4, hmmm. Did u flash it or did note come with it?
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I have a new sim card and now I remember ,my wife also told me she got an SMS about me number and my sim card , I did not understand and told here it was maybe spam . now I know what it is , the sim card disconnected and connected by it self hmmm...

Im having the same problem on Australian Network, the 'no sim' error continues to show after I have flashed 4 ROMs 3 kernels and 3 Radio Roms
How did you guys sorts this problem?

For me I sent the phone to service and they changed the motherboard.
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Hmmmm may not help I have custom binary count at 4 and the yellow triangle.... I can't figure out how to get back to stock with both rom and kernel... I used the test kernel but it added more lol, any suggestions?
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what is radio rom ?

Type *#06# and check IMEI. If it's like 000... or 0049... or just not match to your number under battery - Your EFS partition is corrupted. If you have a backup it's simple to restore if not check google - there are ways to restore imei. Of course You can give phone back to service.
And remember - always have the EFS backup. Mine was useful once

84DGR said:
Hmmmm may not help I have custom binary count at 4 and the yellow triangle.... I can't figure out how to get back to stock with both rom and kernel... I used the test kernel but it added more lol, any suggestions?
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Hey. Just grab triangle away, and reset binary counter. Service will not find out. I have done it, and got new motherboard
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New Problem - Beep and then disconnect call

I just downgraded phone to 2.3.6 so I could wipe and OTA upgraded back to 4.0.4. Rooted w Mobile Odin Pro.
I am having a problem I haven't experienced before. Made a few phone calls since, and on multiple calls the phone will Beep once and then disconnect. I am not touching anything or doing anything. I am on ATT USA in CA. Anyone know what could be causing this?

asf58967 said:
I just downgraded phone to 2.3.6 so I could wipe and OTA upgraded back to 4.0.4. Rooted w Mobile Odin Pro.
I am having a problem I haven't experienced before. Made a few phone calls since, and on multiple calls the phone will Beep once and then disconnect. I am not touching anything or doing anything. I am on ATT USA in CA. Anyone know what could be causing this?
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I'm getting the same in UK under O2, have had it under many different roms. It will happen for the same number multiple times until I leave it a while and retry. I imagine it's a network issue, but if anyone has any other suggestions I'd love to hear them.
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Same thing here!
I'm in Serbia and have the exact same problem. If I want to get out of that, usualy I have to restart the Note. Not very fancy.
Also when it gets in that state it does'nt receive cals or sms.
I did the same thing, from 4.03 to 2.36 - wipe, and then to 4.04
Probably a bug with the 4.04 modem?

Guess we could try flashing latest gb modems, see if that corrects it. There's a thread in development I think that has all modems listed.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1645202
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I don't know maybe its network... past 2 days just works... and had plenty of talk time... I'm fearful to flash a modem... did that help you?

asf58967 said:
I don't know maybe its network... past 2 days just works... and had plenty of talk time... I'm fearful to flash a modem... did that help you?
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Haven't tried it yet, may do tomorrow and will post back, but same here, haven't had any issues over last few days.
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Have had no issues since the other day when I posted, so I'm guessing it was network related. How about you guys?
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Not a single issue either...however I did use mobile Odin and down to Gb again...but this time instead of OTA to 4.0.4 I actually flashed it direct with mobile Odin...with clear data etc... maybe that did it for me.. or maybe it was just network
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I did one more downgrade with mobile odin to gb then flashed 4.0.4 open vermany again..had the same problem for first 3 days theb went away again... Weird issue
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[Q] Call recorder mode

Hi everyone. I installed and ran the recording mode for galaxy gt-7000. I want to ask only one question. Phone calls coming from King Zhou of Shang, the last king of the Chinese Shang Dynasty is the names. Do you have a virus or add-in? Did anyone else pay attention to this situation?
I opened a new topic for that matter the right to send you a reply. sorry.

Go to call setting and disable phone number location
This may be some area of China which may matches to your incoming call number
Recording Mod basically ported front Chinese model i9220 which have such facility
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dr.ketan said:
Go to call setting and disable phone number location
This may be some area of China which may matches to your incoming call number
Recording Mod basically ported front Chinese model i9220 which have such facility
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search settings, it is not an option.

Setting - call-phone number locator-disable pnl
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dr.ketan said:
Setting - call-phone number locator-disable pnl
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thank you ketan. solved problem.

Anyone having problems with 3 UK?

Since last night my mobile data has just stopped working I have full signal but it won't pick anything up, It was strange that it worked then it stopped
I hear people have had other issues with 3 on HTCs aswell.
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adz3d said:
Since last night my mobile data has just stopped working I have full signal but it won't pick anything up, It was strange that it worked then it stopped
I hear people have had other issues with 3 on HTCs aswell.
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In all fairness, 3 isn't and has never been a great network, they've gotten a bit better but still need some work.
As for your phone.
Check your APN (reset it and check it)
Check packet data is on ( you'd be surprised)
Obviously do a long hold on power to reboot the phone fully.
Remove the sim and check it in another phone.
Try a different 3 sim in your phone if possible.
I have had a few problems with my sim not being recognised at all and knocking airplane mode on for a few seconds seems to fix it.
Hope this helps m8
PS: its possible it could just be a problem with the network too, give them a call.
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adz3d said:
Since last night my mobile data has just stopped working I have full signal but it won't pick anything up, It was strange that it worked then it stopped
I hear people have had other issues with 3 on HTCs aswell.
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Turn data of and back on that should do it

adz3d said:
Since last night my mobile data has just stopped working I have full signal but it won't pick anything up, It was strange that it worked then it stopped
I hear people have had other issues with 3 on HTCs aswell.
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Yes, me too.
Since around 22:00 last night. I've tried
Rebooting my phone
Toggling airplane mode
Toggling mobile data
Removing SIM card
My mobile data in settings is switched on and has "Disconnected because service is unavailable" written underneath it.
Hopefully they get it back on today at some point...
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I'm also on three. Flashed the newest trick ROM with 4.2.2 at about 11 last night and now no mobile data at all!

Definitely an issue with the network
It's not your settings or your handset or your sim or your ROM - it's the 3 network, people are reporting a problem with mobile data connections across the UK.
For example:
http://www.coolsmartphone.com/2013/06/04/three-data-offline-across-the-uk/
http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showthread.php?p=66231699
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?p=24391311
http://www.knowyourmobile.com/three/20341/three-3g-mobile-data-services-hit-network-outage

adz3d said:
Since last night my mobile data has just stopped working I have full signal but it won't pick anything up, It was strange that it worked then it stopped
I hear people have had other issues with 3 on HTCs aswell.
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Yes I,m experiencing connection problems on my mobile data connection, 3 know about it and sat "they are working on it "
---------- Post added at 09:24 AM ---------- Previous post was at 09:14 AM ----------
Contacted 3, and eventually got a reply, "We are working on it" thats it!

https://twitter.com/ThreeUKSupport/status/341826986668331008

same here, calls are abit spotty too and kept cutting out on me

http://news.sky.com/story/1099153/phone-operator-3-confirms-data-network-woes
Looks like it's working again for some areas:
http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showthread.php?t=1833111&page=3

yep its back up for me now

My Internet is now back! Great timing by 3 lmao. First time I've flashed a ROM on my brand new phone and I think I've ruined it!

dladz said:
As for your phone.
Check your APN (reset it and check it)
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I realise from subsequent posts that this seems to have been a problem with 3 network (now resolved), however for future could you please advise what the correct apn setting is for 3 UK .
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Well it good to know it's back up thanks guys.
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paul_59 said:
I realise from subsequent posts that this seems to have been a problem with 3 network (now resolved), however for future could you please advise what the correct apn setting is for 3 UK .
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Here u go
http://www.geeksquad.co.uk/articles/series/apn-mobile-network-settings-learning-series