[Q] Please Help me!!! EFS Clear My IMEI changed after a flash...

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Help me, I flashed my phone Samsung i637 with a new ROM, but I checked EFS Clear Option.
After a flash, my IMEI changed to "00000000000000000"

Help me!!! How can I restore my IMEI???

Originally Posted by Mario Lopez

Help me, I flashed my phone Samsung i637 with a new ROM, but I checked EFS Clear Option.
After a flash, my IMEI changed to "00000000000000000"

Help me!!! How can I restore my IMEI???

When you check the option "EFS Clear", it will DELETE your IMEI and other regional configurations....That's why NEVER should be ticked that option!!

So sorry...! The only way I know to repair the IMEI for your phone is using a "Box"

What can I do? How repair mi IMEI?

This was the ROM that I installed: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=934839

Are there other ways to repair without boxes???

Who could have boxes?

Originally Posted by Mario Lopez

What can I do? How repair mi IMEI?

This was the ROM that I installed: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=934839

Are there other ways to repair without boxes???

Who could have boxes?

Sorry, I don't know another method than using a "box"...Have you searched on Google to see if there any other solution for your problem?

Have you flashed your device before?

the same has happened to me after flashing his rom. but I don't know what a imei is. I found dermann's blog and he's really upset over this.

dermann blog:

It’s a sad and heavy day for me today. after just a few days of a public release of my i637 rom, which is know at it’s end. i say goodbye to the samsung custom rom world.

After just a few days, i removed my i637 rom from XDA’s site and Hotfile download site. It unfortunately turns out that my rom and/or flashing steps, erase your phones IMEI number from it’s software. leaving you with no choice but to use the rom which is currently on the phone. I, myself have tried number of times to flash back to AT&T’s Official Rom without success. I’d like to thank XDA’s user Mairo lopez for finding this major problem, bringing it to my attention so that the damage that has already been done is minimal and few.

I am so very sorry for those that this affects. I have asked XDA Mod “Spiaate” to close the thread and my XDA account. I am ashamed that this problem slipped though my fingers, I feel like I shouldn’t be aloud to be apart of the great community which is xda-developers anymore.

The changing of an IMEI number is illegal and i will not make, distribute and host any rom that does so.

Once again, my apologies for such a careless mistake.
end:

please Spiaate don't close dermann's account here. it was an honest mistake.

i've been doing a little searching. and from what i've read at a site called zn520.com. the only thing that was wrong with his rom wasn't the rom at all. it was the flashing instructions.
what it should have been was
"step 8. in the Download Mode area, only! check the "PDA" box."

i sure hope he comes back and finishes the rom. he does good work.

Originally Posted by Aitrus

please Spiaate don't close dermann's account here. it was an honest mistake.

Yes indeed as I have 'moved on' to a new Windows Phone 7 device, but have known Dermann since the ole BJI days...

A valuable, enthusiast who would be missed!