(i9505)Plz help IMEI 0 after sleceting earse efs1,2,3 in service mode

terminator1983

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• Feb 13, 2014

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My phone (i9505) IMEI became 0 after i clicked on earse efs1,2,3 in service mode.I have various backup of efs.img.ext4,m9kefs1,m9kefs2 and m9kefs3 i also have a backup of efs done by efs professional but restoring those backups is not bring back my phone IMEI.

 

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Repulsa

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• Feb 13, 2014

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terminator1983 said:

My phone IMEI became 0 after i clicked on earse efs1,2,3 in service mode.I have various backup of efs.img.ext4,m9kefs1,m9kefs2 and m9kefs3 i also have a backup of efs done by efs professional but restoring those backups is not bring back my phone IMEI.

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Check this thread or this one , Goodluck

 

terminator1983

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I am using these commands to restore my efs backups

dd if=/mnt/sdcard/efs.img.ext4 of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p10

dd if=/mnt/sdcard/m9kefs1.bin of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p13

dd if=/mnt/sdcard/m9kefs2.bin of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p14

dd if=/mnt/sdcard/m9kefs3.bin of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p15

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Check this thread or this one , Goodluck

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terminator1983

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Paths given in the link you have provided are for i9500 mine is i9505.

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terminator1983 said:

Paths given in the link you have provided are for i9500 mine is i9505.

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Hello You can either try the 2nd Link or you can use the search button mate, Even Google.com as well because ived seen alot of tutorial about Restoring EFS.

 

terminator1983

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Repulsa said:

Hello You can either try the 2nd Link or you can use the search button mate, Even Google.com as well because ived seen alot of tutorial about Restoring EFS.

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Yeah i did searched and got the terminal commands for i9505 that i have tried. The difference i am seeing in i9505 and i9500 commands is that they have used bs=4096 in the last should i try to use the same in the commands given for i9505.

 

CodeJACK

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Did you find a fix for this? I did the same to my phone but didnt have the efs backup that I thought I had. Any help?

 

3mel

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CodeJACK said:

Did you find a fix for this? I did the same to my phone but didnt have the efs backup that I thought I had. Any help?

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take it in to a service centre. I don't think there's anything you can do without a backup to work with.

 

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3mel said:

take it in to a service centre. I don't think there's anything you can do without a backup to work with.

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OK, thanks. Service Center wanted 100+ euro to check the phone out. No way am I paying that.

Took it to another place that managed to get the IMEI appearing so the phone is now working but has very poor signal and takes a long time to connect to 3G or 4G.