Does anyone know how to back them up? I came from a Samsung device and do not see the efs folder, I'm assuming it is stored elsewhere?
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In addition to the EFS partition, there are several partitions on our n9005 devices that do not exist in official odin roms.
This means that they must be unique to your phone, and they might be as important to back up as the EFS folder to prevent IMEI loss or other problems (like those bootloops many people get when flashing kernels, which appear to be tied to corrupted modemst1 partitions).
These partitions are: modemst1, modemst2, fsg, fsc, backup, dbi, ddr, pad
And how could I edit the pds.img to find/restore my imei?
Because if I'm in fastboot and type getvar imei it's there, but in dialer it says "0".
Any help/solutions?
Maybe with a HEX editor?
You can´t edit it, I tried to look with hex editor. That´s why it is good idea to back it up before something bad happens, sorry.
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Yeah, that´s what I realized too.
Even if it´s there just temporarily, it´s there and it won´t do any harm to back them up besides the pds partition.
Edit: btw just noticed that the pds size is exactly a sum of modemst1 + 2 sizes. I know that that doesn´t prove anything but...
Another thing - I´ve read somewhere from a user who compared hashes of his multiple modemst backups and they differed. Apparently there are some other non-constant infos stored there besides IMEI, that´s why it is erased during fastboot flash.
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=50960462
follow the link above to backup and restore ur imei for moto g
In addition to the EFS partition, there are several partitions on our n9005 devices that do not exist in official odin roms.
This means that they must be unique to your phone, and they might be as important to back up as the EFS folder to prevent IMEI loss or other problems (like those bootloops many people get when flashing kernels, which appear to be tied to corrupted modemst1 partitions).
These partitions are: modemst1, modemst2, fsg, fsc, backup, dbi, ddr, pad