I did not back up my Efs after rooting my note 3. I did it after I installed x-note rom I now wanna try omega rom but reading a few people having problems with bricking there phone! Have I done anything wrong that can cause me any real problems by not backing up the efs files before rooting?
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denny1970 said:
I did not back up my Efs after rooting my note 3. I did it after I installed x-note rom I now wanna try omega rom but reading a few people having problems with bricking there phone! Have I done anything wrong that can cause me any real problems by not backing up the efs files before rooting?
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I used this.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2698639
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Shouldn't be a problem as long as you can still make phone calls and use mobile data. I believe Omega gives you the option to backup EFS partition again. I do it every time I flash a rom so I have the backup.
Make sure you copy it from internal storage to external storage or the PC before doing a wipe as you may loose your EFS backup otherwise...
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I've heard there might be some problem with efs upgrading to 4.3 . now I'm going to upgrade to 4.3 and I want to know how can I back up my efs.
Wouldnt a manual copy paste backup of the efs folder with root explorer do the job?
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I've heard there might be some problem with efs upgrading to 4.3 . now I'm going to upgrade to 4.3 and I want to know how can I back up my efs.
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check this link for a how to backup your efs
http://www.droidviews.com/how-to-ba...imei-on-samsung-galaxy-devices-did-you-do-it/
also if you have philz recovery you can use it to make a backup . A sound advice is that you cannot have too many backups for this folder .
thanks @difyel and @kuljit55 for your answers.
I had s2 and I knew everything about it. but I was away from mobile phones stuff for a while. I think I need time to remember them all!
so, a simple copy and pase would do the job!
Hey all,
Rooted on stock firmware, MJ7 via the URDLV instructions and all was fine.
I flashed TWRP and have made a few back ups while trying out my rom that I have built. After my rom not booting, I have restored my nandroid backup.
This had been working fine, until now. My sdcard is no longer writable, I cannot send pictures that are on my sdcard and apps complain about storage problems. I have enough storage and can prove it.
I would appreciate any help that anyone might have with this. I don't want to format my phone/memory/card or anything really if I dont need to.
Thanks,
Matt
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Hey all,
Rooted on stock firmware, MJ7 via the URDLV instructions and all was fine.
I flashed TWRP and have made a few back ups while trying out my rom that I have built. After my rom not booting, I have restored my nandroid backup.
This had been working fine, until now. My sdcard is no longer writable, I cannot send pictures that are on my sdcard and apps complain about storage problems. I have enough storage and can prove it.
I would appreciate any help that anyone might have with this. I don't want to format my phone/memory/card or anything really if I dont need to.
Thanks,
Matt
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had that on htc one the only thing what worked was formating sd,data,cache then factory reset then it worked
jaythenut said:
had that on htc one the only thing what worked was formating sd,data,cache then factory reset then it worked
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Darn, not what I wanted to here... but thanks for the info... If no other responses that would have been my final option anyway....
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Sorted from this post - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=49345484
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I have a t-mobile g2 d801, I rooted then backed up my efs with freegee then installed nrg ROM. I decided to see if the restore efs would work so I used freegee to restore it. Then I flashed the latest stock rooted ROM and now I'm getting a reboot about 30 seconds after the Os boots a date my imei is gone. Please help
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I can't give you specific help to fix this, but, I can advise that you make an extra backup of your EFS. Copy it off of your phone if possible. If not, just copy it to a different partition on your phone, so you have more than 1 copy in more than 1 place.
If you attempt to return to stock with T-Mobile flashing tool all the data on your phone will be erased. So moving a copy of the EFS backup off your phone is the first thing you want to do. If you can use ADB with the phone you can get a copy of it off your phone.
After that, I'd wait for someone with specific knowledge of this problem to assist you in fixing it. Assuming the backup of your EFS file is good, you will be able to fix your phone.
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I can't give you specific help to fix this, but, I can advise that you make an extra backup of your EFS. Copy it off of your phone if possible. If not, just copy it to a different partition on your phone, so you have more than 1 copy in more than 1 place.
If you attempt to return to stock with T-Mobile flashing tool all the data on your phone will be erased. So moving a copy of the EFS backup off your phone is the first thing you want to do. If you can use ADB with the phone you can get a copy of it off your phone.
After that, I'd wait for someone with specific knowledge of this problem to assist you in fixing it. Assuming the backup of your EFS file is good, you will be able to fix your phone.
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thanks, i think the backup is still there but i dont know where freegee puts it.i am thinking if i can push the freegee apk to the rom i can restore from there, cane someone post a copy of freegee apk? also can someone tell me where freegee puts the backups. thanks
Ok, i found my where my backups are, any help on how to restore them would be great.
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Freegee doesnt work, all i get is a blank white or black screen and then a reboot when i launch the app
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JMM2009 said:
Freegee doesnt work, all i get is a blank white or black screen and then a reboot when i launch the app
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I'm in the same boat. I have my efs1 and efs2 img files, but no idea what to do with them. Any help is sincerely appreciated.
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EDIT: Autoprime listed this method for restoring efs
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If flashable zip wasn't created or to manually restore efs img files run the following commands using adb shell while in recovery:
dd if=/sdcard/EFS_Backup/efs1.img of=/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/modemst1
dd if=/sdcard/EFS_Backup/efs2.img of=/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/modemst2
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I tried that, but still have "0" as my imei. Perhaps this method could work for someone else in this thread?
freegee doesnt work, then you probably lost root
also try when wifi on
contact freegee maker with log. you may have found a bug.
try rooting again
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Hello Guys,
im facing a problem with my i9505,
I've been using Liquidsmooth Rom for some time,
and yesterday i flashed some roms, and now my sim card isn't recognized anymore, aswell my IMEI and Baseband are missing.
I've had that problem before, so flashed stock rom and restored a TWRP Backup containing only my EFS folder.
This has solved my problems in the past, but now nothing happens.
I have a TWRP backup aswell as a copy of the EFS folder.
Has someone else faced the same problem or knows how to fix it?
Thanks in advance.
No one?
Try to restore efs folder manually with root explorer
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I'm trying right now, but I am confused because the restore with TWRP doesn't do anything to my EFS folder.
Ok, I copied the EFS folder from my microsd back to the phone but nothing changed :crying:
Have you tried flashing back to stock with Odin? I've heard that can sort out IMEI problems and the sorts.
Even if it doesn't it gives you a clean phone to work with, so you can eliminate any rom problems.
I flashed the stock rom, as well as different modems trough odin, but nothing changed. But I'm wondering why the TWRP restore doesn't show any result.
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I hope you can recover your phone!
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I hope you can recover your phone!
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Thanks Mate, I'm still trying. If not, I found a service to repair it for 25 Euros but I hope I will be able to do it myself.
Try to Download another stock rom and before flashing it do a full wipe, including formatting data and cache. Something similar happened to me a few days ago. I've flashed a russian rom and problem solved, but I have the i9500 model.
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I flashed a 4 Part Rom with full wipe already, but nothing changed.
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I flashed a 4 Part Rom with full wipe already, but nothing changed.
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Not sure if this will work, of it you've tried it already, but have you tried a different version of TWRP?
I did actually, but I'm going to try a older version too and see if it works.
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Ok, tried restoring with TWRP 2.500 and it shows me failed, contrary to TWRP 2.7.
With TWRP until 2.6.3 it shows me failed, 2.63 and 2.7 show me a succesful message.
LOL it just started working again without me doing anything :highfive::laugh:
this is my second note 3. first one rooted it tripped knox warrenty, installed philz cwm anf flashed kitkat 4.4.2. everything was great for a few weeks till I done 2 nandroid backups. I tried to move them to pc which was not a problem, but when I came to delete them from internal memory they would not delete I believe due to the write protection enable. so long story short got phone replaced under warrenty even with knox tripped (lomg story). I just flashed kitkt 4.4 and rooted my device and flashed philz cwm, I came to copy my last nandroid backup to internal memory to do a restore and it wont let me. it says this device is no longer connected. but I can go into any other directory and copy it. can somebody plz help????????????
Didn't learn from first time?
shotgun1976 said:
this is my second note 3. first one rooted it tripped knox warrenty, installed philz cwm anf flashed kitkat 4.4.2. everything was great for a few weeks till I done 2 nandroid backups. I tried to move them to pc which was not a problem, but when I came to delete them from internal memory they would not delete I believe due to the write protection enable. so long story short got phone replaced under warrenty even with knox tripped (lomg story). I just flashed kitkt 4.4 and rooted my device and flashed philz cwm, I came to copy my last nandroid backup to internal memory to do a restore and it wont let me. it says this device is no longer connected. but I can go into any other directory and copy it. can somebody plz help????????????
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If I were you I would do a nandroid backup onto an external SD, that way in case I can't boot and push files into the phone's internal storage, I will always be able to restore from extSD.
You shod use with the best recovery TWRP
really best
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Your asking for trouble!
Your backup is for a different phone,the hardware will have different id's etc.
In short,don't even bother.
So cause i got a new phone even thou its still a note 3 n9005. It has a diffrent id? When i lot titainium backup it says would you like to restore previous phone id. Would that fix it?
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Thats an easy fix. I just copy internal memory to pc and recopy everything but my nandroid backups.
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shotgun1976 said:
So cause i got a new phone even thou its still a note 3 n9005. It has a diffrent id? When i lot titainium backup it says would you like to restore previous phone id. Would that fix it?
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Never restore Device A's Nandroid on Device B. It will brick.
You can use a Play Store app to extract parts of a Nandroid to your device without bricking.
Thanks nicholaschum for the good advice. What play store app can I use?
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shotgun1976 said:
Thanks nicholaschum for the good advice. What play store app can I use?
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https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.h3r3t1c.bkrestore
Apps like these...
Thanks bro
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