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[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CyberGhos:
Can anybody send me your efs folder from the note? I will put it into the galaxy tab to see if it works.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] les_garten:
Hold your breath for that one...
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 5150Joker:
Why would anyone in their right mind do this? They would be giving up their imei.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CyberGhos:
I know everyone is kind of scared to give the imei number out, but in reality nothing you can do with it. The file is encrypted. Even you know the imei #, nothing you can do either. It's available even at att, tmobile store even if you can borrow somebody phone and get it by *#06#
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ChodTheWacko:
It makes you wonder why everyone one using the same IMEI (because of a deleted efs folder) works. I suppose AT&T must know the 'null' IMEI number.

- Frank

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It's not giving out the IMEI, it's giving you the efs folder.

If you were able to make calls with your tab, then you potentially cause problems with the Note who originally owned that .bin, should you keep using it.

Giving your your efs file to a random person on the internet is just asking for trouble.

- Frank
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 5150Joker:
My theory is the following and I'd like those who have had their data shut off to confirm or refute it:

AT&T is only cutting off medianet/go phone users (for obvious reasons) and unlimited grandfathered users who are up for contract renewal. So if you've recently locked yourself into another 2 year contract with them and have grandfathered unlimited data, chances are they won't mess with you because they stand to lose money. With people that have unlimited data plans but have not locked themselves into a contract with AT&T, then its not guaranteed income for AT&T. Sure even those in a 2 yr contract can cancel using ETF but most won't do that and AT&T knows it.

If not then I guess I'll wait for my inevitable text message and start my fight with AT&T. There's no way they can classify this thing as a tablet, it doesn't run honeycomb nor is it marketed as a tablet only device.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rockky:
Jesus... Why not just get a freaking 4G smartphone PLAN????

They have a system.

We try and circumvent it, like I did. (Whoppee..saving $30mo with craap speeds) .

Get caught, like I did then blame ATT...

Like I DIDN'T.

I'm now on 4G smartphone month to month plan, they (Chicago store) helped me get a 4G+ imei and I have 4-8 Mb speeds.

Blessing in disguise.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 5150Joker:
Why would a 4G plan be a necessity? I get HSDPA+ just fine on my normal iPhone plan. No need to deal with the hassle of switching to something else. I'm grandfathered in and not abusing any AT&T policy which I suspect most people aren't.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rockky:
Fine. Talking about those on gopnone dumphone plans.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kirkla79:
Yeah but why pull the "your phone is a tablet, no data for you" BS?

If they are cracking down on certain plans, but at least offer people the option to change them.

That said I upgraded to 4g unlimited last week because I was afraid if I waited they would have stopped allowing grandfathered plans to be upgraded.

I am also jealous of your speeds. Here in memphis I am lucky to get 2 mb.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CyberGhos:
They really dont have a clear definition for tablet and phone. If they say its a tablet, its a tablet. If they say its a phone, its a phone. The galaxy tab is on gingerbread at this point and still get booted. Soon both phone and tablet will have ICS, so i guess their definitions of phone and tablet are whatever help them make more of our $. Your contract theory could be right. I will upgrade to an android phone and use sim in my note to see what happens.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] maxh:
It's kind of weird how they drop the data plan when they detect someone using a "data only device", but due to the way they screw, I mean do, things, the contract is tied to the voice plan, so they can't just drop that. So they kill the data instead. They want tablet users to pay them twice: tablet data, and phone data plus voice, SMS. They don't want users using one device that does everything. Convenience and technological advancement mean nothing to them but lost revenue. I'm a libertarian at heart, but wishing the government would blast our wireless carriers to kingdom come, or at least to Europe come. You guys seem to have a much better system.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jason370:
You simply deleted the entire efs folder? One can do this and still have a working phone?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] maxh:
Apparently. The device seems to revert to some generic IMEI. Oddly enough, it seems AT&T hasn't blacklisted that particular IMEI even though it has been in use by many people for many months now.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danteusel:
No...I just renewed our contract with ATT back in august.

I was on a unlimited smartphone plan and now have no data.

I called when I got the original text and they opened a case and said it would be a couple of days to resolve it.

My data got cut off the next day.

I called back and the rep said it looks like the unlimited plan is the problem and opened another case to fix it. BUT he at least wanted to get the data back on so he switched it over to the 2GB plan (which the system at least allowed) and said it should fix it temporarily.

My data has not turned back on yet (24 hours later)

I will call them again when they open today.

At this point I'm wondering if just removing the /efs folder is the way to go until/IF they block the generic IMEI. If they do at some point, maybe they will have sorted this out and can just restore the original /efs???
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danteusel:
Any updates from ANYONE who has had this problem??

On the phone now with 4th rep and she's basically saying I'm screwed...without a recognized IMEI # it wont work.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jason370:
Can anyone confirm that deleting the efs folder doesn't brick the sgn? This is my concern.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rockky:
That's right your Note will not access 4G+ vs even on the 4G plan because the system doesn't recognize it as a * device.

I told the store guys I wanted to make sure I had plus speeds.

After activated of course I only showed basic "4G".

They then got a skyrocket imei and boom 8M's.

Manager and rep were really helpful.

My phone is now registered as a Skyrocket.

QUOTE=danteusel;19973454]Any updates from ANYONE who has had this problem??

On the phone now with 4th rep and she's basically saying I'm screwed...without a recognized IMEI # it wont work.[/QUOTE]
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] oka1:
This thread has gone off the tracks a bit........ Let's try to keep on topic.

One thing, fcc and the courts are clear, the carrier cannot prevent you using the phone of your choice.

There are alot of ATT stores out there. Find one of the managers that is interested in customizing phones and help him with that endeavor and That action will get that manager to really help you solve the problem. Just like the point his Note is now being seen as a skyrocket.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] les_garten:
It's not a bin file. It's a whole folder of Crypto files related to the identity of that IMEI.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] carhigh:
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Have no clue what you guys are doing wrong. I'm getting 8 down and 2 up on my note. I got a 4g card back when the infuse was released and have no problem with att wanting to turn my data off or get me off the unlimited plan. A lot of crying going on when it seems just cheap people trying to play the system
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] les_garten:
Have no clue what you guys are doing wrong. I'm getting 8 down and 2 up on my note. I got a 4g card back when the infuse was released and have no problem with att wanting to turn my data off or get me off the unlimited plan. A lot of crying going on when it seems just cheap people trying to play the system

I have an old SIM and am getting crappy speeds. How do you get a new sim without walking into an ATT place?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jojorios:
When I received my GS2 i had to call AT&T to switch my plan to 4G. They did this over the phone but I am still using my old 3g sim card. From what I'm gathering here, is that if I head over to the AT&T and get a new sim card, I could possibly avoid this whole data plan fiasco?

Has anyone in the NY Queens/Long Island area have an AT&T store that they have gone to that are aware of the situation?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] les_garten:
The problem is that when the CSR pulls up the IMEI, it comes up as a Galaxy Tab 7650 or something like that. They cannot add the 2 or 4 gb rate code. It is not an option. It's not that they don't want to do it. They can't do it.

I thought my speed issue was my sim but it's not. It is that my home sux as far as bandwidth. I went somewhere else and it was great.

HINT HINT: Deleting the contents of the EFS folder solves this issue.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] getmouse:
You do know that the phones were working before right.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jason370:
does it matter if you delete the contents of the folder,or the entire folder itself?

update:

just moved the contents of the efs folder to a randomly named folder on my external sd, now i have full internet access again and it is faster than ever.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MoWeb:
Oh never mind
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jojorios:
I'm very tempted to do this right now. I don't know much about the Galaxy Tab issues. Are there any possible downsides to doing this? As in AT&T cancelling my data package?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jason370:
ha, i did it BECAUSE they turned off my data. if your data works, i wouldnt bother. i was literally 5 minutes away from going to an att store and seeing how i could get data, at any cost.

i hate them
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jojorios:
I guess i'm going to throw my sim card in there and see what happens. if i get the text, do I have to call them to turn data back on or can i just rename the efs directory and it will start working again? Or should I just rename the efs folder from the start?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] getmouse:
That efs folder is very important so I hope you backed it up on your pc.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jason370:
i saved the contents of teh efs folder to both my pc and to another randmly named folder on my ext sd.

you can just empty the contents of the efs folder, i would leave an efs folder there but move he contents. that worked for me.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] les_garten:
Mine was too till they flagged it for using the Dumbphone plan. Then they couldn't add the rate code for the 2 gb plan.

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Just empty EFS the folder, don't delete the dir.

EFS Pro is a software program for backup.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zaclolz:
i talked to my boss today and went through the system hes tellin me its not intentional on att part, in the system the tab pulled up relatively the same imei number. a way to avoid being booted would be to root the device and spoof the imei before inserting the sim card.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CyberGhos:
I don't this is the case because if it is carriers cannot make you buy data plan when you bring your own smart phone, and they cannot boot anybody without consequence. I think right now they do whatever they want and customers will have to suck it in and take it.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kirkla79:
Is there anyway your boss could send a memo to the higher ups about this issue? It sounds like an issue that can be fixed. People shouldnt have to root their phones just to be able to use it.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ChodTheWacko:
Seriously.

The people who have approached me with interest in the phone are generally non-technical people. I'd hate to think they're now ordering it and can't use it.

Sure, we could spoof IMEIs and all that. But we want this phone to be a success - there needs to be an easy and straightforward way for people buy the phone and get it work on AT&T.

- Frank
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mywingtophone:
Where you from again? Do you have att in your country?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jason370:
id prefer the phone be a failure. i like being one of very few people with the best phone; call me vain but i don't see how this phone gaining popularity helps anyone other than samsung.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] maxh:
I do want this phone to be popular! The more users we have, the more support we'll get here. Want good custom roms? Fixes for the various little issues? They'll come quicker the more people there are using the Note. I guess I kind of understand the whole desire to be the only one using a device, making you feel special, but it doesn't bring anything good. The benefits come with numbers.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jason370:
it's a great device, it will get enough support regardless if it is popular or not. And my early estimate is this will be a highly unpopular phone in the US.

People would constantly ask me what kind of phone my hd2 was, when I responded, they looked at me like a deer in headlights. That was also a fairly unpopular phone which got amazing support, and mainly because it was simply a great phone.

The sgn is exactly that. It's the new hd2. Big phone, impressive hardware, and nobody even knows it exists. I say fantastic.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ChodTheWacko:
I don't want to derail this thread, but although I absolutely adore my Note, it is far from perfect. If this phone is a failure we may never see another 5" phone. That would be a deadly shame.

- Frank
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kirkla79:
I dont want the note to be a failure. I could really careless if I was the of the few or one of many. I love the 5 inch form factor and want it to stick around. My biggest fear when I had my streak was that I would not be able to replace it with another 5 incher when the time came to replace it, especially since dell went of its way to make the streak fail. I was so relieved when I heard samsumg was making a 5.3 in phone.

Even if it sells well it will still most likely be a niche phone, with most people only being interested in the latest iphone/cheapest android on contract they can get.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Oneiricl:
(Off topic a bit)

I don't know about you lot in the States, but here in India the phone's selling well enough to be a mainstream smartphone. And our smartphone market is small in comparison...

Oh and Samsung's put solid resources down to market it too...
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dennishhh:
The people that I show the phone to are very impressed by one feature and that is they don't have to carry a phone and a tablet. Out of about 50 people that have seen the phone I'd say about six have bought one. I agree that most people want the cheapest option. For professionals I think this is a fabulous one shot option and will be more successful than we think. Chainfire's DSLR Controller is an example of this, this could be the perfect platform for his camera controller. In the next few months photographers could be using this device in droves. Another huge selling point is the navigation use, Garman wants $500 for their new phone like GPS, the GN gives you everything for just a little more money. By the way did you ever get your note to work, I'd haven't seen that?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danteusel:
Well, I have finally solved my drama by (backing up then) removing /efs

I agree with others here that it is a shame some non-techies will go through this.

I am very, very pleased with the GN!
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ChodTheWacko:
Can you be very specific about what you did?

I mean, after you last got off with the AT&T guy, who wasn't any help, did you just:

1) remove the entire /efs folder

2) reboot

3) voila, it's suddenly working?

Or did you call again? any other steps? I want to add this to the FAQ.

- Frank
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jason370:
i removed the contents only of the efs folder, not the folder itself. it worked immediately. i would make sure to back up that entire folder somewhere though.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danteusel:
Not yet, because I just lost my data again! calling them now
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ChodTheWacko:
I highly suggest not calling them and going directly into a store, as this guy did:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=19998666&postcount=15

- Frank
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] getmouse:
Look people just root and rename the efs folder to efs1 and reboot that's it. That's what I did too my tab.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ChodTheWacko:
So just out of curiosity, i went to my at&t store and told them I got a new phone and wanted to switch to the 2 gig 4g plan.

I warned them the system might not like my phone and she wasn't worried about it.

So she punched in the inside and hmmmed and said the system thought it was a dumbphone and wasn't offering any plans at all. Then she did something and said, OK, try it.

It wasn't working. I changed the apn to the 4g apn and its working now. It was pretty straightforward for some reason.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] maxh:
So you got hit with the dreaded SMS? Or did you do this preemptively? Either way it sux how they're pushing people off of unlimited plans.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ChodTheWacko:
yea, I got the SMS last week.

I was on Medianet, using the cingular 410 APN.

- Frank
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cushcalc:
Wait for the Galaxy Tab 7.7 - it IS 1280x800, Super Amoled Plus!
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Phateless:
I find this thread fascinating. Not to gloat but this makes me REALLY glad I'm with T-mobile and the takeover is off.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ChodTheWacko:
I'd still be on t-mobile if I could have gotten 3g. :(

- Frank
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Phateless:
I get better signal than all my friends with att and it's an event if I actually drop a call.

Plus wifi calling at home is awesome.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] icecream3witch:
I think this is pretty simple to figure out.

If you guys try to order a 4G LTE phone on AT&T's site, you will see that there are only 3 options for a 4G LTE data plan: 200m, 2g and 4g(w/T). There's no option for you to go unlimited. On the other hand, there are unlimited 4G LTE plans for mobile hotspot/tablets etc. (rather than for a cell phone).

So as to conclude, if your IMEI is not recognized as a phone - since this is a new international phone - and you go unlimited, of course the system will be confused if you are a tablet.

After reading all these replies, I think you should -

1. making sure your sim card is a 4g lte card, and

2. making sure your data plan is one among the 3 options - 200m, 2g and 4g(w/T).

then you should be just fine.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] les_garten:
The part you don't get is that they do recognize it. They just don't recognize it correctly, either by incompetence or by design.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RMXO:
The Note isn't an LTE device so how could it get confused?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] icecream3witch:
thats what i meant, bro

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[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] les_garten:
But 100% of what you said is incorrect.

It doesn't matter whether the sim is "LTE" my simis 4 years old and works perfectly.

Once "recognized" it doesn't matter what plan you have. You're gonna get nailed, just a matter of time. IMO and IME
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] icecream3witch:
I'm sooooo scared :) Let's see if that'll happen :eek:
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] les_garten:
There are strategies...

Your strategies won't work though
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RMXO:
That doesn't mean the NOTE LTE has come out yet. If it was released, I know for sure, I would get one.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kuaka:
I did this too. I am now on the SOC code HSDPPB unlimited 4G and haven't had any trouble with AT&T.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] starblade42:
I have had this same problem. I have not violated any of the terms of the agreement with AT&T. I'm not trying to circumvent the prices of smartphone plans. I had an iPhone 3g Unlimited plan, and got the same text. I was using the correct APN settings, because I verified them with one of the HSPA+ Galaxy S II models on the floor, and confirmed everything was working.

To those people that think we are getting our just desserts for circumventing the system/spoofing/blah blah blah. WE ARE NOT.

ATT is incorrectly identifying legitimately subscribed users as being "tablets" and blocking data service. I have tried changing the IMEI in their system, and changing plans to be the metered 2GB plan, talking on the phone multiple times, etc. The problem is their automated system and the classification of the GT-N7000 international. (See that GT? Galaxy Tab?). I have done all of the suggested steps, including getting the correct smartphone plan (4G HSPA+ plan, metered), changing my APN settings (I've tried several configurations. The one for the Galaxy S II and the GSII Skyrocket, as well as the Inspire to no effect) walking in and talking to reps blah blah blah.

The only thing I haven't done yet is backup and rename my /efs folder. Looks like I'm going to have to do that. If I get time tomorrow I'm going to see if I can get my issue attached to the issue from that other user who posted before:

ATT issue ticket number:

20111202_32032436

Right now it looks like if they have done a lookup on your phone, and blocked it, that you cannot fix the situation by changing the plan or the IMEI they have in the system, because the requests from the phone give their system the IMEI and it refuses those connections, because it shows up as being "on the wrong plan." No workaround that I know of on their end, because of their bad policy concerning convergent tablet devices (like the original Galaxy Tab 7) and even WORSE detection of this policy.

I'm going to have to root and back up then rename or delete my efs folder. GRRRRRR
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] maxh:
Well I think you should do the /efs folder modification to change your IMEI then get on the $15 unlimited data for dumbphones plan for awhile to save some money and pay yourself back for the hassle.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] icecream3witch:
quick question for you guys: does it show your model when you log in your AT&T account and go to "phone/device"? mine is showing AT&T e368
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kirkla79:
Mine does too. I still haven't gotten "The Text" yet.