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[Samsung Captivate Glide] thephoneguy206:
Maybe you can Unlock by finding the unlock code in the bml3.bak file. Here are some steps forgot where i got from. HAVE TO BE rooted and used adb. Download a hex editior. I used 010 Editor. simple

(Place phone in debugging mode)

CMD program on computer

(mount to your folder where adb files located vie 'Cd ........'

(next are commands and just put them all in but make sure you read it through first!!)

adb shell

su

Cd

cd /dev/block

(then press enter)

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TYPE THE FOLLOWING:

su

(then press enter, now your phone might ask for superuser permission, ALLOW it or say YES. You may not have to do this step, if it asked you before)

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Now you will do one of the following below. Pay attention.

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IF YOU HAVE AN EXTERNAL SD CARD TYPE THE FOLLOWING:

dd if=/dev/block/bml3 of=/sdcard/external_sd/bml3.bak

(then press enter)

IF YOU DON'T HAVE AN EXTERNAL SD CARD TYPE THE FOLLOWING:

dd if=/dev/block/bml3 of=/sdcard/bml3.bak

(then press enter)

Step 5) Now, find the file on your External SD card or Internal Storage depending on your situation and transfer it to your computer. If you don't know how to find the file. Plug your phone up and enable Mass Storage or Connect USB Storage. I won't baby you on how to find it. It should be somewhere on your phone or external SD card if you did step 4 correctly. Transfer that bml3.bak file to your computer. I recommend the desktop so will always know where it's at. You can delete it later if you want. So transfer it to somewhere on your computer.

Step 6) On your computer, open up 010 Hex Editor

Step 7) IMPORTANT: In 010 Hex Editor go to the Menus at the top and select VIEW then LINEFEEDS then SELECT CUSTOM, now SET YOUR BYTES TO "32" Nothing Less. If you don't do this, you won't find your unlock code. Do it.

Step 8) While you're in 010 Hex Editor, click Open and locate the bml3.bak file you created and open it. There will be a bunch of letters, numbers or whatever, ignore them for now.

(CREDIT TO FR0Z3N FOR CLARIFYING THE FOLLOWING 2 STEPS)

Step 9) Now press CTRL+F on your keyboard to search for a hex string. Now a box that says Find should pop up and when the search window pops up select "Hex bytes (h)" in the Type field by pushing the down arrow and then search for the following string below:

"FFFFFFFFFF0100000000" ALL TOGETHER WITH NO SPACES, Then Hit the FIND ALL button to the right, some of you will get many results and others up to 10 results on your screen below (not mine, someone else's computer)
[Samsung Captivate Glide] VinayS:
tried above method

and also the original method mentioned at

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1176886

However no result.

I am not able to locate bml3 file.

Also when i explore through ES File Explorer there is no such file in the directory
[Samsung Captivate Glide] eatpharmd:
I second what Vinay said. Using root browser I found that the dev/block directory on my phone contains files that are 2012 loop0 through2012 loop7, 2012 mmcblk1 and 2012 mmcblkOp1 through 11. It also has the subfolders platform and vold. Also all the files in the folder are listed as 0.00 bytes. Any suggestions on the usefulness of any of these files or other places to look for the bml3 file? I don't think the search function in root browser is comprehensive.
[Samsung Captivate Glide] VinayS:
finally unlocked

Tried several methods available at xda and other websites.. none worked..

finally got my phone unlocked today by paying $23.
[Samsung Captivate Glide] tcfx44:
Which service did you use?
[Samsung Captivate Glide] VinayS:
american unlocker -- through ebay
[Samsung Captivate Glide] eioous:
I called att to get an unlock code and they told me they wont be available until May of this year. This suck since I'm on T-Mobile and I received this phone today. Guess I'll have to buy the code.
[Samsung Captivate Glide] sam.assad:
did anybody manage to fix generic IMEI and keep the unlock please share thank
[Samsung Captivate Glide] dman3285:
Download galaxys unlock from the market. Done..
[Samsung Captivate Glide] Lookin4Trouble:
Called AT&T today since I'm looking to make the leap to T-Mo for not-****ty service where I work, they say the unlock codes will be available May 20th.

L4T
[Samsung Captivate Glide] r1c47:
That's today!
[Samsung Captivate Glide] EMegamanu:
Illegal ? Why ?
[Samsung Captivate Glide] zelendel:
Because changing your IMEI is illegal.

Sent from the shadows
[Samsung Captivate Glide] EMegamanu:
Very useful answer...

Is it illegal in every country ? And could you link some laws' references please ?

(And where is the post from which I asked this ?)
[Samsung Captivate Glide] zelendel:
What Is Cell Phone Cloning Fraud?

Every cell phone is supposed to have a unique factory-set electronic serial number (ESN/IMEI) and telephone number (MIN). A cloned cell phone is one that has been reprogrammed to transmit the ESN and MIN belonging to another (legitimate) cell phone. Unscrupulous people can obtain valid ESN/IMEI/MIN combinations by illegally monitoring the radio wave transmissions from the cell phones of legitimate subscribers. After cloning, both the legitimate and the fraudulent cell phones have the same ESN/IMEI/MIN combination and cellular systems cannot distinguish the cloned cell phone from the legitimate one. The legitimate phone user then gets billed for the cloned phone’s calls. Call your carrier if you think you have been a victim of cloning fraud.

As for the post. I removed it due to the link in the post was also not valid anymore as I removed the thread
[Samsung Captivate Glide] EMegamanu:
I agree with what you say, but I still don't see references to the fact that it is really illegal.

You can not imagine the plenty of times that one could tell me wrongly and without proofs that something is outlawed.

But I am curious and I searched for my country. I found the information very hardly : in France your statement is true with the article L217-2 of the Consumer Code (Code de la Consommation) since march 2003.

But law is different for each country, so this may not be true for everyone. ;)
[Samsung Captivate Glide] zelendel:
That is pulled right from the FFC site (updated as the law was made before GSM devices). As long as it is illegal in the US where XDA is hosted then we will follow those laws and any talks about IMEI changing will not be allowed. Simple
[Samsung Captivate Glide] EMegamanu:
That is all what I want to know. ;)

Thanks.
[Samsung Captivate Glide] sam.assad:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1595756 is this legal or not
[Samsung Captivate Glide] EMegamanu:
As we said, it is illegal in USA and France at least. Probably also elsewhere, but it must be check. ;)
[Samsung Captivate Glide] sam.assad:
i thought everything is legal here on XDA
[Samsung Captivate Glide] zelendel:
Not even close
[Samsung Captivate Glide] bs27975:
Just inquiring / checking ...

What's the downside to a generic IMEI?

What's the advantage to unlocking? (I'm on Rogers, and not planning on switching any time soon.)

[I get / know the advantage if I wanted to use the phone on a non-Rogers network - the phone lock would prevent me from doing so.]

Any way to tell that my phone is un/locked short of trying it on another network? e.g. Services menu shows something different?
[Samsung Captivate Glide] dudejb:
Only advantage to unlock is you can use out on another carrier. Be it to switch providers our even when just travelling you can get a local SIM for a week or so. No other advantage if you're not switching or not interested in using another SIM during travels, don't bother.
[Nook Color General] nicbennett:
My screen broke tonight enough to make it unusable, and I was offered in store exchange when I called B&N support. I am running CM7, and would like to know if it is possible to either restore to stock or wipe the hard drive to remove evidence of rooting before I send it back.

I managed to get into adb and read in another thread to try rm -r *, which is supposed to wipe everything, but I got a bunch of read only errors. It appears that the nook will now not boot into CM7 (which is good), but I fear that I haven't wiped it far enough to be safe from a chargeback. Any ADB wizards out there with some advice?
[Nook Color General] nicbennett:
I think I have done it. I opened up a shell in adb, mounted /system as r/w, then did rm -r *. after a reboot it won't even boot into adb anymore. it comes on for about 4 seconds then shuts off immediately. I can't tell what is happening on the screen because of the damage, but i'm hoping it is enough that the folks who check returns at BN can't prove it was rooted.
[Nook Color General] ajrty33:
What are you wanting it to boot into if you just deleted everything in the system partition?
[Nook Color General] slab:
I think he wanted it to not boot at all in preference to booting into CM7.

I'm pretty sure that if they looked beyond the broken screen they'd be able to determine that you've rooted it: Having no files but still a filesystem on /system is kinda suspicious, and I imagine that having CWM instead of the stock recovery would be something of a giveaway as well.
[Vibrant General] Exel:
If you want more information on this topic please visit the new, redone, '

We Need Your Support

' thread at:

http://xdaforums.com/show....php?t=1427969 ​

We have gotten no news of any kind of update for our Samsung Vibrants. No Gingerbread update, not even a small 2.2.1 update, and I honestly believe that's just plain wrong. This has nothing to do with this phone being too slow or too old to run Gingerbread, heck.. it can even run Ice Cream Sandwich. And before you stop reading, no.. this isn't one of those threads that is just posted to complain, we have to do something about this. Maybe some people don't care for an update, maybe some don't understand what an actual OFFICIAL update could do for us users and devs. The lack of support for this device from both T-Mobile and Samsung has been horrible. Ask a representative from T-Mobile about an update, they'll say; Oh, It's coming.. Samsung is working on it. Ask a representative from Samsung about an update, they'll say; It's being worked on.. no ETA. So now, either both of the companies are clueless of their own product, and honestly don't know what is going on, or they just won't give us a straight.. 'No, you won't be getting an update.' which I think is dumb. I got hooked on Android because of it's openness, the support and the community. One of the only major updates that we got was through KIES, it wasn't even OTA. Maybe most of you don't care, but T-Mobile and Samsung should do right by us. I don't care about getting the latest and the greatest, I honestly would respect both Samsung and T-Mobile more if they gave us a straight answer.

So, what I'm asking is.. please help us by signing this petition and spreading the link wherever you can, because we have the power to fight this, we have the numbers and we can do it. This phone isn't super old, it's one of the best phones I've owned. Samsung did a great job with it, but that gives them no reason to stop supporting it. I got this on a two year contract, they should atleast support it for two years, and simply because it's in the Android spirit.

Link here: http://www.change.org/petitions/bri...-s-varients-samsungt-mobile-give-us-an-update

Please feel free to spread it on Facebook, Twitter, Google+, anywhere you see fit! If we get some headline news on Android blogs and sites, that'd be great, too!

Samsung and T-Mobile, we need an answer.
[Vibrant General] N00B_IN_N33D:
Will be signing this petition in the morning.
[Vibrant General] xriderx66:
signed, guys common we need ALL of the vibrant members to do this.
[Vibrant General] duboi97:
Why do they need our address...I'll sign, but I'm worried about that only.
[Vibrant General] xriderx66:
just put something random down thats nearby.
[Vibrant General] vlad84:
I agree, but use US adresses. This phone US only.

I think we should write about the situation in each posts in all official T-mobile Facebook, Google+, .... pages.

People need to know about T-mobile poor support and poor attitude to customers.

https://plus.google.com/u/0/101502056223282249599/posts
[Vibrant General] Exel:
Some i9000 users have helped us out.

But like I said, keep posting, tweeting it, sharing it.

It's our turn to get something.
[Vibrant General] ferhanmm:
Great idea! I hope this will make a difference.
[Vibrant General] dpaul007:
Signed. Really hoping we get somewhere, but won't be putting any money on it :(
[Vibrant General] hkfan:
signed and sent the link to galaxy s twitter account..they should also know what is going on
[Vibrant General] N00B_IN_N33D:
Just signed it. Also, someone should contact neobuddy89 and ask him put a link to this petition in his ICS Passion v9.1 ROM thread. If that were done then this petition will gain a lot more recognition from the community because so many people visit that thread daily.
[Vibrant General] ryzsm:
Out of curiosity is the International version of the Galaxy S getting ICS update?
[Vibrant General] Exel:
http://www.xda-developers.com/andro...ing-value-pack-instead-of-ice-cream-sandwich/
[Vibrant General] icy56:
What the hell? Why can't they just update it without touchwiz? Touchwiz 3.0 sucks anyways....
[Vibrant General] Exel:
We've hit 100 signatures, thanks everyone! Let's keep going strong!
[Vibrant General] xriderx66:
Touch wiz is kind of like Samsung signature on the phone saying I made it even though at says Samsung above the buttons pol
[Vibrant General] Se7eN43:
So that the petition system is not abused maybe?

Fake addresses that do not match the name may harm our chances.
[Vibrant General] N00B_IN_N33D:
Up to 185 signatures now, almost 200 :D
[Vibrant General] Exel:
222 signatures! Keep them coming! :)
[Vibrant General] AustinKnight45:
I signed it, you never know, everyone thought the #neveragain thing was a waist and I believe it got us 2.2. If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything:p
[Vibrant General] jwleonhart:
Signed it.
[Vibrant General] Mattymat:
let's keep this thing going.
[Vibrant General] Exel:
257 signatures and counting! :)

Spread the link guys, tweet Samsung, T-Mobile, android blogs!
[Vibrant General] N00B_IN_N33D:
Double post, my bad...
[Vibrant General] N00B_IN_N33D:
Posted a link to this thread in my MIUI guide. Hopefully that will help this cause a bit:
[Vibrant General] jwleonhart:
Steve Ballmer says:
[Vibrant General] Exel:
343 signatures. :)
[Vibrant General] jamesd86:
I signed it, and I think I'm going to troll tmobile's google plus page now..mwwahahaa.
[Vibrant General] HeavyA:
359 now
[Vibrant General] Mitchmoney:
I think we should expand the 500 signature limit and possible not only target samsung vibrant but all galaxy s phones! thats just my 2 cents but i think we will get a larger crowd and that is what grabs attention to Samsung.
[Vibrant General] xriderx66:
I'm pretty sure the 500 is like a goal not the limit and I agree. The more the better
[Vibrant General] AustinKnight45:
+ I third that the more variants the better!
[Vibrant General] Exel:
Indeed, once it reaches 500, it goes higher. C:
[Vibrant General] Woody:
Been sick for few days and off-line but I signed (even though I'm not a T-Mo user). Its at 370.
[Vibrant General] Exel:
Thanks for the support, and I hope you're feeling better. :)
[Vibrant General] Nabeel10:
Signed. The rate at which we are going is phenomenal! Nice job theexel!

Sent from my Vibrant
[Vibrant General] Exel:
Sweet, almost at 400, keep them coming!
[Vibrant General] EdWood110:
That is what I have found so far concerning news for more updates...

http://translate.google.de/translat...newsid=20111228093808103&p=moneytoday&act=url
[Vibrant General] Nabeel10:
Do you think we could also post this in the Dev section?

Sent from my Vibrant
[Vibrant General] Exel:
We've hit 400!

@Nabeel, maybe.. it doesn't go there, though.. it'll prolly get moved back here.
[Vibrant General] EdWood110:
A petition in the devs section? Try but I doubt they will keep it there. ^^
[Vibrant General] xriderx66:
I think we should contact most of the devs and have them put this on top of their OP.
[Vibrant General] Nabeel10:
+1

Sent from my Vibrant
[Vibrant General] Dattack:
Signed but as mentioned, I would be happy with 2.2.1 update. Seems like there are a lot of 2.2.1 Roms that were just pushed aside.
[Vibrant General] N00B_IN_N33D:
Exactly. I put a link to this thread at the top of my Miui guide, that should help a bit. However someone should contact neobuddy89 and have him put it at the top of his ICS rom thread. His rom has 5K+ posts and is always at the top of the dev. section... It's viewed by thousands daily!... Unless someone else does it, I'll do it myself when I get home.

Sent from my SGH-T959 (Samsung Vibrant)
[Vibrant General] xriderx66:
Its on his thread but its in the middle where I don't think most people even look at ... ask him to put it on top?
[Vibrant General] N00B_IN_N33D:
Yeah I'll do it. I'll PM him about it.

Edit: Just PM'd him about it.

Sent from my SGH-T959 (Samsung Vibrant)
[Vibrant General] VeryCoolAlan:
Signed! Even though I'm not a Vibrant user anymore, it would be cool for justice to be served! :D
[Vibrant General] N00B_IN_N33D:
...Justice, served with a side helping of Ice Cream ;)

Sent from my SGH-T959 (Samsung Vibrant)
[Vibrant General] Woody:
I put a link to this at the top of my battery guide also.
[Vibrant General] Exel:
If only we could get this on the xda portal. o:
[Vibrant General] selmandeli:
Signed! I Really hope to have an effect!
[Vibrant General] phrozenflame:
Yes pls! pls put this in OP :)
[Vibrant General] N00B_IN_N33D:
463 signatures, almost 500! If we keep at this pace in a little less then a week we may be able to reach 1,000+! :D

Sent from my SGH-T959 (Samsung Vibrant)
[Vibrant General] Nabeel10:
This is exciting! How many do ya think we need to get their attention?

Sent from my Vibrant
[Vibrant General] duboi97:
Someone needs to post this on Samsungjohn's twitter and post this in the rest of the Galaxy S Variant's forums. We'd get a ton of publicity.
[Vibrant General] xriderx66:
I think we could have done it for other phones too, but the petition already says for the Vibrant. If it said ICS for all Galaxy S Variants, it could EASILY get 1k+ signs.
[Vibrant General] duboi97:
Regardless we should still do it. It doesn't hurt to try. They may have some sympathy towards us vibrant users.
[Vibrant General] Nabeel10:
I totally agree, but as of right now, i think we need the attention of an update more...

Sent from my Vibrant
[Vibrant General] Woody:
If Theexel can edit the petition to include all GS phones, I agree it would be easier to post in other forums. See if he can do that and ill start posting. Make sure message doesn't stray too far from original though so that everyone that already signed will still have conviction to what and why they signed.

Plus if we can get it in enough other forums, it would have and easier, sympathetic trip to the XDA news tip page. Know what I mean? "Vibrant Users Taking Measures In Their Own Hands" makes for a good headline, eh?
[Vibrant General] duboi97:
Exactly what I'm trying to say here. We need to take the initiative and post in other forums and it could apply to them as well. Theexel just needs to edit the petition a little and we'd get way more publicity and we might actually reach our goal.
[Vibrant General] VeryCoolAlan:
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[Vibrant General] xriderx66:
gtfo windows guy.
[Vibrant General] Exel:
Is that a little better, guys?

http://www.change.org/petitions/bri...-s-varients-samsungt-mobile-give-us-an-update
[Vibrant General] draztik:
I was the 500th signature.
[Vibrant General] cuteeyes:
Me also Signed

Great Idea
[Vibrant General] ameedi600:
I signed it a long time ago lol I was #150. I also agree that this petition should include all varients.
[Vibrant General] Exel:
I updated the petition to include the variants that haven't been updated.

Thanks for the signs, let's spread the link!

http://www.change.org/petitions/bri...-s-varients-samsungt-mobile-give-us-an-update
[Vibrant General] ameedi600:
Then change the title of the open so more people will sign and do I have to resign it again
[Vibrant General] Exel:
You don't need to resign again. :)
[Vibrant General] jamesgg:
just signed, though I must say I am very skeptical about any resolution.
[Vibrant General] Drjjones426:
#526

Sent from my SGH-T959 using ICS
[Vibrant General] ameedi600:
O alright but you should change the title of this thread. So more signatures will come in.
[Vibrant General] xriderx66:
guys. we need to create ONE formal message to all the galaxy s variants Theexcel if you did that i'd be honored to copy and paste it to every Galaxy S forum.

Please no one but theexcel, woodrube, n00b in n33d or me post anywhere. we need to get organized before just randomly posting "sign this [link]"
[Vibrant General] Woody:
I agree. I have been thinking the same thing and have come up with something that I think will work for us (being all GS variants). Gotta put the kids to be and get ready for work but I will post it this evening or tomorrow morning.
[Vibrant General] N00B_IN_N33D:
That's a good idea... Could I help? I know you said no one but Woodrube, you, and theexel. However if you're willing I'd love to join in.
[Vibrant General] Exel:
I can try to type a rough draft up and have you, Wood, and n00b read over it and see what we can do from there. We just need to get Sammy and T-Mobile to actually look at it and look at people wanting the update. Many of our GS users have given up on updates.
[Vibrant General] xriderx66:
That's fine.

Thats great, i added you to the little list. :P

I'm not trying to prevent people from helping, I just don't want someone who doesn't know what the entire plan is to just go out and post random crap. I trust ya n00b.

It's cool, if you don't have time its alright you've done your part anyways. No pressure on you. I'm just bad at cheering up people and making them come together so I honestly don't want to do this lol. I will however spread it to all Galaxy S forums, OTHER forums besides XDA (can someone give me some forum names i know AndroidCentral and Phandroid and thats it) and maybe try to tell some tech news bloggers about this as well.
[Vibrant General] N00B_IN_N33D:
I understand where you're coming from, and thanks :D

Sounds awesome. Looking forward to the draft.
[Vibrant General] Woody:
I have something already typed up, just need to clean it up. I also have a canned-type header that we can put in the other threads so that 1 they will read it and 2 they don't get pissed at us for posting in their forums even though it would be beneficial to them. You know how territorial these places are. Ill post it up in the morning, so lets leave it as is until then. Sound good.

Tomorrow is my first day back to work in almost 2weeks, so I can't think of a better time waster for there. I work for a law firm so I good writing skills.
[Vibrant General] xriderx66:
That's great if you don't mind can I take a good look at it you can send it through pm or whatever you want.
[Vibrant General] N00B_IN_N33D:
Ditto that :)
[Vibrant General] Woody:
I was already thinking that very thing. Not to exclude anyone but we don't want too many cooks in the kitchen. Ill PM it to the 3 of you then we can collectively edit
[Vibrant General] N00B_IN_N33D:
Sounds good. Together we'll bring this movement to the attention of the Galaxy S community and maybe get the long awaited update. Let's get cooking...

(Woodrube) (xridderx66) (theexel) (N00B_IN_N33D)
[Vibrant General] xriderx66:
I look the best.
[Vibrant General] N00B_IN_N33D:
Lol, how did I know you were going to say that... How did I know?...
[Vibrant General] VeryCoolAlan:
Windows Guy to the rescue!
[Vibrant General] Woody:
PMs sent

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[Vibrant General] dpaul007:
Awesome...Thanks for doing this guys! I hope SOMETHING comes out of this.