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[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] turboclaws:
Hi everyone, i have the same problem, and all solutions on this forum doesnt help me.

If i turn off Factory Test in autostart the rectangle with yellow word is disappear forever.

Troubles i have now is:

1.wifi is turn off and rectangle with FACTORY MODE IS ON!!! appear while telephone is switching on

2. no lockscreen

3. no menu on power button

i can live with it, but how to solve different this problem?:confused:
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] turboclaws:
i found the solution-i must used the Root explorer...
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] romanlopez01:
that's true, i had tried with my explorer app but no working, so i buy root explorer and works, the only problem now is the screen with yellow letters

---------- Post added at 01:14 AM ---------- Previous post was at 01:00 AM ----------

done! the screen with yellow letters is gone! just reboot the phone after change the factory mode.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tripijb:
I have a Galaxy Note 10.1 GT-8013 and I also damaged my efs file.

- Yellow numbers in main screen.

- Do not lock.

- Disable Wifi when boot.

I downloaded and installed Root Explorer.

I went to folder root/efs/FactoryApp and the file factorymode did not even exists.

I mounted that folder as R/W (setting chan be changed in the same screen of Root Explorer, look just above Parent Folder icon).

created a fine named factorymode

edit the file and add ON

saved the file and mount the folder as r/o again.

Go to Home and the letters are still there,

lock the tablet (press the power button and release it immediately).

activate it..... (press the power button and release it immediately)... NOW THE LOCK IS THERE!!! (one thing fixed)

Unlock it and the main window appears!! The Yellow letters still there.

Now, power off, by pressing the button and keep it pressed.... NOW THE SHUCHDOWN MENU APPEARED!!! (other problem fixed!!!)

Shutdown.....

But when powering up, the previous state came again. (no lock, shutdown menu does not appear again).

I realized the factorymode file was deleted!!!!

So, I think, when powering up, somehow the efs file gets replaced from some backup I do not know.

I will reboot in CWM mode and I think there is an option to not rewrite on power up.... I hope!!!!

Will keep you updated if I find the fix.

If someone can help, please post!!!!
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] romanlopez01:
you have the free version of root explorer? you need to use the pay version
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tripijb:
I have the paid version!!! I also verified that the factorymode was created and the ON was inside.

The problem is that after I boot, the file factorymode gets erased!!!!

Any other comments?

Thanks!!!
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tomniu:
I9308

Hello

I also have a i9308 from china mobile. My imei is null and now it can't connect to the cell towers. Also I don't have a lock screen or a power menu. Could you please specify the steps you took to repair the imei number? I tried almost everything for 4 months and no dice.

I would be gratiful for any help.

Tom
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Zooshie:
Great finally fixed my probs my serial was on 00000000 awesome woop!
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
bad flash

purchased root explorer fixed the problem. awesome!!!!! had a bad odin flash someone thought it would be funny to close my laptop while flashing a jb rom and it corrupted a couple of my factoryapp files in /efs. so i used root explorer and my backup phone to duplicate data from one phone to the other.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Krasza:
Hi guys how to exit factory mode in my situation ? I have i9305 and It starts in factory mode. Shows correct Imei but S/N 000000... Phones works I can call , watch video etc... Shows yellow info pda , phone and more on home screen and menu , no lock screen. I tried to repair this with root explorer but my EFS folder is empty.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] laurochristian:
Same here...

I flashed firmwares and not solve... =(
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hypergamer1231:
+1 sad
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pxloaded:
efs folder should not be empty if you can make a call. probably you forgot to enable root privileges under the settings for the root explorer, that's why contents of efs didn't show.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eltarod:
So edited the file from OFF to ON and yellow letters left, lockscreen came back and everything works great. The problem is now that although the phone reccognises my sim card (asks for PIN) it has no signal. And when running GalaxSim Unlock to see if my phone is network locked it says that the phone is fully unlocked. Any ideas?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ChrisBuck29:
Factory Mode partial solution, need help on the rest

So after flashing CM10, I had the same problem as a lot of others. After I managed to reactivate the SIM and restore IMEI, I got the annoying Factory Mode overlay and pop-up on startup. It said, "Factory Mode is ON!!! Blah blah blah... Go to user mode." And then Wi-Fi would turn off.

Using a combination of Titanium Backup Pro, Rom Manager (CWM), Root Explorer and ES File Explorer, I was able to get rid of the annoying overlay, but not the error message. Here's how:

Before you start, backup your efs folder contents and make a nandroid backup, which is just a good idea anyway.

1. First, if you search for the word "factory" in Root Explorer (from the topmost directory), the app will locate a bunch of system files that relate to the factory.apk or the factorymode.apk.

2. Next, make a copy of any of the file folders that start with com.sec.factory or com.sec.factorymode. Copy them using ES File Explorer (all root access needs to be enabled in settings) and paste them to an internal SD folder, like "download." Then upload them to Dropbox for safe keeping. The whole point of this is just to have redundant backups of these system files in case anything goes wrong.

3. Using ES File Explorer, you should have the option of changing the factorymode file to ON. Use a native text editor, and then save the file. This process is explained elsewhere. As far as I can tell, you don't need to use the terminal emulator method.

4. Next, go into Titanium Backup Pro and backup all your apps, but particularly any app starting with the word "factory." Store the backups in a safe place, like Dropbox.

5. Now you can uninstall any of those factory related apps with Titanium. They don't seem to do much that is useful anyway. I haven't noticed any hit to performance whatsoever.

So that's it.

Now here's where I need help (because I'm no developer, just a schmoe). Despite all that, I'm still getting the annoying "Factory Mode is ON!!!" message at startup. It's not a big deal, because it's easy enough to just turn Wi-Fi back on, but it's annoying. The factorymode file says "ON" like it should. I've factory reset the phone with data, cache and dalvik wipe, uninstalled any app that says "factory," cleared cache using Cache Cleaner NG, and still that stupid message lingers. If someone smarter could help me figure it out, that would be swell.

If this post helped, please use the Thank-O-Meter, and please keep in mind that I never claimed to be an expert, so don't blame me if things go wrong. I'm too busy messing up my own phone to respond.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
Here is the exact solution for this problem which i have recently had!

You have to root your phone and install Terminal Emulator from Google Play.

Open terminal emulator and type as ;

su

You now should not see the that message anymore. Its because of an EFS corruption. ( Thanks to yesilcin*com (sawgent) ) for exact solution.

Hope it helps!!!
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kkinsky:
Delete the efs folder(make backup first), reboot, factorymode file is OFF, change to ON, its ok now.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] marcustaz:
Awesome man!!! Fixed thanks for this. Better then installing the emulator just grab ADB.exe and run open a CMD and run it as a shell. Then simply copy and paste!! Fantastic man I was pulling my hair out for 2 days. Appreciate you re posting this info cause I have looked high and low to find a fix and this did the trick!!! Now my IMEI is still listed as Unknown so I am still looking for that fix... No dang EFS backup, ugg!!!!
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] marcustaz:
Hopefully someone can help me. The above fix worked to get me out of factory mode, however now my internal storage shows 0.00 bytes available... Permissions seem borked but no idea how to fix.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] marcustaz:
Never mind fixed...
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] d0r1n:
thx !

Work for me !!! thanks !!!
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ARCANAAA:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1703175&page=5

this should be your solution had the same problem for months, but had a temporary solution by using cyanogenmod.. but since i prefer the stock i kept on searching for a solution and eventually found this :)
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hossamshibly:
Awesome man!!!
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] abumaha:
in cmd mode?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danarama:
Terminal emulator
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] harrytery:
do any of these solutions work for the Galaxy S4???
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AdL2012:
its work in CMD too

adb device

adb shell

su

echo -n ON > /efs/FactoryApp/factorymode

you need to have Android SDK installed
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Lucas_Skyline:
But, for me, the EFS folder is empty (but I still have my IMEI, I can make calls, etc). The problem is: unable to mount efs folder.

What should I do?

More information about my problem: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2389962

Thank you very much!
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danarama:
Different phone. We cant contribute anything
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Lucas_Skyline:
Many others fixed their I9505 with the same process... But they still had the EFS folder.

Thanks.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danarama:
Then please ask those people in your own forum. We have no knowledge of your device. We will not be responsible for giving instructions that brick your device. Our device MUST have efs otherwise it could not have imei so there is a fundamental difference.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Lucas_Skyline:
Ok, thank you. Just in case, the efs partition is there, because I have IMEI. The system is the same as yours. The only problem is that for some reason the folder is not able to be mounted.

Anyway, thanks.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danarama:
On s3, if efs cant be mounted, efs is corrupt and must be sent for repair. Imei gone. Cannot connect to network
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Lucas_Skyline:
Yes, it seems to be the samething with the S4. Thanks again.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danarama:
It can't be the same if you still have imei and can connect to network
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] geert45:
I have made a script and copied it in the root dir..and with rom toolbox pro it work.

Easier to make it at a pc....and giving a name Factory..wathever but so that you can remember.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] anderson79:
como recupero el imei

Hola tengo un problema instale la nueva stock española mg4 y mi telefono me valio madre no me acepta ningun tipo de rom ni stock ni nada y si las acepta me aparece sin señal y con un cuadro transparente con letras amarilla llamado factory mode lo he desroteado y instalado rom stock y nada se me queda en el logo de samsung y la unica rom que me acepta es la de cyanogenmod 10.2 no se porque pero con basevanda mg4.un amigo me dijo que probara con el imei de otro s3 el me paso sus archivos para que los instale y que tenian que funcionar me dijo otro me a dicho que haga la instalacion de rom stock 3 archivos no se que piensan y me ayuden
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SignetSphere:
This is an international forum so speak English.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Madedon:
Thank you fixed for me too
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] umur_um:
worked on my i9300!

Thank you very much! it was worked on my i9300. Just open CMD on windows pc and do copy-paste-return line by line in ADB SHELL.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] m.htc:
No such file or directory

after

type

rm /efs/FactoryApp/keystr

get error rm failed for /efs/FactoryApp/keystr No such file or directory

What to do now ?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danarama:
Well the command:

rm /efs/FactoryApp/keystr

Means remove keystr

The error:

No such file

Means it doesn't exist

So the fact that its not there when what you're trying to do is remove it anyway, I would say continue running the rest of the commands.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] m.htc:
nothing is working..

I tried all commands one by one.. everyone showing error..

can't create or unable to chown & unable chmod.

one message is coming on my phone screen.. attaching screen short..
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danarama:
Are you rooted?

Screenshot of terminal + errors please?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] camaxa:
hello I have the same problem..but I have network and everything works..but the yellow letter's don´t go away :(
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jinosong:
+1
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] m.htc:
Screenshot of terminal

Here is Screenshot of terminal
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wangdaning:
You don't have root or it is looking for it in the wrong place, that is why su is not found.

For those with the letters still showing you might use root explorer to make sure factorymode actually says on. Also, check the permissions.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] m.htc:
How to use root explorer

How to use root explorer ?

Yesterday i flash new firmware,, that why root gone,, wait will mail you after rooting screenshot...
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wangdaning:
There are several root explorer programs. I use solid explorer. My efs folder is set to 771, all can execute but only owner and group can read and write. For factory mode all can read but only owner can write.

There is a thread about it somewhere here. First time I messed up my EFS all I had was a pulled copy. All the permissions were weird, so I had to use that thread to change them. Had the same issues, signal but a pop of of phone info.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kr0n0s1024:
Apparently i did it well,correct imei, no error on terminal, permissions are ok... but yellow text is still there.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kr0n0s1024:
Well... problem solved, after doing the whole process, I've realized that all efs folder files didnt have the permissions needed. :silly:
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] m.htc:
Still getting error

Attaching images for root explore & terminals ...
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gauravinvouge:
I don't know about the images you've attached but i was also getting an error message like this.what i did was

1)using root explorer,go to efs folder-then factory app-then factory mode(which should be opened as text editor, short press it n root explorer will give options select open as text editor)

2)when opened it should show as OFF change it to ON and save changes.

3)reboot the phone and this way i got rid of it on my SGS3 GTI9300.(if you also own this then your problem might be solved)

4)now few questions of mine

a) do you have a signal?

b) do you have a valid BASEBAND VERSION and IMEI(because both are unknown in mine and i don't have signal also):crying::crying::crying:
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] m.htc:
no factory app folder in efs

Hello,

There no factory app folder in efs folder,,

no signal & BASEBAND VERSION and IMEI is unknown... :crying:

What to do?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gauravinvouge:
have you checked via root explorer?

or did i miss something you've mentioned earlier ie have you made a back up of EFS.Although in my case i also did a back up and restored it also but still mine is the same case but i've got rid of the msg on the screen.try root explorer you may be able to find factory app,

otherwise you may try flashing to stock rom as i'm trying to right now and as guided by rootSU.

best of luck buddy:good:
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] m.htc:
efs inside folder print screen

check attached image,, its root explore efs folder..
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gauravinvouge:
buddy i don't know why is your efs folder not showing factory, maybe you can try flasing your stock rom via odin,check in all in one sticky thread for returning back to stock,sadly i can't guide you more then this.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] m.htc:
Signal & baseband version is showing.

One good news,,

Signal & baseband version is showing.

but still IMEI no & serial no problem,

What to do now?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gauravinvouge:
what all i did was:-

1)as advised by rooSU i flashed back to stock rom mg5 for my country from sammobile.com,that solved the problem of unknown baseband.

2)then i rooted the phone again and took a backup of efs via philz recovery.

3) before flashing i had taken efs backup via EFS PRO,now EFS PRO backs your efs in .tar format at two places ie at ur pc and ur device the file name would be like this;- GT-I9300_20130823_192248.tar

4) Now make a new efs folder in sd card.

5) when and if you had taken an efs backup you would have got this file GT-I9300_20130823_192248.tar i mentioned above.extract it using root explorer and copy the contents ie efs.img to the folder(it might be around 20 mb as was in my case)

6)then delete the contents of efs folder via root explorer and don't confuse it with the folder created in sdcard.

7)use EFS PRO go to restore,when it gets connected and shows the partition where efs archive is there select it and then choose check md5 verification check box and click format efs.

8) after this select the backed up file from the drop down menu which will give GT-I9300_20130823_192248.tar(device) if it gives youGT-I9300_20130823_192248.tar(pc) choose the one on device(as it failed in my case when i used pc)

9) click restore and after a reboot it'll be solved

that's how i did it with a lot of help from rootSU and this link

http://www.droidviews.com/how-to-bac...did-you-do-it/

you can find my comments in the comments section below on that link.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lupixxx:
sn

managed to get rid of the yellow text, factory mode, i have no problem with the IMEI, but still can't make any calls :(

is it becase the S/N is 00000000000 (11 times 0) ?

how can i fix that?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danarama:
Yes.

.. and it depends on..

1) what build number samsung rom you're on

2) what " " you've been on

3) whether you have EFS backup

...not enough info to answer

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[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lupixxx:
1) JZO54K.I9300XXEMG4

2) what?

3) I do not have efs backup when everything was allright :(
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] neocuban:
I have the same problem with a M919 From t-Mobile, it appeared after I install "modem_XXDME4" trying to fix the problem of "not registered on network", but I couldnt fix that neither and now I have that banner showing on my screen.

I follow the instructions but it still showing, maybe Im misunderstanding the instructions or it doesnt work with the M919. Please Help
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] neelbin:
Thank you..it worked
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tammerlan:
Mate you made my day by this post!!! :D

I have tried that precedure (with terminal commands) many times with no luck, until I saw your post! I spent 2 days searcing all the XDA an Google to remove that damn yellow text and your little hint did the trick! Thanks again man!!! :good::victory:

PS: my EFS was corrupted but I still had my original IMEI and s/n, but that rectangle with yellow text drove me crazy!
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] en11gma:
my serial_no is also all zero's

anyway i can find out my serial_no number?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JJEgan:
Its on the box and under the battery .
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] en11gma:
it looks like someone replaced the housing on this phone so that info is not correct and i dont have the original box

is there another way to get it from within the android os?

im on pageplus network right now but no mobile data and when i boot up i see the swipe to unlock screen for just a brief second

i have no yellow overlay

i made a backup of my current /efs/factoryapp dir and then deleted it and rebooted

switch from off to on and rebooted again

when i do it that way i have no swipe screen at all and my power button shuts phone off only

i restore my recently created /efs/factoryapp dir and reboot and i get back my swipe to unlock screen for just a min and power button works correctly

just no mobile data

i think i need my serial_no as its all zero's

is this correct?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mirza82:
Thank you fixed for me too.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MrFrappone:
So guys, I solved my problem although not in the best way..i've restored my old folder efs..but i take the factory mode..i've tryed to resolve using some metod..the factory mode there isn't anymore,but my IMEI was the generic imei (0049..) i re use my old efs and i can call and sms but i can't try to go with mobile data because i haven't a subscription

now i flash a custom rom,i can use all the function but on boot it turn off the wifi.. my imei is correct,the serial number in efs is all zero,in setting is correct..i've tryed to change it but has not changed anything..
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
EFS backup is the easiest way to go back. The new generation Samsung devices is more risky so it's a must have thing after being involved with root and roms.

GT-N7000...
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SCEDAI:
Thanks

you r a life saver mate..cheers and thanks alot:good:
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thechosenone43:
Thanks too ? With this simple command I got my Data and cellphone connection back after flashing a custom rom. Cheers buddy
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pratikpk:
how to backup or restore efs???... guys im stuck in factory mode...in efs folder there is no factory app folder... plz help me
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MigoMujahid:
If you're looking for a way to backup efs, there is a good app i use here.

If you meant something else, then please explain further..if you can't explain, post screenshots of the problem.

Also note that if the efs was damaged somehow, and you had no backup of it before, the above app won't help you.

Check your IMEI by typing *#06# and see if the IMEI is correct if not, if not then you might need to give the phone to a local repair shop or a service center that have Octopus Box machine that can fix efs issues.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tilak ion:
no service on SCL22 note 3samsung au galaxy
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jericodupz:
plss helppp
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] kaizokan:
My calendar events disappear after some time after creating them...:confused:

after a day? or few hours? not sure exactly when.

I use the stock calendar from Sony (in ROM: KA03 Xperia SSpeed.)

using my (only) calendar: Phone calendar

I do not sync the calendar.

The calendar widget does not show the event anymore, even when its not missing yet.

anyone knows why this happens and how to solve this

UPDATE: it seems to work now after some days :) I don't know how?