[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Slic|<:
holy **** this is going to be long... oh well ima try to make this fast since i'm still @ work. :P Can't get caught by the feds :D.

First part of the question: No. *228 ONLY works with CDMA, LTE is part of GSM-which is the reason verizon now has micro-sim cards/sim cards in our phones... were piggying back off GSM for Data while still using CDMA for calling. But since *228 updates our PRL that negates our sim-card which on a GSM network auto-updates the PRL in real time. Meaning *228 won't work on a 4g LTE phone on VERIZON's network...

Like I told the Claribanter already-a borked/"0" imei is ONLY borked

IF

there is

NO DATA AND VOICED

. Other than that you have a working IMEI... and also a straight 0 15 string characer imei is highly unlikely.. so if you have an imei starting with the number 0 and having about 3/4's of the 15 character made up of "0's" than yes that is also considered a "0" imei.. wether or not you "technically" classify it as such, is debatable. What is concrete is the imei in that sequence is broken, and you can only have 1 way or the other-broken or fixed... no inbetween for imei's.

I had my imei broken and lost not only data and voice but full coverage... meaning no network at all.

You have a working imei. The server error could be a few things. Check if your phone is on lte/cdma/gsm <-important (I think) and if it is. Rewipe your phones data. Than clear data on your apps, gmail, email, gtalk, etc. That should fix everything to be working properly with the new imei again. Play store can be easily screwed up due to data which can be fixed just by clearing the playstores or any apps-essentially-data in the app info.

Yeah that message is because you messed up your phone's imei earlier when it was even broken by trying to reprovision it and than doing something else... so try wiping and doing everything including clearing data, and than after a full wipe, push the efs file, and than do reprovision, reboot, wipe, wipe app. And you should be clean and good to go.

Than report back. Btw ^ that tedious list is necessary just to be on the cautious side...

Haha no worries. I already got you covered ;). I was the second one to bork my IMEI after flashing Paranoid Android/CM10 and got it back through this method, which is why I told Chuck in another thread to post it as a working method. So meand the OP make 2 people who have flashed successfully. :highfive:

Depends on the rom your running, if CM10 than not untl the dev fixes it... cuz thats a known bug. Still waiting on paranoid android to upload the fixes so the phone info shows my number.. And it should but the way you borked it up might not.

0 is imei is basically starting with the number 0 in the 15 character string and having at least 3/4's of it made out of 0's ... you can't really have an all straight 0 character string. Nope, might be the locked bootloader. Because were using Kexec recovery and hacks... :|.

me and the OP make up 2 more, so 3 yaaay. :D

This doesn't matter for Sprint, AT&T, and T-Mobile... it's only Verizon exclusive because you guys all have an unlocked bootloader while we have a locked one! :(

EDIT: Apparently it's been happening for a while to other phones trying to run cm9 and cm10.. so regard ^ sentence above.

But backing up your efs never hurts. :highfive:

damn that was long... :silly: