[Galaxy S II General] marylex@29:
Hi everyone, I made something funny that worked today :cool:

Scenario is the phone has no IMEI, no BASEBAND, cant enter the service code *#*#197328640#*#*, can’t call and gives force close, and in short the phone is useless. HAHAHA lol.

The history of the phone is HARD BRICKED after my big brother flashed a kernel onto this phone after upgrading to 4.0.4. he wiped user data and along with the EMMC file, it became unresponsive and doesn’t turn on anymore.

I had it recovered using MEDUSA box and after I got the BOOT/DOWNLOAD mode. I flashed a firmware with DXxx.xxx baseband. im so glad that the phone was completely working again, ALMOST hahaha. When I inserted my stupid SIM, it doesn’t want to pick up signal an found out that there is no BASEBAND version as I checked it on about phone, or dialing *#1234#

I have done some research and I knew that I is gonna be the RIFF box again that will fix this thing. What am I gonna do to a phone that doesn’t pick up signal at all. I flashed it over and over again even the MODEM alone but still no luck.

Things that I have done to have it work though with a wrong IMEI

1.	Root the phone

2.	Installed SGII repair

3.	Backed up the efs folder (either using ROOTexplorer/the SGSII repair app)

4.	Downloaded the EFS pro

5.	Downloaded the .NET framework 4.0

I tried repairing the EFS using the GSII repair but still no good after reboot, and used the the EFS pro to repair it but still no good. After rebooting couple of times I don’t have signal.

Imma make this short now

1.	Root your device using whatever method u can use

2.	Install root explorer and copy EFS folder to your internal SD card then paste it somewhere on your computer. (name it as ORIGINAL EFS)

3.	Now use the SGSII repair (download it in app market)

4.	Use the repair method then back up the repaired EFS folder on save/restore option (REPAIRED by SGSII repair app)

5.	Paste the .tar file to your PC/Laptop and extract it and name the EFS folder as repaired EFS folder

6.	Use the EFS pro and click on format the EFS folder. (make sure before doing this, you have repaired the EFS and BACKED UP the repaired EFS using the SGSII app)

7.	Connect your phone to your pc and mount the storage to your PC/Laptop

8.	Copy the extracted file you have backed up on number 5 (using winrar)

9.	Copy the content of the extracted repaired EFS by the SGSII repair app to the ROOT EFS folder of your phone.

10.	Then click the Repair NV data / Attempt NV recovery

11.	If that did not work just reboot the phone first and do the number 10

12.	Reboot again the phone

13.	Once rebooted the phone will then have the icon of w/out sim, has baseband, and once you inserted the sim it will then have coverage to your carrier

14.	Do it with a little bit of luck

Enjoy your phone with wrong IMEI and the screenshots I have put on this thread are, after I have done everything but previously it doesn’t show the BASEBAND version and everything. but after i have done THESE steps, it suddenly displayed the baseband version and i had signal

I tried doing this but it has just gone with the no baseband version again

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1264021

These steps worked for me and I have a working phone with wrong IMEI.

Worked for me :highfive:

Any helpfull steps / posts / links that would completely recover the ORIGINAL IMEI would be gladly appreciated