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[Galaxy Ace II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fluffi444:
Dear All,

I just want to inform you that up to now there is no solution in sight.

The missing IMEI issue is stronger than expected. Especially on Phones i8160/i8160P, i9070/i9070P and i8190 (all with Novathor ST-Ericsson Chip) this issue is not resolved. Even the amateur de-brickers (with different boxes) I spoke did not have an solution available.

In thier Forums the question to de-brick an 8160P is also still unanswered. They de-brick them as an 8160! If this is the final truth? I don't know.
[Galaxy Ace II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Szaby59:
Have you tried a binary comparision between the nand-restored GB ROM (no apps, only root) and the flashed "IMEI less" GB rom (same state, no apps) ?

Also the Bootlogo is stored in SBL (normal.bin.md5).
[Galaxy Ace II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fluffi444:
The only working GB ROM ist the RUS GB FW (3 parted)....

Some words what I tested so far:

With DD (if/of) command I pushed the first 70MB to phone - This includes:

MBR,GPT

TOC,ISSW,Xloader

PIT

CSPSA FS

NPS status

EFS

Modem FS

STE Mem Init

PWR MGT

SBL

SBL_2

PARAM

IPL Modem

Modem

After this I Flashed via ODIN the suitable full original FW of this 8160P - Its and II8160PXXLE6 (VIA) I8160OKPVIA

This gave me a full working 8160P (GSM net, baseband, etc) but IMEI was missing - it's unknown (NO zeros - only unknown)

This is up to now the only way that I got an 8160P.

The next thing I want to try is to build an 3-parted FW of this 70MB Bump and the original FW of the same CSC/Baseband...
[Galaxy Ace II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] knipseringo:
Hi fluffi444,

can you try to push the first 70MB without EFS to the phone. I think the EFS partition of i8160 is different to the i8160p.

cheers knipseringo
[Galaxy Ace II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Szaby59:
If says unknown I think there is a good chance it's just cannot retrieve the information.

You need a repart rom for P version I think it will fix the issue.

What does the phone says about simlock ? Try *#7465625# in dialer does it says on/off or it's empty ?
[Galaxy Ace II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] angrybb:
My i8160p (bricked while returning from JB to GB, then debricked in service with riffbox but as i8160) has mmcblk0p7 empty (all zeroes) and efs_original.bin also all zeros, but IMEI is OK. I got whole dump (but after debrick :( ). I can search for imei in whole dump (4GB) with hex editor, but i guess it is not in plain text.

I searched a bit and found this:

What we get by this *#7284#? I tried to put both to modem and downloaded pit file with heimdall, but it is the same as before changing those options.
[Galaxy Ace II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fluffi444:
Thx for this Idea:

The GB 8160P with unknown IMEI says:

Personalizatiob Status (German)

SIM lock (netzsperre)

Partial SIM lock (Teilweise Netzsperre)

SP-lock (SP-Sperre)

CP-lock (CP-Sperre)
[Galaxy Ace II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Szaby59:
Normally it should look like this (ofc. on/off can be different depending on your phone/carrier):

Have you tried the in-built nv recovery from service menu ? *#197328640# in dialer then search for NV Rebuild/Restore option.

Edit: If you can send me your efs and modemfs partition (from a working and unknown imei state) in e-mail or pm I can try to compare the files.Unfortunatelly my i8160 is in the repair centre (display problems) so I can't try myself.

And a bigger problem I'm still not sure the imei is stored on efs or modemfs or somewhere else (gaps) if yes there must be some additional check to fix/recover it with a backup..
[Galaxy Ace II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fluffi444:
Yes I tried also the NV Backup over service menu. But I thing still this has no influence on 8160/9070/8190...

Same with those EFS Partition. I had overwritten this recently without any inflence on the working IMEI Image...I read somewhere that you made the same experiences...

The SIM-Lock Menu looks diffenert here - I only have the titles (as written) but without any ON or OFFs. Strange. This menu works only in GB. In my working System (with IMEI) with JB this Menu won't come up....

If you want I can send you the mentioned Partitions - But I have "only" a working JB with MC8 (8160) Baseband and ME1 (8160P) Kernel.

The non working System (Image) ist full ME1 (8160P) without working IMEI..

I tried to compare them by myself but they are looking very diffent - Nothing to find out in particular... Looks like that sometime the same Data is located at an diffentent place...

Found some futher interesting links yestrerday. They al say that EFS do not contain the IMEI...

An other guy (somewere in RIFF JTAG discussions) recommended to flash EFS, modemFS, modem and ipl of a working bump for recovering IMEI. Don't know if this works or eaven can brick our phones....

I had now my third HardBrick behind me. That costs my in total 50 EUR up to now :)

Therefore I will not flash something just for the try anymore... :) Untill I have an own RIFF Box :)

I thing the only way is to get an FULL 8160P Bump of an working and official 8160P GB/JB (right after cache/factory reset) and see if this works with a special look on the IMEI!

I found a FULL bumb for Medusa Box but only the one for 8160! Same format we need to ADB DD it.

BUT: This fu**** 8160P is not findable :)
[Galaxy Ace II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Szaby59:
Your looks different probably can't acces the data (that means it's very possible that imei and simlock are on the same partition).

Someone in the i9070 section accidentaly cloned his phones imei.

He did the XXXX baseband fix, which requires a backup from modemfs and efs, he asked his friend to do it because he didn't had backups.

But the imei not changed immediately, only after some time (firmware flashes ?).

So I don't know :D

If you can please send me (better do not share in public until we don't know more) your efs/modemfs and I'll try to compare with mine, the files in RFHAl.DEF are really wierd.

Edit: I don't know anything about ipl, but the other 3 (EFS, Modemfs, Modem) can be flashed without bricking the device.

I formated mine efs and nothing happened, only new bt/wifi mac, but imei was the same.
[Galaxy Ace II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fluffi444:
You have an PM...

Here is the link I was talking about:

http://forum.gsmhosting.com/vbb/f63...samsung-baseband-imei-2-a-1661209/index3.html

The unknown Baseband can be fixed by copy the TEE folder (and correct the rights) from a working JB Phone.

But this did not help with the IMEI....
[Galaxy Ace II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] angrybb:
Hello.

I spent last night (and day) trying to restore my i8160P from non P GB to P GB.

Tried lot of combinations, get several softbricks and still did not get results I wanted.

Closest I got was flashing that medusa/riff dump from gsmhosting forum so I got full p version back but without imei and unknown baseband.

I then copied previously backed up tee folder from xxlk6 fw and got imei, but baseband was from xxlk6(non p version) so when I tried to get ota update to JB it said that there is no update (I guess because baseband was not from p version).

Things I have noticed: if you don't mess pit, and always flash correct dumps e.g. kernel to kernel part, sbl to sbl, from whatever dump (p or non p, same or different fw version) you are safe from hardbrick, but you may get nasty bootloops (once I even broke cwm so it could not get partitions info and could not connect to adb, was totally useless). With that in mind, I tried just GB dumps and fws because I did not want to do repartition for JB and risk hardbrick.

All I done was in the first 106 MB of the flash using dd (I don't count reflashes with odin which are safer and which flashes system, cache, hidden and other partitions - all of them beyond 106MB, and I think those partitions are not important for imei. But please correct me if you have some different infos)

I am curious if anyone have noticed that s/n of the phone is in plain text. Search the dump and you will find it. I replaced that part from my working non p dump to medusa/riff dump and then reflashed with dd (I felt I got it this time) but still did not get the imei.

There is some more data around s/n "area".

Does anybody have ideas what this may be? Are s/n and imei "connected"(can you change one of them while other remain the same, or you must change both?)

Last thing, if imei info is not on partitions, it must be in some gap between them.

Looking at info I and [MENTION=3222424]Theliels[/MENTION] got for partitions, and assuming imei is stored in first 106MB of the flash, there is gap between partition 6 - CSPSA FS(ends at 3146kB) and partition 7 - EFS (starts at 4194kB) and other gap between partition 2 - Modem FS(ends at 31.5MB) and partition 14 - SBL(starts at 32.5MB)

So much for now. I will continue to search and try to break my phone in the quest for imei. Every help highly appreciated.
[Galaxy Ace II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fluffi444:
Thank you for your tryings. You are exactly as the same point we are right now :good:

I mean especially the situation with the 8160P Bump file of GSMHosting. And the non working IMEI.

But if you followed this topic you should know this already.

Keep on - I'am back in a few days... :highfive:
[Galaxy Ace II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lasy123:
I find a link: forum.gsmhosting.com/vbb/f634/gt-i8160p-resurection-ok-but-no-imei-baseband-unknown-1638647/

He have a Full dump of the i8160p and repair it with teh dump.

Maybe if some contact him he send the file.
[Galaxy Ace II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fluffi444:
As I own now a RIFF Box I will contact him! Thx for this hint.

btw: I managed it to get the FULL 8160P back!!!!!

But this was done with my RIFF Box...

I Have an 8160P with PHONE 8160XXMC8 (of 8160) and PDA 8160PXXME1 (of 8160P) and IMEI working.

After I did resurrection with RIFF Box and its 8160P.dll file I got 8160P (Bootloader, Bootlogo, etc) but still no IMEI.

After that I flashed offical FW of 8160PXXME1 again and IMEI OK!!!! FULL 8160P is back :highfive:

Now we have to find a way to find a procedure that everyone (without RIFF Box) can handle this...

Up to now I do not know what the RIFF Box flash during the resurrection neither what partitiones or data is inside of this DLL RIFF Box files...
[Galaxy Ace II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] angrybb:
Great!

Did you flashed ME1 with riff or odin?

Can you post first 106 mb of restored i8160P(with dd command)?
[Galaxy Ace II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fluffi444:
I flashed the FW ME1 with ODION...

I will do some futher tests and see what I can do...

Szaby is also on a good way...

There will be a way! :highfive:
[Galaxy Ace II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] angrybb:
Stupid st ericsson and their imei protection!

I hardbricked, again.

As some of you know, i have i8160p recognized as i8160 with xxlk6 GB fw with working baseband and correct imei.

I did the folowing, as i am sure(was sure) that imei is on cspsa partition (mmcblk0p6):

In CWM, using adb shell

1.Backed up mmcblk0p6 of working xxlk6 with my phone data (correct serial and working imei) using dd

2.flashed i8160p riff/medusa dump from gsm hosting (72Mb) on mmcblk0 using dd. This include folowing partitions PIT, CSPSA FS, EFS, Modem FS, SBL, SBL_2, PARAM, IPL Modem and Modem partitions and gap between them.

3.wiped data/factory reset, wiped cache, formated system, formated data, formated cache. All from same CWM session

4.restored backuped cspsa partition from step 1 using dd on mmcblk0p6

5.turned off phone, started odin mode

6.in odin mode downloaded pit with heimdall-frontend 1.4.0

7.in odin mode flashed i8160pxxll2(saw that this version is in medusa/riff dump file) using pit from previous step. In this fw were cache, hidden, system, power mgm, modem and kernel.

8. rebooted, phone started as i8160p, went automaticly to "factory recovery" to apply something (as always when you flash new fw. copying applications, applaying multi csc and something more) and suddenly turned off

That was it.

After that i cant power on anymore. When attached over usb to pc it sees it as U8500 USB ROM. So hard brick, again! F**k!

So that post-flash stuff from samsung (applying multi csc or something like that) messed up bootloader or pit or something elese essential for booting to at least Samsung Galaxy ACE II i8160p image.

[MENTION=4962787]fluffi444[/MENTION] please tell me you are from Germany, Hessen so i could send you my brick for repair ;)

Cheers!
[Galaxy Ace II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fluffi444:
Too bad! And more because I (and we) already did al the steps you did already. Also without success! I hardbricked mine four times :)

To anyone else: I suggest not to try anymore to using several ADB DD commands to restore/get back the full 8160P...Szaby59 and I we are still working to find an solution.

Sure I can help... you got PM
[Galaxy Ace II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fluffi444:
I am really happy to announce that the FULL 8160P with working IMEI in back for everyone :victory:

Without RIFF or other Tools! Madeable for everyone with some knownledge in ADB (DD commands), Rooting and ODIN!

I tested this and its reproducible!

I will write an HOW-TO tomorrow - I only made my personal notes and I have to bring them in format.

You just need and 8160P with working IMEI and some files - Looks like that its not important if you come from MC8/ME1 Mix FW or any other complete non-8160P FW....

This HOW-TO will bring your Phone back to I8160PXXME1_I8160PDBTME1_DBT
[Galaxy Ace II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] miyagi83:
Wow fluffi444, this sounds fantastic, I'm very excited about your how-to. :good:
[Galaxy Ace II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fluffi444:
We continue here:

HOW-TO http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2352064
[Galaxy Ace II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] miyagi83:
Thank you so much for your how-to and your hard trys, it works perfect for me (without any error), I have a full working NFC-AceII again now. :good::good::good::good::good::good::good::good::good: Sorry for my posting in this thread, but it is not possible to do this in the other one for me.
[Galaxy Ace II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fluffi444:
Thanks for your Feedback. Happy to hear that you are happy. ;)

I think i will make an sucsess list in the howto. You will be the first one in the list.. ;)

Send from GT-I8160P
[Galaxy Ace II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] angrybb:
I also post here because i still can't post in development thread.

If i understand correctly, my mistake was that i restored cspsa partition at wrong time, right after writing dump from gsmhosting. I needed first to restore dump, then flash Samsung original fw, and after that restore my cspsa?

Ok. That done, should we now try to break imei encryption and network locks?

Do you think imei is right after serial number in cspsa?
[Galaxy Ace II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fluffi444:
Could be. But I think that its also possible that you let the Phone boot completely at the wrong time and did to much factroy reset or wiping...

If there is a kind of logical or reproducible encryption of IMEI we could possibly compare diffenrent CSPSA/IMEI and see wich numbers (in HEX) are the same and which not... If its so we could find out with which encyptet combination stands for which real number....
[Galaxy Ace II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] landaetaedwar:
hi and thank you for the how to tutorial.

When trying to mount the sd card I get the message no such file or directory. How can I solve this?

Thanks for your response
[Galaxy Ace II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fluffi444:
Is your Phone rooted? Has you installed ADB correctly? Do you have an external SD Card?

Please keep in mind whats under "Whats needed" listed. Be sure that you have all and that you know all.
[Galaxy Ace II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] landaetaedwar:
The phone is rooted and I do have an external SD card. Do you have a tutorial for the ADB? I'm not sure about that

Thank you
[Galaxy Ace II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] angrybb:
Is your card properly formated?

I am a linux user, and prefer to use adb in this way:

adb shell (enter)

if after that i have # prompt, i am good. Then i type just comands that are in tutorial between "". So this line: adb shell su -c "mount -t vfat -o rw /dev/block/mmcblk1p1 /sdcard" would be: mount -t vfat -o rw /dev/block/mmcblk1p1 /sdcard

could you enter this command and see what it returns:

adb shell su -c "cat /proc/partitions"

Maybe your phone didn't detected SD card. Happened to me couple of times.
[Galaxy Ace II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fluffi444:
But then it must be

C:\ADB> adb shell [enter]

$ su [enter]

# [and then the commands]
[Galaxy Ace II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] angrybb:
Sure, sorry. In linux when you install android-tools-adb you can start it from whatever folder you are in. In windows you need to do like you said.
[Galaxy Ace II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] primewell:
Works for me :)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sniady:
Hi Guys,

I had to switch between my S3 to S1 for some time,

I have install the newest Avator rom, but didn't get the standard FM Radio on that ROM.

Can somebody pass me the .zip file so I can install it ?

Cheers !
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kevtrysmoddin:
There's no radio zip for the i9000 but semaphore has the FM module so you can use the spiritfm app
[Hardware Hacking General] FlyinGrub:
Hi!

Someone just gave me a arnova 8G2 with the touchscreen broken but the display run perfectly :D

and i want to know if it 's possible to use this with my PC ?

I will to display my Cpu temp, etc ...

If anyone can help me , it would be awesome :good:

Thanks in advance :highfive:
[Hardware Hacking General] pcproa:
In response to the statement in your signature

*Connect *display with my PC?

:cowboy:
[HTC EVO 3D] Koli96:
Hi!

I modified a framework from CyanogenMod 10.1 and I added support for multiuser!

If You want enable it on your phone You have to do this steps:

1. In phone terminal type:

su
setprop fw.max_users 4

2. Download update.zip from this post.

3. Apply it in recovery and enjoy!

It works only on Android 4.2

I tested it on CM 10.1. It's possible that it will work on other 4.2 roms.
[HTC EVO 3D] Huy Vu Jr.:
Hi is there anyway you'd be able to make this work with Android 4.2.2? Thank you very much.
[HTC EVO 3D] Koli96:
It works on Android 4.2.2 :) CM 10.1 is based on 4.2.2.
[HTC EVO 3D] Huy Vu Jr.:
Ohh I apologize! Lol I had tried this on Mazda AOKP 4.2.2 and it failed to boot. Is it because I failed to execute the terminal commands before flashing or because it only works on CM 10.1.? Also do I flash it as a zip or do I do it by "apply update.zip" Thank you for your help.
[HTC EVO 3D] Koli96:
I'm not a master in this, but I think flashing it as zip and "apply update.zip" are working with same result. I didn't test it on other roms than CM, so I don't know if it works.
[HTC EVO 3D] Huy Vu Jr.:
Alright I appreciate the help!
[HTC EVO 3D] muziling:
which smali file modified, how to modify

通过 Tapatalk 2 在我的 Evo 3D CDMA 发表
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] madonnaphile:
I just purchased an ATT SGS4 after having an SGS2 for two years, and I'm still getting used to its larger size. I usually hold my phone in one hand, with a finger on the bottom/USB port. I continued to buy the SGS4 because I seem to be the only person on earth who actually prefers a plastic phone body to metal. I hate touching metal (it's a weird OCD thing).

The area around the micro USB port is metal, though, and when my finger rubs against the edge of the port, it feels sharp and slightly raised. And after holding the phone for a while, it irritates my finger. Has anyone else noticed this?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] t2abousa:
Hate to break it to ya its ALL plastic. :) maybe get a case? Case of placebo perhaps
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Thermalwolf:
Um no it's not all plastic, there is an extremely light aluminum magnesium frame. Where on earth did you think it was all plastic XD
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] greekunit690:
I noticed this too but realized it was only the plastic film . Once I took it off all was fine
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] mattdm:
Hate you burst your bubble, but the "metalic" frame is polycarbonate plastic, just like the rest of the phone. It just has shiny silver paint.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] akira02rex:
It's plastic. Take the back cover off and you can see where the silver paint overlaps on the white body.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Thermalwolf:
That's cool, underneath that is the magnesium frame...
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] j510:
So ita sticking out? Mine ia flush no sharp or slightly raised edges at all. Sounds defected
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] HardOnChairs:
I know exactly what you're taking about, it rests right on my pinky finger. I think I've just gotten used to it already though.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] stl-soldier:
Case of tampons... j/k, but the OP certainly isn't the only one who prefers plastic. I don't feel a sharp edge on the bottom port though. I second the case suggestion.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Orion575:
Looks like trolling to me
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] madonnaphile:
See this guy knows what I'm talking about...

The USB port "hole" is punched out of the main phone body and a notch in the plastic back cover. On my phone at least, the seam isn't perfectly aligned, so when my finger rubs against it, I feel a rough edge.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] j510:
Like I mentioned earlier. It must be a manufacturing defect
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Thermalwolf:
Just to make sure others understand, this phone is NOT all plastic, it's got a magnesium frame lol
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] mattdm:
How do you know for sure? Where do you get your information? Link us to whatever device specification sheet you're reading.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Thermalwolf:
Just watch multiple breakdowns yourself and you will see lol, also it's the trend for all Galaxy devices since the Galaxy S 4G

It is NOT an entire polycarbonate shell.

Link you in a minute.

Also magnesium alloy is extremely light and durable. It's going to remind you of plastic when side by side.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] madonnaphile:
Well, I returned my phone and got a new one. It seems like such a minor flaw, but it was bothersome. The new phone thankfully does not have the same problem and has a smooth seam.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Brava27:
Omg. I thought the sides were all metallic until this post! Damn it
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] akira02rex:
Only one way to tell if it's magnesium - try to set it on fire.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Thermalwolf:
This was done on a tear down and it sparked and cracked like magnesium does. It's a great design to be honest, strong yet extremely light. Stronger then aluminum actually.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] ITNV:
I thought the same thing with mine. It felt like the hole for the USB port had a sharp, flexible edge on the metal side of it like a manufacturing defect. When I looked really closely, though, I saw that there was a plastic film over a lot of the exposed metal frame of the phone that was barely visible. I pulled at what I thought was the sharp metal edge and it turned out to be part of the plastic film. I pulled it off and it was perfectly smooth metal underneath. Problem solved.

Edit: I'm not saying that this is the same for everyone with that sharp metal edge feeling on the usb port of the phone but you should look at it very closely before you take your phone back because it might be as simple as removing the plastic covering.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] wavrunrx:
jesus christ...

talk about #firstworldproblems....

:eek:
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] madonnaphile:
That's funny b/c when I got home I complained to the bf that I had to wait an hour to get help at AT&T, I said "white people problems."

And it wasn't the clear plastic sticker... sheesh... i'm not that stupid.