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[G3 Android Development] SofaSpud:
TWRP (v 2.8.7, 3.0.2) will not restore a clobbered imei!!

Neither version 2.8.7 nor 3.0.2 of TWRP will restore a clobbered imei on at least two G3 variants!!

I found this out the hard way on both a VS985 and a D851. After installing CloudyG3 v 2.5, the IMEI was wiped clean on both devices. Luckily I had noted the IMEI the first time, but had to send it off to have it restored by someone who knew how to do it.

On the second device, I had made a good known backup outside of TWRP so I could restore it myself.
[G3 Android Development] naeembabakheil:
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[G3 Android Development] d3xtr0:
I have my imei on original box but they dont show up on about. Is it possible to restore them? My efs partition is broken? Thanks for you help

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Do you managed to make it work?
[G3 Android Development] Ali422600@gmail.com:
I think my g3 has board problem.Try to flash stock firmware, hope imei will come .

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what variant are u using ?
[G3 Android Development] d3xtr0:
D855. I guess on mine it's just partition problem. Maybe a efs restore would solve it, but I have no backup :( could somebody share his? With wrong imeis, that I would change them after restore
[G3 Android Development] Jewdebega:
I'm trying to make sure I have a working understanding here, so I'd appreciate any insight...

Long story short, I rooted a "new" Sprint LG G3 and installed a ROM that I did not particularly care for. Other ROMs seemed to be having some errors, so I did a factory wipe in TWRP and then reinstalled ZVB and the Modem file (https://xdaforums.com/sprint-lg-g3/development/ls990-zvb-root-method-zvb-rooted-stock-t3211878) to get a "clean start". After rebooting the system, I updated the PRL and Profile - essentially reactivating my phone - and the data connection seems to work (although coverage in my immediate area is garbage).

If I have an IMEI and all the other status data, I have a working ESF/Modem file, correct? And if I back that up using TWRP, I can use that to effectively restore my ESF/Modem data should I need to, right?
[G3 Android Development] d3xtr0:
I have the feeling that restoring with twrp was the thing that hurt my efs partition. So... Wouldn't trust it. Or maybe someone had better experience than me. Good luck
[G3 Android Development] SofaSpud:
Same problem here. Can't trust TWRP to restore missing EFS (IMEI) data. Had it happen on two different G3 variants, with TWRP ver 2-8-7 and 3-0-2. There's a TWRP runnable zip script here on xda which works for backup and restore.
[G3 Android Development] djevil:
Vs985 backup my efs
[G3 Android Development] shahzadmushtaq:
Bro I installed custom.roms on my LG VS985 but now sim isn't working. Imei is there.

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How did you do that?
[G3 Android Development] Georgia123:
LGG3 VS985 imei nool To be rescued?

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LGG3 VS985 IMEI I've lost it?

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How to restore
[G3 Android Development] barron9:
i need restore efs/imei null baseband unknown, where can i find that backup or generate myself??
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] XxKINGxX2580:
I'll be getting Gigabit speed internet in the next couple of months, and I wanted to know what's the max speed the Note 4 can handle.
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] owlensteed:
http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/a/1010122364

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[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TechnRom:
300 mbs lte and then I believe you can use the power Downloader to bridge mobile and WiFi network. The real question is how fast tmobile will unleash to us. I'm not sure what the total max the radio can handle with the bridging.
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[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dani_mola:
Hello all! I currently owns a D5803 model for Spain customization and my carrier sometimes uses roaming inside my country, but with the Spain customization this model doesn't has the National Roaming option that I previously saw in others Xperia Z models with UK firmware.

My question is, someone with UK firmware can confirm if the National Roaming option is available in the D5803 UK firmware? I'm planning to move to this customization because now there's a newer version but if the national roaming option isn't present I'll stick to the spanish one and wait a bit more.
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ghtop:
Yes, I can confirm that on UK firmware, National Roaming is available as an option under Data Roaming.
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dani_mola:
Thank you for your response! With this I can now proceed with the update and move to UK personalization :)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] Morningstar:
Assuming it even hits our device in an official capacity at some point, I will not be taking the Lollipop update. Why not? Because Google has decided to add a kill switch...

http://www.theverge.com/2014/10/15/...includes-kill-switch-factory-reset-protection

Sure, it sounds like a smart idea and a nice feature on the surface, but having spent more than my fair share of time mucking about with various means of remotely (and stealthily) accessing Android devices, the potential for abuse is too great....Not to mention the fact that the NSA and other alphabets must be absolutely thrilled about such a 'feature'. No thanks....
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] Neroga:
I see your point. There are ups and downs to.. Pretty much everything. I, myself, would be more than thrilled for a 5.0 update. Not like any of my bank info or other personal info has been stolen or used without my consent, nor have I done any really big illegal activities through my device which would give the NSA a reason to look my way.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] Bruce lee roy:
Interesting. I think it's worth noting, the article claims that Google implemented the ability to remotely lock phones "last year." So that should automatically dispel any notion of anonymity. Besides that, i think the NSA and other "outfits" have had access to personal devices long before the announcement of lollipop. If you really desire to stay off the grid, he prepared to make substantial efforts.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] MajorTom_:
Not that the NSA needs such a feature. They're already capable of going through your phone it's nothing new.

A big issue would be someone maliciously taking over the kill switch and locking you out with no way in.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] Bruce lee roy:
Yeah that would definitely suck.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] Morningstar:
The thing that concerns me most isn't privacy or nefarious doings by the NSA. Everyone knows by now (or should) that privacy and anonymity don't exist in the digital world, and the NSA already has their grubby mitts into everything. I'm more concerned about the possibility of other random people being able to lock me out of my phone.

I'm not going to go into detail, as XDA is not the place for such things and the information can easily be gleaned elsewhere, but as I mentioned, there are already fairly simple ways to get full, remote access of somebody's phone. All it takes is 20 seconds or so of physical access to a device, or a little bit of social engineering to get somebody to install a seemingly benign apk (infected Play Store updates were my favorite), and you can do whatever you want, undetected.

Now imagine you install something, and unbeknownst to you it gives someone complete remote access to your device, starts sniffing passwords, and running keyloggers. Before long, they've got your complete Google account (for example). Next, they change your password, associated phone number, and recovery email addresses to their own, and activate your device's 'kill switch'. You would be left holding a paper weight, without ever knowing what happened, and there would be nothing you could do about it...

I tend to be very careful about what I install, but even I have installed the odd apk I've gotten here at XDA, or compiled and installed something from Github without checking through the source. It's almost impossible to be 100% certain everything you install is clean.

Fortunately, such malicious 'attacks' (for lack of a better word) aren't all that common, relatively speaking. The odds of you randomly becoming a victim of such a thing are marginal. Also, I'm sure once Lollipop is out in the wild, people will start finding flaws with the 'kill switch' implementation, and ultimately, ways of circumventing it. Maybe then I'll consider updating. Until then, however, knowing what nefarious things are possible with it, however unlikely, far outweighs any potential reasons to want to update.

Maybe I'm a little over-paranoid, but that's my take on it, for what it's worth....
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] MajorTom_:
I wouldn't doubt it if people are already considering to do that to a greater extent.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] pete4k:
First of all the name itself "kill switch" is totally misleading. "Killing" something or somebody in full meaning of the word means ending it's life permanently. The way I read the article, this thing simply disables the phone remotely until proper password is entered? How is this different from SIM card lock password protection, or log on password most phones have for ages, that now it will be mandated by another useless law? Or maybe that this new method can not be bypassed? It's still not a kill switch, if it can be reversed and it should be called disable switch or something, but it doesn't have the same ring to it.

There has to be way to unlock the phone without password, otherwise there will be a lot of angry people who forgot/lost password especially if set once and forgotten until let's say 6 months later the switch is activated.

For example couple years ago I think I set password for program purchases on my cable box, so kids can't purchase something by accident, I have no idea what that password is. At least I have no intentions of buying anything.

Also what stops the thief from breaking phone apart and selling parts? My wife broke the screen on her GS3, replacement screen is more expensive than brand new GS3.

And who activates the switch? if user, a lot of people won't have a clue, if company, imagine some prankster breaks into Apple servers, steals the codes and kills 3,000,000 iphones, actually come to think of it, that wouldn't be such a bad thing.

I may not update to L either, but for more practical reasons, like are there any benefits for me, is there root method without tripping knox, or will it kill my battery, like update to KK did.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] Morningstar:
I agree that 'kill switch' probably isn't the best term for it. My understanding, from the few articles I've read about it, is that it will lock the phone down until the Google account is verified. I'm not sure if that verification will be done via password entry, email verification, two-factor authentication, or some other means.

For an attacker using the methods I've previously mentioned, a SIM lock would pose a problem, but lockscreen passwords, patterns and pins are trivial to get around.

Like I said, it's not clear yet (from what I've found) how verification will be done to deactivate the 'kill switch', but if it does in fact require verifying the associated Google account in some way, a phone's legitimate owner would be out of luck, as somebody with the means and desire to activate the 'kill switch' in the first place would have no problem in also gaining complete and total control of the associated Google account.

I want to be clear that this is speculation based on my current understanding of a 'feature' that has not yet been released to the public. There may well be safeguards in place to prevent such things, and Google may still make changes before Lollipop is available to the public. I am not suggesting that people refrain from updating to Lollipop when and if an update becomes available. I also want to emphasize that even if the 'feature' is released with such inherent vulnerabilities, that it is not something the average user should every worry about. The odds of anyone randomly being a victim of such an attack are practically non-existant.

That being said, this is XDA. Most members here are fairly technical-minded (at least compared to the general public), and are interested in knowing and realizing the full potential of their devices. As such, I think it should at least be known that such vulnerabilities as I've mentioned do exist, and attacks may be made that much worse, depending on how Google implements the 'kill switch' feature. However remote it may be, it's a possibility, and something that people may or may not want to take into consideration.

Now you know, and knowing is half the battle. G.I. Joe....
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] Megaflop666:
Not really a sound reason to avoid lollipop in my opinion. If you're concerned about the remote tracking (that already exists) and the upcoming kill switch; after root, find the associated files and freeze or delete them. The mobile tracker came off my phone right after Knox, not for any reason other than the fact it eats battery like crazy. There's always work arounds to their technology, but as far as the nsa, or any other group or morons listening to you; the chances of you as an individual being targeted are 1 in 136,149,000 (in the US). I don't care if you have 50,000 stolen mp3's on your device and like to try and steal old ladies bank account numbers with your tablet, it's chump change to them and having the mindset that they're listening is as bad as these people who prepare for dooms day, zombie apocalypse, and everything else... it's just crazy. If your concerns are a kill switch, then you might as well stay in your house because there's cameras everywhere out there, your ps3 and Xbox cameras can be accessed if you're on the Web, there's hundreds of satellites circling the globe gathering information, and every thought, search or anything you've done on the Web is accessible whether you delete your history or not. If your computer has been there, there's a footprint, if you used a vpn or tried playing shadow games to hide your identity, it can be traced if they want to. Life is too short top worry about such silly things. Live it up and have fun!

Just my 2 cents for the night. ;)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] Beast84:
Do you wear a tin foil hat too?? Whether you like it or not, you're on the grid already. There is no getting off. The NSA wants you, they're gonna get you. Good luck running
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] nighthawk626:
That is very true. But as more people protest, the companies are actually fighting back against the government. Like Yahoo against the NSA and Facebook against the DEA, people just need to keep letting know that we won't tolerate getting stripped buttass naked of our personal privacy.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] MajorTom_:
Just look at Apple. They're getting a lot of heat for the filevault encryption software.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] nighthawk626:
Apple has had their legs spread open and panties dropped for the government since day one.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] MajorTom_:
The same and to a greater extent can be said about facebook.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] pete4k:
here, http://www.xda-developers.com/android/android-l-lockdown/, right on topic of this thread.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] fenixjn:
Dog and pony show to give a false sense of privacy from these companies to their customers... See the yahoo gag order and the by-the-day increasing fines that the government was imposing to them unless they allowed them to access their data. If the government wants it, they will get it, no matter how 'safe' these clowns make you believe otherwise
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] Morningstar:
I think a lot of you are missing my point. I'm not worried about the NSA, big brother, or anonymity (or rather the lack thereof). Those are concerns, of course, but I think everyone here knows that if you have any sort of cell phone, they can track and monitor you, and probably are.

What I'm worried about is the potential for random people gaining access to your phone and its' associated accounts and activating this 'kill switch', essentially leaving you with a paper weight. As I've already stated, I am not entirely sure that such a thing will be possible, as I have not seen the source code or all the minute details about how Google is implementing this. However, if it is implemented as described in the articles I've found about it, without any further security measures, there could be a problem.

If it is as described, I would have no problem remotely accessing a device, seizing control of the associated Google account, and activating the 'kill switch', without the device's owner ever having a clue it was happening. Of course I wouldn't do such a thing, especially to random people just for the 'lulz', but we all know there are people that would.

Hopefully that made some sense....I've been awake for too long lol
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] Crisisx1:
Not like hackers can't do that already...

Come on man.

Welcome to the 21st century.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] Nathan.7118391:
I don't know about you guys but I did have an LG L9 that I completely bricked. Now the thing would not turn on, no lights, nothing. But with some research, .exe file on my computer, and directions from some very savvy people I was able to plug in my phone to the computer while pressing three buttons that got me onto fast boot mode. This is where I was able to delete the system and install each partition bit by bit. Took helluva long time with multiple tries to finally get it working but it did. My two cents.
[Galaxy Ace S5830i Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] QA Bot:
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[Galaxy Ace S5830i Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] brightgummysmile.com:
Sir. Can you give me the default browser for gingerbread that is compatible with this ROM. I tried to install some default browsers from stock and it don't work. I really don't like Chrome. Hihi. Thanks!
[Galaxy Ace S5830i Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TargetTime:
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[G Pad 8.3 General] carrman17:
So, as everybody in the android world knows, the nexus 6 and 9 were announced along with 5.0 (Lollipop). The nexus 9 looks like a promising tablet and with stock Lollipop right out of the box (of course! It's a nexus) it should cause a few of us to pull out our wallets. A lot of gpad owners are probably feeling a bit envious, epecially if you just recently purchased it and are afraid it wont get any Lollipop treatment; However, I wouldn't get too jealous.

With the announcement that the nexus 4, 5, and 7 would get the update came another small detail. All google play edition devices would receive the update as well. As far as I know, this means GPE available in the play store currently AND in the past (gpad!).

The gpad GPE is certainly a great device and deserves 5.0. Here's to hoping it stays alive.

Plus it shouldn't be too hard to port over the GPE rom to the regular gpad as well. I'm fairly optimistic about this, but what do you guys think?

Sent from 我亲爱的G3
[G Pad 8.3 General] EdenGottlieb:
I'm waitin for Infected's CM 12.