Root "Searching for Service" after gingerbread update.

[limited]

Alright I decided to start a new thread instead of cluttering up the Odin thread with my issue. You can go back in the Odin thread and read some of the issues I had starting here http://androidforums.com/galaxy-pre...ck-factory-updated-11-09-a-7.html#post3451598

Anyway here's a run down of what happened. I was running Shabbymod 0.9 w/ Kouma's Kernel and I decided to try out the Gingerbread update released in the Odin thread. Flashed it to my phone, everything seemed to work fine except I had no service. My phone was, and has been since, stuck "Searching for Service". Wifi works, GPS works, 3G and cell do not. Everything else on the phone works fine.

I have tried reverting back to stock ed13, ee14, etc. I even tried reverting to stock ed13, taking the ota update via wifi to ee14, then taking the ota update to gingerbread but still have the same problem. I also tried reverting back to the nandroid backup I made prior to starting all this, everything comes back the way it was except I still have no cell service.

After spending about 2 hours on the phone with BOOST tech support last friday, they walrked me through manually setting my MSID on the phone by dialing ##MSL# and going through the edit menu. The also had me try doing a reset by ##72786# and also ##786#. Nothing has worked.

After going back and forth with boost, and still not getting any call back from any "engineer" that was supposed to contact me BY yesterday, i'm making this thread kind of out of desperation to see if anyone might have an idea how to fix it. It's not like the phone is bricked, it seems to work fine except for the cell signal. Possibly a different phone.tar to try with odin or something?

Currently what I've done as of now is flashed my phone back to stock ed13, took the ota update via wifi to ee14, then took the update to gingerbread.

Android Version: 2.3.5
Baseband Version: S:M820.07 xEJ06
Kernel Version: 2.6.35.7
Build number: GINGERBREAD.EJ06
Hardware Version: M820.07

Thanks in advance! Please know that I'm not blaming anyone for this problem, I just want to try and fix it before I'm forced to do a warranty or insurance exchange.

 

[new optimus]

Alright I decided to start a new thread instead of cluttering up the Odin thread with my issue. You can go back in the Odin thread and read some of the issues I had starting here http://androidforums.com/galaxy-pre...ck-factory-updated-11-09-a-7.html#post3451598

Anyway here's a run down of what happened. I was running Shabbymod 0.9 w/ Kouma's Kernel and I decided to try out the Gingerbread update released in the Odin thread. Flashed it to my phone, everything seemed to work fine except I had no service. My phone was, and has been since, stuck "Searching for Service". Wifi works, GPS works, 3G and cell do not. Everything else on the phone works fine.

I have tried reverting back to stock ed13, ee14, etc. I even tried reverting to stock ed13, taking the ota update via wifi to ee14, then taking the ota update to gingerbread but still have the same problem. I also tried reverting back to the nandroid backup I made prior to starting all this, everything comes back the way it was except I still have no cell service.

After spending about 2 hours on the phone with BOOST tech support last friday, they walrked me through manually setting my MSID on the phone by dialing ##MSL# and going through the edit menu. The also had me try doing a reset by ##72786# and also ##786#. Nothing has worked.

After going back and forth with boost, and still not getting any call back from any "engineer" that was supposed to contact me BY yesterday, i'm making this thread kind of out of desperation to see if anyone might have an idea how to fix it. It's not like the phone is bricked, it seems to work fine except for the cell signal. Possibly a different phone.tar to try with odin or something?

Currently what I've done as of now is flashed my phone back to stock ed13, took the ota update via wifi to ee14, then took the update to gingerbread.

Android Version: 2.3.5
Baseband Version: S:M820.07 xEJ06
Kernel Version: 2.6.35.7
Build number: GINGERBREAD.EJ06
Hardware Version: M820.07

Thanks in advance! Please know that I'm not blaming anyone for this problem, I just want to try and fix it before I'm forced to do a warranty or insurance exchange.

check your phones meid against what they have listed for you, or the box, or under the battery. I have not heard of the meid getting changed before but without service there usually is a reason. also check the signal strength. if it is too low you may not have service as well.
check the user name, basically check everything in the about phone/ status menu.

 

[limited]

check your phones meid against what they have listed for you, or the box, or under the battery. I have not heard of the meid getting changed before but without service there usually is a reason. also check the signal strength. if it is too low you may not have service as well.
check the user name, basically check everything in the about phone/ status menu.

The MEID is the same in the about menu as on the back of the phone. The username is blank, which is a result of doing the ##rtn# which resets everything back to default. According to boost, once the phone sees the towers and gets service it should start the hands free activation that fills all that info in according to the MEID that they have registered for me.

Signal strength is -120dBm 120 asu which is perfect signal according to Samsung. Also, this isn't only isolated to my house, I work in a different city than I live in and the problem is everywhere so it's not a tower issue.

 

[Koumajutsu]

The MEID is the same in the about menu as on the back of the phone. The username is blank, which is a result of doing the ##rtn# which resets everything back to default. According to boost, once the phone sees the towers and gets service it should start the hands free activation that fills all that info in according to the MEID that they have registered for me.

Signal strength is -120dBm 120 asu which is perfect signal according to Samsung. Also, this isn't only isolated to my house, I work in a different city than I live in and the problem is everywhere so it's not a tower issue.

-120dBm is the definition of No signal. I'm at -105dBm where I'm sitting and I have only 1 bar

 

[inigomontoyasr]

i have one that does the same thing. hardware failure, a bad cell radio. at least in my case.
it worked fine for a few weeks and i never dropped it or got it wet, it just stopped working. wifi and bluetooth work still. just no cell.

-120dBm is a dead signal. the closer you get to zero the more bars would show meaning full bars on a working device probably translates to somewhere around -60dBm. i usually have two to three bars at my home and it shows -84dBm.

you'll probably have to get it swapped.

 

[limited]

Ack.. I't painfully clear that the support people at boost and samsung don't know what they're doing. It's also clear that they do not want to help me. Boost told me to contact Samsung because it's a phone issue, Samsung is refusing to take it as a warranty because it was an ota update that BOOST sent out so I need to talk to them about a replacement. It really is unfortunate that boost's customer service and tech support is so poor because their service is very good. I guess I'll use this as an excuse to get the new Warp. ^.^

 

[Koumajutsu]

Ack.. I't painfully clear that the support people at boost and samsung don't know what they're doing. It's also clear that they do not want to help me. Boost told me to contact Samsung because it's a phone issue, Samsung is refusing to take it as a warranty because it was an ota update that BOOST sent out so I need to talk to them about a replacement. It really is unfortunate that boost's customer service and tech support is so poor because their service is very good. I guess I'll use this as an excuse to get the new Warp. ^.^

you could always pick up another prevail on black friday at walmart for 70 bucks

 

[limited]

LOL that's tempting. I think I'll keep pressing Samsung until they take it as a warranty request. If I can get them to fix it for free then I'll just do that. If not i'll buy a new one.

 

[new optimus]

LOL that's tempting. I think I'll keep pressing Samsung until they take it as a warranty request. If I can get them to fix it for free then I'll just do that. If not i'll buy a new one.

If you want them to fix it or replace it odin back to stock, and use rom manager.
brick it till it does not even turn on

 

[limited]

would that be covered under warranty?

 

[new optimus]

would that be covered under warranty?

from what I seen posted yes.

this is one I found I thought I read of more.
http://androidforums.com/samsung-galaxy-prevail/427987-bricked-prevail.html

 

[ITJ]

I would def' not brick the Phone with Rom manager. That was me in the bricked prevail, i ended up sending it to samsung under the warranty and i got it back in 2 weeks with the lack of pop-ups. the power button forced a shutdown and a few other pop up options were missing. I was pissed so i've installed everything else on my phone since then. the CyanogenMod seems to have killed my 3G down to almost nothing. Now i installed EE13 formatted SD card and then performed all the updates. now running EJ06 and 3G is still crawling. Calling BM now.

 

[limited]

I would def' not brick the Phone with Rom manager. That was me in the bricked prevail, i ended up sending it to samsung under the warranty and i got it back in 2 weeks with the lack of pop-ups. the power button forced a shutdown and a few other pop up options were missing. I was pissed so i've installed everything else on my phone since then. the CyanogenMod seems to have killed my 3G down to almost nothing. Now i installed EE13 formatted SD card and then performed all the updates. now running EJ06 and 3G is still crawling. Calling BM now.

Well samsung will take it under warranty but they said it will take up to 17 days to get it back.. Ridiculous in my opinion. I've already ordered the Warp so I'll do this warranty request then I'll be looking to sell the prevail once I get it back.

 

[PrevailGuy]

I had the same problem...it drove me nuts...I saw your post and was ready to sh*t a brick...and not my phone!

Anyhow, after installing that same image you installed on your phone I got the searching for service copy.

I felt dumb when I realized what happened.....!!!
The phone was in airplane mode...for some reason that image defaulted to airplane mode!
It is possible that the trigger stayed active when you flashed back to the other versions perhaps?
Anyway I turned it off and signal came back!
Also, the signal numbers you mention arise when you put it in airplane mode.


Double check and see if it is on....just for a chuckle!

 

[limited]

The ed13 image was taken while it was in airplane mode I think, that's the only one that stays in airplane mode when I flash it to my phone. And yes, I've turned airplane mode on and off and on and off about 100 times trying to force it to work. Thanks for the idea though.

 

[brogren802]

I too can confirm this as well. I also am permanently stuck in airplane mode and under baseband version it say unknown. Trying to manually program with the msl causes the dialer to force close and ##rtn# and most other ## codes dont work either. I've tried numerous odin recoveries with no luck. Samsung will get this brick back for sure under warranty as I have spent numerous days with no luck.

 

[hroark13]

I think this problem has something to do with your stl5 partiton

you can try this is if you want, but it may brick your phone even further


Odin to stock image first, ( we are doing this incase we brick furhter and need to send phone back)

then install CWM, then boot into CWM

then run these adb commands

adb.exe shell chmod 600 /dev/block/stl5
adb.exe shell chown root:root /dev/block/stl5

and reboot

see if it works, if not use Odin to install the stock recovery and get your phone replaced

 

[n3m3515]

I think this problem has something to do with your stl5 partiton

you can try this is if you want, but it may brick your phone even further


Odin to stock image first, ( we are doing this incase we brick furhter and need to send phone back)

then install CWM, then boot into CWM

then run these adb commands

adb.exe shell chmod 600 /dev/block/stl5
adb.exe shell chown root:root /dev/block/stl5

and reboot

see if it works, if not use Odin to install the stock recovery and get your phone replaced

I have the same issue. I have a backup of stl5 but restoring it does not work.
Matter what I try I can't get it to restore.
I tried this and this did not work. Any help would be apreciated. PM if better.

Thanks
N3m3515

 

[new optimus]

I think this problem has something to do with your stl5 partiton

you can try this is if you want, but it may brick your phone even further


Odin to stock image first, ( we are doing this incase we brick furhter and need to send phone back)

then install CWM, then boot into CWM

then run these adb commands

adb.exe shell chmod 600 /dev/block/stl5
adb.exe shell chown root:root /dev/block/stl5

and reboot

see if it works, if not use Odin to install the stock recovery and get your phone replaced

I tried it, just to make sure after opening the cmd window and going to adb use the cmd adb shell
get the # prompt then type out the chmod and chown cmds correct?

No change that I found I tried to use shabby's modem updater, from long time ago it sorta worked but it didnt affect the baseband so it effectiveness was nil.

 

[brogren802]

Im willing to bet a copy of the /dev folder will repair this issue but I am unable to locate a clean one since it contains stl5 it would need to be an unactivated phone.

 

[new optimus]

Im willing to bet a copy of the /dev folder will repair this issue but I am unable to locate a clean one since it contains stl5 it would need to be an unactivated phone.

I had made a copy of that to my sd card a few days ago I tried returning that but it did not work either.
course that isnt to say it wouldnt work I may just have made a mistake or typo.

 

[brogren802]

I tried the reverse of the stl5 backup with no luck either.

dd if= /sdcard/cdma.rfs of=/dev/stl5

 

[new optimus]

Ya I believe the partition table is corrupt so it wont create the partition.

 

[brogren802]

I found this if anyone is willing to backup a good efs.


[GUIDE] How to fix "unknown baseband" / "stuck on airplane mode" problem - xda-developers

 

[hroark13]

I found this if anyone is willing to backup a good efs.


[GUIDE] How to fix "unknown baseband" / "stuck on airplane mode" problem - xda-developers

I would try this on a bad phone first, to see if it bricks it any further


Also if you copy the efs from one phone to another, your are basically cloning the phone, both phones will have same MEID and such


But this is worth playing with, use it on a bad phone and see if it backs up the efs, and then reboot phone and see if it still boots

I think Samsung may have some code on these phone that detects tampering with efs and hard bricks it on you, so maybe it would be safer to do this with CM7