HELP!!! Phone is Bootlooping!!!

[Atma]

the phone portion wont activate

Do you mean like making call? Do you have a sim installed?

 

[JediSamReye]

OK thanks, I have flashed the radio, if that doesnt work ill then flash the darkside zip and a new rom

 

[JediSamReye]

ok here is the latest.... flashed to foxstar, its gingerbread but works like a champ!! Wifi is working!! Its not reading the SIM as inserted, so is that possible my sim has failed? I dont have another phone to try it in? Im a verizon guy, is there anything I can do to force it to activate with the SIM card?

 

[Atma]

is there anything I can do to force it to activate with the SIM card?

Where did you get the sim? Has the it been activated with T-Mobile?

Try power off, remove sim, reboot, power off, insert sim, reboot.

 

[JediSamReye]

Yeah its my friends he has an active account, this is his phone, he gave it to me to fix it or part it sort of thing. His card should be activated and fine

 

[Atma]

Use your phone like you are calling someone. Put this in the dialpad. *#06# Your IMEI number should come up. If it doesn't, you could have a corrupt EFS folder.

If it does come up, power off, try removing the sim and reinserting it.

 

[JediSamReye]

Dead on man, so how do I fix that? Thank you so much for all the help

 

[Atma]

Dead on man, so how do I fix that? Thank you so much for all the help

I'm happy to help if I can.

I'm not that familiar with doing that, but here is a guide you can try. There is also an app that is supposed to do that.

 

[JediSamReye]

Trying the app now. Anything I can do to thank you man?

 

[Atma]

Trying the app now. Anything I can do to thank you man?

If you can get your phone working that's all the thanks I need.

 

[Atma]

I noticed that app needs BusyBox installed to work. I don't know if you have it installed. If you have a problem with it, use this app to install BusyBox.

 

[JediSamReye]

I tried the app and it fails, so I have installed busybox and we will go from there, I have started to try the guide, and I get the read only permission error.

 

[JediSamReye]

Nevermind im stupid, got passed that one

 

[Atma]

Did you try the app again after installing busybox?

 

[JediSamReye]

go to EFS folder using root explorer, and delete "nv_data.bin", "nv_data.bin.md5"


should I be worried if those arent there?
I did restart my phone

 

[JediSamReye]

yeah even with busybox app still errors

 

[Atma]

go to EFS folder using root explorer, and delete "nv_data.bin", "nv_data.bin.md5"


should I be worried if those arent there?
I did restart my phone

I'm not sure. I'm trying to find those on mine and can't either so far.

 

[Atma]

"nv_data.bin", "nv_data.bin.md5"

Well I don't seem to have those files either.

I'll have to do some more research on this and see if I can figure out something else.

 

[JediSamReye]

Now I am getting despite, whats the odds that flashing a different rom will do anything?

 

[Atma]

Now I am getting despite, whats the odds that flashing a different rom will do anything?

I don't know. You can always try it. First go into recovery and make a backup so you can restore it later if you want to. Have you tried the Darkside cache wipe?

Before you try another rom, try this gingerbread radio.

Also, the files we can't find may be because that guide is for the I9100 phone (the GS2 International)

 

[JediSamReye]

This might be the perfect thread for someone in my shoes.
So i am getting null/null when I type that into the dialer, here is the things I have tried:
HC-kTool: Didnt work
GSII_Repair didnt work
Manual repairs with hex editor didnt work,
Flashing the Gingerbread Radios didnt work
Trying Darkside Cache now....
What I have been reading is that I might have to assign a generic IMEI, but i dont know how to do that, and google has failed me on it

 

[JediSamReye]

ok Im going to re do this download with odin:
[STOCK] [ROM] T989UVKID [26.09.2011][Android 2.3.5] Tmobile - xda-developers

Ill let you know how it goes

 

[JediSamReye]

Didnt fix my issue, its not boot looping with this stock image though, which i guess is good..... still trying to even just get this generic imei in place

 

[Atma]

Didnt fix my issue, its not boot looping with this stock image though, which i guess is good..... still trying to even just get this generic imei in place

Hey Jedi. I'll keep digging today and see if I can help find a solution for this. Sorry you have to go through all this. Is it your only phone?

 

[JediSamReye]

Thank you for everything please let me know what you come across. No its not my only phone but its my only T-Mobile phone, i have a Verizon razr m, thanks again