IMEI Problem

[Guest Rasetsu]

Hello there! I've been flasing my phone from GEN2 CM7 7.0.3 to original Orange UK_P729BV1.0.0B10 by TPT and then I've installed CWM 3.0.1.4 and flashed Japanese Jellyfish RLS9. Now my phone wont' recognize my SIM card and there is no IMEI number, so I can't even unlock it.

I need your help! Any ideas to get it back? I've got my correct IMEI number under the battery. I've read about Channel1.nvm but I haven't found it.

[Guest wbaw]

You just need to flash this, using the tpt method, it'll fix it - Gen2-to-Gen1-TPT-v2-stock.zip mirror mirror fddc02f6f48a53910c317fbef38cf7e4 (42mb cache 207mb system 208mb data).

It was just caused by flashing the orange tpt, which doesn't contain all the gen1 radio firmware, after you'd updated to gen2, so you were left with gen2 radio firmware that doesn't work with your gen1 rom. Your imei is fine, you just need to do another tpt to fix it so that you're either on gen1 or gen2. hecatae is updating his post so that his tpt wont cause this problem in future & it was partly my fault.

Edited May 13, 2011 by wbaw

[Guest Rasetsu]

You just need to flash this, using the tpt method, it'll fix it - Gen2-to-Gen1-TPT-v2-stock.zip mirror mirror fddc02f6f48a53910c317fbef38cf7e4 (42mb cache 207mb system 208mb data).

It was just caused by flashing the orange tpt, which doesn't contain all the gen1 radio firmware, after you'd updated to gen2, so you were left with gen2 radio firmware that doesn't work with your gen1 rom. Your imei is fine, you just need to do another tpt to fix it so that you're either on gen1 or gen2. hecatae is updating his post so that his tpt wont cause this problem in future & it was partly my fault.

Oh many thanks. It works!

[Guest Tony Sidaway]

You just need to flash this, using the tpt method, it'll fix it - Gen2-to-Gen1-TPT-v2-stock.zip mirror mirror fddc02f6f48a53910c317fbef38cf7e4 (42mb cache 207mb system 208mb data).

The phone would only boot into recovery after I did this, but as it restored the Gen1 radio I was able to follow it with a TPT from OUK_P729BV1.0.0B10.zip and get a stable system.

On looking more closely I noticed that the files system.img and userdata.img in the image folder of that TPT are identical files with the MD5 sum of bf3b4084db9718d391831846be32d3a0. Is that intentional? Normally I'd expect system.img to be of the order 100MB in size, but these files are both about 4kb, which is more consistent with the size of userdata.img in other TPT sets and obviously isn't enough for the core code of a system based on a Linux kernel.

[Guest wbaw]

The phone would only boot into recovery after I did this, but as it restored the Gen1 radio I was able to follow it with a TPT from OUK_P729BV1.0.0B10.zip and get a stable system.

On looking more closely I noticed that the files system.img and userdata.img in the image folder of that TPT are identical files with the MD5 sum of bf3b4084db9718d391831846be32d3a0. Is that intentional? Normally I'd expect system.img to be of the order 100MB in size, but these files are both about 4kb, which is more consistent with the size of userdata.img in other TPT sets and obviously isn't enough for the core code of a system based on a Linux kernel.

That's the idea, it's what it does. It flashes the radio firmware & partition sizes, then reboots into recovery so that you can use that to install a rom or backup of your choice, it doesn't contain a rom, it's just the radio firmware & 2 copies of clockworkmod recovery. boot.img is clockworkmod as well as recovery.img. system.img is a blank file system, it's just there to wipe system to make sure it doesn't get corrupted when changing partition sizes, same as userdata.img.

If you want to use the ouk tpt from hecatae after you've gone to gen2, then you'll need to add a gen1 amss.mbn & amsshd.mbn to it from my gen2 to gen1 tpt (or any other gen1 tpt), then you can skip the gen1 to gen2 tpt step & it'll work. afaik hecatae updated his post & uploaded a new version of that ouk tpt which should work, after this thread was started.

Edited May 18, 2011 by wbaw

[Guest Tony Sidaway]

Thanks. Now I finally understand how it works. Thanks for this, and the patient explanations, without which I would have been unable to restore my phone.