Showing posts with label partition. Show all posts
Showing posts with label partition. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 18, 2016

How to Backup Restore EFS Partition IMEI for Samsung Galaxy S5 ALL Variant

How to Backup Restore EFS Partition IMEI for Samsung Galaxy S5 ALL Variant


EFS partition contains a lot of important data about your phone, such as WiFi/Bluetooth MACs, IMEI, others.
Its highly recommended to backup EFS partition if you own a Samsung galaxy S5. If one day your phones EFS partition is corrupted, your phones IMEI will be changed to "NULL NULL" and you will face "Not Registered On Network" problem and you wont be able to use your phone correctly.

This tool will allow you to backup the whole EFS partition of the galaxy S5 in one file, to restore at anytime and fix "Not Registered On Network" problem.

Requirements :
  • Rooted Samsung galaxy S5
  • Installed mobile USB driver or Samsung Kies on your PC.
  • EFS backup/restore tool
  • PC, USB cable
Steps :
  • Download and extract EFS backup/restore tool
  • Enable USB debugging, then Connect your phone to PC via USB cable
  • Open the extracted "EFS_Backup_Restore" folder and double click on "EFS.bat"
  • For LTE variant : choose option (1) to backup and option (2) to restore.
    (SM-G900A, SM-G900F, SM-G900M, SM-G900P, SM-G900R4, SM-G900T, SM-G900V, SM-G900W8).
  • For SM-G900H : choose option (3) to backup and option (4) to restore.
  • For SM-G906S, SM-G901F : choose option (5) to backup and option (6) to restore. 
Notes :
  • This tool works only for rooted devices
  • Make sure you choose the correct option for your device while restoring EFS partition.
  • Make sure you have ALL backup files in the same directory of "EFS.bat" file while restoring.
  • Backup files will be saved in the same folder of *.bat file
  • Use this tool at your own risk.
Downloads :
  • Latest Samsung Mobile Driver HERE
  • Latest Samsung Kies 2 HERE
  • Latest Samsung Kies 3 HERE
  • EFS Backup Restore tool HERE

Available link for download

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Sunday, October 16, 2016

How To Backup Restore EFS Partition IMEI For Samsung Galaxy S3

How To Backup Restore EFS Partition IMEI For Samsung Galaxy S3



Some users while installing a custom ROM, downgrade recovery or unlocking bootloader might lose the IMEI of   there devices and this will lead to losing network
This Guide will help you to make a backup of  the EFS partition for your galaxy S3
And if one day you lost/changed your devices IMEI or become NULL NULL, with this backup you will be able to restore it easily without any problem.

Requirements :
Rooted Samsung galaxy S3
Installed "KTool" app in your device (Link below)

Backing up instructions :
1- Open "KTool" app and accept the root permission
2- Press on "Backup EFS to /sdcard/efs.img"
(if you want press "yes" to verify the backup files)
3- Open "My files" then sdcard (you will find the backed up files)
Save the two files to your computer or upload it to the cloud
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Restoring instructions : (ONLY IF YOU LOST THE IMEI)
1- Copy "efs.img" and "efs.tar.gz" files to the internal storage
2- Open "KTool" app and accept the root permission
3- Choose "Restore EFS from backup (DANGEROUS!)"
4- Tap on "Restore IMG"
after it finished restart you device
YT Video link : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gf8JZSYbnkw
Notes :
~ This process will not help if you didnt have a backup
~ The backup will be saved in the internal storage as "efs.img" and "efs.tar.gz"
~ KTool work only on Samsung galaxy S2/Note/Nexus/S3 (International I9300 - *NOT* US variants)
~ NEVER RESTORE IF YOU ALREADY DIDNT LOST THE IMEI
~ I am not responsible if something bad happened to your device (use this AT YOUR OWN RISK)

Downloads :
KTool app http://goo.gl/gcu66

Available link for download

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