[Backup] QPST Backup of your NV data (IMEI) US Variants

[Ollie]

Download the Hc-KTool app again and resave your EFS. You have one already so you are good.

I move mine to external immediately.

Sent from my GT-I9300

[Jeffrey]

I have it saved to my SD as well. Thanks Ollie.

[sgthwjack]

Cannot get the backup to complete. Sprint GSIII rooted stock. Can't read roaming list error. Haven't been able to find any other reference to this particular error. Any ideas?

[Amazonfemme]

Thanks, Goose. Your instructions are clear, but I'm having a devil of a time locating my nandroid backups on my phone. I'm using EZ Recovery, and it's simple enough to make the backup ... but then I can't locate it on the phone! I don't seem to have the option to save the backup to my external SD card, so I've saved it to the internal one, but I can't find anything with today's date on it. I've got a clockworkmod folder now, but all of the files in it are dated 07 Feb 70. Color me confused.

[Goose306]

Thanks, Goose. Your instructions are clear, but I'm having a devil of a time locating my nandroid backups on my phone. I'm using EZ Recovery, and it's simple enough to make the backup ... but then I can't locate it on the phone! I don't seem to have the option to save the backup to my external SD card, so I've saved it to the internal one, but I can't find anything with today's date on it. I've got a clockworkmod folder now, but all of the files in it are dated 07 Feb 70. Color me confused.

That's a known issue that they date to 1970. Those are the backups just an issue with that CWM version. The timestamps are relatively accurate though (in the order they go) so if you know in what order you made your backup you can determine it off that.

In the future, renaming is recommended

Sent from my jellybeaned AOKP GSIII

[silver04v]

Goose, I used this way, using anycut to make a shortcut to get into the hidden menu.
[guide] how to back up IMEI on synergy - xda-developers

Will this be the same thing as if I did it on stock rooted? Everything seemed to have went fine and my file came out to be 146mb. Would you say Im all set?

EDit: Also is it needed to re dial the number and disable the hidden menu feature or can I just leave it enabled?

[aznguyen316]

signed up to this forum to say THANKS on the backup method using QPST. Was really easy to follow. Again, thanks. Found you on google =)

[CR6]

Glad you found us aznguy & welcome to the forum!

tap'n

[fael9001]

I believe your restore is easier? Isn't the EFS backup the method you guys use?

IMEI issue is random. Most phone manufacturers protect the IMEI behind some fused protection. For whatever reason Sammy hasn't or doesn't do it properly. Its not just the S3 its happened on other phones too. I believe as far as I've heard the Int'l version seems to be suffering from it less than the US variants. I'd check XDA about Int'l version, but I'm pretty sure you guys do EFS backups as you aren't on Qualcomm chips (thats why we use QPST) pretty sure the efs works for the Exynos chipsets.

I haven't a backup of EFS.

Anything for GT-I9300? For European variants?

I really concerned about this only works on Qualcomm mobile... I found nothing yet about to do this in GT-I9300.

[spodoc]

Done, finally. Boy do I feel better.