guys, i have a very rough day about a note 2 i bought today.. hope anyone can give me guidance or offer me a service to resurrect my note 2..

today about 8am me and a forumer meet at salak selatan to cod for a note 2.. im the buyer. we have a deal last night and cod in the morning. when cod i expect everything to be nice and i want a smooth deal because its early in the morning and everyone got other things to do so i check the phone appearance and firmware version only. everything seems nice till i get home to test the phone and put a simcard. i got no network so i decide to check for simcard by trying on other phones.. sim working. i put back on the phone still not network and such.. i do a few reboot and factory resets but still no go. i google for answers maybe it just some bug or setting is not right.. but i couldnt find anything till  i read about imei number.

so i check the imei number of this phone, its wierd and i search for that imei in the web it turns out to be something wrong with the EFS file? i did some reading and i found that this is due to flashing roms without backup the EFS partition. i check the phone thoroughly and i found superuser  app which mean the device is rooted right? i didnt notice this earlier. i try to update the phone but cant because the firmware status is modified. then i ask the seller bout this phone cant connect to network but he said yesterday he still use it fine. i tried to find some solution in the web, xda forum mostly but its very hard and need the backup of the EFS partition.

004999010640000 is the current imei and i look under the battery, the original imei is very different, everybody post in the web about the exact imei i got now. its a bad imei. so i decide to go for a refund, i kindly ask the seller for a refund coz i really need the money coz i urgently need to use a smartphone. but he didnt reply, i keep asking for refund i even lowered the price so i could just use the money to buy other phone but still he didnt want. i know its also my fault not checking the phone thoroughly upon purchasing because before this, every deal i made went smooth.

so guy, what can i really do about this phone? do anyone here know how to repair the imei to original one? does anyone here provide such service? i spent almost a day in front of my PC looking for this matter but still no go. hope someone kind enough willing to help me out. tq

Heheheh, don't think so la bro. It's a birthday gift, so it has a sentimental value to me

as per antt00's request for me to try new things and not keep sticking my head in his business, i have flashed:

[ROM] [CM-PA-AOKP][JUN24-Build1] Domination - Taking Cyanogenmod to the next level

Domination!!!

first things first...

i have a android.process.acore FC

how do i go about this? i don't have hotmail installed (issues with this process FC usually, and removed FB)

why? 

Did you do a full wipe? Also did you restore anything from TB?

Silly me

i have found the cause of this catastrophy

i did a dirty wipe of course   

which means, s-wipe, dc-wipe and c-wipe

then get this prevailing FC... from this link:

http://androidforums.com/samsung-galaxy-s3...ed-working.html

seems to be the contacts so i deleted all my contacts and let google sync 'em back, FC gone

Yeah we all known you can be silly at times.  So how is the rom so far?

hmm, so far so good...
Pros:
1. many options to play with system wide, very good and more flexi than sentinel
2. they have PIE (might or might not be a pros to you but i love options to have features though i dont use em)
3. they have HALO (might or might not be a pros to you but i love options to have features though i dont use em)
4. i get to keep my awesome CM10 bootanimation even after 2 flashings
5. no dumb apps (sentinel is guilty of his Donate app)
6. so far so clean, small download size (206 mbs)

Cons:
1. stupid acore process FC. not Dev's fault (as i am coming from different roms)
2. somehow after i checked the show weather in status bar and subsequently unticked that option, the usage of the gps is still deemed warranted by the dumb ROM... 

cheap can get this
https://forum.lowyat.net/topic/2384808

but easily break if you drop

hi..i got it from the mines serdang..

cool there's halo, now one question, how did you restore your contacts and got yourself the acore force close thing?

haiyo.. i dunno how to activate the Halo thing

now i am messing it up with XenonHD ROM... >.<

easy:

1. go to TBPro
2. search "contacts"
3. check for contacts storage of some sort
4. wipe data
5. check back contacts: tada contacts all gone
6. go to system > google
7. sync back contacts
8. ba ra ba ba ba (mcd) i'm loving it 

cool there's halo, now one question, how did you restore your contacts and got yourself the acore force close thing?

so you mean to say the problem won't come if you restore your contacts from google, am i right?

requote: there's indeed Halo hidden in the Domination menu in one of the Tabs
that's right.. some clash in contacts

then i might try domination instead, since sentinel's donate app really potong stim.

i think i'm stupid, i don't know how to use Halo    

Anyone knows apps or tool that makes our phone to one core during screen off? Found this.. But it not free. Im looking for free one..hehe

Android Tuner - sklchan
BetterBatteryStats (BBS)
BetterBatteryStats (BBS) (XDA edition)
Clever Connectivity - nehalem176
Deep Sleep Battery Saver
Greenify (XDA) - Beta
Greenify (Play Store) - stable version
Gsam battery monitor (If BBS is too complicated)
Llama - sklchan

Sorry, I don't think you understand what I'm looking for.