Can't Activate Device After Factory Reset - HELP!

[melanie_jane]

Hi,
I'm new here and I'm not sure if I'm posting to the right place but I need some help. I have a rooted Sprint Galaxy S3 running KitKat 4.4.2. I'd been trying to install CyanogenMod with no success.
At some point I did a factory reset of the phone and decided not to continue with the CyanogenMod but I had ClockworkMod recovery on my phone and decided to restore to it.
Immediately I started getting errors that gapps and a bunch of other apps stopped working...I couldn't do anything so I booted into recovery mode again and did another factory reset. Now I can't activate the phone.:'( Any help would be much appreciated.

 

[Golfdriver97]

Hi,
I'm new here and I'm not sure if I'm posting to the right place but I need some help. I have a rooted Sprint Galaxy S3 running KitKat 4.4.2. I'd been trying to install CyanogenMod with no success.
At some point I did a factory reset of the phone and decided not to continue with the CyanogenMod but I had ClockworkMod recovery on my phone and decided to restore to it.
Immediately I started getting errors that gapps and a bunch of other apps stopped working...I couldn't do anything so I booted into recovery mode again and did another factory reset. Now I can't activate the phone.:'( Any help would be much appreciated.

Welcome to the forums.
I would clear cache in recovery and do one more factory reset, and see if that helps.

 

[melanie_jane]

I did that - to no avail. Should I try to unroot it and reinstall the factory firmware?

 

[Golfdriver97]

I did that - to no avail. Should I try to unroot it and reinstall the factory firmware?

By reflashing a stock ROM via Odin, yes.

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[melanie_jane]

Do you know where I can find a stock ROM?

 

[Golfdriver97]

Do you know where I can find a stock ROM?

Sammobile .com

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[melanie_jane]

I found a stock ROM but it's JellyBean not KitKat. Is it ok to flash an earlier version?

 

[Golfdriver97]

I found a stock ROM but it's JellyBean not KitKat. Is it ok to flash an earlier version?

If it is too far back, no. I can try to find a different site.

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[Golfdriver97]

Try here if you are on Sprint. http://www.rwilco12.com

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[melanie_jane]

Thanks for that. In my travels, I think I found what the problem may be - I need to restore my IMEI? I've been looking for a tutorial on how to do it with little luck. Could you help with that?

 

[Golfdriver97]

Thanks for that. In my travels, I think I found what the problem may be - I need to restore my IMEI? I've been looking for a tutorial on how to do it with little luck. Could you help with that?

Unfortunately, no. I have no idea how to do that.

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