Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli: > On Mon, 01 Apr 2019 20:04:00 +0000 > amuza <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi Denis, > Hi, > >> Thank you for your answer, but there must be a misunderstanding of my >> problem, or maybe the message you sent was not really for me... The >> thing is that I got lost with your answer : ) >> >> My question is: How can I network-unlock a Replicant i9300? >> >> I installed Replicant on this Galaxy i9300 easily (the instructions on >> the Replicant website are really good -congratulations, by the way). > >> But, when I booted the phone, it asked me for the "SIM network unlock >> PIN". So this phone was one of those sold by one of those >> Telecomunications Companies which lock them to stay in their network. >> >> And that's when I went to the Internet and followed some unlocking >> instructions for the Samsung Galaxy SIII i9300 which did not work, and >> also paid for a network-unlocking service which did not work either. > I'm not very familiar with that part but there are two ways to deal > with it: > - Unlock it by manually editing the EFS for instance with an > hexadecimal editor. I don't know how to do that but I know it's > possible. > - Unlock it on the stock distribution, before installing Replicant and > make sure that during the installation process, this unlock is kept. > The Galaxy Nexus installation guide has a section on that[1]: >> If your device was SIM-unlocked (using a code or another procedure), >> you must keep the nv_data.bin file from your current installation. >> Make sure ADB is running as root. [...] > This specific section needs to be added to other installation > procedure as well. > Here it seem to suggest that for the galaxy Nexus, it should work out > of the box and the only thing to do would be to backup the related > files. > > There are also some bugreports[2][3] that might have some information > on the topic. I didn't have the time to dig into them yet. > > References: > ----------- > [1]https://redmine.replicant.us/projects/replicant/wiki/GalaxyNexusI9250Installation > [2]https://redmine.replicant.us/issues/1845 > [3]https://redmine.replicant.us/issues/1840 > > Denis. >
Thank you. Where can I download the stock distribution for the i9300? Then, how do I install it? Should I just follow the same steps I did for the Replicant installation?
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