how to fix damged gdfs

philzfog · 03-21-2008

hi chaps i have spent a week learning to fix the gdfs on 2 off my se phones so when i get a min i will right a post showing how to do it

marquinhos · 03-21-2008

thats good bud, keep up

philzfog · 03-21-2008

how i fixed my gdfs on a k800 and w850i i will not take no responsibility for any thing u try to do from this link TAKE A GDFS BACK UP FROM UR PHONE !!!!!!!THIS IS NOT FOR A NEWBE CHANGE UR GDFS WILL KILL UR PHONE IF U DONT KNOW WHAT U ARE DOINGthis will not work on phones that have been killed by wrighting the wrong gdfs ie / imei missmatchs on se tool read out please take note
Case:
Let's say you have a DB2020 phone with some GDFS issue, say you wrote K800 firmware to a K790 and now you have "no network".

Solution:You'll have to rewrite the original GDFS. Sadly, most users never back it up before proceeding with whatever operation they intended to do in the first place. This is done through the "Read GDFS" button in SETool, btw . it will produce a .bin-file named with the phones IMEI and can be found in your SETool basedir. Take good care of it.

Now, lets say you didn't back up the phones GDFS and did something to screw it up. Then you have a problem, because rewriting it with another phones GDFS will screw the security units and the phone will be bricked. Generally a bad thing, right ?.

Luckily, there is a way to solve this and the procedure is as follows:

Use only COM/UFS interfaces (but i used it with out my setool3 box just used se tool lite just make sure u dont turn ur phone on at all till it is finished )

1 (Optional): Back up the corrupt GDFS (yes, even though it's corrupted, so you have a full backup just in case). Again: "Read GDFS". Move it to a safe place on your HD, this is to avoid accidentally deleting it and for avoiding confusion with all the other txt-files that will appear later on.
2: Create a scriptfile (a normal txt-file will do) with the following contents:

Code:
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
gdfsread:00020e5a
gdfsread:00020e48
gdfsread:00010851
gdfsread:00000006
gdfsread:0000000E
gdfsread:00000013
gdfsread:0000001C
gdfsread:00000018
gdfsread:000000AA
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Now save it. Name it "readsecunits.txt" or whatever. Select the file in SETool's MISC-field and press "Write SCRIPT".

All the read units will be stored in a single file named by the phone's IMEI.
rename it as "secunitsbackup.txt" to avoid confusion

3: Apply the GDFS from a working DB2020 phone.
- Read it out from the source phone (it will be stored in the SETool basedir named by the source phone's IMEI)

Do NOT turn the phone on afterwards.

4: Now, you'll have to write back the original units. Apply the "secunitsbackup.txt" you created by selecting it in the MISC-field and pressing "Write SCRIPT".

Voila, it should have done the trick.
u may have to hold the 2 and 5 button to get setool lite to recognise ur phone not the c button

Another method (Without the need for GDFS backup/etc...)

Create and execute the following script:
gdfswrite:000000ACXX

Set XX to whatever corresponds to your phones bandlock:

Code:
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
;00 MS_GSM900
;01 MS_EGSM900
;02 MS_DCS1800
;03 MS_PCS1900
;04 MS_GSM900_DCS1800
;05 MS_EGSM900_DCS1800
;06 MS_GSM900_PCS1900
;07 MS_EGSM900_PCS1900
;08 MS_DCS1800_PCS1900
;09 MS_GSM900_DCS1800_PCS1900
;0a MS_EGSM900_DCS1800_PCS1900
;0b MS_GSM850
;0c MS_GSM850_PCS1900
;0d MS_EGSM900_GSM850
;0e MS_DCS1800_GSM850
;0f MS_EGSM900_DCS1800_GSM850
;10 MS_EGSM900_GSM850_PCS1900
;11 MS_DCS1800_GSM850_PCS1900
;12 MS_EGSM900_DCS1800_GSM850_PCS1900
----------------------------------------------------------
thanks to sng i have changed it a bit to use se tool lite
i take no responsibility for any thing u try to do from this link TAKE A GDFS BACK UP FROM UR PHONE !!!!!!!

this will not work on phones that have been killed by wrighting the wrong gdfs ie / imei missmatchs on se tool read out please take note
u will have to use Top Sony - Buy Ultimate Unlocker LOGs to fix this

solidsnake204 · 03-21-2008

Great find!
Well done!

philzfog · 03-21-2008

thanks bud i have loads off plp asking my how to fix gdfs not to sure if it will work on all but it worked on most db2020 phones

madtaff · 03-24-2008

a massive thank you to phil on this tut as i knackered up the gdfs on my daughters phone when i tryed to unlock it. loads of people told me that i had killed it and it wasnt saveable but phil helped me out and pointed me in the direction of this thread.
so i tryed this on my daughters w850i and it worked.im new to these mobiles so havnt a clue and this only took me a couple of mins to do.

keep up the good work phil m8

philzfog · 03-24-2008

no probs bud think iam getting my happy to help lasyk teashirt tomoz hahaha

balu4386 · 04-15-2008

thank u very much not a single thanks thousands of thanks . this guy has lot of patience. once again thank uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

FaUZaNeVVa · 05-01-2008

Works fine with my W830 CID52. Thanks!!

kitloy · 05-12-2008

Quote:

3: Apply the GDFS from a working DB2020 phone.
- Read it out from the source phone (it will be stored in the SETool basedir named by the source phone's IMEI)

what do you mean by these my friend?

is it that your going to get a new gdfs from the same model and write

it to the other phone? im confused. im newbie.

can you please elaborate more,if its not too much to ask from you.

thank you in advance ..

have a nice day..

philzfog · 05-12-2008

add my msn iam online will help

marquinhos · 05-12-2008

Quote:

Originally Posted by philzfog

add my msn iam online will help

hello bud how are you? long time no see... I have a pic of my doghter to show you..

kitloy · 05-12-2008

Quote:

Originally Posted by philzfog

add my msn iam online will help

i only got yahoo messanger...

philzfog · 05-12-2008

yahoo will do pm with it hope ur girl is doneing well marquinhos

kitloy · 05-24-2008

Quote:

Set XX to whatever corresponds to your phones bandlock:

what is a bandlock?

sorry..hehehe so many questions..

philzfog · 05-24-2008

band lock is a code that the network is like o2 /tmobile if its unlocked it will be 00-000

i_love_se · 05-24-2008

hey buddy, can you help me, please. yesterday i applied sysgfx patch on my cousins fone,a w810i then tried to put player skins on it. i had the phone on file trasnfer. i turned on the fone and it kept flashhing white. i managed to figure out a way to get rid of the flashing screen, i flashed the main and file system. now when i try to turn it on it says please wait and sotps 1/4 of the way. i dont understand why, i did exactly the same on mine and it works perfectly. i was wondering if you new a way of trasnfering my gdfs onto his fone, i am going to add you on msn so you can help me. please.

philzfog · 05-25-2008

did u make a gdfs back b4 u started to mess with it ?

i_love_se · 05-26-2008

no. im new to this i thought u only neede to make it 4 one fone. so i backed up the one that was fully flashed. i thought i could write that to my cousins one. but it didnt work. i flashed main and fs. then when i started it up it showed please wait and hung at 1/4 can u please help me

i_love_se · 05-26-2008

but in a way i think it doenst have anything to do with the gdfs because if it was dead it wouldnt get to please wait

03-21-2008	#1
philzfog Team Member Lasyk Elite Member Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: bury noth west iam like marmite u love me or hate me Posts: 2,457	how to fix damged gdfs hi chaps i have spent a week learning to fix the gdfs on 2 off my se phones so when i get a min i will right a post showing how to do it __________________ philzfog™ sorry pm wont be anserd about modding only fix broken phones se tool box,nspro,jaf,uni box,and lg virgis box user

03-21-2008	#2
marquinhos Team Member Lasyk Gold Member Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Arraiolos, Portugal Posts: 570	thats good bud, keep up __________________ http://www.danasoft.com/sig/ukluil.jpg W580i: -Costumized Font -Fire Menu Icons -20 Flash themes -Improved Accoustics -Some Useful Applications W910i modding in progress...

03-21-2008	#3
philzfog Team Member Lasyk Elite Member Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: bury noth west iam like marmite u love me or hate me Posts: 2,457	how i fixed my gdfs on a k800 and w850i how i fixed my gdfs on a k800 and w850i i will not take no responsibility for any thing u try to do from this link TAKE A GDFS BACK UP FROM UR PHONE !!!!!!!THIS IS NOT FOR A NEWBE CHANGE UR GDFS WILL KILL UR PHONE IF U DONT KNOW WHAT U ARE DOINGthis will not work on phones that have been killed by wrighting the wrong gdfs ie / imei missmatchs on se tool read out please take note Case: Let's say you have a DB2020 phone with some GDFS issue, say you wrote K800 firmware to a K790 and now you have "no network". Solution:You'll have to rewrite the original GDFS. Sadly, most users never back it up before proceeding with whatever operation they intended to do in the first place. This is done through the "Read GDFS" button in SETool, btw . it will produce a .bin-file named with the phones IMEI and can be found in your SETool basedir. Take good care of it. Now, lets say you didn't back up the phones GDFS and did something to screw it up. Then you have a problem, because rewriting it with another phones GDFS will screw the security units and the phone will be bricked. Generally a bad thing, right ?. Luckily, there is a way to solve this and the procedure is as follows: Use only COM/UFS interfaces (but i used it with out my setool3 box just used se tool lite just make sure u dont turn ur phone on at all till it is finished ) 1 (Optional): Back up the corrupt GDFS (yes, even though it's corrupted, so you have a full backup just in case). Again: "Read GDFS". Move it to a safe place on your HD, this is to avoid accidentally deleting it and for avoiding confusion with all the other txt-files that will appear later on. 2: Create a scriptfile (a normal txt-file will do) with the following contents: Code: --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- gdfsread:00020e5a gdfsread:00020e48 gdfsread:00010851 gdfsread:00000006 gdfsread:0000000E gdfsread:00000013 gdfsread:0000001C gdfsread:00000018 gdfsread:000000AA --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Now save it. Name it "readsecunits.txt" or whatever. Select the file in SETool's MISC-field and press "Write SCRIPT". All the read units will be stored in a single file named by the phone's IMEI. rename it as "secunitsbackup.txt" to avoid confusion 3: Apply the GDFS from a working DB2020 phone. - Read it out from the source phone (it will be stored in the SETool basedir named by the source phone's IMEI) Do NOT turn the phone on afterwards. 4: Now, you'll have to write back the original units. Apply the "secunitsbackup.txt" you created by selecting it in the MISC-field and pressing "Write SCRIPT". Voila, it should have done the trick. u may have to hold the 2 and 5 button to get setool lite to recognise ur phone not the c button Another method (Without the need for GDFS backup/etc...) Create and execute the following script: gdfswrite:000000ACXX Set XX to whatever corresponds to your phones bandlock: Code: --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ;00 MS_GSM900 ;01 MS_EGSM900 ;02 MS_DCS1800 ;03 MS_PCS1900 ;04 MS_GSM900_DCS1800 ;05 MS_EGSM900_DCS1800 ;06 MS_GSM900_PCS1900 ;07 MS_EGSM900_PCS1900 ;08 MS_DCS1800_PCS1900 ;09 MS_GSM900_DCS1800_PCS1900 ;0a MS_EGSM900_DCS1800_PCS1900 ;0b MS_GSM850 ;0c MS_GSM850_PCS1900 ;0d MS_EGSM900_GSM850 ;0e MS_DCS1800_GSM850 ;0f MS_EGSM900_DCS1800_GSM850 ;10 MS_EGSM900_GSM850_PCS1900 ;11 MS_DCS1800_GSM850_PCS1900 ;12 MS_EGSM900_DCS1800_GSM850_PCS1900 ---------------------------------------------------------- thanks to sng i have changed it a bit to use se tool lite i take no responsibility for any thing u try to do from this link TAKE A GDFS BACK UP FROM UR PHONE !!!!!!! this will not work on phones that have been killed by wrighting the wrong gdfs ie / imei missmatchs on se tool read out please take note u will have to use Top Sony - Buy Ultimate Unlocker LOGs to fix this __________________ philzfog™ sorry pm wont be anserd about modding only fix broken phones se tool box,nspro,jaf,uni box,and lg virgis box user Last edited by philzfog; 04-03-2009 at 12:04 AM.

03-21-2008	#4
solidsnake204 Team Member Lasyk Titanium Member Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: TPA\Preset\Lasyk! Posts: 4,568	Great find! Well done! __________________ Do not PM me, I'm not active on this forum so PM's will be unanswered. http://sfx-images.mozilla.org/affili...2_best-yet.png

03-21-2008	#5
philzfog Team Member Lasyk Elite Member Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: bury noth west iam like marmite u love me or hate me Posts: 2,457	thanks bud i have loads off plp asking my how to fix gdfs not to sure if it will work on all but it worked on most db2020 phones __________________ philzfog™ sorry pm wont be anserd about modding only fix broken phones se tool box,nspro,jaf,uni box,and lg virgis box user

03-24-2008	#6
madtaff Registered User Lasyk Friend Join Date: Mar 2008 Posts: 33	a massive thank you to phil on this tut as i knackered up the gdfs on my daughters phone when i tryed to unlock it. loads of people told me that i had killed it and it wasnt saveable but phil helped me out and pointed me in the direction of this thread. so i tryed this on my daughters w850i and it worked.im new to these mobiles so havnt a clue and this only took me a couple of mins to do. keep up the good work phil m8

04-15-2008	#8
balu4386 Registered User Lasyk Friend Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 9	thank u very much not a single thanks thousands of thanks . this guy has lot of patience. once again thank uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

05-01-2008	#9
FaUZaNeVVa Team Member Lasyk Gold Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Banjarmangu, Banjarnegara, Jawa Tengah, Indonesia Posts: 519	Works fine with my W830 CID52. Thanks!! __________________ http://img161.imageshack.us/img161/6796/16014fr0.png W830 Patches and Elfpack

05-12-2008	#11
philzfog Team Member Lasyk Elite Member Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: bury noth west iam like marmite u love me or hate me Posts: 2,457	add my msn iam online will help __________________ philzfog™ sorry pm wont be anserd about modding only fix broken phones se tool box,nspro,jaf,uni box,and lg virgis box user

05-24-2008	#16
philzfog Team Member Lasyk Elite Member Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: bury noth west iam like marmite u love me or hate me Posts: 2,457	band lock is a code that the network is like o2 /tmobile if its unlocked it will be 00-000 __________________ philzfog™ sorry pm wont be anserd about modding only fix broken phones se tool box,nspro,jaf,uni box,and lg virgis box user

05-24-2008	#17
i_love_se Registered User Lasyk Friend Join Date: May 2008 Posts: 13	hey buddy, can you help me, please. yesterday i applied sysgfx patch on my cousins fone,a w810i then tried to put player skins on it. i had the phone on file trasnfer. i turned on the fone and it kept flashhing white. i managed to figure out a way to get rid of the flashing screen, i flashed the main and file system. now when i try to turn it on it says please wait and sotps 1/4 of the way. i dont understand why, i did exactly the same on mine and it works perfectly. i was wondering if you new a way of trasnfering my gdfs onto his fone, i am going to add you on msn so you can help me. please.

05-25-2008	#18
philzfog Team Member Lasyk Elite Member Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: bury noth west iam like marmite u love me or hate me Posts: 2,457	did u make a gdfs back b4 u started to mess with it ? __________________ philzfog™ sorry pm wont be anserd about modding only fix broken phones se tool box,nspro,jaf,uni box,and lg virgis box user

05-26-2008	#19
i_love_se Registered User Lasyk Friend Join Date: May 2008 Posts: 13	no. im new to this i thought u only neede to make it 4 one fone. so i backed up the one that was fully flashed. i thought i could write that to my cousins one. but it didnt work. i flashed main and fs. then when i started it up it showed please wait and hung at 1/4 can u please help me Last edited by i_love_se; 05-26-2008 at 03:35 PM.