[Replicant] Network unlocking on Replicant

[amuza]

Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli:
> On Mon, 01 Apr 2019 20:04:00 +0000
> amuza <amuza at riseup.net> 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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