[Replicant] Network unlocking on Replicant

[Fil Lupin]

Hi Amuza,
I am not sure I understand your question but does the https://redmine.replicant.us/projects/replicant/wiki/GalaxyS3I9300Installation page answer it ?

It especially contains the instructions to install replicant and give a link to https://redmine.replicant.us/projects/replicant/wiki/ReplicantImages to download images.

Hope this will help

- Fil Lupin.

‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
On Tuesday, April 2, 2019 4:21 PM, amuza <amuza at riseup.net> wrote:

> 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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