No phone service on Samsung Galaxy S3

[John Sullivan]

On July 17, 2015 7:52:24 PM EDT, Ben Sturmfels <ben at stumbles.id.au> wrote:
>On 18/07/15 07:15, Paul Kocialkowski wrote:
>>> I've successfully installed Replicant 4.2 0003, Replicant 4.2 0002
>and
>>> also CyanogenMod stable (Samsung Galaxy S III (Intl) - i9300) but
>none
>>> seem to connect to a phone network.
>> 
>> Good that you have decided to free your phone :) Sorry that it didn't
>> work out of the box, though.
>
>Thanks for all your work on Replicant too. I've been a happy Replicant
>device owner for more than 4 years now. :)
>
>I should mention that I only briefly switched on the phone on with the
>stock operating system before installing Replicant.  I didn't actually
>insert a SIM card and check that telephony worked. I guess there is a
>chance that the device is faulty, but it was brand new (sealed box).
>
>>> Output of `adb logcat -b radio` on 4.3 0002 is attached.
>> 
>> Thanks for providing those. It looks like there is something wrong
>with
>> your nv_data. Could you please paste the result of:
>> adb shell ls -la /efs/
>> 
>> so that we can see whether everything is good with those files?
>
>$ adb shell ls -la /efs/
>opendir failed, Permission denied
>
>$ adb shell "ls -la / | grep efs"
>drwxrwx--x radio    system            2015-06-23 12:33 efs
>
>> I strongly advise that you make a backup of those files as soon as
>> possible anyway:
>> adb pull /efs/ .
>
>$ adb pull /efs/ .
>pull: building file list...
>0 files pulled. 0 files skipped.
>
>I'm not really familiar with how you get elevated permissions under
>Android I'm afraid.
>
>
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adb root

If it denies you permission, go to security settings and set it to allow adb to have root.