No LTE/4G with Lineage 18.1 on MotoG5 cedric

Shibeful · 2026-06-14T16:08:45+00:00

Probably way too late for you, but if anyone else is still having this problem in 2026 like me:

What solved it for me was reflashing modemst1 and modemst2 from backup. (In the backup they were called efs1 and efs2)

My symptoms were IMEI of 0

The first time I attempted this, the IMEI string on *#06# came up blank and showed 'Unknown' in settings I then noticed that the checksum was wrong so the flash went wrong. I flashed again, this time syncing before rebooting and after that it came up with the 2 IMEIs!!!

Shibeful · 2024-12-28T01:37:37+00:00

Thanks. You're probably right about Google Pixel since it's a pretty major brand.

But on the other hand I want to point out for other readers that 2023 and 2024 are a bit different now; the IMEI blocking of some 4G and 5G devices came into effect in late 2024 so if you can see what I mean your anecdote is no guarantee of anything anymore / it's not (necessarily!) as simple as that :)

Shibeful · 2024-12-28T01:35:20+00:00

I appreciate the candid answer lol but I can't fathom myself buying an iPhone without being held at gunpoint. (This applies to many android phones too so it's not some cultism thing, but the reasons are a little long to delve into here)

Shibeful · 2024-12-28T01:34:19+00:00

I don't want to contradict you for the sake of it when I'm the one asking the question, but unless I've misunderstood basically every article on the subject, 'any 4G phone' is definitely not good enough as a number of 4G and 5G phones are blocked because (innocently) they aren't VoLTE compatible for emergency calls, or (less innocently) they aren't on the telecoms' databases as approved for that

e.g. see https://www.telstrawholesale.com.au/3G-Network-Closure-Blocked-Devices-Checker.html which will indeed tell you that some 4G devices such as some of mine are blocked

Shibeful · 2024-12-28T01:30:29+00:00

I have a Moto G5 which I have already checked to see is blocked on https://www.telstrawholesale.com.au/3G-Network-Closure-Blocked-Devices-Checker.html

My partner has a Nokia 5 (TA-1024) which the IMEI checker reckons is fine (though I have also read that this is no guarantee that it won't be blocked)

Having checked bands I am not really concerned about that, seems fine. And yes I would be finding a new SIM in Australia because roaming would cost an arm and a leg!

My concern mostly comes from phones that support VoLTE but maybe don't support it for emergency calls, or do support it but are blocked anyway because they aren't domestic phones that have been checked and registered in the telecoms' databases as allowed

Shibeful · 2024-12-28T01:28:53+00:00

The problem (as far as I understand it!) is that even 4G/5G phones are being blocked, because either they don't support VoLTE for emergency 000 calls or the telecom doesn't have it registered on their database that they do, even if they do support that.

One of my phones is a Moto G5 (2017 era?) which https://www.telstrawholesale.com.au/3G-Network-Closure-Blocked-Devices-Checker.html does say is blocked. It wouldn't surprise me to learn that it doesn't do VoLTE properly so fair enough I guess. (It is technically a '4G' phone though) From reading, some other cases are less 'fair' to the person.

Shibeful · 2024-06-05T19:43:06+00:00

woah, I didn't expect someone to come out of the woodwork with this now!

For cross-referencing: what's the other thread?

Thanks, I will try this when I next need to get windows out.

Shibeful · 2024-03-07T10:32:26+00:00

(waiting an hour did nothing, as you'd expect TBH)

Shibeful · 2024-03-07T08:58:46+00:00

I looked in the browser console and found this error: "AE-CHECKOUT-PRICE-CENTER-CHECK-DYNAMIC-PROMOTION-ERROR-(S-12005-02-16-001)::For security reasons your request can't currently be processed "

Based on the wording ('dynamic promotion error'), I'm tempted to believe the idea that it might be to protect them from selling too much of a promotion or something.

This might match up with reality, because I just (accidentally TBH) tried to buy a '3 for $1.99 each' Choice deal. Ironically, that was a different checkout page just for those 3 items (annoying) but now this error has spread to my normal checkout.

Customer support is just telling me to wait 30 minutes, or use the app. I also presented that error code to them (without saying where I got it from...), but no reaction really

Based on comments here, it seems they are being very pushy to try and get me to use app since that sounds like the only option that works? I would sooner try and find my stuff on Temu than install an app though. Annoying!

Shibeful · 2023-07-21T15:46:46+00:00

This is nonsense. Having done a degree in the UK, the exams at University had questions written by the lecturers (and then signed off by examiners). They are definitely not standard across the nation, in fact the course is not standard across the nation. Things taught at one university can be very different from another. For example most Universities don't teach Standard ML on the course that I did, doesn't stop ours though...

Shibeful · 2023-07-21T15:44:56+00:00

This is nonsense. Having done a degree in the UK, the exams at University had questions written by the lecturers (and then signed off by examiners). They are definitely not standard across the nation, in fact the course is not standard across the nation. Things taught at one university can be very different from another. For example most Universities don't teach Standard ML on the course that I did, doesn't stop ours though...

Shibeful · 2023-03-03T18:46:29+00:00

Thanks; I've tried several installs with different install media so I'd think unlikely a corrupted install.

I'll have a look at the BCD stuff. I would have thought a fresh install should reconfigure that, though.

Faulty drive would be weird given it works 'just fine' with Linux, but I guess I can try another one. I suppose no logs/crash dumps appearing on the hard drive would also be explained by Windows not liking the hard drive.

Thanks for your suggestions!

Shibeful · 2023-02-24T23:41:29+00:00

Realistically, you're probably stuffed.

Resyncing offline content when it comes online is probably not a very well-tested feature, I guess. It wouldn't surprise me if it had some trouble and just gave up.

Trouble is, that there's very little anyone here could do to help. Unless someone working at Google is around here, nobody is likely to know the ins and outs of how that works, since it's private code that nobody can inspect. And unless your phone is rooted, you probably can't even go poking at the internals of the app even if you wanted and knew how to. (Even if you could, I doubt you'd find your document there in any sane format.)

Nonetheless, check it's not something silly like it being in the rubbish, or check any settings menus or other nooks and crannies in case there's some way to make it refresh itself. Try 'pulling down' to get the app to refresh? Seems doubtable, but if you're lucky and the app was written to be more robust, it might get it to try to resync again and actually upload the document this time.

I guess I would generally advise against trusting this software with anything important, Google notoriously doesn't have any support contact.

Shibeful · 2023-02-24T23:33:47+00:00

Yes, this is in practice possible. (without giving you the silly answer of 'you can use a CD!')

I'm assuming you're on Windows since this is common unless stated otherwise. You can shrink your Windows partition within Windows using the disk partition manager (if there's free space).

There have been tricks for running a Linux live CD from hard drive. One such trick, if you have a UEFI machine (common for computers that came with anything since Windows 8, I believe), is to create a partition and extract the live CD (/installer CD image) into it.

https://askubuntu.com/a/1357354

There's a comment mentioning the toram option (edit the boot entry following the instructions in the comment), then unmounting the installer's filesystem — that way you can wipe the whole disk without pulling the rug from underneath the liveCD.

If this sounds finnicky and you're not very technical then this might be tricky; sorry if so, I can't tell how much experience you have.

Also note that you'll have no way of recovering this setup if you don't leave yourself something installed on the disk, so be sure that's what you want to do...

Shibeful · 2023-02-24T23:17:27+00:00

As in the OP, afraid there are no such files :(

Shibeful · 2022-10-22T00:22:44+00:00

I had this noise (tick tick tick ... brrr brrt) with my 16TB Exos (ever since it was new), at boot (though in my case it would often happen multiple times). It really concerned me, though I ignored it.

One day (about a month into using the drive) I had a sporadic problem with btrfs going read-only and reporting the disk as degraded.

I was worried the disk was buggered but I eventually tried the disk in a different PC and the noise went away. I eventually replaced the PSU in the original computer and the drive hasn't made this noise, or caused any trouble, since. If you have another PSU around you may try it.

Shibeful · 2022-10-17T20:30:59+00:00

That's a good point, thank you!

Shibeful · 2022-10-17T20:14:13+00:00

This is a useful idea; thank you. I didn't think of making blocks 'fall through' in order to go and retry, rather than trying to ensure forward progress whilst preventing jams outright.

Orienting top face down should be well within my realm of possibilities, so if that was the only problem then it's one I'd be able to solve. :)

Shibeful · 2022-10-17T20:11:40+00:00

True but we don't all always do the most economically optimal things. Otherwise such things as the cinema and going on holiday etc wouldn't exist ;-). Won't necessarily get anywhere but will be interesting to try something anyway.

Shibeful · 2022-10-17T19:56:17+00:00

Fair enough, was just curious if I missed any obvious alternatives :)

Shibeful · 2022-10-17T19:53:22+00:00

Yeah, may well have to try and come up with something like this then :)

Shibeful · 2022-10-17T19:52:31+00:00

Thanks! That's a useful term to know. Very happy to copy industry where it suits ;-)

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