[HELP!] Phone requesting SIM Unlock PIN after a flash?

Installed SlimKat and then swapped to CM11 on the Mrs' S4 Mini a while back because it started acting up, then CM11 one day just rebooted her phone and wouldn't let it boot (stuck in a boot cycle) so I decided to wipe the phone and pop on a stock firmware from Sammobile.com. All went fine flashing with ODIN, however now whenever the phone boots up it is asking for a SIM Unlock PIN - the phone is on Tesco Mobile and worked fine with the original Samsung firmware on and the other ROMS but now when i've come to put these what I thought were stock ROMs on it is asking for a SIM Unlock Pin and wont recognise the sim card for some reason.

All of the firmwares ive tried from SAMMOBILE have been UK ones for O2, EE and another carrier. My thinking was that O2 would work but it didnt and neither did any of the others. Whats caused the phone to do this blocking of the SIM? Anyone any ideas? Is there anything I can do to get the phone back up and running? Hope it isn't borked as she will be less than happy haha!

Requesting some help :)

Hello Everyone!

I am new, my name is rohan and I have my eyes on the Xposed framework. I wanted to download some cool apps but i realized i needed Xposed framework. I own a Samsung Galaxy S5, Android 5.0, It has an ARM32 chip or something like that and i am a huge fan of Xposed now. So i didn't realize until now...I download TWRP, created a recovery and then i downloaded the .zip file for Xposed's framework to be installed. I was using TWRP and flashed the file via recovery but then my phone was starting, remained on the "samsung" (the blue dots like some fireworks) and never went beyond it. Could i get some help on this? Is this the BootLoop?...

Also, I don't know how to recover my phone too, it was also a rooted phone -- i forgot to do a backup for it...So any chances my phone will work again? Currently i have an S6 Edge - SM-G925F. But no plans to root the big boy yet.

Requesting for a new ROM for installation

My prompted for a privacy protection password and it requires flashing because when i carried out hard reset, it failed. however, am failing to get the best ROM to replace the existing ROM.
my phone details are;
BB Chip: MT6572
Kernel ver: 3.467
android ver: 4.4.2
sw ver: ALPS.KK1.MP6.V1
Custom Build Number ver: P900E_En20150606
Also the phone is not a genuine Sony Xperia phone. (SONY XPERIA Z3 CLONE)


I will be glad for the best posted link for the ROM as my phone is a month down without usage
Thank you
Basooma Uganda

Requesting for a New ROM for install on my phone

My prompted for a privacy protection password and it requires flashing because when i carried out hard reset, it failed. however, am failing to get the best ROM to replace the existing ROM.
my phone details are;
BB Chip: MT6572
Kernel ver: 3.467
android ver: 4.4.2
sw ver: ALPS.KK1.MP6.V1
Custom Build Number ver: P900E_En20150606
Also the phone is not a genuine Sony Xperia phone.


I will be glad for the best posted link for the ROM as my phone is a month down without usage
Thank you
Basooma Uganda