I bought a 2nd hand galaxy nexus and just notices the IMEI is 004999010640000 which doesnt match with the one on the back of the phone. How can I restore it? thanks
does the IMEI reflect back to the carrier? If it was called in lost or stolen and I put a sim in the phone with out changing the imei with verizon will it work?
This is generic IMEI and most likely means that phone was originally sold SIM locked for specific carrier. Until there's a shorter howto/app, see here for details and how to get rid of it:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1606982
Yes, IMEI is reported to the carrier and can be blocked, effectively making your device unusable as a phone. Generic IMEI above for now works in the US, but it's blocked for example in India.
IMEI is also reported to google, as can be seen from dashboard. Would be fun if they started to track & block stolen android phones...
I have been using it for a month but until today i wanted to try it out on the original carrier so I noticed it didnt work... Then I checked the imei and saw that it doesnt match. thats why i want to go back to the original IMEI so I can use the phone on the original carrier
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im currently using aokp jb. the back of my phone says one imei while the imei in the phone says a different one. apparently the imei number 004999010640000 belongs to a non-existant 16gb iphone 3gs. i dont know what changed my imei but i do know that at&t has recently started blacklisting stolen/lost devices and the imei i listed above appears as stolen. i dont know if people have been having problems while going to make a phone call but i have and just wanted to share the info i learned at at&t.
Maybe call at&T or go to a store and ask them to look it up and verify that it's not an iphone nor is it stolen but I doubt you'll have any really problems as at&t really doesn't do much for a stolen phone once the customer buys a new one
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Where did you buy your Nexus? If you got it secondhand most likely the seller changed the IMEI but I dont know why that would matter as ATT doesnt sell the phone so they dont care if it was stolen. Pretty strange situation you find yourself in.
You might want to ask ATT to see if someone is using the IMEI on the back of your phone. If so, maybe they have the stolen iPhone. If you can get it straightened out, great. If you can't, send a pic of your phone's real IMEI and report it stolen. Then the crook (if there is one) can't use it, either.
my phone has two imei's one on the back and the one in the nv_data.bin the one in the nv_data is a generic one apparently which i dont know how it got there, most likely when my phone was sim unlocked cause i didnt buy it through the play store. and ive been trying to figure out how to restore imei's and have been following guide after guide to no avail. i know that imei changing is illegal and banned here but i dont know what else to do
tl;dr : my galaxy nexus has a generic imei in it and att is blacklisting my phone because of it
I purchased a phone off CL. I tried to put a SIM card in but it doesn't recognize one. So i realized the IMEI number on the back does not match the IMEI number in android OS. It doesn't say 000000 or one of those fake IMEI 049 numbers. It just has another IMEI number. My question is, is there a way to modify the numbers to match the IMEI number i have on the back of my phone?
I actually didn't know it didn't match until i sent it to samsung to fix. I thought it was just a problem with the SIM tray but they stated that the IMEI numbers don't match. As a result, they just sent my phone back without fixing anything.
Please help me out. It's on stock rom and not rooted
Again.. the phone is not blacklisted.. I want to change the IMEI number (software) shown in android OS to match the IMEI number (hardware) that i have shown on the back of my phone. I don't know why it's not the same.
Thanks for your help
when phones are refurbished, they change the imei number so its probably just a refurbished phone. Leave the imei alone. Im pretty sure the imei doesnt affect the phone recognizing the sim card anyway, but i could be wrong on that
TheAtheistOtaku said:
when phones are refurbished, they change the imei number so its probably just a refurbished phone. Leave the imei alone. Im pretty sure the imei doesnt affect the phone recognizing the sim card anyway, but i could be wrong on that
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They do change the IMEI when they refurbish, but they also put a brand new sticker on it that shows the new IMEI. Also it's a different sticker than the one that comes on a new phone. It's a different size and it positioned differently. Makes it VERY clear if your phone is new or refurbished.
Aznn0, though you may not realize it what you bought is a stolen/blacklisted/insurance exchange/etc S4. It had a bad IMEI and the seller changed it (illegally) and then sold it to you without bothering to mention the device's history.
If you changed it to the IMEI listed on the back of the phone (And I am telling you in no undercertain terms that you should not!) I'd bet latge sums of money that the phone would go dead because the IMEI listed on the back is a blacklisted number.
So Samsung won't touch it ever again. They will never do a repair for you. If it breaks, you're on your own to fix it.
None of this is probably your fauly and I believe you didn't know what you bought. But it is what it is.
Regardless, asking questions about how to change an IMEI are expressly not permitted on XDA. I know you didn't know, so no hard feelings. But don't ask about how to change an IMEI here again.
Skipjacks said:
They do change the IMEI when they refurbish, but they also put a brand new sticker on it that shows the new IMEI. Also it's a different sticker than the one that comes on a new phone. It's a different size and it positioned differently. Makes it VERY clear if your phone is new or refurbished.
Aznn0, though you may not realize it what you bought is a stolen/blacklisted/insurance exchange/etc S4. It had a bad IMEI and the seller changed it (illegally) and then sold it to you without bothering to mention the device's history.
If you changed it to the IMEI listed on the back of the phone (And I am telling you in no undercertain terms that you should not!) I'd bet latge sums of money that the phone would go dead because the IMEI listed on the back is a blacklisted number.
So Samsung won't touch it ever again. They will never do a repair for you. If it breaks, you're on your own to fix it.
None of this is probably your fauly and I believe you didn't know what you bought. But it is what it is.
Regardless, asking questions about how to change an IMEI are expressly not permitted on XDA. I know you didn't know, so no hard feelings. But don't ask about how to change an IMEI here again.
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yea they do put a new sticker on it, but allot of sellers on ebay/craigslist remove the sticker so that they can sell it as "new" and get a few extra bucks. most sellers assume that buyers wont ever find out which is probably true 90% of the time
Thanks for all your replies.
It's weird because I put in both the IMEI numbers listed from the back of the phone and the one listed in android and they came back clean. I used one of those free esn checker websites. I know they aren't 100% reliable but damn..
I thought matching the IMEI number would do the trick.
It sucks...
I'm having the exact same problem! Mine is an s4 active and when I called my phone service provider they didn't tell me that mine was blacklisted or anything either...
error 119 your mobile phone's imei number not match, plz help me
Any body know how to change this
I brought my 925T(unlocked) on ebay. and i when i check imei, it's different from the one wrote on the back, so i asked the seller, he said "You will get the Imei I factory unlocked the phone after factory unlocked they change the Imei " :| i guess that what happen
Something similar almost happen when I was buying a phone. The seller had masked the imei so the phone would work since the imei had been blocked by carriers. People are getting very sneaky I would be very cautious when buying phones and if that happens you should ask for a refund unless you are OK with a masked imei.
Basically I lost my phone and I called Sprint and reported it stolen. Come to find out a friend of mine had the phone the whole time. I called to see if I can get it off the black list but they told me that the phone is basically a tablet now and there is nothing I can do to remove the IMEI off the blacklist or get it unblocked.
I read somewhere that I can still unlock the phone and use it internationally. Is this really true, if so, does anyone know if a company that will unlock a blacklised IMEI number?
As far as I know once the IMEI is blacklisted you are hosed. Usually it is only blocked if the device was still being financed and service was cancelled. The device is still the carriers at that point.
So my phone was stolen and I promptly reported the incident to the carrier (under contract), the crazy thing is that after 3 months I checked the IMEI online but there is no block on it, how is it possible?
The carrier (Philippines out sourced call center) assured me that they reported the stolen phone and requested the IMEI to be blocked.
Now I started looking on internet and found that an IMEI can be changed.
Could you guys please clarify these issues:
Does it take so long time to block an IMEI number and if not is the carrier just being deceptive?
Can the IMEI really be changed, if so my stolen phone is being used under a different IMEI?
mobnoob said:
So my phone was stolen and I promptly reported the incident to the carrier (under contract), the crazy thing is that after 3 months I checked the IMEI online but there is no block on it, how is it possible?
The carrier (Philippines out sourced call center) assured me that they reported the stolen phone and requested the IMEI to be blocked.
Now I started looking on internet and found that an IMEI can be changed.
Could you guys please clarify these issues:
Does it take so long time to block an IMEI number and if not is the carrier just being deceptive?
Can the IMEI really be changed, if so my stolen phone is being used under a different IMEI?
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If the phone was stolen it's gone.
The IMEI can probably be cleaned by Amazon
Shady employees
Take the loss and don't worry any further.
Most of us have been there.
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If the phone was stolen it's gone.
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It's gone for good and I know it can be used overseas, but I still can't understand why the IMEI doesn't show as locked.
As I said the phone is under contract which means I'm still paying for it while the carrier doesn't care to block its use so I might have chances to block payments.
The IMEI can probably be cleaned by Amazon
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I can easily google IMEI change services also programs too so do these really work?
I made a mistype
Spell check typed Amazon
Don't worry about it, it's gone now move on.
Whether they clean it out not it won't be returned
Bump! So I still wonder if the IMEI can be changed since I see many services doing it online.
Also the phone's IMEI still looks unlocked!