anyone out there have this same problem? for some reason my phone just didnt get any connection to tmobile and when trying to reconnect to network. it just says sim not able to connect to carrier.
Have you reseated your Sim? Or called tmo?
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yup. i havent called tmobile i plan on doing that tomorrow. but ive changed roms. changed the radio. and nothing.
Did you buy it from Tmobile or from ebay or craigslist? I bought mine of craigslist and my IMEI got blacklisted because of previous owner. And I got same message error,.
same thing happened to my galaxy s2. It all of a sudden stopped working. They wont give me any further information when I called them. The only solution was to get the person to lift the block by calling in. However I cant even contact that person since that persons number doenst work anymore and the phone was bought off of craigslist. No reciept no proof of purchase besides the phone and original box.
This has been happening for a long time now, and many many threads about it., so the sympathy level for those of you getting scammed is minimal., do your homework and protect yourself when buying off craigslist.
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Today at 1030AM I sent a MMS and it went thru.
I tried sending a SMS around an hour later and it failed. I did notice that the phone said it was Searching... for signal.
I thought rebooting would help but after reboot... I no longer have signal at all.
I've tested my SIM on an different phone and it works. I've tried a coworker's SIM in my SGS2 and it doesn't work.
Wifi Calling won't even connect.
The phone was bought on Ebay... do you think the IMEI is banned?
Has anyone experienced this?
Please help!
chronicrebellion said:
Today at 1030AM I sent a MMS and it went thru.
I tried sending a SMS around an hour later and it failed. I did notice that the phone said it was Searching... for signal.
I thought rebooting would help but after reboot... I no longer have signal at all.
I've tested my SIM on an different phone and it works. I've tried a coworker's SIM in my SGS2 and it doesn't work.
Wifi Calling won't even connect.
The phone was bought on Ebay... do you think the IMEI is banned?
Has anyone experienced this?
Please help!
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sounds like it. you better open a dispute with ebay!
I'm on the phone with Tmobile right now so hopefully I can sort it out...
I know the antenna is working because it is unlocked and another coworker's ATT sim is working just fine...
chronicrebellion said:
I'm on the phone with Tmobile right now so hopefully I can sort it out...
I know the antenna is working because it is unlocked and another coworker's ATT sim is working just fine...
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yep for sure then! it has been blacklisted. The seller must have reported it stolen or stopped paying his subsidized bill.
Teo032 said:
yep for sure then! it has been blacklisted. The seller must have reported it stolen or stopped paying his subsidized bill.
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yup.. blacklisted.
the ebay seller said he'd refund me the money after returning the phone because apparently the supplier was getting the phone from individuals that didn't pay their payments on EIP (Equipment Installment Plan).
Anybody ever have this problem? My phone had been working well for the last 5 months and now it is unable to connect to tmobile. I replaced it with the new sim and it still has the same problem. Placing the sim in another Tmobile does work however.
I am still unable to connect using Juggernaut, All the ICS roms, etc.
Even Odin back to stock and it still doesn't register to the network. I look at the APN settings and it is clicked for Tmobile.
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Anybody ever have this problem? My phone had been working well for the last 5 months and now it is unable to connect to tmobile. I replaced it with the new sim and it still has the same problem. Placing the sim in another Tmobile does work however.
I am still unable to connect using Juggernaut, All the ICS roms, etc.
Even Odin back to stock and it still doesn't register to the network. I look at the APN settings and it is clicked for Tmobile.
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Sounds like the device is blacklisted. Where did you buy it from ?
Yes it was blacklisted. I got it unopened from craigslist. Tmobile blocked it after i have been using for 4 months.
They won't tell me why or how to resolve it. Oh welll . I lost money on this one.
Hey dattack I sent u a pm.. please respond
Uh oh sounds like someone has a sketchy and illegal solution they don't want to discuss among the public lol
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I am just going to keep it using talkatone until i buy legit sg3 from tmobile. Very expensive media player I must say.
please consider selling it to me .. so that i can use it to test my apps obviously once u have bought your s3
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Anybody ever have this problem? My phone had been working well for the last 5 months and now it is unable to connect to tmobile. I replaced it with the new sim and it still has the same problem. Placing the sim in another Tmobile does work however.
I am still unable to connect using Juggernaut, All the ICS roms, etc.
Even Odin back to stock and it still doesn't register to the network. I look at the APN settings and it is clicked for Tmobile.
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I have a Galaxy SIII sitting in front of me that I have to get the seller to refund my money cause of this problem. Tmo says the phone was reported as not received after ordering. I guess when they do that, they block the IMEI and won't unblock it for anyone but the original seller. I guess after they pay for the phone.
So i bought a Note II the other day on craigs list. I met the guy at a mall even though he offered to meet at his house. The phone still had all the stickers and screen protectors on it and had clearly never been used. We powered it up and I popped my SIM in and it worked. I got an LTE connection right away. It is a Bell phone and I had a Bell SIM card. After a few hours, it stopped connecting. I get "selected network (Bell) unavailable". If i try taking out the SIM and re inserting it multiple times along with rebooting it I can sometimes get a connection for a very short while... Less than a few minutes or so. I've taken it to Bell and they said it's not reported stolen, however, they absolutely have no record of the phone at all! It's a phantom phone. Definitely Bell branded as it worked with my SIM and has all the Bell apps when I boot it up. Bell won't touch it cause they have no history of it. I tried calling the guy back and he didn't hesitate to answer me. But he speaks very poor english and got upset and defensive when I politely asked for more information about the phone (Where he got it, if it's stolen). I got nothing out of him and he was practically crying because he said I was "Bullying him".
I'm floored. I don't have a clue what to do.. It's a freaking wifi tablet.... That's it. $600 down the drain.. Does anybody know what I can do?
As I understand it, you wouldn't be able to connect at all if it was blacklisted. It does sound odd to me though that this is happening.
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My brother had a similar case when he bought Iphone 5 (locked to bell). The guy who sold it to him could barely speak English. Later my brother tried to use SIM and it wouldn't allow him. He called bell and was told that its locked due to fraud or something. He called the guy he refused to return money. I think Bell is more strict when it comes device frauds.
ruinkhan said:
My brother had a similar case when he bought Iphone 5 (locked to bell). The guy who sold it to him could barely speak English. Later my brother tried to use SIM and it wouldn't allow him. He called bell and was told that its locked due to fraud or something. He called the guy he refused to return money. I think Bell is more strict when it comes device frauds.
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Would unlocking and using another provider potentially work then?
I wouldnt know that. My brother couldnt unlock his Iphone 5 for obvious reasons.
However you can follow this thread (to unlock your device for free). See if that works, but if its blacklisted in their system I assume it wont work no matter what.
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So i bought a Note II the other day on craigs list. I met the guy at a mall even though he offered to meet at his house. The phone still had all the stickers and screen protectors on it and had clearly never been used. We powered it up and I popped my SIM in and it worked. I got an LTE connection right away. It is a Bell phone and I had a Bell SIM card. After a few hours, it stopped connecting. I get "selected network (Bell) unavailable". If i try taking out the SIM and re inserting it multiple times along with rebooting it I can sometimes get a connection for a very short while... Less than a few minutes or so. I've taken it to Bell and they said it's not reported stolen, however, they absolutely have no record of the phone at all! It's a phantom phone. Definitely Bell branded as it worked with my SIM and has all the Bell apps when I boot it up. Bell won't touch it cause they have no history of it. I tried calling the guy back and he didn't hesitate to answer me. But he speaks very poor english and got upset and defensive when I politely asked for more information about the phone (Where he got it, if it's stolen). I got nothing out of him and he was practically crying because he said I was "Bullying him".
I'm floored. I don't have a clue what to do.. It's a freaking wifi tablet.... That's it. $600 down the drain.. Does anybody know what I can do?
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I'd reset the phone and try a brand new sim card or someone else's Bell sim card.
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I'd reset the phone and try a brand new sim card or someone else's Bell sim card.
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+1, have to go through some process of elimination troubleshooting....
Okay so I found galaxy note 2 from a craiglist deal, popped in sim card, everything worked great as its a tmobile version but said per seller that it was unlocked. 30 minutes later after the deal my device had been blocked from network use. My sim would no longer work in my older phone, so I called and got that fixed, but I now have a stupid nice phone that im using for a paper weight. Obviously the person who sold it to me either knew it was reported lost or stolen, or reported it after selling it to me, its whatever it happens right.
What are my options? I really want to be able to use this phone and spent a lot of money on it. I appreciate all input.
Try using another sim card I suppose
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I did, I even went to the AT&T store and they gave me a new sim card and it worked, made calls, surfed the web for like 10 minutes and the same thing happened.
pr0cl1v1ty said:
I did, I even went to the AT&T store and they gave me a new sim card and it worked, made calls, surfed the web for like 10 minutes and the same thing happened.
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the only thing you can do is have the seller call att or tmobile, what ever its branded and tell them they found the devise and att can unblock the imei
Sounds like u was scammed.
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Only other option may be to try it on the other carrier. If it's a TMo phone, try it on ATT and vice versa.
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darocsfinest1 said:
the only thing you can do is have the seller call att or tmobile, what ever its branded and tell them they found the devise and att can unblock the imei
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Yea, I've been trying to figure out how to lookup the original buyer of this phone.
pr0cl1v1ty said:
Okay so I found galaxy note 2 from a craiglist deal, popped in sim card, everything worked great as its a tmobile version but said per seller that it was unlocked. 30 minutes later after the deal my device had been blocked from network use. My sim would no longer work in my older phone, so I called and got that fixed, but I now have a stupid nice phone that im using for a paper weight. Obviously the person who sold it to me either knew it was reported lost or stolen, or reported it after selling it to me, its whatever it happens right.
What are my options? I really want to be able to use this phone and spent a lot of money on it. I appreciate all input.
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If it is locked. Unlock and use through other carrier either tmobile or something that uses tmobile network mvno. If u have att note 2.
Its starting to look like its just not safe to buy this phone off Craigslist...
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Its not this phone. Its any phone. Run the numbers before you buy like a good consumer
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I don't know if you guys have reading comprehension problems or what... Dude said he used on tmo for 30 minutes and then got blocked, and then did the same thing with AT&T. For those of you that don't know AT&T and T-Mobile now share their blacklists, meaning it will not work on any carrier that uses any of those towers. Sad to say your best option would be to sell to an international user on celltraderonline. Be very clear that it is on the US blacklist and will not work with AT&T, T-Mobile or their sister carriers.
Have you tried any T-Mobile or AT&T MVNO's like Simple Mobile or Red Pocket? That might work. If not your pretty much screwed. Unless you use it in another country.
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JOSE89178 said:
Have you tried any T-Mobile or AT&T MVNO's like Simple Mobile or Red Pocket? That might work. If not your pretty much screwed. Unless you use it in another country.
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Wow, I guess you didn't read my post above yours.
I have been "burnt" also with buying a T-Mo Note 2 on Craigslist. I used my phone for 2 mos before it got blocked from T-Mo. I used the dialer tricked and unlocked the phone and now using it on Straight Talk Att sim. But you are right you can't use it on T-Mo network or any of the mvnos. You can only use it for ATT mvnos. I get 4g speeds and everything.
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Wow, I guess you didn't read my post above yours.
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Wow, I guess two people can't answer at the same time.
The posts are just three minutes apart.
I guess you read my mind lol. I never saw your post. I never would of posted something double and make myself look like a fool CD they were less then 3 min apart. So excuse me :banghead:
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I have been "burnt" also with buying a T-Mo Note 2 on Craigslist. I used my phone for 2 mos before it got blocked from T-Mo. I used the dialer tricked and unlocked the phone and now using it on Straight Talk Att sim. But you are right you can't use it on T-Mo network or any of the mvnos. You can only use it for ATT mvnos. I get 4g speeds and everything.
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if the phone has been imei blacklisted it will not work on any united states gsm service that includes straight talk... highly doubt you have a blocked phone working on straight talk
I had another thread going about being blocked on imei.
I just called tmobile and talked to them for about thirty minutes about my situation.
A quick summarization of the conversation is:
- The previous owner has been accused of fraud so that is the reason of the blocked IMEI.
- Can't do anything to unblock it, unless the previous owner retracts ther dues or whatever it is that needs to be payed.
- No third party unlocking will work.
Well for me, I fortunately have his information such as address and phone number and the text conversation still logged on my old phone. Luckily I called him today as a private number to check if he's phone still worked and still does, thank god.
Now I'm planning on calling him up tomorrow and, professionally, tell him my situation. When I met the guy, he didn't seem like a bad guy but hey, never judge a book by it's cover eh.
If he refuses any of these or won't agree to a median than I'll have to take legal actions.
That's my plan that is. I am not going to let $600.00 go to waste on a blocked phone! I'm taking this guy all the way.
*#06#
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not sure but can't you get rid of your IMEI by flashing a bunch of times? I had this happen with my SK4G, my IMEI number under settings was a bunch of 0s. When I called up T-mobile and asked for an unlock code for the phone, it didn't work because my IMEI was screwed up. I ended up having to alter some Hex file in order to unlock it
Hi guys, I am sorry if it was already posted here, I could not find similar topics or posts. I have a problem with the network. When I try to call someone it says 'not registered on network'
I have been using galaxy s3 tmobile since last year november. I bought it from a police officer, he gave me unlock codes from tmobile. I used the phone on tmobile for 6-7 months and than I switched to staright talk unlimited and have been using it till yesterday. Yesterday suddenly my phone/ data/ sms.... stopped working. I was using cm10.1.3 than I thought, it is related to kernel/radio or modem and flashed back to stock rom.
But I still have the same problem.
The signal bar is full. I went to apn setting and played with it little, but no results. I tried to connect to the network, it says ' sim card does not allow a connection to this network'. I chatted with tmobile agent: she said, it must work on any network other than tmobile. I put my sim card on iphone, it works, but when I insert any simcard on my phone, it gives same issue. I checked my imei on tmobiles network, the result is: imei blocked. Could anyone help me with it please. ???? :banghead:
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bek23 said:
Hi guys, I am sorry if it was already posted here, I could not find similar topics or posts. I have a problem with the network. When I try to call someone it says 'not registered on network'
I have been using galaxy s3 tmobile since last year november. I bought it from a police officer, he gave me unlock codes from tmobile. I used the phone on tmobile for 6-7 months and than I switched to staright talk unlimited and have been using it till yesterday. Yesterday suddenly my phone/ data/ sms.... stopped working. I was using cm10.1.3 than I thought, it is related to kernel/radio or modem and flashed back to stock rom.
But I still have the same problem.
The signal bar is full. I went to apn setting and played with it little, but no results. I tried to connect to the network, it says ' sim card does not allow a connection to this network'. I chatted with tmobile agent: she said, it must work on any network other than tmobile. I put my sim card on iphone, it works, but when I insert any simcard on my phone, it gives same issue. I checked my imei on tmobiles network, the result is: imei blocked. Could anyone help me with it please. ???? :banghead:
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If the IMEI is blocked then the seller has reported the phone to be stolen. There's not much that can be done in that case to the phone. You can talk to the Seller if you want.
Doesn't sound like a police officer to me. Probably lied to you to make the sale. Either he reported it lost/stolen like Perseus said, or he never fully paid it off and stopped making payments. Either way, the device is now almost certainly considered to be stolen property. You can unlock it and sell overseas, but otherwise you are pretty much screwed I am sorry to say.
You need to call T-Mobile to find out why it's been blacklisted. If it's been reported stolen, or was never fully paid for try to contact the seller and ask about it. If you can't get in touch with him you may want to consider filing a police report.
Only other possibility, but highly unlikely, is if some a$$ cloned their device using your imei (either randomly entered or obtained some other way). In this very unlikely scenario it wouldn't be the sellers fault, unless he gave the IMEI to someone to use or used it himself.
It's much more likely the seller did this to you since this, unfortunately, happens all the time.
Like stated previously, there isn't much you can do if you can't resolve things with the seller.
Sorry to hear about your misfortune.. good luck though.
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Thank you for the replies, I have called tmobile, they say it's not fully paid off or the customer has stopped the services at all, at the time of purchase I was 100% sure he was police officer, he showed his badge and all the stuff in the car.
How can I unlock it? I might want to sell overseas.
Anyway, I was thinking about move to n5, but it is too early, coz n5 is not out yet
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In the general section is a SIM Unlock thread. Should be on the first page or two.
If he is actually a cop, I'd call him up and ask about it. If he only recently cut his service, it may have been unintentional that you got screwed as a result. Maybe he had forgot all about it. Considering how long it's been, he probably had it close to paid off, so maybe he'd be willing to pay off the balance to T-Mobile to have it unblocked. Or it might be worth it to you, depending on the amount owed, to pay it yourself if he can't or won't.
Granted, it would suck to have to, but if he only owes like $50, might be worth considering.
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bek23 said:
Thank you for the replies, I have called tmobile, they say it's not fully paid off or the customer has stopped the services at all, at the time of purchase I was 100% sure he was police officer, he showed his badge and all the stuff in the car.
How can I unlock it? I might want to sell overseas.
Anyway, I was thinking about move to n5, but it is too early, coz n5 is not out yet
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If its not paid for then t-mo will release it after you pay up. Nexus 5 is ways away. You will have to go without a phone.
Unlock, ask T-mo or use online services on ebay
Well it is pre unlocked, or should I unlock again?
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bek23 said:
Well it is pre unlocked, or should I unlock again?
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No Need. If you know its unlocked then go ahead and sell Overseas.
Thank you very much who helped me with this issue, and of course the seller cut his services and even his number is not available anymore, no replies from email, but I am happy that nexus 5 is play store now, yeey
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