IMEI - AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III

so what does everyone think? My 30 day return will be coming up soon, should I root and flash or wait? Is loss of IMEI issue big enough to warrant waiting?
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whmgreen said:
so what does everyone think? My 30 day replacement is coming up soon, should I root and flash or wait? Is loss of IMEI issue big enough to warrant waiting?
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What are you talking about? 30 day replacement for what? Root the one you're sending in?

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T989 HardWare Failure

Hey Guys
SO I know a lot of you where looking for MIUIv4 and such to be updated and stuff.... Well, My phone got a hardware failure, and it broke. I may or not be getting this phone again. Please, just in case, DON'T MAKE BOUNTY THREADS OR DONATION THREADS!
Balls. Well I hope you get a replacement phone
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Sorry to hear about your phone. my condolence.
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Get another one please. Your help is much appreciated. Cell phone repair store can fix it
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Hope you had insurance
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Warranty exchange...
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G1ForFun said:
Warranty exchange...
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I sent it in, just got to wait for the replacement phone to come in.
alphadog32 said:
I sent it in, just got to wait for the replacement phone to come in.
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Nice hope you get a nice replacement if not a brand new in box one.
heh. hopefully you get one with no lines or blobs since I know for sure those exist now

Just bought this phone, should I root?

Hi guys, so I can pretty much do anything, I've been rooting for a long time. So should I root now? If so, which Rom would be best? Thanks in advance
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Best way to find out what's the best rom is to try them out people can say one thing about a rom and you can think something else,
Root and rom away, and welcome
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funziebear said:
Best way to find out what's the best rom is to try them out people can say one thing about a rom and you can think something else,
Root and rom away, and welcome
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Thanks! Does T-Mobile have some sort of 30 day warranty or something? Lol my mom says I should wait just in case
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I think its 14 day but I'm not to sure, make a list if your gonna root most people get a bit to happy and forget to back up after they root and start flashing like crazy (guilty) so I started making a checkoff for my first root and flash haha
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funziebear said:
I think its 14 day but I'm not to sure, make a list if your gonna root most people get a bit to happy and forget to back up after they root and start flashing like crazy (guilty) so I started making a checkoff for my first root and flash haha
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Lol thanks for opinion!
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I rooted on second hour after I got my phone .
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eggydrums said:
Hi guys, so I can pretty much do anything, I've been rooting for a long time. So should I root now? If so, which Rom would be best? Thanks in advance
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I remember you from the amaze forums!!!! Lol I have a galaxy nexus and buying a galaxy s3 next week!! I love toys!!!
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fuego77 said:
I remember you from the amaze forums!!!! Lol I have a galaxy nexus and buying a galaxy s3 next week!! I love toys!!!
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Yeah you should root it. Pondered it myself a few days. Then I just had to get ri d of some bloat.
Been wanting a nexus for a while and google store has new for 349
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fuego77 said:
I remember you from the amaze forums!!!! Lol I have a galaxy nexus and buying a galaxy s3 next week!! I love toys!!!
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Heyyy, me too bro nice to see you here! I will root this week also, can't wait
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mike102871 said:
Yeah you should root it. Pondered it myself a few days. Then I just had to get ri d of some bloat.
Been wanting a nexus for a while and google store has new for 349
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galaxy nexus is better than the s3 IMO. but I'm getting it for a decent price so I couldn't turn it down. I will look like such a nerd with aokp galaxy nexus and a galaxy s3!!!
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eggydrums said:
Heyyy, me too bro nice to see you here! I will root this week also, can't wait
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Awesome! Let me know how difficult it is to do! Lol
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You should back up your IMEI first before doing anything
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You should back up your IMEI first before doing anything
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Imei is in my box, don't know if that's the one, I plan on keeping the box cuz it's awesome
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mjhay19 said:
You should back up your IMEI first before doing anything
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This.
Save yourself from any future headaches and head on over to Peoplearmy and GeeK's threads and back up your IMEI with both methods just in case.
I ran with stock rooted for a good week after getting my GS3 just to make sure there weren't any defects (since stock is the most stable).
Pardon my ignorance, I know what imei is, but if things go wrong, how will imei be involved?
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Some people where having issues and there imei was lost, there's a tool to back it up in development section just back it up you shouldn't have issues I haven't seen people inquiring about lost imeis lately,
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Pardon my ignorance, I know what imei is, but if things go wrong, how will imei be involved?
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For some odd reason, people have been reporting that their IMEI information on the phone was wiped while flashing ROMs through recovery. That information isn't supposed to be touched, but nobody has really found out the reason why that data gets wiped during the flashing process for some users.
When this happens, the phone loses its ability to connect to your mobile network (because it has no IMEI information to present to the network), so it's essentially an iPod. Last week I randomly lost my IMEI from restoring a nandroid backup from CWM (luckily I backed up my IMEI information and was able to restore it within minutes), but I've heard people saying that it happens on TWRP as well.
I'm not saying that it will happen to you whenever you flash a new ROM, but when it comes to these things it's always better to be safe than sorry.
Also, welcome to the SGS3 forums . Leaving the childish drama behind in the Amaze forum alone was worth the upgrade for me.
eggydrums said:
Hi guys, so I can pretty much do anything, I've been rooting for a long time. So should I root now? If so, which Rom would be best? Thanks in advance
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Really up to you... me personally i always root my phones :cyclops:
I did it!! Got imei and got slimbean with ktoonez kernel so awesome
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eggydrums said:
I did it!! Got imei and got slimbean with ktoonez kernel so awesome
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How'd it go bro? Was it difficult???
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Trial and error always the best course with roms. I would root mine was rooted a few hours after I pulled it out the box.
Very easy to do and with our development section well worth it.
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Stock unrooted Note 2 terrible signal.

I got 4-5 bars with my mytouch4g slide in the same location and im getting 1-2 bars with periodic drop offs on the note 2. Is there anything I can do to improve the signal ?
Same issue here turned out to be defective, got a replacement all is good now :thumbup:
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Jaimesco12 said:
Same issue here turned out to be defective, got a replacement all is good now :thumbup:
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Wow , theyre sending me a replacement because it was defective and charging me 20.00 to process the warranty . Thats a bunch a crap seeing they sent me a defective device. :/
I contacted samsung and it was all free! Even shipping and handlingb
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Jaimesco12 said:
I contacted samsung and it was all free! Even shipping and handlingb
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Man , if only you'd let me known that in your first response hahaha oh well. I never even thought about contacting samsung.
what number did you use to contact Samsung?

Selling note 2 question

I recieved an extra note 2 after it was marked undeliverable by at&t they made some sort of error my question is if I sell this note 2 will the person have any trouble using it
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Why wouldn't you just return it to AT&T?
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hysteresis said:
Why wouldn't you just return it to AT&T?
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Karma is a mutha lol
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Haha so true
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vinnyj85 said:
I recieved an extra note 2 after it was marked undeliverable by at&t they made some sort of error my question is if I sell this note 2 will the person have any trouble using it
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If they blocked the IMEI then no AT&T nor T-Mobile user can use it.
And the risk you are going to end up paying for that if you don't return it it probably pretty high. And they aren't going to charge you what you can sell it for on the secondary market.
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If they blocked the IMEI then no AT&T nor T-Mobile user can use it.
And the risk you are going to end up paying for that if you don't return it it probably pretty high. And they aren't going to charge you what you can sell it for on the secondary market.
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This person is so right. its not worth it
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I think US mail fraud is a felony!
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Sell it you get ripped off by them everyday you did nothing intentionally do don't sweat it
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Sell it you get ripped off by them everyday you did nothing intentionally do don't sweat it
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Lmao ...keep in mind this person prolly has record
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hysteresis said:
I think US mail fraud is a felony!
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Think.... there's no "think" about it. Mail fraud is a felony in the U.S. Do the smart thing and return it.
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Call att and tell them. What you are doing is theft op, and is not worth it.
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Lmao ...keep in mind this person prolly has record
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Lol no record btw
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Ask yourself, is making a few hundred bucks worth being charged with mail fraud? Contact AT&T and return the device, it's the right thing to do.
Might of worked before but nowadays they track and black ball phones by imei. So not worth it when u get busted.
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Yeah if I were the OP I would definitely take it into the AT&T store and return it. Sooner or later the paper trail will lead back to the device. Even if the IMEI works and you sell it on Craigslist or something and then AT&T catches there mistake and turns it off. Whoever you sold it to might come looking for you. Or even worse have the cops show up at your door for mail fraud.
That's a felony, theft by mislaid/delivered property and also possibly mail fraud. I would return it since it's NOT YOURS. Just suggesting
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Just hold on to it for a couple of months, if you called att no one would know how to process a return in this situation. If you return it to the store an employee is going to just steal it or something. After a couple of months sell it. Fraud is when you intentually screw over the company, technically you found a lost phone. Lol
Btw this is called equipment gaming through att and per contract you will get your account canceled if they see this done multiple times, they will not take legal action. It's not worth there time nor does anyone care at att.
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Great except the phone was delivered insured. USPS pays out. I'm sure they audit losses.
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hysteresis said:
Great except the phone was delivered insured. USPS pays out. I'm sure they audit losses.
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Att does not insure anything they send out, all att would do in this situation is send out a new phone for free because if it was insured the shipping company would make sure it was not lost and make him wait a week before he gets a new phone. Like I said just keep it for 2 months if something were to happen then they will be looking for it in that time.
If you wanted to make sure the phone is not on the blacklist, call att tech support desk and ask them to run the imei number because your thinking about buying a note 2 for a friend. The worst att will do is report the phone stolen but less likely because the phone is technically lost and they only report phones that are stolen.
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Correct. Couriers are protected by mail fraud laws. Anyways, I've lost interest in this topic.
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Upgrading to GS5

Who else is upgrading to the gs5 just because your jump upgrade is now eligible or just because you want the latest and greatest.
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Contemplated while it was still in leaks, but then saw the actual product.
I really love the removable battery, and the SD card slot. But come on, that design. I always discourage people from HTC, but this time I just can't go with Samsung. It'd be impossible for me. That or the G3.
I'd need to hear you can root and flash without tripping Knox.
I would hate it if my phone said sea android not enforcing on start up.
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Android_Monsters said:
I'd need to hear you can root and flash without tripping Knox.
I would hate it if my phone said sea android not enforcing on start up.
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I agree, but I don't care about tripping Knox. As long as I can root and flash fine, I'm good. That's why I'll only get it after it gets root.
I would move to HTC but I hate the fact that they are moving away from removable batteries. Big big decisions
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Saturny said:
I agree, but I don't care about tripping Knox. As long as I can root and flash fine, I'm good. That's why I'll only get it after it gets root.
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I don't care about tripping Knox or my warranty. But, I don't want the warning message on start up.
If I could just block it or something I'd be happy.
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Gonna wait till next year's Xperia Z. My S4 is doing just fine.
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Lobster! said:
Contemplated while it was still in leaks, but then saw the actual product.
I really love the removable battery, and the SD card slot. But come on, that design. I always discourage people from HTC, but this time I just can't go with Samsung. It'd be impossible for me. That or the G3.
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How was the UI?
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I wanna but since I had 3 different S4s and same problems each time. I don't think I am plus I was never offered Jump!.
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I wanna but since I had 3 different S4s and same problems each time. I don't think I am plus I was never offered Jump!.
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You have to call and add jump to your account
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ddizzy81 said:
You have to call and add jump to your account
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nah you can't unless it was offered to you when you upgraded you can't get it added lol
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nah you can't unless it was offered to you when you upgraded you can't get it added lol
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Where'd u get that info from Lol. I called and added it back in october..I got my gs4 in may.. Who ever told you u can't do that seriously misled you lol
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ddizzy81 said:
Where'd u get that info from Lol. I called and added it back in october..I got my gs4 in may.. Who ever told you u can't do that seriously misled you lol
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LOL I call BS unless you got proof I got my S4 in late September and I was told by 10 People from T-Mobile you have 14 days to add mobile insurance/Upgrade thingy and since it was mid October it was too late and I kept trying and calling and was told nope.
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LOL I call BS unless you got proof I got my S4 in late September and I was told by 10 People from T-Mobile you have 14 days to add mobile insurance/Upgrade thingy and since it was mid October it was too late and I kept trying and calling and was told nope.
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No cuz I got my gs4 in November and I added insurance on it after it broke in February
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Where'd u get that info from Lol. I called and added it back in october..I got my gs4 in may.. Who ever told you u can't do that seriously misled you lol
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No cuz I got my gs4 in November and I added insurance on it after it broke in February
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you mean the Jump feature? I swear I was told I couldn't get it added. WTF
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