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I am brought here because of some1 who sold me the blacklisted imei of htc one when I bought this phone was working and never thought of this issue untill it happened after few days it stopped working then I checked with different simcards but it was same problem so the person in the mall told me it could be a blocked imei so I checked online he was right now I am screwed lost my.money wondering if some 1 can help me here to fix this issue please help.
Depending on why it was blacklisted you may or may not be out of luck... you're going to have to contact Verizon and ask to have it restored. Odds aren't very good on that though.
Crawshayi said:
Depending on why it was blacklisted you may or may not be out of luck... you're going to have to contact Verizon and ask to have it restored. Odds aren't very good on that though.
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Thanks for reply reason it is blacklisted coz it was reported as stolen
More than likley yes. So your saying when you got the phone it already had service? If that was the case, its either stolen, or cloned.
So is there anything can be done to work or its useless now?
Yeah pretty much. Verizon is never going to unblacklist a stolen phone, unless you were the one it was stolen from and you got it back, and you can proove it. You pretty much got your self a wifi only device now.
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hi, i have recently purchased a touch pro 2 off ebay and i stuck my SIM card in it to find out i cant get a signal or make calls etc..
i really dont know what i should do.
please help. any advice is helpful.
Was it used or new?
used, he was selling as 'it no longer makes calls or sends texts'
if it was listed as barred theres no way i would have bought it. but with what he wrote it sounded fixable.
earni said:
used, he was selling as 'it no longer makes calls or sends texts
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So you were suprised when you got it that it doesn't make calls? Call you provider they might be able to unlock it if the phone isn't broken to begin with. Next time i suggest understand what you are buying because this is a pretty ridiculous post. I am questioning my own judgment for even answering to this post.
i wasnt surprised it didnt make calls, i thought he may just have a bad radio or something but i checked the imei on checkmend and it shows up as blocked..
You bought a phone that the seller told you didn't work. You assumed the reason it didn't work was one thing, but it turned out to be another. Whether he lied to you as to why it didn't work or not, you still took a chance on buying a phone you knew was not working. Take your loss, learn from it and move on.
If the phones blocked then he has found/stolen it. Or put in an insurance claim saying it’s been lost/stolen.
If you paid by PayPal put in a claim giving reason that you were not told the phone was blocked. You will then get your money back.
earni said:
i wasnt surprised it didnt make calls, i thought he may just have a bad radio or something but i checked the imei on checkmend and it shows up as blocked..
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bwaaaaahahahahahaha...that's what you get...!!!
earni said:
hi, i have recently purchased a touch pro 2 off ebay and i stuck my SIM card in it to find out i cant get a signal or make calls etc..
i really dont know what i should do.
please help. any advice is helpful.
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I've had this situation before and although it turned out that the phone I had purchased wasnt stolen, the process will be the same:
Contact your Phone Network and give them the IMEI number and explain the situation. Don't worry - they are used to dealing with this type of call. They will use a database shared between all the network providers to find out the original and current owner of the handset and tell you whether it has been registered stolen or just blocked by the previous owner (this is what happened to me only I found this out a lot later).
If they tell you it is stolen, take the handset and everything that came with it to your local police station, including print-outs of any correspondence you have had with the seller - via the website market place or direct.
The police will give you a crime number and most probably take the device and the print outs from you to investgate further. You will need the crime number to get your money back later on.
Contact the market place and your bank (credit card company) and explain the situation and give them the crime number.
In most situations, the market place will give you your money back (withdraw it from the sellers account). If they dont, your credit card company will do the chasing for you but you'll need to try yourself first.
The market place may ask you for more documents from the police and the police will be very understanding. The police woman assigned to my crime number was very helpful and was in regular contact with me about how the investigation was proceeding.
The whole process may take 6-8 weeks. It can be drawn out but persevere and you will get your money back - and deservedly so.
Good luck and PM me if you need any further advice.
I thought gsm phones cannot be blocked?
DJ_MiX said:
I thought gsm phones cannot be blocked?
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I am no expert but they can certainly be blacklisted by the owner and that was what I was suggesting.
http://www.unlockme.co.uk/blacklist.html was a site I read up on when I was faced with the same situation.
My phone was blocked. I rang up Orange and told them the situation and they unblocked it - to my surprise. At the same time, I had opened a case in eBay which went in my favour, but I decided to keep the TP2 as it's now working. In my case, I could get a signal (four bars), but it always came up with no connection.
Hi,
I just lost my DHD, just as my husband and i were about to root both of ours this weekend!
We have obviously informed insurers, blocked the sim etc..
My question is this; If someone finds the phone, and roots it, will the insurance company still be able to track it via the IMEI or something??
They said they would put a 'block' on the phone, does this mean just the sim or the actual phone?
After building up to rooting our phones, I'm now thinking if someone finds mine and roots it they will get a free DHD at my expense :-(
Thanks
the IMEI won't be changed by rooting it
so if someone found it, and they checked the IMEI it should come up as lost/stolen
but of course that relies on someone checking the IMEI in the first place
thanks +1 maatsby
so the IMEI is a physical thing on the phone?
So basically, if someone found my phone, rooted it, used their own sim, there is no way for the insurance/ police/ provider to track the phone down?? (unless the IMEI is submitted and checked)
You're close...what happens is if an insurance company 'blocks' the phone they actually put the IMEI number into a blacklist for this country, that means if someone turns the phone on it will be emergency calls only...the phones radio(how it gets signal) will still work although blocked and the cell tower nearest to it will track its location should anyone be tracing that IMEI.....
So....no ones getting a free phone , although that doesn't stop it becoming spares I'm afraid...
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I can confirm that!
My Dad's phone (rooted DHD) was stolen from him last year.
We reported it (in my country we report stolen phones to the provider company who reports it to the general security department).
We gave them the IMEI.
In less than two months they were able to track it down. They contacted us and we got the phone back!
I wish u all the luck in finding yours! Cheers..
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Thanks for the info everyone!
Hi all .. i had iphone 4s which i exchanged with someone via gumtree with one x. the phone was locked to three and was new. so i unlocked it today via unlocksaver.com
i entered the code they gave me and it searched for something then it said successful but when it restarted it is saying IMEI locked in the place where it shows carrier in notification tray. what does that mean? i dont understand is it blacklisted? or is it not unlocked properly? i noticed i tried to restart it 2 or three times and it did got a signal once then again it says imei locked
The only way a phone will get blocked is if the owner reports it being stolen/lost
You could be a victim of crime if bought on second hand market as the owner is probably doing insurance scam.
are u from denmark then post eng and danish
Not had the same issue but saw something in the forum. Try this:
Go to menu settings then power and untick fast boot. Restart phone and see what that does if it works tick fast boot back
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Sometimes it just says no service but sometimes it says imei locked .. i am worried my phone has no signal does it has anything to do with that unlock code i purchased?
If the phone is blocked (the imei) from the carrier for being stolen or lost, your sim should work for like 5 minutes before it gets locked, this meens you can make phone calls or send sms in the first 5 minutes before it gets locked.it is how much time your phone needs to send the imei number to your carrier so they can check if it is ok or if it is been stolen/lost. You can go at this website http://www.amta.org.au/pages/amta/Check.the.Status.of.your.Handset and check the status of your imei, it is for Australia but try to find the service/website for your country.
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My brand new sim free One X did this when I first tried to use it - called retailer to exchange it - they suggested a hard reset (keep power button held for 10 secs +) and that fixed the problem for me. Worth a try?
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tbh if you have been stung by this person with a stolen handset i would return the favor and report the iphone stolen, but dont do it until you have comfermed that he has done this.
sounds like the typical insurance scam to me.
audiobookman said:
tbh if you have been stung by this person with a stolen handset i would return the favor and report the iphone stolen, but dont do it until you have comfermed that he has done this.
sounds like the typical insurance scam to me.
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yeah get that iphone Blocked ASAP
nickhuk said:
yeah get that iphone Blocked ASAP
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don't ..
if you can't get ahold of this guy anymore he probably sold the iphone to someone else and then that guy would be in the same situation as you
engwee said:
don't ..
if you can't get ahold of this guy anymore he probably sold the iphone to someone else and then that guy would be in the same situation as you
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thanks for replies people... i did manged to get in contact with that person and realy tried to help me alot but the wiered thing is when i got home and tried to turn on phone after 12 hours or soething the phone was working and i felt embarresed taht i bloked iphone and that guy had no intention of that but there was realy something wrong with my phone. its fine now :/
My One X had the exact same problem, took it back to the store i got it from and they changed it for a new one which worked fine.
Seems it may be a problem with the phone rather than a dodgy seller as mine came from Carphone Warehouse
What a cruel joke...after a week I get mine from expansys and I am getting IMEI locked contact customer care!!!! Aghhhh...
Please tell me there is another solution to resolve this aside from RMA and more waiting?
Damn...
Moderator Information,
I have closed this thread as we do not allow the discussion of changing or editing IMEI numbers. I am afraid the best thing you can do is try to find the person who sold you the phone and report the issue to them.
Many thanks,
Stephen
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
So about 8 months ago I bought a used car. 6 months ago I found a Tmobile Note 3 lodged in the backseat of my car when I was runing some speaker wires. I didnt have the previous owners info anymore so I just put the phone in my dresser in casde he would contact me.
Well he never did. I charged it, turned it on and it was already blacklisted. My friend told me about a imei repair service that could fix it. So I did that.
It worked fine for 3 months until today when i allowed it to update to lolipop. After that it gave me a message saying the phone had been blocked and that the software installed on it was bad.
So now the phone is blacklisted again.
My question is, if I get the imei repaired, and then root it and just install a lolipop rom from here, will it again be blacklisted?
Thanks in advance
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snyper2k2 said:
So about 8 months ago I bought a used car. 6 months ago I found a Tmobile Note 3 lodged in the backseat of my car when I was runing some speaker wires. I didnt have the previous owners info anymore so I just put the phone in my dresser in casde he would contact me.
Well he never did. I charged it, turned it on and it was already blacklisted. My friend told me about a imei repair service that could fix it. So I did that.
It worked fine for 3 months until today when i allowed it to update to lolipop. After that it gave me a message saying the phone had been blocked and that the software installed on it was bad.
So now the phone is blacklisted again.
My question is, if I get the imei repaired, and then root it and just install a lolipop rom from here, will it again be blacklisted?
Thanks in advance
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Mine was blacklisted and i got the imei repair recently but from the website mobiletechvideos (with a 100% refund guaranteed) . Its been a month already and its still whitelisted and my rooted T-Mobile Note 3 is running @g00h's n3 based/n4 style lollipop rom with no issues!
snyper2k2 said:
So about 8 months ago I bought a used car. 6 months ago I found a Tmobile Note 3 lodged in the backseat of my car when I was runing some speaker wires. I didnt have the previous owners info anymore so I just put the phone in my dresser in casde he would contact me.
Well he never did. I charged it, turned it on and it was already blacklisted. My friend told me about a imei repair service that could fix it. So I did that.
It worked fine for 3 months until today when i allowed it to update to lolipop. After that it gave me a message saying the phone had been blocked and that the software installed on it was bad.
So now the phone is blacklisted again.
My question is, if I get the imei repaired, and then root it and just install a lolipop rom from here, will it again be blacklisted?
Thanks in advance
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The owner lost the phone. That means they do not know where it is so they do not know to call you to ask for it back. Clearly they do want it back which is why they reported it missing and the IMEI was blocked. You are trying to block the phone from being returned to its rightful owner by changing the IMEI . Hopefully the carrier noted that your account is connected to that phone and forwards the information to authorities. That would be really cool!!!
Unfortunately in the real world that is not likely to happen and you will go on using someone else's property.
Or you can do the right thing and return it to the carrier!
Realistically speaking what probably happened is that the Imei that was used on to repair your phone was probably a stolen IMEI and it was detected being used at two carriers at the same time or the same carrier twice. Or... Just your luck that you got a Imei that was harvested and was reported lost.
Anyways, realistically speaking again.. I find it hard that after 2 months you lost the original car owner information. ? but that aint my business.
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Realistically speaking what probably happened is that the Imei that was used on to repair your phone was probably a stolen IMEI and it was detected being used at two carriers at the same time or the same carrier twice. Or... Just your luck that you got a Imei that was harvested and was reported lost.
Anyways, realistically speaking again.. I find it hard that after 2 months you lost the original car owner information. but that aint my business.
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Learn to read. It says 6 months. What was I supposed to do? Tmobile wouldnt give me the customers info. He was no longer a Tmobile customer. Yes 6 months later I didnt have a copy of the craigslist ad for the car, and His phone number wasn't working anymore. Neither was his wifes number which was the one he was using when we met up.
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Learn to read. It says 6 months. What was I supposed to do? Tmobile wouldnt give me the customers info. He was no longer a Tmobile customer. Yes 6 months later I didnt have a copy of the craigslist ad for the car, and His phone number wasn't working anymore. Neither was his wifes number which was the one he was using when we met up.
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when you took it to t-mobile, you should have just said "i found this in a car i bought, could you make sure it gets back to the original owner" and they'd have said "sure, thank you!" and that would have been the end of it...but now you have stolen property...so good luck with that
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when you took it to t-mobile, you should have just said "i found this in a car i bought, could you make sure it gets back to the original owner" and they'd have said "sure, thank you!" and that would have been the end of it...but now you have stolen property...so good luck with that
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yeah whatever you say pilgrim.