Hello, so my brother bought an HTC one x yesterday used from a friend. The thing is, it won't recognize SIM cards nor does it show it imei number which is "unknown" is there any fix to this? I don't think my brother will return the phone as he offered to buy it to help his friend who is suffering financially lately.
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I know I've asked an odd question only I sent my phone in to HTC for repair 2-3 weeks ago and I received an email this afternoon to say the phone will be delivered between 0900-1730 tomorrow, in the email the serial and IMEI numbers of the devices were stated but the odd thing is the serial number is the same but the IMEI is different from the phone I sent in for repair. So will I be receiving the same phone or is it a replacement? The S/N says same and IMEI says replacement. Maybe they changed the IMEI number?
The mainboard will have been replaced, which means new IMEI.
Same thing happened to me - what was worse was that mine was a SIM locked phone that i'd paid to have unlocked. When it came back, it was SIM locked again.
Regards,
Dave
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foxmeister said:
The mainboard will have been replaced, which means new IMEI.
Same thing happened to me - what was worse was that mine was a SIM locked phone that i'd paid to have unlocked. When it came back, it was SIM locked again.
Regards,
Dave
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I thought it might be that, but that being the case I'dve thought the S/N would be different too. So what does the S/N represent then, the housing and screen..or?
anyway lets hope mine isn't locked then, I bought it on o2 and it wasn't locked to begin with
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!
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
Hi Folks,
Here is my situation, I have a SGS3 I747M which got water damage because of ATV accident, my carrier Virgin Mobile Canada wants $340 to replace it because I am not due for an upgrade yet! I bought another brand new SGS3 I747M for 1/3 of the price only to find out that the IMEI has been blocked by Telus because the phones previous owner canceled her 3 year contract prematurely.
So now I am screwed both ways! After several days of trying to wipe and re-image the phone I finally got it unlocked but once I put in my SIM card the phone tells me that I am not registered on mobile network, if I put it in my old phone it works. So, my question is can I change this new phones IMEI number to the current one that I have?
Any help would be appreciated.
Cheers
Your best bet is switch motherboards. Open it and take out your motherboard from the working one and put it in the other one. Someone in a cell phone repair shop will do it for you if you cant.
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Your best bet is switch motherboards. Open it and take out your motherboard from the working one and put it in the other one. Someone in a cell phone repair shop will do it for you if you cant.
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I would but the problem is with the MB, the phone heats up and last only 4-5 hours on one charge, even with new bat. The camera too does not work even if I replace the actual camera with he other phone.
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hi guys
I have recently got back from australia where i bought an unlocked note 2 7105t. I have used the phone in oz with no dramas and with different sims. As it was unlocked i thought it would be ok to use in the uk. I have put an orange sim card in and its not blocking it but i cannot make any calls even to the customer service number. Check balance or find out what my phone number is
I have also tried with a friends sim card and i couldn't make any calls with that either. No errors are given and it reads the sim.
Does anyone know what is wrong
Its driving me mad!!
Thanks in advance
Change the modem and baseband....and try again.....:good:
hi i dont think that works