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[Q] T-mobile G2 camera app won't run (Craigslist purchase gone wrong)

So picked up a T-mobile G2 from a guy on craigslist. I forgot to check out the camera before I paid up. I came home and cannot get the camera to work at all. the camera app crashes everytime and I have to force close it. The dedicated camera button also does nothing at all. Have tried doing a factory reset a couple of time and have no luck.
Any ideas for options? I am pretty sure the warranty is not in play as I am the second(third /fourth) owner.
Looks like its running the stock firmware
Android Version
2.2
Baseband Version
12.28b.60.140eU_26.03.02.26_M
Kernel Version
2.6.32.17-g9ab3677
Build Number
1.22.531.8 CL277427
Thanks in advance

Did you try a 3rd party camera app to make sure the camera works?

No third party camera app works either. I think they all use the base app in the background or something.

At this point since you cant get your money back you might as well root it and install a different rom and see what happens.

Well I ibuy all my phones off craigslist and I can get replacement from tmobile. Worked for mytouch 4g and worked for g2.
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U must be willing to spend sometime on this...
Won't work unless ur a tmobile subscriber.
1.go on tmobile website, log in, go to contact us and online chat.
2.find the one that says trouble shooting
3.fill out ur info
4.tell them you recently bought a g2. (Don't say like 2 weeks ago or anything like that, tell them you bought it yesterday) and obiviosuly don't tell them you bought it off ebay or craig. Act like you bought it off tmobile store.
Tell them you have a friend and he had his g2 for a while and he's firmware version is different than yours. Tell them he received an ota upgrade sometime ago. and you still haven't received your ota update. So you took it to the store and everything and they told you to contact tmobile and see if your imei number is in their system. Now they will require your imei number. Give them your imei number and they will tell you they updated in and ur imei number is now in their system.
At this point their system will think you just bought the phone as it just registered on their system. So its like your on tmobile 14 days remorse return thingy. I forgot what its called.
Now exit the online chat.
Now this time choose phone acce then warranty exchange.
And tell them you are experiencing weird reboots problem. Tell them the phone reboots by itself like 5 times a day. And you found a dead pixel on the screen idk make some stuffs up
And tell them you already took it to the store and did hard reset and eveything and your still experiencing problems.
(This is a must part or they will walk you through hard resetting the phone steps and tell you to contact again if you're still experiencing problem)
Ur done. They will say they will send you the replacement phone at this point.
Just make sure you still have the void sticker and u don't have any water damage. Or you will get charged.
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Oops double.post

Just out of curiosity how much did you pay for it
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Strange, some others have mentioned it, have you tried rooting and installing a custom rom? Or is that something you didn't have interest in doing?

eunkipark92 said:
Well I ibuy all my phones off craigslist and I can get replacement from tmobile. Worked for mytouch 4g and worked for g2.
Please click thanks button
U must be willing to spend sometime on this...
Won't work unless ur a tmobile subscriber.
1.go on tmobile website, log in, go to contact us and online chat.
2.find the one that says trouble shooting
3.fill out ur info
4.tell them you recently bought a g2. (Don't say like 2 weeks ago or anything like that, tell them you bought it yesterday) and obiviosuly don't tell them you bought it off ebay or craig. Act like you bought it off tmobile store.
Tell them you have a friend and he had his g2 for a while and he's firmware version is different than yours. Tell them he received an ota upgrade sometime ago. and you still haven't received your ota update. So you took it to the store and everything and they told you to contact tmobile and see if your imei number is in their system. Now they will require your imei number. Give them your imei number and they will tell you they updated in and ur imei number is now in their system.
At this point their system will think you just bought the phone as it just registered on their system. So its like your on tmobile 14 days remorse return thingy. I forgot what its called.
Now exit the online chat.
Now this time choose phone acce then warranty exchange.
And tell them you are experiencing weird reboots problem. Tell them the phone reboots by itself like 5 times a day. And you found a dead pixel on the screen idk make some stuffs up
And tell them you already took it to the store and did hard reset and eveything and your still experiencing problems.
(This is a must part or they will walk you through hard resetting the phone steps and tell you to contact again if you're still experiencing problem)
Ur done. They will say they will send you the replacement phone at this point.
Just make sure you still have the void sticker and u don't have any water damage. Or you will get charged.
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Hiw sure are you that this will work on a G2 that was purchased back in October? I have a legitimate problem....traded my N1 for G2 on craigslist and now the screen is white w/black lines. I have a custom ROM installed (but didn't tell them that). I called and they said it's not under warranty (since I'm not the original owner). I'm guessing that conversation is in the system, but I'm willing to try this method. This seems incredibly sketchy and it seems like they would have the phone in the system on the original owner's account.

[Q] No IMEI

I just purchased this phone a week ago off of Craigslist, the phone worked great up until today. I noticed that I didn't have any service. I use a microcell at home so it was no big deal, thought that it had messed up like it does every now and again, however I got out to town where I usually have near full signal and still had none. I opened up settings and "Mobile Data" was turned off, I tried to toggle it back on and it will not allow me to do this. I went in to the "About Phone" part of the settings and the phone shows "Unknown" for cell phone number and IMEI.
This is the stock AT&T version G Pro that has not been rooted. I contacted AT&T thinking this may be a sim card problem or maybe I bought a stolen phone, but everything on their end seemed to be clean. I tried out a friends sim card and still had no luck. Called LG and they said I would need to send it in with a receipt. I don't have a receipt and I won't pay for them to repair the phone, because I'm sure the bill will wind up being more than the phone is worth.
Has anyone else had this problem? Are their any fixes anyone can think of that doesn't involve rooting the device? If not, what steps will I need to take to recover my IMEI so that the phone will actually make/receive phone calls and texts?

charlee08 said:
I just purchased this phone a week ago off of Craigslist, the phone worked great up until today. I noticed that I didn't have any service. I use a microcell at home so it was no big deal, thought that it had messed up like it does every now and again, however I got out to town where I usually have near full signal and still had none. I opened up settings and "Mobile Data" was turned off, I tried to toggle it back on and it will not allow me to do this. I went in to the "About Phone" part of the settings and the phone shows "Unknown" for cell phone number and IMEI.
This is the stock AT&T version G Pro that has not been rooted. I contacted AT&T thinking this may be a sim card problem or maybe I bought a stolen phone, but everything on their end seemed to be clean. I tried out a friends sim card and still had no luck. Called LG and they said I would need to send it in with a receipt. I don't have a receipt and I won't pay for them to repair the phone, because I'm sure the bill will wind up being more than the phone is worth.
Has anyone else had this problem? Are their any fixes anyone can think of that doesn't involve rooting the device? If not, what steps will I need to take to recover my IMEI so that the phone will actually make/receive phone calls and texts?
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Are YOU SURE you did not do anything to the phone? Cause loosing an IMEI requires the USER to do something wrong, like flashing other carrier Versions.

hyelton said:
Are YOU SURE you did not do anything to the phone? Cause loosing an IMEI requires the USER to do something wrong, like flashing other carrier Versions.
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I've had my phone do that before. Wasn't rooted or hacked in any way. I didn't even know of a way to do it. What fixed mine was a **** load of factory resets. And I mean a **** LOAD!!! Luckily it came back and I've been good ever since. Don't know what happened or how but that was very weird.
Note to the wise: I don't care who says what about what! NEVER buy a phone off of craigslist or from anyone for that matter other than a carrier or authorized reseller. Because when it breaks, you can't do **** about it!

hyelton said:
Are YOU SURE you did not do anything to the phone? Cause loosing an IMEI requires the USER to do something wrong, like flashing other carrier Versions.
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Well I have no reason to lie about something like this. I've only rooted one phone of the dozen or so I've owned and that was a old Galaxy Note.
This morning when I got home from work the phone had 76% battery left, woke up and it was dead. It powered up and showed 2% battery. I went into battery under settings, android system used 26% of the battery. Not sure that's enough to drain the batter while I was asleep.
Must be something definitely wrong in the phone.
Jammol said:
I've had my phone do that before. Wasn't rooted or hacked in any way. I didn't even know of a way to do it. What fixed mine was a **** load of factory resets. And I mean a **** LOAD!!! Luckily it came back and I've been good ever since. Don't know what happened or how but that was very weird.
Note to the wise: I don't care who says what about what! NEVER buy a phone off of craigslist or from anyone for that matter other than a carrier or authorized reseller. Because when it breaks, you can't do **** about it!
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Yeah, lesson learned. Craigslist is usually where I do my cell phone trading and buying.
I'll keep trying resets to see if this fixes the problem. Thanks!

Try to re flash a stock using an LG flash tool it might work as what other users did on their G Pro have the same issues

Still haven't found anything that works.
I'm guessing something has malfunctioned in the phone.

[Q] network wont connect

I have my galaxy s3 through tmobile, and I used to be on my boyfriend's account. Well after we broke up, he reported my phone as stolen. Now I cant use my phone with any carrier, because apparently the IMEI number has been blacklisted. I have called tmobile to explain the situation, but they are not hearing it because I wasn't the account holder. Is there any way to go around this situation? They will not listen to me or believe me, even though I take my phone to them and show all of my data and proof that I have had it forever! Please help, because if I cant fix this then I will be out a lot of money that I do not have!!!

jessf said:
I have my galaxy s3 through tmobile, and I used to be on my boyfriend's account. Well after we broke up, he reported my phone as stolen. Now I cant use my phone with any carrier, because apparently the IMEI number has been blacklisted. I have called tmobile to explain the situation, but they are not hearing it because I wasn't the account holder. Is there any way to go around this situation? They will not listen to me or believe me, even though I take my phone to them and show all of my data and proof that I have had it forever! Please help, because if I cant fix this then I will be out a lot of money that I do not have!!!
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Well, I'll bite the bullet on this one. It looks like you are screwed as your phone is blacklisted and most of the carriers are sharing lists, so you probably never be able to get service in the U.S. Your only real options, other than pursue legal action against BF/TMo, are to sell the phone to a non-U.S. party for them to use or part it out.
Good Luck with it.

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lolipop update then phone was blocked/blacklisted

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.

Febby said:
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.

snyper2k2 said:
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

balthuszar said:
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.

prepay SIM in deactivated S6 Edge with T-Mobile

I have a Samsung Galaxy Edge 6 with T-Mobile from T-mobile, love the phone, but I lost my job and the bill got out of control so I have not paid in like 3 months I think now.
It was not too big of a deal since my main number is a Google Voice number and I use Google Hangouts to make phone calls and text messages by default.
Its perfect when I am at home on wi-fi but as soon as I leave and not within wi-fi of course I get no internet functionality.
For a while I saw the carrier logo at the top of my phone "T-Mobile" but now it just says "searching" where it used to say that in the upper part of the screen on every screen. (I may have switched a setting causing this or they may have blacklisted my phone I am not sure how to tell).
The phone is not carrier unlocked however if I was to go to Walmart or even a T-Mobile store, tell them I don't have the phone on me but I just want to purchase a pre-paid SIM, could I do that and would it work on my phone to get back on the T-mobile or other carriers network?
Since I use Google Hangouts for my texts and calls it is very important for me to have data. I am sure 5GB would be fine but I want to purchase the cheapest SIM which has any kind of data to see if it even works first. I do not care what number it gives me since I will not be using it for outgoing or incoming calls.
My concern is that if I go with T-Mobile pre-pay, when I put SIM in, it may reject it automatically because they may have sent some kind of SIM lock command since it is not showing carrier anymore OR they may look up my IMEI and see that I have an outstanding bill with them and not allow the SIM.
Any suggestions besides the obvious "pay your bill" would be greatly appreciated! When I can afford to pay the bill I will :cyclops:

Short answer, yes it will work.
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Ok great thank you! Will go in and get a T-mob SIM tomorrow. Or actually, does anyone have advice of where to get the cheapest SIM so I can try this to make sure it works first? I think for $30 you can get 5GB data and a little talk from T-Mob is there anything cheaper? I am super-broke right now lol. I just need the data no talk.

Actually it depends on if the phone was part of the bill. If it wasnt payed off and you didnt pay them it will get blacklisted and it wont work with any carrier in the us. But if the phone was paid outright then you should be fine.

See that is what I am talking about. The phone AND Galaxy Gear S with activated SIM both were not paid off and bill is at $600 and it used to say "T-mobile" for carrier on top of phone screen now it just says "Searching" thus I am pretty sure that is a sign of being blacklisted. Even if phone is blacklisted cant I do something to make it use a prepaid SIM? Can I spoof the IMEI? Is that how they blacklist it?

Alex9090 said:
Short answer, yes it will work.
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I got around to trying this and no, it did not work. In fact I went to one of those third party T-mobile places which is an authorized dealer but he was still cool to talk about it with and had access to the T-mobile database.
He asked for my phone, went to the dialer app on the phone, put in a code with the numeric keypad, and it pulled up two bar codes and numbers (I think the IMEI).
He then went on his computer and put in my IMEI or whatever number was there and sure enough it said it was blacklisted.
I had a feeling this was the case when my phone went from showing the carrier logo on the top of the screen they it said "searching" after about 3 months on non payment.
So when I tried to purchase a new prepaid SIM and put it in the phone and phone restarted, instead of saying "searching" it now says "no service".
There has to be a work around for this. Maybe changing the phones IMEI is the only way but if there are other alternatives I would like to know. I can program and have been writing code since I was 12 years old but not sure if I need special hardware to flash and internal EEPROM or something like that. Any hep is greatly appreciated!
I hear there are people that I can pay to do it but I enjoying learning things like this on my own so I would really like to do it myself if possible?

Changing the imei might be possible but for legal and policy reasons that can not be discussed here

I see tons of ways to do it with a Google search super easy. But it seems TWRP might do it or at least let me backup everything including the system partition so I dont lose anything and can always go back?
Where can I get and learn more about TWRP and must I be rooted?
Can we currently root Samsung GS6 with Android OS 5.1.1 ?