Hello all I hope I’m posting in proper place and ask your understanding ?
Having problems doing this and read it a G7+ in sheep’s clothing.
Well the few people I know can’t do it and thought well maybe I need reach out and do myself so let me tell you I’m not super handy but will give this a try.
I’d like to remove the blacklisted imei from the phone and unlock this phone and so far zero success.
I read the Moto G7+ is the same phone and there’s a tool to do this. I dunno if it is and T-Mobile has a real lock in their branded phones so where do I start and how I do it myself?
If true the Moto G7+ and REVVLRY+ are the same what would be the tool I need. and how?
This phone is a PITA and I’m keeping it only ‘cause I think it is possible.
So where do I start ? ?
I understand that this forum is prohibited to support exchange of imei, blacklisted imei devices, we can only restore your imei to its original factory state.
about the unlocking of the network there is a service that does it and don't ask me what it is, why that topic should be discussed in the GSM forums etc..
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Hi guys,
I'm thinking to unlock my Orange S100.
This is obviously unlegal, so, my question is: Are they able to find the illegal phone, and obviously the proprietary? I mean if they have technical resource to find it , using the imei for example.
thanks
Claudio
not sure about the rules where you live but most places it's not illegal at all
Unlocking a phone is comlpetely legal.
In fact id say the process of locking it in the first place is more dubious than unlocking it.
un-BLOCKING it however, is normally illegal. This is the process fo changing the EMEI/IMEI.
unlock without fear, reclaim your own phone from the evil network lockers!
unblocking is frowned upon on these forums because of the legality, and if you discuss it I expect you will get flamed/ban etc, so a friendly warning there.
Unlocking it may however be a breach of the contract made by yourself and your carrier..
This would make it "illegal"..
There is fortunately no way for them to know, unless you tell them.
Stupid Question #9845608234665
Forgive an ignorant question, I've been looking through the FAQs and other posts, but???
What exactly is to be gained from unlocking a phone?
-andrew
by unlocking your phone you are able to use other SIMs with your phone thus using it on other providers if you wish (useful when you travel and use prepaid SIMs)
as default phones are not locked
but when you buy a phone REALLY cheap along with a
phone subscription then they are locked because if you dont
stick with their subscription they will have lost money
selling the phone under the price it cost to make it
[Q] Newbie here - unlocked i317 "MM#6 Phone not allowed" for overseas network
hi all,
I'm new to this forum and its great to be associated with such a wonderful group
I bought an unlocked AT&T note2(i317, android 4.1.1 and firmware- i317UCALJ2) off ebay.com and got it to India a month back from WA.
I have been trying to configure mobile network on Indian carriers but always got these errors :
- " your sim card doesnt allow connection to this network" and "MM#6 phone not allowed"(MM#6 appears only since yesterday)
- the network bar(i.e. signal strength icon on home screen) doesnt capture the local networks at all which is quite surprising.
- Phone's IMEI(35700..) doesnt match IMEI on the back panel(35542..)
I heard about cases where phones purchased from ebay/craigslist getting blocked ( for example, http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2341622) but I guess that shouldn't stop it from using overseas? Also, I heard IMEIs of such blocked phones look like "null", "0"s etc. but IMEI of my phone looks good and doesn't showup in the list of blacklisted IMEIs on swappa or CheckEsnfree. Lastly, I also checked the GSM bands of i317 and they are definitely compatible in India.
Can someone kindly help?
Many thanks in advance.
Chaitanya.
I would like to add that I have tested SIMs from multiple carriers but failed to locate networks and APNs. All other features like WIFI, Bluetooth etc are working like a charm so I suspected if it got to do something with the IMEI.
I request some guidance from the experts in pointing to the issue so that I can try the workaround(Sorry..Im a novice at troubleshooting android )
Kindly let me know or redirect me to a forum if already exists.
Thanks,
Chaitanya.
Could you please say your baseband? It's in settings> about> phone.
rangercaptain said:
Could you please say your baseband? It's in settings> about> phone.
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Thanks for your reply mate.
Here are the details:
baseband - I317UCALJ2
CSC - i317ATTALJ2
Bootloader - i317UCAMH3
The good news is your phone is clean stock.
The bad news is your phone is blacklisted, and the IEMI was hacked/changed.
The only legal way to solve this is to contact the original carrier (I'm guessing AT&T USA), give them your IEMI, tell them you bought it legally in the USA, and ask them to unblock it. The blacklist is all US carriers and their overseas versions, all European carriers and their subsidiaries. Like Orange or Voda or t-mobile.
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The good news is your phone is clean stock.
The bad news is your phone is blacklisted, and the IEMI was hacked/changed.
The only legal way to solve this is to contact the original carrier (I'm guessing AT&T USA), give them your IEMI, tell them you bought it legally in the USA, and ask them to unblock it. The blacklist is all US carriers and their overseas versions, all European carriers and their subsidiaries. Like Orange or Voda or t-mobile.
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My bad..I should have checked the status beforehand in detail. Till now I was only aware that bad IMEI phones arent allowed majorly in US only (saw many such phones being sold on ebay intended for international use ).
As far as I know, i317 is only the at&t version of note2 in US and it differs a lot from its International versions (gt 7100, 7105 etc). Do you still think this blacklisted issue holds good in countries where i317 isnt available?
Since sending the product back to US is highly unlikely, can you kindly let me know the best way I can get the issue fixed?
Answered in my post above. From India you can probably use the tech chat from AT&T website.
It's a blacklist of disallowed IEMI's so the model is irrelevant.
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Answered in my post above. From India you can probably use the tech chat from AT&T website.
It's a blacklist of disallowed IEMI's so the model is irrelevant.
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Thanks Rangercaptain for your clarification. I tried AT&T's live chat but it seeks registered contact details to login. Is there any email support?
Not sure if these kind of questions are allowed here but I heard there are tools that help to retrieve lost IMEIs (which work on rooted phones).
In case it gets tough to get hold of AT&T, can I try any of such tools on my phone since it is not registered in my county anyway and doesnt come with any warranty?
P.S:I know changing IMEI is illegal but I guess retrieving it is not :fingers-crossed:
chaitanyapatwari said:
Thanks Rangercaptain for your clarification. I tried AT&T's live chat but it seeks registered contact details to login. Is there any email support?
Not sure if these kind of questions are allowed here but I heard there are tools that help to retrieve lost IMEIs (which work on rooted phones).
In case it gets tough to get hold of AT&T, can I try any of such tools on my phone since it is not registered in my county anyway and doesnt come with any warranty?
P.S:I know changing IMEI is illegal but I guess retrieving it is not :fingers-crossed:
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I started to think may be the motherboard got changed(since S/N also looks different and the phone looks absolutely new with no wear at all)?
I'm being forced to think that IMEI is clean because some followup with AT&T and US Samsung care have confirmed that the phone's back IMEI and S/N are definitely good with warranty till 2015 and don't show up in any of the blacklisted lists.
I'm sorry for posting different questions but please note that I'm not much aware about this phone's history and I'm trying to openly share the results from my extensive findings. Thanks!!
If you're sure everything is clean are you sure your Sim card is correctly provisioned for the network? The easiest way to find out is to trade cards with a working phone.
Before you think about trading main boards (I did that because the gps connector was broken) go to www.mobiletechvideos.com and see what they can do for you.
rangercaptain said:
If you're sure everything is clean are you sure your Sim card is correctly provisioned for the network? The easiest way to find out is to trade cards with a working phone.
Before you think about trading main boards (I did that because the gps connector was broken) go to www.mobiletechvideos.com and see what they can do for you.
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Yes, I have been trying this on a working sim with an active data plan which is currently working on my xperia.
Over the last 2-3 days, I have learnt that flashing a wrong ROM sometimes might corrupt EFS folder that stores IMEI,serial number etc., and reinstalling firmware through ODIN(which requires to download original stock ROM separately) or KIES software might restore the lost EFS folder.
I thought of giving this a try and accordingly reinstalled the official firmware but without any success.
Can someone redirect me to any such guides/threads that might help? If it doesnt happen then I would like to close this thread and create a new one for EFS related troubleshooting.
If efs is corrupted there is no s/n or imei shown. It displays null
Hello all,
New to this forum, and no nothing about rooting. Will learn. But, please if this is an old question please show me the way to the post about this. I have the Lg G4, it has the chip in it for the next radio app. But I am with tracfone provider. I have emailed them about if they can unlock this phones chip. No response. Have to call. I guess sprint and at&t will unlock it, but for now would like to stay with tracfone. So, I was wondering. Is it possible to unlock the chip with rooting or some how else, that I have not heard of?? You guys can do all kind of things with phones. Is that a real hard thing to unlock? Thanks people.
gweedow said:
Hello all,
New to this forum, and no nothing about rooting. Will learn. But, please if this is an old question please show me the way to the post about this. I have the Lg G4, it has the chip in it for the next radio app. But I am with tracfone provider. I have emailed them about if they can unlock this phones chip. No response. Have to call. I guess sprint and at&t will unlock it, but for now would like to stay with tracfone. So, I was wondering. Is it possible to unlock the chip with rooting or some how else, that I have not heard of?? You guys can do all kind of things with phones. Is that a real hard thing to unlock? Thanks people.
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Sorry buddy, they disable FM chip in carrier variants, but I am trying my best to get it working.
This seems working.
gweedow said:
Hello all,
New to this forum, and no nothing about rooting. Will learn. But, please if this is an old question please show me the way to the post about this. I have the Lg G4, it has the chip in it for the next radio app. But I am with tracfone provider. I have emailed them about if they can unlock this phones chip. No response. Have to call. I guess sprint and at&t will unlock it, but for now would like to stay with tracfone. So, I was wondering. Is it possible to unlock the chip with rooting or some how else, that I have not heard of?? You guys can do all kind of things with phones. Is that a real hard thing to unlock? Thanks people.
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The LG G4 wireless chip is from Broadcom and has a closed-source driver. It is proprietary code. Carrier unlocking or rooting will not enable wireless FM on your phone and the Next Radio or Spirit FM apps will not work. As much as member BAD_ASS or any other member might like to think they can solve it, they can't unless LG makes it open-source or provides their private proprietary coded FM app to the carrier phone model and software version.
If you still want to try and your LG G4 has a locked bootloader and cannot be unlocked officially, you will have to root with the method outlined in this thread: Root ANY LG G4 Variant 100% Success Directives | Root Injection | Less Bricks at https://forum.xda-developers.com/g4/general/lg-g4-100-root-success-directives-root-t3180586
Hi. I have some LG G7 ThinQ (G710TM). It has the unlock app installed, and to my knowledge, both are clean (not reported stolen, blacklisted, etc.). Is there a way to unlock the phone without the carrier unlock app? I don't know the original owner, or the original T-Mobile account, so asking T-Mobile for an unlock is out of the question. And traditional unlock codes don't work with T-Mobile's new carrier unlock app. I've found a service from CellularUnlock (cellunlocker.net/t-mobile-unlock-app) that seems to be able to do this, but can anyone confirm that this works? And also, what other options would I have?
Thanks.
Only real way would be to flash a new imei which requires jtag unless you secretly have the msl code.
So most of that other stuff is out of the question.
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Only real way would be to flash a new imei which requires jtag unless you secretly have the msl code.
So most of that other stuff is out of the question.
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Including CellUnlocker? I'm not sure how they do it, so I'm assuming it's bs but they seem like a reputable company based on reviews... (and other companies like DoctorSIM)
Also, side question: can you check if a phone is unlocked by its IMEI number?
Anyways, thanks.
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Including CellUnlocker? I'm not sure how they do it, so I'm assuming it's bs but they seem like a reputable company based on reviews... (and other companies like DoctorSIM)
Also, side question: can you check if a phone is unlocked by its IMEI number?
Anyways, thanks.
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Things might of changed since they sometines have connects..
But no imei cannot be checked for unlock status.. That requires putting a new sim in to check
Hi there,
I need some help/information in an unusual case, where my originally not locked (was never locked) G4 came back after warranty replacement of the maonboard with an actual netlock.
Neither the provider nor LG seems to even believe that there is now a netlock on my mobile, their database list my mobile as not netlocked, so they cant even provide me an unlockcode.
While it might be a rare case, it happend to other people in the past as well.
https://www.reddit.com/r/lgg4/comments/5bwc3r
I already tested about 10 different firmwares and two unlocking companies. They told me as well that my IMEI is not listed in any database as being locked.
I dont expect a solution to unlock it on my own, but maybe someone is able to give some deeper technical information about how a netlock works and what could have happend to my mobile. Maybe with some more information i am able to convince either LG or my provider to investiagte further.
Regards
Lobiani
Damn, that sucks !
Have you tried filming/photographying the process (inserting the SIM card and getting the unlock prompt) and sending it to either LG (and/or your phone provider) to convince them ?
If I were you, I’d try to negociate a swap for another G4.