I want to change my phone's imei number. Phone's simnis blocked bcz of tax system. It is not stolen or reported. It's blocked by government bcz I didn't payed tax and i can't bcz it's more than mobile's price!
Need help plz!
trouble. said:
I want to change my phone's imei number. Phone's simnis blocked bcz of tax system. It is not stolen or reported. It's blocked by government bcz I didn't payed tax and i can't bcz it's more than mobile's price!
Need help plz!
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Hi,
Unfortunately we can't help you with that here as it is illegal to change your IMEI in the US. (I'm refering to the forum Rules)
Raiz said:
Hi,
Unfortunately we can't help you with that here as it is illegal to change your IMEI in the US. (I'm refering to the forum Rules)
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Well I don't live in the US so it's not illegal for me!
trouble. said:
Well I don't live in the US so it's not illegal for me!
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And in most countries of the world, again we cannot help you here, the rules of this website forbids requesting this stuff because it is illegal in most country. Even if you were in a country that allows IMEI changing, the rules of the forum stay the same.
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I need a tool for changing my xda3's imei number. Why?
I bought a xda 3 a few months ago from ebay.co.uk,
a few days ago i learnt that there was a new law and that law says you cant use mobile phones which are not legallay import to turkey( this means i will never use phones that are not sell in turkey). if i bought my phone one day ago(before the date of law) my phone has been legal but for 1 day my phone is illegal in their opinion
You can say law is law and you must know that but the problem begins here, no one knows anything about this law and 2 MILLION CELL PHONES like mine will be blocked on 13th december
i found a solution for this, i will buy a cheap legal phone and i will clone its imei number to my xda 3 to use it (if i could)
Can anyone help me how to change the imei number.
Are you sure? A law like that would be really, really stupid. :?
As for IMEI - no you can't change it.
they do have some funny laws. our Turkish representative ordered a spare part which their customs refused the importation 'coz it was manufactured in 2004.
It's nonsense.
If they would start blocking IMEI numbers for instance, all tourist's cellphones would stop functioning.
The only way they could "enforce" this is to go to each individual cellphone user, take their GSM, press *#06#, write down the IMEI number and go through cellphones sold by all Turkish operators, lists that never will be upto-date, since new cellphones are sold very day.
For me this news is a hoax, utter BS.
Wiz said:
If they would start blocking IMEI numbers for instance, all tourist's cellphones would stop functioning.
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This is not necessarily the case.
They could block "foreign" IMEI operating on local SIM cards but not block them on roaming.
But I doubt they will.
Sascha
The Turkish government would like Turkey to join the EU. If they want to then they'll have to stop doing very silly things like this. :evil:
When (if) they do join the EU then they be foreced to do other silly stuff instead. :roll:
SO.......IN THE END WHAT HAPPENED???
yeah yeah. ok. so in the end, to make a long story short --> did it happen? i mean, did they block the imei no's or not?????
I doubt it
jim
so do i. but got no info bout that so we'll just hv2wait n see. already the deadline passed, so it should b blocked by now. but i doubt it big-time puuhleeeaassse
we pass the dead line but the result is still unknown
my gsm operator turkcel said your imei number is cloned (someone uses my imei number ? ) and depend on this stuation they record my imei number to system and i paid 10 usd for registration fee, after that they said me you can use your phone
but today i checked my imei number from the goverments web site and i saw my phone is not regisered and will be bloced on unknown date.
I want to explain something
The intention of this law is prevent the tax decrement from unregistred phones ( there's about 18 million phones came to turkey without tax at last ten years approximately
100 usd tax for 1 phone X 18 million phone = 1.8 billion usd tax prevent for the goverment
Other reason is stolen phones at previous system gsm operators couldnt blocked the stolen phones becouse they had no imei database
The law is good but the problem is on dates
Goverment says the law is made on july 13th and the dead line for the unregistered phones (phones came to turkey without paid tax) is this date
But no one know anything about this law, i checked the forums on july and there is nothing at anywhere about this law at these days
so i bought a phone from outside turkey because i didnt know that was illegal and 2 million of people didnt know buying phone without paying tax is illegal because this wasnt illegal last 10years .....
etc. etc. etc....
I m still waiting a solution for changing imei please help
ogn said:
I m still waiting a solution for changing imei please help
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It's simple: you cannot change IMEI
Sascha
SaBo said:
ogn said:
I m still waiting a solution for changing imei please help
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It's simple: you cannot change IMEI
Sascha
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Well actually, that is not strictly true. It is very possable, in the pursuit of science. However this is a clean site and I am happy for it to stay that way.
You are misinformed my friend. The law isn't to battle illegale imports but rather stolen phones, illegale imports are just a by product of it. As long as you have a receipt with your name and the IMEI code on it you can drop by your local phone store and have the IMEI activated. There is a charge of 10 YTL for this.
Changing the IMEI code of your device won't help you cause it still will be blocked, unless you hijack some elses activated IMEI.
How do I know? Cause I'm in Turkey rightnow for new years. My Dutch Vodafone card works in my phone but my prepaid Turkcell card does not. I droppped by the Turkcell shop and had it activated. Took the receipt with me when I left NL cause I knew abotu the law.
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Wiz said:
If they would start blocking IMEI numbers for instance, all tourist's cellphones would stop functioning.
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This is not necessarily the case.
They could block "foreign" IMEI operating on local SIM cards but not block them on roaming.
But I doubt they will.
Sascha
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I have just Landed in the U.K from Turkey and can confirm this is not a hoax.All foreign phones are blocked,on local simm cards!Foreign simm cards on roaming work,you must take the reciept and proof of purchase,if you missed the date.
And what about people who enjoy their holiday there?
Is Turkey allready joining the European Union?.
If the answer is yes, they will be very soon target by the Union rules :twisted:
If the answer is no yet, they will never get in with this manners
Cheers to every one and enjoy hollydais
User22 said:
Is Turkey allready joining the European Union?.
If the answer is yes, they will be very soon target by the Union rules :twisted:
If the answer is no yet, they will never get in with this manners
Cheers to every one and enjoy hollydais
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The answer is "not yet".
They have a few human rights and free speech issues to sort out before the EU will even discuss membership with them.
Re: My xda will be blocked like 2 MILLION cellphones on 13th
ogn said:
I need a tool for changing my xda3's imei number. Why?
I bought a xda 3 a few months ago from ebay.co.uk,
a few days ago i learnt that there was a new law and that law says you cant use mobile phones which are not legallay import to turkey( this means i will never use phones that are not sell in turkey). if i bought my phone one day ago(before the date of law) my phone has been legal but for 1 day my phone is illegal in their opinion
You can say law is law and you must know that but the problem begins here, no one knows anything about this law and 2 MILLION CELL PHONES like mine will be blocked on 13th december
i found a solution for this, i will buy a cheap legal phone and i will clone its imei number to my xda 3 to use it (if i could)
Can anyone help me how to change the imei number.
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try google
even if you did/could change the IMEI wont changing it be illegal ( i know its illegal to change the IMEI number here in the uk, not sure about turkey thou prob is thou)
so you would have an illegal phone cos it was import and would prob still be illegal cos the IMEI would have been changed
Unfortunately changing the IMEI number is illegal in Turkey with 3 years jail punishment. ("How will the government officers detect it?" is a question with no answer)
However for the guys like my friend from Turkey this law is completely nonsense! There was almost no announcement nor proper technical information about how everyone will be affected.
I'm sure some people in Turkey is buying cheap legal phones and copying it to their htc smartphones but the question is how they are doing that?
since I do not believe the necessity of this law I'll definetely find a way to broke it. If anyone could help that would be great under these circumstances.
I'm another guy who has a LEGAL pda2k (bought from USA with legal invoice) but waiting it to be blocked any time.... I don't really like the feeling of waiting it to be blocked on an unknown date/time. At least I want to know if there is a way to change the IMEI no in case of my pda2k's is blocked. I know IMEI can be changed and want to learn how (or where I can get this information). Any help will be appriciated. Thanks all.
Hi All,
I have bought "Huawei E5180s-22 4G LTE" from China, then only realized that it cannot be used in Malaysia with an unlimited SIM Card.
Upon contacting the seller, he told me that I need to unlock the modem and then change the IMEI.
May I know how to unlock this modem and change to what IMEI?
I am skill enough to execute AT command correctly.
Thanks
CK_Kwan said:
Hi All,
I have bought "Huawei E5180s-22 4G LTE" from China, then only realized that it cannot be used in Malaysia with an unlimited SIM Card.
Upon contacting the seller, he told me that I need to unlock the modem and then change the IMEI.
May I know how to unlock this modem and change to what IMEI?
I am skill enough to execute AT command correctly.
Thanks
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@CK_Kwan Thread has been closed!
Edit or change of IMEI is illegal in quite a few of countries. For this reason, XDA doesn't allow and accept discussions about or support for such an edit or change.
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Hello. I live in Turkey. In Turkey, there is no official sale of Oneplus. Therefore, we need to buy them from people (who illegally import the phone). The government don't let us use this phone unlimited, therefore, IMEI number need to be changed.
I have LE2123 model which has changed IMEI number. Now I need the original IMEI numbers to register the device on Oneplus Care. Is there any way to get back to original IMEI numbers?
Thanks for your concern..
y.emrecicek said:
Hello. I live in Turkey. In Turkey, there is no official sale of Oneplus. Therefore, we need to buy them from people (who illegally import the phone). The government don't let us use this phone unlimited, therefore, IMEI number need to be changed.
I have LE2123 model which has changed IMEI number. Now I need the original IMEI numbers to register the device on Oneplus Care. Is there any way to get back to original IMEI numbers?
Thanks for your concern..
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Edit or change of IMEI is illegal in quite a few of countries. For this reason, I've closed your thread! XDA doesn't allow and doesn't accept discussions about or support for such an edit or change.
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I new it was to good to be true, the reason my phone keeps saying cannot use voice or connot use sim 1, is due to someone selling me a phone that was previously on a contract! And of course there is no trace of this guy, I contacted Google, they need proof of perchase! Yeah that's not going to be simple to get, it's there any way of unlocking this device? I haven't tried any other sim, apparently it's a Three network phone but iv been using my EE sim this hole time for a long time to, can I root to fix this or?
I do not want to lose this phone because of some scammer
Contact the carrier and negotiate a pay off price to unlock it... if it isn't stolen.
blackhawk said:
Contact the carrier and negotiate a pay off price to unlock it... if it isn't stolen.
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My network is EE and they wore able to un blacklist my IMEI three network for free, pritty handy
kevinireland11 said:
My network is EE and they wore able to un blacklist my IMEI three network for free, pritty handy
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You got lucky this time. Don't ever put yourself in that position again.
blackhawk said:
You got lucky this time. Don't ever put yourself in that position again.
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Definitely not! I honestly think the adviser that done it was an understanding guy, because if that was anyone else I don't think they would have done that for me, but yes, if y'all are buying phones look up the IMEI this will tell you everything you need to no about the phone
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You got lucky this time. Don't ever put yourself in that position again.
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You can actually pay 7.99 to unblacklist or 13.99 for a new IMEI apparently
kevinireland11 said:
You can actually pay 7.99 to unblacklist or 13.99 for a new IMEI apparently
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That's illegal in the US especially to change the imei.
blackhawk said:
That's illegal in the US especially to change the imei.
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Actually illegal in most of the world, not simply the US.
How does that pay work? I though the reason to blacklist IMEI's was because they were reported stolen. Not much point if you can just pay a small ammount to own a stolen phone?
Strephon Alkhalikoi said:
Actually illegal in most of the world, not simply the US.
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Unjustifiably.
96carboard said:
Unjustifiably.
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Explain?
IMEI is there to protect the legitimate owner of the device.
kevinireland11 said:
You can actually pay 7.99 to unblacklist or 13.99 for a new IMEI apparently
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IMEI changing is illegal.
Sorry I forgot there are allot of IMEI police on here
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IMEI changing is illegal.
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Oh there's a parot in the room lol, did you also not see those other comments that everyone else saw or?
kevinireland11 said:
I new it was to good to be true, the reason my phone keeps saying cannot use voice or connot use sim 1, is due to someone selling me a phone that was previously on a contract! And of course there is no trace of this guy, I contacted Google, they need proof of perchase! Yeah that's not going to be simple to get, it's there any way of unlocking this device? I haven't tried any other sim, apparently it's a Three network phone but iv been using my EE sim this hole time for a long time to, can I root to fix this or?
I do not want to lose this phone because of some scammer
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How much did you pay for this device?
kevinireland11 said:
Sorry I forgot there are allot of IMEI police on here
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I'd rather call the grammar police reading your stuff.
Thread closed since the OP's question has been answered and XDA Rule #9 violations for changing IMEI's.
9. Don't get us into trouble.
Don't post copyrighted materials or do other things which will obviously lead to legal trouble. If you wouldn't do it on your own homepage, you probably shouldn't do it here either. This does not mean that we agree with everything that the software piracy lobby try to impose on us. It simply means that you cannot break any laws here, since we'll end up dealing with the legal hassle caused by you. Please use common sense: respect the forum, its users and those that write great code.
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-Regards: Badger50
Hi, due to the high prices in my country I have bought an TMO version of one plus 9 pro LE2127. But to keep use my sim in my country I have to pay huge amount or I have to replace the IMEI number with one of my old phones. I have been looking for how to do but I couldn't find a valid guide for this. My phone is in Android12 now and 13 is just came today. I didn't do update yet. Can anyone help me out this issue?
Regards.
mvollstagg said:
Hi, due to the high prices in my country I have bought an TMO version of one plus 9 pro LE2127. But to keep use my sim in my country I have to pay huge amount or I have to replace the IMEI number with one of my old phones. I have been looking for how to do but I couldn't find a valid guide for this. My phone is in Android12 now and 13 is just came today. I didn't do update yet. Can anyone help me out this issue?
Regards.
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Changing the imei is forbidden in most countries and is not supported here as far as I know
ChrisFeiveel84 said:
Changing the imei is forbidden in most countries and is not supported here as far as I know
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I didn't know that it's forbidden here. My fault then. I apologise.
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Hi, due to the high prices in my country I have bought an TMO version of one plus 9 pro LE2127. But to keep use my sim in my country I have to pay huge amount or I have to replace the IMEI number with one of my old phones. I have been looking for how to do but I couldn't find a valid guide for this. My phone is in Android12 now and 13 is just came today. I didn't do update yet. Can anyone help me out this issue?
Regards.
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Altering the IMEI of your phone is against the law in most countries and is not something that can be discussed on XDA. Instead of trying to alter the IMEI, next time you buy a phone, make sure it's sim unlocked and doesn't have a blacklisted IMEI.
mvollstagg said:
Hi, due to the high prices in my country I have bought an TMO version of one plus 9 pro LE2127. But to keep use my sim in my country I have to pay huge amount or I have to replace the IMEI number with one of my old phones. I have been looking for how to do but I couldn't find a valid guide for this. My phone is in Android12 now and 13 is just came today. I didn't do update yet. Can anyone help me out this issue?
Regards.
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I didn't know that it's forbidden here. My fault then. I apologise.
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@mvollstagg I've closed this thread!
As already above indicated by @ChrisFeiveel84 and @Masterchief87, edit or change of IMEI is illegal in quite a few of countries. For this reason, I've closed the thread! XDA doesn't allow and doesn't accept discussions about or support for such an edit or change.
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Please refrain from such support requests on XDA in future. Thanks for your cooperation!
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