hi,
I bought a Vario II from ebay about 4 weeks ago. Last Sunday my phone was barred and i was unable to make or receive calls or texts. Has this happened to anyone, is it a phone problem? If not i then wrote to the guy as you would and he said my wife will check the IMEI's shes a phone fraud expert (he sounds quite genuine) I gave him the IMEI from the back of the phone and when i checked the IMEI usin *#06# it was different. Could i have caused this problwem messing with the phone? (Since i recieved it i installed Schaps newest rom and Hardspl etc. Before i take it further is it my fault? Anyone experienced this? Thanks xx
Ive tried a Hard Reset aswell and it didnt work :|
very unlikely or extremely difficult (and illegal), so its pretty certain you haven't done it unwittingly.
sorry to be negative but it sounds like maybe the tytn housing is from another tytn etc.
it would seem the phone was lost, stolen or such and the housing changed, and it's blocked now because it has been reported. but maybe i'm being pessimistic.
and it sound's like he's lying if he said his wife's a phone fraud expert. check his feedback? what's his ebay id? did you pay by paypal?
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does n e body know why i can buy a new xda ii motherboard from or even a second hand on that hasnt been iemi bared pm me plz
Hi,
How much you looking to spend? I've got an XDA II that I can part. It works perfectly and has the newest version of ROM.
13hours on the Call Timer
not sure how much they are worth there in nothing wrong with the one i have but i got ripped of good style i paid somert like 300 pounds for it in the box but found out it had been reported lost so they bard the imei number making the phone part usless over here in the uk my board would work over there no problems at all tell me how much you are looking for the new board and i could possable even send you this one i have back to you
Hi,
I bought mine used on eBay... It works fine here in Canada, not sure whether it was barred in UK or not.
According to the Seller, it wasn't barred anything. Not looking for a new motherboard. I am selling the phone in parts or in whole soon.
not sure how much they are worth there in nothing wrong with the one i have but i got ripped of good style i paid somert like 300 pounds for it in the box but found out it had been reported lost so they bard the imei number making the phone part usless over here in the uk my board would work over there no problems at all tell me how much you are looking for the new board and i could possable even send you this one i have back to you
Hi,
PM me with an offer and we can work something out.
You'll need to use the retainer (for LCD connector) from the motherboard you have; My retainer broke when I tried to remove the cable. I'm holding it on with a piece of film negative right now.
I have a uk blocked motherboard, pefect order but barred in uk because of insurance claim. £50 wanted. will work in rest of world.
lol i wont a motherboard than isnt blocked in the uk money waiting for the right part : help to ease the pain of been ripper of if i can get one
ill give up to 70 pouns for a fuklly working unlocked motherboard pm me if you have one for the xda ii
XDA2 Mboard
Ive got a damaged XDA2 that I have driven over with a go-kart. I am just waiting for my insurers to send me a cheque for a new one before I release this one. It still can receive incomine calls and make all the beeps and tones. The screen and case is knackered. As soon as its avail I will post it here!!
I am sorry but the insurance company have kept it.
Go kart? what the sausage where u doing? I've 'ahem' had my xda stolen BUT I Hear from visions i have in my dreams that its NOT been barred :lol: ah well £220 in da bag :lol:
all reported stolen phones are blocked eventually, its just a matter of time usually.
Here's Hopin and will post news
Cheap EBAY car charger from Bargaincell.com fried the charging circuit/sync/USB connnector on my brand new 8525. The guy tells me he won't do anything about damages, so I'm stuck needing a replacement motherboard. Other than this my device is in perfect condition, so I'm not looking to part it out either.
If you have an operational motherboard, Please email me at:
natedog731 <NO @ SPAM> hotmail.com
THANKS!
Have you tried putting the phone in for warranty?
Well, I got the phone 2nd hand off of ebay (No Warranty). Shortly there after, another ebay product killed it. See this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=1443395&postcount=22
I would still try and get it replaced through AT&T. I bought my 8525 through eBay and had an issue with it and AT&T still replaced it under the manufactures warranty for me. I've done it numerous times with phones over the years. The number you should call is 1-800-801-1101. It's definitely worth a shot...
Hmmm... I suppose the worst thing they can tell me is "no"...
I'll be damned... I didn't think that would work... A replacement is on the way! Thanks for the idea, TheBrit and ahfunaki!!
No problem, glad to have saved you some time and money...
And the nice thing is too, the phone you'll receive basically is brand new...
Bah... Cingular/ATT sent me a unit with the White screen issue. right out of the box... *sigh* A replacement for the replacement is on the way...
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Hmmm... I suppose the worst thing they can tell me is "no"...
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Or charge you for the new phone after they determine the damage wasnt due to a defect. You gotta be careful as they try to find anthing to make your fault. I got a couple boards if interested
LOL Just called them again tonight... Time for the replacement for the replacement for the replacement . The rep tried to talk me into taking a different model in exchange. "Sir, since you've had the trouble with that model, how about a different model instead? A Blackberry 7100, perhaps?" LOL. He didn't seem too surprised that I asked about the Tilt, and it seemed like he checked stock and said that there was none so far. We'll see what happens.
omg.....really>? if i would of known this i wouldnt of opened my phone and voided it....do you guys think that they will accept it?? i got my 8525 from ebay
to ahfunaki:
Can you write all procedure step by step, because I don’t live in USA but I have couple friends in USA with ATT account? I can ask for help but their don’t realize how to do it, because I was send my device couple weeks ago but in ATT local store refuse to help because of ebay purchase. A can call to ATT via skype and organize everything.
Sorry for my poor English.
Hi all,
I know this question may have been asked thousands of times, but hopefully somebody can point me in the right direction.
Sometime ago, i found a T-mobile hermes vario ll and handed it into the nearest police Station..... yes there are still honest people about!
Anyway.. i wa told that if nobody claimed it after 28 days then i could return and keep it.
Nobody did claim it, so the phone is now mine, however, predictably the original owner reported it as stolen i presume and the phone part of it will not work.. presumably blocked.
Question now is..... i have an old t - mobile phone which i no longer use.... is there a way i can change the imei number on this device to reflect the one on the old phone which is 100% working and has been owned by me from new?
If so, how do i go about this, and is there a piece of software i can obtain?
Regards
SP
No, imei's are unique to a phone and its illegal to change...
Anybody else... any solution?
Thanks
SP
you wont find an answer to that question on this site i am afraid. Get a bluetooth gps and use it as a pda/gps but you wont be able to use the phone. I'll buy it off you if you want to sell it, it will save me using my xda trion as a tomtom
Sorry if this is in the wrong place, first time poster here.
In December I purchased a nexus5 off of some guy that was selling one in my local area. He seemed like a good guy, the phone was in the original box and I was pumped at getting one for a bit cheaper than they are on the play store. Although this last week it randomly could not connect to the network, so I called Telus (my Canadian provider) and after a half hour of troubleshooting they told me that the IMEI is blacklisted as a lost or stolen device? I feel pretty ripped off and disappointed. I found the guys email that I brought it from and tried to contact him but he wont answer his phone, texts, or email. So I don't know what to do? Am I just screwed and forced to buy a new phone? is there anyway I can change the IMIE address? Or anything that anyone can recommend I should attempt to do? Thanks in advance for any help that can be supplied!
Always check before buying. If it is stolen (instead of lost) then you should turn it in to the police. But there is no way to tell and the provider will never tell you which.
It also isn't unheard of for a telco to incorrectly block a phone. I'd try arguing your case since you used it for a month before they shut you down.
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Always check before buying. If it is stolen (instead of lost) then you should turn it in to the police. But there is no way to tell and the provider will never tell you which.
It also isn't unheard of for a telco to incorrectly block a phone. I'd try arguing your case since you used it for a month before they shut you down.
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Thanks for the input. Who would I contact about arguing it? I talked to someone at Telus for a good half an hour, and they just told me that they have no control blacklisting the IMEI. They would if say i was under contract and I didnt pay my bill. But I am off contract and just put their SIM in my unlocked device. The person told me that say for example if the phone was stolen from BestBuy in novemeber, it could have worked this entire time because it took bestbuy this long for them to put the numbers in there system, and it finally just caught up with me. And also, my SIM works in my friends nexus4, so it doesnt have anything to do with Telus, its an issue with the phone not getting access to the towers. And if it is blacklisted on the national list for being lost or stolen it wont work on any of the carriers in the country... So i dont know what to do
What's up fellers! Been gone a long time and know I am back. I got a deal on a I527 and found out the guy used a Metro-PCS sim. I didn't realize this until after I put my SIM in and saw ATT. I didn't see that when he had his SIM in there.
I read the 5 or 6 posts on not being able to make or take a call from a TMOBILE setup but since this may be a little different I thought I would post and give it a shot.
My symptoms are no calls (does nothing then emits a single beep then hangs up). Does the same when dialing out. 4G and everything else works 100% Phone is fast boots quick charges fast no complaints anywhere except the stinking call issue.
I used KIES to reload the stock ROM. Took about 20 minutes and completed. Still no calls. Here are the details
Phone has the ATT logo on back, says SGH-i527, has I527UCUAMK2 all 3 places. I talked to ATT customer service and they said the IMEI points to a SGHNM819N. But nothing on the phone indicate metro PCS.
I use to hack back in the ATT Tilt days. Not anymore. I had a small stroke and can't do all this complex stuff anymore. If someone points me in the right direction I can follow instructions but it seems to have gotten a lot more cumbersome to do these days.
All I am looking for is bone stock reset where everything works. I can wait for KitKat to come out so I would like a clean fix.
My sim is a ATT. The service agent online assured me the SIM was fine. My old phone was a Skyrocket that got wet. So the MEGA needed a smaller SIM. I picked it up today and swapped phones.
Thanks for any help and I am willing to pay for someone's quick help. I use the phone for work and right now I am pinched.
SD
I had a similar experience when I bought a used mega, picked up full signal, eveything worked except that I couldn't make or receive calls, I just got a single beep. I even went to an at&t store and got a new sim card, still didn't work.
The guy who helped me at the store said the sim tray was bad, made it sound like it was a common. Issue. gave me the number to the warranty dept, said they might cover it. I called them told them what happened and what the rep told me at the store.
They sent me a replacement at no charge.
my phone done that when my imei was replaced with a galaxy s4's imei. I finially found a guy that put the imei from another i527 into my phone, he also replaced that sticker behind the battery from the mega he used to fix mine so everything matches
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my phone done that when my imei was replaced with a galaxy s4's imei. I finially found a guy that put the imei from another i527 into my phone, he also replaced that sticker behind the battery from the mega he used to fix mine so everything matches
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I took a look and sure enough the IMEI on the phone is different than the sticker in the back. I googled about 6 different IMEI sites US and EU based and checked out both numbers. Every single site says both comeback good. Nothing stolen or odd. A couple of site said not locked. I would like to have matching IMEI numbers. I would like the one used on the label. How hard is it to get rid of the one on the phone and make it match the label.
I don't think ATT will let me swap this out for a new one. I am not the original owner and there is no insurance on it.
Thanks
SD
I sent you a private message so you can have it taken care of the right way and don't get messed around like I did my first time around
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I took a look and sure enough the IMEI on the phone is different than the sticker in the back. I googled about 6 different IMEI sites US and EU based and checked out both numbers. Every single site says both comeback good. Nothing stolen or odd. A couple of site said not locked. I would like to have matching IMEI numbers. I would like the one used on the label. How hard is it to get rid of the one on the phone and make it match the label.
I don't think ATT will let me swap this out for a new one. I am not the original owner and there is no insurance on it.
Thanks
SD
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I wasn't the original owner and didn't have insurance, just had service with at&t. The phone hasn't been out for a year, so it's under warranty unless something shady was done to it. In my case the numbers all matched.
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I sent you a private message so you can have it taken care of the right way and don't get messed around like I did my first time around
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Thanks. I don't see the PM yet. Let me know what I need to do.
Thank you,
John