I have a Vodafone VPA Compact III v1605. I have been playing around with it for a while now and have been loading ROMs and Radio's like crazy on the poor thing but it is still working fine. What has happened is that i have cracked the screen and now need to send it in for repairs as it is still under warranty.
The problem has come in when i took it to a Vodafone shop to have it fixed. They would not except it as the IMEI on the phone when i press *#06# is not the same as the that on the back of the phone and the box.
I have gone through the forum and all i could find regarding this is noise about stolen phones and no actual help.
Is there a way i can revert back to my original IMEI? Have already flashed the same rom and radio version back as what i got the phone with but the IMEI changed again.
Any help?
flashing roms will not change your imei, unless of course its this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=1990370&postcount=3
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Alright, so first of all, my Samsung Galaxy SIII got some damage, and then we brought it to a repair shop. They changed the motherboard, and then returned it to us and it was working fine. The only thing is, the Android version is still on 4.0.4, and whenever I boot the phone, a T-Mobile bootloading screen appears, and it annoys the hell out of me. So, I flashed Android 4.3 Jellybean using Odin. Yet, after the update finishes, the phone won't make a text or a call. It always says 'Not Registered On Network'. So here are some notes of the phone's status...
1. I tried to use Ariza Patch, yet it didn't work.
2. The IMEI's number is not changed to 0000 or anything, it's just a 15-digit number and has a '/01' at the end of it.
3. The signal is full.
How could this be fixed? Is there anyway to fix this? It would be very much appreciated. Thank you!
Take it back to the repair shop and tell them they botched the efs folder after their repair. You might be able to get a network by reading the sticky thread on efs, or the patch thread but you will always have problems with updates unless you get the efs folder sorted by a professional.
I did return the phone, then after that, they replaced the board again. After I tried to update it to 4.3 once again, the same thing happened, still not registered on network. :/
hello guys, I have a question related to radio hardware on SGS II I9100
so, i got the i9100 second hand, and the imei is generic (0049xxxx)
after several step, i choose to bring the phone to service centre (not the samsung, but it's like 3rd party service centre). he had a lot of box flashes. well long story short, my IMEI is back the original.
but, the person that repair my phone, tell me the IMEI is done. but the Serial Number is corrupt. after write the imei and SN, it's normal (the original SN start with RDxxxxx). after restart the phone, the imei still the same (the original one), but the SN is changed ( 001919b4xxx).
after several hours, the repairman said: "the imei is repaired successfully. but the SN is not. networks for internet are not problems. but i suggest, do not flash custom rom. it can break the baseband, and of the baseband is broken, the whole radio part (wifi, bluetooth, gps, GSM) is broken. cost of fix the radio part about $80. so, stay in stock rom."
so, my question is: is it true? baseband unknown=all radio parts is broken too?
I bought this phone so i can feel the kitkat rom. cyanogen, mokee, pacrom, dll etc is always updating this phone.
thx a lot
sorry for the long post, i hope you understand my english
so, is my phone can flash rom? i want to test kitkat rom. but if that is a no go, i will on stock rom
Try efs proffesional
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I've bought it like this and i thought it can be repaired, i had a similar problem with my i9500 a while back and i fixed it by flashing some modem on the right firmware, i don't even know what i had done but it took me 3 full days of trying, truly frustrating. I haven't got the phone's imei as it came without a box or accessories hope you can help me out !
Here is what i've tried so far :
- Flashing 3 different 6.0.1 stock firmwares, none of them worked and after every single flash i would encounter device root key error, i have no idea why but it's easily solvable by flashing some kernel as i've seen on some ytb tutorial.
- Backuped the efs folder from phone root on PC then deleting it from the phone root, restart the phone and proceed with replacing the nv_data.bin and the other similar-named file with the ones i backuped then changing permissions to 1001. <--- This i've seen on some forum, i thought it might help, but it didn't change anything!
I really hope you can help me out, i'm bored of searching the web for answers, most of solution i've found are related to some z3x box or octopus and i believe these cost a lot of money and there is no service in my city that can repair phone's imei
Heloo
Hi i had same problem 920f after flash a wrong rom the only fix is octopus box ...they must rewrite imei it cost me 30 euros!
As i said, there is no such service in my city (I live in Braila, since you're romanian too ), but i'm pretty sure it can be solved without special equipment. I think the owner flashed the 6.0 using odin and spooked when saw fake imei then rushed to sell it. It happened the same to me 2 years ago with a i9500 but i eventually solved it without prior backup.
Hi,
I'm pretty new to this forum, i hope some experts in here and explain to me this problem that i have with my S6 Edge. I bought the phone online for my brother, it worked fine for the first three month then somehow, it got blocked . when i check the phone, the IMEI from the setting menu is totally different number from the back of the phone. I tried to reset the phone, reflash with original firmware but still doesn't work. Can someone explain how this can happened? i checked the IMEI from setting menu, it said the phone is black listed, but the IMEI from the back of the phone is still fine. it's a bit weird.... Thank you
Probably original imei has been blacklisted, old owner has changed it and now this on got blacklisted again
I have an S6 edge with a glitched IMEI, it is returning 350000000000006 as the IMEI (different to the original IMEI which is shown on the back of the phone). I have tried all of the suggestions I can find for getting the original IMEI back including flashing a stock ROM with ODIN, flashing a stock rom with ODIN while erasing the device's NAND, and trying to fix the IMEI with xposed, but nothing works. It looks like the owner of the phone took it to have it unlocked, and it got flashed with some sort of custom binary, but restoring the device fully to stock didn't help. So I'm not convinced this is a simple EFS partition corruption, and that something might have permanently screwed up the phone's IMEI. Is there anything else I can try to restore the IMEI, or is the phone now as good as useless?
Just curious Shane 2 if you ever made any progress on the Galaxy S6 edge.
I had the same thing happen to me over the weekend. It was very unexpected because the phone is not rooted and I have never flashed anything to the phone. I bought it refurbished on ebay and it has worked flawlessly for 2 and a half years. Then yesterday I got the error 101 the phone has been flashed with unauthorized software & is locked and my IMEI shows 350000000000006. I was about to try and restore the factory ROM, but after reading your post I don't want to risk bricking the phone. Weird thing is it still works with Wi-Fi Calling, it just can't connect to the network.