hey everyone..
is there a possibility that i can make spoof the name of the s2 to some blackberry name by changing anything in the system data, so that my network carrier can identify my phone as a blackberry phone instead of the galaxy s2.... internet plans for blackberry are better than the other phones at my place...
once, i flashed a custom firmware of nokia c6 on my nokia n97 due to which my phone was identified as nokia c6 by my carrier...
so is there any similar way i can spoof the name for my s2....
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What you are suggesting here is illegal and not something that XDA condones or allows threads on.
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Remember the old days when your phone used to display the cell tower that you were using on the main screen of your old nokia? is the ability to have that displayed for the HD2 availkable in a cab or something? I have looked but cant find it. Its in other forums but not for the HD2.
Anyone able to create one or have one already made?
I would imagine thats a service your supplier would need to make active for you, its not an option on the Virgin UK network, of that I'm sure, but I had Nokias for over 15 years from an early brick to more recently a 6500c and have never seen that on O2, Orange or Virgin in the UK
maybe (net tested myself) Dynamic Operator Name could help
I've been using an x10i on at&t and thinking of changing to an x10a so I can get 3g access. the problem I have is that I've been using the 15$/month unlimited for non smartphones. I know someone with an x10a that had att detect that they used a smartphone, I think it was because it used hspa. I'm wondering, does anyone know how at&t detects non smartphones?
They know what kind of phone you have whether its a dumbphone or smartphone from its IMEI number.
All AT&T phones have their IMEI numbers registered in their database.
Phones that are NOT AT&T phones they are unable to find out what kind of phone it is because the IMEI isn't in their database unless the manufacturer for some reason decides to send them then IMEIs for all their non AT&T devices. Google did this with the first couple of Nexus One runs. That's why some N1s would register on AT&T and some wouldn't. Bastards...........
Find a non AT&T X10a (Does Telus or Rogers have the X10 ?) and you should be golden.
Unless S/E gave AT&T a listing of their IMEIs for non AT&T variants for some odd reason............
I can tell you how to edit the international mobile electronic identification number on your x10.. I can remember the exact path to it since my x10 is dead/bricked/ibrokeithalfafter it happened anyways,I guess pm me if you want it and when my father arrives back from his place of employment I will give you the path to freedom.. all you need is one cmd from the big blue term emul. (echo $value >/path/I/will/provide/asap I believe its illegal but idgaf , when mine showed up0000000000000 I was kinda scared due to the fact I could **** up my phone.. also ATT knows its a smartphone due to the fact that your tunneling through their work using an APN.. they called me actually rofl when I lost my sim.. took over my little bros sim card due to the fact that to get a new one you have to send them the 15 digit number and my sticker got ****ed on the phone.. but they actually left me 2 messages sounded like a sophisticated african american that said Did you know that your smartphone requires a data plan lilbro had no data lmao then sent a text too and then charged me for ****ing two 2GB data plans... lmao their ****ing assholes they could of just chosen the 4GB but anyways yeah ATT has their phones on lockdown.. unless you spend all your time trying to bypass ATTs rules all day and night like me.. I had Hspa before they released the ****.. I was locating towers in africa.. which blew my mind.. I didn't know ATT was over there.. I thought they just ****ed us, U.S. citizens over.. anyways pm me ill tell you a cpl ways to piss ATT off.. e.g. edit the apn setiings with their I.p addresses and use diff ports.. (download a pinger from the market then type in the url for their apn to access their ip addresses.. gd I miss my x10 att discontinued it I think btw)
edit:// btw why the **** would you want 3G instead of the big H... 3G can't even hit 700 kbps in my town which of course a map verifies theres not much 3G coverage in my town.. which is right by STL.... tmobile sounds like a quite accelerated network atm from present customers I've spoken too.. and US cellulars 3G is actually quite fast from what I've seen.. (their just releasing it in the saint louis metro east.. but my buddy can get evdo when he roams......lol?)
lansingone said:
I've been using an x10i on at&t and thinking of changing to an x10a so I can get 3g access. the problem I have is that I've been using the 15$/month unlimited for non smartphones. I know someone with an x10a that had att detect that they used a smartphone, I think it was because it used hspa. I'm wondering, does anyone know how at&t detects non smartphones?
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I know it's a little late, but I had the same plan you have when I was using the AT&T tilt and then the tilt2. I got the Tilt by upgrading my plan and found out later I had a "smartphone" exclusion on my account (that was when they weren't forcing people to upgrade to a smartphone plan). It basically meant I was allowed to have a smartphone on my account without having to get the smartphone plan. Now, I used that plan for a few years with the unlimited data before buying the Tilt2 and they never did anything. I bought the tilt2 on ebay and they still didn't do anything to my account while I was using that one. They do, however, state in their TOS that if they find you are using an "inappropriate" data plan for your device they can change your plan accordingly if they choose to. They never did on mine though. I didn't get the smartphone plan until I upgraded to the lg expo a while back, and had to get it to get the phone since it was through RadioShack. I was told I could have called and reverted it back, but I didn't get around to it and time ran out.
Like msgnyc said, they detect the phone based on the IMEI number. No sooner than you put your sim in your phone and sign in on the AT&T website, your new device will show up there. It's not like they instantly say "Woah! This person has a smartphone. We have to upgrade the data plan on the account right now!".
If you put your sim in a smartphone, as long as you don't go nuts on the data, you should be good sticking with the plan you have. (BTW l3as3ballel2 is a troll and I wouldn't listen to a thing this person posts)
Wao some of these things sound so illegal, like altering the serial no. (IMEI) of the phone to mimic detecting it like a non smartphone "awe"
Why go to such great extends to get in trouble even with law enforcement, just get an unlocked smartphone. I have a galaxy s2 and I'm hapily on the $15/mo Ulmt data plan but of course I had to lurchase the device at front.
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changing your IMEI is very illegal and such talk isn't allowed on XDA.
Sent from my Xperia X10a using Tapatalk.
as title says i would like some phones that have the option of setting your own number on the SIM-Card as my SGS2 has the Unknown number glitch ( or whatever )
Phones that i've tried :
Samsung Monte S5620
Nokia E7 <--- probs smartphone
Nokia 6310 < --- old but no option
anyone got more phones that i could possibly borrow/ buy IRL ? would really appreciate
Thanks
-- A noob using a SGS2 --
Ok, I don't see a thread for this question, but I'm sure there could be by this point. Please forgive my ignorance and point me to where and if this thread should be posted. I was given a Verizon based Nokia Lumia. I have been told it is called an Lumia ICON, but when you look at "about" its called a Nokia Lumia 929. In all my searching of XDA, I don't see a thread for either an ICON or the 929. I see lots of refs to a Lumia 920, but not 929. Bottom line, I wanted to unlock this phone for use with my carrier T-Mobile. In speaking to them, they will give me a T-Mobile sim card, but obviously I have to unlock it on my own. Is there a way to "root" this phone like I have done with previous IPhones? Is there a difference between a Lumia 920 and 929? What is that difference? Are the "UNLOCK SIM CHIP" web sites trustworthy at all? Is this the only option I have, to provide my IMEI number to them and hope for any unlock code from their databases? Like I said, I want to unlock/jailbreak this phone for use with my current carrier, but at this point would also be happy with just some basic enlightening of my ignorance. I'm currently using what "about" says is a Lumia 521, but every search I do on this number, anywhere, spits back only 520's. Is the 521 designation just to distinguish what carrier put it out. Is this the numbering system that Nokia/Microsoft uses to tell them apart? If this is all together the wrong place to launch this thread, please just let me know where I should put it. TIA for putting up with my stupidity.
Hey, it's called the Nokia icon you're right but it's official name is the the 929. But anyway pretty much all verizon phones come unlocked. So it should already be unlocked. The only thing is that you may not receive LTE as much. More H+ but it depends on where you live. And you might have to just mess with the apn setting for mms and Internet. But you can just look that stuff up on Google.
Source: I've used it for t-mobile too without doing anything
Edit: verizon*
I'm in the same boat but use att since service is way better here in Seattle. I can use it to call and text but not use cell data for Internet. Any recommendations?
Hello everyone,
I've recently purchased a Samsung Stellar second hand from a family member. I intend to use this device for T-mobile(It's a Verizon device) and the device seems to be carrier locked. I've tried five different SIM cards and multiple factory restores for each and only the Verizon chips will work. Verizon customer support refuses to acknowledge both the problem and device, giving me the run-a-round and different and equally unhelpful answers each time. My question is, is there anyone who can help me? I'm looking for a method to either unlock this phone or a root/Cyanogenmod/ROM combination that will allow this device to be more than a glorified music player that also uses apps.
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Hello everyone,
I've recently purchased a Samsung Stellar second hand from a family member. I intend to use this device for T-mobile(It's a Verizon device) and the device seems to be carrier locked. I've tried five different SIM cards and multiple factory restores for each and only the Verizon chips will work. Verizon customer support refuses to acknowledge both the problem and device, giving me the run-a-round and different and equally unhelpful answers each time. My question is, is there anyone who can help me? I'm looking for a method to either unlock this phone or a root/Cyanogenmod/ROM combination that will allow this device to be more than a glorified music player that also uses apps.
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T-Mobile is a GSM network; the Stellar is CDMA - so you aren't taking it *there*. You can take it to a CDMA provider (such as Sprint) or a CDMA network (while not Verizon - since they don't support BYOD) but an MVNO that uses VZW's towers is still a possibility (such as Tracfone). I took my ex-VZW Galaxy Nexus to Tracfone without issues; unlike VZW itself, Tracfone could care less what firmware you use on your devices as long as the firmware itself supports the device. (I use *unified* (tuna) firmware for GNexi (by unified, I mean the firmware supports maguro, toro, AND toroplus devices - as such, it is at home on any Galaxy Nexus) - comes in really handy as the builder is Japanese, and has a maguro GNex, while I have a toro device, and I'm American - and I don't have "sushi" issues - or sashimi issues, either.)
I happen to have a Galaxy Stellar at my elbow, and I'm looking for a community ROM to support it so a friend of mine can pass it down when she retires it. (I'm thinking that it is of a similar age to the GNex; from the legend of the handset itself, it's of the same series as the Galaxy S, and may well be the in-between of the Nexus and S3, as it, like the Nexus, originally ran ICS. If I turn up anything, I'll post it in the thread.