I had a problem with my old phone, I gave it to customer support and now got it back after 3 months with a note saying it got switched with a "new" one. Checked the imei number and it is a different one.
What puzzles me is, my old phone had some pretty big scratches on the display and the body and this one has exactly the same scratches! As I don't think they added the scratches on purpose so I don't miss them, I thought maybe they somehow built a new phone into my phones body?? I am quite confused.
But, even more confusing is: the "new" phone has exactly the same problem as the one I sent in! (screen not turning in after standby)
So I am guessing they are trying to trick me as I have no idea how else this can be.
My question now is: how did they change the imei? Did they really just switch a part? Is there a way to change the imei of a phone??
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The imeid is stored in the phone's memory. For example, on an HTC Desire S it's in partition mmcblk0p7. So it's fairly easy to overwrite if you know where it is found.
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BillGoss said:
The imeid is stored in the phone's memory. For example, on an HTC Desire S it's in partition mmcblk0p7. So it's fairly easy to overwrite if you know where it is found.
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So do you think they just changed it and are now telling me they switched it or is it possible that they just changed a part ( motherboard maybe) and that changed the number?
I just want to know if they are trying to fool me
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If the scratches are the same and the problem persists, they probably just reflashed the memory or something.
seeeeew said:
If the scratches are the same and the problem persists, they probably just reflashed the memory or something.
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Does that change the imei?
They are claiming they switched the whole phone. I guess it's time to pay the store a visit -.-
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Changing the IMEI is illegal in most countries in the world and i guess that they could change it by tampering with the memory chip.You should go back to the store and...explain them a few things.
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Is there soulution? I simply want to use registered NFC tags in situations, when i cannot use phone normally...
I'm so with you on that one...
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nobody who could help here?
Should work no problem. I wrote a couple tags and my buddy was able to read them on his locked GNex. Unless I totally misunderstood what your asking
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hehe... yeah, it was possible before but i think they changed it starting with ICS, and thats the problem
flolee said:
hehe... yeah, it was possible before but i think they changed it starting with ICS, and thats the problem
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Just 4.0.2 and earlier. I believe 4.0.4 is all gravy!
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thx man, hmm... now that's weird, i'm on 4.0.4 (the omega rom) and with the S3 there is no chance to read a tag if the device is locked
can somebody confirm this? maybe i should consider a full wipe then
flolee said:
thx man, hmm... now that's weird, i'm on 4.0.4 (the omega rom) and with the S3 there is no chance to read a tag if the device is locked
can somebody confirm this? maybe i should consider a full wipe then
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Well I'm unlocked so I can't confirm that its a lock issue It very well could be but I have no idea how that works. .. full wipes don't hurt. Just sucks setting everything up again is all.
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Coreym said:
Well I'm unlocked so I can't confirm that its a lock issue It very well could be but I have no idea how that works. .. full wipes don't hurt. Just sucks setting everything up again is all.
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I think op means when the screen lock is on.. Not rooting or sim locked
The phone wont read a tag until the phone is turned on and screen unlocked
I guess its to save power
Do you maybe have a lock pattern or something similar enabled, would make sense to me if it doesn't work with such a feature activated.
Because with the swype to unlock you are i.e. also able to pull notifications down while the screen is locked, with a security lock activated you aren't.
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In my case I just have the swipe to unlock
But until unlocked you can not scan nfc
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Thx guys for all your answers.
Of course the problem is the locked screen and not any sim lock.
I understand that it does kinda make sense not to accept NFC connections as long as the phone is locked. However, personally I would still prefer to use NFC also if the phone is locked (as it was possible before) - and i think I'm not alone with this.
Looks like you have to play around with your rom to get it working again - the sad part is, I have no clue where to start (well, actually I have no clue at all).
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I think op means when the screen lock is on.. Not rooting or sim locked
The phone wont read a tag until the phone is turned on and screen unlocked
I guess its to save power
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Ahh.. yeah that makes more sense lol sometimes I overlook the simplist of ****!
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one more doubt with NFC unlock
I've one doubt regarding NFC screen unlock.. I'm worried that I'm giving more pressure to my Nexus S power button . Suppose if I can have a NFC tag which will simply light up the screen when placed on it, On my screen I can have pattern lock /password lock.. so it will be secured, I just want to bypass pressing Power button all the time to check what is happening inside my mobile ( with out rooting and key remap )
I understand why NFC is disabled when locked from a security perspective, especially with things like Google Wallet - someone could buy things with your phone without knowing the PIN.
However I am not using NFC payments and would really like to have the ability to switch profiles by NFC tags. The problem is the convenience of this is somewhat reduced by having to unlock the phone. If it could just be enabled when the screen is on that would not be so bad on the battery.
I know a few months back Paul O'Brien was talking about looking at a hack for this, I don't think he has yet (or will ever have the time). It is not on the new GNex MoDaCo kitchen (IR14). N.B. I did have a GNex before swapping for the wife's new S3
Take a look at the development section, there is already a solution for rooted phones.
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flolee said:
Take a look at the development section, there is already a solution for rooted phones.
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There wasn't when this thread was created I don't think
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true, the solution is only a few days old - but this was just an information for TwoGunTurtle and all the others in this thread, who have not yet seen the thread in the development section.
You are looking at about 5 milliamps when the NFC is ready to read.
Whilst it's a only a very small drain if you had it drawing that all the time, you may find your battery starts to suffer. That's about 400 Hours on the 2100 mAH battery, assuming nothing else is drawing power.
Although I worked it out at only an extra 9 ish hours off the standby time assuming the phone does 200 Hours in stanby @ 10.5mA + 5mA for the NFC chip = 11mA - 2100mAh / 11mA = 190.90 Hours
So not a great loss, but you also have security to think of I guess, if your phone is always able to communicate via NFC you open yourself up to fly-by attacks (not that this kind of thing happens....yet).
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when I receive a call from an unknown number it shows something like XXX-XXX-XXXX, which I believe is american phone format
how can I change this to brazilian phone format? (XX) XXXX-XXXX
My question now is.... Is this thing really necessary and important for you? In Europe we have no line or space? So what? Can't you make a call because of that "issue" ?
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Yes it is. Its much easier to identify a number that I dont have in my address book and where did that call came from.
And now I not allowed to want to customize my phone to my preferences?
Wow that's new. I thought that was a huge android selling point.
And what does that have to do with making calls?
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Exactly, that have nothing to do with the calls and your phone is working. And I'm pretty sure that nobody will give you an answer to your question.
Try other call manager from Play
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It might be linked to region in buildprop or something along those lines
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Exactly, that have nothing to do with the calls and your phone is working. And I'm pretty sure that nobody will give you an answer to your question.
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guess what? my nokia 1100 is also working and making calls...
Does it hurt you to simply say "this is not possible on android"?
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guess what? my nokia 1100 is also working and making calls...
Does it hurt you to simply say "this is not possible on android"?
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it is possible as I saw this problem last year over at the s1 forum, I just can't remember the solution
Go to the Settings of your phone and change the locale to anything besides English (US). Eg. English (UK)
Hi everyone, I accidentally deleted some photos from my device in the focal camera (damn focal for not telling me that if I drag a picture to the sides it gets deleted) so my question is what is the best way (preferably android app) to recover them, I used an app in the play store but only found 3 of the 7 pictures I deleted, so does anyone have any advice to give me?
If they were deleted they're gone. Deleting is permanent.
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It's possible to recover most of the deleted files if they haven't been overwritten with another data cluster.
Whoever said that it's permanent doesn't really know about how it works. I used a program to get back some pictures before called Disk Digger.
Download it from the Play Store, and let it check.
I have the same issue. Damn focal. did you manage to get back your files? and which app did you use at first to get back the first 3 of 7?
Photorec
Provided you can mount it as USB storage to a Windows PC, then try out PhotoRec_win from cgsecurity.org
I've used it before for completely inaccessible hard drives and got almost all my data back (mostly Outlook data files at the time).
Usually when you delete a file, the OS just deletes the pointer to the data. Provided you haven't written any other data over the cluster where your file was, then PhotoRec looks for the file signature and reads the file without the file allocation table.
If you accidently delete a file and want it back, my first advice would be not to install anything or take more photos, whatever, until you try to recover the file.
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It's possible to recover most of the deleted files if they haven't been overwritten with another data cluster.
Whoever said that it's permanent doesn't really know about how it works. I used a program to get back some pictures before called Disk Digger.
Download it from the Play Store, and let it check.
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Maybe you should be less rude when talking about other members especially when you don't even know what your talking about. A nand chip is not a mechanical device is does not use platters or clusters. It uses blocks. Although you are correct in the fact that data can be recovered unless the block has been overwritten.
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Almost a 2 month old thread re-opened again. Anyway I hear there is an app called "undelete" but it requires root access If i am wrong? But meh, By default HTC has a default integration with Drop Box so it might be uploaded already.
But since you have focal camera I think you have a custom rom. So If the pic was taken after installing a custom rom without activating drop box again, then you can follow the steps mentioned by others
Best of luck if you didn't solve this issue yet, or If someone else did the same mistake as you.
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Maybe you should be less rude when talking about other members especially when you don't even know what your talking about. A nand chip is not a mechanical device is does not use platters or clusters. It uses blocks. Although you are correct in the fact that data can be recovered unless the block has been overwritten.
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A block is just another measurement of data, a cluster is made up of blocks. It's all relative. Question: How is it rude to correct someone when you did the same thing to me? Think about it.
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A block is just another measurement of data, a cluster is made up of blocks. It's all relative. Question: How is it rude to correct someone when you did the same thing to me? Think about it.
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Doesn't matter. Its irrelevant to this topic.
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Doesn't matter. Its irrelevant to this topic.
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Then it should not be mentioned in the first place.
Guys Guys!! Relax @sixcarnage @Siknik64
It's a developer's forum and if every programmer argues about a small detail of a programming language this forum won't survive. I think the thread OP didn't reply so my guess is it's already resolved. So maybe a mod can close it?
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A block is just another measurement of data, a cluster is made up of blocks. It's all relative. Question: How is it rude to correct someone when you did the same thing to me? Think about it.
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A "cluster" of blocks is referred to as a page afaik. You can correct people without being condescending. What does telling people "they know nothing" achieve apart from showing everyone how bad your manners are?
Regardless this has gone too far off topic now.
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Here it is:
http://cybersvc2.samsungcsportal.com/imei_check
You'll need to enter your IMEI.
Mine says affected
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Mine says it's not
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Mine says it's not
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Lucky fella!
Mine says affected...roll on to 19th for a replacement
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Mines affected as well..
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Where did you find that? That site looks shady to me. I'm not entering my IMEI anywhere that isn't on the official Samsung page.
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GibMcFragger said:
Where did you find that? That site looks shady to me. I'm not entering my IMEI anywhere that isn't on the official Samsung page.
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Found via Samsung Hong Kong
My half device is affected lol !
I have duos and one IMEI is saying affected and other not. How come this possible?
dr.ketan said:
My half device is affected lol !
I have duos and one IMEI is saying affected and other not. How come this possible?
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Same as, primary sim 1 shows as affected, sim slot 2 shows as all is good lol. Id take primary over secondary though
thering1975 said:
Same as, primary sim 1 shows as affected, sim slot 2 shows as all is good lol. Id take primary over secondary though
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Question is authenticity. How come samsung make this blunder. Samsung don't have track which two IMEI is built on same device? If Primary IMEI is all need to enter then why this information not provided?
dr.ketan said:
Question is authenticity. How come samsung make this blunder. Samsung don't have track which two IMEI is built on same device? If Primary IMEI is all need to enter then why this information not provided?
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Agreed, seems like they are just throwing things out there to cover themselves legally, its hard to find tools like this from their sites so they seem to be just doing it for the sake of doing it. Seeing as they are recalling all of them anyway it makes no sense unless they were trying to put peoples minds at rest but could back fire if their imei checker is as faulty as some batteries.
Imagine the lawsuits that would come if someone checks there imei and it gives them the all clear, then there phone catches fire.
Currently they are on one big ass covering exercise and not doing a very good job of it either
Only annoying thing about this whole debacle is two hours before they announced a recall i had sold my note 5 lol (with your rom on it of course!!!)
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Lucky fella!
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It's not all countrys!
thering1975 said:
Agreed, seems like they are just throwing things out there to cover themselves legally, its hard to find tools like this from their sites so they seem to be just doing it for the sake of doing it. Seeing as they are recalling all of them anyway it makes no sense unless they were trying to put peoples minds at rest but could back fire if their imei checker is as faulty as some batteries.
Imagine the lawsuits that would come if someone checks there imei and it gives them the all clear, then there phone catches fire.
Currently they are on one big ass covering exercise and not doing a very good job of it either
Only annoying thing about this whole debacle is two hours before they announced a recall i had sold my note 5 lol (with your rom on it of course!!!)
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Just a thought!
Total recall policy is doubtful. It will never been clear what exact they will provide with new devices. Just new battery ? If so then certain batch don't have issue will remain same ?
Better Samsung have recalled every device and refunded them it could be wise decision. Later after couple of month may come with N8. They may get little loss but surely emerge with clean image and that would be total profit.
Mine's affected, good thing i took mine back this morning.
those IMEI check tools will be official after replacement take place
so you find out from which batch your new N7 and be rest assured its safe
for now maybe all SDI show's as affected
Mine is affected. No surprise.
Just tried mine.Duos bought in dubai and none of the 2 imeis are affected. in your opinion is this good enough to decide to keep the phone?
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Just tried mine.Duos bought in dubai and none of the 2 imeis are affected. in your opinion is this good enough to decide to keep the phone?
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nope, not worth the risk,
so, a year ago I bought xperia z3 on ebay as refurbished, but now I noticed a very strange thing. 2G and 4G / LTE signal is not reachable, GPS does not work, drm keys are erased, several bands are missing, there are pictures of colored grain and many more. After hours of searching the phone with the ES root explorer and changing the line in build.prop user on userdebug I found the system partition files and the Trim Area file, this file can be open but there are only some phone information like imei serial no. Etc, I want to find the code to unlock the bootloader(i want to install custom rom) because of course the IMEI number is also not correct and comes from xperia Z1. I apologize for the chaos in the post but I do not know how else to recognize it, I just want to fix it all, but changing the motherboard for a new one does not go into the game. sorry for my English
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When you want I can post some screenshots
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What do you mean?
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