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Anyone run into this? My wife has had her TB replaced once already. Today it went to puk lock without her doing anything. She went to make a call and it was puk locked. Had her pull the battery and it's fine for the moment. Seems like the TB has a mind of its own.
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I take it no one has had this happen.
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I think you may need to call VZ to get a puk unlock code. This can happen on GSM devices (had it happen to me on my Nexus One), and I had to call T-Mobile (my provider then) to get a puk unlock code.
I think its a characteristic of the SIM card, since the T-Bolt uses one.
The device puk locked, but did battery pull and it's fine now. That's what is wierd about it.
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It does not really matter anymore, as the PUK code can be found in the My Verizon page. It happened to me, I unlocked, and was good to go.
You can log onto my Verizon and get your puk code also....
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I know. She never did anything to make puk lock though. Pulled the battery and it didn't ask again for the puk. That is what bothers me about it. Is it possible the sim card is bad or is it just one of the many anomalies of the tb?
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i got an samsung galaxy s2 and it is blocked by the IMEI because i didnt pay the bill! It is there anyway to get over this issue so i can use my phone ?!
Thank you very much and im waiting for ur answers.
P.S. The phone is blocked on the satellite just in one country and in the others is working !
Maybe pay the bill?
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Or maybe not and maybe something else?
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aliniulian23 said:
Or maybe not and maybe something else?
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Why wouldn't you pay the bill?
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IMEI block + "not paid" = .... (go figure)
There is only one reason phones gets lockedout by IMEI, if it's just the bill for the contract that isn't paid they block outgoing (and eventually incomming) calls and all.
Hi
The only way a phone will get blocked is if the owner reports it being stolen/lost and not for unpaid bill.
You could be a victim of crime if bought on second hand market as the owner is probably doing insurance scam.
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stoney73 said:
Why wouldn't you pay the bill?
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because i didnt have with what to pay and now i will not ! simple !
HellcatDroid said:
IMEI block + "not paid" = .... (go figure)
There is only one reason phones gets lockedout by IMEI, if it's just the bill for the contract that isn't paid they block outgoing (and eventually incomming) calls and all.
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first was this and after a few weeks the phone also !
a5ian300zx said:
Hi
The only way a phone will get blocked is if the owner reports it being stolen/lost and not for unpaid bill.
You could be a victim of crime if bought on second hand market as the owner is probably doing insurance scam.
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NO! The phone is brand new and it was buyed from a dealer of a network (doesnt matter)
aliniulian23 said:
i got an samsung galaxy s2 and it is blocked by the IMEI because i didnt pay the bill! It is there anyway to get over this issue so i can use my phone ?!
Thank you very much and im waiting for ur answers.
P.S. The phone is blocked on the satellite just in one country and in the others is working !
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I don't think anyone here is going to help you unlock your stolen phone, no matter what kind of excuses you come up with. Perhaps you should have the decency of returning it to its rightful owner, the one that actually did pay for this phone.
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This smells fishy to me too. They dont block the imei...they block the service
Strappin on my LOLLERSKATES
The only reason an IMEI will be blocked is because you stole the phone from someone else. Or you reported it stolen. Full stop, nothing else to say about this, at all, ever.
It is called Blacklisting.
Therefore, if you come here to this very resourceful community who operates within the bounds of legal framework that we live in, looking for a way to change the IMEI, which is considered a Federal Offense in the USA, and in the United Kingdom, under the Mobile Telephones (Re-programming) Act, changing the IMEI of a phone, or possessing equipment that can change it, is considered an offence, you will be dissapointed.
I would recommend you either contact your telecom company and explain you found your lost phone, or you return it to the rightful owner, or you use it as a wifi only device and feel guilty for robbing someone of their galaxy S2.
Ahaaaah u just dont get it a? Are u sure about what are u saying? U know that when u say something about someone it is good to be right because can go very bad for you with the law.
The phone is mine i got bills from this phone and i know what i am saying but i am not sure about YOU...and if u going to say something more about this ...not good.
So...anybody knows something helpfull?
thank you
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The only reason an IMEI will be blocked is because you stole the phone from someone else. Or you reported it stolen. Full stop, nothing else to say about this, at all, ever.
It is called Blacklisting.
Therefore, if you come here to this very resourceful community who operates within the bounds of legal framework that we live in, looking for a way to change the IMEI, which is considered a Federal Offense in the USA, and in the United Kingdom, under the Mobile Telephones (Re-programming) Act, changing the IMEI of a phone, or possessing equipment that can change it, is considered an offence, you will be dissapointed.
I would recommend you either contact your telecom company and explain you found your lost phone, or you return it to the rightful owner, or you use it as a wifi only device and feel guilty for robbing someone of their galaxy S2.
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Damn it ! Just because i didnt pay the bill and they blocked the phone by imei and i come here doesnt say that i have stole the phone from somebody else!
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I have never ever heard of any mobile operator blocking the IMEI of someones phone because they have not paid the bill it simply does not happen period, therefore it had to have been blocked another way.
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I have never ever heard of any mobile operator blocking the IMEI of someones phone because they have not paid the bill it simply does not happen period, therefore it had to have been blocked another way.
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Well i just asked because it just happened and this is a new law for the phones that they bills havend been paid
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I would also urge people to excercise extreme caution when buying mobile phones (or indeed anything) on the Gumtree website,a scammers / crooks haven, a common theme is for someone to advertise a high end phone like the GS2 for slightly below the going rate, usually the seller will call you from another number other than their own,they will say the phone is unlocked,brand new,etc,etc it is only when you ask them to present a receipt they will try and fob you off with excuses like "i need this receipt for my records" basically what they do is, person buys the phone, it is a real phone and everything works, a week or so later they report the phone stolen and put in a claim for another one, meanwhile your left with a phone which doesn't work as the IMEI has been blocked and you've no comeback, you try and contact the seller but find the number is turned off so basically your fu***d.
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Well i just asked because it just happened and this is a new law for the phones that they bills havend been paid
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Can't happen, nowhere in the world phones are imei locked for not paying bills. That happens in some countries when owner of the phone reports it lost or stolen. By your username i assume you are romanian and just for the record phone providers in Romania don't use/need phones' imei , hence they can't lock it. So you might as well post what country and provider did that, but i guess if you do that everyone else will find out you lied, not that we wouldn't know that already
Quite easy actually.
Step 1: Buy the phone.
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Can't happen, nowhere in the world phones are imei locked for not paying bills. That happens in some countries when owner of the phone reports it lost or stolen. By your username i assume you are romanian and just for the record phone providers in Romania don't use/need phones' imei , hence they can't lock it. So you might as well post what country and provider did that, but i guess if you do that everyone else will find out you lied, not that we already know that
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I am from RO but im in another country now and in RO i didnt hear nothing about this at all. Even if u dont pay the bill there is nothing to do with the phone but in other countrys like ES people say that this happend and ...what can i do? Again : i didnt stole nobodys phone and i didnt buy from no one!
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Hi, i have a SGS3 and the carrier have locked the phone thou i bought it in second hand. With receipt and it was brand new in unopened box. Worked fine untill couple of days ago when it got locked.
So i'm not able to use the phone cause i cant get no network.
I rooted my phone and deleted the "efs" files so the imei changed but it didnt help my, still no network signal. Cannot connect.
Is there any way to unlock my phone? Please help me get my phone working. Payed about 450 euros for it.
Sorry if i put this thread in a wrong section. Newbie here..
Appreciate the help!
Take it to any phone unlocking shop or kiosk and should cost around £20. Im not sure the currencies exchange rate.
It may also be cheaper where you are from
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ruggedman said:
deleted the "efs" files
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If you have really done that and you have no backup of these file: you're screwed!
ruggedman said:
Hi, i have a SGS3 and the carrier have locked the phone thou i bought it in second hand. With receipt and it was brand new in unopened box. Worked fine untill couple of days ago when it got locked.
So i'm not able to use the phone cause i cant get no network.
I rooted my phone and deleted the "efs" files so the imei changed but it didnt help my, still no network signal. Cannot connect.
Is there any way to unlock my phone? Please help me get my phone working. Payed about 450 euros for it.
Sorry if i put this thread in a wrong section. Newbie here..
Appreciate the help!
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Why the hell have you deleted the efs folder?. In the efs folder your imei is in.
Restore your phone if you got a backup of the efs folder. Otherwise use the search function in this forum. Because more people has done the same thing you've done
Are you sure its not been blacklisted maybe by accident... amd congrats on deleting efs folder big mistake
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I saved the efs files so it's okay. I have restored them.
I deleted the files in the efs folder to get new imei number so i can pass by the lock on my phone, but it didnt help me.
It's maybe imei locked, dont know exactly what it's called.
Does anybody have any idea what to do to unlock the phone?
Thanks
Yes as my previous comment stated, go to a phone unlocking shop/kiosk and get them to unlock it. Really cheap and much safer than messing with it your self.
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Yes as my previous comment stated, go to a phone unlocking shop/kiosk and get them to unlock it. Really cheap and much safer than messing with it your self.
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I think you have missunderstod me.. the phone is not locked to a specifik carrier. Thats not the issue. My phone have been blocked/blacklisted or whatever you call it in english.
Blacklisting usually means stolen goods. That's why you should never buy such expensive stuff (if "unopened" or not) from unreliable third parties.
You can't change the IMEI. Deleting the IMEI will give you the default IMEI which no carrier accepts anyway.
Think you've been conned mate. Try and get your money back is all I can advise.
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Yes i have been conned.
There must be any way to fix it, like change the imei?
Oh i understand you now. All i can advice is maybe still taking it to a phone repair shop and seeing if there is anything they can do.
They is no garantee to fix any problems but i dont think it will cost you anything for them to have a look at it for you.
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donsimmi said:
Oh i understand you now. All i can advice is maybe still taking it to a phone repair shop and seeing if there is anything they can do.
They is no garantee to fix any problems but i dont think it will cost you anything for them to have a look at it for you.
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Dont think phone repair shop can do anything. Think the solution is here in XDA.
Heard that i can go to a local electronic shop and "take" the imei nr from the demo phone (by sdcard or blutooth maybe) in the shop somehow and use that imei on my own phone?
Or flash/rom root or whatever.. just want my phone to work
As I understand it, the emei number is hardwired into the phone , here in UK, it what the carriers use to block stolen/lost phones. I think it illegal to unblock. It also illegal to have the equipment to do this. The only way round I have heard of is a new mother board.
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Does it ask you for a Network locked pin or what comes up when you start your phone? , maybe you can use Voodoo to unlock it
asking about changing the imei is a banned topic on xda it's like warez it is fraudulent and discussion of it is banned
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It is definitely VERY illegal to change the IMEI in the UK.
A IMEI block would indicate the phone has been reported stolen/lost. Think u been conned. Try n get your money back.
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Yes i have been conned, and no i cannot get my money back because i bought it in second hand, but brand new with the recipt.
The phone doesnt ask any pin or anything like that. I have signal bars but i cant connect to any network.
Whats voodoo?
Maybe it's illegal but it's also illegal to con someone but it happend. What should i do now? Sit with a 500 euros worth phone with no usage? F*ck that!
What country u from? Where did u purchase the phone?
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Hey guys,
I just bought an AT&T Galaxy Note through Craigslist. I've bought other network locked phones before and unlocked it later using these extensive XDA forums. But this Note is locked to AT&T and cannot be unlocked without contacting AT&T for the unlock code. AT&T cannot give me the unlock code since I'm not an AT&T user. Is there anyway I can unlock this phone?
I hear Google has answers...
I swear the "help me unlock threads" keep popping up like cockroaches.
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I hear Google has answers...
I swear the "help me unlock threads" keep popping up like cockroaches.
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Lol your in a bad mood today huh?!
Call and say u purchased the phone craigslist and want to check the imei. After they say it can be actived, say ur going out of country and it ur reason for buying the phone and need it unlocked. Thats how it worked for me.
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truth77 said:
Lol your in a bad mood today huh?!
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Not really. I just feel that at least one person has to keep it real even if its unpopular.
Let's put it this way. If I say it then everyone else who's thinking the same thing doesn't have to open their mouth and get in trouble.
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asifsyed said:
Hey guys,
I just bought an AT&T Galaxy Note through Craigslist. I've bought other network locked phones before and unlocked it later using these extensive XDA forums. But this Note is locked to AT&T and cannot be unlocked without contacting AT&T for the unlock code. AT&T cannot give me the unlock code since I'm not an AT&T user. Is there anyway I can unlock this phone?
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Have you called ATT anyways?? Try it. Or get a code from a third party unlocker on ebay.
nom303 said:
Call and say u purchased the phone craigslist and want to check the imei. After they say it can be actived, say ur going out of country and it ur reason for buying the phone and need it unlocked. Thats how it worked for me.
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This is a GSM phone, not CDMA. They do not have to activate the phone.
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Not really. I just feel that at least one person has to keep it real even if its unpopular.
Let's put it this way. If I say it then everyone else who's thinking the same thing doesn't have to open their mouth and get in trouble.
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You may not be subtle but you are correct. OP should have searched first. Most phones have to be unlocked this way. Thread should be locked before a spammer tries to leave his spamunlocker.com link here.
Ok. I seem to have enraged a few people.
Before I posted this question I searched for a similar question in the forum. The best result was how to unlock using the ATT code. I have already called AT&T and they're not willing to give me the unlock code. I've tried to get codes online. I've tried one and it didn't work. Now I am stuck with a phone that's just a PDA and not worth the money I put into it.
I was actually looking for answers from people who have gone through a similar experience. I thought this would be a commonly occurring issue. But I've tried what everyone of you have written here and it hasn't worked yet. So what should I do?
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Ok. I seem to have enraged a few people.
Before I posted this question I searched for a similar question in the forum. The best result was how to unlock using the ATT code. I have already called AT&T and they're not willing to give me the unlock code. I've tried to get codes online. I've tried one and it didn't work. Now I am stuck with a phone that's just a PDA and not worth the money I put into it.
I was actually looking for answers from people who have gone through a similar experience. I thought this would be a commonly occurring issue. But I've tried what everyone of you have written here and it hasn't worked yet. So what should I do?
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I bought the unlocked code from ebay around $4 and worked like charm and use the phone now on T-mobile network
If ATT won't give you the code, and they sometimes do even if you are not on ATT, then you have to buy your unlock code. Best bet is to purchase 1 from a vendor on ebay. You also need to be on the stock ATT ROM to do the unlocking. You cannot unlock the phone with a custom ROM on it.
I don't like giving reference to these 3rd party vendors but here is an informative video. If you go to youtube and read the directions with the video you should be fine.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68qdShUBUw8
Actually i own this phone. I was recently helped with this from a friendly user and thought id share. Thanks for the insight tho.
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I just called att to "unlock" my phone I preordered my note 2 so I'm waiting for the launch,But called att and asked if they would unlock this note 1..They unlocked it and gave me a code..So its officially unlocked now..
Thanks everyone for your helpful comments. I was able to get the phone unlocked through a friend's friend who works for AT&T. He just called customer service and got the unlock code. I think I just spoke to the wrong guy when I called. Anyway, the phone's unlocked and I'm very thankful to all you guys.
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So I have ample experience here on XDA however, never had the need to unlock a phone.
A friend who has a U.S. Cellular model sch-r960 loves her Mega, but she just moved and now has no service. She has an ATT tower real close and I wondered if there is a way to unlock it. A valid proven way.
I have searched other threads which state they can unlock, but nobody claims actual valid success. One response is "inbox me"??? I am sure its just bad english, but if the terminology is that far off, what else is that far off?
Also saw a website for cell unlocker, guaranteeing success??
Skeptical.......can anyone validate?
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Yo bro...I used a websote like cell unlocker my my old note man. Those sites are pretty legit...it just take a little while to get the code for some ..I was lucky and got my code in like 30 mins. Id try that first
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shayneflashindaily said:
Yo bro...I used a websote like cell unlocker my my old note man. Those sites are pretty legit...it just take a little while to get the code for some ..I was lucky and got my code in like 30 mins. Id try that first
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I saw that site. Hard to trust sites like that, unless you get some kind of success recommendation. Trying to look up her imei, but says invalid. Ours are 15 digits, she only gives me 14.
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I cant remember how many numbers but 15 sounds right....wish I could remember the site I used sorry man .. I hope you two figure it out good luck :beer:
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captemo said:
So I have ample experience here on XDA however, never had the need to unlock a phone.
A friend who has a U.S. Cellular model sch-r960 loves her Mega, but she just moved and now has no service. She has an ATT tower real close and I wondered if there is a way to unlock it. A valid proven way.
I have searched other threads which state they can unlock, but nobody claims actual valid success. One response is "inbox me"??? I am sure its just bad english, but if the terminology is that far off, what else is that far off?
Also saw a website for cell unlocker, guaranteeing success??
Skeptical.......can anyone validate?
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AT&T is gsm
US Cellular is CDMA
I don't think it will work.
US Cellular does have a simcard for their 4G but not sure if it can be hacked to work on AT&T's gsm network.
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Did anyone discover if you can add an APN from at&t or T-Mobile to the us cellular version and get it working?