Hey all!
One of my friend purchased a Galaxy S3 lately. He bought it online and the price was unbelievable. although I warned him not to buy but he insist when he saw the price.
Anyway, he realised that he can not update via Kies and also cant get the OTA. soon he understood, he was using a costum rom. Then he checked the IMEI and the result was suprising. that IMEI written on the phone and and system shows are totally different. he online checked the IMEI and it belongs to nokia 6600
now here is the question: is there any possibility to get back the orginal IMEI and install a stock rom?
tossytheking said:
Hey all!
One of my friend purchased a Galaxy S3 lately. He bought it online and the price was unbelievable. although I warned him not to buy but he insist when he saw the price.
Anyway, he realised that he can not update via Kies and also cant get the OTA. soon he understood, he was using a costum rom. Then he checked the IMEI and the result was suprising. that IMEI written on the phone and and system shows are totally different. he online checked the IMEI and it belongs to nokia 6600
now here is the question: is there any possibility to get back the orginal IMEI and install a stock rom?
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No its illegal to clone IMEI and strictly forbidden to post about on XDA .
Your friend needs to return to the seller .If its not a stolen phone then it is probably a fake or blacklisted IMEI that someone has played about with .
jje
JJEgan said:
No its illegal to clone IMEI and strictly forbidden to post about on XDA .
Your friend needs to return to the seller .If its not a stolen phone then it is probably a fake or blacklisted IMEI that someone has played about with .
jje
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OK I will tell you the whole story..in Turkey, if you bought you cell phone from a different country, for security reasons you should register that IMEI with your passport,and for once you should pay nearly $50 tax. or else the GSM provider blocks the phone.
I guess that phone was unregistered and the seller tought to solve this problem by cloning the IMEI with an old phone. I am saying old phone because that IMEI should only be one in the network. two same IMEI means two blocked phones.
all I want to know is there any solution to get back the original IMEI that written on the phone. I am not talking about the cloning the IMEI.
Connect your phone to your Pc, and watch out for a folder called EFS.
If you're lucky and the custom rom was installed had the function, the original IMEI was backed up to this folder. Find inside the IMEI data. and compare with the one on the phone. If they are different, you're a lucky *bastard* ;D
good luck
EDIT: But I cant say what file contains the imei. Just looked at my phone and couldnt find a file that contains it. Maybe some dat file or something like that. but it could be in hex
alexx910 said:
Connect your phone to your Pc, and watch out for a folder called EFS.
If you're lucky and the custom rom was installed had the function, the original IMEI was backed up to this folder. Find inside the IMEI data. and compare with the one on the phone. If they are different, you're a lucky *bastard* ;D
good luck
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Kies needed? dude please tell it in detail and as if you are telling someone dumb
tossytheking said:
OK I will tell you the whole story..in Turkey, if you bought you cell phone from a different country, for security reasons you should register that IMEI with your passport,and for once you should pay nearly $50 tax. or else the GSM provider blocks the phone.
I guess that phone was unregistered and the seller tought to solve this problem by cloning the IMEI with an old phone. I am saying old phone because that IMEI should only be one in the network. two same IMEI means two blocked phones.
all I want to know is there any solution to get back the original IMEI that written on the phone. I am not talking about the cloning the IMEI.
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If you have the original IMEI then search this forum for the exact same question you are asking re fixing IMEI enough posts this last week to give more information .
jje
JJEgan said:
If you have the original IMEI then search this forum for the exact same question you are asking re fixing IMEI enough posts this last week to give more information .
jje
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Thanks JJEgan. It really helped. I found a software to fix the IMEI.
problem solved
share it with others
Ive looked for other thread but none of these seemt to work for me, during flashing my efs got damaged and my imei changed to 0049.... And Samsung is refusing to repair it here in Belgium. Could someone please help me because i dont have network for the moment.
menno456 said:
Ive looked for other thread but none of these seemt to work for me, during flashing my efs got damaged and my imei changed to 0049.... And Samsung is refusing to repair it here in Belgium. Could someone please help me because i dont have network for the moment.
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Sorry in advance for your "loss"
I have no answer to your problem, but i want to ask what really happened? Was it after an update? Did you delete any system apps?
A friend experienced this exact problem here in Greece today and sent it for service, but why did Samsung refuse to repair it? Did you send it rooted?
I would like to know so I can inform my buddy.
Keep us posted please and sorry I couldn't help
General > sticky roll-up up > imei / efs - know this stuff.
If you're at "send for repair" step, pay a mobile phone repair shop 25 euros to fix it.
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ok... i had that... search all the forums and none of the brains has no solution for it. so went to service that wrote my imei into phone via the box. charged me 4euros(SERBIA) and it was working. i made efs backup. flashed another rom and get serial number 00000000000... then ariza patch and its working again. i am selling my phone as of now.
Either replace your motherboard or use the Box to fix your problem
I would like to know if it is illegal to change imei number in australia because i want to fix my samsung galaxy s3
Is there any way to change it? I tried to edit efs backup but i didnt found where is the imei
My Galaxy Alpha is not registered on network but it can read my sim and contacts. I want my original imei back but i don't have backup. Any solution?
Before making an account users should have to do an IQ test, or something similar.You must not be very smart for sharing your imei number.
sir, sorry that is not my original imei its a generic imei generated from flashing rom so I lost my orig imei which is 3560xxxxx
so yeah my efs parttition is corupted and my imei is unknown and basband unknown so i need help to fix this any solution will help ill try every thing i have a backup from old twrp idk like 2017-9-8 or so and it has efs backed up so im realy desprate right no so plz give me your best help thanks in advance ife tryed factory bin didnd work but haved downgraded yet and i allso dont have a service box so plz help