Hei,
My Galaxy S3 got water damaged and phone part does not work any more. First there where no sound and I tried replacing Mic and unsolder 2 small resistors and now no SIM card registered. Rest of the phone functions works normally.
I am about to buy a BRAND new mainboard from ebay. I do have efs bsckup and nandroid backup.
My question is how do I move imei to that new mainboard?
Thanks for help in advance.
Staljin
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Mobile phone repair shop.
It is illegal to re-write IMEI's unless you are a mobile phone repair centre. Ergo discussion of such is disallowed on XDA.
Obviously, your request with a new motherboard is genuine, so best advice is to go to a mobiole phone repair shop and get them to write it.
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Hey guys,
Friend of mine managed to damage his SGS2's mainboard while replacing the headphone jack, any idea where he may find a spare?
I searched, but nothing came up in this forum..
Thanks!
~Bullzeye
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If you are replacing the motherboard, you are replacing the phone completely. as the chip on the damaged motherboard contains the imei and other information about your phone.
Anew mother board will have a different imei and have to be registered with your provider as it is basically a new phone.
That's 100% fine, my provider doesn't lock IMEI's out of it's network.
I just need to find where to get a new board and the /efs folder to match.
Any ideas?
Look on eaby for broken phones, some with broken screen are really cheap.
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Kingybear said:
Look on eaby for broken phones, some with broken screen are really cheap.
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That's a fantastic idea, thanks!
It is possible to repair an S3 which has an generic imei and when i insert an sim card it gave me no service but my phone number is shown in settings?
where did you buy this phone?
Doispe12 said:
It is possible to repair an S3 which has an generic imei and when i insert an sim card it gave me no service but my phone number is shown in settings?
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Restore your backed up EFS folder .
jje
From an auction site.I don't have a backup of efs folder...
Sounds stolen usually no service means the phone is blocked
Hopefully it's not. Good luck
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Yep definitely looks like it's stolen, and even though the phone doesn't show the IMEI the network can still read it and looks like they have blocked it. And this is exactly why I'd never buy expensive phones from eBay.
If you got it from eBay report the seller to eBay and PayPal and demand money back
It's illegal to sell blocked phones because 99% of the time they are stolen or a dodgy insurance job.
The first phone I got from eBay was blocked and I got a full refund when I reported him to eBay because it's illegal to sell stolen phones. Even though the guy had the phone advertised as sold as seen etc no refunds blah blah but it's either they Give the refund or reported to the police and they will get in huge trouble .
Goodluck I hope you do get it refunded
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Did u done a efs backup??
If yes restore it!!!
No i can't restore it.I had another one with generic imei and was working perfectly.
Definitely stolen I would say....report him, nail him, prosecute him, sorry to hear about this
It is not stolen i am asking for a solution to have gsm semnal.
If anybosy can help please post.
Doispe12 said:
It is not stolen i am asking for a solution to have gsm semnal.
If anybosy can help please post.
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Their is no solution .
No EFS then cannot restore .
Normal route is return unit to the seller as not fit for use .
As XDA does not know the providence of this phone their is no help outside of what you have been given .
No IMEI sale is usually a stolen or blacklisted phone .
Contact the original network .
jje
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It is not stolen i am asking for a solution to have gsm semnal.
If anybosy can help please post.
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I didn't say you stole it, but it is likely that it has been stolen that is why the imei has been blocked
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if you have the box then it should have the imei on it, take it to Samsung service centre and if it hasn't been reported stolen then they can fix it for you, only solution I think
I had this on my old GS2 after flashing a dodgy ROM. It replaces Your IMEI with an american generic code which unfortunately doesnt work. There is an app on Play Store which restores Your efs folder but this didnt work for me so was a repair job with o2 who sent it off to Samsung in the end.
App was called Ktool and another called GSII Repair but obvs that prob wont work on GSIII.
Good luck
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Hello everyone!. 3 weeks I installed Omega v11 rom on S3, and locked after rebooting my fon and I have no more network.After i returned to the factory rom, but is same problem. S3 works perfectly except network.Spent many hours with the computer, I noticed on other forums have mentioned the same problems.The fatal EFS folder i saved before installing the new ROM. (I had it outside of SD, but it lost. S3 can not go back to the original EFS.The IMEI number Omega v11 CHANGED. S3 in the service.Past two weeks since I gave them,, and still nothing! they say they know what is the problem, but do not know how do it.Forums for Hungarians to do that (return the original IMEI number and the cost would be about 20 Euro.Ja but i came through but maybe someone knows in order to solve.If someone knows something about this issue as resolved, or already had prayed would like to help mee please.
Doispe12 said:
It is not stolen i am asking for a solution to have gsm semnal.
If anybosy can help please post.
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Search the forum..somewhere I have read you can restore you generic imei even if you have not backed up your efs partition..search for restoring efs partition..I hope you will do fine..
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Edit: got your fix..try these 2 forums..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1802024
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1264021
I cant help you more than that..
Hi,
I smashed my screen on my I9305 and not realizing it i put the I9300 replacement screen on the phone. I have had issues with the IMEI null and not picking up signal. I have tried all mentioned methods on here to restore but none have worked. I gave up an contacted a repair center and they have said that putting a I9305 screen on will solve the problem. Is this correct as I don't want t spend money if it is not correct.
Thanks
jpburke2k2 said:
Hi,
I smashed my screen on my I9305 and not realizing it i put the I9300 replacement screen on the phone. I have had issues with the IMEI null and not picking up signal. I have tried all mentioned methods on here to restore but none have worked. I gave up an contacted a repair center and they have said that putting a I9305 screen on will solve the problem. Is this correct as I don't want t spend money if it is not correct.
Thanks
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As far as my knowledge goes screen replacing doesn't effect anything until or unless you have badly messed up some hardware in the process. The module used to allow communication on i9300 and i9305 is same plus it doesn't has to do anything with screen. You can try to put a new SIM card module to see whether the phone picks up signal or not. The best bet for you is that you don't go around spending money for a thing that is perfectly fine.
One more bet is that you may have ruined some inner hardware during the smash and not in the replacing process.
Hit Thanks if I helped.
did you replace the screen with a heat gun like in some videos on youtube? if so you might have damaged some of the sensible parts of the sIII if you didn't take them off before, for example the antenna or the simcard module like the one above me said.
so i think it will be difficult to find the broken part - changing all possible parts by yourself is very expensive and time-consuming.
I recommend you to consult an official samsung repair center (which will be expensive, too) or sell your phone as broken and invest the money in a new one...
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morruk said:
did you replace the screen with a heat gun like in some videos on youtube? if so you might have damaged some of the sensible parts of the sIII if you didn't take them off before, for example the antenna or the simcard module like the one above me said.
so i think it will be difficult to find the broken part - changing all possible parts by yourself is very expensive and time-consuming.
I recommend you to consult an official samsung repair center (which will be expensive, too) or sell your phone as broken and invest the money in a new one...
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No I replaced the screen with a genuine service pack one which came pretty much whole. Didn't heat anything just swapped them over and turned it on. Advice I got was that it was because I put on the i9300 screen on is why I couldn't restore my imei number.
Now selling the motherboard if anyone is interested
Hi ,
My phone went inside water, and had to change the motherboard.
I gave it to shop.
Now i want to know if he has replaced a new one or just repaired my old one.
Does everything wipes out when new motherboard is replaced with new one ? (pictures, games, kernel)
There would have been no way to extract data from the old internal storage, so no. Data on the sd card could be transferred. Best way to check is compare the IMEI number to the old motherboard IMEI.
boomboomer said:
There would have been no way to extract data from the old internal storage, so no. Data on the sd card could be transferred. Best way to check is compare the IMEI number to the old motherboard IMEI.
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A phone legally must retain its imei. Thats why motherboard replacements are reprogrammed with the original imei.
Sure, they may not have complied and given it a different imei.
If it has a different imei - tells us definitely swapped mobile
If it has sane imei - tells us nothing
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Does everything wipes out when new motherboard is replaced with new one ? (pictures, games, kernel)
Yes but same if repaired and new firmware flashed .
Not cost effective to repair a motherboard in most cases and if it was wet then failed components are multiple .
jje
Disassembling an s3 and removing the motherboard takes 10 min and no skills. No decent repair center will bother testing all the components.
The problem is the imei cloning that can need programming skills and not always done it seems as many users find an unusable phone after motherboard repair.
Dear xda-community,
some months ago I dared myself to root my Samsung SHW-M250S (Korean Version of Galaxy S2) and lost my IMEI on that phone. I couldn't find it and forgot to make a backup of my efs partition because of stupidity and not really reading the manuals properly (I used to have a HTC Desire S which didn't have the efs partition so it's a bad habit thing). Today I found out that I luckily registered my phone with the original IMEI in my google Settings and the developer IMEI on my current Galaxy S2.
My question is: Is there any possibility to insert my old IMEI into my rooted Galaxy S2?
IMEI is device specific.....by law.
Sorry mate, but nobody here is going to help you break the law......
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Take it to a local mobile repair shop, some have the same equipment as Samsung service centres that can write the IMEI back to the device. Normally isn't very expensive (much cheaper than replacing a motherboard for example).
You could buy this equipment yourself, but it would cost twice as much (or more) as paying someone who knows what they're doing to fix it properly, you'd probably never use it again, and if you mess it up, your phone is probably a bin job.
keithross39 said:
IMEI is device specific.....by law.
Sorry mate, but nobody here is going to help you break the law......
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Well... Since I didn't backup my EFS and got the develeoper one, does it mean I am owning an illegal phone?
MistahBungle said:
Take it to a local mobile repair shop, some have the same equipment as Samsung service centres that can write the IMEI back to the device. Normally isn't very expensive (much cheaper than replacing a motherboard for example).
You could buy this equipment yourself, but it would cost twice as much (or more) as paying someone who knows what they're doing to fix it properly, you'd probably never use it again, and if you mess it up, your phone is probably a bin job.
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Gonna try that in the next weeks, see if it works
No, the device having the generic IMEI is not illegal, it's just in many countries these phones are essentially useless & have no connectivity (they will work in some countries with providers who use outdated telco equipment, though).
Most good phone repairs shops should be able to fix this for you, if not, service centre definitely will.
Edit to add - However, writing a different IMEI into a device is very much illegal in most countries (the EU in particular) and will result in both your device & the device the IMEI came from being blacklisted (rendered permanently useless). The only way you can legitimately get a different IMEI & use the phone OK is if you swap the motherboard with a 2nd hand board from a 'donor' device. When Samsung service centres replace motherboards to fix a whole host of things, in most countries they write the existing IMEI to the new board.
MistahBungle said:
No, the device having the generic IMEI is not illegal, it's just in many countries these phones are essentially useless & have no connectivity (they will work in some countries with providers who use outdated telco equipment, though).
Most good phone repairs shops should be able to fix this for you, if not, service centre definitely will.
Edit to add - However, writing a different IMEI into a device is very much illegal in most countries (the EU in particular) and will result in both your device & the device the IMEI came from being blacklisted (rendered permanently useless). The only way you can legitimately get a different IMEI & use the phone OK is if you swap the motherboard with a 2nd hand board from a 'donor' device. When Samsung service centres replace motherboards to fix a whole host of things, in most countries they write the existing IMEI to the new board.
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But what if I can prove that the IMEI I wanted to recover is stored e.g. in my google account? Is it still illegal then?
You didn't comprehend what I said to you.
The original IMEI can definitely be written back to the phone by a Samsung service centre & likely many mobile repair shops; this is OK.
You cannot write a different IMEI to a device, this is illegal.
The end.
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You didn't comprehend what I said to you.
The original IMEI can definitely be written back to the phone by a Samsung service centre & likely many mobile repair shops; this is OK.
You cannot write a different IMEI to a device, this is illegal.
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Ok, that's what I wanted to know. Gonna search for a repair center in around me then... Thanks!
this is straight from a pageplus chat
nothing special just standard procedure for activating an "unknown device" that...well read below.
4G LTE devices (with MEIDs starting with 256 or 99000) are not compatible with our system.
They are able to be activated by dropping the last digit of the IMEI (99000)
they are not able to be programmed with OTA (*22890 or *228) and unable to be manually programmed.
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i might have chopped it i cant remember but i always keep the good parts
so are you saying a verizon network is breaking the law because it is their policy that dictates pageplus and straight talk in this procedure heck even verizon prepaid
dropping the last digit like they are telling me to do is what?
i dont think its illegal like you say.
no way they would tell 1000's of people to do it
i just tried to ota *22890 my note 3 after they gave me those directions along with my mdn/min/sid and "normally" i get voice/text/mms and data at this point
i just tried without successsfully changing mine and it wont OTA
the step in the directions above is REQUIRED i believe
Changing imei talk is not done on xda. :thumbdown: We all know what can be done with this but we can't talk about it here. Illegal or not info is out there, software is out there. but like I said on xda we don't talk about changing imei or modding it.
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Changing imei talk is not done on xda. :thumbdown: We all know what can be done with this but we can't talk about it here. Illegal or not info is out there, software is out there. but like I said on xda we don't talk about changing imei or modding it.
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agreed
BTW at op. Don't go to a service Centre mate. If I go to a local shop they would only charge me £20 in the UK. Have a look as its much cheaper than ss.