Just as the title says.I finally did it after sleepless nights
But the derp part is I really don't know what I actually did to achieve this.
My efs got corrupted and I had to repair it using my wife's efs backup and no it didn't clone her imei or anything.My phone just booted back up and I tried ×#0011# and to my surprise it said network unblocked
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I'm gonna have to sit down and retrace my steps because I don't want nobody messing up their phones.I might try it on my wife's phone but idk if she'll let me lol
frasslee said:
I'm gonna have to sit down and retrace my steps because I don't want nobody messing up their phones.I might try it on my wife's phone but idk if she'll let me lol
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This Must Be The best Thing Ever LoL But Time To Wait And Think Hard On What You Did but wait Have You Tried Putting another sim?
WOW
I have only had an account for a day and this is crazy people here are so genius ha maybe one day ill find something
Well guys my phone got messed earlier after everything.I restored back to stock and then tried to restore my efs and bricked it.I am so mad right now.
Just to let you know I was getting data and calls but invalid Sim was still popping up
Check the efs fix here
WOW, This is great news!
Good luck getting your phone back on track, have you tried this file to fix your phone?
http://www.mediafire.com/download/89ca71n7wve45gi/Brick_Loop_FIX_afterRestoringBackup.zip
Please let us know the steps you did to achieve the unlock, what sim card did you test after that?.
It's not a brick loop.My phone is dead completely. Looks like I gotta change my logic board
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It's not a brick loop.My phone is dead completely. Looks like I gotta change my logic board
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Well Then That's A Bust... I Bricked My Phone And Only The Samsung Boot Img Came Up And That's It.... But I Don't Think You Can Fry Your Mother board Like That Unless Cpu Super heats Or Something
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Well Then That's A Bust... I Bricked My Phone And Only The Samsung Boot Img Came Up And That's It.... But I Don't Think You Can Fry Your Mother board Like That Unless Cpu Super heats Or Something
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I even created a Derrick image with my wife's phone and tried it but it won't even get into download mode.Nothing
Have you tried using Jtag
I know some technicians that are able to revive the phones using Jtag, for sure that would work, look for a technician with an Octoplus box, it has a Jtag interface, that would work.
frasslee said:
Just as the title says.I finally did it after sleepless nights
But the derp part is I really don't know what I actually did to achieve this.
My efs got corrupted and I had to repair it using my wife's efs backup and no it didn't clone her imei or anything.My phone just booted back up and I tried ×#0011# and to my surprise it said network unblocked
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hey im really close to unlocking this thing too... what proram did you use that corrupted your efs folder... this is really important, and also where you on a sprint rom or a gsm one????
i have sucessfully done a few other phones like this and your steps of what happened would be the key..
edit and when i say phones like this i dont mean the sprint note 3, i have done the s4 from straight talk which has the invalid sim and nowhere to input the code just like this phone..
EFS Pro.Before I was trying to flash to metro but lost signal and couldn't figure out how to fix it.Messed with it a little bit more only to lose my baseband and then I restored my wife's efs backup to my phone and it fixed the signal issues but also unlocked the phone.It didn't clone the imei luckily
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EFS Pro.Before I was trying to flash to metro but lost signal and couldn't figure out how to fix it.Messed with it a little bit more only to lose my baseband and then I restored my wife's efs backup to my phone and it fixed the signal issues but also unlocked the phone.It didn't clone the imei luckily
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when it killed your baseband were youmessing with your modem?? did it null your imei and did your imei cert still say passed on the *#0011# service menu??
I hate to inform you that if every single person that have an SM-N900P dial *#0011# on Network will always say Unblock, that mean nothing the phone is Blocked.
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I hate to inform you that if every single person that have an SM-N900P dial *#0011# on Network will always say Unblock, that mean nothing the phone is Blocked.
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Yes I know and if you would have Read what i posted it said nothing about the block unblock status!!! I was asking about the imei cert if it said pass or fail...
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Yes I know and if you would have Read what i posted it said nothing about the block unblock status!!! I was asking about the imei cert if it said pass or fail...
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BTW My post has nothing to do with you or your question. Was about the Thread title and @frasslee thinking he domestic unlock without Sprint.
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Do you have to flash a different modem than NC5?
II didn't think it was I know it was.I'm not new to this.Yes the imei was null and then I fixed it.As soon as that happened the phone started working with data.Then I test called my wife's phone and the call went through.Invalid Sim was still present
this is kind of how with the z3x box on any samsung you can just replace the imei then put back the original one and it automatically unlocks the phone. sometimes it nulls the imei and when you get to repair it, the phone becomes unlock as a "side effect". so with dfs tool you were able to imput your imei after you nulled it? or only after you installed your wife's efs backup then you repaired the imei and it stuck?
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A while back one of my customers found a T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S2 at a bus stop which she handed in at the local police station. Last week she went back to see if it had been claimed and it had not so the police released the phone to my customer to keep as her own property.
She was aware that it was blocked but wanted to give it to her child to use as an android game device but when she told me about it I said I would have a look at it for her to check it was defiantly blocked.
On trying all network SIM cards I could only get the 'Emergency calls Only' notice. I did a Checkmend report and the device was still listed as stolen and blocked (the police have given her entitlement paperwork for the phone which I have seen) so I guessed it would be out of the question ever being able to use it as a phone again.
I decided to root the phone anyway and install a CM stock ROM. I then also installed the 'Galaxy S Unlock' APK and zero'd out the lock codes. I then tried all the SIM cards again with the same results as before.
After some browsing on the internet I download an APK called 'HC-kTool' and installed it. I then backed up my kernel and EFS folder to my SD card before hitting the advanced key and deleting my current installed EFS folder.
I turned off the phone, wrote down my IMEI number from behind the battery and inserted a Vodafone SIM card.
When the phone rebooted I got a full Vodafone signal and rang my home number, and it rang!
I then dialled *#06# and noticed my IMEI number has changed to something entirely different.
The phone has been connected over an hour now, I have not tried any other SIM as yet but I don't doubt it is unlocked and working on all networks now.
I read something briefly about T-mobile using a non-standard (I think) network system and deleting the EFS folder has the Samsung software revert it back to a non-T-mobile modified one. this could be totally wrong though...
Can anyone throw some light on this?
Is the imei 04999010....?
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Most likely a silly network that doesn't block the dummy Samsung "default" IMEI...
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Is the imei 04999010....?
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Indeed it is. I thought that IMEI wasn't supposed to work to make calls?
Odder n odder!
Yeah had the dummy imei too and didnt notice until 2 weeks or so had passed, thankfully i had a backup from a year or so
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Yeah had the dummy imei too and didnt notice until 2 weeks or so had passed, thankfully i had a backup from a year or so
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So are there any negatives to using the dummy IMEI then? Also, if I edit the hex of the nv_data_bin files from the backup of the original IMEI can I change it to anything I please?
I dont think you can do that as it would be stupid from samny's side but try(after taking an efs backup). AFAIK no negatives except that some providers will block this IMEI
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I dont think you can do that as it would be stupid from samny's side but try(after taking an efs backup). AFAIK no negatives except that some providers will block this IMEI
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I have dumped the efs of the default Samsung and will compare the hex in hex workshop against the original dump. I'm guessing the main file here being the nv_data_bin.
While it is good news for my customer that this ex-stolen phone now works on Vodafone I don't think it is very responsible of Vodafone to allow default IMEI numbers to connect to their network. If I had my phone stolen I wouldn't like to think that the thief could potentially use it again.
Yes mine too was allowed on Vodafone after getting the dummy IMEI
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I remember reading some time ago that although illegal in allot of country's if you were able to change a phones IMEI number so as to connect to a network it would still not be a worthwhile effort as if the fake IMEI was the same as that on another phone you would get the other phones text messages and calls mixed up with yours.
I always had doubts about that as it made more sense that calls and texts would be sent to the phone broadcasting the correct SIM number ID. But I was assured by people much more experienced in this stuff than I that the IMEI was a more secure method of ID'ing the correct device to send secure DATA to.
So if this is true, surely that would mean I am the only person on the planet using the default Samsung IMEI number as I have had no odd text messages or phone calls since I got this phone. (I am now the owner as I swapped it for an 8GB iPod Touch!)
Anyone can un-confuse me here!
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hi im a noob did u yave any luck with the chang of inei? i have a phone that i thot i lost over 2 years ago but its been blocked i tried all the things u said the imei changed but still wont let the o2 card register on the network any more help you could offer? its a samsung galaxy s2 it is locked to the 3 network i have rooted it
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A while back one of my customers found a T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S2 at a bus stop which she handed in at the local police station. Last week she went back to see if it had been claimed and it had not so the police released the phone to my customer to keep as her own property.
She was aware that it was blocked but wanted to give it to her child to use as an android game device but when she told me about it I said I would have a look at it for her to check it was defiantly blocked.
On trying all network SIM cards I could only get the 'Emergency calls Only' notice. I did a Checkmend report and the device was still listed as stolen and blocked (the police have given her entitlement paperwork for the phone which I have seen) so I guessed it would be out of the question ever being able to use it as a phone again.
I decided to root the phone anyway and install a CM stock ROM. I then also installed the 'Galaxy S Unlock' APK and zero'd out the lock codes. I then tried all the SIM cards again with the same results as before.
After some browsing on the internet I download an APK called 'HC-kTool' and installed it. I then backed up my kernel and EFS folder to my SD card before hitting the advanced key and deleting my current installed EFS folder.
I turned off the phone, wrote down my IMEI number from behind the battery and inserted a Vodafone SIM card.
When the phone rebooted I got a full Vodafone signal and rang my home number, and it rang!
I then dialled *#06# and noticed my IMEI number has changed to something entirely different.
The phone has been connected over an hour now, I have not tried any other SIM as yet but I don't doubt it is unlocked and working on all networks now.
I read something briefly about T-mobile using a non-standard (I think) network system and deleting the EFS folder has the Samsung software revert it back to a non-T-mobile modified one. this could be totally wrong though...
Can anyone throw some light on this?
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hi im a noob did u yave any luck with the chang of inei..:
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As far as I know the default Samsung IMEI number will only work on the Vodafone network. If you have rooted your S2 then there is an app in the Google Play store that will unlock your phone to all networks. Search for 'Samsung Unlock' and you will find it. If not there are plenty of ways to unlock it for free that you can find here on XDA.
I'm pretty sure you won't get it working on any other network without changing the IMEI which is incredibly difficult, not worth the cost of the equipment you would need and of course illegal in most country's carrying a very real prison sentence. XDA and other cell phone development communities will rightly not tolerate IMEI changing discussions and almost always permanently ban members should they attempt it so that is as much as I will discuss that!
Another thing I found recently was a company offering to 'De-Blacklist' phones to certain networks that were on the UK blacklist. At first I thought this must be illegal as if it wasn't it would make a mockery of the entire blacklisting principle, i.e prevention of crime. However more and more companies are offering this service and nothing seems to be preventing any of them from doing so. There are two UK based phone unlocking / modding businesses with a huge reputation online that are also doing it now too.
If anyone knows what that is about please enlighten me. No amount of probing I did had any of the companies reveal any of the methods to me!
I had an iPhone 4 that was IMEI blocked (found in a skip by a charity shop - checkmend reported not stolen) de-barred to 'EE / Orange' 5 days after paying about £50 to http://www.beijingiphonerepair.com/store/#!/~/category/id=4425106&offset=0&sort=normal
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If you were not cautious enough and you did not saved your efs directory before you made changes or ROM updates to your phone, then its possible that your phone "forget" your IMEI. So if you need to re-write your ORIGINAL IMEI back to that phone that its belong to, then its not a crime!!! There is an online program that can do that for around 4 EUR, 5-6 USD. If you are a half experienced browser user, you can find it by searching the keywords.
Although there is an easier way that you go to your provider and ask them to restore your phone IMEI, they can do that for you. If your wise enough, you put back your Original ROM, and zero the counter of ROM changes. As here in XDA you can find these methodes I wont give you any links, you can find it by yourself.
So, changing the IMEI is illegal in many countries but put back the original IMEI to the phone where it belongs is not!
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To the OP.
Did you experience loss of functionality at all?
Someone i know followed what you did on a barred s2.
It now connects to virgins network but she can no longer switch on Bluetooth.
It tries to start then Bluetooth flicks over to off again.
Looking in phone details reveal that Bluetooth address is listed as unavailable.
Everything else seems to work fine.
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To the OP.
Did you experience loss of functionality at all?
Someone i know followed what you did on a barred s2.
It now connects to virgins network but she can no longer switch on Bluetooth.
It tries to start then Bluetooth flicks over to off again.
Looking in phone details reveal that Bluetooth address is listed as unavailable.
Everything else seems to work fine.
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Quick update, my friend tells me virgin seems to have blocked the imei now.
Hello Friends.... I have bought this phone on ebay I was told that the only problem with it was that it was a blocked imei with carrier 3 in uk...As i I am in Saudi Arabia so I thought I would use it here....Even After putting a sim card when i tried to goto settings and network it says insert sim card to access the network services... Even though sim card is inside the phone and sim is not damaged at all.... When i tried to check the imei of the phone by code *#06#.... it says null null and in about its baseband is also unknown.... I know this phone is rooted cause i see in apps this super su thing... I dont care for it to be rooted ... I want to use the phone ... I tried to experiment some of the ways mentioned on here but all of them say to goto diag mode but when i do that my computer does not recognize phone and says usb device was not recognized error....But phone starts charging.... I dont know what is wrong with that???? Please guys guide me with any possible way to get the imei back so i could get an unlock code from some vendor and start using it ...I dont care if its rooted or on carrier stock rom... PLEASE HELP
there's nothing you can do
Imei blocking is international, so unfortunately there isn't anything you can do
Raise it on ebay and ship it back... and tell them not to cheat you by sending you a phone with corrupt efs partition
You may have a stolen phone
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You may have a stolen phone
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there is no way to get the imei back ??? It is not even connecting to kies... kies keeps showing connecting but not connecting actually
No, except sending it in to Samsung for repair.
The imei may be blacklisted (at this pooint you do not know) but the problem you are experiencing stems from the efs folder having been wiped.
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No, except sending it in to Samsung for repair.
The imei may be blacklisted (at this pooint you do not know) but the problem you are experiencing stems from the efs folder having been wiped.
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Do you think its just software issues? or something has happened to the hardware??? I just hope samsung wouldnt charge me too much
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Do you think its just software issues? or something has happened to the hardware??? I just hope samsung wouldnt charge me too much
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Neither, at a guess, as already stated, it sounds as though your imei has been blocked
Hey guys,
Well where to I begin. Well to start I have been trying to fix a Samsung Galaxy S3 since two days ago and I have had absolutely nothing but headaches for most of that time. My friend came to me and asked me to fix the phone. I fear that it is IMEI blocked by the network (It was on 3 for the UK and when I unlocked it it went to GiffGaff in the UK) but it had been working for about a year before this and I am not sure why it has been blocked now. The phone just keeps on saying "Not registered on network for the Sim card inserted in it for Giff Gaff)
I have tried to see if there was something wrong with the IMEI number but as far as I can see the phone has the right number with it.
I am wondering what else I can do because I have tried factory resetting it, using the EFS professional incase it had something to do with the EFS, though I don't think it does.
Can anyone point me in the right direction? Thanks a million.
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Hey guys,
Well where to I begin. Well to start I have been trying to fix a Samsung Galaxy S3 since two days ago and I have had absolutely nothing but headaches for most of that time. My friend came to me and asked me to fix the phone. I fear that it is IMEI blocked by the network (It was on 3 for the UK and when I unlocked it it went to GiffGaff in the UK) but it had been working for about a year before this and I am not sure why it has been blocked now. The phone just keeps on saying "Not registered on network for the Sim card inserted in it for Giff Gaff)
I have tried to see if there was something wrong with the IMEI number but as far as I can see the phone has the right number with it.
I am wondering what else I can do because I have tried factory resetting it, using the EFS professional incase it had something to do with the EFS, though I don't think it does.
Can anyone point me in the right direction? Thanks a million.
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yep mate phone defo blocked you will have to change imei to get it working again.
Changing IMEI is illegal and forbidden on XDA .
Google IMEI checker see if it registers as blocked .
Then go and read the faqs and guide or pay for a service repair .
Basics read first.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2344125
Critical you read the first two posts .
I've made a nasty mistake and have restored the EFS from a broken G3 to a replacement G3. Unfortunately, I don't have a backup of the EFS from the new phone.
Almost everything works fine, yet my IEMI shows 0 and I am having problems maintaining a connection to the Verizon network for voice data. I have the proper IEMI number for the the new phone, is there a way that I can manually enter it to resolve the issue, or should I get started with the replacement process again?
Thanks!
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I've made a nasty mistake and have restored the EFS from a broken G3 to a replacement G3. Unfortunately, I don't have a backup of the EFS from the new phone.
Almost everything works fine, yet my IEMI shows 0 and I am having problems maintaining a connection to the Verizon network for voice data. I have the proper IEMI number for the the new phone, is there a way that I can manually enter it to resolve the issue, or should I get started with the replacement process again?
Thanks!
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Same thing happened to me, school boy error.
i fixed it using this guide
http://tips4droid.com/backup-restore-lost-imei-lg-g2/
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Same thing happened to me, school boy error.
i fixed it using this guide
http://tips4droid.com/backup-restore-lost-imei-lg-g2/
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I was thinking about trying that out, yet I called VZW this morning and they're shipping out a replacement for me, thanks for the link however, it's sure to help some other folks out in the future.
I got one vs985 with imei problem,
imei shows only (0), and the baseband is fine,
Phone has 47A build and i don't have any Qcn backup for the phone,
But i got one qcn from another forum,
Tried to restore that backup via qpst but i got "ESN mismatch" error,
Now, is there anyway to repair the imei for this phone?,
There is something confusing me, on the back of the phone the model is VS985W!!
Thanks in advance
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That's certainly odd. For the record, I do offer IMEI transfer services (I have the tools to do it), but only if the sticker on the back has not been tampered with to ensure it's the original IMEI.
You can PM me a photo of your back sticker if you want me to do it for you, but I only do this for customers in the USA and I generally charge $35.00 total. I pay the return shipping.
Sorry I can't offer a "do it yourself" solution, but I'm not aware of any.
Hi mirosaw2 . Please post question threads in the Q&A section. I'll ask a moderator to move this thread.
I assume it's a white phone, that's what the W means.
Ok, Never mind about the IMEI,
I got it repaired using QPST (RF NV Manager) method,
It's quite simple and now phone have it's IMEI,
The main problem was the network, Whatever SIM inserted in the phone,
It shows "SIM inserted is not from Verizon", I think it's locked phone!,
I know it can be unlocked by "Octopus-Box" which i don't have,
So, is there any way to unlock that phone ?,
Thanks in advance
mirosaw2 said:
Ok, Never mind about the IMEI,
I got it repaired using QPST (RF NV Manager) method,
It's quite simple and now phone have it's IMEI,
The main problem was the network, Whatever SIM inserted in the phone,
It shows "SIM inserted is not from Verizon", I think it's locked phone!,
I know it can be unlocked by "Octopus-Box" which i don't have,
So, is there any way to unlock that phone ?,
Thanks in advance
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If you root and install TWRP, make sure and make a TWRP backup of your EFS, which will include your IMEI, that way it'll restore even easier if you need it to. I keep an encrypted copy in multiple places of all of our devices just in case.
You might want to edit your screenshot and black out the IMEI. That's not the kind of thing you want just anyone to be able to have access to. There are all sorts of things that are possible if someone gets a hold of your IMEI.
Verizon phones are not SIM locked. Its complaining that its not on Verizon but it'll still work just as well with or without the complaint, assuming whatever network/carrier your using makes use of the radio bands that the VS985 has enabled by default. There are a limited set of radio bands that are disabled by default. From my understanding they can be enabled - there are threads in the General and maybe this Q&A section, you'll have to search for them.
If the carrier the SIM is for uses bands the phone doesn't support, then it just won't work with the phone no matter what you do, and if it only uses a few of the bands the phone supports, then you might be stuck with 3G or worse.
I don't know if you can get rid of the not Verizon SIM warning or not.
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If you root and install TWRP, make sure and make a TWRP backup of your EFS, which will include your IMEI, that way it'll restore even easier if you need it to. I keep an encrypted copy in multiple places of all of our devices just in case.
You might want to edit your screenshot and black out the IMEI. That's not the kind of thing you want just anyone to be able to have access to. There are all sorts of things that are possible if someone gets a hold of your IMEI.
Verizon phones are not SIM locked. Its complaining that its not on Verizon but it'll still work just as well with or without the complaint, assuming whatever network/carrier your using makes use of the radio bands that the VS985 has enabled by default. There are a limited set of radio bands that are disabled by default. From my understanding they can be enabled - there are threads in the General and maybe this Q&A section, you'll have to search for them.
If the carrier the SIM is for uses bands the phone doesn't support, then it just won't work with the phone no matter what you do, and if it only uses a few of the bands the phone supports, then you might be stuck with 3G or worse.
I don't know if you can get rid of the not Verizon SIM warning or not.
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I have a weird issue with my vs985 it takes too much time to boot up.. some time it boots and some time it does not boot.. i had to pull out battery fot 20 or more minutes .. i dony know either its software are hardware issue . may be some one experienced this issue .. is there anyone who know about this issue .. i need help...
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I have a weird issue with my vs985 it takes too much time to boot up.. some time it boots and some time it does not boot.. i had to pull out battery fot 20 or more minutes .. i dony know either its software are hardware issue . may be some one experienced this issue .. is there anyone who know about this issue .. i need help...
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This is the wrong thread for this. Please make a new thread in the Question section regarding your issue. This thread has to do with IMEI problems. Thanks.