Hello,
A couple of years ago, I dropped my samsung i9100 and instantly its imei disappeared. Since this was caused by a physical damage, none of the software based imei recovery tactics worked. I did not get it repaired because by the time this happened, a refurbished phone was already getting cheaper than a repair. Now, there is this useless piece of electronics that is only good for taking occasional pics at home and listening to music.
I know my way around with replacing components on several phones (iphones, especially i9100 after countless trials and such) and I can replace the logic board. There seems to be legitimate, cheap i9100 logic boards with components on aliexpress.com. But the thing is, once I replace the board, for all intents and purposes it'll be another device, using the old working components and the shell of my actual phone. with a different IMEI.
So, hypothetically speaking, if I buy a board, replace the broken one with it and somehow flash my old IMEI to it, would it be usable once again? I mean from the side of the carrier network. In addition to the technical feasibility, is this a legitimate solution?
I know phone repair by experience only, so I might be way off. Correct me if i'm wrong please.
Thanks in advance.
Recovering a lost IMEI isn't easy. There are guides to recover it but they may not necessarily work as expected or at all.
As about the hardware replacement - carriers can't know your hardware, they do know the model but there is no real way for them to get data about the hardware. I am not sure about the the recovered IMEI (if you manage to recover it), but I don't think so.
Hope that helped and I hope my information is correct, as that's what I know.
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Recovering a lost IMEI isn't easy. There are guides to recover it but they may not necessarily work as expected or at all.
As about the hardware replacement - carriers can't know your hardware, they do know the model but there is no real way for them to get data about the hardware. I am not sure about the the recovered IMEI (if you manage to recover it), but I don't think so.
Hope that helped and I hope my information is correct, as that's what I know.
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thanks for the reply, you are right, recovery methods did not work at all. that's why i'm considering a logic board replacement.
the pieces of information I have are:
- phones are registered as their imei and the carrier knows the phone as their imei. so imei = phone (for the carrier)
- imei change (not recovery) is possible, if not easy
- i know my imei (it's written under the battery housing anyway)
so from what you say, i understand that if i can manage to get my old imei on the new logic board successfully, all it's fine and the phone will resurrect; assuming the new logic board is working well.
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thanks for the reply, you are right, recovery methods did not work at all. that's why i'm considering a logic board replacement.
the pieces of information I have are:
- phones are registered as their imei and the carrier knows the phone as their imei. so imei = phone (for the carrier)
- imei change (not recovery) is possible, if not easy
- i know my imei (it's written under the battery housing anyway)
so from what you say, i understand that if i can manage to get my old imei on the new logic board successfully, all it's fine and the phone will resurrect; assuming the new logic board is working well.
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Just searched about an imei change and found a guide, seems actually easy, not sure if it works. (http://www.technostall.com/how-to-change-imei-number-android/)
I guess it might work.
danielbe said:
Just searched about an imei change and found a guide, seems actually easy, not sure if it works. (http://www.technostall.com/how-to-change-imei-number-android/)
I guess it might work.
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I'll go ahead and order a mainboard then and we'll see what happens.
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Hi
I have the following problem. I dropped my Galaxy S3 into the water. After it got dried out, and cleaned several times, it turns on, and works more or less fine (the microfone is dead) for a few minutes (an hour tops) then it turns of without any logical reason. When it's turned on, it charges, but if I plug the charging cable in when it's turned off, a little yellow triangle appears with an exclamation mark in it. After several more cleanings, this problem still doesn't go away, and since in the S3 the charging panel is integrated with the mainboard, it seems I need a new mainboard. In the official Samsung store they said a ridiculously high price for the repairing, so I decided to do this at home. I found a brand new, unused mainboard on eBay(here), but they say it needs to be programmed (both IMEI and software) So my question is, is it something I can do at home, or it needs some special tools that only phone repairmans have? I can disassemble and assemble the phone, so I'm not afraid of that part, just I'm not sure if the programming part is possible without special tools. I found topics here where the repair of a hardbricked S3 is explained, just I'm not sure if that is the same as the programming of a clean mainboard.
Any help with this would be appriciated. Thanks.
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I have the following problem. I dropped my Galaxy S3 into the water. After it got dried out, and cleaned several times, it turns on, and works more or less fine (the microfone is dead) for a few minutes (an hour tops) then it turns of without any logical reason. When it's turned on, it charges, but if I plug the charging cable in when it's turned off, a little yellow triangle appears with an exclamation mark in it. After several more cleanings, this problem still doesn't go away, and since in the S3 the charging panel is integrated with the mainboard, it seems I need a new mainboard. In the official Samsung store they said a ridiculously high price for the repairing, so I decided to do this at home. I found a brand new, unused mainboard on eBay(here), but they say it needs to be programmed (both IMEI and software) So my question is, is it something I can do at home, or it needs some special tools that only phone repairmans have? I can disassemble and assemble the phone, so I'm not afraid of that part, just I'm not sure if the programming part is possible without special tools. I found topics here where the repair of a hardbricked S3 is explained, just I'm not sure if that is the same as the programming of a clean mainboard.
Any help with this would be appriciated. Thanks.
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U will not get any replies abt programming the imei or motherboard. Its called a motherboard btw. Not mainboard. Its illegal in most countries to program imei. Motherboard well... U will nid to have a very high knowledge abt programming.
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U will not get any replies abt programming the imei or motherboard. Its called a motherboard btw. Not mainboard. Its illegal in most countries to program imei. Motherboard well... U will nid to have a very high knowledge abt programming.
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As I said, it's a brand new, never used motherboard, it doesn't even have an IMEI number. And I don't want to use a fake one, I'd like to use the IMEI number of my absolutely legally purchased Galaxy S3. I found several topics about the IMEI number restore, so I'm not affraid of that one. I have my phone, it turns on, it works for a short time, the /efs is intact, so it can't be a problem to restore my old motherboard's IMEI to the new motherboard (by the way over the net motherboard and mainboard are both used).
But how did you mean it needs a very high knowledge of programming to program the motherboard? I thought the only thing I need is to somehow put bootloader and a recovery on the motherboard, and it doesn't actually needs any real programming work. I hoped it's something that possible somehow thru ODIN.
You are trying to amend the imei of the new motherboard, even if you consider this to be 'restoring' it's actually still illegal.
A new motherboard from a reputable source comes with it's own, original imei. I would suggest your ebay motherboard is not reputable.
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You are trying to amend the imei of the new motherboard, even if you consider this to be 'restoring' it's actually still illegal.
A new motherboard from a reputable source comes with it's own, original imei. I would suggest your ebay motherboard is not reputable.
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Okay, but I said, IMEI isn't my main concern. Programming is. What is that mean in the case of a new motherboard? I doesn't have bootloader and recovery? Or it has, just there isn't an operational OS on it, so I simply have to flash one?
Imei should be your concern, as the one you are buying is either faulty or from a stolen handset, new motherboards are simply not manufactured with a blank emmc.
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Imei should be your concern, as the one you are buying is either faulty or from a stolen handset, new motherboards are simply not manufactured with a blank emmc.
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I don't know. But the seller has 100% positive feedback after more than 200 transactions. I tend to trust sellers with that reputation. They sold 16 of this motherboard, and they got no negative responses about it. It's the eBay, not some shady underground webshop.
I also think (but I have no knowledge about it, so I might as well can be wrong) it's possible that motherboards are manufactured with blank IMEI, since I don't think the IMEI number of the phone changes, when the official Samsung support changes the motherboard. That would make the phone look stolen, since the IMEI number is printed in the casing.
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I don't know. But the seller has 100% positive feedback after more than 200 transactions. I tend to trust sellers with that reputation. They sold 16 of this motherboard, and they got no negative responses about it. It's the eBay, not some shady underground webshop.
I also think (but I have no knowledge about it, so I might as well can be wrong) it's possible that motherboards are manufactured with blank IMEI, since I don't think the IMEI number of the phone changes, when the official Samsung support changes the motherboard. That would make the phone look stolen, since the IMEI number is printed in the casing.
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Nope. When motherboards are produced, it is programmed with one imei. As imei will NOT change, each phone has a certain imei.
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Nope. When motherboards are produced, it is programmed with one imei. As imei will NOT change, each phone has a certain imei.
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It's funny, since with Galaxy S3 some new ROM flashings can overwrite IMEI. There are cases about it, even here on XDA. So it's absolutely possible to change the IMEI even unintentionally. I've seen cases over the net, where after the flashing a new ROM the IMEI is changed, or even got wiped out fully. It's not a coincidence they say to save the /efs, before doing anything with the ROM.
So can we just forget about the IMEI? What about this motherboard programming thing? What does that mean? They give it with absolutely no bootloader, no recovery? Or it has bootloader, can eneter download mode, just there isn't a fully operational Android on it yet, and I simply have to flash one with ODIN?
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It's funny, since with Galaxy S3 some new ROM flashings can overwrite IMEI. There are cases about it, even here on XDA. So it's absolutely possible to change the IMEI even unintentionally. I've seen cases over the net, where after the flashing a new ROM the IMEI is changed, or even got wiped out fully. It's not a coincidence they say to save the /efs, before doing anything with the ROM.
So can we just forget about the IMEI? What about this motherboard programming thing? What does that mean? They give it with absolutely no bootloader, no recovery? Or it has bootloader, can eneter download mode, just there isn't a fully operational Android on it yet, and I simply have to flash one with ODIN?
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The reason is tat the efs got corrupted. Tats why the imei changed. And no one uses the imei tat is corrupted. Its impossible to use another imei apart from ur current one or corrupted one.
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The reason is tat the efs got corrupted. Tats why the imei changed. And no one uses the imei tat is corrupted. Its impossible to use another imei apart from ur current one or corrupted one.
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It's not impossible to change IMEI, just illegal. But it's not the important question here. So as I asked earlier, can we just forget about the IMEI part? What about the motherboard programming?
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It's not impossible to change IMEI, just illegal. But it's not the important question here. So as I asked earlier, can we just forget about the IMEI part? What about the motherboard programming?
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Can u boot the phone into download mode? I doubt so. In order for flash bootloader, if u wan to, u nid to boot into download mode first. And usb debugging. Which I doubt u have.
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Can u boot the phone into download mode? I doubt so. In order for flash bootloader, if u wan to, u nid to boot into download mode first. And usb debugging. Which I doubt u have.
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I don't know the answer on either of those questions. The only thing I know, there were 16 buyers who bought exactly the same motherboard I am considering buying, from the exactly the same seller, and neither of those gave negative feedback. To me it means the motherboards proved to be fully functional after building them into the phones, so there must be some way to make this work. The only thing I don't understand that how they mean its software needs to be programmed. An until I don't know more of it, I don't dare to buy it, because if it was something I can't do at home, and I need to pay to someone to do it, I might as well can pay for the official Samsung support for an official motherboard replace.
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I don't know the answer on either of those questions. The only thing I know, there were 16 buyers who bought exactly the same motherboard I am considering buying, from the exactly the same seller, and neither of those gave negative feedback. To me it means the motherboards proved to be fully functional after building them into the phones, so there must be some way to make this work. The only thing I don't understand that how they mean its software needs to be programmed. An until I don't know more of it, I don't dare to buy it, because if it was something I can't do at home, and I need to pay to someone to do it, I might as well can pay for the official Samsung support for an official motherboard replace.
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Dear sgtGiggsy,
I am in the same situation as you, but I made the mistake, I bought the board before reading about the IMEI and software. Please, in the meantime the board comes to my hands, keep me informed if you have news.
Thank you
ddbbmax said:
Dear sgtGiggsy,
I am in the same situation as you, but I made the mistake, I bought the board before reading about the IMEI and software. Please, in the meantime the board comes to my hands, keep me informed if you have news.
Thank you
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Okay, I will, but right now it seems my phone came alive. Two days ago I turned it on, and it works flawlessly (except the microphone, which is still dead). I'm not sure if it stays this way, but as long as it doesn't go crazy again, I put the motherboard replacement thing aside. Now I just have to figure it out if I can replace the microphone, or I'll have to use it with headset from now on.
Hi all.
I have a huge problem with my S2. When I type on my keyboard *#06# i get IMEI null/null. Ive tried everything mentioned here and nothing works. I don't know if i made a backup or not. Some app made a backup and i tried to restore and it didnt work. I rooted the phone and tried several custom roms and it doesnt work.
What can I do?
Regards, Brix
brixie11 said:
Hi all.
I have a huge problem with my S2. When I type on my keyboard *#06# i get IMEI null/null. Ive tried everything mentioned here and nothing works. I don't know if i made a backup or not. Some app made a backup and i tried to restore and it didnt work. I rooted the phone and tried several custom roms and it doesnt work.
What can I do?
Regards, Brix
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Edit: I've tried to install original stock rom without success
Any good local mobile repair shop should be able to fix this (re-write the IMEI to the device) for you fairly cheaply (for example, I can get it done for around AUD$30). A Samsung service centre can also do it, but will charge you a lot more.
If you've tried to restore a backup & failed for whatever reason, and flashing stock roms didn't work (it can if it was a temporary thing, which it is sometimes), you really don't have any other option apart from buying the equipment repair shops/Samsung use to do the repair mentioned above. Which is obviously more expensive than paying someone who already has the equipment to do it, you need to learn how to use the equipment without turning your phone into a paperweight permanently (or at least unfixable without a motherboard change), and you'll probably never use it again.
Best option is the first one (local mobile repair shop/non Samsung service centre) if you want it fixed easily, quickly, and guaranteed (assuming there's nothing hardware-wise wrong with the phone).
Hi Mistah.
Thanks for the advice. I will take my phone to thr repair shop. I think that too that its not SW fixable.
Regards, Brix
I doubt it is fixable by you, I mean, you can try the stuff in some of the threads on here (various 'guides' around the place), but given what you've already tried/said, they're unlikely to work. And you could spend days trying stuff for no result, be without a working phone for that time, and still end up having to get it repaired. And given how cheap (relatively speaking) it is normally, my choice every time is to get it done sooner rather than later, for those reasons.
Hello,
I wrote the most essential parts in bold so that you'll know the parts to skip if you don't want the details.
I've been having this weird problem with my phone. I dropped my phone, the bottom left side of the screen cracked a little and as a result, the phone lost it's network connectivity. My first thought was that the sim card had dislodged but it was fine. Then I opened the case to check if any connectors were out of their place. As expected, the usb connector assembly's (or whatever it is called. basically the component that the usb port is attached to) connector was halfway up, so i placed it back and turned it on and it still didn't fix the problem.
Then trying to find out if I'll be able to see any clues, I went to the settings page and realised both the imei and the baseband is gone.
I searched and searched and most of the time my problem seems to be fixable through rooting and repairing the efs files. Though this solution applies to phones that had software problems, not a physical damage. I tried it anyway but all I got is a rooted android with no imei now.
So the question is, does anyone have any experience in a situation like this? Physical damage causing the imei to disappear? Or is there anything you'd like to suggest?
Thanks in advance
This is weird.This may sound implausible,but I think your efs somehow got corrupted in this accident.Restore an efs backup if you have one.It won't hurt.This will rule out any possible efs problems.
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This is weird.This may sound implausible,but I think your efs somehow got corrupted in this accident.Restore an efs backup if you have one.It won't hurt.This will rule out any possible efs problems.
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thank you for the reply, when i first upgraded my phone to 4.1.2, i should have created a backup by using adb just because i can. if I can locate the file maybe that could solve.
do you think there is any chance that I actually caused a permanent physical damage to the board or a component which could permanently reduce my phone to an expensive mp3 player?
sinabey said:
do you think there is any chance that I actually caused a permanent physical damage to the board or a component which could permanently reduce my phone to an expensive mp3 player?
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I haven't seen an instance of this in the 2.5 yrs I've been here, but it's definitely possible. Put it this way, seems like too much of a coincidence it would go away immediately after you drop it, assuming you hadn't modded it in any way shortly before you dropped it (flashed a rom/modem/kernel/whatever).
Only way you're going to rule this in/out for certain is to take it to a mobile repair shop for diagnosis.
Edit - What specific model are we talking about ?
As you said that usb flex connector got loose then maybe this connector or its socket on mainboard got damaged.
It's a mystery to me how did your imei/baseband etc disappeared.
As @MistahBungle suggested,if you can't fix it by yourself,go for professional diagnostics.
thanks for the replies.
the model is I9100 and the ssn is i9100GSMH.
yes it was not modded at all actually. and as it seems the backup files on my computer are 0 bytes. unless the .ab files are just headers pointing to the actual backup content then it means that the backup process went wrong and i did not notice at the time. though the header hypothesis is unlikely because it would at least be some bytes if not zero...
i was hoping that this was something that is known to happen with a solution, but i guess my only option right now it so take it to the service. which i was avoiding, because here it almost costs much as just buying a working second hand one. but at least i can get the diagnosis. i'll post the result up here after I have it looked, in case it happens to anyone else.
did you looked for backups in phone's internal and external sdcards too?
Hi Guys,
I have hard bricked my SGS2 I9100 as .pit file flash failed. Now there is no download/recovery/normal boot. It is completely dead, not detected on any PC by USB/Odin. It gets hot and there is slight vibration while charging. There is no response for USB Jig.
Samsung service center told there is motherboard issue and they don't repair it, they straight away replace it for $150 which I am unwilling to spend now.The phone has gone through the hands of many good technicians but all dismissed the chance of repair saying its an major hardware issue and components are out of stock/ unwilling to do it.
A repairman said he tried to JTAG it but from what he says is that eMMc chip didn't respond to Riff Box. I am not sure whether he correctly tried it on a Riff Box or any other box.
My questions are,
Q1) Should I once again try to JTAG it through other source ? Can any one tell me what's difference does it make to either JTAG it on Riff Box/Medusa/Z3X/GPG & Other Boxes ?
Q2) Does replacing the eMMc flash chip & power IC with new one increases the chances to revive the phone ?
Q3) If I were to replace the IC's from where could I buy it in "India" or should I buy it from aliexpress.com ?
Q4) Are the below IC models correct for I9100:
eMMc Flash IC: KMVYL000LM-B503 or KLMCG8GE2A-A001 (I am unable to
find this chip KLMCG8GE2A-A001 to buy if it is for I9100) source: mobiletechvideos.com
Power IC: MAX8997
Q5) Is there any other method apart from replacing IC's/JTAGGING through which I can repair my I9100 ?
Awaiting your responses. :fingers-crossed:
Long story short - replace the motherboard or buy a new phone.You already tried everything.
Only a few people had successfully replaced the eMMC chip.As it's very hard to do.Resoldering these kind of chips is simply impractical.
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Long story short - replace the motherboard or buy a new phone.You already tried everything.
Only a few people had successfully replaced the eMMC chip.As it's very hard to do.Resoldering these kind of chips is simply impractical.
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I agree to your point. But still I want to take a chance with the eMMc/Power IC replacement option. At my end I am looking for a proficient technician who can do precision soldering, what I want from this forum is, has IC replacement worked for any one of you guys and if yes can you mention the detailed steps for the same. Because on GSM Hosting forums a lot of guys have replaced the IC's and got their S2 working. But because of technical issue of minimum 10 post for a new thread I cannot ask there. This forum is my only hope to find proper solution to my problem.
You won't see anyone post those steps because I've never seen anyone on here post they've had someone do this repair successfully. I've seen a number of people post here (particularly over the past 6 mths & particularly in some countries) that they've been offered this fix, but not a single one has posted & said they had it done & it was successful.
Why ? Because no tech with any competence would attempt this for a couple of reasons:-
1) It would be a pain in the arse to try. It would be very fiddly/take a long time. Small electronics these days is mostly 'modular' & replacement of tiny parts just doesn't happen anymore; 'boards' are replaced because it's quicker/easier for the tech, and cheaper for the customer. Even if these fixes were possible, you'd pay more than what a motherboard replacement would cost. And even then you're probably relying on someone with questionable technical ability telling you it is possible when people who really know what they're doing & talking about just wouldn't bother.
2) You have no way of knowing yourself whether you're being told the truth about this 'power IC' nonsense actually being the problem. What happens if you try this fix, only to find out the NAND is actually corrupted (which it is 99.999999999999999999999999% of the time; you are not the exception here); this means you pay for the fix which has no chance of working, and then you pay again for a motherboard replacement or new phone.
By all means sit in this thread for months & months with a non-working phone waiting for the information you're after to be posted, but it never will be for the reasons I've mentioned. If it was me, I'd want my phone working ASAP because I need a phone.
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You won't see anyone post those steps because I've never seen anyone on here post they've had someone do this repair successfully. I've seen a number of people post here (particularly over the past 6 mths & particularly in some countries) that they've been offered this fix, but not a single one has posted & said they had it done & it was successful.
Why ? Because no tech with any competence would attempt this for a couple of reasons:-
1) It would be a pain in the arse to try. It would be very fiddly/take a long time. Small electronics these days is mostly 'modular' & replacement of tiny parts just doesn't happen anymore; 'boards' are replaced because it's quicker/easier for the tech, and cheaper for the customer. Even if these fixes were possible, you'd pay more than what a motherboard replacement would cost. And even then you're probably relying on someone with questionable technical ability telling you it is possible when people who really know what they're doing & talking about just wouldn't bother.
2) You have no way of knowing yourself whether you're being told the truth about this 'power IC' nonsense actually being the problem. What happens if you try this fix, only to find out the NAND is actually corrupted (which it is 99.999999999999999999999999% of the time; you are not the exception here); this means you pay for the fix which has no chance of working, and then you pay again for a motherboard replacement or new phone.
By all means sit in this thread for months & months with a non-working phone waiting for the information you're after to be posted, but it never will be for the reasons I've mentioned. If it was me, I'd want my phone working ASAP because I need a phone.
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Anyways.. I have given my phone for eMMc replacement let us see what it turns out to be. Thanks for your input Mistah. Will post back once I get my phone.
One more thing MistahBungle, as you have mentioned NAND corruption thats the exact issue I faced in Odin, does it means the flash chip is dying or as I read it its stuffed beyond recovery.. what exactly is NAND corruption and is there any solution for it apart from mobo change ?
Arjune said:
Anyways.. I have given my phone for eMMc replacement let us see what it turns out to be. Thanks for your input Mistah. Will post back once I get my phone.
One more thing MistahBungle, as you have mentioned NAND corruption thats the exact issue I faced in Odin, does it means the flash chip is dying or as I read it its stuffed beyond recovery.. what exactly is NAND corruption and is there any solution for it apart from mobo change ?
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It means the chip has been 'scrambled' due to a bad flash, which means nothing can be written to or read from the chip anymore, which is why your phone won't boot, the (for the sake of simplicity, the tech version is available with a Google or XDA search) 'pre-boot' stuff/OS/etc lives on it, without that = dead phone.
Only solution is to replace it, and as we've said, replacing just that chip isn't feasible, so the whole board is replaced.
After the Feb update phone was working fine than suddenly it restart and stay on the G logo and nothing further happen after waiting for 2 hours I reboot to recovery and perform a factory reset there. Than the phone booted up with blank imei. Imei is not showing not in about phone not in dialer.
Help me to fix.
Have you attempted to install a factory image using the Android Flash Tool on Google's Pixel pages or else downloaded a factory image and used ADB to install it?
Try those and see if that resolves your issue.
Regarding the IMEI, if the factory images don't fix that issue, you'll have to send the device to Google.
Indeed you need to try flash the factory image that you were on to start with before it broke.
Yes now it did the factory image flashing unlock the bootloader and flash through online, everything is fine but the IMEI still not there.
Now I have a option for root and is there any thing that help me get fixing the IMEI edit it or update it or restore it
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Yes now it did the factory image flashing unlock the bootloader and flash through online, everything is fine but the IMEI still not there.
Now I have a option for root and is there any thing that help me get fixing the IMEI edit it or update it or restore it
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Send it to Google. We cannot discuss methods of resolving IMEI issues here as the techniques for restoring the IMEI could also be used to change it, something illegal according to the laws of most countries. Especially the USA, where XDA servers are located.
How to backup imei for future ?
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How to backup imei for future ?
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Under normal circumstances there should be no need to back up the IMEI. The OP's issue is NOT common, which is why he needs to get a hold of Google.
Obviously I don't know what happened to your phone but I had the good ol axon 7 and one day after sitting in storage for months I turned it on and it would do everything except receive texts and I looked closer and saw it said imei null. I remember doing a reset before knowing it had a weak battery issue and I'm sure it didn't reset before the battery died and so I'm thinking at least in my case the issues are related. Do you think you had anything like that happen?
devingubler1 said:
Obviously I don't know what happened to your phone but I had the good ol axon 7 and one day after sitting in storage for months I turned it on and it would do everything except receive texts and I looked closer and saw it said imei null. I remember doing a reset before knowing it had a weak battery issue and I'm sure it didn't reset before the battery died and so I'm thinking at least in my case the issues are related. Do you think you had anything like that happen?
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No brother my battery was at good level above 60% but all of sudden it restarted and went into bootloop i was just scrolling the instagram.
Strephon Alkhalikoi said:
Send it to Google. We cannot discuss methods of resolving IMEI issues here as the techniques for restoring the IMEI could also be used to change it, something illegal according to the laws of most countries. Especially the USA, where XDA servers are located.
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I am asking for help to repair my devices everyone know the law and regulation internet is full of stuff that depend on you how you use it.
Maybe IMEI info is also stored on a partition on the currently inactive slot. Try taking the March update, it will switch slots and hopefully IMEI reappears.
Gohar___Nadeem said:
I am asking for help to repair my devices everyone know the law and regulation internet is full of stuff that depend on you how you use it.
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The law makes no allowances for intent as that is for a judge to decide. Regardless, you got your answer: send it to Google! I'm sorry if that wasn't the answer you wanted, however that is the answer you are going to get from me. In fact, I will spell it out for you.
I will not help you as to do so could potentially get this site into trouble as well as cause possible legal issues for me. Not to mention the fact I cannot verify you actually own the device.
ALL problems of this sort should be directed to your product manufacturer. Contact them, provide them with the information they ask for, and see if they can help you. They are the only ones who will assist you in these matters. I cannot and will not give you any assistance with these problems.
Is that clear?
OK thanks for the long comments