hello can I throw an imei to my phone? imei repair tool is there
What exactly do you need help with?
I need to change
smhzhl said:
I need to change
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Changing the IMEI is illegal in most countries. Therefore the discussion thereof is strictly prohibited on xda.
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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
After reading about how CDMA devices were able to have modified IMEI information, I was curious about the GSM variants such as mine, the i9300.
I've looked all over XDAdev and can't find information about modifying this version (which we have in the UK).
I have one which I want to manually corrupt the IMEI data on, the phone has a broken screen, but I can plug into a good screen temporarily. The phone in question is rooted but I can't remember what firmware its running, I believe it is JB (stock ROM).
Am I missing something blatently obvious or is it just not possible with the UK variant of the SGS3?
Thanks.
Modifying IMEI is illegal and as such discussion is not allowed on XDA .
jje
Modifying IMEI is illegal and as such discussion is not allowed on XDA .
jje
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Hi everyone...
I flashed another phones efs.bin to my phone and i haven't backed-up my own EFS folder so i got dummy IMEI 0049......
I want a dude well-intentioned, have a box and intention to help me and an I9300...
I wanna try this; I will give my S/N and IMEI, then dude will write those on his own i9300 then will back-up EFS folder and send it to me...
Does this work?
radamath said:
Hi everyone...
I flashed another phones efs.bin to my phone and i haven't backed-up my own EFS folder so i got dummy IMEI 0049......
I want a dude well-intentioned, have a box and intention to help me and an I9300...
I wanna try this; I will give my S/N and IMEI, then dude will write those on his own i9300 then will back-up EFS folder and send it to me...
Does this work?
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This is illegal so discussions of which cannot be condoned. Send your s3 for repair.
Thread closed, changing the IMEI is considered illegal in most countries and so isn't allowed on XDA.
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.
Sent from my GT-I9300 using Tapatalk 4
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
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The changing of an imei is illegal for your purpose and will get you banned on the forum.