I messed up my motherboard the other day (I'd rather not say how - really stupid) and have ordered a used one from ebay. I assume changing out the board will change my IMEI? And if so, am I going to have any problems getting it activated at the AT&T store since the sticker shows a different IMEI?
Thanks for any help/info anyone can give. I appreciate it.
osdave said:
I messed up my motherboard the other day (I'd rather not say how - really stupid) and have ordered a used one from ebay. I assume changing out the board will change my IMEI? And if so, am I going to have any problems getting it activated at the AT&T store since the sticker shows a different IMEI?
Thanks for any help/info anyone can give. I appreciate it.
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Yes, you'll have a different IMEI... Just swap your SIM into it, and don't even call or go to ATT... No need for that...
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Yes, you'll have a different IMEI... Just swap your SIM into it, and don't even call or go to ATT... No need for that...
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Thanks for the response! Unfortunately, I had to borrow my sister-in-law's Iphone 3g in the meantime (worst 4 days of my life ) and my sim is in there, so I assume I'm going to have to go in to have it switched back?
Thanks again.
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Thanks for the response! Unfortunately, I had to borrow my sister-in-law's Iphone 3g in the meantime (worst 4 days of my life ) and my sim is in there, so I assume I'm going to have to go in to have it switched back?
Thanks again.
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If it's just to data plan needing changed just call them, but you shouldn't even have to do that with 3G to Cappy...
Awesome - thanks again!
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Is there a way (other than calling Sprint) to tell if the imei associated with a phone is stolen or otherwise unable to be activated? I am purchasing a new phone because I have broken my hero and I found a replacement on craigslist but worried about trying to activate it. Any suggestions? Thanks guys.
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Is there a way (other than calling Sprint) to tell if the imei associated with a phone is stolen or otherwise unable to be activated? I am purchasing a new phone because I have broken my hero and I found a replacement on craigslist but worried about trying to activate it. Any suggestions? Thanks guys.
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Not sure, but you'd probably have to call Sprint
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Not sure, but you'd probably have to call Sprint
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You're always so helpful...except this time lol.
DanWalker said:
You're always so helpful...except this time lol.
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Lol, thanks And that's because I don't think Sprint would want anyone being able to lookup whether or not a phone is blah blah blah
Hi guys.
I went through a lot of web sites past couple of months and now I've decided to ask you by myself. I got a present from my GF. Sam Gal S5.
She bought it on a craiglist. She tried it with her AT&T SIM card and it worked. Anyway.. she gave it to me. SIM card denied. I've paid $30 to get a code to unlocked.. Great. Buy what was my surprise. After I got in and made a couple of phone calls to providers I find out that the phone is blacklisted. I tried to get ATT sim card also but doesnt work.
So I started to look for an advice... Ive done root, changed ROM etc. But now... i dont know where else to look.
Obviously it was stolen. But I feel sorry for her and she for me...
Is that just a piece of garbage or is there ANY way to fix it?
I dont even know if im able to ask here.
Any advice or opinions helps.
Thank you
Mike
I think you're kinda screwed...Craigslists scams happen all the time..best bet if your gonna buy a phone on there is to both meet at the AT&T store and go through the whole transfer process.
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So ... there is no way to make it work?
Unhived__Mind said:
I think you're kinda screwed...Craigslists scams happen all the time..best bet if your gonna buy a phone on there is to both meet at the AT&T store and go through the whole transfer process.
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The official reply from carriers is that once a phone is blacklisted it is impossible to undo. Whether or not it's a limitation of the technology (one-way trip) or if it's just company policy, the output is the same. You and your girlfriend have learned an expensive lesson. You can use it as a wi-fi-only device or a media player, but once a phone is blacklisted it will never be able to connect to a cellular network again.
The reason the phone worked with your girlfriend's SIM card was because the real owner of the phone hadn't called to report the phone stolen yet.
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So ... there is no way to make it work?
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If you have proof of purchase and go to At&t whit it they maybe able to add to your account and unblock it.
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taytrlik said:
Hi guys.
I went through a lot of web sites past couple of months and now I've decided to ask you by myself. I got a present from my GF. Sam Gal S5.
She bought it on a craiglist. She tried it with her AT&T SIM card and it worked. Anyway.. she gave it to me. SIM card denied. I've paid $30 to get a code to unlocked.. Great. Buy what was my surprise. After I got in and made a couple of phone calls to providers I find out that the phone is blacklisted. I tried to get ATT sim card also but doesnt work.
So I started to look for an advice... Ive done root, changed ROM etc. But now... i dont know where else to look.
Obviously it was stolen. But I feel sorry for her and she for me...
Is that just a piece of garbage or is there ANY way to fix it?
I dont even know if im able to ask here.
Any advice or opinions helps.
Thank you
Mike
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Mike, your situation stinks so bad. I was in a similar spot with a T-Mobile HTC M8, which stopped working after I got it off craigslist and then subsequent IMEI checks shows that it is blocked/blacklisted from T-Mobile's network due to a balance owing from the original purchaser. However, since the phone was not reported stolen, the IMEI is not actually blacklisted/blocked from all carriers, but only T-Mobile. So I bought the SIM unlock code for a few bucks online so that I could unlock the phone for other carrier use. I have tested and verified that my phone works on AT&T, even though it is blocked on T-Mobile. So...you might consider changing your carrier or selling it to someone who can use it on another carrier (with full disclosure to that buyer, of course).
Hello, just wanted to ask this and see what other people thought. I don't think it would be an issue, but just want to be sure.
So I am buying a Nexus 6 for my Dad for his b-day, and what I want to do is root/install the Chroma rom on it before I send it to him. Question being if I do this for him and then he brings the phone into ATT to get a nano sim for it, is ATT going to give him grief if they notice that the phone is rooted/custom rom'd?
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Hello, just wanted to ask this and see what other people thought. I don't think it would be an issue, but just want to be sure.
So I am buying a Nexus 6 for my Dad for his b-day, and what I want to do is root/install the Chroma rom on it before I send it to him. Question being if I do this for him and then he brings the phone into ATT to get a nano sim for it, is ATT going to give him grief if they notice that the phone is rooted/custom rom'd?
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if you/he owns the phone, it doesnt matter what anybody who works for att thinks. you have that right.
My experience is that it makes no difference as to what rom you have on the phone.
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Hello, just wanted to ask this and see what other people thought. I don't think it would be an issue, but just want to be sure.
So I am buying a Nexus 6 for my Dad for his b-day, and what I want to do is root/install the Chroma rom on it before I send it to him. Question being if I do this for him and then he brings the phone into ATT to get a nano sim for it, is ATT going to give him grief if they notice that the phone is rooted/custom rom'd?
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U don't need to activate the phone on Att. You can tell them that you need a nano sim at a store and they will give it you. insert it and you should be good to go. U will need to activate the sim for your line.
When I activated my N6 i just asked for a new nano sim. I even declined them adding my imei on the account.
They activated the sim. I made a call and checked data and walked out. No issues.
qnc said:
I even declined them adding my imei on the account.
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Out of curiosity, why?
It came from an issue along time ago. So I just refuse to have it on the accounts.
qnc said:
It came from an issue along time ago. So I just refuse to have it on the accounts.
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Understood. It it is anything others could benefit from, would you mind sharing?
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Understood. It it is anything others could benefit from, would you mind sharing?
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Yeah no problem.
I had activated some phones through a third party seller. You know, the authorized agents. While activating my new phones I did not realize that he was writing down the imei from my old phone.
I'm a phone junky and switch phones on my account all the time. Hell on my 1 line today I have used Nexus 5, iPhone 4s and Nokia 1020.
Everything was fine for a while then the new phone stopped working.
Called Cust svs and they told me that my imei was bad I switched phones and then my old one did not work. It was reported stolen too. The guy I bought the phone from reported the imei as stolen, but he reported the wrong one from his list and gave another. So he said.
Now my old phone and new phone were not working. He said it was a mistake. He did not ask for any money or ransom for the imei, but that stopped me from buying on contract i always pay full price for unlocked phones and when ATT ask for IMEI I always decline since I don't carry insurance on my phones.
I admit it was probably a freak incident but I don't give it out anymore and decline when asked.
I'm sure that ATT has a way to get the info, I just don't provide it.
Now I sound like the crazy old guy with a tin foil hat.
@qnc,
Actually you don't sound crazy at all. It's an interesting story, and I think we all could take a lesson from it. Caveat emptor.
FWIW: I don't believe a carrier can get your IMEI directly from your device.
Hello my friends i post this alongside actively searching for the solution, other day i bought a desire 510 a11_ul android 4.3 locked and branded to o2 (o2__01), i went on to sim-unlock the device with success and then the bootloader, all i get is emergency calls only, im so far lead to believe it has something to do with the ruu? i just want the thing working on 3uk, i need pointing in the right direction, any help will lessen my headache and wud be greatly appriaciated, Thank you
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Hello my friends i post this alongside actively searching for the solution, other day i bought a desire 510 a11_ul android 4.3 locked and branded to o2 (o2__01), i went on to sim-unlock the device with success and then the bootloader, all i get is emergency calls only, im so far lead to believe it has something to do with the ruu? i just want the thing working on 3uk, i need pointing in the right direction, any help will lessen my headache and wud be greatly appriaciated, Thank you
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First find out what your carriers settings are, like the APN settings. See if it's gsm cdma.. You can try going in the phones settings and checking them out open the dialing pad and *#*#4636#*#* and look around.
hi, thank you for your response, that menu was the first thing i tried lol, i put an o2 sim in and i got it to show the H symbol next to the signal bars which still had a cross on them, it also auto installed the apn settings other than that, no change
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hi, thank you for your response, that menu was the first thing i tried lol, i put an o2 sim in and i got it to show the H symbol next to the signal bars which still had a cross on them, it also auto installed the apn settings other than that, no change
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How did you sim unlock?
dip_spit said:
How did you sim unlock?
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I was wondering that same thing to.
dip_spit said:
How did you sim unlock?
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I guess he doesn't need us now lol.. You asked him to hard of a question haha.
MrMike2182 said:
I guess he doesn't need us now lol.. You asked him to hard of a question haha.
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Typical sh!t.
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Typical sh!t.
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Yeah probably because he didn't have an answer to that question since he most likely lied lol.
oh did i mention this problem affects my net too, hence latr reply, i still do need your help, i sim unlocked for £6.99 from unlockingonline.com via code emailed to me, i foundf this site thru giff gaff site recommendation
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oh did i mention this problem affects my net too, hence latr reply, i still do need your help, i sim unlocked for £6.99 from unlockingonline.com via code emailed to me, i foundf this site thru giff gaff site recommendation
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You cannot unlock the SIM card with a code from anywhere online it doesn't work that way because number one the SIM card in these phones is only to allow the phone to get LTE internet speeds number two the MEID is how the phone gets service not just the SIM card cause you can remove the SIM card and the entire phone will still work just without LTE number three you can't insert another carriers SIM card and then have the phone ask you to enter the unlock code because the phone will never ask for that code when you put another SIM in there it will just say invalid SIM card and nothing else and number four, the phone is unlocked via uicc and has to be done on the carriers side not some unlocking websites code....
Wow I had no idea, what do I do from here then? Is Contacting o2 my only option?
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Wow I had no idea, what do I do from here then? Is Contacting o2 my only option?
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I thought you said you did it already?
I've not contacted o2 yet , I thought my unlock was legit
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Hello my friends i post this alongside actively searching for the solution, other day i bought a desire 510 a11_ul android 4.3 locked and branded to o2 (o2__01), i went on to sim-unlock the device with success and then the bootloader, all i get is emergency calls only, im so far lead to believe it has something to do with the ruu? i just want the thing working on 3uk, i need pointing in the right direction, any help will lessen my headache and wud be greatly appriaciated, Thank you
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Well you said you sim unlocked it with success in this first post of yours right here and that's why both me and @dip_spit asked how you did that, you didn't say it wasn't legit then.
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Typical sh!t.
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Do you think he successfully sim unlocked his phone bro?!
MrMike2182 said:
Do you think he successfully sim unlocked his phone bro?!
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No. Because many people have gotten the unlock codes and not a single person can find a way for the phone to ask for it. Of course he IS in Europe and their rules are different there so he may have, who knows.
Sorry it takes so long to reply I still have this problem I'm goin to email the site
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Sorry it takes so long to reply I still have this problem I'm goin to email the site
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And you are expecting the "site" to do what exactly?
Why don't you just take your phone to your carrier and have them program it to use their services?!?!
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And you are expecting the "site" to do what exactly?
Why don't you just take your phone to your carrier and have them program it to use their services?!?!
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It could be a legitimate unlocking site that he used and expected it to work with his 510 (which they probably don't say that they don't support it), in which case he can probably convince them to refund his money.
Or it could be a scam site, in which case he'll have to do a charge-back or something to get his money back.
Also, he could take it to his current carrier but given the evidence of previous users, they won't unlock and program it for their network because the likelihood of them being able to is slim to none.
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It could be a legitimate unlocking site that he used and expected it to work with his 510 (which they probably don't say that they don't support it), in which case he can probably convince them to refund his money.
Or it could be a scam site, in which case he'll have to do a charge-back or something to get his money back.
Also, he could take it to his current carrier but given the evidence of previous users, they won't unlock and program it for their network because the likelihood of them being able to is slim to none.
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It seems like he's screwed then. I unfortunately don't know how or what settings to use to help him with the issue. He did say "should I contact o2?" So I asummed he could contact them I guess.
I bought an unlocked Sprint G8 phone on Ebay and I have been using this mobile company called Red Pocket on all of my phones and have had little to no issues using their GSM sims until now. The problem I'm having is that I can make phone calls but I can't edit the APN setting to get data as they're all grayed out. I contacted both Red Pocket and Sprint and they both told me that the problem is on my end not theirs.
Hiacios said:
I bought an unlocked Sprint G8 phone on Ebay and I have been using this mobile company called Red Pocket on all of my phones and have had little to no issues using their GSM sims until now. The problem I'm having is that I can make phone calls but I can't edit the APN setting to get data as they're all grayed out. I contacted both Red Pocket and Sprint and they both told me that the problem is on my end not theirs.
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Please look through other threads here there is an app that can fix it
antintin said:
Please look through other threads here there is an app that can fix it
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Thanks, it worked!
Hiacios said:
Thanks, it worked!
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How did it work,I can't seem to find it
Hiacios said:
I bought an unlocked Sprint G8 phone on Ebay and I have been using this mobile company called Red Pocket on all of my phones and have had little to no issues using their GSM sims until now. The problem I'm having is that I can make phone calls but I can't edit the APN setting to get data as they're all grayed out. I contacted both Red Pocket and Sprint and they both told me that the problem is on my end not theirs.
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Planning to buy one, may I know from which seller you bought yours? (A link of the item will be much appreciated)
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Thanks, it worked!
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Hi, I'm having the same problem. Which is the app to fix this?
Henry_7711 said:
Hi, I'm having the same problem. Which is the app to fix this?
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It's this app. https://onedrive.live.com/?authkey=...!160&parId=C48A9603A89C84E3!159&action=locate
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How did it work,I can't seem to find it
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https://onedrive.live.com/?authkey=...!160&parId=C48A9603A89C84E3!159&action=locate
scypth said:
Planning to buy one, may I know from which seller you bought yours? (A link of the item will be much appreciated)
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https://www.ebay.com/usr/yywirelesss?_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2754
??
Thank you so much!
What kind of speeds are you getting on LTE? I just went through this myself, at first it was showing 3g but I was able to get it to show lte after switching some settings on the phone, thing is I'm getting much slower speeds than I did on my previous phone and I'm pretty sure I'm not actually getting lte speeds contrary to what it says.
Hey guys, I'm having the same issue. The app was able to add a new APN, but there are two others I can't get rid of, even if I reset the network settings with the SIM card removed. I can't seem to get it worked out to where I only have one APN configuration. Can anyone explain how they worked it out?
Can someone confirm that the MyNewAPN_test.apk app still works? When i try to add a new APN, i dont get a keyboard so i cant type.