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Imei question...

Well.. first of all I've looked around and under the circumstances haven't found anything of my interest..
First of all. I'm not sure if its illegal or not... Its is under certain circumstances and some places it says otherwise. Well I haven't found anything that says it is....
Also. My vivid is not imei locked or blacklisted or anything. It works. But I have sprint and am thinking of using it as a Go Phone. Well. I was thinking of buying a cheap go phone and use that imei to have cheaper internet.
It shouldn't. Be illegal. I'm using an imei I own. And att is too expensive.. but I really like the phone.
How can this be done?
Not looking to get banned over this. Been here a while. Don't give me trouble. I just want some info.
Thanks.
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ceyo14 said:
Well.. first of all I've looked around and under the circumstances haven't found anything of my interest..
First of all. I'm not sure if its illegal or not... Its is under certain circumstances and some places it says otherwise. Well I haven't found anything that says it is....
Also. My vivid is not imei locked or blacklisted or anything. It works. But I have sprint and am thinking of using it as a Go Phone. Well. I was thinking of buying a cheap go phone and use that imei to have cheaper internet.
It shouldn't. Be illegal. I'm using an imei I own. And att is too expensive.. but I really like the phone.
How can this be done?
Not looking to get banned over this. Been here a while. Don't give me trouble. I just want some info.
Thanks.
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It Can't be done with Verzion or Sprint because they are both CDMA and Not GSM. You could do T-Mobile, AT&T and Maybe Simple Mobile not 100% certain but to do any of those I believe you need to get an Unlock code for the phone for it to function.

no, what I meant for sprint is that it is my primary service. thats it..
Id like to activate this one seperately using Go Phone pay as you go. its just that internet there is pathetic and expensive. $25 fo 500MB... but if its not a smartphone... hence why I want to change IMEI, too fool network thinking its a nokia dunbphone. its only $10 for unlimited. I think here we have a $50 for everything unlimited, for dumbphones.
really know its possible, but want some info. I could keep tethering from my sprint phone but, honestly ATT is way faster here. even if I stay on regular 3G.

with an unlock code I can change the IMEI number?

Oh I see what you mean. As far as I know there is no way to change an IMEI on a phone. And if that is correct it would mean your plan would eventually change because they can see the IMEI although I am not 100% on that because it would be a go phone plan as opposed to an actual standard plan.

Thread closed. Discussion of imei changing is prohibited. As it is illegal in most places. Thanks.
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help me check the phone

Hi,
i bought one used d3 but currently it is locked and all the lock codes are failing. so i have tried entering the MEID of the phone verizon activation site and its asking to contact customer care.
i have tried calling the customer care but they said that they cant really check the status of the phone (stolen / unpaid account) unless i am a customer but i am from Germany and don't have an account
I am suspicious that this might be the case as all codes are failing to unlock.
Can any one help me find if this phone has a bad history and i need to report to the seller?
Thanks in advance

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no one wants to help me with this? strange

You cant tell. The seller could say it was simply given from a friend or purchased.
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chowdarygm said:
Hi,
i bought one used d3 but currently it is locked and all the lock codes are failing. so i have tried entering the MEID of the phone verizon activation site and its asking to contact customer care.
i have tried calling the customer care but they said that they cant really check the status of the phone (stolen / unpaid account) unless i am a customer but i am from Germany and don't have an account
I am suspicious that this might be the case as all codes are failing to unlock.
Can any one help me find if this phone has a bad history and i need to report to the seller?
Thanks in advance
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im from mexico so i cant help with this,
but maybe you should ask someone with a verizon accnt to Help..
in my case, i bought it already sim unlocked

Must read!! A very important issue!!

Hello guyz,
Yesterday i bought sprint htc one in india...it is imported...now when i am checking my phone imei number by pressing *#06# its emi is starting with 99000********** .... When i checked this imei number through htc customer care they are saying that this emi is of iphone 4s...then i checked this imei on imei checker website there also it is showing this imei is of iphone 4s...
Plz tell me guyzz...i m really crying for buying this phone...plz help me....my 36000 are dumped...plz help me guyz....
Phone - sprint htc one
Model no.- htc pn072
Plz tell me the way to check whether my phone is real or fake...

Hook it up to fastboot and type fastboot getvar all in cmd
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jayas.mayank said:
Hello guyz,
Yesterday i bought sprint htc one in india...it is imported...now when i am checking my phone imei number by pressing *#06# its emi is starting with 99000********** .... When i checked this imei number through htc customer care they are saying that this emi is of iphone 4s...then i checked this imei on imei checker website there also it is showing this imei is of iphone 4s...
Plz tell me guyzz...i m really crying for buying this phone...plz help me....my 36000 are dumped...plz help me guyz....
Phone - sprint htc one
Model no.- htc pn072
Plz tell me the way to check whether my phone is real or fake...
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Don't worry your phone is ok. Even when I checked mine at imei websites it showed as iphone 4s. Unfortunately those sites seem to work only for iphones. Why do you even need to check your imei, if the phone works ok you should't worry. To check if your phone is fake or not try to unlock the bootloader
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Looks like the esn was repaired on the phone.

Can u plz elaborate sir?

olorolo said:
Hook it up to fastboot and type fastboot getvar all in cmd
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Sir i m new to xda ...plz elaborate sir....my phone is unlocked and rooted..

elvisypi said:
Don't worry your phone is ok. Even when I checked mine at imei websites it showed as iphone 4s. Unfortunately those sites seem to work only for iphones. Why do you even need to check your imei, if the phone works ok you should't worry. To check if your phone is fake or not try to unlock the bootloader
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Sir i just want to know whether phone is a test device or a original one....sir can u plz tell me how to unlock the bootloader ....and sir there is no option of turning wifi, bluetooth , mobile data etc on and off on in my notification drawer....thnxxx

bhavi_jp said:
Looks like the esn was repaired on the phone.
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Sir what is esn? Plz elaborate sir...

You have to go to htcdev.com and unlock it and choose all other devices, therrs ytube tutorials if you need help
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Esn is electronic serial number
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videos to teach you all you need including s-off after you unlock so be sure to subscribe to him http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QU7vi388dMk&list=SP1jmJW1iBYG5N1K4dI5IXgczGA6HKw9Ts&index=6

I just noticed you can use the app AnTuTu Benchmark to get your device info also

jayas.mayank said:
Hello guyz,
Yesterday i bought sprint htc one in india...it is imported...now when i am checking my phone imei number by pressing *#06# its emi is starting with 99000********** .... When i checked this imei number through htc customer care they are saying that this emi is of iphone 4s...then i checked this imei on imei checker website there also it is showing this imei is of iphone 4s...
Plz tell me guyzz...i m really crying for buying this phone...plz help me....my 36000 are dumped...plz help me guyz....
Phone - sprint htc one
Model no.- htc pn072
Plz tell me the way to check whether my phone is real or fake...
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Your phone is real.. just stay calm and use it normally .

Cpuz is a great app for all info of your device. Also it's normal for it to show 99000******* on the box it shows the normal Dec but when we ring it up by the next screen it usually defaults to a 99000 number. Not always. It's strange.
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I'm trying to figure out why I must read this thread.
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kancherlapraneeth said:
Your phone is real.. just stay calm and use it normally .
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Sir but 3g or h network is not there in my phone and 2g is reaally really very bad...plz tell me how to use 3g/ h network?

jayas.mayank said:
Sir but 3g or h network is not there in my phone and 2g is reaally really very bad...plz tell me how to use 3g/ h network?
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Even i got a Sprint HTC One and am using it in Bangalore. 3G works for me. Have you tried changing the network mode by typing *#*#4636#*#*
Also, the symbol remains at GSM irrespective of whether it is connected to 2G or 3G.

Need to repair my esn
I have a HTC one from sprint i would like to repair the esn so i can use it sprint has me blocked from previous carrier not paying bill i have CDMA workshop and all the drivers i just dont wanna mess this up and hard brick my phone so if someone can give me some instruction or direction if there is a thread that will help i have searched and searched please help

SPARTAN_TECH said:
I have a HTC one from sprint i would like to repair the esn so i can use it sprint has me blocked from previous carrier not paying bill i have CDMA workshop and all the drivers i just dont wanna mess this up and hard brick my phone so if someone can give me some instruction or direction if there is a thread that will help i have searched and searched please help
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U can not repair the esn only way is to change it though that is illegal so u won't find help for that here.

I got scammed, is there anything I can do?

I'm on t-mobile and I recently traded my iPhone 5 for an HTC ONE. Everything was good for a couple weeks but I suddenly wasn't getting any cell phone signal. I went to the tmobile store where I was informed that the person I traded phones with had called and stopped paying on his account then Tmo blocked the phone. So now I have a perfect HTC one that can't get signal. Is there anything I can do? or am I just FUBAR

Absolutely nothing besides find him...beg or demand phone back what he did was trade you and then prolly did a insurance claim paid a small deductible got a new htc and sold it.. This is why its nowadays never good to trade people are actually very heaitant anymore...
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lojak29 said:
Absolutely nothing besides find him...beg or demand phone back what he did was trade you and then prolly did a insurance claim paid a small deductible got a new htc and sold it.. This is why its nowadays never good to trade people are actually very heaitant anymore...
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When I went to the Tmobile store the guy that I talked to said that "you may wanna go on the internet there may be somebody on the internet that has figured out a way to get around this". Granted he didn't sound like he knew too much cause he wa spike "some people do that jawbreaking or jailbraeaking or whatever so I figure somebody is smart enough to figure this out"....I thought that changing the IMEI via software mods was illegal?

zcat84 said:
I thought that changing the IMEI via software mods was illegal?
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It is and can't be discussed here.
Best bet is to track the guy down and hope he's decent about it. Other than that, you can put it up on eBay for parts. You'll make a few bucks back at least.
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Apparently it is not illegal, in the US, to swap IMEI numbers with a phone that you legally own. Therefore, you could possibly buy a cheap TMobile phone and cannabalize its IMEI number.
It could be possible to write this IMEI number to your phone, if you are s-off.
fastboot oem writeimei
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Report the iPhone you traded as stolen, that will get his attention when the carrier blacklists it.
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cschmitt said:
Report the iPhone you traded as stolen, that will get his attention when the carrier blacklists it.
Sent from a van down by the river.
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What he said. :good:

Why did they shut off and block a phone that was on your account when he stopped paying on his account? What am I missing?

Just unlock the phone and sell for use with any other gsm network. They can only block a phone on there network so still good for any carriers with SIM cards.

vhicke said:
Just unlock the phone and sell for use with any other gsm network. They can only block a phone on there network so still good for any carriers with SIM cards.
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A lot of networks share the block lists... I'm not sure that will work
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vhicke said:
Just unlock the phone and sell for use with any other gsm network. They can only block a phone on there network so still good for any carriers with SIM cards.
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No, there's a national blacklist that all the north american carriers share.

instigator008 said:
No, there's a national blacklist that all the north american carriers share.
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Not in Canada.

vhicke said:
Not in Canada.
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Canada too. Started October 1.
http://www.iphoneincanada.ca/carriers/canadian-carriers-national-blacklist-program-cellphones/

instigator008 said:
Canada too. Started October 1.
http://www.iphoneincanada.ca/carriers/canadian-carriers-national-blacklist-program-cellphones/
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I guess if his HTC one is blacklisted he can check here if shows blacklisted then only good for parts
http://www.protectyourdata.ca/check-the-status-of-your-device-in-canada/

fachadick said:
Why did they shut off and block a phone that was on your account when he stopped paying on his account? What am I missing?
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I'm not real sure but the explanation I was given was that because Tmobile moved to the new model of not subsidizing phones that even if I traded my phone to someone else that other person is still responsible for continuing the payments on the phone that he traded to me.
So this dude stopped paying on his account and when he did he essentially stopped paying on his phone...I thought that when his phone got associated to my account (because we actually went into a tmobile store to trade) that I was essentially taking over the payments on his phone and he would be taking over the payments on my iPhone...But alas I was wrong

fachadick said:
Why did they shut off and block a phone that was on your account when he stopped paying on his account? What am I missing?
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Because the HTC One belonged to the original owner and he was making payments to T-Mobile.
Even though the IMEI was on another account being used it still belonged to the original owner and when he stopped making payments T-Mobile black listed the device.
I got burned on a GS3 last summer.
I had the phone on my account for 4 months and one day nothing.
For the OP he said the guy stopped paying T-Mobile the monthly installments. So this is not an insurance scam.
But in my case it was.
I found out you have 30 days to report a phone lost/stolen when its been on your account.
Then you have another 120 days to follow thru and pay the deductible. Once all the paperwork has been done and you paid the deductible the phone will get blacklisted.
So my GS3 which worked for 4 months is a good parts phone. Ill re-coup about 60% of my money selling it for parts. But i learned a lesson as well.

fachadick said:
Why did they shut off and block a phone that was on your account when he stopped paying on his account? What am I missing?
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Wrong wrong once blocked even unlocked is useless across any gsm carrier
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So after some research ( I figured out the date I added the phone and filtered throughout phone #'s of people I texted that day) I got the guys phone# and on one of his posts he put a first name (IDK if it's actually his or not). Here are his posts on CL just under the phone section ( I tried to add a screenshot). will the police actually try to help with this if I take them this info?

zcat84 said:
So after some research ( I figured out the date I added the phone and filtered throughout phone #'s of people I texted that day) I got the guys phone# and on one of his posts he put a first name (IDK if it's actually his or not). Here are his posts on CL just under the phone section ( I tried to add a screenshot). will the police actually try to help with this if I take them this info?
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Try phoning him first and let him know that you're willing to go to the police unless you get your money back etc.

instigator008 said:
Try phoning him first and let him know that you're willing to go to the police unless you get your money back etc.
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Is there a way to text him email him using his # (assuming it is still active) from my computer? I literally don't have a phone since my cell has been deactivated as of right now.

zcat84 said:
Is there a way to text him email him using his # (assuming it is still active) from my computer? I literally don't have a phone since my cell has been deactivated as of right now.
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I would definitely go with a voice call over text/email. Call from work or borrow a phone. Emails are too easily ignored.

How do you change phone ids (ESN, MEID, IMEI, etc) ?

I got the Sprint HTC One M8 (HK) with the intent on bringing it over to Ting which accepts Sprint devices. Issue is, the One is carrier locked via the IMEI until April, one year after the release date. So that was a bust. In the meantime I have a Fascinate with Verizon, that I can use as a donor phone for all its info. Thing I am having issues with is understanding what else needs to be changed to use the phone with Verizon. I read something about the radios need to be flashed and then while I can find the IMEI and MEID, and I can use fastboot to write my own, I cannot find anything for ESN or the MIN(MSIN). That plus the activation number, I assume will dial to Sprint not Verizon, so I'm trying to figure out what else this would entail. I will back up everything, since once April comes around, i'll switch to Ting, but until then, I'd like to enjoy my new toy.

I think XDA have a rule about giving you information about this... This is the same as bad ESN and changed it to make it work again and that is fraud..

gypsy214 said:
I think XDA have a rule about giving you information about this... This is the same as bad ESN and changed it to make it work again and that is fraud..
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This ^^^^^
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