Hi buddies! Here I am again! A friend have the Xperia Z1 C6902, he bought it with $ 290 (only device, case and 32 GB microSD class 10, it was a very good deal but at short time, a guy "reported" it (he go to Telcel carrier, and report the Z1 as stolen, then they blacklisted that IMEI, so this phone can´t make calls or have a network service on any other carrier of my country, there are only three, the phone is not locked). Since that day, the phone recognize micro SIM cards, but it don´t make calls, send SMS (rare times it do) or enter 3G network. Every other things are soooo fine :victory: I have some questions about:
How will I trust if this thing is a real Xperia Z1? Is there an app to do this (eg. like the benchmark ones)?
May be a price to pay for it? How much less than the $ 290??
How will I know manufacture date?
I´m not interested to use network, I have a Live Walkman to do this :cyclops:
I want this phone for develop (and fun :laugh: :highfive: :silly: XD) purposes only.
May I buy the original accesories for the phone? I have Live Walkman ones, they will work?
The phone is pretty new, it keeps it´s plastic adhesives, back and front ones.
PD: Please don´t take the stolen part as a moral subject. (messages like: Get back the phone to it´s owner, you ***** :crying The phone works, and nobody wants it, even my friend. And I don´t know it´s owner.
Thanks in advance, please answer quickly or the phone will be sold to another one!!!! Sorry, my english is sooo bad.
I will upload some pictures of the phone tomorrow or the other day.
It was mine. Send it to me.
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Ok, so i managed to loose my phone over the weekend at V in Staffordshire. So there are 2 outcomes to this.
1) The phone got killed as it fell out of my pocket, and then probably got stamped on a few times by people not knowing its there.
2) Someone has found it but not turned it over to lost property. They arent gonna be able to do much with it as it has a flat battery and has now been IMEI blacklisted and the SIM locked.
Thank god for insurance that what I say! However, I wish i had configured RTConfig properly and then I would have atleast got some info from the device if anyone swaps out the sim.
What tends to happen to these phones even though they are IMEI blocked?
Some police forces will recover your phone when the IMEI is blacklisted by triangulating the position.
I have heard about this in the UK on some show and here in romania i know they recover stolen phones because one of my friends got his N95 back.
So how i dont think the police are going to raid a house just to get the phone back.
When you unlock these things so that you can put custom roms on them, does this sim unlock the phone?
I know there are methods available now to sim unlock, but i wasnt sure if the hardspl thing did it as well?
Some little blighter has got all my contacts and calender events, along with some cracking photos of V! That is if the phone wasnt destroyed in the mosh pit.
password on
hope you had that switched on
mine come on at 5 mins
Nope, i dont tend to have the password on otherwise i cant invoke a call from my bluetooth headset, unless that has changed.
or they might find a way to change the imei.
Well if they manage to do that, then kudos to the criminal activity. That or it gets flogged to some terrorist.
buciuman said:
Some police forces will recover your phone when the IMEI is blacklisted by triangulating the position.
I have heard about this in the UK on some show and here in romania i know they recover stolen phones because one of my friends got his N95 back.
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Get real my friend .... no police force will recover the phone...by triangulation.
Yes , triangulation can be done, but for sure no police man will ever hunt down the user of the stolen phone.
By now the pohne has alredy been sold to un unsuspecting user...
did you also wear your best clothes to V as well
phone insurrance? how is that ? i mean, do they give you another phone or the ammount of money youn spent on the phone ?
have to look around too for something like this cause a phone this expensive is not worth loosing over an accident like yours
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did you also wear your best clothes to V as well
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Haha, nope, luckily! Got right muddy though! I wouldnt be suprised if the phone got killed by all the mud that would have been stamped into it! lol
iliescu902 said:
phone insurrance? how is that ? i mean, do they give you another phone or the ammount of money youn spent on the phone ?
have to look around too for something like this cause a phone this expensive is not worth loosing over an accident like yours
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Yep, I get phone insurance with my bank account. I have to pay £30 excess though when I make a sucessful claim. The new Sim from T-Mob cost me £10 however that can be claimed back as well. They then send you the same phone back (probably a refurb) or a same spec/better phone if they can't get like for like. That one should be interesting as I will be sure to print the specs of for the Diamond and make sure its either the same or better.
iliescu902 said:
phone insurrance? how is that ? i mean, do they give you another phone or the ammount of money youn spent on the phone ?
have to look around too for something like this cause a phone this expensive is not worth loosing over an accident like yours
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Mine is covered by Orange Care anywhere in the world for £5 per month for loss, damage etc, I think now they charge an admin fee .
As for IMEI ~ these can be changed but is against the law, if not changed then the phone is only IMEI blocked in this country (AFAIK) unless agreements have been arranged with other conutries by now?
Shame about your loss of phone though
I know your pain, mine was stolen a few weeks ago. Bought a new one, but I didn't have insurance. I've bought Sprite Terminator now, gave my girlfriend the phone and told her to go shopping or something.
She was surprised when she found me waiting for her .
Great tracking software .
What the! Ok, the insurance company told me they cant get hold of a compact iv so they have offered me the unbranded version. I want the original one as tmob has nice rounded corners!
Gash!
I buy an htc one from ebay, and I see the problem with the camera (when facing down only, night picture its seems ok) so, I dont know if return the phone, or if I can get warranty if I buy it from ebay. Or is better to return? I never have a problem with a new phone, s o i dont know what to do. And I must decide tomorrow, because I am not from USA and my brother will send me the phone or return depending on what i decide.
THanks for your time
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I buy an htc one from ebay, and I see the problem with the camera (when facing down only, night picture its seems ok) so, I dont know if return the phone, or if I can get warranty if I buy it from ebay. Or is better to return? I never have a problem with a new phone, s o i dont know what to do. And I must decide tomorrow, because I am not from USA and my brother will send me the phone or return depending on what i decide.
THanks for your time
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Have you got any receipt or something to proof you can get your warranty?
I'm from Belgium and we need to proof that we bought the phone from that store to get the warranty.
Just was a purchase from other in ebay. So i think that is not valid for any store, with an ipod iw as able to get warranty without that, that why i ask
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Just was a purchase from other in ebay. So i think that is not valid for any store, with an ipod iw as able to get warranty without that, that why i ask
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Rather replace it while you can, tell your brother to check for all possible defects, including the camera, gaps, heating etc..
Ok, but if he go to att store? (the phone is from att) they can change it? I dont want to go from a lot of process from ebay :/ it will be a lot of time.
And yes, my brother check and say that the phone is perfect. (and he like the camera more than his samsung haha) and he dont know that was a problem because he say that the photo are good, but i see that can get worse, thats why i want to replace it
I attach the photos. One is in night mode an dother normal mode, and the HTCwith the camera facing down. THe photos I see very good, but I fear a future problem
Hey guys i have never used xperia devices before . Coming from gnote 2 .
I am from india i have ordered my xperia z1 and got delivered yesterday at 11pm yesterday.
Today i have been to a mall lost that somewhere iam sure someone stole that. As the mall staff said that mine is 12th phone lost in just a week.
And i have activated android device manager and just in 20min after losing that my z1 is unavaliable via android device manager.
I have contacted sny customer care they said they can't trace the device via imei and iam sure the imei is 100% correct.
My question is could some change the imei number please help :'(
Nikhilmendu said:
Hey guys i have never used xperia devices before . Coming from gnote 2 .
I am from india i have ordered my xperia z1 and got delivered yesterday at 11pm yesterday.
Today i have been to a mall lost that somewhere iam sure someone stole that. As the mall staff said that mine is 12th phone lost in just a week.
And i have activated android device manager and just in 20min after losing that my z1 is unavaliable via android device manager.
I have contacted sny customer care they said they can't trace the device via imei and iam sure the imei is 100% correct.
My question is could some change the imei number please help :'(
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that can only be changed if motherboard is replaced.
Nikhilmendu said:
Hey guys i have never used xperia devices before . Coming from gnote 2 .
I am from india i have ordered my xperia z1 and got delivered yesterday at 11pm yesterday.
Today i have been to a mall lost that somewhere iam sure someone stole that. As the mall staff said that mine is 12th phone lost in just a week.
And i have activated android device manager and just in 20min after losing that my z1 is unavaliable via android device manager.
I have contacted sny customer care they said they can't trace the device via imei and iam sure the imei is 100% correct.
My question is could some change the imei number please help :'(
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Sorry to say bt yes now its pretty easy to change imei no... I dont know about sony phone bt my frnd using a stolen samsung phone and change its imei no with jelp of some samsung service centre member in just 600 rs....
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that can only be changed if motherboard is replaced.
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I have lost my imei while tweaking my note 2 . But this is my first sony device :'(
And my friend has also lost/ changed his imei number in sony xperia L
Nikhilmendu said:
I have lost my imei while tweaking my note 2 . But this is my first sony device :'(
And my friend has also lost/ changed his imei number in sony xperia L
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well i don't know about that...why would anyone want to change imei intentionally
file a FIR in police that's best you can do...or track if that SIM is used again
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well i don't know about that...why would anyone want to change imei intentionally
file a FIR in police that's best you can do...or track if that SIM is used again
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Filed an fir already and i have asked sony customer care and they said they can't track the phone via imei :crying:
I would keep trying Android Device Manager. it's location may pop up when they switch it on or something.
sorry for you - but 20 hours of pleasure.
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I would keep trying Android Device Manager. it's location may pop up when they switch it on or something.
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been trying but no luck theguy have factory resetted or flashed a new rom :crying:
Nikhilmendu said:
been trying but no luck theguy have factory resetted or flashed a new rom :crying:
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Ahh, I hope you find it, I hate it when you think you lose your phone then you can't feel it in your pocket and then your heart sinks but then you realize its in the other one lol, just losing a phone scares me
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Ahh, I hope you find it, I hate it when you think you lose your phone then you can't feel it in your pocket and then your heart sinks but then you realize its in the other one lol, just losing a phone scares me
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But that's not in my case some cunning professional theives are around in the mall
WTF mine is 12th phone lost in the same mall in less than a week.
Lost all hopes nothing left now :crying:
Sorry for your loss, maybe you can help others to be more careful.
Nikhilmendu said:
Today i have been to a mall lost that somewhere iam sure someone stole that. As the mall staff said that mine is 12th phone lost in just a week.
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Describe how you were carrying your phone, pants pocket (front or back?) or top shirt pocket ?
Did you take it out and place it on a table somewhere and found it disappeared or did it disappear by pick pocket.
Try to think hard about this, if the same gang operates there, go back and hang out at that mall, chances are the same characters will be there again. Were you in a crowd at any time, with people close to you. waiting in a line with people really close. These are the places these guys can strike.
Had read how somebody lost his phone, picked out of his top shirt pocket, whilst waiting for a food order to arrive. So there is a crowd of people with hands going up and over your shoulder, gentle pushing & shoving. This is a great way to pull a phone out especially if you happen to be under 5 foot 10. It just takes a tap on the opposite shoulder to distract and the crook has lifted your phone already
For this to work it matters where you are facing, if you are looking away from your top shirt or pant pocket then its easy otherwise it won't work. These guys know this and pick their marks carefully.
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Filed an fir already and i have asked sony customer care and they said they can't track the phone via imei :crying:
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They won't track it using the IMEI, but they can easily block the IMEI so it'll be a useless brick, and the thieves won't be able to use it on an Indian network (and possibly other foreign networks)
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They won't track it using the IMEI, but they can easily block the IMEI so it'll be a useless brick, and the thieves won't be able to use it on an Indian network (and possibly other foreign networks)
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Yeah i do know but the thing is even they are having trouble blocking imei too i have been at service center for more than 3 hours simply useless they tried a lot but useless
Meh! I miss the good old nokia days... Where whatever you do(flash new firmware, factory reset, reformat) the security code just persists and won't let you use the phone until you key it in.
One Twelve said:
Sorry for your loss, maybe you can help others to be more careful.
Describe how you were carrying your phone, pants pocket (front or back?) or top shirt pocket ?
Did you take it out and place it on a table somewhere and found it disappeared or did it disappear by pick pocket.
Try to think hard about this, if the same gang operates there, go back and hang out at that mall, chances are the same characters will be there again. Were you in a crowd at any time, with people close to you. waiting in a line with people really close. These are the places these guys can strike.
Had read how somebody lost his phone, picked out of his top shirt pocket, whilst waiting for a food order to arrive. So there is a crowd of people with hands going up and over your shoulder, gentle pushing & shoving. This is a great way to pull a phone out especially if you happen to be under 5 foot 10. It just takes a tap on the opposite shoulder to distract and the crook has lifted your phone already
For this to work it matters where you are facing, if you are looking away from your top shirt or pant pocket then its easy otherwise it won't work. These guys know this and pick their marks carefully.
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good questions, why is op ignoring this post...
plz help me
+Nikhilmendu how did your friend change his imei on his xperia L because I lost my imei on my Xperia l.Plz help nikhil
These apps, like android device manager etc are almost useless (useful only if the thief is a rookie) coz they will be desynced as soon as the email id is removed from mobile (via flash or any other way)
Regarding imei, try contacting all the network providers, i dont know if it will be easy task to do considering there are many providers plus you may need a strong source or reference to convince them, but when any mobile is connected to a network(and things like sms or call are sent from that mobile), its imei is sent to the database of the network to keep record...
hello,
I am looking to buy an Xperia Z1 from a guy and I want to know what are the differences between the fake and the original Z1.
How to know if it is not a fake ?
it is the 1st time I am going to get a sony Xperia Smartphone, is there any other thing that I should know ? concerning bootloader, etc ... (for example how to know if it is sim and bootloader unlocked or not) ? knowing that am gonna root and flash custom recovery.
thks
in my opinion you can tell by just touching it. I have never ever seen a fake z1, that aluminum is something that fakers don't want to spend on probably. Also, try dialing *#*#7378423#*#* it should bring up the service menu where you can see all the firmware and phone details as well as the option to test the sensors of the device. Also, IF YOU ARE BRAVE ENOUGH, bring a cup of water. Close all ports and SINK IT. should still work 100% after.
Never saw a Fake one and never heard about someone buy one as this kind of tech it cost to much to the fakers probably. So don't worry, the probability of buy fake Z1 are close to 0% but still the probability to buy a defective one. It will be good to test it in your hands first or if you buy on internet use Paypal and an Platform which work with them (eBay).
Hi Guys,
Its really frustrating and headache with ZR Bluetooth issues. I have posted the below on Sony official forum regarding the same issue.
I need your valuable advice. Please suggest asap, because Warrantee of my phone is lapsing in 10 Days.
Any Possible solution please:
Shall I try Custom rom?
Shall I give for again replacement?
Shall I downgrade Firmware?
Below is the stuff I posted on Sony Forum. It will give u clear idea.
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I got my Phone's motherboard replaced (God knows with a new one or old) due to the issue of Bluetooth and Wi-Fi wasn't working.
First of all, Sony Authorized Customer Centers in India are handled by so illiterate people. They don't know how to handle customer. I don’t know why they are always in hurry with listening properly to customer.
So when I asked for the issue with Wi-Fi and explained her that this can work if I put pressure under NFC it can work. She wasn't at all interested to listen and told Motherboard will be changed.
After 10 days they gave me a new set, I can clearly recognize it was a new out of the box.
So my Bluetooth worked for 10 mins and again its dead.. After two day it again worked 10 mins and again dead...
Wi-Fi is working fine....
So shall I again ask to replace it/motherboard replace/or fix or Whatever the **bleep** they want to do with it.
I feel its worldwide issue with this phone. How promising it will be that it will work even after going to them?
Sony Listen please:
Is it a s/w, driver, ROM issue?
If its S/W issue> release a statement that you can't solve the issue to your all customers and stop producing ZR units
Is it a H/w issue?
If its H/W issue> How WiFi and FM are working fine? Without a glitch?
Clear your thoughts in official statement.
For my phone warrantee is only 10 days to go and after this voila.
So please suggest shall I go with again one more replacement or the solution they will do. But I'm pretty much sure they don't know WHAT EXACTLY THE ISSUE is. Bunch of losers hired by Sony.
And Sony: Lesson learnt.
I will even go for Nokia 1100(if it comes back: P) instead of going any phone with you. I have been frustrated a lot from your junk of electronic piece.
If your authorized member can comment on this thread, a bit of hope to provide?
Thank You,
Urgent suggestions please.
Thank You,
S_Singh said:
Hi Guys,
Its really frustrating and headache with ZR Bluetooth issues. I have posted the below on Sony official forum regarding the same issue.
I need your valuable advice. Please suggest asap, because Warrantee of my phone is lapsing in 10 Days.
Any Possible solution please:
Shall I try Custom rom?
Shall I give for again replacement?
Shall I downgrade Firmware?
Below is the stuff I posted on Sony Forum. It will give u clear idea.
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I got my Phone's motherboard replaced (God knows with a new one or old) due to the issue of Bluetooth and Wi-Fi wasn't working.
First of all, Sony Authorized Customer Centers in India are handled by so illiterate people. They don't know how to handle customer. I don’t know why they are always in hurry with listening properly to customer.
So when I asked for the issue with Wi-Fi and explained her that this can work if I put pressure under NFC it can work. She wasn't at all interested to listen and told Motherboard will be changed.
After 10 days they gave me a new set, I can clearly recognize it was a new out of the box.
So my Bluetooth worked for 10 mins and again its dead.. After two day it again worked 10 mins and again dead...
Wi-Fi is working fine....
So shall I again ask to replace it/motherboard replace/or fix or Whatever the **bleep** they want to do with it.
I feel its worldwide issue with this phone. How promising it will be that it will work even after going to them?
Sony Listen please:
Is it a s/w, driver, ROM issue?
If its S/W issue> release a statement that you can't solve the issue to your all customers and stop producing ZR units
Is it a H/w issue?
If its H/W issue> How WiFi and FM are working fine? Without a glitch?
Clear your thoughts in official statement.
For my phone warrantee is only 10 days to go and after this voila.
So please suggest shall I go with again one more replacement or the solution they will do. But I'm pretty much sure they don't know WHAT EXACTLY THE ISSUE is. Bunch of losers hired by Sony.
And Sony: Lesson learnt.
I will even go for Nokia 1100(if it comes back: P) instead of going any phone with you. I have been frustrated a lot from your junk of electronic piece.
If your authorized member can comment on this thread, a bit of hope to provide?
Thank You,
Urgent suggestions please.
Thank You,
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I don't know whether this may sound new to you or not but Xperia ZR can not be repaired.... It can only be replaced with another Xperia ZR from the service center. If someone claims from the service center that they have changed the mother board of your phone then either they are lying or they haven't don **** to your phone. As this phone can only be opened in special environment. As once opened in normal environment, it loses the most important feature. It won't be waterproof anymore. I researched a lot before buying this phone. I have got my phone replaced already. And even my girl friend has this same phone. She also got it changed because of the same WiFi issue....
My suggestion to you would be, visit the service center away from your place. Do find the service center receipt from the last repairs as they may ask for records. Ask them to simply change it....
Relax bro. As I suspect, they didn't even open your phone and simply said they changed the mother board of your phone. This handset would be replaced with a new one.... Do write about your experience.... So that other people from India also get to know about it.... :good: :good: Wish you luck.... :good: :good: :good: :good:
Was living with the Bluetooth issue, postponing the resetting, which was reputed to solve it. 4 days back, got the wifi issue too. Factory reset did not help. Also noticed that sd card did not mount as mass storage device. Since the issue is almost a month after the 230 upgrade and the. 0.20 mb mystery upgrade, any chance that the issues are related to 230 firmware?
Have not yet triedmass storage mode after gactory reset,
Any body with wifi issues tried downgrading from 230? All my upgrades have been through OTA.
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MY Bluetooth dont work since a month... Been working on and off for 6 month...
Wifi had assox reject error for a few month but now its solved. Wifi works great, better reception than my xz1... Dunno wth is wrong with this phone, but bluetooth and wifi issue are unrelated.
Found the right spot to excite Wifi works now. Bluetooth is still dead.
Update -- looking inside the backcover, there is a ridge running inside. Thinking of making a washer like round to maintain the pressure on the g spot. Any ideas?
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