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[Q] IMEI Number got reset :-(

Hi,
I had a bricked G1 due to wrong radio update.
Got it restored from a repair shop using JTAG. Now when i am checking the IMEI number is showing all zero - 0000000000000
Due to this I am unable to connect to any mobile network. Can this be restored as I have the number on the Box which i received with the Mobile phone.
Will it again need opening the phone or I can do it myself ?
Regards,
Chinmay

After the JTAG Recovery, I was facing this problem, so I also tried flashing the radio and the factory rom but does not solve the issue.
chinmayfun said:
Hi,
I had a bricked G1 due to wrong radio update.
Got it restored from a repair shop using JTAG. Now when i am checking the IMEI number is showing all zero - 0000000000000
Due to this I am unable to connect to any mobile network. Can this be restored as I have the number on the Box which i received with the Mobile phone.
Will it again need opening the phone or I can do it myself ?
Regards,
Chinmay
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Does anyone have any solution ? Can JTAG solve this ?

Whoever did the work was a complete moron and wrote to parts of the flash that should NOT BE TOUCHED.
Technically, it is possible to repair.
Haven't heard of anybody with this exact problem before, so it is uncharted territory.

IMEI Number got Reset
Take it back to the guy who did the jtag unbricking.
He should be able to put your IMEI number back.
Please note a "How to change the IMEI" Faq could be used for ilegal purposes.
Hence it is against the forum rules to explain how to do this.

Hi Thanks for the solution.
I am not changing my IMEI number, just restoring the original one so this should not be illegal.
This post can be blocked if it is against the forum rules. I don`t intend to do anything illegal.
vladmaster99 said:
Take it back to the guy who did the jtag unbricking.
He should be able to put your IMEI number back.
Please note a "How to change the IMEI" Faq could be used for ilegal purposes.
Hence it is against the forum rules to explain how to do this.
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chinmayfun said:
Hi Thanks for the solution.
I am not changing my IMEI number, just restoring the original one so this should not be illegal.
This post can be blocked if it is against the forum rules. I don`t intend to do anything illegal.
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Like most knowledge, it can be used for good or evil. There would be no reason to close or delete this thread, since nobody here suggested doing anything evil and your question is totally reasonable. The main issue with being up the technical details about changing the IMEI would be that it could be used to ENABLE people to use it for evil purposes. That is why vlad mentioned about why there isn't and shouldn't be a set of instructions about it.

Got the IMEI number restored. Mobile Network is up now.
The guy who did the JTAGG Recovery mistakenly did IMEI repair is what he said.
Now its fine.

chinmayfun said:
Got the IMEI number restored. Mobile Network is up now.
The guy who did the JTAGG Recovery mistakenly did IMEI repair is what he said.
Now its fine.
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where to contact for restoration of imei no.
pls help

Imei repair
sorry to bump an old thread, i do imei repair and ONLY restore to original imei number.

[Q] IMEI is missing after being unlocked

Hi All,
I need Help/Advice
My brother bought his lad a Galaxy Ace S5830i from a second hand shop, it was on the wrong network so he took it to be unlocked
Now the device appears to have no IMEI number and a #06# simply returns a row of zeroes
I've done a but of research and i believe that the phone shop negelcted to backup/restore the /efs folder as its completely empty
I read somewhere on here that somebody was able to resolve the issue by restoring the factory firmware, we are yet to try this
Does anyone know how to create or edit the files that should be present
I WILL BE HAPPY TO SUMBIT A PHOTO OF THE IMEI THAT IS FOUND UNDER THE BATTERY as proof that its nothing dodgy
The unlock shop ( a backstreet affair) is not interested at all
Please Help or at least tell us to bin the b***dy thing!!
Thanks in advance

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1802024
This thread might help you. Good luck !
Lord Buddha was the first guy who rooted his soul & gained super user access to his mind What busy box version did he use ? Any idea guys ?! Coz it was ENLIGHTENING !!!

[Q] i9305 Schematic/PCB photos for jtag

Hello,
I managed to give some hard times to me, after flashing an i9305 that I bought from eBay. The phone was rooted, in full working order, and when I flashed it to revert to stock, I managed to check EFS CLEAR, without taking any EFS backup beforehand. My odyssey is well knows to many of you; imei null/null, baseband null, to cut a long story short, I have a Samsung Galaxy S3 lte player. It does all but recognizing sim cards and provisioning networks (fair enough as I don't have a valid imei!!!).
I have gon ethrough the whole SGS2 forum, all topics, all solutions; I even unscrewed my phone to see if I can JTAG it, and that's only because QPST and EFS Pro cannot connect to my phone. Octopus and Samsung Tool CAN connect, but I cannot write imei. I cannot upload nvm files (I have a second, stock, and a friend of mine has one rooted from where we extracted the nvm in order to flash it on mine and rewrite imei), so as I read on the i9300 relevant thread, the phone can be jtaged in order to start receiving Rx and Tx commands and be able to upload the nvms and rewrite the imei.
The thing is that nobody tried to jtag this phone, and if someone did, nobody posted the resistance that has to be short circuit. As I saw here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=28073021&postcount=5 it is possible for i9300. Is there some schematic for i9305 then, or someone knows which resistance I have to short?
Any help will be appreciated...

you can still connect through Odin or adb, connecting is not the issue. there's nothing to write, imei is not stored in plain text, it's encrypted, so you won't be able to restore it if you don't have a backup. send it to service

I have the same problem bat I have imei back up sent it to repair center and after 2 month have it back
told me replace motherboard pay 250 euro bikose the binary counter 6.
You fixed Patrida?

trifos said:
I have the same problem bat I have imei back up sent it to repair center and after 2 month have it back
told me replace motherboard pay 250 euro bikose the binary counter 6.
You fixed Patrida?
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Kalimera filaraki!
Unfortunately I was unable to fix it. Sotmax (member on both xda and myphone) offered to fix it. He could do it for a small cost but I would have to ship it from Thessaloniki to Kefalonia, and it was during the days that the ship workers were on strike. So it would delay a bit more, and I preferred to sell it. A guy over here (who then became friend and we exchange from time to time), bought it and fixed it in 10 minutes!!!!
He has schemas and JTAGs for most of the commercial phones, and I think that he had to open it and de/solder some pcb. It's not something difficult for him, but for you and me it's an issue!! The thing is that someone is now happy with the phone, and I am happy with my new gray 9305!
So if you need to fix it and you cannot find a workaround, you can always try talking to one of these 2 guys to have your work done! I know how much Sotmax is charging for the repair, and he says his job is guaranteed. you just have to be patient for 2 days to ship and 2 days to return (the fix takes no more than 30 minutes as he said). The other guy (his nickname is demernick at insomnia) didn't tell me how much he takes to fix, but it's much quicker as he only needs 1 day to ship from Florina to Thess, and another 1 day to return, so it's half time
There is also another one guy who writes in here. He says that he can do the job over the internet via teamviewer (you just have to follow his instructions and post the original IMEI from the box and phone under the battery), and he works with Octopus box ans Samsung Tool. If he manage to fix it, he charges you 10 euros via Paypal! He spent 2 days for me, so I donated that 10 euros to him for his work, even though he couldn't fix it... his website is cvxcvx.pl and I think his name in here has something to do with the website.
All 3 of them are trusted users. 2 of them are respected in here, and demernick is well established on insomnia!
If you need some extra help, feel free to contact me!

latousakis said:
Hello,
I managed to give some hard times to me, after flashing an i9305 that I bought from eBay. The phone was rooted, in full working order, and when I flashed it to revert to stock, I managed to check EFS CLEAR, without taking any EFS backup beforehand. My odyssey is well knows to many of you; imei null/null, baseband null, to cut a long story short, I have a Samsung Galaxy S3 lte player. It does all but recognizing sim cards and provisioning networks (fair enough as I don't have a valid imei!!!).
I have gon ethrough the whole SGS2 forum, all topics, all solutions; I even unscrewed my phone to see if I can JTAG it, and that's only because QPST and EFS Pro cannot connect to my phone. Octopus and Samsung Tool CAN connect, but I cannot write imei. I cannot upload nvm files (I have a second, stock, and a friend of mine has one rooted from where we extracted the nvm in order to flash it on mine and rewrite imei), so as I read on the i9300 relevant thread, the phone can be jtaged in order to start receiving Rx and Tx commands and be able to upload the nvms and rewrite the imei.
The thing is that nobody tried to jtag this phone, and if someone did, nobody posted the resistance that has to be short circuit. As I saw here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=28073021&postcount=5 it is possible for i9300. Is there some schematic for i9305 then, or someone knows which resistance I have to short?
Any help will be appreciated...
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Are you sure you ticked EFS clear? Could it be that you had Perseus kernel prior to installing stock? I had some similar problem and as a result my phone only works with Perseus kernel installed.
I would try installing Perseus kernel to see if the phone magically springs back to life.

Rekoil said:
Are you sure you ticked EFS clear? Could it be that you had Perseus kernel prior to installing stock? I had some similar problem and as a result my phone only works with Perseus kernel installed.
I would try installing Perseus kernel to see if the phone magically springs back to life.
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I was aware of Perseus, but that wasn't the issue. I DID tick the EFS Clear. After booting back to normal, the imei wasn null/null and the /efs folder was wiped out. it was en empty folder with just 1-2 files in it...

latousakis said:
I was aware of Perseus, but that wasn't the issue. I DID tick the EFS Clear. After booting back to normal, the imei wasn null/null and the /efs folder was wiped out. it was en empty folder with just 1-2 files in it...
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Thing is, the I9305 doesn't store IMEI in the EFS. Which is why I find this a little strange.

Rekoil said:
Thing is, the I9305 doesn't store IMEI in the EFS. Which is why I find this a little strange.
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Yes, but the other strange thing is that instead of having a bunch of files, there were only 2 files in the /efs folder!

latousakis said:
Yes, but the other strange thing is that instead of having a bunch of files, there were only 2 files in the /efs folder!
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So get yourself a donor EFS and substitute the MAC addresses for your own data, it's on the box isn't it?

Rekoil said:
So get yourself a donor EFS and substitute the MAC addresses for your own data, it's on the box isn't it?
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I think that that'w what he's done!

Changed imei

Is it possible to changed imei

I got a problem with my phone (G800F) my imei has changed. I don't know how but it did..are there any solutions to fix this ? I don't know what to do now.. now it will not connect to network

Think you flashed a rom with another CSC as original, or? Also think you do not have a EFS backup...

I didn't make a backup.. because I did not changed the rom .. that is why I don't understand why the imei has changed... If I put the imei on the website imei.info it says Nokia 6310.. I think I must wait for people to create a program to fix this .. or are there already solutions for this??

hi, i have exactly the same problem. Did noting and suddenly my imei has changed.
Afther hours of researce i havent found a working solution . Is there a way to change the imei back to the original one?
-Samsung S5 mini / G800F
Things done after the problem appears
- rooted
- installed cm13 beta
It would be nice if somebody can help me

mine too
bakkertjuh said:
I didn't make a backup.. because I did not changed the rom .. that is why I don't understand why the imei has changed... If I put the imei on the website imei.info it says Nokia 6310.. I think I must wait for people to create a program to fix this .. or are there already solutions for this??
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mine too
my mobile doesnot support the sim smg800f

Mine too!
Yeah, thats exactly the samething happening to me! What the hell is this? You guys remember if you also got a myserious call from ukraine around that time?
So this is a bug?!?

Well, ok. I don´t mind. I dont see how i can fix this and nobody is willing to help me. I´ll just buy a new s7.

Hi All,
Did any one actually get a fix for this issue as I have exactly the same problem, my SM-G800F IMEI now also shows as - IMEI 350695200123951-01 which is for a blacklisted NOKIA 6310. If anyone can supply an absolute beginners guide for me as to how I can get my original Imei back that would be fantastic.
I am just a user of an android phone and have zilch experience of tinkering with them.
I have seen reference to things like Odin and flashing firmware and am quite happy to give it a go myself and learn
I will post this on a few other threads that list the same issue as I am desperate to get this fixed now as is a waste of a perfectly good phone !!
Cheers.

[HELP] IMEI repaire

Dear all,
My moto x' IMEI got invalid after having a repair process. May I flash the raw valid imei to the device ?
You know I have my own valid IMEI number

If a repair shop messed it up, they should fix it.
You can try flashing your devices exact firmware... Same Android version and see if it fixes it.
Other than that, any talk of manually manipulating your imei is mostly illegal and definitely not discussed on XDA. ?

ibigbug said:
Dear all,
My moto x' IMEI got invalid after having a repair process. May I flash the raw valid imei to the device ?
You know I have my own valid IMEI number
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No hardware "repair" will just result in you to loose your IMEI it would have screwed up more! And if its a result of a software "repair" it is almost cuz of mismatched partitions, so flashing the whole firmware for your device should help to correct the issue!! If the repair guy has the "tools/power" to mess up your IMEI he should definitely have the ability to restore it back... Other than that changing IMEIs is ILLEGAL is almost ALL COUNTRIES and against XDA Rules!

Darth said:
If a repair shop messed it up, they should fix it.
You can try flashing your devices exact firmware... Same Android version and see if it fixes it.
Other than that, any talk of manually manipulating your imei is mostly illegal and definitely not discussed on XDA. ?
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He just replaced my logic board I think

Gundabolu SC said:
No hardware "repair" will just result in you to loose your IMEI it would have screwed up more! And if its a result of a software "repair" it is almost cuz of mismatched partitions, so flashing the whole firmware for your device should help to correct the issue!! If the repair guy has the "tools/power" to mess up your IMEI he should definitely have the ability to restore it back... Other than that changing IMEIs is ILLEGAL is almost ALL COUNTRIES and against XDA Rules!
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The guy replaced my mother board, in fact I don't where the new board comes from.
Any way my phone worked but IMEI lost

ibigbug said:
The guy replaced my mother board, in fact I don't where the new board comes from.
Any way my phone worked but IMEI lost
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IMEI is generic to the Mother board it is pre programmed into it... So if you have lost the IMEI that means the repair guy gave you a faulty motherboard... You should catch hold of him... U dont have signal right?

Gundabolu SC said:
IMEI is generic to the Mother board it is pre programmed into it... So if you have lost the IMEI that means the repair guy gave you a faulty motherboard... You should catch hold of him... U dont have signal right?
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As I know, nv550 stores the IMEI info, but it is read only now. Anyone knows how to write it again ?

ibigbug said:
As I know, nv550 stores the IMEI info, but it is read only now. Anyone knows how to write it again ?
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Nope there is NO way... Sorry...

ibigbug said:
As I know, nv550 stores the IMEI info, but it is read only now. Anyone knows how to write it again ?
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The xt925 was the last moto you could mod the imei on.