I've bought a used Galaxy Note N7000 from a private seller.
It works on one particular sim but when any other sim is put into it, it shows as if no sim is inserted in phone.
But the real surprise is that the IMEI number in the phone is different from the one on the sticker under the battery.
The IMEI number in the phone actually belongs to a Galaxy S3.
I'm unsure if both things are linked but can anyone help how I can rectify this.
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Hi everyone. So I recently got my Korean SKT GS3 stolen while at a wedding in India. I have friends here who know a person or two in the police, and is in a position to help me out and get my phone back for me. However, in order to do that I need the IMEI number. I didn't write down my IMEI number before I had it stolen, but I DO have the box that the phone came with. There are a lot of different numbers on the box, and I'm not sure which one the IMEI number is. I assumed it was 15 digit number on the box, but when I checked it with www.imei.info, it gave a completely different phone. There's another 15 character thing on the box, but I think that's the serial number because it starts with 12 SSBO 4G *******.
Can anyone confirm which number is the IMEI number? And by chance.. would anyone know if it's possible to track this Korean phone when it's in India?
Thanks in advance!
So I just got a new Nexus 6 to replace my other Nexus 6 (cracked screen).
I have a nano sim that worked without any issues for months in my original Nexus 6. It has an IMEI number ending in 858 and an IMEI SV of 10.
When I transfer the sim to the new Nexus 6, the phone recognizes that a SIM has been inserted and it reads an IMEI, but it will not recognize anything about the network. It gives me an IMEI number ending in 592 and has an IMEI SV of 0A.
My gut tells me that the SIM reader in the new phone is busted and this is just garbage it's reading. But it's fully repeatable, despite whatever cleaning/blowing/speed-of-insertion I have been trying to get it to work.
Question is: is it possible to have two similar phones read different IMEI numbers from the same identical SIM card?
My understanding is that the IMEI number is device specific and not related to the SIM card at all. I would expect that getting a new device would result in a different IMEI number.
I agree. It's the *device* that owns the IMEI, not the SIM.
Hello, i'm in trouble with an S5 g900a. The typical "phone not allowed mm#6" appeared one day, after almost 1 year I'd purchased it. By the way, i bought it unlocked, in a store located in Paraguay.
I've read many posts about this message that appeared, i went to my service provider (Claro Argentina) to ask for imei blacklisted, but they said it is clean. But there is something more i've found now, the imei that appears when i dial *#06# (this is the one my provider checked) is the same that is written by the label of the box, BUT... when i try to see my phone's imei through different software such as SamMobile app or EFS Professional with Qualcomm NV Tools, the imei informed is a different one (that belongs to a g900f model) and, what is more, this imei results to be blacklisted since the same day my phone became out of service.
- Why is my phone giving this 2 different imeis?
- How can i recover the original one?
Hope you can understant my English and give me any help or information on how to solve this.
Thanks in advance,
Maxi.
Hi guys, recently i bought a T-mobile galaxy s6 from craigslist, i checked the imei and it was clean nothing wrong with it at all.
The phone is completely stock not even rooted. But the thing is the imei number under the settings is different than the one underneath the glass cover in the back. Both imei numbers are clean. The phone is locked right now and i can't use it for my at&t number. I talked to T-mobile customer service and they said that the phone should be unlocked with the imei number on the back of the phone. But when i gave them the imei number from the settings they said that it is invalid and won't show up in their system or data. So, I called Samsung and they said they won't be able to do anything at all, i just have to call T-mobile, but T-mobile is telling me to call samsung, and its just going through a cycle a stupid one. Both are knows for bad customer satisfaction and it is true.
Please, anyone have any idea how to unlock the phone? or overwite the imei number to return it back to the original one! Both companies won't help as they don't know what to do. I am sick to the bones of being a customer for both. BTW the device unlock app thing by t-mobile did not help the issue. it says can't recognize the device
hammy88 said:
Hi guys, recently i bought a T-mobile galaxy s6 from craigslist, i checked the imei and it was clean nothing wrong with it at all.
The phone is completely stock not even rooted. But the thing is the imei number under the settings is different than the one underneath the glass cover in the back. Both imei numbers are clean. The phone is locked right now and i can't use it for my at&t number. I talked to T-mobile customer service and they said that the phone should be unlocked with the imei number on the back of the phone. But when i gave them the imei number from the settings they said that it is invalid and won't show up in their system or data. So, I called Samsung and they said they won't be able to do anything at all, i just have to call T-mobile, but T-mobile is telling me to call samsung, and its just going through a cycle a stupid one. Both are knows for bad customer satisfaction and it is true.
Please, anyone have any idea how to unlock the phone? or overwite the imei number to return it back to the original one! Both companies won't help as they don't know what to do. I am sick to the bones of being a customer for both. BTW the device unlock app thing by t-mobile did not help the issue. it says can't recognize the device
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There was a guy on here named Stilfilz i think was his name. Maybe ask him.
Possibly the IMEI tmobile cant find in their system can be a metropcs galaxy s6 IMEI which is also sm-g920T hardware.
good luck
tyrone1 said:
There was a guy on here named Stilfilz i think was his name. Maybe ask him.
Possibly the IMEI tmobile cant find in their system can be a metropcs galaxy s6 IMEI which is also sm-g920T hardware.
good luck
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yeah i was in touch with the guy last night, but sadly the flexihub did not work on my computer we tried many times but no luck i always get no internet connection even though the internet is working . Do you think if i flash a metropcs stock rom it would help unlocking it? i think the phone is refurbished thats why i have a different imei number.
when i looked up the imei under the settings, i checked online for the imei and it says for model number SM-G920F ? should i flash a stock rom for that model number or what
Quick update ....
So I flashed a galaxy s6 AT&T stock rom 6.0.1 and its working fine. No longer need the t-mobile device unlock app, but now i am to the point where it asks for the unlocking code.
Should I purchase an unlock code online using the imei number the one from the settings?
UPDATE:
Thanks to Stilfilz , i flashed the stock rom then rooted it, then Stilfilz got it unlocked. Took only 3 minutes. now it is working with an AT&T sim card with no issues.
Hi, i have the same problem with my galaxy S6 edge, the IMEI number under setting is different from the one in the back plate. if you have a way to fix this please please email me at [email protected]
Thank you.
Please help me with this issue, i tried to flash it with original ROM using Odin, but no success. Any input would be appreciated. Thank you
Hello everyone. So i bought a used Moto g6 3gb variant from market last night. So far good experience with the phone so far except one thing.
It was sold to me from dealer saying its a single sim variant but when i came back home it had 2 sims + card options in the tray so i've searched the IMEI on various sites and turns out its a XT1925-2 so it is indeed a dual sim variant.
But when i put *#06# on Dialer it just shows me 1 IMEI number instead of 2? How is this possible?
I could be mixing this up, but I thought the IMEI is based on the device and not the SIM, so a dual SIM device would still have just one IMEI?
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I could be mixing this up, but I thought the IMEI is based on the device and not the SIM, so a dual SIM device would still have just one IMEI?
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Dual-SIM devices are supposed to have two IMEIs. You can't have two SIMs on one IMEI. Avoids problems.
Anyone? Why my cellphone has 2 sim options when theres only 1 IMEI? Is this the work of gypsies? xDDD
Could be that the phone was originally single sim but then flashed with dual sim firmware and had the tray replaced with a dual sim tray. I'm actually waiting on my dual sim tray to do the same on my xperia xz2
SIM TRAY
You can find both imeis on SIM TRAY.
I bought Galaxy S9 plus with dual sim G965FD, and it has same identical imei numbers for both sim slots. I am confused how? Both sim cards are working fine.
I'm having the same issue on my moto g4 after flashing the stock rom usually whenever I flashed the stock rom earlier my imei's turned down to 0 but this time only one imei is showing and even in the settings I'm getting one sim please help
Not the same phone, but I owned two Xiaomi Redmi Note 3 (broke the first one after a month...). The first one had different IMEI for each slot. The 2nd one had the same IMEI for each slot. Despite the oddity, I have not run into any issue by using two SIMs in the last 3 years.
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Hello everyone. So i bought a used Moto g6 3gb variant from market last night. So far good experience with the phone so far except one thing.
It was sold to me from dealer saying its a single sim variant but when i came back home it had 2 sims + card options in the tray so i've searched the IMEI on various sites and turns out its a XT1925-2 so it is indeed a dual sim variant.
But when i put *#06# on Dialer it just shows me 1 IMEI number instead of 2? How is this possible?
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please send me imei in a private message. i know a way to find correct details through imei.
too late but maybe is not original phone but chainaillegal copy on mediatek
well after all, imei is more like just an identification of your device for the antennas, so there should be no problem it is as if you just swap your sim card every time you want to use one or the other number, so I dont think there should be any problem using a single IMEI