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bought my diamond second hand off some guy 2 months ago..

and today when I was looking into unlocking my phone, I noticed that the system IMEI is different from the IMEI label on the back of the phone.
I am using a deep shining ROM. did the ROM flash over the IMEI or was my phone just messed up to begin with?
also is there a soft method of finding out whether or not my phone is already unlocked?

Sorry to say but that guy messed your over by changing the IMEI. Flashing a rom doesn't do anything to IMEI, special tools and software CAN change it, and that is what this guy did. You can't do anything to change that, as changing IMEI is downright illegal and you dont want to get caught up in that.
As for finding out if its unlocked, take another companies SIM CARD, ie if you are with ATT, go and get a Rogers, or whoever else uses a SIM CARD, and find out if it will work in the phone.

so, it is quite possible that this phone is stolen? damn... what are the potential consequences of that? if he switched the original IMEI to the current one that I have, what if someone legitamately uses the imei on the same network, am I going to be screwed?

SUBLIMINALLYINC said:
so, it is quite possible that this phone is stolen? damn... what are the potential consequences of that? if he switched the original IMEI to the current one that I have, what if someone legitamately uses the imei on the same network, am I going to be screwed?
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No you will not get screwed. {Unless you really want to; then I'm sure we can arrange for it}
IMEI {International Mobile Electronics Identification} Numbers are uniqe to every phone, but the network does not {& I believe Cannot} read the IMEI. ESNs {Electronic Serial Numbers} are a different thing, as the CDMA networks use this # to Identify the devices network authenticity {in other words: Whether or not it's authorized to use the network}. GSM {Global SIM Management} Phones rely on the SIM card to authenticate the devices access to the network. An IMEI is never sent thru the network! That's like posting your social security # online {Mine's 420-69-840} About the only time that a false IMEI is a problem, is when you need to get it unlocked {as you are trying to}; or if you need to report it stolen/lost. If the latter is the case then you will need to provide the authorities with both IMEIs. This is in case the person that has it removes the label in the back. For unlocking the device, you need to give the # that's in the software; as this is the only # the phone knows. Oh yeah, You can't send it in to get HTC warranty service either
Have you tried asking the person you bought it from about this? I would!! I would want to know why he did it, how he did it, & where the other # came from. It is a possibility that he had replaced the Mainboard with another unit, but he should have changed the labels at the same time. I have done this with a few phones {combine a couple bad ones to make a good one}, but I always ensure the IMEI or ESN matches on the back & in the software! If you believe you were defrauded, then contact the authorities & explain it to them. If there is another phone with the same IMEI, they should be able to tell you.

It might either be that he changed the main board or the cover itself.. (hopefully he did not steal it..)
I wouldnt worry too much about it though. Just go with the IMEI that is displayed on your screen not on the back of the phone.

well i tried to get an unlock code by using the IMEI read off the system page on my diamond and the guy couldnt get aan unlock code; is there anyother way to get the correct code>?

SUBLIMINALLYINC said:
so, it is quite possible that this phone is stolen? damn... what are the potential consequences of that? if he switched the original IMEI to the current one that I have, what if someone legitamately uses the imei on the same network, am I going to be screwed?
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Hi,
Maybe it is or it isn't (but it is possible). It depends on which country that person bought this phone and maybe he used warranty service. I had this issue myself.After 2 month My Diamond didn't recognize my simcard, i sent it for warranty and when it came back GPS didn't work. so i sent it again , when i received it, at repair center they said that they replace mainboard, so imei changes and i received written document that they replaced mainboard (my back panel imei and the imei that phone shows are different now).
for checking it , Goto this site : http://www.numberingplans.com/?page=analysis&sub=imeinr
enter both imei and check them, if both are for diamond i think your mainboard is changed before, but if the imei that phone shows is belong to another handset (for Ex : a nokia one or another htc model) i can say 99% percent your phone is stolen.

i'd probably bet he's bought an "original" housing from auction site. i've done it many of times but i usually rip the imei sticker off, bear in mind the imei on the diamond is only on a metal plate, he may have forgot to change this part, he may have damaged his old imei sticker/plate, as stated above he may have changed his main board also, there is many possibilities.
don't worry about it, if your still a bit worried try the CheckMEND online service here:
http://www.checkmend.com/uk/
It costs £1.99 per go, (which you'd want to do both imei's) but you get a certificate telling you wahts dodgy or not about your phone.
it a great service if you feel a little worried.

My Note just got stolen, help login out of everything.

I just got my Note stolen a few hours ago, I am so pissed right now, but hey what can I do... I live in Nicaragua, so no warranty and no police claim will get it back for me...
Tomorrow I will call my carrier and see if I can block my phone through IMEI number so the son of a **** that stole it cannot use it...
I never kept my gps enabled unless I was using it so no tracking software will be able to track my phone, I already blocked my number with my carrier so I guess there is not much I can do to track it, but I would like to sign out of everything on my phone, and I was just wondering if I changed passwords on every service installed on my phone would the theif still be able to login if I had checked the "remember me" or "stayed logged in" options?
Thanks,

Chaosin1983 said:
I just got my Note stolen a few hours ago, I am so pissed right now, but hey what can I do... I live in Nicaragua, so no warranty and no police claim will get it back for me...
Tomorrow I will call my carrier and see if I can block my phone through IMEI number so the son of a **** that stole it cannot use it...
I never kept my gps enabled unless I was using it so no tracking software will be able to track my phone, I already blocked my number with my carrier so I guess there is not much I can do to track it, but I would like to sign out of everything on my phone, and I was just wondering if I changed passwords on every service installed on my phone would the theif still be able to login if I had checked the "remember me" or "stayed logged in" options?
Thanks,
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Try to install plan b from the market. You can install it remotely from Google play using a web browser and should be able to get the GPS coordinates of your phone providing the thief has not removed your Google account. Do it asap to increase your chances.

+1 Good idea, However The phone will need to have internet access to receive the remote download.
Dont suppose you had Lookout installed ?? On my device it is un-installable, and i can remotely turn GPS on / off, Track the phone, Wipe everything, Lock the device, and even make the phone scream !! (useful for when you are tracking and a close enough to hear it)
I hope you get it back !!

Changing the password won't let the thief use any of the services you have logged into. The app should request him for the new password. Do it ASAP!
I feel for you man! Had my iPod touch, Optimus 2X and Galaxy SII stolen!
Sent from my GT-N7000 using XDA

first of all sorry you, that's one of the worst things that can happen to a phone.
if you think the theft is using your phone only with a different simcard you have the following options:
- try planb (as already mentioned above) to locate your phone.
- if you have a google account on the phone, try android lost that will gain you the full control over the phone including locating it, taking photos of the cameras and wiping the complete data of the device out. its a really great tool .
- if you have a Samsung account on your phone, try the samsung dive website with this you can also do things like locating or wiping data view call logs and so on.
if all the above fail you should change the passwords of all your accounts used on the phone, especially the email accounts. also try to contact your provider, really few of them provide a location service based on the imei number of the device. and also some of them offer the service to put the device's imei number to a ban list so the phone is useless at all because it cant login in to the gsm network.
*EDIT*: go to the police and let them give you a document that the phone is stolen, and the imei and serial numbers. give this document to samsung and they will put the device to a blacklist, so the device wont get service/support/repair anymore.
i hope some of this become useful to you

Best thing would be to:
1- Track it (with the app said above) or with Samsung Dive!
2- Find the perp
3- Beat him with a cow bone
4- Retrieve the phone
5- Send it to me for inspection

Hi guys, thanks for your help, I installed Plan B a few hours after the OP, but still no email...I would gladly beat the crap out of the theif, but I fear I won't see my note again, I have already ordered another one, this time I will install every tracking anti theft app available...
Anyhow, after this, I installed Lookout on my Girlfriends Note, and tried out the tracking, the tracking is not that accurate, it positions the phone within a 2 Km radius...any other app that would be more accurate?
Thanks,

Im using avast and i have to say its working well, it has a ton of features, you can make mobile data persistent with a single text making tracking that bit more accurate
combine it with the screaming feature of lookout and you should be able to hear it if you are close enough.

Try samsung dive
http://www.samsungdive.com

Lol samsung dive will dissapear when factory reset
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Little late for the original poster but Cerberus is a nice app too. I got in on a free promotion. I have it activated and don't even think about till I get an email saying that I changed my sim. You can remotely hide the app, wipe phone/sdcard have a login screen pop up appear, record video and or audio and map in real time.
Even though I think tracking your kids is creepy, I can see how some parents would love to install it on their kid's phone.

Thanks again for all the info, I will try all these once my new phone gets here.
I have a question though, all of these tracking apps need data connection on the cel phone's side...correct? What if the theif turns off data connection? Is there one that works with only GPS?

Well in avast, you can remotely activate data network even if the thief switches it off, It also has stealth mode where it hides all traces of being installed.
If you are rooted it can even withstand a factory reset.

Chaosin1983 said:
Thanks again for all the info, I will try all these once my new phone gets here.
I have a question though, all of these tracking apps need data connection on the cel phone's side...correct? What if the theif turns off data connection? Is there one that works with only GPS?
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GPS also needs data connectivity.

ravi_buz said:
GPS also needs data connectivity.
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I've used GPS trakcing with data off before ...it will track you even if the map does not render...afterwards when you get connectivity the map will be displayed along with your tracking info.

GPS don't requires data connection thogh, tracking won't work without data connection.
GPS fix the position without data connection, but for tracking you need to pass that information to server, which needs data connection.

can i unblock a samsung galaxy note ?
hey everyone !
so i got scammed in ebay and i got a samsung galaxy note n7000. the guy said it worked perfectly and stuff...buuut no !! when i got the phone it wont read any sim card so i just figured it was from the sim card reader. when i took it to my retailer they told me the phone was stolen/lost and the original owner kinda blocked it so no one can use it. i have access to the phone and everything except that it wont read my sim card. i contacted the guy i got from on ebay and filed a claim and everything but i know these things can take FOREVER before i can get my money back. the guy i got it from told me he bought on ebay too in november 2012. i dont wanna sell the phone again on ebay and scam more people i tried looking for the original owner so we can figure out a deal but i couldnt.
is there anyway i can fix this phone ?!! or can i contact the samsung store maybe and they can find the original owner ?!! please help...anyone ?!!!

Strange. Post could be chameleon or possibly victim of stolen phone.
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salmavic said:
hey everyone !
so i got scammed in ebay and i got a samsung galaxy note n7000. the guy said it worked perfectly and stuff...buuut no !! when i got the phone it wont read any sim card so i just figured it was from the sim card reader. when i took it to my retailer they told me the phone was stolen/lost and the original owner kinda blocked it so no one can use it. i have access to the phone and everything except that it wont read my sim card. i contacted the guy i got from on ebay and filed a claim and everything but i know these things can take FOREVER before i can get my money back. the guy i got it from told me he bought on ebay too in november 2012. i dont wanna sell the phone again on ebay and scam more people i tried looking for the original owner so we can figure out a deal but i couldnt.
is there anyway i can fix this phone ?!! or can i contact the samsung store maybe and they can find the original owner ?!! please help...anyone ?!!!
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maybe, but how do I know you didnt steal it yourself/know you bought a stolen phone?

Salmavic please return that phone to chaosin! Lol jk
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[Q] Nexus 6 Verizon Network problem

I've had a T-mobile Nexus 6 on Verizon network since Thanksgiving. I've had no problems at all UNTIL today. Woke up and my network symbol has an exclamation point next to it and when I try and make calls it sends me to Verizon's customer account services. Also, a dropdown bar with the words "sign into network" appear. After clicking on it it sends me to the Verizon's broadband page.
Anybody else have this problem and no what to do? Wanna run this by before I call and navigate customer service.
Edit: My account is fully paid and up to date

Try reinserting the sim card and reboot with WiFi off. Otherwise you might need a new activated nano sim.
Its weird that it'd suddenly become deactivated though. That would suggest they cut you off intentionally.

mordrukk said:
Try reinserting the sim card and reboot with WiFi off. Otherwise you might need a new activated nano sim.
Its weird that it'd suddenly become deactivated though. That would suggest they cut you off intentionally.
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Yeeup. I've tried a factory reset and exchanging the sim. I put my wife's micro sim in and it deactivated her whole account. Verizon did this on purpose and I'm not happy. I've been using this phone for 3 months with NO problems

So any sim inserted to your N6 has the associated account deactivated? What did Verizon support say when you called them?

mordrukk said:
So any sim inserted to your N6 has the associated account deactivated? What did Verizon support say when you called them?
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Okay, so I called Verizon and the tech could not get my phone activated. She said the phone number on that account wasn't working. While this was going on I randomly checked my EMEI number on Swappa and my phone was just reported Stolen/blacklisted! Although I bought on CL unopened in box with triple-checked clean ESN. I've used it for almost 3 months with no issues and a clean ESN. I even registered it through Motorola's website. I am beside myself. I didn't say anything to the tech because she was determined to get it working and I didn't want to be like "oh hey, yeah by the way I just realized this phone is reported stolen".
Well, it is still not working and tech pretty much gave up. So I'm gonna go down to Verizon and see if there is another workaround. I don't know if this is the reason it isn't working, but all evidence says so.
Anybody have any ideas on if this phone can be used again? Am I screwed?

That's sucks how that can happen. I to bought my nexus from someone and I sure hope he doesn't do the same thing. They should see one you activate it and use it for a period of time. Then all of a sudden reported stolen, that is a scam.
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Haha! Figured it out.... Finally got to a tech who knew what was up. I'm on a family plan and unbeknownst to me my inlaw had an ipad stolen and reported it to Verizon, which in turn deactivated and reported device stolen. BUT, instead of reporting just the ipad, they reported the phone too. Doesn't make a whole lot of sense. But the tech fixed it.
I told him it up front it wasn't a verizon "branded" device, that I cut my micro sim card down to fit it and he said no problem he would get it working....AND he did.

Similar issue
I'm having exactly the same symptoms as you mentioned, but on Swappa my IMEI comes up clean. I've talked with Google, Motorola (source for my N6), and Verizon. This happened right after a *611 call related to a billing issue. The sim in the phone is a microsim cut from my S3. Worked for about a month, then boom. Finally talked to someone last night that "fixed" my issue, but it's flaky and temporary at best. The tech support person activated my phone as my old S3 somehow, but it does seem to work. One of the other Verizon techs put in a service request to add my IMEI to the Verizon database, but it was denied because of differences between the firmware/software on the Verizon N6's making mine "not safe" to be on their network. I'm looking for a long term solution. Every time I jump off WiFi I get the aforementioned network exclamation point and then it comes back. I'm wondering if the phone had Verizon's firmware version if they'd activate it? I think my IMEI is blacklisted?
I didn't want to start a new thread since this is similar.
Hoping I didn't break any other rules. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Note 9 (India) Stolen

Someone took the Note 9 away from my pocket.
I had logged in to my samsung account to trace it.
It was showing not in network for some days now it totally disappeared from samsung findmymobile site.
How can I find/get it back?

FRP Lock
Sorry that you might not be able to get it back, someone intentionally theft the phone. However, you can file a police report and your SIM card carrier to block the IMEI number of the phone, so that it can't be used on other networks.
But before that, make sure your data won't be in the hands of wrong person. Login to your Samsung account and lock the device, which does the FRP lock and there won't be a way thief would access your data.
On a side note, I found the advantage of galaxy watch (or gear S3) which has find my phone option. Immediately after you lost the phone you can activate find my phone in watch and the phone will start ringing loud.

What are the chances to get it back after police complaint
Can someone change IMEI of phone?
Can the phone be tracked if someone starts using it?

technointellects said:
What are the chances to get it back after police complaint
Can someone change IMEI of phone?
Can the phone be tracked if someone starts using it?
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it only can be traced if your accounts are active i.e Samsung account and Gmail account, but please note the data connection also needs to be enabled!
Did you have a passcode or pin or iris or fingerprint enabled ? Also did you have network lock enabled ?
if you had no lock enabled and the phone has gone off the network that means the thief has factory reset your phone, and he using his owm email account that’s why you cannot track it!
So it's gone for ever!

So what about IMEI tracking? Wouldn't it be of any help?
I had heard that even after factory reset if the theif inserts a new SIM card he can be traced by IMEI number.
What are the chances?

technointellects said:
So what about IMEI tracking? Wouldn't it be of any help?
I had heard that even after factory reset if the theif inserts a new SIM card he can be traced by IMEI number.
What are the chances?
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Cops can do that, track an imei using the carrier but we as common people don't have access.
I feel like you should treat it as gone unless you are unable to use find my phone,
The cops might be able to get your phone back using the imei if you registered a complaint but it takes a while.
I remember my phone (note 3 unlocked snapdragon) got stolen in a Mumbai local train on 12/26/16 & I registered a complaint and got a new phone (Zuk z2 plus) on 1/28/17.
The number of days I lived without the phone were the days I tried my best to use find my phone or track the phone in any way but it was switched off whenever I tried to track it.
The cops got the phone and returned it to me on 12/17 [i don't remember the exact date but it was after 20th], I was using note 7 ported rom before the theft but when I received it, it had the stock note 3 rom which means they flashed it with Odin since the kernel was back to stock as well.
I used the phone as a remote for the television since it had an IR blaster and now on 11/06/19 it died the display doesn't turn on [probably hardware failure but don't care anymore ]
I switched from Zuk z2 to note 9 [128 Exynos] on June 8th & have changed the country too :silly:
My point is they may never even turn it on without flashing it & the moment they get your phone, 10 mins in & it is probably switched off and your sim is out.
Hope you find your phone :fingers-crossed: but don't count on it for too long

Lost Galaxy Note 9 Japan Docomo OS. Is there a way to track the phone by IMEI number?

Hi There,
I have lost my Galaxy Note9 Docomo SC-01L in Taxi in Japan.
Usually the Lost phones are recovered by Police and carrier within 2 to 3 days.
However, my phone is missing for a week now and no sign of Switch On. (Find my phone shows the phone is switched off)
I have temporarily terminated my Sim card services. I am considering to activate the sim services just in case someone may charge the battery and switch on the phone so that, I can send messages to handover the phone or to get access to its live location.
My Phone has strong 6 digit pin and finger & face recognition security for unlocking the screen.
My question is, in case the phone is in custody of bad person,
1. would it be possible to to flash the phone with new IMEI number.
2. would it be possible for a bad person to access my personal and bank account / electronic(NFC) payment information?
3. What precautions I should Consider to secure the data and any remote assistance to actually locate the phone encase the sim card is changed.
4. Can I track the phone only from IMEI number if bad person crack the phone and use with wifi or changed sim card?
Thanks you very much for your help in advance for being able to recover my phone.

Hey there! Sorry to hear that. I have also got my stolen some weeks ago and it's surely the worst feeling.
Have you found your phone?
Here are the brief answers for your questions:
1.Yes. With the right tool and knowledge, unfortunately, IMEI can be changed. But it is illegal in most of the countries and difficult to do. Only pretty tech people/thieves have knowledge about such things.
2. If you haven't rooted your phone, bootloader is locked and phone is password locked, no one can access your data.
3. For lost phone, I don't think you can do anything remotely unless Find My Phone is connected. For future precautions, you can make use of Cerberus apps (I'm not associated with this app). What you can only do is put IMEI into track with the help of cops (you gotta plead them).
4. If the person connects to wifi only and doesn't enter SIM card, you can't track the phone with IMEI. Only if he inserts SIM card, old IMEI is not changed (which is quite unlikely) and IMEI is on track, cops can find your phone (if they want to).
Do acknowledge my post and please tell any other potential method you know which is helpful in finding lost phone. Have a great day