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[Q] HELP!! My Phone got some problems

the IMEI is changed but i don't know why!
the original IMEI is 35175xxxxxxxxxx but now 004900xxxxxx0000.
WHO can tell me [email protected]@
now i can't download the Apps successfully from Android Market.
when i click the apps, they will just present "start downloading..."
yet, it won't install the apps.
i just back home from samsung customer service centre.
the staff told me that i was changed the software of the main board of the phone.
if i wanna fix the phone, i need to pay (2000 hong kong dollars ~ 255 US dollars) to change the main board and to wait more than one month.
WHO can really help me!!!
I don't want to pay.so expensive!!
Can I fix the problem??
i need your hands!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Did you install Froyo?

Nothing you can do. However, if you only ever used kies for updates, they shouldn't be able to do that. But your phone is under warranty, so the charge is a bit funny (there might be a charge, but it shouldn't cost THAT much)

He most likely installed froyo beta, do a search as theres a few threads and fixes for it.

AllGamer said:
Did you install Froyo?
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no!
I haven't install Froyo

andrewluecke said:
Nothing you can do. However, if you only ever used kies for updates, they shouldn't be able to do that. But your phone is under warranty, so the charge is a bit funny (there might be a charge, but it shouldn't cost THAT much)
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IMEI is changed so the warranty will cancel automatically.

The only time i've seen when people got their IMEI switched is when they installed the leaked ROMs from Korea
if you didn't do it, then some body else did, or your got might have been swapped when you didn't noticed or something along the line
the IMEI doesn't change on its own, there is no download able android market software that can do that, as it's againts the law to begin with, and 2 it voids the warranty, and 3 you can be charged of criminal theft for cloning somebody else IMEI etc, etc
so yeah, thes no way that was done via download able software
it had to be plugged in to a computer usin Odin or something along the line, or maybe Jtagged to be able to change that sort of thing
Did you buy the phone from some body else?

[Q] What happened !?!? HELP ME!

Hi all,
I'm a complete noob from blackberry.
Got a i9305 last nite, before I left the store it was tested and all and all looked good. Came home and charged the phone and now it won't detect my sim card. Took it back to the store and they won't honor the warranty because they said the phone was jailbreaked. All i did was used the wifi to download some legit apps and plugged it into my mac air to do some file transfer using 'Android Transfer'. The phone cannot even detect IMEI.
I didn't do any jailbreak activities on the phone (at least to my knowledge), so i have no idea why the phone is like this.
Q:
what happened?
What to do now?
What to do to avoid similiar incidents? (Should I backup my 'OS' ? how? -0 knowledge with Android)
Appreciate all your advise.

If you didn't do anything to your phone. Go to setting and in back and reset, restore it to factory which will erase all that was installed.
We don't jailbreak our devices only root and flash custom roms
Or they sold you a bad device and aren't helping you.
Sent from my GT-I9305 using xda premium

Sounds to me like you were sold a bad device. Unless you're omitting something, but you have no reason to do that on the internet so I reckon you were sold a bad device.

QLau said:
Hi all,
I'm a complete noob from blackberry.
Got a i9305 last nite, before I left the store it was tested and all and all looked good. Came home and charged the phone and now it won't detect my sim card. Took it back to the store and they won't honor the warranty because they said the phone was jailbreaked. All i did was used the wifi to download some legit apps and plugged it into my mac air to do some file transfer using 'Android Transfer'. The phone cannot even detect IMEI.
I didn't do any jailbreak activities on the phone (at least to my knowledge), so i have no idea why the phone is like this.
Q:
what happened?
What to do now?
What to do to avoid similiar incidents? (Should I backup my 'OS' ? how? -0 knowledge with Android)
Appreciate all your advise.
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No IMEI you have either been sold a damaged phone or you have flashed stuff on it .
Highly unlikely for a hardware failure a few hours after phone is tested . Why test is it a refurb / used item ???
Return the item to the vendor and ask what has broken the warranty and to show you proof of such .
No / wrong IMEI phone will not work as a phone .
Whyare you are asking to backup a phone in other posts that is faulty ???
jje

When I first got my phone and wanted to set in the sim it didnt go well cuz I didnt push it till it clicked. So just to be sure, look if you've put it right.

QLau said:
Hi all,
I'm a complete noob from blackberry.
Got a i9305 last nite, before I left the store it was tested and all and all looked good. Came home and charged the phone and now it won't detect my sim card. Took it back to the store and they won't honor the warranty because they said the phone was jailbreaked. All i did was used the wifi to download some legit apps and plugged it into my mac air to do some file transfer using 'Android Transfer'. The phone cannot even detect IMEI.
I didn't do any jailbreak activities on the phone (at least to my knowledge), so i have no idea why the phone is like this.
Q:
what happened?
What to do now?
What to do to avoid similiar incidents? (Should I backup my 'OS' ? how? -0 knowledge with Android)
Appreciate all your advise.
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Maybe you want to verify with the store what they mean by jailbreak? Sim unlocked? Rooted?
Was it a store selling 2nd hand phones? If so, it's quite hard to have any form of warranty. I'm sure there are ways about this once the experts in this forum know more about the nature of your problem.
It's quite hard for them to look into this post though, cos the title doesn't seem to help describe the nature of your problem. You could have used a title like "no IMEI detected" or something like that.

mr.megi said:
When I first got my phone and wanted to set in the sim it didnt go well cuz I didnt push it till it clicked. So just to be sure, look if you've put it right.
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has no effect on imei

Rooted phone won't connect allow phone calls or texts.

Hi,
I recently rooted my phone so that I can utilise it with a new Appradio2. It was running fine until yesterday when phone calls and texts stopped working all together, though data still works fine.
The phone occasionally pops up with an 'MM #6' error which appears to be caused then the phone IMEI has been locked out. I have been in contact with my phone provider (Giff-Gaff) and they have stated the phone isn't locked out.
My phone details are:
* Model no: C6603
* Android Version 4.1.2
* Baseband version 9x15A-ACEFWMAZQ-30110017-11
* Kernel version 3.4.0-g298631f-02021-gc1b7814
* Build number 10.1.A.1.434
The rooted apps I have been playing with are GMG Gesture, Greenify and Pimp My Rom.
I believe I was playing with Pimp My Rom before the issues were caused but I cannot remember what I changed. I also backed the phone up with Titanium Backup before the problem started and restored that backup yet it has not rectified the problem.
My last restort, unless anyone knows how I could resolve this is to return it to it's pre-rooted state and start again.
Any help would be grately appreciated.
Dave

drandall said:
Hi,
I recently rooted my phone so that I can utilise it with a new Appradio2. It was running fine until yesterday when phone calls and texts stopped working all together, though data still works fine.
The phone occasionally pops up with an 'MM #6' error which appears to be caused then the phone IMEI has been locked out. I have been in contact with my phone provider (Giff-Gaff) and they have stated the phone isn't locked out.
My phone details are:
* Model no: C6603
* Android Version 4.1.2
* Baseband version 9x15A-ACEFWMAZQ-30110017-11
* Kernel version 3.4.0-g298631f-02021-gc1b7814
* Build number 10.1.A.1.434
The rooted apps I have been playing with are GMG Gesture, Greenify and Pimp My Rom.
I believe I was playing with Pimp My Rom before the issues were caused but I cannot remember what I changed. I also backed the phone up with Titanium Backup before the problem started and restored that backup yet it has not rectified the problem.
My last restort, unless anyone knows how I could resolve this is to return it to it's pre-rooted state and start again.
Any help would be grately appreciated.
Dave
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where did you buy the phone? if you buy it from a shady dealer they might have report it stolen and tell your celluar service to block the IMEI...I know this happen alot on GS3 forums or check to see if your IMEI has been deleted off your phone, flashing sometime does this too, again this is on GS3

G1_enthusiast said:
where did you buy the phone? if you buy it from a shady dealer they might have report it stolen and tell your celluar service to block the IMEI...I know this happen alot on GS3 forums or check to see if your IMEI has been deleted off your phone, flashing sometime does this too, again this is on GS3
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I bought it direct from Amazon so I doubt that is the problem. Additionally I asked my Phone Network Providor and they said they can't see a problem with the IMEI.
Thanks for the reply.

drandall said:
I bought it direct from Amazon so I doubt that is the problem. Additionally I asked my Phone Network Providor and they said they can't see a problem with the IMEI.
Thanks for the reply.
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did you check to see if IMEI show up oin the device?

G1_enthusiast said:
did you check to see if IMEI show up oin the device?
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Yes I typed in *#06# on my phone and checked my IMEI number appeared fine. I then sent that to GiffGaff (my mobile network provider) asking whether it had been blocked and they said it hadn't.

drandall said:
Yes I typed in *#06# on my phone and checked my IMEI number appeared fine. I then sent that to GiffGaff (my mobile network provider) asking whether it had been blocked and they said it hadn't.
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hmmm i'm not sure, you might wanna do a wipe and try returning it for another one.

G1_enthusiast said:
hmmm i'm not sure, you might wanna do a wipe and try returning it for another one.
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I'll try un-rooting it and see if that resolves the problem. If it doesn't then I'll return it to the supplier and get a replacement. That won't be such a bad thing as I have a little scratch on the screen anyway.
Thanks for the help
Dave

Just refresh Rom. That should solve your problem
[email protected] from XDA premium

drandall said:
I believe I was playing with Pimp My Rom before the issues were caused but I cannot remember what I changed.
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Then as already advised reflash and start from scratch which is what you should just do in these situations because no one can help unless you can list exactly what you've done.

XperienceD said:
Then as already advised reflash and start from scratch which is what you should just do in these situations because no one can help unless you can list exactly what you've done.
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Just to update you all, I unrooted and reflashed the phone and the error remained. Since then I've been in contact with the phone supplier (AVTree LTD, via Amazon.co.uk) and they have stated that they have had several complaints regarding phones from the same supplier recently and have forwarded the information onto Suffolk Police to look into. They have also said that they will offer me a full refund and will cover the cost of returning the phone.
Looking on the bright side at least it appears that I didn't do anything to kill the phone. I have also ordered a new one that is now £60 cheaper than the price I bought the last one for.
Thanks for all your help.
Dave

drandall said:
Just to update you all, I unrooted and reflashed the phone and the error remained. Since then I've been in contact with the phone supplier (AVTree LTD, via Amazon.co.uk) and they have stated that they have had several complaints regarding phones from the same supplier recently and have forwarded the information onto Suffolk Police to look into.
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Doesn't sound good but at least you've not lost anything.

desire c restarts itself randomly

I bought my desire c back in june of this year on PC mobile prepaid in canada. I go to college in the USA so I network unlocked the phone and put my att gophone sim in it and all was well for 3 weeks then out of the blue it just started crashing and restarting at random and after every crash reboot I would get a notification saying submit crash report to htc. I did this several times but I think with such a cheap low end phone the reports fall on deaf ears. I factory reset it and everything worked for a day and a half then it started happening again.
All the apps I have installed now are:
adobe reader
apex launcher
app cache cleaner
barcode scanner
battery solo widget
chrome
cloudskipper
crash report
google drive
facebook
fast reboot
go keyboard
media scanner
osmand
shazam
simplenote
slacker radio
sms backup+
textplus
wifi manager
zite
I don't know which app may be causing this. I'm totally stumped and i can't have a phone restarting like this. I may miss calls or texts
in the process of a reboot
I really hope someone can finally find a solution to this issue. All I seem to find when looking it up are abandoned threads with no solution

mikee286 said:
I bought my desire c back in june of this year on PC mobile prepaid in canada. I go to college in the USA so I network unlocked the phone and put my att gophone sim in it and all was well for 3 weeks then out of the blue it just started crashing and restarting at random and after every crash reboot I would get a notification saying submit crash report to htc. I did this several times but I think with such a cheap low end phone the reports fall on deaf ears. I factory reset it and everything worked for a day and a half then it started happening again.
All the apps I have installed now are:
adobe reader
apex launcher
app cache cleaner
barcode scanner
battery solo widget
chrome
cloudskipper
crash report
google drive
facebook
fast reboot
go keyboard
media scanner
osmand
shazam
simplenote
slacker radio
sms backup+
textplus
wifi manager
zite
I don't know which app may be causing this. I'm totally stumped and i can't have a phone restarting like this. I may miss calls or texts
in the process of a reboot
I really hope someone can finally find a solution to this issue. All I seem to find when looking it up are abandoned threads with no solution
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crap can this get moved to troubleshooting my bad

If you are running stock rom, then flash Prometheus Sense Kernel. That might solve your problem..
Second link in my signature..

I never heard of installing a custom rom or kernel being the answer to fixing an issue with stock. However I was thinking of sticking maybe cm 10 or something on this phone since I hear wifi now works. Is there a program similar to odin on samsung devices but for htc phones? I have never flashed anything on a non samsung device.
Is flashing a kernel the same process as a rom?
Another thing I noticed is the phone doesn't reset itself when plugged in. However if I leave it unplugged, the next morning I will be greeted with the send error report to htc message indicating that it had restarted at least once overnight
does it matter if the phone is canadian or not? I remember my old samsung had issues because I use an american rom on it.

problem
mikee286 said:
I never heard of installing a custom rom or kernel being the answer to fixing an issue with stock. However I was thinking of sticking maybe cm 10 or something on this phone since I hear wifi now works. Is there a program similar to odin on samsung devices but for htc phones? I have never flashed anything on a non samsung device.
Is flashing a kernel the same process as a rom?
Another thing I noticed is the phone doesn't reset itself when plugged in. However if I leave it unplugged, the next morning I will be greeted with the send error report to htc message indicating that it had restarted at least once overnight
does it matter if the phone is canadian or not? I remember my old samsung had issues because I use an american rom on it.
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maybe firmwire update, i had problem with that, because he is not compactibil with custom rom

Femaman said:
maybe firmwire update, i had problem with that, because he is not compactibil with custom rom
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problem with the phone being canadian? However I am using it in the US on at&t but are the firmwares different between USA and canada or is it the same phone and firmware in both countries

aashay960 said:
If you are running stock rom, then flash Prometheus Sense Kernel. That might solve your problem..
Second link in my signature..
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I unlocked the bootloader, rooted, flashed CWM and installed prometheus kernel have not had a random restart in 3 days (knock on wood) hopefully it won't start restarting randomly again. I downloaded the 800mhz version too so the increased speed is a nice bonus.
Thank you very much I think you saved me from having to buy a new phone!
I don't really understand why this fixed it and why the issue would randomly start happening.
However if it starts happening again I will install cyanogenmod 10 or something and if it still happens then I think the phone is defective

mikee286 said:
I unlocked the bootloader, rooted, flashed CWM and installed prometheus kernel have not had a random restart in 3 days (knock on wood) hopefully it won't start restarting randomly again. I downloaded the 800mhz version too so the increased speed is a nice bonus.
Thank you very much I think you saved me from having to buy a new phone!
I don't really understand why this fixed it and why the issue would randomly start happening.
However if it starts happening again I will install cyanogenmod 10 or something and if it still happens then I think the phone is defective
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Thats great. I thought you'd already unlocked and rooted your phone. Isn't that a prerequisite for network unlocking? If I'm not wrong..

aashay960 said:
Thats great. I thought you'd already unlocked and rooted your phone. Isn't that a prerequisite for network unlocking? If I'm not wrong..
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no i did it on cellunlocker website i gave my imei code, paid then it emailed me my unlock code and put my at&t sim in, it asked me for the unlock code and i put it in and boom the phone was network unlocked. no root or modifications required

mikee286 said:
no i did it on cellunlocker website i gave my imei code, paid then it emailed me my unlock code and put my at&t sim in, it asked me for the unlock code and i put it in and boom the phone was network unlocked. no root or modifications required
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Ohh I see.. There's a free method on this forum but it involves unlocking and rooting. Apart from that its pretty easy..

Hard Bricked by Google?

OK so this girl I know has been begging me for help with her Nexus 6 and I hoping you guys can make me her hero =D
Details:
A girl who has a problem the girl I'm trying to help took the girl I'm trying to help's phone and removed the sim card from it. I told her to go get a new one from Sprint thinking that was the only problem but after she got the new sim card she can't activate the phone and it is showing that it has been reset so it can only be unlocked with the google account that was on it initially. She does not remember the account details as she made the account new when she first got the phone and didn't really use it. Either that, or this other girl somehow associated a different account with the phone prior to resetting it and taking out the sim.The phone can receive calls just fine but she cannot dial out or do anything other than answer the phone when someone calls her.
Attempted fixes:
First I tried going to factory recovery to reset it but when you select recovery from the bootloader you get the little andy icon but underneath it says "Command not found" and there doesn't seem to be any combination of buttons I can press to get past that point and I end up having to 3-button reboot.
Next I booted the phone up in bootloader with key combos and connected it to a computer with adb & fastboot installed.Fastboot reads the device information and I was successfully able to /fastboot erase userdata to format the phone. I thought I had it fixed at that point but as soon as it gets a connection again it goes back to the "This phone has been reset and must be recovered with blah blah blah" message so I don't think I can get around that without installing a whole new operating system.....unfortunately usb debugging nor developer options are enabled on the phone so cannot unlock the bootloader via fastboot commands or any other way I can think of. Is this phone just totally hosed? I've walked her through attempting a gmail recovery on what she THINKS is the right e-mail address but can't seem to get the info correct or the address is off by a letter or two.
If anyone has experience with this or can point me towards a solution I would greatly appreciate it.
Thank you.

can't do anything about it. its a new security feature that google started. imagine if someone steals your phone and wipes it, now they'll still need your password to get in.

Can she say "forgot my password" on a computer? If she can get into the account then it will work. If she has to reset her password then she will have to wait 72 hours and then she will be able to login the email and password. Alternatively I have no idea how you could do this, but if you could root and flash 5.0.1 (or I think 5.1 should work just not 5.1.1 with its new security feature).

Alright yeah I was afraid of that though it is kinda cool for someone, like myself, who would never forget my associated email.....not so cool for her I guess. Seems like they are taking a page out of Apple's playbook with this though, haha.
@bob
Yeah I tried helping her recover the account but she apparently forgot everything she set the phone up with (including the account details and supplementary recovery emails) and apparently has way too many email accounts for one person. I agree flashing a different ROM other than the stock 5.1 would like fix the problem but I don't think I can get debugging enabled to unlock bootloader etc in the state the phone is in.....was hoping someone here might know a way to make that happen..
So if she takes the phone in to sprint and says to them you guys made me set up a gmail account and I can't remember it now which has resulted in this new phone I bought being completely unusable --- what do you think their procedure is going to be? Send it in for repair?

Hahahahahaha.
This sounds like a job for.... WARRANTY.
However, it is actually user error, which is actually on YOUR back (being the one who suggested simcard swapping without prepping the phone for it first). So if they deny warranty for "user error", then I think that YOU OWE HER A NEW NEXUS 6.
Suggestion for next time: when she has a working nexus 6 in her hands, fastboot oem unlock it. IMMEDIATELY.
Also tell her to use a gmail address SHE KNOWS, and not make up a new one for the thing.

Well when I suggested it the phone did not have a Sim card....it was stolen. What I told her was to take the phone in to sprint and explain the situation and see if they would give her a replacement Sim so if there is something that should have been done to the phone prior to that isn't sprint the one to blame? By the way exactly what is it that you would do to the phone to prepare it for the new Sim?
..side note....when I ran a '/fastboot getvar all' I noticed a warranty void line that said yes at the end of it..is that going to be a problem? Lol...

slimbrady said:
Well when I suggested it the phone did not have a Sim card....it was stolen. What I told her was to take the phone in to sprint and explain the situation and see if they would give her a replacement Sim so if there is something that should have been done to the phone prior to that isn't sprint the one to blame? By the way exactly what is it that you would do to the phone to prepare it for the new Sim?
..side note....when I ran a '/fastboot getvar all' I noticed a warranty void line that said yes at the end of it..is that going to be a problem? Lol...
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Stolen, what? Elaborate.
Sprint has no blame in this. The phone can't be used anymore until you, her, or whomever figures out/remembers the gmail account originally used to turn on Device Protection on the phone. If the bootloader had been unlocked prior to turning on Device Protection we wouldn't be having this discussion. The link below will explain everything in detail.
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/03/a-look-at-android-5-1-speed-security-tweaks/

Maverick-DBZ- said:
Stolen, what? Elaborate.
Sprint has no blame in this. The phone can't be used anymore until you, her, or whomever figures out/remembers the gmail account originally used to turn on Device Protection on the phone. If the bootloader had been unlocked prior to turning on Device Protection we wouldn't be having this discussion. The link below will explain everything in detail.
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/03/a-look-at-android-5-1-speed-security-tweaks/
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Yeah some girl she has beef with or that has beef with her had access to the phone and took the sim out of it....that's the story I'm told at any rate..... Thanks for the link and yeah not good news for my friend I guess since she's a bit of ditz and can't remember the account info, lol.
So 2 questions remain.... what was the guy above talking about regarding 'prepping the phone' for a new sim card.....? And, has anyone tried taking a phone in this state back to sprint or other carrier corporate store and know what she's in for if she does do that?

slimbrady said:
Yeah some girl she has beef with or that has beef with her had access to the phone and took the sim out of it....that's the story I'm told at any rate..... Thanks for the link and yeah not good news for my friend I guess since she's a bit of ditz and can't remember the account info, lol.
So 2 questions remain.... what was the guy above talking about regarding 'prepping the phone' for a new sim card.....? And, has anyone tried taking a phone in this state back to sprint or other carrier corporate store and know what she's in for if she does do that?
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I'm pretty sure he just meant to turn off Device Protection before removing the sim card and unlock the bootloader so you have a chance to recover the phone. It's obviously too late for that, but something to think about in the future if she ends up replacing the Nexus 6 with another one.
It depends where she bought the phone from. If she bought it from Sprint they should have a record of her purchase once they pull up her account details. She should be able to walk into a corporate store and have it replaced without too much trouble.

slimbrady said:
Yeah some girl she has beef with or that has beef with her had access to the phone and took the sim out of it....that's the story I'm told at any rate..... Thanks for the link and yeah not good news for my friend I guess since she's a bit of ditz and can't remember the account info, lol.
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Oh, I see...
Yeah, stay clear of her AND her phone. The sim card wasn't stolen from her phone. HER PHONE *IS* STOLEN from someone else.
You see what it takes to get the sim card out of these things? Handing it over to a frenemy for 20 seconds *does not* result in the sim card being removed.

doitright said:
Oh, I see...
Yeah, stay clear of her AND her phone. The sim card wasn't stolen from her phone. HER PHONE *IS* STOLEN from someone else.
You see what it takes to get the sim card out of these things? Handing it over to a frenemy for 20 seconds *does not* result in the sim card being removed.
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Was my first thought as well after reading the OP.
It's all just an illusion

Long story short:
"Hard Bricked By Google?"
YES BECAUSE YOU STOLE THE PHONE.
Mods need to lock this thread and ban the user.