Hi,
I'd like to know if the service providers (like vodafone) can get the IMEI of our phones.
Tanks,
Luis
Urm... yes, they will know it as soon as you put their SIM in and switch it on.
It's how a phone is blocked if it is registered as lost or stolen.
It's also the ID that is used to register your phone on the network, tied together with your SIM so that your account is charged when you make calls.
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Hello,
Simple question...
not wifi will not send imei info
but in teory the mac address is also enuiq
Thanks for the reply...
I just got told from a custmer service person that if the IMEI number is blocked it will also stop it from even been turned onto its factory 'pda' mode to access details without a sim card!??
This phone is a Jasjam.
Can you make an emergency call without a SIM card? if so, chances are the IMEI is sent over while connected for emergency call. Howeve, I would guess that may probably on the other side of the network where not much attention is paid there.
I don't believe customer services on technical questions like.. 70% of the time. Some of they are just crap. From what I can think of, if your IMEI is blocked, you can still use the PDA as a PDA. There is a case here.. one of the thread.. where a guy found (as it lost by someone) a phone on block IMEI.. then used is as PDA (he cheekily ask if he can change his IMEI). Probably he got your phone?
I have tmobile g2x which was unlock by code provided by Tmobile. Now I am overseas in India where I have local sim card when inserted I can receive calls, data works but when dailed outside it ends immediately with Call ended.. the local sim works fine when inserted in another phone. Same local sim was working when I was in Local area of this sim (mumbai). But as mentioned this local sim is working when inserted in iphone in mumbai as well as where I am now in different small town..
here is crazy part that when I insert Tmobile sim at current location, it can make outgoing calls to US and India from same town using same wireless carrier ( Airtel).. What is blocking the outgoing calls using local Sim here in India?
Please help? Ideas?
I'm not sure what frequency India is using, but if you don't have a good signal, you will get that "call ended" issue.
My mom is actually having this exact same issue here in the US even in strong signal areas. I'm gonna try flashing another rom and kernel to her phone, this seems to be the only issue she's having with it.
It's been doing this with Eagles Blood from 9/23/11, i'm not sure if that's the source of the problem though.
Hydroshock said:
My mom is actually having this exact same issue here in the US even in strong signal areas. I'm gonna try flashing another rom and kernel to her phone, this seems to be the only issue she's having with it.
It's been doing this with Eagles Blood from 9/23/11, i'm not sure if that's the source of the problem though.
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I foud solution myself. I use to use Block Outgoing Caller ID with Tmobile in USA, So when a foreign sim is inserted and the foreign carrier does not support blocking outgoing caller id, the call ends as the phone tries to block outgoing id. The problem resolved after I inserted my US tmobile sim card in India and disabled block outgoing caller id...inserted foreign sim and it works fine ..
I was able to replicate the problem by enabling block caller id again..
its begun all of a sudden
i have try to replace sim . i have checked anntena connections inside the phone.
also i have flushed older version of stock android.
nothing helps
anybody have any idea?
Is it possible the phone has been blacklisted?
it was purchaced in usa and i do not live in usa
I understand but if the carrier subscribes to the blacklist database, that may be a possible explanation.
i do not know how to check if its blacklisted
Open the dialler, type *#06# and enter the imei here: https://swappa.com/esn
ZTE Z899vl info. Who is the cell service provider?
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ZTE Z899vl info. Who is the cell service provider?
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Oh sh*t remove that file immediately it contains your IMEI !
Edit:
Now to answer your question, if your phone isn't sold by a specific Service Provider you can use every SIM Card in it. And even if it is "SIM Locked" (which means the phone only supports one service provider), it could be unlocked by the original service provider.
So to sum up, choose your favorite carrier, buy the SIM card, put it in the phone, see if you can make calls or sens SMS. If you can't that mean the phone is locked. Contact your service provider for help, and they'll happily help you.
A link to learn more
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@dkochie1234
You can get more information from zteusa.in
Hi there, I need help determining if I was screwed by the carrier. Here's the story (keep in mind I'm in a third-world country where law is more of a concept than a reality):
A few days ago my carrier started calling me incessantly and leaving messages. Being a disabled person, I was not able to answer the calls or listen to the messages. A few days passed and suddenly, the phone service has stopped. This is a dual-sim card phone (OnePlusX) and the second sim card/phone service still functions. The phone also detects the sim card and able to read info from it (such as the phone number associated with the non-functional sim card). The web site still lists my service as active but towers refuse to provide network. When I contacted the phone company, they insist the problem is with the sim card, that it suddenly has stopped working - or the phone did. In either case, they demand that me, blind, immobile disabled person show up at their office to get a sim card replacement.
I feel that the company has illegally disabled the sim card access to their network - that's exactly what the phone say, when I enable the sim-card, that the network is inaccessible. I did try the sim card with another phone with the same results (no tower access and yet the second phone can see the phone number on the sim card) although there's a caveat - law in my country requires registering phone IMEI with the sim card, i.e. that sim card can't be used in any other phone (or even the different slot in the same phone, tried that too, btw).
Anyways, I strongly suspect that the company representatives that tried to contact me shortly before the service was cut were trying to sell me something and when I was not able to answer, they took it as a personal affront and retaliated by disabling my service by refusing access to the network to make me walk back to the office. Either that, or they decided that I'm dead since I'm registered as a disabled person with them to qualify for a special service plan that I barely use anyways. Either way, they probably broken a law or two and now, when I try to make them re-enable my service, they refuse to do so without forcing me to walk into the office and pay for sim card replacement.
My question is: are my suspicions have any real foundations? The problem is, if the sim card was indeed faulty, why would they start calling me prior to it dying, and why would it still communicate the information such as phone number to the phone if it was faulty? I can't even listen to those messages now since the access to them is gone with the service. Any suggestion or additional hints on what I can do to prove or disprove my theory are welcome.