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.
hi, i bought s2 2nd hand and was working fine and now isnt, i wanna make sure if my IMEI is blocked.
i cannot make/receive calls or sms's. it says "Not Registered on Network". but the trick is my Mobile data is working, i can go to internet and even talk on Watsup.
i wanna know if when IMEI is block can the phone connect to internet? or my CELL IMEI is not blocked.
thanks, sorry if i posted on a wrong place.
as the title says , am getting a network signal in the status bar with no sim card installed in the device , where it used to show a stop or block sign before when there is no sim installed , don't know when it started but i have noticed it a week ago , and am on the 5.1.1 update ,
what i have tried so far :
1 - reset the device from the setting .
2 - reset the device with samsung smart switch for windows ( which download the latest firmware for the device & install it ) .
3 - installed the factory firmware with odin , and got the device to axiom telecom which is my warranty service provider , and the told me the have changed the whole motherboard , & after telling them the issue is still there , they showed me another s6 with no sim and there is signal and told me that this behavior is normal ( which i don't think so ) .
4 - contacted samsung directly by phone & email , and they told me to reset the device or send it to service ( which i already did ) .
so , is this behavior really normal ? are any of you guys getting this ?
my device : SM-G920F
country : Saudi Arabia
no its not normal
if you type *#06# you gonna find IMEI become 3500000000006/01
if it is then you cant make calls or send sms ( not registered on network )
its the same problem like me i don't know where this come from but we need some one to give us backup the EFS folder. to restore it back to the phone SM-G920F
please if some one can help us thank you
tazaga said:
no its not normal
if you type *#06# you gonna find IMEI become 3500000000006/01
if it is then you cant make calls or send sms ( not registered on network )
its the same problem like me i don't know where this come from but we need some one to give us backup the EFS folder. to restore it back to the phone SM-G920F
please if some one can help us thank you
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no , it seem we are having different problems ,
*#06# reveals normal IMEI ,
and i can make & receive phone calls & sms if i install a sim card ,
try resetting yours to stock ,
other than showing a signal with no sim card installed the phone is fine & doesn't have any problems .
Speculation- you'd need emergency service call? I would assume that it's allowed to connect to network for that and not have phone disabled?
More speculation- your being spied on...
-Spy
It's only a display icon. You aren't able to still make a regular call without the sim? If it ain't broke don't fix it.
But to ease your mind just check the network status in your settings. Should say what connected to.
Surely it does have to do with the update itself if your phone still functions as normal.
I'm sure there is a network status with the super secret spy codes that you enter on your dial pad. You know the #secretrandomnumber#* codes...
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space_eyes said:
Speculation- you'd need emergency service call? I would assume that it's allowed to connect to network for that and not have phone disabled?
More speculation- your being spied on...
-Spy
It's only a display icon. You aren't able to still make a regular call without the sim? If it ain't broke don't fix it.
But to ease your mind just check the network status in your settings. Should say what connected to.
Surely it does have to do with the update itself if your phone still functions as normal.
I'm sure there is a network status with the super secret spy codes that you enter on your dial pad. You know the #secretrandomnumber#* codes...
Sent from my SM-G920W8 using XDA Premium 4 mobile app
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it could be there for emergency calls ,
in terms of being spied on , ha ha ,i don't think so , the service center changed the entire motherboard which include the eMMC with it's whole partitions .
the sim card status in the settings says Not Available for everything , and yes i can't make calls nor sms without the sim ,
but you still didn't answer my question : do you get this when you remove your sim ?
no one with a similar problem ??
I've seen it on lots of Samsung phones. It's simply a signal for emergency calls. You have to be able to make emergency calls with or without a Sim and that's telling you how much signal you have.
Seriously people this is pretty simple and no conspiracy.
You only get a circle with a line through if you have a sim card installed that is blocked from the network or the phone is stolen / blocked etc.
Jonathan-H said:
I've seen it on lots of Samsung phones. It's simply a signal for emergency calls. You have to be able to make emergency calls with or without a Sim and that's telling you how much signal you have.
Seriously people this is pretty simple and no conspiracy.
You only get a circle with a line through if you have a sim card installed that is blocked from the network or the phone is stolen / blocked etc.
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good to hear ,
what made me think it isn't ordinary thing is that the service center didn't know about it & thought it was a problem ,
thanks a lot .
This was done on last update Samsung gods thought we needed to know how much of a signal we had for emergency calls
Having the same problem with my samsung galaxy s6 SM-920F. showing bars on the signals even without sim. not connecting to network operator as well. showing Disconnected status in SIM status from About.
Tried updating the software even downgrading, factory reset and wiping cache but nothing worked.
Found this thread when looking for an answer to this question. In my case, it is a tablet that hasn't even got a sim option but still has the mobile network signal showing, even when airplane mode is switched on. Just worry it is eating some of my battery life. Any ideas?
I am also getting same problem.
There is no sim card inserted in my phone but still it shows the network bars.. Your And my problem is same.
There, an actual answer. Guess I should add it here since I wondered the same thing
a sim card has nothing to do with the transceiver system of the phone. its literally a "passkey" it is your authentication to USE that network. ie you can always SEE the network you just not allowed to "use it" without permission hence the simcard.
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ZTE Z899vl info. Who is the cell service provider?
dkochie1234 said:
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.
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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.