Hello,
I am using an unrooted Samsung Vibrant on Tmobiles Prepaid Network.
I originally bought one of their cheap nokia phones to use prepaid on the network and once I saw that I had a decent enough signal I bought the vibrant for a flat fee and popped my prepaid sim in it.
The sim was orginally registered with the old IMEI of the cheap nokia phone I was testing it with. There is currently no option to change it online at their website.
I just wanted to make sure that using a simcard registered to a different phone IMEI wasn't something that could get a fellow into trouble.
Thanks,
Jason
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Hi all,
I'm having a serious issue with my phone that just recently bought off kijiji, I suspect that my phone could be blacklisted or blocked.
So, heres the issue we, me and my friend went and tested this phone out. Since my sim was too big for the Note 2, my friend tried his and worked fine with WIND. After the person who's selling to me swiped the note 2 and gave to me. Deal done. Ok, once I got home, I cut my sim to size and tested it = invalid sim. Asks for unlocked code, but when i called the guy (person who sold it) he told me originally the phone is factory unlocked and suspected that i may have damaged the pins but wait if i did damage the sim slot pins it would've said NO SIM. Went to the store got it unlocked and still have the same problem. Went to a virgin store gave me a new sim that's actually to size and same problem. After virgin told me that on their records the IEMI # - listed a completely different phone like Galaxy Ace S6802 but the serial number on the phone is registered as a NOTE 2. So that's major red flag. Next, went to Wind, they said their going to charge me to get the phone registered on their networks. But there's the thing the phone worked with Wind sim card but after unlocked NO SIM cards work. I went to the settings of the phone and it supports multi band network so LTE and GSM and all the others should work. Also, when i use my friend's sim it says roaming but still doesn't work.
So, i'm assuming the original person stole the phone and it has been blacklisted and maybe he got some hacked to make it work for himself. By the way i do know where this person lives and i have strong evidences to support my claim against this person and will file a report against him if necessary.
SOOOO...any ideas guys?
Anyone got any input on the topic?
Could someone please please pm me and help the imei is bad on verizon but i desperately want to use this phone its on 4.2.2
If the ESN/IMEI is blacklisted or marked as "bad" or stolen by Verizon, there's not much you can do about it. You can put a T-Mobile SIM card in the Droid Ultra and see what happens but more than likely it's not going to work - I'm not 100% certain that the "blacklist" that Verizon maintains is connected with the one that T-Mobile (and other carriers) are now utilizing to track/keep stolen or reportedly lost devices, as well as those where customers just don't pay their bills so the device gets on a list too.
If you put a T-Mobile SIM in the device and it doesn't connect to their network immediately (because T-Mobile SIM cards allow that, you can access the T-Mobile website but nothing else using their 4G HSPA+ or LTE networks) then more than likely you're completely out of luck in most all respects.
All you could do at that point is contact Verizon in some manner and ask if the device was reported lost or stolen or something else. There's a good chance they may not help you at all if you're not a customer, and if you go into a Verizon store directly to check it they may just confiscate the phone completely.
How do you know for sure it's a bad ESN on Verizon? Have you checked it against something like Swappa's online checker (not 100% accurate but at least it's something):
http://swappa.com/esn
Can't hurt to at least give it a once over and see what results you get.
Verizon bad imei no longer works on tmobile tmobile
About a month ago I bought Verizon lg g2 from eBay. It turned out the device had bad imei. It wouldn't connect to tmobile network. I returned the phone back to the seller. Verizon bad imei phones no longer works on tmobile.
First, I'm not sure if this is the right group to ask this, but here goes.
A couple years ago, I bought a used HTC Resound (I think) for a family member from overseas who had a really crappy blackberry. We installed her SIM and the phone worked fine, here and when she got back to the country she is living in--which is GSM. Anyway, after two years, that phone has been having trouble! So I picked up an eBay Verizon "certified like new" LG G2 replacement for her. This phone has never been activated. Do I need to activate it on verizon before I can give it to her? I had a French SIM that I installed to try setting it up, but the setup wizard said "unknown Sim" and would not let me go any further. So my question is, how can I prepare the phone so she can just swap the SIM from the resound to the G2 and it will work.
I also have a G2 on Verizon. Would installing my sim in this phone to set it up and then removing it work? Or would that tie my sim/verizon account to the new phone?
I bought a Samsung Galaxy light (SGH-T399N) from MetroPCS for $29 on the prepaid plan last November and never made another payment on the account as I unlocked the phone and placed my T-Mobile prepaid sim card in it and have been using it fine up until a couple of days ago.
Even though I did not sign any contract, MetroPCS has decided that they did not like me only paying them for one months service and have blacklisted the IMEI number of the phone with T-Mobile!
I want to keep using this phone on T-Mobile network and want to *LEGALLY* change enough of the phone with a donor phone's IMEI that is not blocked on the Tmobile network and I do not want to do anything illegal, so I just bought a working SGH-T399 T-Mobile phone that is beat up with a cracked screen, yet is working.
How much of the donor phone do I need to transfer to the blacklisted phone to make it legal?
A. Take the sticker with the IMEI barcode label and transfer that along with the complete EFS directory?
B. Remove the main PCB with the modem chip from the donor phone to the blacklisted phone (It has the IMEI label on the PCB) and transfer it to the new phone that has everything else new?
I'd like to do option A as I have it unlocked already and the modem is different than the Tmobile modem and MetroPCS came with 4.4.2 on it and I have it already tweaked as I want it.
Can I avoid using the old PCB from T-Mobile and just use it as a donor IMEI device and then put it in my parts drawer with no IMEI label?
I'd rather keep the main PCB from the new phone rather than swap to an unknown condition older PCB.
scanman0 said:
I bought a Samsung Galaxy light (SGH-T399N) from MetroPCS for $29 on the prepaid plan last November and never made another payment on the account as I unlocked the phone and placed my T-Mobile prepaid sim card in it and have been using it fine up until a couple of days ago.
Even though I did not sign any contract, MetroPCS has decided that they did not like me only paying them for one months service and have blacklisted the IMEI number of the phone with T-Mobile!
I want to keep using this phone on T-Mobile network and want to *LEGALLY* change enough of the phone with a donor phone's IMEI that is not blocked on the Tmobile network and I do not want to do anything illegal, so I just bought a working SGH-T399 T-Mobile phone that is beat up with a cracked screen, yet is working.
How much of the donor phone do I need to transfer to the blacklisted phone to make it legal?
A. Take the sticker with the IMEI barcode label and transfer that along with the complete EFS directory?
B. Remove the main PCB with the modem chip from the donor phone to the blacklisted phone (It has the IMEI label on the PCB) and transfer it to the new phone that has everything else new?
I'd like to do option A as I have it unlocked already and the modem is different than the Tmobile modem and MetroPCS came with 4.4.2 on it and I have it already tweaked as I want it.
Can I avoid using the old PCB from T-Mobile and just use it as a donor IMEI device and then put it in my parts drawer with no IMEI label?
I'd rather keep the main PCB from the new phone rather than swap to an unknown condition older PCB.
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Why doing soo much efforts just simply pay the amount and enjoy till the works :good:
IMEI tampering in any way is illegal in most areas.....and NOT discussed on XDA. Take the previous posters advice, or look to another site for help.
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How unlock used Samsung Galaxy Book 2 (Verizon) so I can use T-Mobile SIM??
My friend bought a used Galaxy Book 2, put in his t-Mobile Sim and message came up that stated something to the effect that his device needs a Verizon Sim. Even with this message (as someone said it still worked) it did not get a signal.
He cannot return this as he bought it from some 3rd party he will never see again.
He has T-Mobile as a carrier for quite a few phones and has some sort of lifetime extra device -T-Mobile sim plan he can use so he does not want to move just this device to Verizon.
The question is can this be unlocked by Verizon store? And even if it is and APN settings are changed would it work with a T-Mobile Sim?
I know nothing about these LTE laptops and not sure at least for Samsung if the radio in it is somewhat universal or compatible with most US carriers.
Thank you for any advice.
I appreciate it.
Sincerely
Peter