Yea..i went kayaking today. Let a friend of mine look after it for me. He left it on the pier with the case on. And when I came back later..it was gone~ I saw some peeps earlier that were getting their boats lifted up which was the same side where the phone was....
I have lock code on the sim..the phone also... I just wish i can locate it some how... Noone picks up when I call the number. I should be looking around in ebay if it shows up there...
Well anyone have any suggestions? I dont have insurance..(should of purchased it) and Im not with cingular..but with Tmobile.
Such a lame/sad day..
krnchonnom said:
Yea..i went kayaking today. Let a friend of mine look after it for me. He left it on the pier with the case on. And when I came back later..it was gone~ I saw some peeps earlier that were getting their boats lifted up which was the same side where the phone was....
I have lock code on the sim..the phone also... I just wish i can locate it some how... Noone picks up when I call the number. I should be looking around in ebay if it shows up there...
Well anyone have any suggestions? I dont have insurance..(should of purchased it) and Im not with cingular..but with Tmobile.
Such a lame/sad day..
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Yeah, the same sea pirate took mine (check out my sig). It's a sad, sad world we live in.
TaurusBullba said:
Yeah, the same sea pirate took mine (check out my sig). It's a sad, sad world we live in.
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That's sad..it will be nice if phone companies could implement an embedded software which will allow a user to hard program a number to call when the thieves pop in their own SIM. I know there are softwares out there that can do this trick now but if the thieves HARD RESET your phone, these software has no use at all.
This is no spam this is just a program I use.
http://www.spritesoftware.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=182
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Bram87 said:
This is no spam this is just a program I use.
http://www.spritesoftware.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=182
Protect your mobile device information from unauthorized access in the event of theft or loss. From the creators of the award winning mobile recovery application, Sprite Backup, Sprite Swipe offers peace of mind when you need it most.
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As I mentioned earlier..if a thieve hard reset your phone, these software will have no use at all.
There is a cell phone in china I saw the advertisement on tv, forget the name but anyway, If it is stolen anytime a sim is put into it(not the origional) the phone will not work but will send messages to you telling you the information of the sim that was installed in it. It will not work unless the sim that you setup the phone with is installed and of course you can change sims if you have all the codes etc AND the origional sim installed. There is also no way around it no hard resets nothing. Seemed kinda nifty but was really a crap phone for other features.
Couldn't you cook it into the ROM? In the same way my Trion installs a cab for the O2 settings, install a CAB for sending messages to tell you it has been messed with.
(Obviously, we'd have to find a piece of open source software or each do it ourselves.... or would a trial of the Sprite software be sufficient?)
Cavey.co.uk said:
Couldn't you cook it into the ROM? In the same way my Trion installs a cab for the O2 settings, install a CAB for sending messages to tell you it has been messed with.
(Obviously, we'd have to find a piece of open source software or each do it ourselves.... or would a trial of the Sprite software be sufficient?)
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I believe your idea will work. If we cooked this piece of software along with the registry/entry for the SIM into the ROM, then even a hard reset won't able to wipe that out. I guess I will have to cook my own rom and give it a try. If this idea works, then each one of us will have to cook our own rom or provide our SIM, IMEI and profile to other rom cookers to cook a personalized rom.
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I believe your idea will work. If we cooked this piece of software along with the registry/entry for the SIM into the ROM, then even a hard reset won't able to wipe that out. I guess I will have to cook my own rom and give it a try. If this idea works, then each one of us will have to cook our own rom or provide our SIM, IMEI and profile to other rom cookers to cook a personalized rom.
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I agree with you!
I cooked my Schaps ROM with UTA (Ultimate Theft Alert v.3), a software that can permit to retrieve a SMS from your PDA at the SIM changes.
It runs very well. And It obviously resists to hard-resets!
i want one cooked rom of that for my tytn too
couldnt tyou use the softare mentioned above and put the cab file in your ext mem so if is is hard rest it would set its self back up
javaoverride2003 said:
couldnt tyou use the softare mentioned above and put the cab file in your ext mem so if is is hard rest it would set its self back up
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Put in ext rom will not work if a thieve know how to soft reset it before the ext rom runs. Of course if a thieve has enough knowledge of this type of phone, he can load a clean rom before he pop in another SIM then the anti-thieve software will have no effect at all even we cooked it into the rom.
Man..sooo many knowledgeable people in this forum! Awesome forum site!
I have had Cingular for a few years, I dont remember whare I learned this, I think it was a combersation with a Cingular Rep, I you call and report your phone stollen that phone whill no longer work.
I had the razr and lost it in my house, not able to find it, phone was off, was not able to call and hear the ring. I had Insurance, called Cingular and they send me to the Insurance dep ( diferent company ) told tham the story and they told me that if I tell tham that it was stollen that phone will not be activated, it will be a brick.
I said it was lost in my house and that I did not wanted to report it stollen, then send me another one, and later found the lost phone, I than Had two phones
I dont know if its true or not, as I was not able to test what the rep told me.
Try calling T-mobile and see what happends.
What the carrier would do is block the IMEI number on the stolen phone from accessing their network. However, to get around this, the thief could just change the IMEI. Or "Sir Steals-a-lot" could simply unlock it and use it on another carrier with no problem. Unfortunately there's always a way around the system (that's good and bad ).
edit: Forgot to mention, for AT&T customers, there is no insurance offered for their PDA or "high tech" phones. So, you'd have to get some kind of 3rd party insurance.
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I have had Cingular for a few years, I dont remember whare I learned this, I think it was a combersation with a Cingular Rep, I you call and report your phone stollen that phone whill no longer work.
I had the razr and lost it in my house, not able to find it, phone was off, was not able to call and hear the ring. I had Insurance, called Cingular and they send me to the Insurance dep ( diferent company ) told tham the story and they told me that if I tell tham that it was stollen that phone will not be activated, it will be a brick.
I said it was lost in my house and that I did not wanted to report it stollen, then send me another one, and later found the lost phone, I than Had two phones
I dont know if its true or not, as I was not able to test what the rep told me.
Try calling T-mobile and see what happends.
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Put in ext rom will not work if a thieve know how to soft reset it before the ext rom runs. Of course if a thieve has enough knowledge of this type of phone, he can load a clean rom before he pop in another SIM then the anti-thieve software will have no effect at all even we cooked it into the rom.
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From what I have seen the most knowledgable people about these phones are in this forum and have enough integrity not to take it in the first place.
In general, John Q. Public would rather send the phone back to mfgr/carrier, and have everything like roses than do a little research and gain some knowledge about his device.
To the OP, I am sorry for your loss. I hate thieves.
I believe most of the GSM providers are sharing data now which means once an IMEI was blocked, it will no longer work on other carrier, even in other part of the world.
I called tmo to see if they can put it on the stolen list. And the rep said they dont have such a LIST. And the guy didnt give me any other options with the stolen phone.
Well time to look for another cheap 8525~
I have an HTC touch 6900 (sprint) that is not active and with a clean (good) esn and i recently open a metropcs account and have the metro phone active and working . what i wanna do is change my touch and get it to work with metro, with the account that i have open, I already unlock the phone (i think) using vogueeunlockermfg2,31, i got my code with getspc and made some changes in the epst, at this point i was able to dial 611 and get metro, but nothing else, so i decided to change my esn for the metros phone that i have (instead of esn is meid (h) but everything went to hell at that point, lost epst, lost service and nothing would work, so i ended up putting the original rom from htc and the original esn, so im back on sprint, any ideas on how to do this right this time?, any suggestion will be appreciated
thanks
metropcs xv6900 flash firmware
did any ever post anything to resolve this problem?
I was wondering if anyone can help me.
I recently flashed my phone which I have done many times. I then installed beautiful widgets from a apk off the net. Once I had decided I likes the software I deinstalled it and ever since I have been unable to get network service on my wildfire.
Whenever I try and connect to a network I get:
'Unable to connect to this network at this time please try later'
I am currently on baseband version 13.53.55.24H_3.35.149.25 but I have also flashed later radios and still have the problem.
I have also checked the phone information settings and radio is turned on so unsure where to go from here.
The phone is also unlocked to any network but I have tried a Orange, Virgin and Vodaphone chip and none work.
Cheers for any help ;-)
i was in touch with beautiful widgets developer a few weeks ago, and he mentioned there were 13 different pirated versions that they were aware of, and they were having troubles with them. the first thing he wanted was my google checkout receipt number, i wonder if you have picked up a virus somehow, with a malicious copy.
have you tried restoring a nandroid backup?
Hi
Yes I ran a nandroid restore and I still have the problem. I have also been into the phone's testing menu, phone information and it wont let me select radio band just comes back Set{Automatic] Unsuccessful ;-(
Tried numerous Roms and still the issue.
Will I have to totally flatten phone to get this working?
cheers
Have you checked your apn settings?
I have checked the APN section and I have one for orange internet and one for Orange MMS. I have looked through these settings and everything is blank except when I get to the MCC section.
One thing I have noticed is when In restore or use a new ROM I still have my details for Wireless setup etc so is it really doing a full wipe of settings?
Cheers guys
I have just spoken to Orange and they have informed me that the phone has been blacklisted hence no service. I have had this phone for over 6 months and now they decide to blacklist it even though I paid good money for it and it wasnt stolen...Nice!!!!!
Thanks for your help anyway guys much appreciated
why has it been blacklisted, and how?
The phone has been blacklisted by Virgin as stolen just recently even though I bought the phone over 5 months ago with original Virgin Chip, booklets etc. I have spoke to Orange (my own network) as the original owner is obviously trying to maker a claim which is indeed false.
I am in process of writing a letter to virgin explaining my predicament but I dont expect anything positive of the outcome. Last time I buy anything of a Forum all my own mistake to be fair!!!
Bought a Samsung I5800 just get me back up and running as the wildfire is now just sat at home awaiting to hear what Virgin say as I may sell it as parts.
cheers guys ;-)
Hi everyone....
I bought my phone from a reseller (NEW) a few years back and this phone was rooted and unlocked to run on Boost Mobile.
I recently re-flashed the stock ROM back on it and factory reset the phone, and gave it to a friend who wants to run on Sprint.
He took it to the Sprint store and they said it is "locked to Boost Mobile" and they cannot use it??!?
I'm really confused as it is "unlocked", which means I should be able to run on any supported (same technology) carrier.
What do I need to do to be able to use this on Sprint's network once again?
Most likely what happened is the MEID was changed from it's original to one from Boost Mobile.
You could verify this theory by comparing the MEID the phone states under
settings > system info > MEID
*or something similar*
To the one under the battery in the compartment.
If this is your situation the MEID needs to be reverted back to the original.
Hi, everyone. I'm new to thie forum.
A couple of years ago I bought a Galaxy S4 from eBay. It was a Sprint phone, flashed to be used at PagePlus, without UICC SIM card, 3G only. It has been working fine on PagePlus (except MMS).
Due to the lack of 4G and hearing the offers by RingPlus, I decided to move to RingPlus. I verified that the MEID and IMEI of the phone on R+ website, they both showed to be fine. So I terminated my PagePlus account, unrooted the phone back to original Samsung ROM for Sprint, and signed up for the Phoenix plan. Everything went well until this point.
I then followed the instruction on R+ website to complete the device activation for Android device (manually provisioning PRL), there's no response when I dialed "##MSL#" (the MSL is correct, as shown on my R+ account). I then tried to perform a PRL update by dialing ##72786#, the phone couldn't be activated. There's a message saying "Because of the type of account you have, we'll need to help you with the task. Please dial *2 from your Sprint phone or call Custom Care at 1-888-211-4727 from another phone so we can assist you."
I checked my MEID and IMEI again, and realized that even though the IMEI does show that it's a Galaxy S4, the MEID is actually associated with a Sanyo 3G phone. The eBay seller must have switched the MEID when flashing it to PagePlus. I didn't realize it until now. When I tried to dial a number using this phone now (after it's terminated from PagePlus), it was directed to Verizon Wireless.
From R+ forum I was told that my current MEID is a "donor MEID". I don't know what the original MEID was. The seller peeled off the sticker inside the phone. I only realized that today too.
So could anyone suggest what should I do? I was told that I need to flashed back to Sprint, but it will be difficult since I don't know the correct MEID. I was recommended to come to XDA to get some advance help. So here I'm.
Thank you very much for your help!
I went through the same process and it was a headache. You need to unflash your phone from Page Plus and reset it back to Sprint. This is going to take more than just unrooting and flashing a stock ROM.
I don't remember the exact instructions but you should Google "flash page plus back to sprint" and then look for Viper32's posts about flashing phones. There are instructions about entering ##RTN# in your dialer to reset the phone. Not sure if that was all it took because my experience was that I tried a lot of different things until one of them stuck. But that was where I started.
The easier way is possibly to take it to a Sprint store and have them reset it but I never tried it myself.