A few days ago, my elder sister insisted me to recover her accidentally deleted pictures in her phone. I researched a bit on internet and by an app called "kingo" I rooted the Samsung Galaxy S4. At my first try, it gave me the error something like "rooting failed" .Then I tried again and this time it said that rooting succesfull.I also installed SG Mass Storage Enabler and BusyBox.I tried to enable Mass Storage Mode by using SG Mass Storage enabler but Windows seems like recognizing it for a few second then the drive letter(and name) of phone in Windows Explorer dissappears.I think it may be related to that SG Mass Storage Enabler can only export sd-card and not internal memory of a phone(I was not aware if the phone had a sd card or not before running SG Mass Storage Enabler and then opening the back cover of the phone to be sure if it had a sd card, but it didn't have)
We found a recovery app which runs on Android and I tested a few pictures, seems like it can recover many of the deleted pics in my elder sister's phone.
But now we have a different problem.I am not sure about the cause but today my mother discovered that her actual phone number(SIM card's phone numbers) changed to my elder sister's phone(which I rooted) numbers. When we call my elder sister's phone number,my mother's phone rings.I think my elder sister's phone number changed too though I didn't test if it changed to my mother's number or other because I don't want to call possibly a stranger.
Is it possible that rooting my elder sister's phone changed the actual phone number of her phone and my mother's phone(maybe swapped the phone numbers)?A much less possibility I think but my elder sister's baby sometimes play with my mother's phone(she randomly touches the screen of the phone),maybe she did something which changed the number but it maybe impossible I don't know.How can I return the numbers back?
Have you tried switching sim cards? As far as I know, you cannot change the sim card's programmed phone #.
audit13 said:
Have you tried switching sim cards? As far as I know, you cannot change the sim card's programmed phone #.
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Thanks for your answer I thought the same thing actually, no one at the home accepts that they changed the simcard.Then I remembered that it is not possible to open the back of my mother's phone so I thought it's not possible to change the simcard.
But after seeing your answer, I decided to be sure and looked at my mother's phone's e-manual and saw that although you can't open the back of the unit , still you can change the simcard. I will try changing simcards like you said, tomorrow because my mother's phone is in my parents' room and they are sleeping now.
One note, I can still run my elder sister's phone using the same password, but maybe my mother's sim card uses the same password too I'm not sure,we'll see.
As far as I know only the network carrier can transfer phone numbers to other sim cards. You should talk to your carrier and see what's up.
take a look in the contacts list on each phone, rather ask your sister and mother. do they have their same list of contacts as before or are those swapped too ?
Contacts nowadays are stored on the phone, rather than the sim, so I don't think the lists could be swapped.
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Contacts nowadays are stored on the phone, rather than the sim, so I don't think the lists could be swapped.
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but if the sims were swapped the new contacts would be imported.
Thanks for your answers.
Today I heard something which I was not aware , from my mother.She said that a few days ago my father took his phone and my mother's phone to a carrier's dealer ( or Samsung's dealer) to upgrade phones from 3g to 4g. She said that my father told them to keep the same phone numbers.But seems like they did something wrong and now my mother's phone have the number of my elder sister's phone, but elder sister's phone seems like it has no phone number now (or maybe has a number which we don't know).
I think my father should go back to the carrier's dealer
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When you go to option in call history, it give you the option NOT to delete call up to a year old...or never. I had mine set to never...but it still deletes the calls. it seems to only be keeping count for a week or two. is there any way to make this setting work?
Cant say i've noticed this since i've flashed my ROM so many times to test out the different Roms, lol.
However, one would presume that the registry entry for this would be the CallHistoryMax DWORD under HKCU\ControlPanel\Phone.
I have change my call History settings numerous times to test this theory but it has no effect on the DWORD value.
Anyone else have similar problems??
S.K.
i have 4 friends with the 8125, they all have the same problem. i too had this problem with my 8125...i was hoping it would go away with the 8525...but no luck. im thinking its something in the OS and not the phone. what you guys think?
any one? try it yourselves guys. this option never works
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any one? try it yourselves guys. this option never works
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Interesting just looked at my call history and I suspect a sim card issue/setting may be the root of your problems.
The reason I say this is that my call history extends way back to January this year long before I even got the Hermes!! Info is therefore stored on the Sim. In addition there are gaps in the dates when I would certainly have made/received calls. This inconsistent recording of the info on calls I believe is related to whether the number dialled or received is recognized by the SIM the Phone memory or both. The longest remembered ones are obviously from the SIMs memory.
Not sure where this gets us exactly but my albeit inconsistent record certainly pre-dates this phone and back to my Motorola days.
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funny you should say that. i just got a new sim card with the 8525...they gave me the 3g sim card. Thats kinda odd it would happen to two diffrent sim cards. i had 3 8125's and they all had this problem. now the 8525. the only phone it worked for was my ipaq 6515....and that was wm2003. It sucks because this is a reeeally good feture to have, you always have a number on file.
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funny you should say that. i just got a new sim card with the 8525...they gave me the 3g sim card. Thats kinda odd it would happen to two diffrent sim cards. i had 3 8125's and they all had this problem. now the 8525. the only phone it worked for was my ipaq 6515....and that was wm2003. It sucks because this is a reeeally good feture to have, you always have a number on file.
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Yes it is strange. I don't think I'm suggesting any kind of fault on the SIMs. But you know how you can save tel numbers to SIM or to Phone - (I always forget which mine is set to) well I just wonder whether this has any bearing on where the call history is saved and or affects how long it is saved for. If it's the SIM and not the phone then there will be limits on storage space for the records. The question then is if it's the SIM which mine must be - how can it be changed to save on Phone memory for a longer record?
Sorry - more questions than answers!
Mike
I recently flashed NAZtech Desire ROM and now the phone does not connect to a network. I just get the "emergency calls only" message, but that (999) doesn't work either.
The APN settings are in and selected, but when I try to select a network I get a message that says this SIM cannot connect to this network, even trying to select automatically gives the same result.
I've tried multiple ROMs and multiple SIMs and yes, I have tried doing a Nandroid restore yet still can't connect to a network.
I've tried flashing a new Radio image and reflashing cyanogen's ROM but that still doesn't work.
N.B. This did not happen imediately after flash, it happened over night as I slept. I woke up one morning and it did not connect, I tried moving to multiple different basestations in different areas with no result.
Nandroid?
The good news is that your radio isn't fully dead, bricking your phone.
This is probably not very helpful (though I don’t think anyone is going to be able to be really), but this sounds like what happens when you IMEI is blocked or invalid. The networks won’t let it connect.
Its happened to me on a pervious phone. Unlocking it caused the IMEI to be set to all 0s. Had reset it before it would connect.
Would also fit as you say it didn’t happen straight after the flash. Maybe it was unconnected?
Any chance this has happened? Ring your network see if they can tell you if its blocked (maybe a mistake when someone reported a missing phone...?) Sorry as I say probably not much help.
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This is probably not very helpful (though I don’t think anyone is going to be able to be really), but this sounds like what happens when you IMEI is blocked or invalid. The networks won’t let it connect.
Its happened to me on a pervious phone. Unlocking it caused the IMEI to be set to all 0s. Had reset it before it would connect.
Would also fit as you say it didn’t happen straight after the flash. Maybe it was unconnected?
Any chance this has happened? Ring your network see if they can tell you if its blocked (maybe a mistake when someone reported a missing phone...?) Sorry as I say probably not much help.
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What would I see if it was blocked? if I enter *#06# It just shows my IMEI number. My phone isn't tied to a contract and I've tried different SIMs so how do I check/or get it unlocked.
Did you try another active sim card, or your sim in another phone? I had this same problem and it was just a dead sim card, went to Tmo and they gave me a new sim card for free, popped it in and it connected in a couple seconds.
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Did you try another active sim card, or your sim in another phone? I had this same problem and it was just a dead sim card, went to Tmo and they gave me a new sim card for free, popped it in and it connected in a couple seconds.
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I'm currently using the Three UK SIM I usually use for my N1 in my old Samsung Omnia, and I've tried another o2 (untied)* contract SIM and another active SIM.
*I know it's unlocked because it was bought for the Xperia X1 and used in two other phones afterwards (within the contract duration which is due to end later this year) - G1 and iPhone 3GS
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What would I see if it was blocked? if I enter *#06# It just shows my IMEI number. My phone isn't tied to a contract and I've tried different SIMs so how do I check/or get it unlocked.
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You would see what you are seeing (you can see the networks but not connect to them). My MUCH older phone that I referred to did much as yours is doing. There was only the option to make emergency calls.
Its possible to report a phone stolen (by its IMEI number) and ALL the networks will block that IMEI number from connecting. Its designed to combat phone theft. Its the same reason that it is illegal to change a phone's IMEI number.
I doubt this is the case (unless you can think of a reason why it might have happened). But maybe ring your network just in case and ask them to check if your IMEI is blocked.
Okay, so I have a samsung vibrant which I am loving but the phone was aquired in a trade. Is there a way that I can transfer the imei on my vibramt to my sim card ? Or is that just redundant?
imei is unique number for each phone, why you want to do that?
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Okay, so I have a samsung vibrant which I am loving but the phone was aquired in a trade. Is there a way that I can transfer the imei on my vibramt to my sim card ? Or is that just redundant?
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it's automatic. Once you use the phone, the imie will show up when they pull up your number. The only thing is that you need to use it for at least a few month before the provider will be welling to do anything for you. When i had the Mytouch last year, that i got from a trade, I called in to try and get it unlocked, and they wouldn't do it because it showed up on their system that I only used it a few weeks. If you have t-mobile, you can actually login to your online accunt and it'll show you the current phone that you're using.
Please I do not know where to post this question for help, but since this is the ROM I am using, I figured I should ask here first.
OK here is my scenario: I had an old sim card I Was using frokm a Company that was later bought by T-mobile. Some of my contacts stayed on the SIM, and I wanted to have them synced with the google contacts so I could get them all together. So I put the old deactivated SIM card back in my old mytouch and imported the contacts into my google account, and then put the New Sim card into the mytouch to get data sync , and get the contacts onto the server. For some odd reason, I put the old SIM into my HD2 (7), and now the phone is deactivated and asking me for the Activation code.
Mind you, this does nto scare me because I have my activation code. What scares me is that my emails are gone, text are all gone,, and most things are greyed out.
Is this a Security Feature by Windows Phone 7? If so, how do I recover my texts especially back? There business documents, contacts, all that gone.
PLEASE PLEASE HELP.
Put the card you used to set up WP7 back into the phone and all should be well. WP7 uses the card as core RAM and does not distinguish between card and phone storage. If I understand you correctly, you have effectively taken away a big chunk of the phone's OS and replaced it with an empty (for the purposes of WP7) card.
Reactivate the phone and maybe you will be fine. I guess this is an anti theft feature of WP7. Go to your live account on your PC and check the status of the phone.
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Put the card you used to set up WP7 back into the phone and all should be well. WP7 uses the card as core RAM and does not distinguish between card and phone storage. If I understand you correctly, you have effectively taken away a big chunk of the phone's OS and replaced it with an empty (for the purposes of WP7) card.
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I did not mes with the SD Card. It is the SIM Card that I messed with.
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Reactivate the phone and maybe you will be fine. I guess this is an anti theft feature of WP7. Go to your live account on your PC and check the status of the phone.
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I would have thought that should work, and that it how it should be, but NO. The phone wiped out everything. Including my Music. This is a feature that is badly implemented. What if someone has 2 SIM cards and they travel out of the country and want to switch sims? So, it just wipes out all their Data?
I am so sad at this point I don't know how to feel. None of those texts were even backed up anywhere, including my created documents.
well that's odd, I have two sim cards from a different provider that I swap quite frequently and they work just fine
Just tested a SIM swap and it works on my HD2 too. Seems your problem is different.
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I'm at my wits end with this Samsung S8 phone, Bought a 2nd hand S8, was working fine, but I noticed the internal storage was only showing 9.63GB
Had a look on here and the solution was to stock flash the phone. I did that, all fine, storage was back to normal....BUT since then I can't make or receive any calls.
I get the error "phone not allowed" and it won't connect to ANY mobile network.
I've tried loads of different suggestions
Sim is OK in another phone
Re Flashed (numerous times)
Andriod 7 and 8
Sim and Phone OK with three network
But still have the issue....
Can anyone help me? or push me in the right direction?
Cheers
Tommy
You probably tried this, but try booting into safe mode. If it works then there is a software problem. If the problems persist in safe mode you probably gotta contact Samsung.
Are you sure the phone is unlocked?
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Is the phone blacklisted? if it is blacklisted then it will not connect to service. Your SIM wil work perfect in any other phone.
Hate to say this but it does sound like your phone has been blacklisted.
You can check with one of the online IMEI blacklists.
If your phone shows Phone not allowed and a code like MM#6, it usually is an indication that it was blacklisted.
Check your phone's IMEI on a blacklist checker like http://imeipro.info/
The previous user most likely had the firmware and baseband messed around with and once you flashed stock it reverted to true state, it's highly advised to get back in contact with the person, where was the phone bought? A shop? Online?
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You probably tried this, but try booting into safe mode. If it works then there is a software problem. If the problems persist in safe mode you probably gotta contact Samsung.
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Yeah tried that , still the same
If one is in possesion of a S8 that says "Phone not allowed", and the phone is blacklisted, is there any way of fixing that?
I have the same issue here..
I bought an S8 from Manchester last summer, and I started using it last week, (because my other phone worked longer than expected) and after I gave the phone the Network key that the previous user wrote down for me, then that message appeared.
So im stuck with this almost completely new brick aswell...
Any options at all?
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If one is in possesion of a S8 that says "Phone not allowed", and the phone is blacklisted, is there any way of fixing that?
I have the same issue here..
I bought an S8 from Manchester last summer, and I started using it last week, (because my other phone worked longer than expected) and after I gave the phone the Network key that the previous user wrote down for me, then that message appeared.
So im stuck with this almost completely new brick aswell...
Any options at all?
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The only real solution here is to either go abroad and sell the phone, or sell it to someone who is going abroad. The phone will work outside of the UK.
It does sound as your phones imei Nr is blocked in UK.. Probably the person who sold you the phone, stole it somewhere.
I have the same problem on my Samsung S7 now in Brazil.
In Canada, on Canadian carriers, everything is fine, and if I put the Canadian SIM in there everything is fine. But the minute I plug in Brazilian SIM card, boom, Phone Not Allowed message comes up and it won't connect to any of the Brazilian networks. Brand new SIM, works just fine on another LG phone (and any other phone I tried).
The phone is unlocked, I even checked with a few pieces of software and there is no network lock on it either.
I've got the master & network unlock codes from Samsung, but have no way of inputting them as no prompts for those come up when I insert the Brazilian SIM.
I checked the IMEI, it is definitely clean and not blacklisted.
Heck, I even rooted the phone to see if that would help, and still nothing.
Any idea what else to try or what else might be causing this goddamn message to pop up?!
I solved my S8.
Blacklisted on all uk networks except Three network.
Works perfect.