Alpha Release for HTC IMEI Restore Wizard

[mimarsinan]

Hello,

Here's some concrete work from the IMEI update project.
Please use the attached file and report your findings here.

Instructions:
1. Extract the ZIP
2. Run the file iWizard
3. Make sure ActiveSync is running and your phone is connected via USB
4. Make sure Windows Mobile has finished booting
5. Click "Next" in iWizard, let it work (shouldn't take more than 10 seconds)

Let us know:
1. If iWizard worked:
a. The model of your phone
b. The IMEI # and checksum codes if you like (you can PM for your security)
2. If iWizard failed:
a. How it failed
b. Any error messages, or screenshots of failure
c. The model of your phone

The goals of this alpha release are as follows:
1. To determine which HTC phone models work with our method
2. To determine the algorithm of the IMEI checksum codes so we can update

Thanks for your interest!

Don't get too excited - this alpha release does NOT change your IMEI yet. That is coming soon, as soon as we know which phone models the above method works on and is reliable with!

Note: The iWizard works great on my i-mate k-jam.

[canstb]

I tried this a minute ago.


My qtek 9100 is connected to my pc, can synchronise with active synch but I received the error message I attached.

[Leerim]

I have spv m500, its synchronized with my pc, but I recive the same error as canstb said...

[canstb]

sorry for my first quick reply.
I was thinking that my qtek9100 was cid unlocked apparently it was not. I used the tool lokiwiz v2b to unlock it and ran your program again.
and here is the result.

[mimarsinan]

Thanks, please keep the results coming in! We'll figure what the checksum alg. is and then fix your phones :lol:

[vijay555]

Guys, I think you should PM Sinan rather then publically posting your IMEIs.

As we all know, cloning and changing IMEIs may be illegal in your jurisdiction; additionally, publically posting your IMEI is liable to end up with it being cloned by thieves not from this board etc. Not wise, so be careful, and please stay legal.

V

[canstb]

thanks for your warning.
sinan, I am deleting my attachment to my previous message. if you need the info again, just ask for it.

[Leerim]

can anyone tell how to download lokiwiz, and how can i find out if my Magician iz CID locked or not?

and is there any tool for unlocking SPV m500 (magician)?

thnx

[mimarsinan]

Yes, can you please PM it? Also, did the tool accurately detect your real IMEI?

Everyone, please PM your IMEI and checksums for security...or if you're not comfortable with that, please just say if the tool correctly detected your IMEI on your phone model, and report the phone model.

aWizard/Lokiwiz can be used to CID unlock phones, available here on this forum as well...pretty easy to find and use them, they're free tools as well.

You may need to downgrade your ROM first...

[Leerim]

i used lokiwiz to unlock my device, now some other message appears, here is the pic... and the program doesent stop, it tries to find imei, but it seems like it will never stop...

[mimarsinan]

Is this on Vista? Please see if it works on a regular XP box...if not, thanks for letting us know, be sure to try with the next alpha.

[Leerim]

no its not vista, its just a theme for xp.

so you think there might be a solution for my device to?

[mimarsinan]

Was the unlock successful with the CID unlock tool?
I think you may need to downgrade your ROM and CID unlock your tool first.

[mamaich]

According to what I've read in another discussions, this tool would work only on devices that store IMEI on DOC chips

These are - nearly all smartphones produced by HTC, and communicators like HTC Wizard and Prophet. The tool would never work on HTC Himalaya, BlueAngel, Universal, etc.

You can easily determine would the tool work on your device or not. Just take the ROM update tool, extract it with WinRAR. If it has the file "radio_.nbf" - the tool would not work at all.

The tool should not be called "HTC IMEI Restore Wizard" as it does not support all HTC devices. It should be renamed to something like "HTC IMEI-on-DOC Editor tool".

[raskal]

The goals of this alpha release are as follows:
1. To determine which HTC phone models work with our method
2. To determine the algorithm of the IMEI checksum codes so we can update
.

it is easy to determ which models work, just buy all the HTC devices and try yourself and you will know. I am doing same thing, since i don't want risc affect any of the users phones.

[leimie786]

Rascal you sound like a baby. We should try to help each other, not put each other down. And remember business is business! You couldnt have thought that you would be the only person that could provide a imei repare tool forever!!

Maybe now you will drop the price of your dongle or even better, make the program work without the dongle!!

Hopefully the release of mimar's tool will drive you to produce better things.

[mimarsinan]

AFAIK the Wizard has a radio rom file, doesn't it? I've used the tool on my Wizard just fine.

Raskal, tale the suggestions of our good friends here - update your obsolete sales mechanism, get rid of the pkey dongle, that will probably be the only way for you to remain competitive.

[perganon]

Great work MimarSinan ;)

thanks for share and not change a my device imei :(..
my device : HTC Magician
device name: MDA Compact

[mimarsinan]

Your device is CID unlocked, right?

[TheBrit]

I have spv m500, its synchronized with my pc, but I recive the same error as canstb said...
The spv M500 is a Windows Mobile 2003SE device. As far as I am aware this tool is for Windows Mobile 5 devices.

[perganon]

Your device is CID unlocked, right?

yea my device CID Unlocked.

Your software not supported magician right?
My Device Magician :(

[mestrini]

not working for me :?

I have a Wizard (Qtek9100)
ROM: 1.6.7.1 WWE
Radio: 01.13.10
ExtROM:1.1.7.105

I've upgrade OS and Radio ROMs so the device is CID unlocked but i get the communication error message shown in second post.
I've even enabled RAPI and CID unlocked it again but error still is present

[mestrini]

Ok. I now know what is wrong. I didn't extract the second exe (pdocread.exe) in the zip file to same folder (this should be mentioned in the instructions of first post or in a readme file inside the zip)

Program worked ok and read IMEI was correct

BTW, what does the "pdocread.dat" file do?

[mimarsinan]

The project is nearly finished 100% and we'll release the fully operational beta with change-capability :D

[pablorf]

How can I CID unlock a qtek9090? is it the same thing that unlock extended rom?
Sorry if the question is stupid but I am a newbie in this phone stuff :)

Regards,

[raskal]

AFAIK the Wizard has a radio rom file, doesn't it? I've used the tool on my Wizard just fine.

Raskal, tale the suggestions of our good friends here - update your obsolete sales mechanism, get rid of the pkey dongle, that will probably be the only way for you to remain competitive.

well in the so called "obselete" sales mechanism is my protection and inside is the imei checksum algo you are looking for. do not think that when i use shitty dillo protection this is all i count on...

actualy i have no ideea what you have against the fact that i am selling my software and not put it free, i am quite confused about it :? on your page www.mimarsinan.com you are also offering your own software for money. Same think i could ask you: why you try selling your soft and not work for free?

and second thing, why you solution you want make work only for turkish people and not for all comunity? are you racist somehow?

[leimie786]

Mimarsinan please distribute your product to anyone in the world and make this F@#@*NG BABY shutup!! I hope you wont turn out to be just like raskal and start selling it to people outside Turkey.

[raskal]

Mimarsinan please distribute your product to anyone in the world and make this F@#@*NG BABY shutup!! I hope you wont turn out to be just like raskal and start selling it to people outside Turkey.

before you start begging, i have simple suggestion for you ;)

buy computer, buy book to learn and understand programming, find free version visual studio, buy ida, buy htc device do some experiments and maybe you will succeed make your own FREE solution...

good luck 8)

[mestrini]

@Raskal

hey m8, you're bigger than this petty discussions. You are where you are due to time and life investment and the image you are leaving here may not be so good to your business.

People could only judge you if you didn't payback the information you got here while making a lot of money from payed solutions. But that doesn't happen since you're probably the guy that donates the most to the forum's account. A lot of peolpe complain but they surf here for free while you help that to happen.

Also you shouldn't expect to be the only one holding the solutions forever and those that want to share it for free are free to do it.

So just ignore them and let them take their time and money to get there.

cheers

PS: I subscribe 100% to your last comment. I've always learned like that although in other GSM areas info is more easy to get (DCT3 at least)

[vijay555]

Guys, as mestrini says, this is a childish dispute.

I entirely applaud mimarsinan's project, and give even greater credit to Raskal for coming up with a great, integrated solution.

I'm not a programmer, but an enthusiast. I like to enthuse. I'm enthused by both of these great board members.

As I've said before, ALL MEMBERS, please respect each other. There might be reason to be bitchy, but I'll think better of you if you just walk away from the argument.

Please be nice. It's easier then being childish.

V

[mimarsinan]

Raskal,

You're not saying its because you have a dongle that you can calculate IMEI checksums, right :lol: Or am I missing something here?

I know you are very threatened by the imminent release of this tool. This is why you and your friends have been so rude towards me and my projects. This is why you tried to insult me and discredit me many times. All this does indeed make you look very unprofessional - a "cry baby" in the words of other forum members (you don't even need to take my word for it).

I told you on day one that you needed to have an easier way to buy. You couldn't sell me this product in one full week. It was easier for me to unlock my phone on my own, rather than figure out how to buy your solution!

Do you think I was happy wasting a week when I could have just paid $whatever for your solution? My time is a lot more valuable than what your dongle/credits cost. The problem for you is, my time is way more valuable than waiting weeks for a response from you. So you forced me to solve the problem on my own.

Otherwise, I have no problem with selling software, nor do I have any problem with you.

If you have a problem with me, that's because you know I'm about to take a good amount of your business away, and its all your fault - do not blame me for it. I am simply filling a need.

Make no mistake - every time you insult me or try to put me down, that gives me more energy to get the work done. Tonight you have just given me the energy to finish the beta release. Thank you!

PS: I will also include the source codes in the ZIP file so other people can review and edit the source codes. I guess this makes me a real xda-developer now! I am giving back to the community Raskal, so just imagine what other people will do with the sources I upload.

[raskal]

Also you shouldn't expect to be the only one holding the solutions forever and those that want to share it for free are free to do it.


i just want to mention that i have 70% of my information to make my tool from THIS FORUM and of course because of this there are other more smart ppl have solutions before me otherwise i could not grab this information from here. There are many smart people around the world and is ridiculos from me to expect to hold a solution forever or to be the only one can do it, i've never said that. anyway all i want to say is, that even i was first releasing the IMEI solution, this not mean i was the only one could do it, i know for sure some others wich could do it long time before me, they just not released it.



Make no mistake - every time you insult me or try to put me down, that gives me more energy to get the work done. Tonight you have just given me the energy to finish the beta release. Thank you!



sorry but i can not remember to insult you in my last post. I only asked why your are charging money for your own software on your own page www.mimarsinan.com but pretend from others to put their software free? :?

about "your" free tool, your friends who r&d this solution will do it anyway, even i post or not post anything here, so... :wink:

[loverbadi]

Hi sir MIMARSINAN,

All Turkish HTC users prop up you..

[loverbadi]

Hi Sir MIMARSINAN,

Really you are a great man. Thanks for all your works.

Actually i dont give my IMEI somebody because i know that is a false behavior but like all other people who believe you and prop up you so we must do it for all support.

And then I used iwizard.exe and reported my screen view by PM you.
it is only example screen view that on this page.

We are waiting good news from you :)

Best regards..

[Topaz71]

http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/9763/magicianerroruo1.th.jpg (http://img213.imageshack.us/my.php?image=magicianerroruo1.jpg)

I am using i-mate jam... Tried to unlock it with the program but got an error seen above... Any solution?[/img]

[mimarsinan]

sorry but i can not remember to insult you in my last post.

That's a pretty convenient selective memory you got there :D You not only insulted me but were considerate enough to do so in my native language :)

pretend from others to put their software free? :?

Not sure I understand what you're trying to say...as I wrote in my very first post on this forum, I'm a shareware author, and the amount of money I make isn't tied to my level of software protection, but its ease of use and PURCHASE, which is my original and only message to you. Of course the response of your proxy to that was to accuse me of being a hacker or something like that.

about "your" free tool, your friends who r&d this solution will do it anyway, even i post or not post anything here, so... :wink:

I think you're still missing the point. It was so hard for me to buy your dongle that I found it easier to fix the phone on my own. I would love it if people that helped me how would release a tool that worked for everybody before or after I do, for free or commercially, as long as its obtainable without major logistical complications!

I don't feel right selling something I didn't invent, so mine shall be available free...

So in closing, I truly hope your misplaced anger towards me dissipates. Heck, I just want people who live in my country to be able to use their phones again! I'm sure if you made your tool available for online ordering and delivery today, not only would you see an increase in sales, but also happy customers...

...meaning ultimately, MORE MONEY AND PROFITS FOR YOU. Isn't that what you want in the first place?

Call me a hacker, a government spy, or whatever you want - as long as your product is hard to obtain, there'll be others like me trying to get their problem solved. Insulting me won't help you with that, I hope you can see your anger is truly misdirected, Raskal.

[mestrini]

http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/9763/magicianerroruo1.th.jpg (http://img213.imageshack.us/my.php?image=magicianerroruo1.jpg)

I am using i-mate jam... Tried to unlock it with the program but got an error seen above... Any solution?[/img]

This sw is developed for the Wizard device. It's even stated in the program's title bar (see your picture ;) )

I bet the address it's reading from is different from the one in your device

[mimarsinan]

Part of the goal for this alpha release is to determine which devices the method works on, and those it fails on.

So please let us know whbich devices it worked on, and those on which it failed.

Thanks!

PS: The wizard in the title bar is "wizard" in the "helper" sense (like printer setup wizard), and not the dvice sense ;) So please keep trying and let us know :)

[raskal]

Call me a hacker, a government spy, or whatever you want - as long as your product is hard to obtain, there'll be others like me trying to get their problem solved. Insulting me won't help you with that, I hope you can see your anger is truly misdirected, Raskal.

I think you have a heavy mental problem or you are mixing some ones other posts with mine... Read careful my posts releated to your person.

In no one of my posts i have called you a hacker, nor a goverment spy or whatever. I simply suggest you to consult a psyhiater as soon as possible, because seems you have halucinations or simply some "wizards" and the "magicians" heavy affected your imagination.

[leimie786]

Ok lets say mimarsinan's tool works to change the imei. Which imei do i use to replace mine??

[mestrini]

Ok lets say mimarsinan's tool works to change the imei. Which imei do i use to replace mine??

It depends on the country you do it in!

In Uk an experiment that was made some time ago and some 6 guys (or so) changed their phone's IMEI to the same number and nothing happened for more than 3 months. Some even made calls with the changed phones between them and the networks didn't act.

Now if you're talking about Turkey where they're very strict with IMEI policy then even valid IMEI numbers (not stolen phones) but not registered in state's (white) list are automatically blocked. To overcome this situation you'd have to change the Wizard's IMEI to one accepted by the providers; like one taken from a valid IMEI of an old phone

What some people don't understand is that there might be valid reasons to change IMEI. For example, i was once handling a Nokia 8210 board with an old case that had lost the IMEI sticker and i forgot to read the IMEI number before erasing the phone's eeprom. Result? Phone that couldn't register to the network. The solution was then to get an IMEI from a list of old (read dead) phones i keep for such situations. Now i didn't stole the phone nor wanted to be involved in any illegal actions but the IMEI changing was required

cheers

[vijay555]

mestrini:
might be valid reasons to change IMEI
Undeniably there may be valid reasons to change the IMEI, but many states consider this to be highly illegal, for their own reasons. So we may have a valid reason, but you may have difficulty explaining that to your state. Some may be reasonable, some may have strict liability.

If you change IMEIs, whatever country you're in, best not to tell your local police force :wink:

V

[canstb]

for the guys who didn't steal their HTC Wizard and at the same time cannot prove to authorities that their device is not illegal;
I found the way how to change "the" code. You can pm me if you are interested and we can discuss the matter out of this forum since people here seem not to be so much keen on reading this kind of illegal stuff, at least here.

ps. remember that I am not a developer and I cannot work on solutions for other devices. I took the risk on myself and made all my work and test on my own wizard.

[mimarsinan]

I think you have a heavy mental problem or you are mixing some ones other posts with mine... Read careful my posts releated to your person.

Oh, really? I think you've got amnesia dude...lets recall what you wrote here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=58621

you have not made solution becuase you simply not have the background to do such tools. it is from mamaich, he is good in this what he do, you are just an "ibne", nothing more or less...

Here, you are insulting me in Turkish, calling me a faggot (ibne means faggot in Turkish for those of you who do not know).

I simply suggest you to consult a psyhiater as soon as possible, because seems you have halucinations or simply some "wizards" and the "magicians" heavy affected your imagination.

I've got only two suggestions for you:

1. Take it easy, dude. You're beginning to forget things.
2. You better get rid of that dongle soon, or you'll go bankrupt.

Later! I've got some real work to do.

PS: Need to work on your grammar and spelling too, I might add.

[mimarsinan]

I will release the final version of the tool very soon now!

[canstb]

crc8 algortihm is also solved sinan. check your mails, prepare the ui and let people use it.

[serkanToXA]

My device is i-mate JASJAR (HTC Universal).when I use this tool I see that connection problem error message:

Unable comminicate with device. Please make sure device is connected via USB, ActiveSync is enabled, and Windows Mobile is running.

[Bigshoguns]

HI!

Will this program help my situation?

I just bought a branded Tmobile MDA ( Wizard ) from ebay for myself. Will my boyfriend paid for it..lol

Anyway.. The IMEI #'s are wrong on the box and phone AND in the phone *#06#.

I want to revert back to the IMEI # that is back on the phone will this tool allow me to do this???

The seller agreed to refund my money but i want to try everything b4 i return it. Got it for a GREAT! price that's why i want to go thru the headachhe.

thanks guys in adv.
Brittany,

[harej]

I attached my SPV M500 to my pc but when I run the wizard it says it cannot connect to device.

[ant123]

Anyone know of a way to change the imei on a Himalaya?
:?:

[nokia8210]

hello can any one tell me what software is needed to change imei on m3100 thanks.

[chiragp]

bro u must see the 1 post of this thread

posted by mimarsinan

thnks

[hm_fa_da]

Dear mimarsinan ,

I don't know much about PDA platforms .... , is it possible that your software works on Gigabyte G-smart i series phones ?

THankssssssss

[shanefalco]

Selam mimarsinan,

I am at Turkey and i really need your help for imei issue. i have cingular 8525. i think it is same as jasjam. and i need your assistance to do it. please advice me, or contact me for a solution. thanks in advance. and if you are in istanbul, i wanna drink a couple of coffe in taksim together.

Thanks bro,

[alex_fatman]

iWizard Alpha worked for show info !!
iWizard beta works but can't change because of couldn't unlock with aWizard !!

[raylax]

it gave me an I/O error 998
thats on a htc touch

i am trying to get tomtom trafic to work for free
i think that tomtom uses your imei to track if you have used the month of free traffic update you get on your first install

[ati_caltex]

getting the "Unable to communicate....." error same as others posted. There ain't any Turkish tea to drink too.

[operilla]

Has any one tried with the Kaiser??????????

[haroonsher]

Hi

My model is i-mate PDA2K and it gave me window telling me that my IMEI number is 0000000000000 that is not correct and hence cannot change the IMEI.

[weresgyufa]

This tool is working with Universal, or somebody have a tool what can change the imei number in the device