No reception...

[kastro]

Okay..

So i'm walking and stumble across a G4 Wizard on the road. Now where i'm from, South Africa, there is an option to call the operator and black list the phone.

I have CID Unlocked the phone with lokiwiz 3a and installed a new ROM (BlackDiamond 2.0) to try jack it up.

But when I inserted the SIM Card, the phone wouldn't receive any reception what so ever from the operator.

Does anyone have a clue on how they can get the phone to find signal.

I'll sell it and give u 50% of sale ;)

[nothin]

is it overclocked >276 mhz?

[kastro]

Nope it isn't. Has that got anything to do with the phone been black listed?

What I think happens is that the networks block that specific IMEI number and make the phone void. Is there a way to change the IMEI number of the phone. Like i said, i THINK that is what has happened so I could be wrong...

[Huckleberry88]

Did I get it right you found the Wizard on the street and you SIM unlocked it?

If I lost my Wizard I would appreciate very much to get in back - even just to get back the data and contacts etc ...

[kastro]

I would have done that if there was any DATA on the phone. The phone was brand new and had no contacts/calendar notes - zip! And plus I had waited 2 days for the person to call me and no one called.

Now back to the issue......

[xeno1]

If the phone was blacklisted then company's can do 1 of 2 things, not send a signal to the phone at all or just not allow you to make calls on the phone at all but the phone would still show a signal. The other possibility is that since you found it on the road maybe the phone had fallen and hit the ground hard enough to detach the antenna. There are ways around a blacklisting, but since that info can be used in the wrong way I don't give that info out. That info however is here on xda if you look in the right places though.

[kastro]

Phone is in perfect condition. Don't reckon its the antenna that has detached at all.

I've searched everywhere on xda and still have not come right. Info can be used in the wrong way? Doesn't make sense. Please PM me and try help me get it working, otherwise I just might as well just throw the G4 in the bin since it's of no good use.

Is it possible for the network to identify a specific IMEI number? If that is possible, maybe they have just black listed that specific IMEI number. Is it possible to change that figure?