[Q] Help! I Think I bricked my phone!!

Cicinho · Aug 30, 2010

There is no way for it to work in the UK unless you change its imei. It will however work in Asia no problems. Just wait till you get home and throw in a local sim card.

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chasist · Aug 30, 2010

how do u change the imei?
i think it is illegal..
but i love this phone and being unable to use it now makes me feel kinda sad u know..

Cicinho · Aug 30, 2010

Sorry i have no idea how to change a phones imei, it is illegal. It would take you to google search it as i have never known anyone who has done it before.

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andrewluecke · Aug 30, 2010

It is illegal.. Why is this imei blocked. If it was stolen, and you are found, and you have reason to believe it may have been stolen, be aware that hanging onto stolen goods (even if you didn't steal them is also illegal)

ickyboo · Aug 30, 2010

If you have friends on different networks ask them if you can insert their sim card to test as not all telcos share blacklist. You can always sell the phone to someone not in uk or save it for when you are back in maylay.

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AllGamer · Aug 30, 2010

there is a topic in the DEV section that shows you how to change the IMEI of the phone

however the guide was intended to be used for legit owners that lost their IMEI duing ROM customizations

That's the only tip i'll give, if you can't figure it out from there then you are on your own.

I don't support stolen properties, as i don't want some one else using my phone if i ever lose it and have reported it lost/stolen.

AllGamer · Aug 30, 2010

if it loops more than 2 times even when you hold all 3 buttons, then you are out of luck, the phone is not going to go into download mode no matter what trick you try

chasist · Aug 30, 2010

thanks for all the reply..really appreciate it..i will do as suggested..i dont think by reporting it to police, i will get back my 180 quid..

anything i will update it here

dakine · Aug 30, 2010

Return the phone, and eat the 180.

andrewluecke · Aug 30, 2010

chasist said:
thanks for all the reply..really appreciate it..i will do as suggested..i dont think by reporting it to police, i will get back my 180 quid..

anything i will update it here

Is your 180 quid worth a criminal record if you get caught though?

ickyboo · Aug 30, 2010

Changing iemi is more trouble then its worth and will likely brick the phone. Also you need to generate a new iemi which is hell hard. Go send that phone away to some distant nation and let it live its life on the run

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MAMBO04 · Aug 30, 2010

People we aren't here to judge, just help him with his situation.

He got sold a device which was already stolen, and he didn't know about it. Now he wants to unblock it but the only way he can is by changing his IMEI, the police won't do squat about it and i'm guessing the seller has already legged it, so cut him some slack here.

You can try the IMEI trick, or if you don't want to, report it to the police and see what happens. Not much else to say here.

Henrik313 · Aug 30, 2010

Maybe YOU have stolen the phone?
However.
Go to the police, and let give you the money back. The police give the phone the real owner back. What a question?

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sparkyuiop · Aug 31, 2010

MAMBO04 said:
People we aren't here to judge, just help him with his situation.

He got sold a device which was already stolen, and he didn't know about it. Now he wants to unblock it but the only way he can is by changing his IMEI, the police won't do squat about it and i'm guessing the seller has already legged it, so cut him some slack here.

You can try the IMEI trick, or if you don't want to, report it to the police and see what happens. Not much else to say here.

HERE! HERE! And just to point out, the phone does not have to be stolen to be IMEI blocked. If a phone is blocked because it was lost then that pretty much assures the person that lost it now has a replacement.
Also insurance write offs remain that way and will almost certainly be broken for spares or destroyed.
I know MY GT-I9000 is not stolen but likely it has been replaced as an insurance write off so where am I breaking any law? If anything is it not just being 'Green' by re-cycling and re-using? Yes, that's it I am an Eco Warrior!
Another thing to point out is that you can buy insurance write-offs of just about anything else I can think of, so why not mobile phones?
If I get my phone working I'm not going to tremble every time the fuzz drive by and think that I might randomly get stopped, searched for no reason, have my phone taken for no reason, have the phone analysed for no reason (at the tax payers’ expense) with the chance they could recover the original IMEI and say it technically belongs to an insurance company and arrest me, charge me, send me to court where I get a £50 fine. If the police spent man hours doing that all day we would all be murdered in our beds!
Now, pretty effing please can someone without a backbone made of jelly post a link to changing the IMEI number on the Galaxy S?

Ta

sturmeh · Aug 31, 2010

Changing the IMEI is illegal.
Possessing stolen property is illegal.

You should demand a refund to protect yourself, and if that fails take the phone to the police and tell them who you bought it from.

andrewluecke · Aug 31, 2010

sparkyuiop said:
HERE! HERE! And just to point out, the phone does not have to be stolen to be IMEI blocked. If a phone is blocked because it was lost then that pretty much assures the person that lost it now has a replacement.
Also insurance write offs remain that way and will almost certainly be broken for spares or destroyed.
I know MY GT-I9000 is not stolen but likely it has been replaced as an insurance write off so where am I breaking any law? If anything is it not just being 'Green' by re-cycling and re-using? Yes, that's it I am an Eco Warrior!
Another thing to point out is that you can buy insurance write-offs of just about anything else I can think of, so why not mobile phones?
If I get my phone working I'm not going to tremble every time the fuzz drive by and think that I might randomly get stopped, searched for no reason, have my phone taken for no reason, have the phone analysed for no reason (at the tax payers’ expense) with the chance they could recover the original IMEI and say it technically belongs to an insurance company and arrest me, charge me, send me to court where I get a £50 fine. If the police spent man hours doing that all day we would all be murdered in our beds!
Now, pretty effing please can someone without a backbone made of jelly post a link to changing the IMEI number on the Galaxy S?

Ta

HE said it was reported lost/stolen and even lost property needs to be reported to police.. Obviously the owner wants it back or he wouldn't have bothered reporting it. Either way, he should try to get his money back

The only link I've seen relating to imei's was for people with corrupt tables. Never seen any spoofs.

Since he KNOWS it's stolen, if he spoofs the imei number, and gets busted, he is well and truly f***ed, because it shows that he knows that it was.

Report the seller. Either way, if it's illegal to discuss pirated software here, it is probably illegal to discuss changing imei's, and obviously, Samsung wouldn't make it overly easy to do so. And even if it were easy, I wouldn't publicly advertise how to do it, because if my phone gets stolen, then it makes the thief harder to locate. If you guys were the person who owned that phone, would you want it back? So this person got screwed, but the guy who originally owned it got screwed more. Return the phone, the owner might offer an award, or demand a refund.

ariedam · Aug 31, 2010

[Q] Bricked my Galaxy S GT-i9000 !!!

I tried to update the firmware from my European Galaxy S GT-i9000, but it didn't work and now my phone don't turn on.
I can't get anything in the screen.

I already try almost everything to get in download mode. I tried to remove the battery and USB connection for 5 min than put it back with the button combination (I try all combination) pressed. Tried to plug USB first (with and w/o Odin open) and the battery second, battery first and USB second.

It don't even show if the battery is charging. If plug the USB (charger or PC) with the battery in, it get a little warm. So I thing it is charging the battery.

How can I "unbrick" my new phone?

odyssey61 · Aug 31, 2010

ariedam said:
I tried to update the firmware from my European Galaxy S GT-i9000, but it didn't work and now my phone don't turn on.
I can't get anything in the screen.

I already try almost everything to get in download mode. I tried to remove the battery and USB connection for 5 min than put it back with the button combination (I try all combination) pressed. Tried to plug USB first (with and w/o Odin open) and the battery second, battery first and USB second.

It don't even show if the battery is charging. If plug the USB (charger or PC) with the battery in, it get a little warm. So I thing it is charging the battery.

How can I "unbrick" my new phone?

If you plug it into your computer is it detected? Try and run adb and see if it detects it.

Porschexda · Aug 31, 2010

I have the same problem. Pc not detect the phone.

webstar1 · Aug 31, 2010

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i feel experimental, will i permanentley brick my phone if i flash a nexus one cyanogen mod to my galaxy, will i be able to access my clockwork mod recovery or even download mode?
quick reply because i feel nervous but i really want to try

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