OUKITEL IMEI recovery
Had trouble making calls after flashing the Oukitel firmware to the phone.
and daild *#06# and discovered that I had lost my IMEI number, which is used to register my phone on the carrier network. Without an IMEI number, you can either call, text or surf the internet. So it's crucial that you restore that number. Here is a small guide on how to reset your IMEI number on ALL smart phones, As long as you have USB drivers for that specific phon.
I will use Windows 10 in this example, as this is the most common operating system to date. If linux users
want a guide too, send me a pm.
Ok, that out of the way, let's begin....
Drivers...
Is the key component for your phone to communicate with a computer, and for communicating with the different chipsets in your phone.
Oukitel uses Mediatek drivers and can be downloaded
here..…
Extract the folder to your desktop. You will need a copy of the OUKITEL firmware.
You can download it
here...
Right click on windows taskbar icon, and click on Device manager.
Click on Action and on Add legacy hardware.
Click on install ....
Click on Brows...
Go in to the Mediatek folder you downloaded earlier and double-click on the android driver.
You can do this for one or all the drivers, and the drivers in the 64 folder to.
Reboot the computer....
Now it's time to fix the missing IMEI number issue....
To make this job as easy as possible for us, we will use the SN Write Tool.
There are a lot of versions and editions of this tool for different phones, but for WP5 and WP5 pro we use v1-1924 which can be downloaded
here ....
Ok, let's begin....
Open the SN_Write_Tool_v1.2020.00 folder and open the SN_Writ program.
Click on System Config.
Onely IMEI and Dule IMEI is checkt.
Now we need to tell the program to retrieve all the necessary information about your phone from the firmware databases. Now click on the MD1_DB button, and go in to the download OUKITEL firmware folder and in to the database folder.
Double click on the MDDB file. Go to the next button AP_DB and add the next database file APDB file. Click the SAVE button.
Now we are ready to write the IMEI number to the phone. Click on the STRT button.
Now enter your IMEI number. If you have not written it down, you can find it on the packaging the phone came with. Turn off your phone and prepare the USB-c cable.
Ckick OK button , and plug the USB cable into the computer and phone and wait a few seconds. A small text is displayed on the phone screen at the bottom left.
The program will verify with the database, before writing the IMEI number to the phone, This may take up to 1 min. If the program finds errors in your IMEI number, you will receive an error message. you can check your number or click OK.
When everything is ready, you will get a green light from the program.
Restart the phone and you now have a new IMEI numbers.....
