yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] cbass:
For everybody who says it's illegal. Find the law. It is nowhere near VIN swapping, because the government could care less what phone I have, only that I pay the taxes associated with the bill.

It should be openly discussed for people like myself, who are overly paranoid and wish for my carrier to think I have a lower model phone so they have less reason to look at the data I pull down. I also do not want to go into an AT&T Store and have some snot nosed, pimple faced dweeb talk phone chatter with me because they see I have a tilt on my bill. I know at least once, I was held in a store for over 15 minutes because the counter salesperson was adamant I needed a data plan for my 8125, even though I never used data on it.

And before anybody asks, yes, I frequent the stores.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] Snowreaper:
IBTL +1.

The TS ideas that only "crackheads" would steal phones is laughable. I know if i had a stolen phone i'd want to change the IMEI so that i can use it with out drawing attention to myself. But i'm sure its just intellectual curiosity that drives him. :rolleyes:
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] whk:
I would bet that the piracy act would cover it just fine. Unfortunately that is also the act (which prevents you from cracking protections schemes) that would also apply to boot loaders etc that we all love and use. ;)
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] KD8DNS:
O.K. Lets say someone did tell you how to change your IMEI number. Were would you get a new number. Keep in mind, if you used one from a phone you have laying around, that would be in violation of the Wireless Telephone Protection Act of 1998. That would be considered cloning READ HERE Especially the first paragraph.

There are VERY few people that know how and have the technology to do this, most wont even talk about it. I'm sure you can guess who can do this.

Effectively, to do this legaly you would need to contact the manufature of the equipment and see if they would do this, you see when BrandX cellular manufacture gets FCC approval they also get a range of IMEI numbers to associate with those phones. So you would have to sent it to BrandX cellular and have them re-program the IMEI. THis most likely WILL NOT happen.

So my advice to you is just buy a new phone. It will save you allot of headache. Hope I helped
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] cbass:
It seems to me the first paragraph is referring to manipulating a phone to clone another. "A cloned cell phone is one that has been reprogrammed to transmit the ESN and MIN belonging to another (legitimate) cell phone."

That to me means that somebody makes phone X emulate currently used phone Y. Not Phone X emulate subscriber X's previous phone.

Not to mention the whole of that PDF is warning consumers to be aware of their bill in case of a cloned phone making calls, and identity theft. Which, if you are stealing an identity, there are way better things to do than buy a cell phone. Like getting a credit card and using it at an escort service.

Buying a new phone won't solve anything. The IMEI number will update and they will know which snazzy phone I just dropped coin on. I want them to think I reverted to my previous phone so as to not be bothered. The last thing I want to do is to explain why I have a tmobile/fido/etc phone operating on my AT&T plan.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] Boinng:
The law's pretty clear where I live - http://www.met.police.uk/mobilephone/reprogramming.htm

Just a reminder - the internet is international, this forum has many UK readers (like me) on it, all of whom are in part protected by the fact that stolen phones in the UK are immediately blocked on all networks by their IMEI number. Any attempt to get around this by changing IMEI number is itself illegal, and actively policed - see http://www.met.police.uk/mobilephone/imei.htm, or http://www.crimereduction.homeoffice.gov.uk/stolengoods/stolengoods2.htm. It works too - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/6124032.stm. Similar laws are in place in many other countries around the world, and the principle of the IMEI block is pretty much supported by every network worldwide.

Even if we imagine that only crackheads steal phones, they steal for money like anyone else, and the harder it is to reuse stolen phones, the lower their value, and the less reason they'll have to target them. It's not rocket science.

I've no idea if it's possible to change the IMEI on a Kaiser, but I do know that the easier you make it for anyone looking for this information, the more you encourage mobile phone theft - it's a common sense equation and as simple as that. I don't want my phone stolen, and I don't want to use a stolen phone, so I'm not going to be helping anyone out here.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] DaveShaw:
Hi, this isn't us hording any information.

I just don't think you will find anyone on this forum who has the know how, who is willing to even begin looking at changing the IMEI. They want nothing to do with it. If they wanted to share there findings they would have by now. (IMO)

The reasons for changing your IMEI are mostly shady and I don't think any of our senior developer types want to. Remeber what happened to DVD Jon. :) - Might not be exactly the same, but there could be similarities.

Simple fact of the matter, if you are wanting people to discuss how to change your IMEI numbers, your gonna have to ask elsewhere, because no one hear wants to know.

On the other hand, I am enjoying the discussions on the legailty of it :)

Thanks

Dave
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] KD8DNS:
By changing the imei number you are Manipulating the phone to act as another. And why the hell would AT&T care if you have a unlocked T-mobile phone on AT&T's network. And furthermore AT&T will not know what phone you are using if it is a unlocked T-mobile phone. Because the IMEI number is not in there database. The only way they would know exactly what phone you are using is if you bought it from AT&T and the imei number is in there database. they dont have any way of knowing what it is other than that.

There is no disclosure stating that you have to use AT&T branded equipment on there network. You are paying them for monthly service and thats it. If you decide to buy the phone from them score for AT&T.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] ChumleyEX:
YEEEYAAAAA
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] ?Glitch:
Uses for changing the IMEI.

1. Cloning (free calls on your nickel until your account is changed)

2. To gain use of a phone reported stolen.

3. Evesdropping/surveillance.

So the only valid use for it is to defraud the public.

All three of these are a risk to you and me, the account holder, I can't speak for everyone, even in my most 'senier moment'; I'd rather not shoot myself in the foot. There are places that have hardware specifically for modifying the IMEI, but that just wouldn't be found around here.

As for 'superchagedrs', a good public flogging would not be out of order.

?Glitch
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] kimtyson:
Yawn, Yawn, Yawn, Yawn, Yawn, Yawn, Yawn, Yawn, Yawn, Yawn.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] ChumleyEX:
here sleepy head
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] Bjd223:
I worked at an ATT store when I was in highschool and someone stole our Demo phone. It was an expensive Samsumg phone with unlimited data and voice, and free everything from the Media Mall.

I told the corporate rep, and she literally said, I don't care.

I asked her if they could somehow find out who/where the user was, or at least turn it off.

She said, I'm really busy this month, I'll worry about it next month. She also said that ATT will NOT use IMEI's to locate any users unless they have too. They use SIM card numbers for everything. Apparently it is not a secure way of tracking or monitoring phones.

If you steal a phone and use the persons service, they take a more practical approach. They call some people that you called and ask them if they know who you are. Sooner or later someone tells them and BAM they have at least your name.

IMEI's can be changed, however it is usually a bad idea, because if for some reason you ever want to tranfer the phone to another plan, or a new plan (upgrade) if the system does not recognize your IMEI as valid one they will not do it.

Carrier's use your SIM card number to authenticate you on the network, and make sure the IMEI is not blocked. If you pick another IMEI number that is valid your service should continue to work. Pick an IMEI that is exactly the same as yours, except change the last 4 digits around. So as far as I have been told, they don't give a **** what your IMEI is as long as its not blacklisted for being stolen.

FYI, if you call your carrier, and provide them with proof of purchase they might unblock it for you. The worst they can do is tell you no, in which case you are no worse off because it does not work. However, if you stole it, I wouldn't recommend calling them, because... well they don't like when people do that. If you live in the good ol' US of A, receiving stolen merchandise is a crime even if you didn't know it was stolen. I doubt they would charge you, just know its possible if you act like a douchebag.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] alt236:
OK, just to clarify a few things.

In order to use a GSM/UMTS mobile network, two identification numbers are used:

The IMEI (International Mobile Equipment Identity)

The IMSI (International Mobile Subscriber Identity)

The IMEI (in theory) uniquely identifies a GSM/UMTS capable device, be it a phone or a laptop dongle to the cell network. Each network switch checks if the IMEI is blacklisted and if not, it will allow communication with the device.

The IMSI uniquely identifies a SIM or a R-UIM (the CDMA equivalent) card, and as an extension it the user/entity the card belongs to. The switch will check if the IMSI is valid (active) and whether it belongs to its cell operator. If yes, it will allow connection.

So by changing an IMEI, you allow a device to be used when it should have been blacklisted. You cannot make a clone of another device in order to make "free" calls (you need to forge the IMSI for that) nor can you eavesdrop.

And yes, it is illegal in most places to change it.

It is a shame that the howto knowledge has to remain hidden, but as someone above said, it is the equivalent of forging a new licence plate number.

So even if the instructions were posted for academic reasons, odds are that they will not be used as such.

EDIT: The technical bit is different for CDMA networks, but the principle is more or less the same. In addition who is still using them? :p
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] ?Glitch:
Once IMEI can be changed, IMSI is a done deal too for some carriers, hello sprint/verizon, only other diff is RF freq...

Don't place too much trust in ISO 7816 w/-w/o ASIC either.

?Glitch
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] alt236:
Sprint and Verison use CDMA as far as I remember.

In CDMA networks it is much easier to clone; you just need the IMEI (or ESN as its called for CDMA devices). This is one of the reasons CDMA is becoming obsolete everywhere except the US as it seems.

The problem lies in the fact that CDMA does not use an IMSI number. The phone directly identifies the subscriber. <-Ignore this. See Edit 2 bellow.

But you are right, I should have written this in the previous post.

EDIT: And BTW, I stopped trusting ISO certs. in general a while ago :p

EDIT 2: Ahem, sorry my bad: An R-UIM does contain an IMSI but it will not be used to distinguish between phones in a CDMA network for as long as the R-UIM is valid.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] DaveShaw:
Thanks for the insight :)

Dave
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] alt236:
You are welcome :)

Mobile phone security is not my speciality, but this should be more-or-less the gist of it.

For more info, wikipedia has pretty good, high-level articles:

Phone Cloning: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phone_cloning

CDMA: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDMA2000

GSM: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GSM

IMEI: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMEI

IMSI: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Mobile_Subscriber_Identity
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] melbcycle:
IMEI Spoofing - Ad networks collect IMEI - they are watching you

I've been searching for a way to spoof my phone's IMEI to protect my privacy from invasive advertisting networks on Android.

Ad Network Detector claims that 3 of my apps are linked to AdWhirl. These apps collect my phone's IMEI.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but, from the discussion it seems that AdWhirl or it's employees or addition third parties whom they choose to displose my information to, may technically be able to "clone" my phone (let's be fully parranoid here - The Chinese Government, ok).

Not to mention I don't want them to profile me.

So I want my phone to tell all apps that my IMEI number is 0000000000000...

Obviously the US Government and Google think it's perfectly OK to hand my personal information to McDonalds to see how many hamburgers I'm likely to buy.

So if anyone knows how to block such immoral use of my IMEI number please let me know.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] dcarr622:
CyanogenMod has a feature where you can block or modify the data that is seen by applications.

http://androinica.com/2011/05/cyanogenmod-nightlies-secures-android/
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] revized:
While it may sound like a pipedream; please hear me out devs.

I am running an old app, made for android 8, I believe. In android 11, the app does not display it's menu/settings button anymore.

Is there a way to broadcast a message to the app to launch/open the settings tab? It seems easy enough in Android Studio.

Note, I do not have the source to the app. I do have root on the phone (Sam Note 20+ Ultra).

If there is an ADB command option to launch it, that would be just the fix!

Please let me know your thoughts on how to accomplish it
[OnePlus 7T Pro (Regular & McLaren) Q & A] Brunho:
I just received my OnePlus 7T Pro which I bought from a Chinese site. Asked for a Global ROM and it came with a flashed Oxygen 10.3.

I heard people saying it's best to flash again a rom downloaded by yourself in these cases just to be safe. Did some search and read about a lot of ways to do this: through the system updater, through recovery mode, through tools like TWRP...

My question is: what would be the better/simpler way to do this? I just want to re-flash a clean Oxygen rom before starting using my new device.

Thanks in advance to anyone who could give me some help.
[OnePlus 7T Pro (Regular & McLaren) Q & A] toolhas4degrees:
Go to play store. Download oxygen updater. In settings pick full rom and the global variet or one not labeld by country. Next download full rom. After go to settings/system/update on phone. Press the setting button then pick local update. Select the file you just downloaded. Let it do its thing. Reboot at promt. Let it go till it boots back up. Go through initial setup skipping everything. Then go to settings/system/reset options and wipe everything.

You will now be on global firmware clean.

Also keep in mind the system update will not work if the rom you are flashing isn't later than the current one you are running. And if that is the case and this doesn't work. Look for the msm tool in the op7tpro thread
[Huawei P20 Lite Questions & Answers] docxgames:
My question is:

If you dload stock firmware doesd you phone get factory reset?

i need to dloadstockj firmware a stock rom so i can be play protect cetified again.(stupid google)

a few apps i need / want can only be used when certified so yeah... i'm asking this first bcs i dont know if i need to back up all my data and dont want to install all my apps again.

ty in advance
[Huawei P20 Lite Questions & Answers] -Alf-:
Dload method will erase all your data (and lock the bootloader again).
[Xiaomi Mi 10 Questions & Answers] Farhan...:
Hi

I have recently updated/flashed ROM to miui 12.0.6.0 (QJBEUXM). Since the update, touchscreen response is lagging.

Sometime it dies for few minutes and some time I have to press many times or very hard. Restart helps sometimes. This is frustrating. Everything else seems to be working fine.

Any clue how I can fix this or downgrade back to miui11.

I had issues with twrp and tried 2/3 different varient. Can this cause it?

Many thanks
[Xiaomi Mi 10 Questions & Answers] shivadow:
Another a bit late.. I think I know what you mean. Everything freezes for a few seconds or more. I found that it is most common in chrome and how to defeat the lock up is to pull the notification slide down (slide from status bar downwards) and immediately close it. It should jump back into life.

No clue what causes it but it related to chrome somehow..
[LG V40 Questions & Answers] f22s:
hello

please help

I want a full backup ( v409n )

It contains files (rawprogram.xml & patch.xml)

please please please please

My device is dead

I mistakenly upgraded it to AT&T version
[LG V40 Questions & Answers] AsItLies:
just flash the korean kdz with lgup?
[LG V40 Questions & Answers] Sherzaman Khan:
You should join lg v40 group and download fulbackup from group and flash it in qfil
[LG V40 Questions & Answers] Sherzaman Khan:
Have u download mode?
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] anubis23:
The past week ive flash HardSPL 1.4 to my phone and it worked great, then i made several cooked roms, and was flashed successfully, but today i made a new rom, but when i flash it to the phone, its like the phone is booting up from a backup source rom, instead of the rom i flashed to it, does anyone know how to fix this?

Reason it seems like it booting up from a back up source is because it has errors loading CABs that ive took out from the phone, and these rom has been removed from my prevouse cooked ones, and i didnt show any error, also i get a shell32.exe error ..
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] NielDK:
Smells more like something burning in the kitchen.

If it took from a backup. And your previous flashes worked, the backup would be good also.

Did you try hard reset after reflash? Or did you perhaps try to restore from a backup ?
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] anubis23:
hi

Heres a pic of the first error i get follow that comes the shell32.exe

Yeah i try to hard reset it and stuff samething..
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] panosha:
Check Opera .cab name in config_AP.txt in ConfigAP folder. :)
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] anubis23:
hi

sweet tysm to everyone who replied, and ty panosha it worked. now do all or most of these apps have index installers like this one does? or something else?
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] skrap3:
Only some apps i think, but take a look in the operatorPKG
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] anubis23:
oh

Ah ok i see, hey think you guys can answer one more question i have? didnt want to make a new post to waste mysql space, but this is the first WM device i own, but i played arround with the BJ 1 and 2, does the window update thing work? and how often does it update? because i see alot of cooked rom removes it..
[Razer Phone 2 Questions & Answers] polskon:
Okay this might be a silly question but is there supposed to be any noticeable difference in the stock ROM with the Trinity kernel than without it? Is there supposed to be some sort of menu for overclocking or other options?

The reason I'm asking is because I'm trying to figure out whether it installed properly. I haven't done a kernel swap in many years but I thought I remember it doing a lot more to the phone than it has. As it stands it looks like it only I've wiped my phone and gained nothing.
[General Topics] siroya:
Is ther any redmi phone which i can root offline without accessing mi account ?
[Huawei P Smart Themes, Apps, and Mods] Farzad37:
Hi for members of xda

I have found new way to reinstall removed system music app by force.

I tried to update music app on my Y8p or called Psmart S

note: (this gadget use EMUI10.1 and HMS services)

but first i remove that by cmd and adb shell commands then i can't install another version or updated one and i dont know why, but i found a way to reinstall deleted app and i attached the main version of original app in below if you want download and install it ,itworks fine.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Questions & Answers] denraweb:
Does anyone know how to get to this EXACT screen? I was messing around with some apps and settings and it popped up when I clicked on something. It's in "settings" somewhere, but I can't find out exactly how to get to it. Thinking it was just an app's settings, I uninstalled all the apps I was messing with and it stays open and functional. Which leads me to believe it is a genuine Samsung setting somewhere in the phone itself.

Also, at the bottom of this screen it says "To disable this SIM, remove the SIM card" but every post I have come across containing these words, do not lead me to the correct screen and/or have a completely different layout.

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[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Questions & Answers] raul6:
try under settings / connections /data usage
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Questions & Answers] denraweb:
Tried. It's a different screen. Thanks for the input.
[Samsung Galaxy J7 Prime / J7 On NXT (Exynos7870)] RandomGamer2000:
View attachment 5200991

Welcome to LightROM v1.0 for G610X

​

Before you get started....

I am not responsible for bricked devices,
dead SD cards, thermonuclear war, or you
getting fired because the alarm app failed.
Please do some research if you have any concerns
about features included in this ROM before flashing it!
YOU are choosing to make these modifications, and if you
point the finger at me for messing up your device, I will laugh at you.

ROM Features

Android 9, OneUI 1.0

ROM is Ported from A600G & G611F

Stock A600G props

December 2020 Security Patch

Simple Zoom Toggle and One Hand Zoom is added

Food Mode on rear camera

Night Mode on front camera

DPI is adjusted to 16:9 aspect ratio

AppLock is added

Device Security is disabled

Samsung Find My Device is disabled

Smart Capture is added

Radio is added

FRP Lock is disabled

High Performance Mode is enabled

Cam2Api is enabled

Secure Folder is patched

Dolby Atmos is added

Semi-Deodexed

Heavily debloated

Using Cronos Kernel V5 from @ananjaser1211

ROM is only under 1GB (988,67 MB)

What about bugs?

Camera may stretched on some 3rd party apps.

USSD Code does not work.

You tell me.

Credits

@ananjaser1211 for Cronos Kernel V5 and Camera Patch

Downloads, Screenshots and Changelogs on 2nd Post

Installation guide and QnA on 3rd Post
[Samsung Galaxy J7 Prime / J7 On NXT (Exynos7870)] RandomGamer2000:
Reserved For Downloads, Screenshots and Changelogs

Downloads (v1.0)

Google Drive

MEGA

MediaFire

MD5 : 0aea90d116c9507aea5fd0a49b9d17e3

Screenshots

Google Drive

Changelogs

v1.0

Initial Release