Fact:10% of IMEI's in the UK are duplicates.

Fact: Blacklisted database is NOT global.

Thats why you or anyone arguing wont post a pic of the emei because you know it will be blocked for sure and can be checked in a matter of seconds... ok i am off on holiday have fun everyone on the forum and hope the update comes for you all (wont work for stolen mobiles though ha ha).

DO NOT POST your IMEI details to ANY public forum if you know whats good for you.



Have a good holiday Abil

IMEI # = VIN #. None can legally be changed.

Thats depends on what countries laws you are taking into account.

Granted the UK, most of western europe and the US have laws against it, but there are a hell of a lot of countries it is still legal in.

hey abill_uk, you now started annoying me. you are either kid or just can not understand.

1. You live in perfect world, in perfect country UK,
2. Average salary over there is above 2000 pounds monthly.
3. You have everything in shops, you can take your card and pay 500 pounds for nokia N900.

now
1. we live in country with stupid law and few persons controling everything!
2. Average salary in Ukraine is 300 US dollars. 90% of people average is 200 dollars monthly.
3. N900 is not available in shops even now! how could you say it is stolen, where?
4. My n900 was officially bought in US from Amazon and I paid 500 USD for it. You paid more (who is crazy?)
5. There is sometime no legal way to register it. The registry is being controlled by 'mafia'. as well as the whole market.

don't know how to explain better. let's say US and EU are now getting the Panasonic carmcorder HDC-TM700 (1000$ in US).
Is is not of course available in Ukraine. We have just Panasonic HDC-TM350 for 1200$ in internet and 1400$ in shops.

this is our reality and stupidity of our law.

The topic is about how to change IMEI. Not how to register. this is of course not legal so we could not say do that.
but we could brainstorm how to do that.

what is unclear to you? would you stop posting rubbish posts?

In his case there is only ONE legal way to have a phone, buy it from authorized dealler who is not selling n900!
It is not possible to get it somewhere and come to shop. clear?

this thread is gonna go long for nothing....
1> No one on here knows how to change the imei
2> even if someone knows, he wont post it
3> even if he posts it, the post will be deleted cuz its "illegal"

there is another thread on here which talks about the same thing.. Not a single clue how to do it.. It MIGHT be possible to do it via a box (forgot how its called), but for sure, this is the wrong place to ask. lol...

check out some big forums, which deal with all kinds of phones..

Its easy to find this solution for imei changing on a symbian phone because its been here for long. many people know it, and many are willing to try it.... i dont think anyone has tried with the N900 yet..... Let the OS and phone grow up a bit, then maybe something might come up!!

for now, its next to impossible...

by the way, if thats the case in turkey, then there should be plenty of people willing to crack the imei, as it will be a big business (illegal tho)....

Abil:

Are you saying that the imei can't be used to enforce a commercial agreement that a certain kind of phone can't be sold in a given country?

Yes, it is possible.

But enforcing of N900 out of air in some country doesn't require IMEI - each phone reports a model to tower.

Ok, guys, let's not keep yelling past each other.

Abill_UK for the most part you are correct regarding IMEIs but I have a feeling archimonde and sebastian are too, within their particular contexts. After having worked with Nokia logistics operations, I've seen some crazy regulations and policies! Moscow was one of the craziest.

Some countries are so restrictive with certain items of trade (and cell phones are a BIG one) that they force the creation of massive grey (and black markets)-- and by consequence you see government officials playing by the rules until the right bribe crosses their hands.

Anyway I have no doubt based on his posts that archimonde is sincere. We've had outright crackers on the forum and they are not ashamed to divulge their intent at all.