Unlocking Samsung E250

"Jon" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> "Road_HogŪ" <No Spam> declared for all the world to hear...
>> > Well, if I told you that the penalty for IMEI changing is a maximum of
>> > 5
>> > years in prison, would you class that as bad?
>
>> Well, no one said anything about changing it.
>
> It already has been changed though, so changing back (what you call
> repairing) is still an offence.
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> Jon

In my opinion, restoring the number to what it was originally what not be
deemed an offense under the act quoted. If the IMEI is currently all zeros
then that probably counts as no IMEI at all, so to restore the original
would not be a "changing" of the number.

However, the penalty being as stiff as it is, I doubt if any repairer would
want to be the first test case, aspecially if the job only earns him a
tenner. He's gonna say no thanks, not worth the risk.

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"Road_HogŪ" <No Spam> wrote in message
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> "Richard Colton" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>> Erm... no.
>>
>> I think you'll find that no legitimate independent phone shop will touch
>> the IMEI given that the penalties for doing so are up to five years in
>> clink plus a potentially unlimted fine.
>
> Really, what for taking a damaged phone and rewriting the same IMEI number
> to it, to repair it.

Yes.

> Now if it was a blocked/barred phone and you were trying to write an IMEI
> number from a good phone to a barred/blocked phone then that is different.
> But to repair a phone by re-writing its own original IMEI number is not
> the same.

Unfortunately, in Law I think you'll find that there is little difference.
I certainly wouldn't take the risk to find out, would you?

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"Road_HogŪ" <No Spam> wrote in message
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> "Jon" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>> "Road_HogŪ" <No Spam> declared for all the world to hear...
>>> What legislation licences you to change the IMEI in the UK?
>>
>> Section 1, paragraph 3b of the Act you quote in another post seems to
>> fit the bill.
>>
>> Also explained in the explanatory note paragraph 5.
>>
>>> Besides, we're talking about reparing/rewriting the IMEI to a phone.
>>
>> You are still changing it.
>
>
> Right, just so I'm absolutely clear on what you are saying. A customer
> brings a damaged phone into a shop with the original details and asks for
> it to be repaired, which involves the re-writing of the original IMEI, you
> are saying that you (the person/shop owner) would be arrested and
> imprisoned if the relevant authorities found out?

No, he's saying it could possibly happen. Any sensible independent would
not risk it, a licensed agent of the manufacturer may.

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"Road_HogŪ" <No Spam> declared for all the world to hear...
> Right, just so I'm absolutely clear on what you are saying. A customer
> brings a damaged phone into a shop with the original details and asks for it
> to be repaired, which involves the re-writing of the original IMEI, you are
> saying that you (the person/shop owner) would be arrested and imprisoned if
> the relevant authorities found out?

Unless that dealer was an authorised (by Samsung, with permission to
change/reprogramme IMEI numbers) service centre then yes they would have
committed the offence.
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