Help imei problem, Restoring or changing imei?
- By Hadron
- Smartphones
- 3 Replies
As an aside, you say it might have changed when you had it repaired at some time. Do you know what the repair was? If they replaced the motherboard then the IMEI would have changed then. That's the only reason I can think it could happen legitimately.
It's possible that your problem may have arisen because someone else changed their IMEI. Some people do that when they've got theirs blocked (e.g. by stopping paying a contract, or because they bought a stolen phone), and if you were unlucky and someone cloned your IMEI then it would be blocked once this was detected. That's only a hypothesis, and it may be something simpler (including a typo when someone was trying to block a different number - nothing is impossible). But your service provider is the best outfit to talk to about a phone block anyway.
It's possible that your problem may have arisen because someone else changed their IMEI. Some people do that when they've got theirs blocked (e.g. by stopping paying a contract, or because they bought a stolen phone), and if you were unlucky and someone cloned your IMEI then it would be blocked once this was detected. That's only a hypothesis, and it may be something simpler (including a typo when someone was trying to block a different number - nothing is impossible). But your service provider is the best outfit to talk to about a phone block anyway.

