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Many a year ago, when the iPhone was new and Android was on version 1.6. Sprint offered the SERO plan, an unlimited plan for friends and family. When smartphone
by thedougd 2y ago
Many a year ago, when the iPhone was new and Android was on version 1.6. Sprint offered the SERO plan, an unlimited plan for friends and family. When smartphones hit, they would no longer allow the SERO unlimited plan to transfer to the new phones.
The HTC phones had a Qualcomm radio that, with the right tooling, one could write all 0s to the IMEI (or the CDMA equivalent) register. Then you could write any IMEI to the register. That worked well for a few years.
- sfx2000 2y agoSERO was one of the Sprint Rate Plans, the other was the Pioneer Plan for early adopters on SprintPCS HTC got into a bit of trouble with the carriers on the whole IMEI/MEID rewrite mess at the end of the day. With Qualcomm, that was an NVITEM that was supposed to be read-only.
- m463 2y agodidn't I read recently about some manufacturer that shipped many of its phones with the same imei? EDIT: "Over 13,000 Vivo phones found to be using same IMEI number" https://www.techradar.com/news/over-13000-vivo-phones-found-to-be-using-same-imei-number https://www.techradar.com/news/over-13000-vivo-phones-found-...