Probably they need to pay for an IMEI fee their government wants. I know because it’s the same here. I got PinePhone for $200 and had to pay for $250 IMEI fee. What did I do? Changed the IMEI to my old dead phone’s.
Probably they need to pay for an IMEI fee their government wants. I know because it’s the same here. I got PinePhone for $200 and had to pay for $250 IMEI fee. What did I do? Changed the IMEI to my old dead phone’s.
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Nice, that makes sense. Doesn’t is store more data than just an IMEI number though, like making/model, did you have to spoof that as well or was that easily ignored
muhyb@programming.dev 4 weeks ago
Normally, yes. As for my government concerns, I’m using Nexus 5X. They probably would notice if they investigate but as long as there are no active phones with the same IMEI, they most likely won’t notice.