Genuine IMEI Implant Program – Frequently Asked Questions

Mobile phones without an original IMEI number were got blocked on December 1st, 2009. Cell phones bearing an invalid, fake or duplicate IMEI numbers will get no network coverage and their mobile phone will not receive operator signal. However, using the GII program users can implant a new IMEI number and get their phone working. But since not many users are familiar with GII program, here is the answers to few frequently asked questions.

What is an IMEI number ?
IMEI stands for International Mobile Equipment Identity, is a unique 15 digit number implanted in mobile handsets. Every mobile handset in the world carries a unique IMEI number.

Why IMEI is required ?
IMEI helps mobile service operators in identifying a handset from it’s IMEI number. It can be compared with a vehicle number, PAN card or social security number.

How can I check the IMEI number of my Handset ?
Press *#06# keys on your mobile handset and it will display a 15 digit number and that is your unique IMEI number.

Why will they block a handset with invalid IMEI number ?
Mobile phones with invalid, fake, duplicate or spurious IMEI numbers, pose threat to National security. TRAI (Telephone Regulatory Authority of India) has ordered all the mobile operators not to allow calls to be processed on handsets without valid IMEI numbers.Your handset will not work with any network as your handset has an invalid IMEI number.

Can I change my service provider/SIM card to solve this problem ?
Not exactly. Since IMEI is a handset feature and by changing the service provider or SIM card, the problem will not be solved .
How can I change my handset IMEI number ?
You can implant a new IMEI number at authorized GII service centers. There are more than 1600 outlets have been opened in India.
Where should I go to get a genuine IMEI number ?
You should only and only visit authorized GII service centres recognized by COAI & MSAI. Getting a new IMEI number implanted at any unauthorized service center will not solve your problem.

How to check if blocked handset has been implanted by the authorized GII center with a genuine IMEI number or not ?
You can verify IMEI validity status by sending a SMS.

What documents do I need to carry in order to change my IMEI number ?
You need to carry ID proof. (Ex: Voter ID Card, Drivers Licences, etc). Your photograph will be captured at the authorized GII service centre, at no extra cost, apart from Rs. 199/-

How much time will it take to change the IMEI number ?
The whole process takes about 10 – 30 minutes.

[Via techcular ]

Block Stolen Mobile Phones Using IMEI Number

IMEI stands for International Mobile Equipment Identification. All mobile handsets are assigned unique IMEI numbers and no two mobile handsets share the same IMEI number, even by mistake! You can find your mobile handset’s IMEI number by typing *#06# on your mobile. Since this number is unique, it will help us in locating your lost or stolen mobile handset. For now, note down this IMEI number and keep in a safe place. You can also find your mobile IMEI number on your mobile handset packet cover.

How to block your lost or stolen mobile handset using IMEI number

When you switch on our mobile phone, your mobile SIM card tries to connect with any available network. Once it finds a supported network it tries to build a network connection between your mobile handset and the nearest tower. During this connection negotiation, your SIM transfers some internal information to the network operator such as your mobile IMEI number, mobile model, version etc. This means your mobile operator keeps the record of your mobile handset number each time you try to switch on your mobile handset and use their service.
Now if you have lost your mobile handset or your phone has been stolen, you can contact your network provider to block your IMEI number. They might ask you to get a Police FIR copy first, do as they say and finally ask them to block your IMEI number. Mobile network providers use a shared hosting service for blocking IMEI numbers, which means if you have asked network ‘Airtel’ to block your mobile handset, it automatically gets blocked by network ‘VodaFone’, ‘Reliance’, ‘Idea Cellular’ and so on.
Now when that thief will switch on your mobile handset, no service providers will allow it to build any connection with them. It does not matter if he changes the mobile SIM card, since SIM card requests for the service with IMEI number and a blocked IMEI number handset will be ignored and the mobile will become an useless toy.

If you know someone from any mobile network, you can also ask him to find out the mobile number that’s being used that IMEI number. In that way you will get the mobile number that thief is using on your handset Take help of mobile number tracker to track any mobile number in India.

You can find more information about your mobile handset by entering your mobile IMEI no. Go to IMEI Number Analysis and know more about your handset model, manufacturing date and some internal informations for free.

HTC & Dropbox United To Offer 5GB of Online Storage to New HTC Devices

According to Pocket-lint report, HTC and Dropbox jointly offers 5GB online storage for new HTC devices such as HTC Rhyme, Rezound  etc. will get additional 3GB of storage from its side and 2GB from Dropbox side, totally making 5GB storage capacity just like Skydrive in Microsoft and iCloud in Apple. This facility can extend for all Sense 3.5 devices in near future where users can sync their phone with the computer or other devices running the Dropbox software to save files and photos from phone.


Dropbox can further provide 8GB upgradation by convincing your friends to sing up to the service, where as HTC’s additional 3GB can easily be transformed maximum to 10GB free storage. HTC was not sure about its Windows Phone 7 Smartphones space and suggested that Window Phone 7 already has a very convincing offer from Skydrive powered by Microsoft seared into the OS. Actually Skydrive offers 25GB of free space to tempt people to the service and currently HTC’s Android Sense 3.5 is only avail in HTC Rhyme. On the other hand, with more phone announcements expected in the coming weeks from the company, so we don’t have to wait long in this case.



Yesterday, this announcement was made in Official HTC Facebook page and you could see people are very much interested to about the joint venture by liking through ‘Likes’ on Facebook . Even in Twitter HTC is happy to announce 5GB online storage with Dropbox. Every HTC users are expected to get their phone space to increase the size with 5GB  storage offered by HTC and DropBox. This is not the first time that DropBox had tied up with HTC because earlier it had coupled with Sony Ericsson on Xperia phones but without the additional storage bonus.

[Via pocket-lint]

How to Get WiFi Network Info from iOS 5 Notification Center

Recently Apple has launched iOS 5. If you have upgraded your iPhone, iPod touch, iPad to iOS 5 then you can get WiFi network info from your notification center by using a new jailbreak tweak available in Cydia. The name of this tweak is WiFiCenter for NotificationCenter. This tweak is developed by Philippe.

Notification Center is the most interesting aspects of iOS 5. After you have installed this tweak on your jailbroken iOS device, it will display informations about the WiFi network you are connected to and also it will add a new button using which you can enable or disable wifi right from your notification center. Tap on Settings app from your iPhone homescreen then tap on Notifications to configure NotificationCenter addons.

WiFiCenter for NotificationCenter is compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, iPad running iOS 5.0 or later. One of the most important things is that you don’t need to pay any money to use this tweak. WiFiCenter for NotificationCenter is available in Cydia under BigBoss repository for free of cost. If you want to get Wifi network info from your Notification Center then simply install this tweak on your iOS device. In order to install this tweak on your jailbroken iPhone, simply launch Cydia on your iPhone and search for WiFiCenter for NotificationCenter then tap on “install” button, then tap on “Confirm” button to download and install this tweak on your iPhone. This tweak will be installed automatically on your iOS device.

Install iOS 5 on iPhone

iOS 5 comes up with the whole new baseband version so upgrading via iTunes would not be a good idea for people who rely on unlocking of the device via ultrasnow (means using the not supported carriers as well). Presently only tethered jailbreak of all the devices on iOS 5 is available (menas you have to connect your device with the PC and boot with ibooty it will only then boot). So if you are ready to do this continue reading otherwise you can read it for knowledge of the same.

Ok so letz get started. So firstly you will need some softwares:-

1. iOS 5 ipsw file get it from here.
2. snowbreeze for iOS 5 get it from here.
3. redsnow for iOS 5 get it from here. for Windows and for mac.

first of all start snowbreeze and then put the ipsw file of iOS 5 into snowbreeze (by drag and drop or by locating the file) then build the ipsw. Snowbreeze will save your modified file on the desktop.
Now open iTunes and then keep pressing shift on the keyboard and then press restore button in iTunes and locate the file which is saved on desktop (snowbreeze modified). Software will install and then run redsnow. Now jailbreak as per instruction on redsnow and there it is ready to go ....

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Wireless Hacking........

WIRELESS HACK

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(based on book with full instruction)

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1) Unzip and install Commview, then paste the included "cv.exe" to the directory you installed it to (c:\program files\commviewwifi)

2) Open commview and install the commview drivers to a card. It should prompt you about your card and than automatically install the driver. It is important that you have 1 card that works with commview or else the rest of the tutorial will not work

3)now go to the "rules" tab and check "enable advanced rules"

4)type in the box labled formula "tods=1 and dmac=FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF" then type a name for your formula in the box labled name and than click add/edit.

5)it should now appear in the upper box. if it is not checked, check it.

6)now click settings>options>memory usage and turn maximum packets in buffer to 20000 (max). If it prompts you to restart it, do so. There are three funnel looking things on the main menu bar of commview. uncheck all but the first one (one labled "capture data packets")

7) now click the play button and scan for the network you want to crack.

8)once you have found it, drag the channel menu down to the desired channel and click capture.

9) now using your other adapter thats not capturing, connect to the password protected network. when it asks you for key, type in something random, i used 1234567890.

10) it should now say connected with limited connectivity. (same as being associated!!)

11)go back to your commview menu and click on the packets tab. you should see a couple of packets.

12) looking at the protocol column, you should see a couple labled IP/UDP, ARP REQ, and a couple of others. Right click on any packet labled "ARP REQ" and than click send packet, and selected. A mini menu should now appear.

13) on the mini menu, change packets per second to 2000, and rather than 1 time(s), click continuously, and Then click send.

14) now go back to the main commview window and go to the rules tab, and uncheck the rule you made.

15) You are now injecting and you should see the number of packets rising really fast.

16)to save the packets, you have to save every 20000 packets, click file, save and than in the save dialogue, remember where you saved it, and instead of saving it as an ncf file, save it as a "dump" .cap file.

17) Extract the Aircrack-NG folder.

18)open aircrack-ng-GUI that can be found in the map "bin" and select the files you saved, and than click launch.

19)Look at the list of IV's you have, and select the network you want to crack , there should be a list of alot of them, chose the one with the most ivs


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