14 digit IMEI

[micky]

My IMEI number is only 14 digits and Cricket wants a 15-digit number.

Do I have a mutant phone? Exposed to Kryptonite?

Xioami? Are they all like this?

My number is 86647103562246. Now that I've posted it, will everyone use
the number to make calls billed to me?

But seriously, what is it that makes my phone different, so that it
can't use Cricket?

What isn't there that once was there?
What have I got a great big lack of?

[Libor Striz]

micky <NONONO...@bigfoot.com> Wrote in message:

> My IMEI number is only 14 digits and Cricket wants a 15-digit number.
>
> Do I have a mutant phone? Exposed to Kryptonite?
>
> Xioami? Are they all like this?
>
> My number is 86647103562246.

IMEI of the slot 1 of my Xiaomi MI A1 has 15 digits.

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[micky]

In comp.mobile.android, on Sat, 02 Jun 2018 06:49:27 -0400, micky

<NONONO...@bigfoot.com> wrote:

>My IMEI number is only 14 digits and Cricket wants a 15-digit number.
>
>Do I have a mutant phone? Exposed to Kryptonite?
>
>Xioami? Are they all like this?
>
>My number is 86647103562246. Now that I've posted it, will everyone use
>the number to make calls billed to me?
>
>But seriously, what is it that makes my phone different, so that it
>can't use Cricket?

All the more confused because I just saw that ATT runs Cricket and I use
ATT just fine with my phone. So why wouldn't Cirickit work?

[Jeff Gaines]

On 02/06/2018 in message <58t4hdpih8hfdt0su...@4ax.com>

micky wrote:

>My IMEI number is only 14 digits and Cricket wants a 15-digit number.
>
>Do I have a mutant phone? Exposed to Kryptonite?
>
>Xioami? Are they all like this?

On my Mi Max 2 both IMEI's are 15 digits. Perhaps you have an early
version :-)

--
Jeff Gaines Wiltshire UK
I take full responsibility for what happened - that is why the person that
was responsible went immediately.
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[micky]

In comp.mobile.android, on Sat, 2 Jun 2018 13:03:04 +0200 (GMT+02:00),

Libor Striz <poutnik4R...@CAPITALSgmail.com> wrote:

>micky <NONONO...@bigfoot.com> Wrote in message:
>> My IMEI number is only 14 digits and Cricket wants a 15-digit number.
>>
>> Do I have a mutant phone? Exposed to Kryptonite?
>>
>> Xioami? Are they all like this?
>>
>> My number is 86647103562246.
>
>IMEI of the slot 1 of my Xiaomi MI A1 has 15 digits.

Very strange. Above is slot 1 and slot 2 is the same except the last
number is 7.

There are also two SV numbers, one for each slot, and they are both 00.
What is an SV number?

When I put a 0 in as the last number, it said the number was invalid or
didn't exist (or something).

Should I just try the other 9 numbers?

This is a Xiaomi Redmi Note 4, Global model, bought straight from Hong
Kong with no guarantee, although I see the online retailer guarantees it
for a year. . (There is also an International model and the
difference seems in part to be which languages it has, though they both
have French, Spanish, etc.)

[Frank Slootweg]

micky <NONONO...@bigfoot.com> wrote:
> My IMEI number is only 14 digits and Cricket wants a 15-digit number.

An IMEI is 15 digits, 14 digits plus a check digit:

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Mobile_Equipment_Identity#Structure_of_the_IMEI_and_IMEISV_(IMEI_software_version)>

> Do I have a mutant phone? Exposed to Kryptonite?
>
> Xioami? Are they all like this?
>
> My number is 86647103562246. Now that I've posted it, will everyone use
> the number to make calls billed to me?
>
> But seriously, what is it that makes my phone different, so that it
> can't use Cricket?
>
> What isn't there that once was there?
> What have I got a great big lack of?

*How*/*where* did you get/see the 14-digit number?

On my phone it's under Settings -> About device -> Status (Phone
number, signal, etc.) -> IMEI information.

In any case, 'dialing' '*#06#' should return the correct, full,
15-digit, IMEI number.

Didn't Cricket tell you to use this method?

BTW, Wikipedia tells you all of this, including the '*#06#' method.
Remember, Wikipedia and Google are your friends!

[micky]

In comp.mobile.android, on Sat, 02 Jun 2018 07:11:38 -0400, micky

<NONONO...@bigfoot.com> wrote:

>In comp.mobile.android, on Sat, 2 Jun 2018 13:03:04 +0200 (GMT+02:00),
>Libor Striz <poutnik4R...@CAPITALSgmail.com> wrote:
>
>>micky <NONONO...@bigfoot.com> Wrote in message:
>>> My IMEI number is only 14 digits and Cricket wants a 15-digit number.
>>>
>>> Do I have a mutant phone? Exposed to Kryptonite?
>>>
>>> Xioami? Are they all like this?
>>>
>>> My number is 86647103562246.

Was that in About Phone or did you find it some other way? If in
about, I wonder what makes your phone different.

>>
>>IMEI of the slot 1 of my Xiaomi MI A1 has 15 digits.
>
>Very strange. Above is slot 1 and slot 2 is the same except the last
>number is 7.

Well, this was a topic easy to google, 14-digit IMEI

And there were several hits.

The first said to dial *#06# . Cricket suggested that too, but I just
looked in About Phone, SIMs. That turned out to be a mistake.

So I dialed and it came back immediately for both slots, even the one I
didn't dial with. The first number has a 9 on the end and the second
number has a 7 on the end!! Still very strange.

I remember now I tried this with Cricket a few months ago and was
stymied when my number was too short.

It also gives a link to the Luhn algorithm in case this nmethod doesn't
work
https://www.unlockunit.com/blog/14-digit-imei/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luhn_algorithm
It is not intended to be a cryptographically secure hash function; it
was designed to protect against accidental errors, not malicious
attacks. Most credit cards and many government identification numbers
use the algorithm as a simple method of distinguishing valid numbers
from mistyped or otherwise incorrect numbers.

Too long to quote but nothing an 8-year old shouldn't be able to do.

I haven't tried the number in Cricket yet because I see theere are a lot
of other plans under 200 a year. I have to look at them.

>There are also two SV numbers, one for each slot, and they are both 00.
>What is an SV number?
>
>When I put a 0 in as the last number, it said the number was invalid or
>didn't exist (or something).
>
>Should I just try the other 9 numbers?

I guess this would have worked!

[micky]

In comp.mobile.android, on 2 Jun 2018 11:10:17 GMT, "Jeff Gaines"

<jgaines...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

>On 02/06/2018 in message <58t4hdpih8hfdt0su...@4ax.com>
>micky wrote:
>
>>My IMEI number is only 14 digits and Cricket wants a 15-digit number.
>>
>>Do I have a mutant phone? Exposed to Kryptonite?
>>
>>Xioami? Are they all like this?
>
>On my Mi Max 2 both IMEI's are 15 digits. Perhaps you have an early
>version :-)

I bought it new, retail online last August or September. Very strange.

[micky]

In comp.mobile.android, on 2 Jun 2018 11:26:40 GMT, Frank Slootweg

<th...@ddress.is.invalid> wrote:

>micky <NONONO...@bigfoot.com> wrote:
>> My IMEI number is only 14 digits and Cricket wants a 15-digit number.
>
> An IMEI is 15 digits, 14 digits plus a check digit:
>
><https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Mobile_Equipment_Identity#Structure_of_the_IMEI_and_IMEISV_(IMEI_software_version)>
>
>> Do I have a mutant phone? Exposed to Kryptonite?
>>
>> Xioami? Are they all like this?
>>
>> My number is 86647103562246. Now that I've posted it, will everyone use
>> the number to make calls billed to me?
>>
>> But seriously, what is it that makes my phone different, so that it
>> can't use Cricket?
>>
>> What isn't there that once was there?
>> What have I got a great big lack of?
>
> *How*/*where* did you get/see the 14-digit number?
>
> On my phone it's under Settings -> About device -> Status (Phone
>number, signal, etc.) -> IMEI information.

Right. That's where I got it.

> In any case, 'dialing' '*#06#' should return the correct, full,
>15-digit, IMEI number.

It did.

> Didn't Cricket tell you to use this method?

That was one method they suggested, but they didn't say that the number
in the phone might be bad. Or incomplete.

> BTW, Wikipedia tells you all of this, including the '*#06#' method.
>Remember, Wikipedia and Google are your friends!

And newsgroups are my friends too.

I see in another url a guy with an a1688 (iPhone 6s) who only had a
14-digit IMEI.

[nospam]

In article <58t4hdpih8hfdt0su...@4ax.com>, micky

<NONONO...@bigfoot.com> wrote:

> My IMEI number is only 14 digits and Cricket wants a 15-digit number.

meid numbers are 14 digits.
imei numbers are 15 digits.

most phones these have both an meid *and* an imei.

> My number is 86647103562246. Now that I've posted it, will everyone use
> the number to make calls billed to me?

if your phone is already registered with a carrier, no, because it will
come back as in use if anyone tries to register it.

however, someone with ill intent could do other things, such as getting
it blacklisted.

> But seriously, what is it that makes my phone different, so that it
> can't use Cricket?

it could be cdma only, which would be unlikely but not impossible.

more likely, you somehow missed the imei number.

however, even if it has an imei, it doesn't mean it will work on
cricket.

[Piet]

Frank Slootweg wrote:
> In any case, 'dialing' '*#06#' should return the correct, full,
> 15-digit, IMEI number.
>

> BTW, Wikipedia tells you all of this, including the '*#06#' method.
> Remember, Wikipedia and Google are your friends!

Google? Well, sometimes...

Note what Wikipedia says:
- "As of 2004, the format of the IMEI is AA-BBBBBB-CCCCCC-D,
although it may not always be displayed this way"
- D (Luhn checksum) is *optional*.
So it *is* possible that the OP sees a 14-digit IMEI. And if
all other means, including the '*#06#' method, fail, he can
still use his smartphone to calculate the Luhn checksum and
thus obtain the missing 15th digit. ;-)

-p

[jgsart...@gmail.com]

My phone is now this way after switching to Project Fi or Google. Now I cannot use my phone at the many I could before.