Can a Samsung phone be repaired if the IMEI is damaged?

What is important here is when the IMEI or the digital signature is damaged, the phone is not working and even Samsung service centers cannot repair the broken phone. Thus, the phone is worthless at that point. The most common errors that might suggest such a problem with the phone are the following:

Why is my Samsung IMEI certificate not working?

We do not want to go into details on how an IMEI or certificate can get damaged but the damage is mostly caused by an intervention of a software or flash error. What is important here is when the IMEI or the digital signature is damaged, the phone is not working and even Samsung service centers cannot repair the broken phone.

When do you need a patch Cert for Samsung IMEI?

At the end of the process a Patch CERT is needed in order to switch the checking phase off! If you get the following error message: ‘There is an active patchcert on your phone. Please remove it.’, it means that the steps are not in the right order or the phone is not in factory settings.

What does IMEI number on Samsung phone mean?

The IMEI number consists of only zeros: 000000000000000 When dialing *#0011#, the IMEI status is NG and the network data are all wrong. A call cannot be made and the phone’s status is ‘not registered to network’ so practically, the phone cannot be used at all.

Can you re-software a Samsung IMEI to another version?

In case you meet such case, please do not hesitate to contact our support. If you need prompt solution, you can try to re-software the phone to an other version with Chimera. It is important that you do this phase with the Chimera because we allow the re-software for version that we support so the success is guaranteed.

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