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Anyway to check if a phone is new or used?

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  • 25-07-2013 7:32pm
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    mad muffin
    Registered Users Posts: 8,034 ✭✭✭


    All I have is the imei number of a Smasung Ativ S is there anyway to check if it is indeed brand new?


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    Blue_Wolf
    Registered Users Posts: 861 ✭✭✭Blue_Wolf


    Only possible to do this with an iPhone as there is an activation process. No way to tell with Android...as far as i know
    mad muffin wrote: »
    All I have is the imei number of a Smasung Ativ S is there anyway to check if it is indeed brand new?


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    Aidenwyatt
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 11 ✭Aidenwyatt


    Check with all the default settings are present ( Can be matched with another new phone)


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    Boskowski
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,361 ✭✭✭Boskowski


    Dont want to be a wisecrack, but if you cant tell whats the problem?


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    coylemj
    Registered Users Posts: 25,457 ✭✭✭✭coylemj


    To check if it's network locked or blacklisted, you could bring a friend who's on a different network to you, then try both of your SIMs in the phone. If it's network locked then it will refuse to use one or both of the SIMs and if it's it's blacklisted, it should refuse to connect to either network.


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    mad muffin
    Registered Users Posts: 8,034 ✭✭✭mad muffin


    It doesn't matter now. I was in a dispute with an ebay seller. They said it was a new phone, I suspected it wasn't, got my money back now anyway.


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