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Re:Answering Every Question You Have About IMEI Numbers by tschwimmer on Tuesday April 30, 2024 @07:57PM (#40217937)
I’m sorry that this happened to you. The debugging and tear down sound like they would make for an extremely interesting blog post though. I encourage you to write it up and post it here - I’d definitely read it.
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Re:Answering Every Question You Have About IMEI Numbers by miki123211 on Wednesday May 01, 2024 @05:34AM (#40221183)
Some YouTuber bought one of these (not specifically an S24) and found a hidden app that "told" the phone what it should be.

You could set how much RAM you wanted, how much storage, what CPU and so on, and then that info would be shown in all the "about" screens. They went to a few Tb of ram if I remember correctly.

Changing any of these parameters didn't have an impact on what the phone could actually do, just to be clear.

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Re:Answering Every Question You Have About IMEI Numbers by chirau on Wednesday May 01, 2024 @02:28PM (#40227248)
Would you have a link to the video by any chance? I would like to invest some time in showing how to detect and remove said app
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