Checking Samsung by IMEI on the official website: what does the code do and how does it work?

In this publication, we will consider one of the most important questions when buying a phone: how to check the originality of a Samsung Galaxy ? You can now buy a non-original smartphone, purchased second-hand, through advertisements or on unknown sites, and the copies are very similar to original Samsung devices.

The first thing that may seem suspicious is the price, an exact copy of a Samsung phone. As a rule, this is the main reason why fakes are bought.

Therefore, the first advice for you is to buy from official retailers, these are 100% original gadgets.

If you still decide to buy at your own risk and not from official repellers, we recommend using the tips offered below to determine whether the Samsung phone they are selling you is original or whether it is an exact replica.

By the way, when buying a Samsung smartphone, you should know how to register a Samsung account and why it is needed.

Checking Samsung originality using a service code

The fastest and easiest option for checking your Samsung phone for originality. Samsung has added a proprietary menu to the shell of its devices, which can be accessed using a special code.

On the Samsung device you want to check for originality, follow these steps:

1. Open the phone app.
2. Enter this code *#7353# (asterisk, hash, seven, three, five, three, hash) into the dialer.
3. After entering the special code, a menu will appear (as in the image below).

Samsung branded menu to verify the authenticity of the device
The presence of such a menu indicates that this Samsung phone is original.

Additional features

You can find out the device code not only to distinguish it from a fake one. The code also allows you to find the phone if it is stolen (with the help of the police) or block it from the network (with the help of a mobile operator). There are also services on the Internet that help unlock Samsung by IMEI. Having only the code, you can see what model this phone has and track information on it.

Now you know how to check Samsung for originality using IMEI and what nuances you need to pay attention to. You can protect yourself from unscrupulous sellers and get additional information about your device. I hope this information is useful and helpful to you.

Checking Samsung originality by IMEI

You can also check the authenticity of the device using the IMEI of the gadget. Although this option is not as reliable as the previous one.

To check Samsung by IMEI follow 2 steps:

1. Find out the IMEI number of the phone you want to check:
   enter the code *#06# (asterisk, hash, zero, six, hash);
2. IMEI and S/N numbers will appear on the screen;
3. write down the IMEI number (check the IMEI on the box first, they should match).

Checking Samsung by IMEI

1. Go to the official Samsung website to check the IMEI of your smartphone or tablet using this link: https://www.samsung.com/ru/support/imei-checking/

Checking your phone by IMEI on the Samsung website

This check can show whether the phone you are being offered is original. This method may not be reliable, this is even indicated on the Samsung website, since IMEI can be reassigned by “advanced” scammers.

Warning on samsung.com

What Can I Find Out Using Samsung Verification Service?

You are probably wondering what kind of interesting knowledge you can get from the IMEI number. Just look at the list below and see what you can find using IMEI check .

• Operator
• Country of origin
• C.S.C.
• Phone Age
• Remaining Warranty Time
• Production Line
• Model number
• Model Code
• Date of manufacture
• Place of Production
• Serial number
• Date of sale
• Guarantee Receipt Date

Checking Samsung Phone Specifications

Before buying a Samsung smartphone, we recommend that you study the characteristics of the device. Fake phones usually have different characteristics. The best option would be to ask to make the text in popular benchmarks: Antutu, Geekbench or GFXBench.

If the phone is not original, the seller will refuse to test the characteristics of the device under various pretexts, because testing will show completely different specifications.

Counterfeit Samsung devices use different processors, memory, flash drives, screens, and cameras.

Via serial number

A convenient method is to find out the production date of a Samsung phone by the serial number, which encrypts the information of interest. It is known that each smartphone has an individual code encrypted, so the method will be effective in all cases. The required data can be found in one of the following ways:

• On the nameplate. To obtain information, remove the back panel and battery (if removable), and read the model, IMEI and series number on the back wall. If dismantling the power supply and panel is not possible, the necessary data must be stamped on the rear panel. You can find the same information here. If the writing is too small, use a magnifying glass.

• On the box with the device.
• On the menu. To find out the IMEI and serial number, enter the Samsung phone menu, go to Settings, and then enter the About device section.

• For some devices, the required code and series number can be found in the Status section.

• Special code. Log in to the dialer and dial *#06# to view information. In this case, you can only check the IMEI.
• Try dialing *#1234# - this is how we found out the Samsung phone model.

Once the information of interest is received, you can find out the release date of the Samsung phone. Here is a serial number made up of letters and numbers. Here you need to adhere to the following nuances:

1. The last character is a control letter (may be absent).
2. The next five items are the serial number.
3. The sixth (seventh) character from the end is the month (from 1 to 12 or from January to December).
4. The seventh (eighth) character from the end is the year of issue.

Separately, we note that the 7th (8th) character is indicated as a letter, so decoding is necessary here:

• B - 2011;
• C - 2012;
• D - 2013;
• F - 2014;
• G - 2015;
• H - 2016;
• J - 2017;
• K - 2018;
• M - 2019;
• N - 2020th.

This way you can easily find out in what month and year your Samsung phone was manufactured. Separately, we note that if there is a letter at the end of the number, you need to look at the 7th and 8th characters from the end, and if there is a number, then 6 and 7.

Visual and tactile verification of the originality of a Samsung phone

This verification option is tactile and visual. Before you buy at a better price. Go to the official store and hold it in your hands, look at all the design details on a Samsung smartphone. Later, when purchasing, also hold it in your hands and pay attention to how the device is assembled (carefully or not) and from what materials. Also pay attention to the weight.

This method, of course, is not suitable for everyone and will not give a 100% guarantee that one of the verification options has a right to exist.

Watch also the video on how to distinguish a fake from an original Samsung.

So, now you know how you can quickly check your Samsung phone for originality. It is better to do a comprehensive check, starting with the tactile-visual method and ending with checking the IMEI and the Samsung proprietary menu.

Quick answers about authentication

How can you tell if your phone is original or not? You need to check the IMEI, check for the presence of a Samsung proprietary menu, find out the characteristics of the device, look at the design details and the neatness of the assembly.

How to check if a phone is original using IMEI? Dial *#06# and press the call button.

How to check if a Samsung phone is original? Dial #7353# or #0# and press the call button. If a menu appears, it means that the Samsung phone is real and not a fake.

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What is IMEI

This is a code that is tied to a specific smartphone and clearly identifies it on the network. It encrypts the phone model, serial number and check digits. If a smartphone can work with several SIM cards at once, it is assigned several codes. Each such number is unique and is not repeated on any other smartphone or device.

The number can be faked, and even the smartphone can be linked to a fake encoding. “Specialist” attackers know how to change the IMEI of a Samsung phone using specialized software. Therefore, consider checking your Samsung phone by IMEI as an additional way to protect yourself, and not the main one.

How to find out your IMEI on Android through the phone options menu

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The first thing that comes to mind when a person is looking for how to find out his IMEI on an Android phone is the standard settings menu, and for good reason. This method is the most popular among inexperienced users. When using it you need:

1. Unlock or turn on your gadget.
2. Go to the main menu and find the “Settings” item there.
3. Scroll up all the main parameters and configurations.
4. Find the “Phone Information” section and enter it.
5. Find out IMEI Android and all the necessary data.

What is it for?

At a minimum, to identify the device. If someone steals the phone, the owner will be able to contact the police. Those, in turn, will be able to find the stolen phone by checking its IMEI. They will be able to manually dial a combination of numbers to find out the number, or they can determine it with the help of a cellular operator. As soon as the user makes a call, the IMEI of the mobile device automatically enters the operator’s network. Having found out who the SIM card is registered to, the police can easily identify the attacker.

If we draw an analogy, the IMEI of a mobile phone is like a license plate number of a car. By this sign, traffic police officers can identify who the car is registered to. It's the same with the phone's IMEI.

Through third party sites

Alternatively, you can find out the release date of your Samsung phone through special resources. All that is required is to have the serial number or IMEI on hand.

A popular service is SNDeepInfo. On it you can see the production date of your Samsung phone by entering the IMEI in a special field. The algorithm of actions is as follows:

• follow the link above;
• select manufacturer;
• indicate the IMEI or serial number of your Samsung smartphone;
• Click on the Check button.

Almost immediately, information about the smartphone of interest is displayed.

If you wish, you can use another service - numberingplans.com/?page=analysis&sub=imeinr. Here you can find out the release date by entering the phone's IMEI. The downside is that it does not provide information for all devices.

Which Samsung smartphones are most often counterfeited?

According to available statistics, the flagships of the Galaxy S and Note series are most often counterfeited. For a long time, scammers focused all their efforts on these models.

However, recently copies of cheaper devices have begun to appear, so buyers have to be doubly careful.

Results

From the above article, it is clear that for a Samsung phone there are many ways to find out the exact release date of the device. If one of the methods does not work, you can always use another and thereby obtain the information of interest. The most accurate way is to install the Phone Info Samsung application and find out detailed information. The downside is that you need to be connected to the Internet to do this.

Knowing the release date is useful not only from the point of view of the novelty of the phone. This indicator affects many aspects - the technological equipment of the device, battery life, newness of updates and OS version. In addition, “fresh” Samsung phones often have a higher price, which will begin to fall after a while. If the device was made 2-3 years ago, it will cost less. But here you need to remember the consequences in the form of older hardware and the end of the battery life.

On the package

To find out the release date on a smartphone, just look at the retail packaging of the device. It contains a lot of information about the product that is inside. In particular, there must be a sticker indicating the date of manufacture. It is glued to the box immediately after the device is manufactured. The disadvantage of this method is that such a sticker is not always available. In particular, it does not exist when a person buys a device second-hand.

What are the benefits of counterfeit Samsung gadgets?

As we mentioned above, installing the open source Android operating system on Samsung devices makes creating fakes an incredibly profitable business.

Samsung is one of the most copied phone brands in the world

Chinese manufacturers are massively creating visual clones of Samsung, installing the appropriate version of Android OS on them, and selling fakes in many countries, including Russia.

Typically, Samsung counterfeits are sold at 1.5 - 2 times cheaper than their originals.

. Usually they are sold by hand, in small retail outlets such as kiosks on the market, or through ad sites such as Avito, OLKH and other analogues.

The seller explains the low price by the need to quickly get real money (“I needed money urgently”), selling as unnecessary (“I bought a new device, but I don’t need this one”) and other similar reasons. When meeting in person, the seller often behaves nervously, wants to quickly sell the goods, and after receiving the money disappears without a trace. His phone number is unreachable after the transaction is completed.

The original has no inscriptions on the back bottom of the cover. The original price of the product is twice as much.

However, there are a number of ways to distinguish between an original Samsung Galaxy and a high-quality fake. Let's look at the options available to us.

Where are fakes sold?

The risk of purchasing a replica instead of an original product exists almost everywhere. Buyers need to be very careful when choosing where to transact.

In big cities, you can often find various merchants selling devices near the metro or train stations. They can tell a variety of stories, trying to gain trust and sell low-quality fakes. You shouldn’t trust such stories too much, since most likely the person simply made up everything said, and the phone could even get to him as a result of theft. It is especially suspicious if during a conversation the seller constantly hurries the buyer and does not allow him to properly examine the product.

On various Internet sites there are advertisements in which a new Samsung smartphone is sold at a very low price. Sellers can explain such a cost in a variety of ways or not even talk about it at all. As leverage over a doubting client, they often use a fictitious competitor who is ready to purchase the product in the next hour. In an effort to save money, people often commit rash actions that they later regret. It is almost impossible to contact the seller and present any claims to him after payment.

Some online stores are also guilty of selling low-quality counterfeits. This is especially true for little-known sites, to which the client is brought by flashy advertising banners from other sites. Purchasing a product in this way is also risky because the paid device may not reach the buyer at all. It is useless to make any claims to an unknown site.

In markets they often sell counterfeit goods under the counter. There you can find good looking replicas of iPhones and Samsungs. However, at their core, these devices have nothing to do with the brands presented. Inexperienced young people who want to impress others often respond to such offers.