How to use Maui Meta to write IMEI and Serial Number
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not encounter any errors if you have installed the way I have instructed you to
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install. Alright! So this is nothing to panic about. I'm done
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installing my Mediatek VCOM drivers. I will go ahead and launch my Maui meta
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as Administrator. I prefer to run as Admin to avoid permission issues but if
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you're not an Admin on the PC just double click or run as a regular user but I prefer
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to run as Admin alright?
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So, I have this up. Now, at this point you would want to switch off the phone but
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don't connect it to the PC yet. Just switch off the phone still with the
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battery inside but do not connect it to the PC yet. Now, you would want to
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observe this. This is red as you can see. This is indicating that there's no connection
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at all and under this tab, you'll want to select the appropriate option for your
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phone. I'm using a smartphone so I have smartphone ticked. No other settings to
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change. I'm going to leave this as USB COM so
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there's nothing to change on this dashboard alright? So I click on
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reconnect. Now, at this point, you'll see this changing from red to green
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so what you'll want to do now is to - with the
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phone switched off and with battery inside - connect it to the PC via USB
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cord without holding any button on the phone.
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Alright! So you'll observe that your phone would
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boot up and it will get stuck at the boot animation. Alright!
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So what I have here is a charging sign. I might have to reconnect.
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Alright I'm going to reconnect
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yes, I've reconnected and its no more the charging sign. I'm seeing my boot
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animation right now. So if you see the charging sign the first time you connect,
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you disconnect and reconnect. So your phone is going to boot up and it's going
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to get stuck at the boot animation so do not panic, that is your
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phone in meta mode alright? Its not bricked. So my
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phone is stuck at boot animation and I have this prompt here. What I see here is bar
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code but I'm not trying to write a bar code to my phone so I will just
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close this. Alright! So I have a yellow circle here indicating that it has been
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connected good and phone information is displayed here. So what I want to write
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is an IMEI to the phone so I will just click on this drop-down at the top left
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corner and then select IMEI Download. Now, it's illegal to change your IMEI in
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certain countries if not all countries so ensure you're not breaking any laws by
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writing an IMEI to your phone alright? So once the IMEI download dashboard has
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popped up, what you'll want to do now is to click on Change NVRAM Database File. Its at
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this point you're going to load the MD1_DB file I'd
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mentioned earlier on. So you click on Change NVRAM Database File. Now, a
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window will pop up. In this window, you now navigate to the location where you
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have the MD1_DB file and you select it. Now, it'll usually be named
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something like this BPLGUI..... Its going to be
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named something like this alright? This is an APDB and not the file you need
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although you'll need this when using SN write tool but for maui meta, you need
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just this file alright? So you highlight this file and you click on
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Open
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highlight and click on Open
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Alright! Okay, so you'll notice I
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have the file path listed here (written here) so that means it's currently loaded. I
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also have checksum here. So at this point, you've loaded the database file
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(the DB file) so you'll want to select your SIM 1 or 2 depending on which you want to
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write the IMEI to. I will just select SIM 1 and then you
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type in the IMEI. Now, you'll notice that you have just enough space for 14
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digits here so you're going to type the 14 digit of the IMEI
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Alright! So automatically, it generates the last digits for you
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[Overhead Plane] so with IMEI inserted and my SIM selected, I go ahead to click on
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Download To Flash. Alright! so I have this message saying Download IMEI to flash
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successfully alright? So what I just need to do now is to disconnect the phone and then
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hold the power button till it goes off and then reboot it or if the battery is
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removable, just take out the battery and then you re-insert it then you dial
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*#06# to check your IMEI and you should see that the IMEI has been successfully
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written to the phone. So that's basically how to use Maui Meta tool.