{"id":3014,"date":"2016-01-30T18:01:35","date_gmt":"2016-01-30T17:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.hovatek.com\/?p=3014"},"modified":"2022-08-15T22:12:46","modified_gmt":"2022-08-15T22:12:46","slug":"how-to-fix-null-or-unknown-imei-on-a-mediatek-android-phone-running-on-android-6-marshmallow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hovatek.com\/blog\/how-to-fix-null-or-unknown-imei-on-a-mediatek-android-phone-running-on-android-6-marshmallow\/","title":{"rendered":"How to fix Null or Unknown IMEI on a Mediatek Android phone running on Android 6 (Marshmallow)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3016\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hovatek.com\/blog\/bpyeki\/uploads\/2016\/01\/how-to-fix-null-or-unknown-IMEI-on-a-Marshmallow-Android-phone-1.png\" alt=\"how to fix null or unknown IMEI on a Marshmallow Android phone\" width=\"720\" height=\"746\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you notice that your phone&#8217;s network bars suddenly remain empty for a long period of time despite the phone still being able to detect your SIM cards and identify their networks correctly then it just might be a Null \/Unknown IMEI at work. This issue often occurs after flashing your phone but could (on rare occasions) occur randomly. We already created a detailed guide on how to resolve this at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hovatek.com\/forum\/thread-116.html\">https:\/\/www.hovatek.com\/forum\/thread-116.html<\/a> but some Android 6 (Marshmallow) users have complained about some of the methods there not working for them. This guide will put that to rest.<\/p>\n<h3>How do I fix Null, Unknown or Invalid IMEI on an MTK Android phone running on Android 6 (Marshmallow)?<\/h3>\n<p>1. Root the phone (see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hovatek.com\/blog\/how-to-root-android-easily-without-pc\/\">https:\/\/www.hovatek.com\/blog\/how-to-root-android-easily-without-pc\/<\/a> to know more about rooting )<br \/>\n2. Install\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.cryptotel.chamelephon&amp;hl=en\">Chamelephon<\/a>\u00a0from Playstore and launch it<br \/>\n3. Grant Chamelephon Super User privileges by tapping Grant<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-3018\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hovatek.com\/blog\/bpyeki\/uploads\/2016\/01\/how-to-fix-null-imei-on-mediatek-marshmallow-1-576x1024.png\" alt=\"how to change imei using chamelephon apk\" width=\"350\" height=\"622\" \/><\/p>\n<p>4. You should now be in the home screen<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-3019\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hovatek.com\/blog\/bpyeki\/uploads\/2016\/01\/how-to-fix-null-imei-on-mediatek-marshmallow-2-576x1024.png\" alt=\"fix null imei on android marshmallow \" width=\"350\" height=\"622\" \/><\/p>\n<p>5. Input the correct IMEIs (on the back of the phone after taking out the battery) and click Apply New IMEIs<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-3021\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hovatek.com\/blog\/bpyeki\/uploads\/2016\/01\/how-to-fix-null-imei-on-mediatek-marshmallow-3-576x1024.png\" alt=\"how to change imei on mediatek android phones\" width=\"350\" height=\"622\" \/><\/p>\n<p>6. Once prompted to confirm changing of IMEI, tap Change<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-3022\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hovatek.com\/blog\/bpyeki\/uploads\/2016\/01\/how-to-fix-null-imei-on-mediatek-marshmallow-4-576x1024.png\" alt=\"changing mediatek imei easily\" width=\"350\" height=\"622\" \/><\/p>\n<p>7. Reboot the phone<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-3024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hovatek.com\/blog\/bpyeki\/uploads\/2016\/01\/how-to-fix-null-imei-on-mediatek-marshmallow-5-1-576x1024.png\" alt=\"null imei problem on mtk phone solution\" width=\"350\" height=\"622\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Warning! It is illegal to change your IMEI from the original (on the back) to another so you are entirely responsible for how you choose to use this guide.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Hovatek&#8230;.just a button away!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you notice that your phone&#8217;s network bars suddenly remain empty for a long period of time despite the phone still being able to detect your SIM cards and identify their networks correctly then it just might be a Null \/Unknown IMEI at work. This issue often occurs after flashing your phone but could (on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3016,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[818],"tags":[20,126],"class_list":["post-3014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tutorials","tag-android","tag-tutorials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hovatek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hovatek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hovatek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hovatek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hovatek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hovatek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3014\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hovatek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hovatek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hovatek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}