Precondition

• You know what you are doing

Disclaimer

• We are not responsible for anything that may happen to your phone
• You do it at your own risk and take the responsibility upon yourself and you are not to blame us or anyone and its respected developers.

Let’s start

New Update: you can open the Dialer, type the secret code *#*#6864#*#* and it will take you directly to step 8!!!

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If you already enabled Developer Mode and USB Debugging, skip to step 7

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1. Go to Settings → About phone

   

2. Scroll way down the bottom and tap Build Number for a few times until you enabled Developer Mode

   

   

3. Go back to System → Developer options

   

   

4. Turn on USB Debugging and OEM Unlocking

   

5. Follow this tutorial to install ADB on your computer

6. Open Terminal and type adb devices, an alert should show on the phone, allow it

   

   

7. Remove the SIM card just to be sure then run this command

   adb shell am start -n com.android.imeisettings/com.android.imeisettings.ImeiSettings
   

8. On the phone, it should open a secret menu

   

   Fill in your IMEI then press Setting. After some magic, reboot when it prompts you to.

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   You should use your old phone IMEI, since it is already been registered with the service carrier and confirmed to be working

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   If you still want to have a Q20 IMEI, you can use the free tool made by Aiden here: BlackBerry Classic IMEI Generator

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9. Enjoy!