Samsung device shows two IMEI numbers what is purpose of this two?

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Narasimha picture Narasimha · Jan 31, 2012 · Viewed 18.6k times · Source

Press *#06# Samsung device shows two IMEI numbers what is purpose of this two?

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Jens Schwarzer picture Jens Schwarzer · Jan 31, 2012

If the phone is dual-SIM then it has two modems (maybe one in practice, which is registrered to two networks) and thus two registrations to network. For each registration a unique IMEI is needed. Cheers :)

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