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Hi folks
New on this android thing - noob question:
Has anybody a prove link getting an unlock code for AT&T Captivate (SGH-i897)?
Want to use this phone in Europe with vodafone...
Thanks in Advance for you help
No solution available?
Is it true that there is no solution available till now?
ron_barcello said:
Is it true that there is no solution available till now?
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No, there is no solution available at the moment. A couple of people have been able to persuade ATT to give them codes after many days of phone calls and support chat. A few have had some varying success with turbo sims that supposedly fool the phone into thinking the sim is an ATT sim, but that's it.
based on what I have read online. ATT often will unlock your phone when you are in the contract for like 6 months or a year.
I called them with my tilt 2 about a year into my contract. Tell them that I am traveling oversea and want to use the phone internationally. They gave me the code without much hassle.
Not sure if this is partially due to the fact I have been with ATT for years.
Online search also shows that ATT will often unlock almost all smartphoen for you except iPhone, so keep try them and if the CSR does not help, ask for supervisor.
PUTALE said:
based on what I have read online. ATT often will unlock your phone when you are in the contract for like 6 months or a year.
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The official requirements are:
1. at least 90 days into a contract
2. Have a post paid account with contract
3. Paid all bills on time.
I called them with my tilt 2 about a year into my contract. Tell them that I am traveling oversea and want to use the phone internationally. They gave me the code without much hassle.
Not sure if this is partially due to the fact I have been with ATT for years.
Online search also shows that ATT will often unlock almost all smartphoen for you except iPhone, so keep try them and if the CSR does not help, ask for supervisor.
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Captivate has proven to be an exception to this. There is already a long thread about Sim Unlock. The bottom line is AT&T won't give you a unlock code for Captivate until 10 months later.
jentech said:
No, there is no solution available at the moment. A couple of people have been able to persuade ATT to give them codes after many days of phone calls and support chat. A few have had some varying success with turbo sims that supposedly fool the phone into thinking the sim is an ATT sim, but that's it.
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Hi jentech
have read the whole thread "SIM unlock" till yet and have not a good feeling when my captivate will arrive to contact AT&T for the unlock code.
I never has been a AT&T customer cause living outside the US and won´t be to become one so hope they could understand my problem...
Do you have an email contact for their support-center?
ron_barcello said:
Hi jentech
have read the whole thread "SIM unlock" till yet and have not a good feeling when my captivate will arrive to contact AT&T for the unlock code.
I never has been a AT&T customer cause living outside the US and won´t be to become one so hope they could understand my problem...
Do you have an email contact for their support-center?
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If you're not an AT&T customer, they typically won't help you with unlock at all. Good luck.
Not sure why there is another unlock thread, but At&T told me they would. Unlock in 90 days. I have no reason to doubt them.
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Phone is unlocked now
with the awesome tool from nbs11 i unlocked my captivate today on my MAC and it worked without failure with vodafone here in germany
Bye bye AT&T
and bowsa1152 has a nice tool for PC (although slightly more complicated) it is still one click.
yeah its easy to unlock it now!
Need Help Unlocking My SGH-i897 from AT&T
Hi,
I need help unlocking my Samsung SGH-i897 from AT&T.
I have gone through the other methods devised by XDA folks to no luck.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
nakulssood said:
Hi,
I need help unlocking my Samsung SGH-i897 from AT&T.
I have gone through the other methods devised by XDA folks to no luck.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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If you're still 2.1 Eclair use WiFi and go to Android Market.
Search for SGS unlocker, can't get any easier
Can please help me with my Captivate unlock. I tried all the ways but couldn't able to find the networkcrontrolkey
please help me with it
I successfully unlocked Captivate with this solution 2 times.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=8942669
Changed imei
lenin70 said:
I successfully unlocked Captivate with this solution 2 times.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=8942669
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This worked for me also but it changed the phones imei number so now I have to fix that. Check yours out to see if it did the same to your phone.
Sorry double posted.
unlock Captivate with froyo
today i unlocked my captivate with an app called Galaxy S Unlock get it in the market very easy to do also on youtube i am running froyo 2.2, version I897ucji6 and i am rooted (need to be rooted)
Finally got the captivate to unlock and accept the tmobile sim today. Everything seems to be working fine so far. No data on the plan but using wifi til I add data. One thing I'm really curious about is.... Now that the phone is unlocked and working, If I flash a custom rom (say cognition for example) will I lose the "unlock" ?
*edit* forgot to say how I did it... I just simply flashed back to stock 2.1, master cleared,rooted, installed busybox and galaxy unlock app, used the #2 method with the unlock app and it worked. PATIENCE IS KEY! ===> It takes a good 2-4 minutes for the tmobile signal to kick in so it may seem as if the unlock failed but it just takes alot longer than the at&t signal to kick in.
jayjr1105 said:
Finally got the captivate to unlock and accept the tmobile sim today. Everything seems to be working fine so far. No data on the plan but using wifi til I add data. One thing I'm really curious about is.... Now that the phone is unlocked and working, If I flash a custom rom (say cognition for example) will I lose the "unlock" ?
*edit* forgot to say how I did it... I just simply flashed back to stock 2.1, master cleared,rooted, installed busybox and galaxy unlock app, used the #2 method with the unlock app and it worked. PATIENCE IS KEY! ===> It takes a good 2-4 minutes for the tmobile signal to kick in so it may seem as if the unlock failed but it just takes alot longer than the at&t signal to kick in.
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You've post this already in paragon thread...simply no you are permanently unlock now the lock code inside your phone has been wiped out by the app you used.
I unlocked my samsung captivate right after i got this beautiful phone. And I am expecting the Froyo now. I am not sure if the unlock will be erased by new new version of android.
If it will happen, I will just wait until XDA release the new unlock app.
pobinghun said:
And I am expecting the Froyo now.
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You know something that the rest of us do not?
Once the captivate is unlocked, it stays unlocked. Im not sure about factory reset but nothing else will remove the unlock.
pobinghun said:
I unlocked my samsung captivate right after i got this beautiful phone. And I am expecting the Froyo now. I am not sure if the unlock will be erased by new new version of android.
If it will happen, I will just wait until XDA release the new unlock app.
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No one knows what the next version will do - but you should know this. The unlock happened because Samsung stored the code in a file. It looks like new firmwares fixed this, so if the unlock is removed, it may not be so easy to get.
The app just read a file and got the code. You didn't need the app, you could have opened the file and read the read the code. IF the unlock is removed and the original code doesn't work, it will be a while before someone finds a new way to unlock.
alphadog00 said:
No one knows what the next version will do - but you should know this. The unlock happened because Samsung stored the code in a file. It looks like new firmwares fixed this, so if the unlock is removed, it may not be so easy to get.
The app just read a file and got the code. You didn't need the app, you could have opened the file and read the read the code. IF the unlock is removed and the original code doesn't work, it will be a while before someone finds a new way to unlock.
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Thx, I can wait till I see a new post about what gonna happe.
captivate is coming here in Canada but I cant wait to grab the captivate so i get the AT&T version. to my surprise, i got it factory unlocked (the online store where i purchase GSM phones factory unlocked). It has all AT&T bloatwares and logo but I punch in and use my non-AT&T sim on the captivate.
i removed the bloatware apps. now the problem is I cannot update OTA, coz AT&T server for update is the captivate recognizes.
this would be a regret on being impatient on grabbing the captivate that will be launched here, but i learned a lot of tricks and hacks from this forum. I believe that developers will come up with a ROM flash technique to update the captivate even not OTA. (like the N900 re-flash).
I was told by an AT&T rep (so take it for what it's worth) that for any phone except the iPhone, you could simply call AT&T and ask for an unlock code. Don't if this would work on rooted phones or not though.
Rambler358 said:
I was told by an AT&T rep (so take it for what it's worth) that for any phone except the iPhone, you could simply call AT&T and ask for an unlock code. Don't if this would work on rooted phones or not though.
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hmm...so that is for a SIM unlock right? To be able to use the device with non-at&t sim....but not to get rid of the whole at&t thing from the device.
Rambler358 said:
I was told by an AT&T rep (so take it for what it's worth) that for any phone except the iPhone, you could simply call AT&T and ask for an unlock code. Don't if this would work on rooted phones or not though.
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I ask att rep for the code. They told me based on their agreement with samsung it is only possible to get this code after two years use of the phone.
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pobinghun said:
I ask att rep for the code. They told me based on their agreement with samsung it is only possible to get this code after two years use of the phone.
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Well that's a bunch of BS. The rep I spoke to said you needed to call in for it, so I don't know if that makes a difference. And he seemed to be one of the senior guys there. The reason I even asked the rep about this is because my wife goes to the Philippines a lot, and it's cheaper to buy a local SIM card there than use AT&T's coverage.
Hey guys! The unlock for this phone has been out for weeks. Easy to do yourself. Just search the forums and google...
even better..
..Market search SGS Unlock.. theres an app that gives you the code..
Unlock app not working for me
mostyle said:
..Market search SGS Unlock.. theres an app that gives you the code..
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Hello. I'm on Cognition (SREV2) and the SGS Unlock app isn't working. Is this because of the newer firmware?
elgo said:
Hello. I'm on Cognition (SREV2) and the SGS Unlock app isn't working. Is this because of the newer firmware?
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Yep. See forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=8330830&posted=1#post8330830 to get the code using the SDK. There may be other ways further on in that thread.
Hi I'm coming to the USA for a couple of weeks and I was wondering if I can walk to an AT&T store and buy the Captivate off-contract (USD499) and then use it Europe.
I know that I need to unlock the phone before actually popping a European simcard in, but since the unlock codes have already being discovered, this should be easy right?
has someone done this succesfully?? pls tell me if you have!
Thanks!
Yes i am using AT&T Captivate in Turkey with Vodafone. Its very easy to unlock. I bought from BestBuy.
Once you get Froyo, the phone may get locked again and it maybe difficult to unlock the phone as at&t wont give out codes yet
using samsung captivate here in India! ! ! unlocked, runnin on cog2.2beta7! !
whoo hoo!!
you can easily unlock the phone and use it anywhere you want....once you have unlock codes you can use it to unlock any number of times...also no need to get official Samsung/att FROYO release when we have DG putting out such good stuff with cognition...
Thanks Algorismus, waghoba and neo_31591 I'm very glad to hear that!!!!
but since you have already done it I may ask you what do you need to unlock the phone? I mean do you need an AT&T sim card to unlock the phone?? did they give you a sim card when you bought the phone??
I ask you this because all the threads I've seen to unlock the phone assume that you have an AT&T sim card, but what if you don't (my case)?
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Thanks Algorismus, waghoba and neo_31591 I'm very glad to hear that!!!!
but since you have already done it I may ask you what do you need to unlock the phone? I mean do you need an AT&T sim card to unlock the phone?? did they give you a sim card when you bought the phone??
I ask you this because all the threads I've seen to unlock the phone assume that you have an AT&T sim card, but what if you don't (my case)?
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ALL YOU NEED TO DO IS FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS FROM THE THREAD BELOW.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=761751
AS YOU ARE BUYING THE PHONE WITH NO COMMITMENT(AKA NO CONTRACT) YOU DON'T GET A SIM CARD. THE WHOLE UNLOCK PROCESS CAN BE DONE WITHOUT A SIM CARD IN THE PHONE AS THE CODE IS IN THE PHONE ITSELF.
I'M FROM SOUTH AFRICA AND I'M USING AN UNLOCKED CAPTIVATE.
P.S. MAKE SURE TO KEEP YOUR UNLOCK CODE IN A SAFE PLACE DUE TO THE LEAKED FROYO BUILD DELETING THE FILE WITH THE UNLOCK CODE FROM THE PHONE.
*INTERNATIONAL CAPS LOCK DAY
Im in Australia and have 4 Samsung Captivates (Brother/ Girlfirend/ Mine + spare) from AT&T. All off of ebay, unlocked and running cog beta and cog aosp
A decision you wont regret, unless you have a fudgecicle captivate with no warranty support. keep that in mind.
ozy944 said:
Im in Australia and have 4 Samsung Captivates (Brother/ Girlfirend/ Mine + spare) from AT&T. All off of ebay, unlocked and running cog beta and cog aosp
A decision you wont regret, unless you have a fudgecicle captivate with no warranty support. keep that in mind.
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There is a risk that you will not have warranty, but i think it worths, and USA is cheaper than my country(Nearly %50 cheaper).
You dont need AT&T sim card. It tooks 5 minutes to unlock.
lol seriously, i just went through all the threads, and once my cappy was with me, within 5 mins of its arrival i had it unlocked, rooted, sideloading enabled, updated to jh7 and in another 15-20 mins i had it on cogv2.2beta7!!
its the best thng u can have....my ipodtouch seems like cheap knockoff now
Using Captivate in Greece, bought it from e-bay unlocked.
Running Cognition 2.1 no problems so far.
Using captivate in Czech Republic. Bought from e-bay unlocked
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Am I missing something here. Why put on froyo 2.2 when it was released with 2.3 Gingerbread? Or is it just that froyo mod rom is better than std gingerbread?
I have a rooted captivate for sale.... If someone wants to make an offer....
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Hello all,
I'm new to all this unlocking and rooting thing so I wanted to ask you something.
Today I ordered from Amazon Samsung Captivate Galaxy S AT&T branded. The thing is that I live in Georgia, so there is no such thing as AT&T
I read as much to learn that I need to unlock my phone, but no one has ever mentioned if it's possible without having the branded SIM card.
So can I unlock my phone without having AT&T SIM card?
Yes you can unlock without sim card. If you get service through any carrier other than at&t that uses sim cards, you will be asked for unlock code.
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Once you insert sim from "other carrier" the phone will ask for unlock code.. enter code at this time.
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I do believe there is an app, that will find and store the code. Then when you insert other carriers sim, it unlocks automatically. There are quite a few posts about unlocking in the developement section..
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First of all thank you very much for lightening-quick reply.
I'll try to look but I've never had an android and I'm interested, will it start without sim card? if not, how can I install the app for generating unlock code? or did you mean to get code by PC app?
Thanks in advance,
Gio
Ya your phone will start without a SIM card in it, and i believe the app he was reffering to earlier was one found in the android market
Thank you all
That feels much safe
Thank you all for your time
I think I'll handle from here
So I have an i897 Captivate here. I've called AT&T and they gave me an unlock code for it.
I also have a new, never used AT&T SIM card installed in the phone.
I want to unlock the phone and hand it to my girlfriend so she has as few problems as possible when she goes to put the phone on a pre-paid plan of her choosing (I have no idea which it will be).
And I have installed a rooted Froyo ROM.
So how do I unlock it? All the guides I've found say I need to either be connected to a data plan already, or have a non-AT&T SIM installed. Neither of which are possible at the moment.
Any suggestions are appreciated.
CZ Eddie said:
Neither of which are possible at the moment.
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Well, the only thing that comes to mind is to ask a friend to give you his/her non-AT&T SIM card for 2min.
Insert a sim and it will ask u for a unlock code
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