Hey guys,
I just S-Off my HTC Vivid with the Sim Card pulled out of the slot. I achieved S-Off and phone reboot back. I unlocked the bootloader again and rerooted the phone, flashed Dark Raider's Rom however my phone is telling me that the Sim Card cannot be found after putting it back into the slot. Any ideas?
Don't really know why you S-Off-ed without the SIM in the slot, but whatever.
Do you have another SIM card on hand? Try dropping it in. If it's still broken, format /system, /data, /cache and reflash your ROM. Try both SIM cards. If still broken, then S-Off probably screwed something up with your phone.
The sim card went bad. I must have scratched it or something when I took it or I'm not sure. All is working now after putting a new sim in.
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I honestly tried to find the answer to this everywhere before posting. I already have the unlock code from HTC and Tmobile. I simply need to figure out how to unlock the phone.
The instructions I received with the unlock code said that the phone would notify me that the SIM is unregistered and I would put in my unlock code at that point. I assume this is only the case on a vanilla version of Android or whatever the current official release is.
As you may have guessed, I have my phone rooted and have been running CM for a while. When the prepaid SIM is in the phone CM does seem to realize that its there and there is a SIM tool app but it does nothing. I have flashed to a couple different customer ROMS including dwang and a couple older version of CM.
Is there any way that I can actually unlock my phone without having to unroot and go back to the official android release from tmobile?
Thank you to anybody that can help me.
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I honestly tried to find the answer to this everywhere before posting. I already have the unlock code from HTC and Tmobile. I simply need to figure out how to unlock the phone.
The instructions I received with the unlock code said that the phone would notify me that the SIM is unregistered and I would put in my unlock code at that point. I assume this is only the case on a vanilla version of Android or whatever the current official release is.
As you may have guessed, I have my phone rooted and have been running CM for a while. When the prepaid SIM is in the phone CM does seem to realize that its there and there is a SIM tool app but it does nothing. I have flashed to a couple different customer ROMS including dwang and a couple older version of CM.
Is there any way that I can actually unlock my phone without having to unroot and go back to the official android release from tmobile?
Thank you to anybody that can help me.
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Is it The AT&T Prepaid sim card. If it is then i don't think it would work. i have an unlocked g1 with an AT&T sim card and i unlocked it before rooting. So guess u have to do the same. hope i helped
Right now I am trying with a TracFone SIM card but I could try with an AT&T card from a friend in a couple of days. I don't even really need to get the service to work at this point.
The two things I really want are just to be able to unlock my phone and backup my contacts onto a secondary SIM card and I am having no luck doing either.
namelessted said:
Right now I am trying with a TracFone SIM card but I could try with an AT&T card from a friend in a couple of days. I don't even really need to get the service to work at this point.
The two things I really want are just to be able to unlock my phone and backup my contacts onto a secondary SIM card and I am having no luck doing either.
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This is how i did it. i put my sim card in the phone and turned it on until it got to the screen when it said ( enter network key) i put the code in and it worked. i wounder if your able to put the contacts on the sd card?
My xt862 locked to sim card where flash china xt883 rom. It does not pop up sim unlock code window when insert a sim card. How to get it pop up?
I reflash verizon rom and it doesn't work. still lock sim. Says invalid sim card/no service
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My xt862 locked to sim card where flash china xt883 rom. It does not pop up sim unlock code window when insert a sim card. How to get it pop up?
I reflash verizon rom and it doesn't work. still lock sim. Says invalid sim card/no service
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My xt862 was on the xt883 ROM when I bought it off craigslist. I had to flash it back to stock to get rid of the other guy's Google account (it wouldn't delete, said it needed factory reset). After wiping, and flashing back to stock, I had to re-flash the radio.img from that Chinese ROM (and swap out my build.prop) to get it working on GSM again. Have you done these two things since flashing back to stock? I don't know what the other guy did in the process of putting my D3 on the Chinese ROM, but the GSM capabilities were lost when I wiped it (it wasn't back to stock yet, it was still a Chinese ROM, but likely locked to Chinese bands...really weird). I had to put it to stock before I could get GSM back.
So, if you haven't re-flashed the radio.img and made sure you have the tweaked build.prop in /system, then you might want to do that and see if it starts to work.
If you already did these things, try replacing your SIM and restarting several times. Mine decides to lose signal or forget which operator I'm using occasionally, so it isn't quite 100% reliable. Not entirely sure why.
Good luck
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Also, you shouldn't need to unlock the phone ever again, as in, calling Verizon to get an unlock code. You only have to do that once, and flashing back and forth to different ROMs, even wiping the phone, doesn't get rid of the unlock. Just fyi.
I have the revolution flashed onto another carrier. Is there a way to use the over the air programming for this carrier (cricket) without a sim card, or even with the sim card even though it is not registered? Thanks
Hello ladies and gents
Some of you may have seen my previous thread about unlocking a friends phone. I ended up unlocking the phone, as well as sim unlocking the phone for her as she wanted. Here lies my issue, she did not give me her sim card when giving me her phone. So, instead I had to use my sim card for the s-off procedure, and for the sim unlock. My question is, now that I have used my SD card to place the config.dat file(sim unlock), is her sim unlock now dependent on my SD card, or can I remove my SD card and she still have access to the sim unlock?
You're good... take your card out and put the other in
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My phone is pretty much a dead weight now, i've updated to miui 12 and the IMEI number went to space for some reason and therefor it doesnt get sim card signal
I wanted to try to unlock the bootloader so i could flash the stock rom and stuff like that but how could i do it if the sim card doesn't work?
ashye said:
My phone is pretty much a dead weight now, i've updated to miui 12 and the IMEI number went to space for some reason and therefor it doesnt get sim card signal
I wanted to try to unlock the bootloader so i could flash the stock rom and stuff like that but how could i do it if the sim card doesn't work?
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I don't think it is possible to unlock BL without a working SIM card.