Hi guys. I am not from Canada/USA and do not plan to go there.
My question is the does the C5306 have a unlockable boot loader?
Please do not answer unless you know this answer.
Please don't look at my post. I translated wrong and can't delete the post. Sorry for that :/
As far as I know the 5306 is not sold in the USA, at least is not that easy. A few months ago I went to a Sony store (located on fashion valley mall) and nobody knew about the SP. It is sold in Mexico but it is carrier branded (Telcel)
(I got a cheap 5303 and i bought It. There is no LTE available on my city and I didn't want a locked bootloader)
Reasons.
You can buy C5306 from Sony apparently (found it on the online store).
I'm proposing if we can't unlock the boot-loader on this model then we may as-well disable flashing in CWM in BoardConfig.mk for CyanogenMod (TARGET_OTA_ASSERT_DEVICE) to stop people from flashing it on a device it won't work on..
Anyway if you've got a C5306 please tell find out the details
Anybody else?
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Heya folks, sorry if there is a post semi like this one, i honestly did search and didnt see anything remotely the same..
ordered my HD7 and it's arriving monday, but when i was browsing this site i noticed a lot of posts are about tmobile versions of the updates.. i was just wondering,
does the phone not get generic updates due it been on tmobile?
because the phone is unlocked and is stated to be region free.. if i update firmware will it be likely to lock again? (i use o2 UK)
if it will lock, how do i prevent/unlock again/unlock permanently?
Thanks in advance, sorry if these are "nooby" questions, first windows phone and first phone from america..
Jeffacakes
Hi , I am from Malta (EU) and I would like to buy the Xperia Z ... problem is here we don't have such model and I am gonna buy from England so after much research I found 2 company's shipping to my country. Amazon uk and Clove uk. Would like to know which is best of them and After Sales service of course. Money is no problem they're both costy !!!! Opinions and user exp are welcomed... btw this is gonna be rooted (bootloader untouched of course so that warranty is not violated)
zalman360 said:
Hi , I am from Malta (EU) and I would like to buy the Xperia Z ... problem is here we don't have such model and I am gonna buy from England so after much research I found 2 company's shipping to my country. Amazon uk and Clove uk. Would like to know which is best of them and After Sales service of course. Money is no problem they're both costy !!!! Opinions and user exp are welcomed... btw this is gonna be rooted (bootloader untouched of course so that warranty is not violated)
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Amazon has a great return policy, make sure you buy it directly from them.
Haven't tried clove
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zalman360 said:
Hi , I am from Malta (EU) and I would like to buy the Xperia Z ... problem is here we don't have such model and I am gonna buy from England so after much research I found 2 company's shipping to my country. Amazon uk and Clove uk. Would like to know which is best of them and After Sales service of course. Money is no problem they're both costy !!!! Opinions and user exp are welcomed... btw this is gonna be rooted (bootloader untouched of course so that warranty is not violated)
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Only thing to check is what bands your network provider uses, and verify that the Xperia Z model you buy supports this, the reason I am saying this is that there are many people who are complaining about this.
danw_oz said:
Only thing to check is what bands your network provider uses, and verify that the Xperia Z model you buy supports this, the reason I am saying this is that there are many people who are complaining about this.
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Yep , I am on Go mobile network and that is no problem. The phone must be Unlocked and Unbranded of course. I think Amazon will be my choice since I encountered no one stating to have bought from Clove.co.uk....
Hello,
I've bought unlocked Sony Xperia Z here in UK last summer and I'm going to Japan for holiday this autumn. Do you have any idea if it's going to work or not? If yes with which networks (I would like to get local sim card)? I know that there use to be some limitations but I couldn't find anything definite regarding this phone.
Thanks for your time.
lochness42 said:
Hello,
I've bought unlocked Sony Xperia Z here in UK last summer and I'm going to Japan for holiday this autumn. Do you have any idea if it's going to work or not? If yes with which networks (I would like to get local sim card)? I know that there use to be some limitations but I couldn't find anything definite regarding this phone.
Thanks for your time.
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Yup, it will work
http://www.gsmarena.com/network-bands.php3?sCountry=JAPAN
Sooooo first, hello everyone !
After a fair bit of research and unsuccessfull attempt (several hours over a few days), i come to you to see if anybody can help me solve my problem.
Here is the main problem : I have just acquired C5503 white version with 32GB of RAM. It is supposed to be LTE and most of the information I can get about the LTE frequencies says that it supports LTE 800/850/900/1800/2100/2600 which is compatible with my carrier (Free mobile in France, 700/1800/2600) . I don't have the 700MHz band but it is not really deployed and I did not have it on my previous phone, which worked well in LTE. And, you guessed it, the phone is NEVER in LTE. I checked all the settings and whatnot also, they are okay. But data works well beside that.
My guess is that I don't have the good baseband version on my phone so here are the questions, knowing that the bootloader on my wperia ZR can NOT be unlocked ( ) :
1/How can I check I have the good baseband version
2/If i don't, is it possible to change it knowing that my bootloader cannot be unlocked (wanted to install cyanogenmod, so i checked) and how ?
Thank you all for reading,
Thomas.
Nevermind
Nevermind I got my answer, not the one i expected. My phone is a xperia A, the japanese version of the Xperia ZR. No wonder LTE don't work in France. The seller of the phone is just stupid.
Hello,
I recently received a G800M unit that was on the "Claro" network, and I am having trouble unlocking. Several days ago, I used unlockunit.com to try and get an unlock code,though I have not yet received one. I provided them with the country identification of Puerto Rico, but I am now wondering if this was a mistake. When I looked up Claro, I guess I did not look hard enough, and thought they were based in Puerto Rico, only to discover later on that Claro is offered in many South American countries.
I have a couple of questions before I try again:
Is there a positive way to identify specifically which country this phone came from? I looked up the origin country through the IMEI, but that only tells you where it was manufactured, not where the unit was purchased by the first user.
Many of these unlocking sites (that don't list specific model numbers, ie, SM-G800F/M/Y, etc) list a "Galaxy S5 Mini" and a "Galaxy S5 Mini (QC)" ... what does the "QC" mean, and how do I know if I have one? I don't see anything about this in the settings...
This phone is still running factory (claro branded) kitkat if that makes any difference.
I am hoping you can answer my questions, and thank you for your time.
phone unlocked.
appye said:
phone unlocked.
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how did you unlock it?
Paid a site. Unlockunit.com I think...