Hey guys
I just dont understand what cid/sim unlocking is. Is all the phones locked and why do we need to unlock it . I am planning to upgrade my k-jam currently running wm 5.0 to wm 6.0, so should i unlock my phone and also how do we know the phone is locked or not.
can we downgrade to older rom once updated to newer rom.
plz help i am confused...
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chaksashi said:
Hey guys
I just dont understand what cid/sim unlocking is. Is all the phones locked and why do we need to unlock it . I am planning to upgrade my k-jam currently running wm 5.0 to wm 6.0, so should i unlock my phone and also how do we know the phone is locked or not.
can we downgrade to older rom once updated to newer rom.
plz help i am confused...
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If you got your phone from a carrier i.e. with a contract it is most likely locked to that carrier.
SIM lock means that you can only use SIM cards from the carrier you are locked to. If you SIM unlock your phone you will be able to use sim cards from other carriers or pay as you go plans without receiving the invalid sim message.
CID Lock means that your phones software is locked to your carrier. This means that you can only flash updates from that carrier. No custom flashing, no cross carrier flashing. Before you flash anything from this forum you will most likely need to be CID unlocked. Read the stickies to find out how to do this. Make sure you follow all the steps. The process works.
If you have not personally CID unlocked your device you must assume you ARE CID LOCKED. Even if someone before you unlocked your device it will not hurt to do it again. If you have any problems flashing your device this is the first question back that you will get when you ask for help.
god dammit. there is a wiki and nooooooo one reads it.
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Zzan said:
If you got your phone from a carrier i.e. with a contract it is most likely locked to that carrier.
SIM lock means that you can only use SIM cards from the carrier you are locked to. If you SIM unlock your phone you will be able to use sim cards from other carriers or pay as you go plans without receiving the invalid sim message.
CID Lock means that your phones software is locked to your carrier. This means that you can only flash updates from that carrier. No custom flashing, no cross carrier flashing. Before you flash anything from this forum you will most likely need to be CID unlocked. Read the stickies to find out how to do this. Make sure you follow all the steps. The process works.
If you have not personally CID unlocked your device you must assume you ARE CID LOCKED. Even if someone before you unlocked your device it will not hurt to do it again. If you have any problems flashing your device this is the first question back that you will get when you ask for help.
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Great advice and gently put....!
Asking questions is ok but do your research 1st! 90% of what you need to know has already been discussed, so the answers are here. If you don't find an answer, by all means ask...it is a forum.
hiimcliff said:
god dammit. there is a wiki and nooooooo one reads it.
MODS, PLEASE ENVOKE A TRIAL PERIOD BEFORE 1ST POST.
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I'm an experienced user and I never once thought to read the Wiki until I needed some quick answers so understand first time users. This is a forum
Zzan said:
If you got your phone from a carrier i.e. with a contract it is most likely locked to that carrier.
SIM lock means that you can only use SIM cards from the carrier you are locked to. If you SIM unlock your phone you will be able to use sim cards from other carriers or pay as you go plans without receiving the invalid sim message.
CID Lock means that your phones software is locked to your carrier. This means that you can only flash updates from that carrier. No custom flashing, no cross carrier flashing. Before you flash anything from this forum you will most likely need to be CID unlocked. Read the stickies to find out how to do this. Make sure you follow all the steps. The process works.
If you have not personally CID unlocked your device you must assume you ARE CID LOCKED. Even if someone before you unlocked your device it will not hurt to do it again. If you have any problems flashing your device this is the first question back that you will get when you ask for help.
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thanks for your help Zzan now i have understood the CID unlocking stuff
I have the SIM card for tmobile, I executed the wire trick but it didnt work, it said drinking beer and then testing alcohol level then s-off failed. Im not on stock, and Im confused as to if the bootloader should be locked or not.
I could just pay for the SIM Unlock Code, or just forward that payment to an aspiring dev that may want to help. I bricked my prism trying to flash a rom yet i deleted needed partitions in the custom recovery. Dumbass<
So im just looking for some help, i cant seem to get the RUU on it even though I am ICS in Hboot. The process gives me a error 155 which tells me Im not doing something right beforehand. Any help would be mucho appreciated.
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I believe that RUU's will refuse to flash if the bootloader is in an unlocked state. Is your bootloader unlocked? (This is separate from having S-OFF).
I hope that this post (below) will help you with the S-OFF. Once you have achieved S-OFF, I believe you can SIM-Unlock your Vivid yourself (the method is in this forum somewhere).
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=48039632&postcount=3
Alright, so a friend came to me with an M8. It appears to be fully updated and is running 4.4.4 android. I was able to unlock the bootloader, and I have TWRP installed. However, every time I flash Superuser.zip, it says it works but does nothing. So, since I see lots of roms, I guess its possible to have root, but how to I obtain it? Been working on this for an hour and a half and cannot find a logical way that works.
First off to help @BD619 this thread needs to be posted in the Q&A section which is set there to prevent this post. Secondly, s-on or s-off? Did you try installing a rom with Root preinstalled? Did you try root checker from play store to verify root was installed?
Sorry!
Just mis posted. My bad.
S-On. Cannot seem to get S-Off either. Mainly just trying to sim unlock it and what I have found says that requires s-off which requires root. Lost. Not at all like my old S3 or EVO 4G. LOL! Those rooted no issue.
scothern99 said:
Sorry!
Just mis posted. My bad.
S-On. Cannot seem to get S-Off either. Mainly just trying to sim unlock it and what I have found says that requires s-off which requires root. Lost. Not at all like my old S3 or EVO 4G. LOL! Those rooted no issue.
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Sunshine s off is the best bet to s-off. Download their app, and from what it sounds, you are pretty close to stock anyways! You will most definately need to do more research on the sim unlock, thats a subject i never mess with. Good luck!!!
Well I am doing this for a friend and I am not spending any money. If anyone knows of at least a root, that gets me further.
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I was using the WinDroid method of rooting my phone and I got the bootloader unlocked no problem but it get stuck when I try flashing TWRP to it. I live in the US and it appears that I have the 32bit version so I was wondering if anyone else had this problem or if I was doing something wrong.
For the toolkit
toolkit 2.1 won't boot up for me to do the root and recovery part i used 2.0 and unlocked my bootloader but other than that im stuck help out?
I have a custom recovery but I want to go back to my original recovery. How can I do that?
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I have a custom recovery but I want to go back to my original recovery. How can I do that?
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RUU is probably the quickest. I'm not aware of anyone that's uploaded the stock recovery.
http://www.htc.com/us/support/rom-downloads.html
Hi, i'm having some trouble I think. I'm trying to unlock my HTC Desire 510 (Eu version) and Software Status is still "locked". I did got the token and the file from HTC Dev website.
LE: It doesn't prompt me to confirm the unlock, it just enters in bootloader.
T-z3P said:
Hi, i'm having some trouble I think. I'm trying to unlock my HTC Desire 510 (Eu version) and Software Status is still "locked". I did got the token and the file from HTC Dev website.
LE: It doesn't prompt me to confirm the unlock, it just enters in bootloader.
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Make sure you have adb installed and then place the unlock_code.bin from HTC in the same folder as your adb and then boot the phone Into fastboot and make sure your device is listed by typing fastboot devices if it's listed then type fastboot flash unlocktoken unlock_code.bin and then the phone will ask if you want to unlock it select yes and you'll be done.
I've successfuly unlock bootloader and got root with the method in this thread, but I have a problem. A new system update was released (1.51.401.4 - Android Security Patches - libStageFright). Obviously I can't install it because of the custom recovery. What can I do in this situation?
T-z3P said:
I've successfuly unlock bootloader and got root with the method in this thread, but I have a problem. A new system update was released (1.51.401.4 - Android Security Patches - libStageFright). Obviously I can't install it because of the custom recovery. What can I do in this situation?
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you'll have to go all the way back to stock and it's not worth it because no matter what you do all the roms here are on 1.46... and besides, there has not been 1 libstage attack ever that anyone knows of and it's unlikely that anyone's going to just pick you out of everyone in the entire world to just use that against so don't worry about it!
I don't need other roms. I've unlocked the bootloader and rooted just to remove the bloatware. I still need the latest updates.
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I don't need other roms. I've unlocked the bootloader and rooted just to remove the bloatware. I still need the latest updates.
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Then you'll need to relock the bootloader and run the RUU from the HTC website and start all over again... Make sure you download the correct RUU too!
I've managed to unlock the bootloader using the HTC dev website but phone is still network locked, thought it would fix that... what now? is there a network unlock for the 510?
orangeworx said:
I've managed to unlock the bootloader using the HTC dev website but phone is still network locked, thought it would fix that... what now? is there a network unlock for the 510?
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Nope there's no way to unlock that to use different carriers. Usually if a carrier is going to unlock the phone it has to have been used on their network for at least 1 year and even if you pay money to those websites claiming to be able to unlock it you're going to waste your money. The phone has to be unlocked on the carriers side which is why there's nothing you can do.
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Nope there's no way to unlock that to use different carriers. Usually if a carrier is going to unlock the phone it has to have been used on their network for at least 1 year and even if you pay money to those websites claiming to be able to unlock it you're going to waste your money. The phone has to be unlocked on the carriers side which is why there's nothing you can do.
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Hey there @MrMike2182 and thanks for replying
Is this specific to HTC devices as I don't have much experience with them? And from what you're saying, the only option I have, besides having a door stopper, is to get the unlock code from Cricket? It seems kind of bizarre that sim unlocking is "impossible", I understand the unlocking of CDMA versions is/was done provider side (used to work for a CDMA provider, no naming ) but for GSM versions it is/was handset side... please correct me if my information is erroneous.
Thanks
orangeworx said:
Hey there @MrMike2182 and thanks for replying
Is this specific to HTC devices as I don't have much experience with them? And from what you're saying, the only option I have, besides having a door stopper, is to get the unlock code from Cricket? It seems kind of bizarre that sim unlocking is "impossible", I understand the unlocking of CDMA versions is/was done provider side (used to work for a CDMA provider, no naming ) but for GSM versions it is/was handset side... please correct me if my information is erroneous.
Thanks
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It doesn't have anything to do with HTC. Most people don't understand that the micro SIM card only gives you the ability to use LTE and if you remove the SIM card the phone will still work... It has to be carrier unlocked whether gsm or cdma doesn't matter. Now considering you're not in the USA Cricket may agree to unlock them but then complain that the computer won't allow them to do that because the phones haven't been activated on their network for at least a year and you're basically screwed there. The last thing you may be able to do is take the phone to whatever carrier you plan on using and see If they can re-provision the phone to work with their network. It's not likely to work though.
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It doesn't have anything to do with HTC. Most people don't understand that the micro SIM card only gives you the ability to use LTE and if you remove the SIM card the phone will still work... It has to be carrier unlocked whether gsm or cdma doesn't matter. Now considering you're not in the USA Cricket may agree to unlock them but then complain that the computer won't allow them to do that because the phones haven't been activated on their network for at least a year and you're basically screwed there. The last thing you may be able to do is take the phone to whatever carrier you plan on using and see If they can re-provision the phone to work with their network. It's not likely to work though.
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this phone will work without the microsim? that's not my understanding of how GSM networks work but ok, you seem to have a solid understanding of that...
Anyways, i'll try to get a hold of Cricket, another family member got me the handsets and he's an active client of Cricket's as well as an employee... since this seems to be the only course of action I have (which I didn't really want to take but oh well!)
thanks anyways, i'll update on how this goes.
cheers!
orangeworx said:
this phone will work without the microsim? that's not my understanding of how GSM networks work but ok, you seem to have a solid understanding of that...
Anyways, i'll try to get a hold of Cricket, another family member got me the handsets and he's an active client of Cricket's as well as an employee... since this seems to be the only course of action I have (which I didn't really want to take but oh well!)
thanks anyways, i'll update on how this goes.
cheers!
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Yes the phone will work without the SIM card but you'll only get 3G speeds that's it but when you put the micro SIM card in you get the high speed LTE. That's how these pay as you go phones work! Cellphones that are not the pay as you go with like cricket, virgin mobile or T-Mobile don't have this type of setting and the SIM card on those ones controls it all. If you have a family member that works for cricket like you said then they could be able to pull some strings to help you out.
I am very frustrated and looking for some help. I recently bought an HTC One M8 HK but i didn't know it was locked to Sprint. Over the past few days I have been trying different methods to unlock the phone but they haven't worked. My goal is for my M8 to be able to use my Cricket SIM card. So far all I've seen is "Invalid SIM" and other messages like that. I have S-OFF, SuperCID, the MSL code and on a rooted deodexed stock 4.4.4 rom. Can anyone help or point me to a method that works to unlock domestic USA carriers? Really like the phone and would rather not have to sell it.
There are threads based on same topic kindly use them like here and here.
Kindly search before making a new thread.
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