Hey guys, recently I brought used Lumia 1320 from the US, it was originally locked to Cricket but when I got it it was unlocked. There was a bunch of crap on it so I just did factory reset and updated it to 8.1. After I finished playing with it I put the sim card in and it asked me for unlock code... So apparently factory reset locked it back to Cricket I asked them if they could give me the unlock code (again) but they need some info that came with the phone like account information or phone number and I don't have that and prob never will. So my question to you guys is there a way to remove simlock from the device? I come from Android and there it usually comes down to rooting the device, is it possible here as well?
is only two way to SIM unlock phone:
- carrier unlock
- or purchase unlock code from web (try here)
hard (factory) reset cant lock your phone. is possible your phone was locked from start but you not notice that
It was unlocked because it had a sim card inside from the same carrier I'm using and my friend was using it just fine. Idk what locked it, I did factory reset and then upgrade it to the newest version and it doesn't work anymore, asks for unlock code.
The price on these sites is a joke its more than half the phone's worth, I hope simlocks get banned by law and these thieves find a real job.
i make hard reset many times (maybe more than 20x on one phone because tests) and never lost SIM unlock...
if you want sim lock free phone next time buy phone from retail, not from operator... operator have rights to lock phone to prevent people to get cheaper phone and resale it, but must give free unlock service to customer... if you lost proof of purchase (or buy phone without), your problem...
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I've done a lot of searching online for information about how the procedure is conducted, however either that information doesn't exist or there is just too much spam crap littered on the internet. I called T-mobile and requested the phone to be unlocked, and have recieved a confirmation email saying that I'll recieve my unlock code, however, after viewing someone actually changing out a sim card and inputing the unlock code I have to wonder if this procedure requires another sim card. I'm anxious...
It won't ask you for an unlock code until you put a different provider's SIM in the phone...
Just keep the unlock code around until you need it (I email myself with stuff like that)...
That does beg the question though of why you need a unlock code if you do not have another sim to use...? Just curious...
Also, I've been on a website called uniquephones.com and they claim to be able to unlock the G1 - has any actually tried them out?
Cheers,
Smiffy.
So does this mean that each time you start the phone with a different carriers sim card you'll have to enter the code, or only once? I'm a struggling student and I don't know if I can afford my contract here in the future, so I may have to use a different sim. Seems nice seeing how its a free service through T-mobile. TAKING FOREVER AND SOME though, I requested the unlock code last friday, I read others having their codes in 4 days, I'm going on 7 or 5 business days. Thanks though
hi I am new here, I get a g1 next week and I wondered if flashing a new rom affects the lock of the device... i bought it on ebay and have no tmobile plan. do i have to care about unlocking after flashing?
Was the device purchased "unlocked". I'm real fuzzy about this because I'm not sure if each time you use the device with a non-tmobile sim card I believe, but very well may be wrong, that you need to enter the unlock code before you can access the phone with that new sim. You shouldn't have any software boundaries that would make you unable to use the phone while rooting the device, as all the steps toward rooting are all done while the phone is either in fastboot or recovery mode.
it is locked.
maybe we have a non-tmobile user here, that can tell me whether or not he had to unlock after flashing. or does the locked/unlocked state "survive" a flash?
after rooting my device and flashing to the JF Dev 1.50 rom I was still asked for an unlock code for mine.
This is just my knowledge, don't fully rely on it. As far as I know, if the phone is rooted and is on one of the modified rom, it can be used with any sim card. If you have an unlocked code, you only have to enter it once. It will not ask you twice.
Help, does anyone no how my Galaxy S i9000 has become locked one day after i payed to have it unlocked for any network, the guy who unlocked it said it's not possible & i must have done something to the phone & i would have to pay again to get it unlocked. CRAZY what could i have possibly done to lock the sim networks, i haven't even used the phone on 3 network yet as i couldn't get the settings on the phone, so now the phones been stuck in the draw for 3 days & i don't no what to do ??? if i pay to have it unlocked again whats to say it won't lock again & in the meantime I'm paying for a monthly Sim contract i can't use properly.
Hope someone can help, i just want to use the phone !!! THANKS
Essex-girl said:
Help, does anyone no how my Galaxy S i9000 has become locked one day after i payed to have it unlocked for any network, the guy who unlocked it said it's not possible & i must have done something to the phone & i would have to pay again to get it unlocked. CRAZY what could i have possibly done to lock the sim networks, i haven't even used the phone on 3 network yet as i couldn't get the settings on the phone, so now the phones been stuck in the draw for 3 days & i don't no what to do ??? if i pay to have it unlocked again whats to say it won't lock again & in the meantime I'm paying for a monthly Sim contract i can't use properly.
Hope someone can help, i just want to use the phone !!! THANKS
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Have you tried the app found in the market? (you need the original Sim card from where you got the phone and any other company's sim card
Try searching for "SGS unlock" in market place. It should be called the "Samsung Galaxy S Unlock Tool".
Simply Run the app after installing (while using the original Sim card) and it should give you two codes: an unlock code and an unfreeze code.
Once you get them, I suggest writing it down and/or emailing it to yourself.
After that, turn off your phone and swap the sim card to the one you want to use. The phone "should" ask you for the unlock code when you turn it back on and after it has booted. Simply enter the unlock code and you phone should then tell you it's unlocked (if everything works ok otherwise it will say it was unsuccessful).
Note: I am on Bell in Vancouver running the stock 2.1 firmware and it's worked fine for me. There have been people who were not so lucky and it did not work for them. There are even those who have gotten their phone locked due to trying to many time when after it fails to unlock, but that is what the unfreeze code is for. If you're with Orange mobility, I've read that some of their phones were already unlocked. You could always just try a different sim card and see if it accepts it if you haven't done so already.
Hope this helps.
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Have you tried the app found in the market? (you need the original Sim card from where you got the phone and any other company's sim card
Try searching for "SGS unlock" in market place. It should be called the "Samsung Galaxy S Unlock Tool".
Simply Run the app after installing (while using the original Sim card) and it should give you two codes: an unlock code and an unfreeze code.
Once you get them, I suggest writing it down and/or emailing it to yourself.
After that, turn off your phone and swap the sim card to the one you want to use. The phone "should" ask you for the unlock code when you turn it back on and after it has booted. Simply enter the unlock code and you phone should then tell you it's unlocked (if everything works ok otherwise it will say it was unsuccessful).
Note: I am on Bell in Vancouver running the stock 2.1 firmware and it's worked fine for me. There have been people who were not so lucky and it did not work for them. There are even those who have gotten their phone locked due to trying to many time when after it fails to unlock, but that is what the unfreeze code is for. If you're with Orange mobility, I've read that some of their phones were already unlocked. You could always just try a different sim card and see if it accepts it if you haven't done so already.
Hope this helps.
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Thanks for replying, new to this site not sure what I'm doing !
When i paid to have the phone unlocked i had already canceled my o2 monthly contract so the phone had no Sim in it when being unlocked, i don't have the o2 Sim anymore, i brought the phone from o2 so they might help me out I'll have to ask them. I've just put a o2 pay as you go Sim in the phone & it didn't ask for the Sim Network Unlock Pin but with the 3 contract Sim it does ask. I have installed the SGS Unlock tool but i haven't run the app. I'm having the phone unlocked again tomorrow so he hopefully can sort it out. Thanks again.
I tried to "SGS unlock tool" and nothing does not give me the codes. When I go to the root gene codes told me: "Sorry, no codes found. File not found: Do you have S Business"
I have no idea what to do.
Is there some other way to decode or knows someone why this is happening?
I also tried with Generate Unlock Windows, error is: can not find nv_data.bin
Hello!
I would like to ask for help, since seems that my phone fall in a more locked state, a seems that is an issue that is starting to plague the Droid-3's models.
Well, the issue is, I bought a Droid 3 that came fine and with a Verizon SIM card, and activated. So I purchase an Unlock code on internet, in order to Unlock it for use in my country network ( I already unlocked succesfully others models in the past).
Well, the code seller sends me 2 codes as options for unlock, butin the first try both fails with my local SIM (following instructions), well, then I enter in a process of several tests with other option settings ( Changing Network to gsm, full resenting of the phone,etc), but aftera I almost sure was 10 attemps (I was 5 process in total, since I received 2 codes, so spend 2 by every stting that I was try), the phone reported "Dismiss mode" and since them the "Unlock Network" option was not available from the system and request for calling Verizon service.
So, I am not in USA, an neither have Verizon account, I am stuck with the phoen still network Locked and worst Locked also in "Dismiss Mode".
So, far, I would like to ask PLEASE some help in order to try to unlock the phone, since by now is almost bricked.
I also would like to resume the info that I found by my bad experience and related research in order to help avoid that others users may fall inthis locked state:
1) If you try to unlock your phone and the code is unsuccesfull, You have at the most a MAX of 10 times in total and if You reach 10 times, Your phone will be locked in "Dismiss MODE" and will be asking for calling to Verizon to try to solve and You will have to need a Verizon up to date account and in normal service.
2) The codes available in internet seems NOT ABLE to Network Unlock some Droid 3's and the issue seems in rising.
3)There is some info around about that Verizon change the internal codes of their phones, so seems that the Motorola provided code that some sellers offers seems that dont work.
Please, If somebody could help with a method or process to remove or pass the dismiss state, and some info about codes outside Verizon that really could work on network unlock, it will be very gratefull.
Thanks for attention and best regards.
If you leave the phone on for 9 hours (if I remember right) on this screen, it will go back to 'enter unlock code' mode. But this is all you could do. Verizon tends to alter unlock codes for their global phones - this started with Droid 2 Global and now we see growing reports of same happening to Droid 3.
The thing is they do not want you to be able to use the phone if you are not customer of theirs. For now, your only chance is to have phone activated on Verizon on account that's postpaid and has been in good standing for at least 60 days. Then owner of this account can call and request unlock code from Verizon Global Support. If all conditions are met - they will give him/her the code free of charge. I know this might not be possible for you to do. I believe the only other way is if bootloader gets unlocked and somebody knowledgeable can thinker with the baseband image to overcome the sim lock.
There is also one more thing you could try, but it likely won't work very reliably - it is called "TurboSIM/Smart Unlock SIM" - a thin module that inserts underneath sim card in the slot and fakes the phone to believe it is engineering SIM inserted, thus bypassing the lock code. Those sell for like $5 on eBay, but as I said - phone might not work very reliably when these are in use
Head over Droid 2 Global section to read for more information if you like.
Hello leobg!
First of all! thank You very much for take time to kind help and answer. Indeed, Your info is helping since make me with more clear scene about the phone status.
Well, by now I set the phone on with the original Verizon SIM inside, in order to look for the "Network Unlock Code" screen...
About this, I wonder, with some doubts... if there be possible that after around 9 hours the "Network Unlock Code" return, and if I do not have yet a proper code, IF I pass/dismiss the "Network Unlock Code" screen the phone will return to Subsidy status OR it may be remove the Subsidy status, and then, when I may get a proper code in future I was able to get again the "Network Unlock Code" screen again, OR, if I dismiss the "Network Unlock Code" screen, then the phone still will be in Subsidy status, so, the only way to reach again the "Network Unlock Code" screen will be put the phone ON for around 9 hours again?
The rest of the info is very usefull too.
Also, I wonder if somebody around here, may have the experience about made and complete succesfully a process of remove the subsidy lock with the Verizon service, and instructions, and in such case what could be the instructions that Verizon provides to a customer to remove the Subsidy lock in the normal way that Verizon does this.
And, of course, if some another good friend around have some additional help/info, it will be very gratefull.
Thanks to all and best regards!
Hello!
Well, still Locked... :-(
However, found that the tip about remove battery for a while (around 10-15min) and turn on with out SIM, then turn off, put a SIM and turn on again remove temporarily the Subsidy lock, so the "Unlock Network Code"screen option will be available again (but also if You type an unlock code and fail, it will turn to Subsidy mode again, but again You could reset by remove battery and so on...).
By now, I ordered a Turbo SIM but will take around 3 weeks to come...
Any info about a Recent succesfull unlock with a code from a seller?... May somebody succesfully unlock a D3 with a code from ebay seller unlock_fusion in the past 2 weeks?...
I would like to try to buy such codes, but I am afraid that all the ebay seller may have the same database codes (not verizon database...), so may be the same codes that I already have for my IMEI, and that didnt work in my case...
Thanks for any additional info/help... best regards!
damn happened the same to me. this is not nice. there should be a way to acces the portion of the memory that locks the sim card. if you can sbf, maybe you could acces it somehow.
Hello,
So I need some help big time. :crying:I bought my sony xperia TL from Ebay back in beginning of August.( mistake for not getting a non-returnable, phone. But hey its ebay and didn't want a contract phone. ) My current carrier right now is Simple Mobile with a good unlimited everything plan. So i bought the phone as an upgrade to my current service. I had no retailer in my city to unlock this phone. ( it used to be that you can bring any phone to this service and they will unlock it for free regardless what the status of the phone) I had to do to another cell phone shop that usually unlocks phones. They unlocked my Xperia X10 before so I thought i give it to them again. I gave them my phone to unlock but they couldn't. Told me I had to buy an unlock code to unlock the phone. I bought that but they were not able to unlock. So after recieving my phone, the retailer was asked to submit a video showing us physically unlocking the code. The retailer didn't wanna do it told me to do it since I paid for it. So i submitted the video, but the company providing the unlock code said I they couldn't help if its hard locked. I'm like "wtf??????????" .
So a friend suggested that I get a friend to use to my phone (Xperia TL) to an origianl ATT customer and insert their Sim Let them use it for a week and they should get you the unlock code. When we inserted the ATT sim, it worked like a charm. After a week or two, we called ATT, they informed us that the phone was good to be unlocked and it required 36-48 hours. However, they do not unlock throught the phone anymore. You have to go on the ATT website att.com/unlock (something something) . When we tried that, it said the phone was not able to be unlocked.
Now this phone has another thing, it has some flash version of Xperiment pre-loaded on to it. I'm not sure if this is why ATT or the unlock codes are not working? If it is, then I would like to know a way of reboot the phone to get rid of Xperiment Software so I can use my codes to Unlock the damn phone and use on my Simple Mobile carrier. I've downloaded the Sony PC companion version to try to get reboot and reset the software but the stupid program wants me to insert the Sim and the use the unlock codes. Anyway I delete the software without destroying my phone's software, so that phone itself and/or PC companion recognizes the Simple Mobile SIM without asking for unlock codes?
I'm down $210+ in the hole for a phone I didn't use yet. I didn't plan on spending this much but if there is way it can be saved, i'd like to keep the phone. I doubt i get the same money back if I tried to sell it. It's been on CL/ebay for 3 weeks but no serious buyers. Its in great condition, but I need to know if I can reset the PHONE all the way and get rid of the Xperiment, and use the unlock codes to unlock the phone to use on my carrier?:crying:
Hey guys,
I really messed up
So I received a Samsung Note 5 SM-N920W8 directly from Samsung. I need to use a Rogers SIM card in it. Not know if the device was locked or not, I thought I would try a non-Rogers SIM in it... I put in a Virgin mobile SIM and it worked. I thought to myself "GREAT, this is factory unlocked, WOO!" Until a few days later when I put in the Rogers SIM that I need to use in the device, and it asked for an unlock code.
Tried buy a code online for both Rogers and Virgin, no luck. Of course not, since the phone never went through carrier fulfilment
For work reasons, I need to use the Rogers SIM in the phone. Both of which are provided by work.
I never realized the phone would lock itself... I thought this was something only Apple did, where they ship the device unlocked, and it locks to the first carrier SIM inserted. I did not know Samsung did the same thing! Was I wrong in thinking this?
How can I get this unlocked? I'm trying to avoid rooting, as it would trip Knox.
There's no such a thing like sim lock option on any Samsung devices
I'm the biggest Samsung fan
Once you buying sim free device from Samsung it's always be sim free
I thinking you must be doing something wrong with settings
Nope, it's asking for SIM unlock code lol
What to do?
How did you receive a phone 'directly from Samsung'? That option doesn't exist in Canada - but in any event, your phone appears to be locked to Bell/Virgin. Phones don't lock themselves based on the SIM you put in. And why don't you ask whoever you acquired the phone from? If you acquired it legally, this shouldn't be an issue; if you didn't, you shouldn't be here asking for help.