Hi
I just bought a Cingular 3125 on Ebay, and according to the seller the phone was SIM Locked.
So I assumed it was Sim Locked and meanwhile I receive the phone I started looking around for different ways to Unlock it, so when I finally received my phone, I inserted my SIM Card and worked fine! so my questions are:
After all of the events, can I say that my phone is SIM Unlocked?
Is it possible that my local Carrier (Telefonica) has the same configuration as Cingular so the SIM Unlock Code was not required?
Thanks for your help and your expertise.
Best Regards
If your SIM worked I'd say it was SIM UNlocked AFAIK no SIM from another carrier will work if it's SIM locked. A simple way to check would be to try another SIM!
If I understand correctly, there are actually different levels of sim locked. Hey may have just been locked out of his own sim which can happen if you try the wrong code a few times. That way another sim might be able to work on that phone. I am not sure since the wireless carriers that I worked for never used Sim cards.
UPDATE
I just checked with my wife who works for ATT and she stated that it is possible for people to lock themselves out of thier SIM cards and not the phone. Should the person lock themselves out of the phone and SIM then they are kind of SOL unless they have great friends like the people at XDA or can get the manufacture to give them the lock code.
Hi everyone, if these seem like simple questions please excuse my ignorance, im a bit of a noob in a lot of ways.
I have a Telus HTC Hero which is rooted with custom rom on it. I am going to Australia for a couple of months and would like to be able to just chuck a pre paid sim card in it to use while I am there.
2 Questions, 1st will the phone actually work over there? With the frequencies and what not. and secondly do I need to unlock it and if so how do I go about that.
Thanks in advance for your help
It should work for voice calls and texts. I don't think 3G will work though.
You'll need to go to an unlock shop or buy an unlock code of an eBay seller to use an Australian SIM Card I think.
Thanks!! Can anyone confirm this? Also does that mean data will not work at all?
Has anyone knows if the JesStream is SIM Locked to AT&T or is it possible to use a different Operator SIM ?
Anyone tried ?
It's SIM locked to AT&T.
Does anyone no if ATT will unlock them so you can use a local sim when travelling internationally?
Bunnygum said:
Does anyone no if ATT will unlock them so you can use a local sim when travelling internationally?
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...or if it can be unlocked with some other tools?
Seen a lot of offers for IMEI unlock code for jetstream around the net. Anyone tried that? fake?
Having mine shipped tomm to the middle east...already obtained the IMEI and had it unlocked by one of those sites you mentioned...will update next week when I receive it
I got mine sent to me by a friend in the states, it was bought without a plan and came locked to at&t, I called them and explained I live in Australia but they said they couldn't unlock it. I was able to get an unlock code and made a video about it here http://youtu.be/a8eN0roRxHQ
Now it is unlocked hope that helps
Thank you everybody for feedback!
Great News - will try unlocking my HTC JetStream which will use a Middle East carrier data SIM & will update - thanks for the hint !!!
Perfectly unlocked to used with any SIM, I paid 25$ to HTCIMEIUNLOCK, waited 15 minutes, got the unlocking code, entered it and ...WOW !!! SIM unlocked.
Working perfectly on ORANGE network in Israel. If anyone wants to see here it is:
http://youtu.be/VcZlljP62Ew
Thank you for the feedback, everybody! Definitely going to find some one with US social security number now!
Buying from outside the USA
I saw these people will sell to international customers. I do not know anything about them, though.
I have ordered mine from AT&T through a friend.
http://negrielectronics.com/htc-jetstream.html
Hm Interesting.
I got my hands on a HTC jetstream test machine for their engineers and it didn't come locked. Had AT&T Logos on it as well. Could just be because it was for the Taiwan Engineers so they didn't lock it. Quite interesting.
Can anyone verified if Jetstream gets 3G/3.5G speed on US T-Mobile sim card with AWS frequency? Or just edge? Someone from XDA posted the Youtube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcZlljP62Ew&feature=youtu.be) video saying it works on Orange network, but I realized the device was only getting "edge".
samchilla said:
I got mine sent to me by a friend in the states, it was bought without a plan and came locked to at&t, I called them and explained I live in Australia but they said they couldn't unlock it. I was able to get an unlock code and made a video about it here http://youtu.be/a8eN0roRxHQ
Now it is unlocked hope that helps
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didnt work for me getting the following error, any idea why?
this is a screenshot http://imm.io/cFOx
Hi,
Was wondering if the sim unlock will cause a change in the root or if the root could interfere with the sim unlock or if any future updates will revert the sim unlock to sim lock?
Wanted to be sure before unlocking the sim.
kailashpchhabria said:
Hi,
Was wondering if the sim unlock will cause a change in the root or if the root could interfere with the sim unlock or if any future updates will revert the sim unlock to sim lock?
Wanted to be sure before unlocking the sim.
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I unlocked my Jetstream a couple of months ago. I rooted the jetstream last week and didn't see any issues. Although now I am bricked because of an unrelated reason. But you won't see any problems with unlocking your SIM.
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I unlocked my Jetstream a couple of months ago. I rooted the jetstream last week and didn't see any issues. Although now I am bricked because of an unrelated reason. But you won't see any problems with unlocking your SIM.
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Thank you for the reply. Will unlock mine soon then.
Rooted first but now cannot sim unlock
Hello Everyone,
I have a Jetstream ATT which I rooted with developer d00mlord's stuff. Recently I decided to unlock it from the ATT network. The unlock code says unlock successful, but after rebooting it comes back up with the same locked screen. This will happen over and over again. This is happening with an ATT sim card too, so that I cannot use the data features with anything but wifi. The company who provided the unlock code tells me it may be due to the tablet having been rooted, and that I will need to factory reset everything. So, I am hoping that someone might be able to tell me what I should do. I have noticed that this thread addresses the sim unlock first and then a root afterwards, but not the other way around. I cannot seem to find a thread that is more relevant. This is my first posting and I am brand n00b so thank you very much for even reading this over.
when you say locked screen..what exactly do you mean?
for other sims to work you need to add a proper APN (maybe even for at&t after the unlocking). try googling: "the name of your provider + APN settings"
and add it to the settings>wireless>mobile networks
Hi.
I got a T-Mobile one and i havent update it yet, i am using it in spain with orange and i need it to be sim unlock, i don't know if by updating it i will get sim locked like in the iphones and if so it will be a nightmare or impossible to unlock it again.
I also would like to know if i could modify the ROM before updating, the reason is that i DON'T want anything Tmobile add to the ROM and if is possible to remove SENSE would be amazing too, keeping it SIM unlocked is the most important of it all..
Thanks.
I want to unlock my Note, but AT&T says they don't have the code yet. I am not in contract. I am also resigned to paying for it through 3rd party. But all the instructions I see refer to having a second SIM card on hand from another carrier. I want to stay on AT&T, but want to be able to download ICS now, which is not available through them.
My question is: do I need a second SIM to generate the box asking for the unlock code? I don't have one.
I prefer to keep it simple and not root. Any help is appreciated.
Yes you'll need another SIM to unlock and you will have to root if you want ICS unofficially.
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Well, shoot. I thought I read somewhere I could get ICS through Samsung or elsewhere if it was just unlocked, by-passing AT&T. That's a bit of a buzz kill.
Thanks for the reply.
When you get a code just borrow anyone's sim card. You'll only need it for one minute.
I don't know anyone else on a GSM network other than AT&T. I don't even know anyone else on AT&T. Everything here is CDMA.
Wow! PM me your address. I will send you a non at&t sim card.