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Hey guys, does anyone know how to unlock the dell streak from o2 in the UK? If this isnt possible, do you guys think an unlock will be comming soon?
I bought a streak on pay as you go o2 as I already have a contract with orange and tmobile so I would desperatly like to unlock this.
Cheers guys
I join in the questions and requests
Yeah me too have the same question. Any news???
Superboot
androidpolice[dot]com/2010/06/07/dell-streak-rooted-instructions-are-now-live/
How do I put the Streak into bootloader mode ?
Root and unlocking are not related. If you don't understand this, don't play around with something you will end up breaking. You will become the proud owner of a brand new brick.
If you want to know how to unlock your O2 Dell Streak, unlucky. Right now you can't. O2 are currently 'blacklisting' all Streaks so that it will not be possible to register devices on any other networks, even if you get them 'unlocked'.
Hence the meaning of the word 'exclusive'.
Sorry to say this, but... suck it up.
Check out the forums over here: http://android.modaco.com/category/436/dell-streak-streak-modaco-com/
Look at the unlocking threads, looks like some people have got it working using a rebel sim.
you can if you get a rebelsim, I've got it working on t-mobile uk right now
couldn't you ask the telco to unlock? or do they lock it permanently?
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couldn't you ask the telco to unlock? or do they lock it permanently?
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there are reports of O2 either saying they won't unlock until 12 months or that they say they'll send the code in 14 days, but then the request will not be pushed through :-/
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you can if you get a rebelsim, I've got it working on t-mobile uk right now
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Do you have the R (for Roaming) icon in your Streak with the rebel SIM in place? When i have my vodafone SIM in i have the R icon. The phone seems to work ok as long as i enter the APN and enable data roaming.
rovex said:
Do you have the R (for Roaming) icon in your Streak with the rebel SIM in place? When i have my vodafone SIM in i have the R icon. The phone seems to work ok as long as i enter the APN and enable data roaming.
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Perhaps this means that somehow the Dell streak still "knows" that O2 is the preferred provider. I wonder if you delete all O2 APNs from the settings leaving only your t-mobile APN it would perhaps not consider you to be roaming. I imagine there is some risk that by setting roaming on that you could start transferring data from another network, although it is possible in the settings to positively select your provider ensuring that it would not connect to another (I hope ;-) ). I am still waiting for the Rebel Sim so I now have to wait before I can experiment in this area...... Let's hope that the major "sim-unlockers" on the internet start providing unlock codes for the streak and hopefully that could provide a purer solution.....
Rebel sim works fine for me. I just put it in and straight away full Tmobile H signal. Working internet and i didnt even have to add an APN.
My APN to connect to internet reads:
Name: Test Internet 01
APN: btmobile.bt.com
Proxy: Not Set
Port: Not Set
Username: bt
Password **
Server, MMC MMS proxy, MMS port: Not set
MCC: 001
MNC: 01
APN type: default
BTW:
I have a message saying 'Google sign in - You entered the wrong password or your account has changed......etc'
I havent put anything in, i have just left it.
any news for unlock. thanks!
johnr82 said:
any news for unlock. thanks!
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news?
there are multiple threads detailing that o2 will not be providing unlock codes for 1 year.
Will the dell streak work ok,with a rebel sim card ,and vodafone sim installed, thanks for any help,i am new.
Streak and rebelsim working for me with Era and Orange Poland simcard and not work with Play (P4) simcard only No Service.....
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joe2811 said:
Will the dell streak work ok,with a rebel sim card ,and vodafone sim installed, thanks for any help,i am new.
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rebel sim with 1.1 firmware works a treat on my streak on vodafone (UK). i can even regain signal back when i lose it from the streak itself so i dont have to put sim in another unlocked phone.
i cant get data to work though...
tregba said:
rebel sim with 1.1 firmware works a treat on my streak on vodafone (UK). i can even regain signal back when i lose it from the streak itself so i dont have to put sim in another unlocked phone.
i cant get data to work though...
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The same for me with vodafone (Greece)
tregba said:
rebel sim with 1.1 firmware works a treat on my streak on vodafone (UK). i can even regain signal back when i lose it from the streak itself so i dont have to put sim in another unlocked phone.
i cant get data to work though...
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Hi,
Thanks for reply,what will happen when dell update the software to 2.1 or 2.2 froyo,will the rebel sim 1.1 firmware still work or not,or would you need to buy a new rebelsim card again.
Ill be moving to japan by years end and was wondering what network could I use to work with the Atrix? And if anyone has any experiance living in japan, how does billing work?
From everything I've heard Japan has domestic market phones that make the Atrix look like old news. You might be better off getting a phone/plan locally when you get there.
...I beg to differ on that one.
Here in Japan, there are some good Android phones, but they're almost always locked down. For example my SH005. great phone except the battery won't last a whole day.
I picked up an Atrix I plan on unlocking and using that over here.
anything that has the 2100 band (pretty much all 3G phones in the US) will work on Softbank. if you're going there permanently, then if your phone is unlocked you can probably just drop the SIM in. if you're going temporarily then you will probably need to grab a prepaid SIM but it should still work in the phone. you pay for all minutes used, incoming calls are free, and softbank has a good deal on unlimited mail for prepaid (300 yen per month) plans.
shadowfalx had issues with softbank in JP.. he tried 2 Atrix handsets and couldn't get either of them to work with data..
It had to be his APN settings. I've used dozens of non-softbank phones over here, starting with my GSM WinMo Treo 750, and as long as the APN settings were correct, it worked on data fine. There's one other person with an Atrix I know here in Tokyo; He's a Google employee here. So I know it'll work.
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From everything I've heard Japan has domestic market phones that make the Atrix look like old news. You might be better off getting a phone/plan locally when you get there.
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Like what?
Japan is behind the times these days, still loving flip phones, blackberries and just joining the iphone love.
Symbian is alive and well in Japan. That should tell you everything.
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It had to be his APN settings. I've used dozens of non-softbank phones over here, starting with my GSM WinMo Treo 750, and as long as the APN settings were correct, it worked on data fine. There's one other person with an Atrix I know here in Tokyo; He's a Google employee here. So I know it'll work.
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Have you ever heard of people getting extremely high charges for data? I read about that on another forum (gaijinpot, search for "softbank bill" on the title, I can't link to it). They say softbank will usually not allow you to use a cell phone they didn't sell on their data network if you ask them directly. The thread is 3 or so moths old, I don't think too much has changed since then.
Again, it's all in the plan/APN settings you start off with beforehand, along with checking My.softbank.ne.jp to see if you're getting ridiculous charges...
Some people go into the store, get a prepaid phone, then just swap the SIMs. No prepaid phone here comes with data!
Others are moving from a featurephone to a smartphone. Those have data, but are tied to a specific APN. When pulling down more data than allowed from that APN, they charge exorbitant fees. Hence plan changing is a good thing.
Finally, some people go from iPhone to another Android. iPhones here have totally different APNs they attach to.
It's all in the name controlling the plans for their customers, that's all. Connect to the one you're paying for, then you shouldn't have any problem.
Again, I used an AT&T treo 750, HTC Tilt, HTC Tilt 2, from T-mobile, and an out-the-box unlocked iPhone 3GS from Singapore with no issues. Of course you NEVER tell them that you're using a different phone from the one that's on their system. But as long as you're connected properly, they generally don't care.
That being said, theres another option called B:mobile here. They're an MVNO and use DoCoMo's network. They just sell you a prepaid SIM card. I may try them out, just to see what kind of service is there and if it could save me some ¥. This guy is test one right now actually:
http://softbanksucks.blogspot.com/
Wow, that was really informative starrwulfe. I was looking for this kind of info because I just got an Atrix off of ebay and I plan to use it with a Dell Streak's SIM which I got from softbank on the 2-year contract. You're saying that if I backup my APN settings from the Streak I should have no problems on the Atrix, correct?
For the record, I pay about 9,000 yen per month. That includes ~6,000 for the unlimited data plan, ~1800 for the phone, and all the crap you have to sign in when you make the contract.
OP, If you are going to stay in Japan long enough and you intend to use a lot of data on the Atrix you may want to consider getting a basic android smartphone from softbank on an unlimited data plan and swapping SIMs.
Exactly.
I have a Sharp Galapagos SH005 here now, but like you, I'm switching to an Atrix too (in fact it should be here before Saturday) and that's exactly what I plan to do.
Easy way to tell what APN you should connect to is to check the color of the SIM cards. Black ones are iPhone only cards, gray ones with green bands specifically say "SMARTPHONE" on them-- they go into the Android phones here. Feature phones have a regular gray card.
You can find the APN info and password easily by googling a little... But if you can back up your APN info, can you share it with me? mine is locked (current phone can't be rooted)
Ok, now I'm having trouble here with getting my Atrix set up on the Softbank network.
Phone calls and SMS work, but data doesn't.
Seems they have some unpublished APNs now with the new android phones. My Galapagos plugs into some other APN than what the normal silver cards did. Unfortunately I can't see what my APN is now on my current phone since they've locked that part out.
What I'm also afraid of is that they may have also started using things like imei checking and user agent binding as well. Great, now what can I do?
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Just so you know, I have this with sim card out of my iPhone and my atrix works on the softbank network. So it was see if only thing stopping me for connecting to softbank is apn info.
again if anybody has sharp galapogos APN information for softbank I would happily pay pal a donation
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It had to be his APN settings. I've used dozens of non-softbank phones over here, starting with my GSM WinMo Treo 750, and as long as the APN settings were correct, it worked on data fine. There's one other person with an Atrix I know here in Tokyo; He's a Google employee here. So I know it'll work.
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It was APNs....sort of. Motorola Atrix requires you to add your Username and Password to a file in '/system/etc/ppp/peers/pppd-ril.options'. With out this you can call and use wi-fi but can not use mobile data.
and for APN's this site is helpful:
http://android.modaco.com/content/a...internet-mms-apk-for-softbank-users-in-japan/
Just remember is you want tethering and aGPS add them to the list in APN Type. So it should read default,supl,mms,agps,dun,tether remember NO spaces
Starrwulf do you have root on you Galappagos phone? if so you can look at the APNs.....Let me make a guide quickly and I will update this post.
Required:
SQLite editor
Root
1) Open SQLite editor and accept the root permissions.
2) Go to Dialer storage.
3) telephony.db
4) carriers
This opens a database file with all the APNs preloaded on the phone. You should be able to look for the one that has a 'Yes' in the current field.
I assume this is the same or similar on the Galapagos (I don't have one specifically though)
Thanx _Dennis_ for being so helpful!
Unfortunately, this thing has no root-- or rather may have temporary root, but not full root.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1054132
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=13747122
If I could gain just enough access to that file, then maybe theres a good chance it's in there.
I don't think SuperOneClick works... any suggestions?
maybe try gingerbreak? it may gain you root but you may not be able to change anything, which would be ok.
Or even better do you have adb access? if so I will find the correct .db file.
--edit: correct file is /data/data/com.android.providers.telephony/databases/telephony.db
or try these settings:
apn carrier="SoftBank Internet"
mcc="440"
mnc="20"
apn="andglobal.softbank.ne.jp"
user="andg001softbank"
password="pumbbghkpgyybsxa"
mmsc="http://mms/"
mmsproxy="andmms.softbank.ne.jp"
mmsport="8080"
type="default,mms"
preferred="true"
from: http://android.modaco.com/content-p...-mms-apk-for-softbank-users-in-japan/page/40/
I'm on the freenode IRC channel #moto-atrix, my name is shadowfalx do to someone already having _dennis_ registered though, if you want more real time help
You, another friend of mine here on Gtalk, and I found that MoDaCo thread all at the same time!
Those settings did the trick actually! So now I'm good to go. Now I need to figure out how to push that other mms.apk thru ADB to get my useragent changed...
BTW I'm new to the Android Mod scene. I started messing with WinMo back in the States, then moved here and had a very hacked Tilt 2 on softbank... when it gave up the ghost, I went into the iPhone jailbreak scene. Now I'm here! So I'll accept any and all advice you can give me, sensei/senpai!
You don't really need the mms app Download 'Handcent' from the market and change the UA in settings. Also I suggest getting 'market enabler' requires root but it allows you to fake a US sim card in the market and get US only apps.
I have Hancent... But I don't see anywhere to change the UA in the settings.... Am I missing something?
Just a quick thread, i used the Dell Streak Unlocker program after being told by Att and Dell that the phone couldn't be unlocked, and after reading reviews of another program that weren't so kind, so i figured i would try this one. The program worked and i am now using another company's SIM, but i noticed that a few times since i unlocked it yesterday that it is registering "NO SIM" intermittently. So i am wondering is this is something anyone else has noticed after unlocking their Streak or if this is something occurring in Streaks in general?
Got my Streak unlocked by O2 and have never faced any such problem.
To be honest I have used the dell streak unlocker .. and my phone works great on simple mobile. . What it sounds like to me is something hardware.. this brings me back to when my iPhone use to have this problem along with a sidekick 2 I had (yess had an iPhone and sidekick 2 ) any how with the sidekick there was no hope but with the iPhone a new sim did the trick do some more research before getting a new similar or anything
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If you don't mind me asking what program did you use. I'm thinking of unlocking from att to go to tmobile. Do you know if all streaks can be unlocked and does it work on tmobiles 3G bands
I was wondering if it might be the SIM, i know ive swapped it to and from so many different phones that i was wondering if its just not making a great connection anymore. Thanks for the quick replies all. Also in regards to the t mobile bands, as far as i know the streak has the 2100 band, but is lacking the 1700 that t mobile also uses, would be a good question for t mobile as to where they default to when it comes to their band.
If the unlocking software referenced here is this one below....
http://www.unlockstreak.com/pages/d...?ref=874b1d7212afe8cc4672f2f53d9976c12a5ea0e5
then yes, I did for the first day or so get a NO SIM notice on my Streak, but that since has gone away. I was actually going to post an endorsement for this program before I looked for, and found this one. I had some trouble at the beginning that I sought support out for, and was rather speedily greeted back the proper instruction. I'm a former Rogers customer and have now switched over to Telus for $30 less than Rogers was trying to charge me. Complete success I would say.
I just called AT&T up and got an unlock code (fibbed & said I was traveling out of the country) & took all of 20 minutes with all the being put on hold. The Rep said that I needed to pop in the other company's SIM in order for my Streak to ask for the unlock code. Is there a way I can unlock with my code without having a non-AT&T SIM card? She also gave me the PUK code, so do I need to use both?
The puk code should be specific to the sim card itself(?)
It's for if you lock the card and forget the unlock code or something for it (completely unrelated to unlocking the phone itself)
There might be a "unlock" menu entry under settings -> wireless -> mobile networks
if it isnt there/doesnt work you will need to pop in a foreign sim card (any card that isnt on the locked network)
I can't seem to do data on the phone and It seem's to not even get 2g working.
I am on the pay as you go plan 500mb to start to see if it worked and so far it has not. I have never had a real smartphone before so any help would be good.
You turned on your packet data in the Wireless and Network -> Mobile networks settings?
Disfected said:
You turned on your packet data in the Wireless and Network -> Mobile networks settings?
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yes and it does not work.
Did you install custom rom ?
If Yes - that particular rom has wrong APN settings.(search forum for default ATT APN settings enter manually )
If NO - no idea whats your problem.
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Did you install custom rom ?
If Yes - that particular rom has wrong APN settings.(search forum for default ATT APN settings enter manually )
If NO - no idea whats your problem.
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I just got the phone to day and it runs very well, so no custom rom. It's a 3G sim as well. I took it out of my KRZR and put it in the s2. It may not have the right setting's. I am starting to think the phone itself may have a dead 2/3/4g chip. (I don't know alot about cell's ok.)
You tried the Network operator and waited until Select automatically was available?
Yes and that did not work.
EDIT: HELP would be good.
AT&T data settings have been debated at length in this thread, with several members posting their AT&T APN settings for others to try:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1109983
If settings in one post don't work for you, try another.
(BTW, folks are trying to help you!)
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(BTW, folks are trying to help you!)
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Lol this guy hasnt done research for ****. To the OP: when people are trying to help you, don't be a smartass. Also put in wap.cingular in your APN settings and you will have data
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I did not mean to seem ungrateful. I have done alot of thinking before hand about geting this phone. I just don't have alot of hand's on with smartphone's and I am more the hands on type ok.
Edit: it was on Wap.cingular when I got it and put the sim in.( so that did not work. thanks for trying.)
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I did not mean to seem ungrateful. I have done alot of thinking before hand about geting this phone. I just don't have alot of hand's on with smartphone's and I am more the hands on type ok.
Edit: it was on Wap.cingular when I got it and put the sim in.( so that did not work. thanks for trying.)
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No problem. Another one you could try is putting it simply as 'phone' . That doesnt work for me but it may for you
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I just ran the speedtest app and 3g poped up, and then died in 30 sec. I am just ?????????????????.
I tryed puting on phone and it did not work. I may try calling AT&t to see if anything can be done. I know it's a risk, but I want data on the phone.)
Edit: I can only seem to get 3g runing the speedtest app and if I trun wifi off, then it won't work. I don't know of anything more I can try, so I will try to get my $ back from them.
The phone is faster than my p4 PC that I had 3 years ago.
I don't know what unlimted data plan would work.
I don't get why the 3g/h+ will come up for 3-5 sec and then just wifi and then I can't use 2/3g/h+ to do anything. I am unsure what the isuse is with my data plan and I may have to do a hotspot from sprint or something.(I would not want to do it this way if I can.)
Is there a free way to unlock a rogers HTC legend to use on the Bell network?
Bell and Virgin originally sold the HTC Legend. If you're on Rogers, it's already unlocked.
That's strange, because I put a Bell SIM card into a Legend that was originally used on the Roger's network and it didn't work
What do you mean by it not working? Does it say it's SIM-locked? Does it require you to enter a code? That shouldn't be right if you used it on Rogers.
It should work super-duper fine, natively brilliant on the Bell/Virgin network. Can you say how it doesn't work?
It says "no service". No prompts for anything.
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Ah, then your phone is truly unlocked. Check your APN settings though. You can obtain them by doing a little Googling or asking a CSR. What ROM are you using?
Its running cm7. Its not my main phone, I'm helping a friend out with it. If you could link me to any helpful sites it would be much appreciated.
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http://support.bell.ca/en-on/Mobili...y_HTC_Hero_for_the_Bell_Mobility_HSPA_network
Be sure to mention if it doesn't work!
So this should allow me to make/receive calls ?
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Filling in correct APN settings should allow you to fully utilize Bell's network, especially its 3G network!
Try it! If something horrible happens or if you want to revert, just delete the APN you created and use the previous one. If you have no clue which to use, just backup and restore with nandroid then and there.
To have an HTC Legend used on the Rogers network, with CM7, I had to have had filled out APN settings before it clicked. It shouldn't be like that for a Bell phone seeking to succeed service on the Bell network. What you're experiencing is most strange.