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Ok quick run down of what I done so far.
Received phone on Thursday at work. Phone was locked to Orange UK
I came here and found out how to get unlock code ([email protected]) :-D
So while I waited for the unlock code to come through I thought I would change the rom.
I flashed the phone with the rom from the following post.
[ROM][ENG] TG01/T01A Debranded UK + Manila Sense 2.5 v0.011 (14/04/2010) More RAM!!
Flash went fine.
I just got my unlock code so inserted my sim (02 UK).
My problem is I have no unlock request and the attenna icon constantly has 3 dots animating after it and when I click it, it says "searching..."
Any ideas?
Gaz25 said:
Ok quick run down of what I done so far.
Received phone on Thursday at work. Phone was locked to Orange UK
I came here and found out how to get unlock code ([email protected]) :-D
So while I waited for the unlock code to come through I thought I would change the rom.
I flashed the phone with the rom from the following post.
[ROM][ENG] TG01/T01A Debranded UK + Manila Sense 2.5 v0.011 (14/04/2010) More RAM!!
Flash went fine.
I just got my unlock code so inserted my sim (02 UK).
My problem is I have no unlock request and the attenna icon constantly has 3 dots animating after it and when I click it, it says "searching..."
Any ideas?
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Where did you buy it? I think you have the same problem as other guys. But lets check first. Try to put other sim cards and let see what hapening.
I got off someone on ebay. Came with all original box etc...
I will try with another sim.
Gaz25 said:
I got off someone on ebay. Came with all original box etc...
I will try with another sim.
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Tell me wen you tried an other sim card and whats happening and try to flash original ROM not modified one.
I been trying to find original rom but can't find one anywhere. Any pointers? :-D
Gaz25 said:
I been trying to find original rom but can't find one anywhere. Any pointers? :-D
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This will give you the original ROM (Orange branded (unless you use the Italian one!!)), but you'll need your IMEI to download.
Will it still work even though I have windows 6.5 installed?
Gaz25 said:
Will it still work even though I have windows 6.5 installed?
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http://www.toshiba-europe.com/mobil...te&WCE=&WCU=;LANG=1;PID=84;TYP=13;PNT=0;SEC=3
That is the official site and you can chose one of them. There are fr,en,it,sp and gr languages.
Just need your IMEI to download it.
Your work but have modified internal registers. So I am not sure if coming from there your problem or because the ex owner did something with the radio. I have
post that I say, you can put more than 3 times your unlocking code, but I don't know how many times you can put it. May be 10 or 100 or ~ times, now buddy know exactly. Personally I put it something like 15 times but I am not sure. If it is completely locked and the ex owner block the radio. Solution is to use orange sim card, turbo sim (I don't like it) or call orange and see what they say. Just need to try everything before.
But before that I told you lets try.
1 Put original ROM and see if then you have the unlocking msg with your card or other different than orange or than your original provider. If possible try 2/3 different sim card.
2 If 1 didn't work try to put sim from original provider and see if work.
3 If 1st not work and 2nd work then the problem is with the radio.
4 Need to call your provider to see if they have any solution.
5 If they haven't solution, try turbo sim or use sim from original provider until we find solution how to change the radio.
6 Now we are in ROM test development so may be there we go to have new solution.
Who know ?
Well I downloaded the rom and started the update. Phone rebooted and I got the white screen saying it was downloading something something, can't remember the message but its part of the flashing process.
Anyway this only seem to take about 2mins???. When I did my first flash with the custom rom it took about 10minutes! So then the phone rebooted, back into the phone and nothing has changed! To me it still looks like the same custom rom I had before.
I'm going to try another sim now and will get back to you later.
Cheers for the help so far :-D
Gaz25 said:
Well I downloaded the rom and started the update. Phone rebooted and I got the white screen saying it was downloading something something, can't remember the message but its part of the flashing process.
Anyway this only seem to take about 2mins???. When I did my first flash with the custom rom it took about 10minutes! So then the phone rebooted, back into the phone and nothing has changed! To me it still looks like the same custom rom I had before.
I'm going to try another sim now and will get back to you later.
Cheers for the help so far :-D
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Wen you flash a custom ROM you can't see difference because is the same just missing some program and change some registers. 90% custom Roms you can see differences is inside the programs. Added or deleted programs. This change if is not good may cause a bugs (errors).For this I told you to change to original Rom. To try things how it come from shop and try find solution.
And wen you try other sim card post all msg you receive. And all steps you doing.
From my experience (my phone is locked to Docomo), If I flash UK original rom and put non-Docomo sim, the phone will show sim locked screen and allow me to enter unlock code while Debranded rom (from arag0n) doesn't.
I got this rom from mr.mike (only for T-01A) but I'm not sure that his original rom is the old 6.5 UK rom or new 6.5 UK rom (voice problem fixed).
sorry bojan6 I think there was some missunderstanding there so i will explain more.
-When i got the phone, it had original rom which had windows 6.1 installed.
-I installed a custom rom which had windows 6.5 and manila sense 2.5. this rom took about 10 minutes to install.
-As you requested I downloaded the rom from toshiba's website. I ran the install and it only seemed to take 2mins to install, alot quicker than the custom rom.
After installing the rom I expected manila to be gone and the 3 stripes menu thing to be back and all the Orange branding to be there but it wasn't it still looked like the custom rom and is debranded.
Any way I tried a t-mobile sim and still the same problem. Put in an orange sim and it worked fine.
ok I think the problem is the rom is not installing right.
I get the following error.
SD downloading failed
Invalid Variant!!!
I thing is the radio problem.How long do you left the sim card try to connect? Did you try before the change other sim card wen it was still with wm 6.1?
Did you try to enter in phone settings ? If in phone settings you receive msg insert Network PUK that mean you have problem with the radio.
Gaz25 said:
ok I think the problem is the rom is not installing right.
I get the following error.
SD downloading failed
Invalid Variant!!!
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This msg you have wen you try to install not original rom in phone. Just need to use tg01_sddl+.exe I uplaod it for you.
thanks bojan6 that worked. I can report the phone is now unlocked.
So it would seem that you must have an official rom to unlock the phone.
Gaz25 said:
thanks bojan6 that worked. I can report the phone is now unlocked.
So it would seem that you must have an official rom to unlock the phone.
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Great news. I am happy you have unlocked your phone.
So now you can change your Rom and play with it.
Any chance of repeating the procedure with another phone ?
Can u suggest the list of roms u've used?
had the same issue, this is what i done
i had the same problem, i flashed my phone with a cooked rom then tried to unlock it and it would not bring up the sim locked screen, i tried for hours and then i thought if i reflashed the phone with the original uk orange rom then this must work??? i flashed the rom and as soon as i put a none orange sim in the unlock request popped up, i then entered my unlock code and the phone unlocked straight away. i then reflashed with a cooked rom from here and all is well, phone unlocked and debranded YERRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!! anymore advice needed then just PM me, many thanks to this forum and the people who reply to threads...................
I have just bought a tg01 unlocked mobile phone. I was wondering if I should try some of the latest roms that are available on this forum. At the moment I believe the rom on the phone is a cooked version and the details I have found are below.
os version - 5.2.23563 (23563.5.5.0)
manilla version - 2.5.20121412.1
The phone at the moment is prone to the odd lockup for no obvious reason and I cannot connect the tg01 to my laptop that is running windows xp.
I have tried both activesync and mass storage and the phone will not connect but it does get a charge from the usb cable when plugged into my laptop.
If a rom upgrade is a good idea then would my phone remain unlocked after the flash ? I have no actual unlock code because the phone was sold to me in an unlocked state.
Thanks
hello,
i have the new galaxy s3 9300, i have rooted it and used the voodoo app to unlock the phone but a weird thing happened, everytime i boot the phone it announces "network lock" i press the button dismiss and when i go to check if it is locked (both on the voodoo app and the phone *#7465625#) it shows lock OFF.
please help!
thank you,
Lidar
darlidar said:
hello,
i have the new galaxy s3 9300, i have rooted it and used the voodoo app to unlock the phone but a weird thing happened, everytime i boot the phone it announces "network lock" i press the button dismiss and when i go to check if it is locked (both on the voodoo app and the phone *#7465625#) it shows lock OFF.
please help!
thank you,
Lidar
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As its a BETA product it might be worth emailing the dev via Goole Play .
jje
How do i do that? I talked to the voodoo support (through the play store) but they are not willing to help
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Same problem here,ive used voodoo sim unlock and sim fix,but still nothing happened,but when i dial the confirmation it says "network lock is off" dont know what to do now.
voodoo
i had this same problem . What i do is click out sim card but dont fully remove it . Unlock the phone using voodoo, back out of the app an click sim card in again . Leave it 4 a lil bit and hopefully the sim card locked shud disappear and it will ask you for your sim pin .If it doesnt work on ur first time be patient and try again. Although everytime the phone powers off it locks the network again
Hi, i was having the same problem here. Mine is a i9300 from Claro PR. This happened to me with the stock rom( it seems like all the Claro's bloatware is affecting this). I just installed a custom rom and it works perfectly now.
Hi
has anybody got this or any other method to work on the latest Jelly bean leak ROM?
I had to flash back as i was un able to sim unlock.
Does this mean we will have to get a Official unlock code to use Jelly Bean 4.1.1 in future?
i know there is a patch for vodoo but can't find it anymore
marrila said:
Hi
has anybody got this or any other method to work on the latest Jelly bean leak ROM?
I had to flash back as i was un able to sim unlock.
Does this mean we will have to get a Official unlock code to use Jelly Bean 4.1.1 in future?
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UNKNOWN until Jelly Bean is released .
jje
well im new and a bit confused myself here, but my wife got me a lovely new 32Gig s3 i9300 from vodafone on contract last month. I rooted it but cant remember what rom I put on it, then this week I got hammered to accept a upgrade to the BUBLG3 firmware I think. so I got annoyed when a few apps stopped working and decided I wanted to unlock and unbrand this thing, I spent the last two days chasing both a firmware upgrade only to be utterly confused as to which one is the latest unbranded rom and as to how to unlock the phone, I got the voodoo unlocker from somewhere and when I ran it it said Sim Lock: inactive. which surprised me a lot so I typed in *#7465625# and my imei to find out more, turns out that it says that command is unknown ?, with or without the imei. Then I threw in a O2 sim out of curiosity and lo and behold it works, so I am guessing either the Rom I loaded up and was overwritten ( or however it works ) unlocked it or it was unlocked when I got it from Vodafone. So many Roms floating about its very confusing to me and probably a lot of noobs which to get. Still cant get the apps to load either.
Sorry if this is of no use to you but i thought it was interesting and in context with the post header.
momo33 said:
well im new and a bit confused myself here, but my wife got me a lovely new 32Gig s3 i9300 from vodafone on contract last month. I rooted it but cant remember what rom I put on it, then this week I got hammered to accept a upgrade to the BUBLG3 firmware I think. so I got annoyed when a few apps stopped working and decided I wanted to unlock and unbrand this thing, I spent the last two days chasing both a firmware upgrade only to be utterly confused as to which one is the latest unbranded rom and as to how to unlock the phone, I got the voodoo unlocker from somewhere and when I ran it it said Sim Lock: inactive. which surprised me a lot so I typed in *#7465625# and my imei to find out more, turns out that it says that command is unknown ?, with or without the imei. Then I threw in a O2 sim out of curiosity and lo and behold it works, so I am guessing either the Rom I loaded up and was overwritten ( or however it works ) unlocked it or it was unlocked when I got it from Vodafone. So many Roms floating about its very confusing to me and probably a lot of noobs which to get. Still cant get the apps to load either.
Sorry if this is of no use to you but i thought it was interesting and in context with the post header.
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Hi
i think youll find most Vodaphone phones are SIM free.
I had a Galaxy Nexus on Vodaphone which I ordered through Phones4U which was also Factory unlocked
I have my s3 rooted some guy in a phone shop done it. If it's rooted does it definitely mean he's installed a different rom on it or has he just opened the superuser access.
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If it's rooted it doesn't mean he's flashed another ROM at all. Just means you now have superuser access.
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I got my s3 from 3 in the uk few months ago fully unlocked and if i try and flash lg8 or lg9 i get the network lock set to on. So.. restored to lf6 via cwm and still network lock set to on pretty annoyed by now so voodoo unlock and job done i have got a backup of my efs folder but that if the worst happens
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Hi, and firstly, thanks to any and all who offer their knowledge to assist my conundrum.
I recently purchased a Bell Canada version of the SG Note 2 (i317), I am on Telus so I attempted to Unlock the phone. I looked online and found people were having success unlocking these phones for free using the *#197327640# method, (whereby you go into the service mode, turn off the PERSHO_256 and then INITIALLIZ).
I tried this method and the phone then seemed to work with my telus sim, but only for voice, not data. When I put in a Bell SIM from a friend, both voice and data worked fine - which tells me its not a hardware (radio) issue. I also tried using another friends Telus SIM and had the same results as mine - which tells me it's not a SIM error. Also, all the settings in the mobile network area appeared to be correctly set up.
So, my next step was to try and reflash the phone to the stock Bell ROM and then just buy an Unlock code. I downloaded the stock ROM (2 different ones actually) and used Odin 3.07 to reload the ROM. I've tried it several times now, with both Bell ROMs and each time it says it's been successful, but the phone remains in the same, partially unlocked state.
It seems as though by using the PERSHO_256 method I have permanently, PARTIALLY unlocked the phone. I can't seem to re-lock it by installing the stock Bell ROM, and since it's unlocked, I can't get the foreign SIM error to come up to enable me to put in my purchased unlock code.
If anyone has any insights, it would be GREATLY appreciated. Thanks!
-Luke
You should ask questions about a specific device in its own Q&A. (unless it doesn't have one). Cuz people there have the same phone and will know exactly what to do.
LIFE! IT'S WHAT YOU MAKE OUT OF IT!
Will do, thanks for the tip!
Hi there, this is my first post on this forum so I apologize if this is in the wrong place. I have recently purchased an s3 (GT-I9300) used, on orange network. When the phone boots, the orange network logo is displayed. I rooted the phone using CF-Auto-Root-m0-m0xx-gti9300 using odin , and i have checked, and it is succesfully rooted. This was my first root on a phone, and seemed to go well. I have not installed anything else using odin. Then I went about to unlock the phone, getting numerous unlocking apps (ariza patch, galaxsim unlock, galaxy S unlock, voodoo s3 unlock) but they all do nothing, saying they have unlocked it but my talkmobile micro sim (which runs off vodaphones network) will not work in the phone, it just asks me for a network key, then says emrgency calls only, and if i try to dial anything, says 'not registered on network'. I have not tried another sim in it yet as that was the only microsim I had.
My question is, can I unlock this phone in any other way, like would taking it to a market stall unlocker, or buying a code from the internet do the trick? and also, will I be able to install custom roms on this phone safely? Im not sure if the orange bootloader affects this in any way. Thankyou for reading, any help would be greatly appreciated
ckush said:
Hi there, this is my first post on this forum so I apologize if this is in the wrong place. I have recently purchased an s3 (GT-I9300) used, on orange network. When the phone boots, the orange network logo is displayed. I rooted the phone using CF-Auto-Root-m0-m0xx-gti9300 using odin , and i have checked, and it is succesfully rooted. This was my first root on a phone, and seemed to go well. I have not installed anything else using odin. Then I went about to unlock the phone, getting numerous unlocking apps (ariza patch, galaxsim unlock, galaxy S unlock, voodoo s3 unlock) but they all do nothing, saying they have unlocked it but my talkmobile micro sim (which runs off vodaphones network) will not work in the phone, it just asks me for a network key, then says emrgency calls only, and if i try to dial anything, says 'not registered on network'. I have not tried another sim in it yet as that was the only microsim I had.
My question is, can I unlock this phone in any other way, like would taking it to a market stall unlocker, or buying a code from the internet do the trick? and also, will I be able to install custom roms on this phone safely? Im not sure if the orange bootloader affects this in any way. Thankyou for reading, any help would be greatly appreciated
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Read this thread all the way through same problem as you >> http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s3/help/i9300-network-unlock-firmware-version-4-t2612736n << ( it will explain things more clearly ) and look at the last two comments it as a link to a paid solution
So I have my i9300 for a couple of years now and everything worked fine until I moved to Germany a couple of weeks ago (I come from Bosnia and Herzegowina). The phone was bought in Bosnia and I have a SIM card from the bosnian telecom (BH-Telecom) which worked fine. Then I bought a SIM card here (congstar) and my phone couldn't use it because of the network SIM prompt. I realised that that feature was kind of "blocked" (sorry but it's the first time I'm doing this) so I had to unlock it. I tried installing various versions of stock ROMs (including all German) via Odin on my phone, but everything stayed the same. I found this app:
play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.spocky.galaxsimunlock
But it said that I had to root the phone and after I did that also to change my IMEI which changed during the hole operation. Fortunately, I wrote it down before. But I can't change this "new" one to the old in order to get the "simunlock" app working. I used:
play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vivek.imeichanger
and
play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.phoneinfo.changer
But after I write down my old IMEI and click Apply I reset the phone (as the popup says in both apps) and type *#06# the IMEI stays the same. Not only there, but in all other apps that I used. And well, my old SIM doesn't work either. My phone shows that "blocked SIM" icon for both SIMs.
Please, for the love of God someone help to at least make my old SIM working. Unlocking my phone completely would be amazing.
Help
Firstly, you cannot unlock it if it has ever been on 4.2 or higher. The old method was nvdata edit but it is obsolete on updated phones.
The quickest cheapest way is to take it to a phone shop and pay.
You need to be on the stock rom that came with the device from factory.
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But I can get my old SIM working ?