Hi, I have a galaxy ace in here with the sim unlock code but when i put the foreign sim card the phone wont ask for the unlock code. Thing is that i tried every single secret code found with no success also. Is there someone who have been thru the same situation? If so, What to do then? It's from Claro PR by the way. Firmware 2.2.1
from where did u get the unlock code?
From the bml5 inside the phone. Does it makes a difference? Because the thing is that the phone won't ask for a code when i insert a foreign sim, and if i try the secret codes it won't aloud me either
Unlock codes are unique to each phone, generated from the IMEI. Therefore none other than your unique code will work. Unless it is really important I don't suggest unlocking. If you really need to, then contact the provider or get one from ebay.
Putting in a foreign SIM and restarting the phone should bring up the window you are looking for.
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Already tried that, and the phone still won't ask for it. Even with the secret codes the phone won't aloud me. On the other hand, yes it is important because i want the phone to work with Tmo and not ClaroPR. Like i said, i have the code, what i do need is someone who knows about this. In fact, i know that if i flash a non official stock rom i will be able to introduce a code. But im not sure if the phone will accept it. Anyways thanks m8!
If your phone is rooted go to system/ and copy the build.prop file and save it somewhere on your sdcard (in case something goes wrong)
Go back to system/ and edit the build.prop file. In the file change the value of " keyguard.no_require_sim=true" to "keyguard.no_require_sim=false"
I am not really sure if this will help. Its just a wild guess, but you can still try it
Thanks for your help m8, i did solve the problem but i did it just flashing a non carrier froyo on that phone. At least i was able to unlock it . Anyways that solution of yours makes me curious. Nice to know that might be the solution for that. I have tried what i did before with no luck but i think the mistake was that when i failed to unlock with that other phone i updated it from froyo to gingerbread. And if i am not mistaken i took the bml5 code from the gingerbread not the original froyo that came with the phone. Anyways hopefully if someone finds himself with that situation this will help...
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Hi, I have a galaxy ace in here with the sim unlock code but when i put the foreign sim card the phone wont ask for the unlock code. Thing is that i tried every single secret code found with no success also. Is there someone who have been thru the same situation? If so, What to do then? It's from Claro PR by the way. Firmware 2.2.1
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root it and put a custom rom
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Hello all
I recently got a great deal for a Vibrant (150$ contract free, looking brand new ).
I live in Europe and I already own a Galaxy S, so I thought "hacking" the Vibrand would be a piece of cake... well it wasn't Finally after reading a ton of stuff here on the forums I managed to beat it using Odin.
After finally getting root the first thing I did was to download Galaxy S unlocker from the Market so I could use it with a local SIM card... and it failed. The app couldn't find any codes? and neither the root or non-root method worked.
The Vibrant recognizes that there's a SIM card, and even asks me for a PIN on boot... then nothing happens. When I try to make a call, "Data network not available" is displayed.
The network here is GSM 900/1800.
I'm currently on the deodexed KB5 2.2 ROM flashed via CWM.
Any help would be greatly appreciated
Hmm...I believe there was another method to unlocking it other than the Galaxy S unlocker program you have. It will require root which you have.
Search around the Vibrant forums, I think it was from at least a few months back.
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Hmm...I believe there was another method to unlocking it other than the Galaxy S unlocker program you have. It will require root which you have.
Search around the Vibrant forums, I think it was from at least a few months back.
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Yes, I found it but I'm not sure wheter it's a lock issue (it said "no codes found") or I have to flash an European modem or something. I'll try it anyway and report any results.
No luck
All the methods work for 2.1 and I'm on Froyo KB5.
Plus it's not really an unlock code issue..
It's rather... the SIM card doing nothing.
- Is it insearted?
Yes
- Does the phone recognize there's a SIM card?
Yes
- If you have a PIN, does it ask for it on boot?
Yes
- Well what's wrong then?
I can't do anything else with the SIM... not even join a network
Did you per any chance lock your SIM card with a PIN code?
Cause if you did, it is asking for the code that you locked it with. . .
Try another, UNLOCKED SIM card just to be sure that's not the issue.
The phone SHOULD ask you for an unlock code only. A pin code request (unless you are reading the unlock code as a pin code) means the SIM card is locked.
The card was unlocked, I put the PIN on purpose later, just to see if it'd recognize that
Then what is the issue? Without the PIN, it recognizes the SIM and loads up fine but doesn't get on any network?
Yes!
And that way it's just a VERY overpowered iPod touch. Would be nice if I could actually make phone calls from it, but if not - whatever.
I remember anything above 2.1 theres an issue with the SGS unlocker on the market. I had to use a different method, and I don't remember where I received the instructions from, but I did find this for you on youtube. Please do watch the whole video as the person has the same problem, but runs you through the steps to unlocking by using a different method.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Swe5O5pChyo
gosh... no dice.
The phone never asks me for any unlock code, just stuck on "Searching"
Try a different modem. If not then try a different rom..may be?
Why not just odin back to stock,reroot, and try to unlock it before flashing a rom
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Will try that in the evening and report outcome ^^
Hi everyone I'm desperately looking for help... I got myself ATT&T Atrix which was claimed to be unlocked from US but unfortunately it's not, and I can't find any way to sim unlock the phone... I have tried everything else like rooting and putting custom Rom like ginger blur or rewriting the existing sbf file etc. and it still hangs on the start up with the message SIM NETWORK PIN etc.. what can I do since the actual phone is from the US and I'm in Australia... I tried calling att and they were unwilling to provide me an unlock pin
are there any sim unlock pin generators available ?
is there any app or script which blocks sim pin message ?
my imei is: 353648040718081
only way to do it right now is to buy the code off ebay...about $17 and its working. rooting or flashing will not unlock your atrix
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Hi everyone I'm desperately looking for help... I got myself ATT&T Atrix which was claimed to be unlocked from US but unfortunately it's not, and I can't find any way to sim unlock the phone... I have tried everything else like rooting and putting custom Rom like ginger blur or rewriting the existing sbf file etc. and it still hangs on the start up with the message SIM NETWORK PIN etc.. what can I do since the actual phone is from the US and I'm in Australia... I tried calling att and they were unwilling to provide me an unlock pin
are there any sim unlock pin generators available ?
is there any app or script which blocks sim pin message ?
my imei is: 353648040718081
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Hi all,
First of all, I want to say thanks for all the help and knowledge I've found on this website - it's amazing.
I've come to you because my sister bought an i5500 from a girl who was on the Telus network in Canada. My sister is on SaskTel, and I believed I would be able to unlock it after looking at xda-dev for some time. After several hours of rooting and attempting unlock, I finally got the BML5 file and opened it in hex editor. After several more hours, I managed to locate my SIM unlock code - 01234567 (Which I find odd, by the way).
Anyway, my sister has since gotten a SIM card from SaskTel and when we insert it, no SIM code prompt appears. I then tried it with my Fido card, and it did the exact same thing - the phone acts as though there isn't any SIM card in. It does, however, state that there's no signal.
Does this mean that the phone is already unlocked? If it is unlocked, I don't know how it happened - the girl that originally owned the phone never hacked the phone or anything. If it is unlocked, why won't my Fido SIM card, or my sister's SaskTel SIM card work?
The other issue I've been having is that the phone will suddenly turn off every 5 or 10 minutes. Could it have happened when I rooted the phone? I used SuperOneClick to do it, then command prompt to pull the img file to my laptop. Did I partially brick it?
Thank you so much for any help you guys can give me; I'd like to think of myself as fairly technically apt, but at the moment, I'm completely at a loss as to how to fix this.
Again, thanks.
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EDIT: Found some new info: Whenever the phone restarts, the date, time, and time zone are all reset back to standard. Does this mean that the battery is shot? The phone is less than a year old...
useful thread
Well I don't know about the rebooting, but what I recommend you read this thread,
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1335548
specially the last part, which states:
Most custom roms that tries to remove blur break the subsidy lock interface (sim unlock screen doesn't show on them). If you flash other rom and subsidy unlock screen doesn't pop when you insert foreign sim, you will need to flash back stock ROM in order to unlock. So the easyest way for those of you running a Custom ROM, just do a nandroid backup using CWM, flash Stock ROM, unlock your phone then restore your backup.
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Code:
• Useful Codes
Quote:
*#7465625# - Dial code to check if phone it's network locked.
#7465625*638*UNLOCK-CODE# - Replace UNLOCK-CODE with your 8 digits number, then dial. Phone might reboot.
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If you have reached the end of the tutorial and you wasn't able to obtain the unlock code( find numbers like 00000000 / 11111111 ), then it means that your phone it's "Hard Locked" or doesn't have the unlock code provided with the phone. I don't know any solution until now for this problem. For most of the people here, this works flawlessly, for some doesn't work.
maruc50 said:
Well I don't know about the rebooting, but what I recommend you read this thread,
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1335548
specially the last part, which states:
Code:
• Useful Codes
Quote:
*#7465625# - Dial code to check if phone it's network locked.
#7465625*638*UNLOCK-CODE# - Replace UNLOCK-CODE with your 8 digits number, then dial. Phone might reboot.
Code:
If you have reached the end of the tutorial and you wasn't able to obtain the unlock code( find numbers like 00000000 / 11111111 ), then it means that your phone it's "Hard Locked" or doesn't have the unlock code provided with the phone. I don't know any solution until now for this problem. For most of the people here, this works flawlessly, for some doesn't work.
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Thanks for this. I used that link to root and get the code for the phone, but now I'm confused with the lack of PIN unlocking screen. Does that mean that I'm going to have to backup/flash with stock ROM? I'm totally fine with flashing it back to stock if it's not, in fact, I've looked for a stock ROM in case that was the issue. Since it's a Canadian model though, (GT-I5500M) I can't find any. There's a list somewhere on XDA with all the I5500 ROMs, but it says that there aren't any from Canada. Options? Ideas?
Thanks again for the help.
Anyone with any other ideas? Right now I'm trying to decide whether or not we should just sell the phone and get a new one, so any advice/help would be appreciated so much.
Did you check on samfirmware.com?
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Did you check on samfirmware.com?
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Thanks, I did, but there isn't anything for Canada on there. A new problem just cropped up: the WiFi won't turn on. So, even if I wanted to flash it with an official firmware, I don't think I could - I have to use the market to download an app to flash, right?
U can use Odin..
If I Have Helped You,Hit Thanks..
Here is the link for ur Canadian baseband .
http://madteam.co/forum/index.php?topic=797.0
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Here is the link for ur Canadian baseband .
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Thanks, but even under the Canada/USA heading it says that he's missing the Canadian/American baseband. So... still no luck.
Sry cant help you now..or else Change ur baseband..
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ddamani9 said:
Sry cant help you now..or else Change ur baseband..
Sent From Nokia 1100 Using Touch screen..!
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Alright, thanks. If I change my baseband to another version, does that mean that the phone won't work in Canada anymore?
Hi
I have a sgs2. It is originally a bell cellphone/simcard. I now have a telus simcard. The phone now asks for a sim unlock code, when the telus sim card is inside. I have just installed wanamlite 13.0 rom. The phone is rooted, and galaxy s unlock app doesnt seem to work.
A couple of questions. In order to unlock the sim, should I put in the bell simcard, then run the unlocking apps, then get code, write it down. Shut down phone, then install the telus sim card, restart and put in the code from bell sim card?
Im a little fuzzy on the whole process.
The weird thing is that on android 4.0.3 galaxy s unlock will seem to work, and unlock the phone. And it wont re lock after a hard restart. It only seems to stay sim locked under 4.0.4 android.
If anyone could offer some help that would be great. I have also looked into editing nv file with hex editor but I cant seem to find the strings..
Just look for an app called "galaxy sim unlock" and install it and then run it ... u know what to do
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SOLVED
mupto said:
Hi
I have a sgs2. It is originally a bell cellphone/simcard. I now have a telus simcard. The phone now asks for a sim unlock code, when the telus sim card is inside. I have just installed wanamlite 13.0 rom. The phone is rooted, and galaxy s unlock app doesnt seem to work.
A couple of questions. In order to unlock the sim, should I put in the bell simcard, then run the unlocking apps, then get code, write it down. Shut down phone, then install the telus sim card, restart and put in the code from bell sim card?
Im a little fuzzy on the whole process.
The weird thing is that on android 4.0.3 galaxy s unlock will seem to work, and unlock the phone. And it wont re lock after a hard restart. It only seems to stay sim locked under 4.0.4 android.
If anyone could offer some help that would be great. I have also looked into editing nv file with hex editor but I cant seem to find the strings..
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SOLVED USING THIS THREAD:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1846451
mupto said:
SOLVED USING THIS THREAD:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1846451
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And a million others that the user would have found if they would have been bothered to use search for 2 seconds rather then duplicating topics and adding to the ever growing flood of useless threads on XDA.
Hi all,
I have a UK GT - i 9300 locked to Orange and i have just been signed up to EE.
EE claim the phone is already unlocked.....it isn't. They failed to provide a SIM unlock code, so i went to a third party (computer shop) to get the code. They provided an unlock code, and an unfreeze code. They don't work. It just says "registration code unsuccessful" or something similar when i try to put it in upon booting up the device. The guy at the shop is now at a loose end and is happy to refund the unlock code fee, but says he cannot unlock the phone.
I have tried the codes that start with #1972.... to enter the hidden menus, i actually had to enter #0011# i think....regardless, that didn't work as under network options (or whatever it was called) i have no option to tell the phone to allow other sims.
I mention all of this because please believe me when i tell you there is not a simple solution to unlocking this phone....i have read pages and pages of forum advice and nothing works.
My very specific question is; can i root this network locked GT i9300 (UK version) which is currently running on 4.3....or not? It is the only possible solution i can see to save this phone from becoming a paperweight.
I can promise you that hours upon hours of research has not got me a sensible, definitive answer to this question.
Thanks guys. Much appreciated.
Paul
It doesn't matter if the phone is SIM-unlocked or not when you root it. If i can find a stock ROM for the i9300, or if it is 4.1.1 or 4.1.2 with the old bootloader, it is unlockable for free. http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s3/help-i9305/guide-sim-unlock-i9305-t3267901 this is the thread, tell me if you want me to find a stock ROM and i will try to make it zip-flashable.
Alexander_the_B0ss said:
It doesn't matter if the phone is SIM-unlocked or not when you root it. If i can find a stock ROM for the i9300, or if it is 4.1.1 or 4.1.2 with the old bootloader, it is unlockable for free. http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s3/help-i9305/guide-sim-unlock-i9305-t3267901 this is the thread, tell me if you want me to find a stock ROM and i will try to make it zip-flashable.
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Thank you for your reply.
Unfortunately after nobody responded yesterday i decided to flash the phone back to an Orange UK version of 4.0.4 and see if the Galaxsim unlock program worked from there. It has now given my phone the generic IMEI number 004999010640000 and Galasim is just saying "UNABLE TO READ NV DATA"
I've tried the method of changing the nv data bin files, and it doesn't work.
I have no backup of my original efs folder.
The bottom line here is that i have been going round in circles with this pile of sh1t service from Orange and EE, and codes that don't work for over a month now. I mean no offence by asking this bluntly, but can someone just give me a simple yes or no answer as to whether i need to buy a new phone or not?
It seems everyone has a theory on how to unlock this phone, and none of those theories actually work.
Currently phone is sat on
Android version - 4.0.4,
Product code - GT-I9300RWDORA
Original Product Code - ORA
IMEI NUMBER - 004999010640000/01
Sim Operator - EE(23433)
Registered Operator - @[email protected]
OS version - 4.0.4 (15)
Baseband - i9300BVLE4
Bootloader - I9300XXUGNB5
Patform - exynos4
LOCKED TO ORANGE.
Some simple instructions on how to fix this, or an honest answer as to if it is even possible would be GREATLY appreciated.
Thanks