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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 guys
This is related to my brother's Galaxy S II. He had been using it for a couple of weeks when suddenly (according to him, wouldn't say if he dropped it or anything), he got disconnected from the mobile network.
He rebooted the phone, and got a no service error. When going into Mobile Network settings, it reads 'Insert SIM to access mobile network settings', even with the SIM inserted.
I tried his SIM in his phone - no luck.
I tried my SIM in his phone - no luck.
I tried his SIM in my phone - works.
Tried flashing two new ROMs - no luck.
I suppose this is the phone's SIM reader, then, but have you had any similar problems with it? Do you reckon this will be covered by warranty?
Thanks in advance.
You tried his sim on your phone and no luck? I thought you said his phone is the one wiyh no signal? Anyway, can you still see the imei on his phone?
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Yes, I tried his sim on my phone too, just to see if the SIM was broken (which it wasn't). His phone has no signal, that is correct.
IMEI and IMEI SV list 'unknown' in phone info, but on the original boxing it's listed as 358150044627942.
Baseband also Unknown?
Maybe he flashed some custom Roms and lost his imei.
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Yes sir, Baseband is also unknown. He wouldn't know how to flash custom ROMs, so I doubt that's the case.
Is this something we can fix ourselves, or would it need shipping off to service?
Thanks.
If you are sure that he doesnt flash any custom rom and only update with KIES you should bring the phone to Sammy support.
You can search the forum and find some threads were people lost their IMEI 'cause they flash custom roms. Then you can recover it when you backuped your EFS.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1261948
But in this case you i think you havent any EFS backup.
My mistake: I had flashed LightningMod to his phone, but he had no problems using it after I flashed it -- the error only appeared after a couple of weeks.
OK, so seems like we're just gonna send it to Samsung, as I'm leaving the country on Tuesday anyway. Have reverted to stock rom and kernel, and I guess we'll blame it on KIES or something. Judging on our past experiences with Samsung it shouldn't be a problem anyway.
Please use the Q&A Forum for questions Thanks
Moving to Q&A
Don't forget to reset the flash counter using a jig..
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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!
I bought this new i717 unlocked phone from ebay and sellers promised it is unlocked and it works with T Mobile and other GSM Networks. Got the New phone (has ATT sign on it) tried T Mobile SIM - Didn't work . ATT SIM Worked. Googled about why it does not work - read some forums like these( not blaming) and they mentioned need to root and change the ROM blah blah... so jumped on it thinking i can solve it piece of cake. BUT
I think i might of messed up by changing the unsupported boot now my phone doesn't turn ON.. tried various hard resets, soft resets.... googled but no help.. basically phone is hard bricked. No light, nothing - DEAD Phone..
So i sent the phone to Samsung they said phone bricked and some hardware failed (OMG) charged me 70 bucks since phone was out of warranty ( thanks to seller and myself for not checking before buying) and said they will compete reflash the phone and update the software
SO Lesson Learned in proper way
Guys Please be careful when you mess with ROM..
So my question is if they do reflash the phone - will it be still unlocked? ( i don't think the seller (to start with) have unlocked via att might have used some rooting methods). and can i be able to use it to ATT
if someone now what do reflashing the phone does ? and another thing i didn't get how do updating a ROM created a hardware issue. i was not able to argue with samsung guys... but if you guys know anything please shed some light
Thank you
PS: im new to XDA Dev forums
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I bought this new i717 unlocked phone from ebay and sellers promised it is unlocked and it works with T Mobile and other GSM Networks. Got the New phone (has ATT sign on it) tried T Mobile SIM - Didn't work . ATT SIM Worked. Googled about why it does not work - read some forums like these( not blaming) and they mentioned need to root and change the ROM blah blah... so jumped on it thinking i can solve it piece of cake. BUT
I think i might of messed up by changing the unsupported boot now my phone doesn't turn ON.. tried various hard resets, soft resets.... googled but no help.. basically phone is hard bricked. No light, nothing - DEAD Phone..
So i sent the phone to Samsung they said phone bricked and some hardware failed (OMG) charged me 70 bucks since phone was out of warranty ( thanks to seller and myself for not checking before buying) and said they will compete reflash the phone and update the software
SO Lesson Learned in proper way
Guys Please be careful when you mess with ROM..
So my question is if they do reflash the phone - will it be still unlocked? ( i don't think the seller (to start with) have unlocked via att might have used some rooting methods). and can i be able to use it to ATT
if someone now what do reflashing the phone does ? and another thing i didn't get how do updating a ROM created a hardware issue. i was not able to argue with samsung guys... but if you guys know anything please shed some light
Thank you
PS: im new to XDA Dev forums
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Good chance it wont be carrier unlocked after they're through with it. No big deal really as you can go here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2124544 and unlock the device yourself. Trust me it works, mines is unlocked and using a T-mobile sim and never had an issue. As for the hardware issue are you sure you flashed the right rom for the device?
dzee206 said:
Good chance it wont be carrier unlocked after they're through with it. No big deal really as you can go here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2124544 and unlock the device yourself. Trust me it works, mines is unlocked and using a T-mobile sim and never had an issue. As for the hardware issue are you sure you flashed the right rom for the device?
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i hav att unlock code given by att ( got it this morning). once i have the phone returned from samsung i will try to unlock with att if not i will follow the unlock form you sent. thank you. i believe i flashed some kitkat supported ROM.
lpvasam said:
i believe i flashed some kitkat supported ROM.
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Your gonna need to do better than that buddy, or your going to be sending your phone in A LOT.
Kit Kat based is not the answer. He is looking for, "did you flash the rom for your specific device?"
You need to be sure you are flashing device specific files. If you have i717, those are the files you need. Not trying to beat you up, it is pretty important you know this stuff though.
Hope it works out for ya.
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