Hi guys
I'm planning to buy a SII from AT&T's (i777) as I searched and is the SII version I like the most. I'm in Colombia, southamerica and I'll buy a factory unlocked cellphone but I want to know if there's a problem with flashing a ROM like Cyanogenmod, can the phone get locked to AT&T's SiM cards or something like that??
Thanks in advance
cristianpark said:
Hi guys
I'm planning to buy a SII from AT&T's (i777) as I searched and is the SII version I like the most. I'm in Colombia, southamerica and I'll buy a factory unlocked cellphone but I want to know if there's a problem with flashing a ROM like Cyanogenmod, can the phone get locked to AT&T's SiM cards or something like that??
Thanks in advance
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If it's unlocked it'll stay unlocked until locked again :good: regardless of roms you flash. In other words, you'll be all set. Buy the phone, flash cyanogenmod and call it a day! Welcome to the forums
jthatch12 said:
If it's unlocked it'll stay unlocked until locked again :good: regardless of roms you flash. In other words, you'll be all set. Buy the phone, flash cyanogenmod and call it a day! Welcome to the forums
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Shostock3 is known to lose sim unlock.
dsmboost said:
Shostock3 is known to lose sim unlock.
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That's why I want to be sure, I never bought any operator locked phone and less from other country operator, I don't know how does it work with this phone since is a variation from AT&T, it's not an international version sim locked. You know if this phone can come unlocked from factory indeed or if is unlocked by any code instead??, for me is very important to be 100% sure since I'm out of US, want the phone and customization options as I don't like touch wiz that much
Thanks for your replies
Man, is not hard to unlock this phone.
You can unlock it by code BUT no one uses codes.
We do use some app from android store.
Check Galaxsim. There are others.
Go for it!
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RatusNatus said:
Man, is not hard to unlock this phone.
You can unlock it by code BUT no one uses codes.
We do use some app from android store.
Check Galaxsim. There are others.
Go for it!
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I thought most people used codes. Ask att and bam you have it
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122ninjas said:
I thought most people used codes. Ask att and bam you have it
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Just root the phone when it is running stock ROM and use sgs unlock free as well without telling evil at&t anything!
Cheers,
Charlie
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Can we unlock the. ATT Galaxy S 2 using the unlock app?
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Same question here. Mine will get here on Tuesday...I do know there are a bunch of methods to sim unlock i9100 though.
So... long story short, the GS2 still uses nv_data.bin files like on the GS1.
Of course, Samsung has encrypted/obscured plain text access to the unlock codes within this binary file. However, I do believe the folks over on the i9100 forum have figured it out, so it's probably not going to be too much of a stretch to get the AT&T GS2 to work too.
The phone literally just dropped though, so give people a few days to actually get the devices in their hands, get nice stable root and all that (already done maybe even), and from there, carrier unlock will come.
Or, if you're the impatient type, and don't mind the chance of screwing something up, try some of the methods from the i9100 forum and see if they work!
I used the galaxy s unlock app from helroz, worked like a charm. Can't post a link but it's on the market.
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TheMattS said:
I used the galaxy s unlock app from helroz, worked like a charm. Can't post a link but it's on the market.
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That's awesome. May I ask whether you had rooted your S2 before you ran the unlock program?
Thanks a billion.
ljwnow said:
That's awesome. May I ask whether you had rooted your S2 before you ran the unlock program?
Thanks a billion.
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Yup, rooting is required to unlock.
Sorry, I'm fairly new to the term "unlocking" phones. Does this mean that you can use with any carrier? Is there anything else that "unlocking" a phone does that a normal one can not?
Thanks in advance!
TBayTom said:
Sorry, I'm fairly new to the term "unlocking" phones. Does this mean that you can use with any carrier? Is there anything else that "unlocking" a phone does that a normal one can not?
Thanks in advance!
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1) yes
2) no
you need root and i used this to unlock
https://market.android.com/details?i...=search_result
tried with my friend's T-mobile sim it worked great!!
So does someone know if there is already some app, flashable zip or something that i could unlock my sgs3? And if i flash a new rom, kernel or baseband, does that unlock my phone? Thanks!
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+1 need an unlock code for S3 lock to 3 UK
upping this.
because some telcos' prices for sim-locked units are cheaper than sim-unlocked units.
There seems to be some progress on this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1683348
Hopefully something usable will be ready in a few day, thanks to Odia.
Guillaume2x said:
There seems to be some progress on this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1683348
Hopefully something usable will be ready in a few day, thanks to Odia.
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Thanks!
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A friend of a friend was giving us a lift today, and she asked if we could turn on navigation on her phone since she was in the middle of driving. Her phone is a Galaxy S II, definitely i9100 and not the other variants (4.3" not 4.5", physical home button). She was running it on Telus but she bought it second-hand a few weeks ago so I assume it was a Bell or Virgin model.
Anyway I could see from afar that it was most definitely still running Gingerbread, and I wondered why it hadn't gotten the ICS update. I asked if I could see the phone and I went to the About screen - it's running 2.3.6, and the build number says Super ROM. Then I looked in her app drawer and saw Superuser. She is not the type who knows how to root a phone or would even want to, so the likely explanation is that the seller had installed a custom ROM and neglected to revert it before sale.
I've never owned an i9100... If she were to ask for help returning it to stock, would the simplest way just be to flash the Bell ICS ROM using Odin? Are there any precautions I'd need to take in case something the last owner had installed would be incompatible with the flash?
Create a backup and flash via odin the new jellybean leak
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Create a backup and flash via odin the new jellybean leak
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+1 or not wait for official jellybean for her phone and flash that...no point in upgrading to ics.
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vanisleryan said:
+1 or not wait for official jellybean for her phone and flash that...no point in upgrading to ics.
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To be clear, she is a non power user. The ideal ROM for her is whatever would've been on there by now if it had never been hacked. So I believe that'd be ICS.
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cmstlist said:
To be clear, she is a non power user. The ideal ROM for her is whatever would've been on there by now if it had never been hacked. So I believe that'd be ICS.
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Just flash the ics of bell version since shes not a power user i did the same for wife shes has no intentions of using any custom roms for her just basic use
and i assume you know where too get that and yes flash in odin the stock version either from here you can get it or samfilmware ics version for 19100m
cheers
Thanks!
Actually I should add... The SuperROM she had on there said the device was i9100G. Is it possible that's just because it's what it says in the ROM, and it's still really an i9100m? Cause now I see they have different processors...
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Hey. You better first make sure that the Galaxy S unlock tool isn't there, otherwise that's how the seller sim-unlocked the phone. Putting it on ics may lock it back up but you can unlock it again. If you move it to jellybean though, the unlock tool doesn't work yet. Ics is good enough for her.
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jeffrohurt said:
Hey. You better first make sure that the Galaxy S unlock tool isn't there, otherwise that's how the seller sim-unlocked the phone. Putting it on ics may lock it back up but you can unlock it again. If you move it to jellybean though, the unlock tool doesn't work yet. Ics is good enough for her.
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Hey I'm also looking to update my phone and I'm sort of in the same situation as this girl. I bought my phone second hand and found out later that it was rooted and has CyanogenMod 7.1 on it. My model is the I9100 and my provider is Telus. I was looking to update it to CM10, but one of my concerns is that it might get locked again and I won't be able to use my phone on Telus. Should I just settle for CM9? Will it for sure get locked again? I'm a noob.
jeffrohurt said:
Hey. You better first make sure that the Galaxy S unlock tool isn't there, otherwise that's how the seller sim-unlocked the phone. Putting it on ics may lock it back up but you can unlock it again. If you move it to jellybean though, the unlock tool doesn't work yet. Ics is good enough for her.
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Presumably if it's genuinely an i9100G and not m (I'm not sure, as I only saw the phone once), it wasn't from a Canadian carrier. In which case who knows how it was unlocked.
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Is there a free way to unlock SGH-I777 running JB 4.2.2 ? any rom CM 10.1 AOKP .. all cause phone to go back to sim lock ..
Please if anyone came across a FREE simunlock method, can you please share it
SOLUTION: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1846451
Thanks to all who answered
xda-Newbie said:
Is there a free way to unlock SGH-I777 running JB 4.2.2 ? any rom CM 10.1 AOKP .. all cause phone to go back to sim lock ..
Please if anyone came across a FREE simunlock method, can you please share it
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Call at&t and ask for the code?
I don't know
dsmboost said:
Call at&t and ask for the code?
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Thanks for your reply, I can't actually contact AT&T, I'm not even in the US, i bought my phone from a guy (semi brand new ,, used for a couple of weeks), he used it with AT&T and unlocked it using the free apps on market (when it was GB 2.3.6) and sold it to me.
Now as you know when i try to upgrade to JB 4.2.2 it gets locked .. thats my story
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Thanks for your reply, I can't actually contact AT&T, I'm not even in the US, i bought my phone from a guy (semi brand new ,, used for a couple of weeks), he used it with AT&T and unlocked it using the free apps on market (when it was GB 2.3.6) and sold it to me.
Now as you know when i try to upgrade to JB 4.2.2 it gets locked .. thats my story
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Does Galaxy_S Unlock app not work on JB?
NOP
dsmboost said:
Does Galaxy_S Unlock app not work on JB?
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NOP .. the Galaxy_S Unlock by Herloz doesn't work on JB 4.2.2
xda-Newbie said:
NOP .. the Galaxy_S Unlock by Herloz doesn't work on JB 4.2.2
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Try reading this, it might help.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1846451
Thanks
dsmboost said:
Try reading this, it might help.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1846451
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I read that .. "in-app billing to unlock" .. its not free .. but thats not the main issue .. the main issue is even if i wanted to pay i couldn't over the internet .. haven't got a payment card for internet
thanks alot for your replies
xda-Newbie said:
I read that .. "in-app billing to unlock" .. its not free .. but thats not the main issue .. the main issue is even if i wanted to pay i couldn't over the internet .. haven't got a payment card for internet
thanks alot for your replies
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I think the one on the market you pay for, the one in the thread is free.
xda-Newbie said:
Thanks for your reply, I can't actually contact AT&T, I'm not even in the US, i bought my phone from a guy (semi brand new ,, used for a couple of weeks), he used it with AT&T and unlocked it using the free apps on market (when it was GB 2.3.6) and sold it to me.
Now as you know when i try to upgrade to JB 4.2.2 it gets locked .. thats my story
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You try to upgrade and it gets locked OR you upgraded and it gets locked???
I'm unaware of flashing custom ROM causing the sim-locked.
votinh said:
You try to upgrade and it gets locked OR you upgraded and it gets locked???
I'm unaware of flashing custom ROM causing the sim-locked.
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I know there have been instances where people were losing sim unlock after flashing shostock3.
Re: [Q] Is there a free way to unlock SGH-I777 running JB 4.2.2 ?
xda-Newbie said:
Thanks for your reply, I can't actually contact AT&T, I'm not even in the US, i bought my phone from a guy (semi brand new ,, used for a couple of weeks), he used it with AT&T and unlocked it using the free apps on market (when it was GB 2.3.6) and sold it to me.
Now as you know when i try to upgrade to JB 4.2.2 it gets locked .. thats my story
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Call ATT international #.
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This works
Try this
GalaxSim Unlock...http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...php?p=30541172
simple easy to use and it works.
knighted4
simunlock
votinh said:
You try to upgrade and it gets locked OR you upgraded and it gets locked???
I'm unaware of flashing custom ROM causing the sim-locked.
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I upgraded to 4.2.2 CM10.1 rom and it got locked .. also tried the 4.2.2 AOKP rom and it got locked .. all 4.2.2 roms that i flashed caused the simlock ... also the shostock3 rom (4.1.2) does the same as dsmboost mentioned
dsmboost said:
I think the one on the market you pay for, the one in the thread is free.
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both the one in the thread and the on in marked are free to download (apk) ... but when you install it and start it (press unlock) (it asks for payment)
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BeenAndroidized said:
Call ATT international #.
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Hi BeenAndroidized, I was looking for the number then thought if it was even ok to ask for unlocking a phone from the operator whom inteded to lock to their network in the first place .. i'm not an AT&T client, never been actually .. so i'm thinking will they help me unlock my phone promoting their users to sell the phones they bought from them ?!
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Hi BeenAndroidized, I was looking for the number then thought if it was even ok to ask for unlocking a phone from the operator whom inteded to lock to their network in the first place .. i'm not an AT&T client, never been actually .. so i'm thinking will they help me unlock my phone promoting their users to sell the phones they bought from them ?!
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Explain to them the situation. I think they should not have any problem giving you the code. Especially since the phone is more than 2 years.
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BeenAndroidized said:
Call ATT international #.
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knighted4 said:
Try this
GalaxSim Unlock...http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...php?p=30541172
simple easy to use and it works.
knighted4
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hi knighted4, the link you shared is not working, But anyways Galaxsim Unlock was shared before .. its NOT free .. it requires over-internet payment which i have no way to do.
Thanks alot though
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Explain to them the situation. I think they should not have any problem giving you the code. Especially since the phone is more than 2 years.
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ok .. i'll give it a try .. i'm not confident about it but its worth trying.
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xda-Newbie said:
ok .. i'll give it a try .. i'm not confident about it but its worth trying.
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Never hurts to try.
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xda-Newbie said:
hi knighted4, the link you shared is not working, But anyways Galaxsim Unlock was shared before .. its NOT free .. it requires over-internet payment which i have no way to do.
Thanks alot though
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Is free if you download from xda and DON'T update it from store.
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xda-Newbie said:
I upgraded to 4.2.2 CM10.1 rom and it got locked .. also tried the 4.2.2 AOKP rom and it got locked .. all 4.2.2 roms that i flashed caused the simlock ... also the shostock3 rom (4.1.2) does the same as dsmboost mentioned
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Hmmm, that's odd, maybe I'm behind the curve but still weird flashing custom ROM causes sim locked.
Can you revert back to the previous OS? 4.1.2 maybe and see if problem still there?
Anyway, where do you get the AOKP 4.2.2?
Hello Out There!
My Amaze 4G is rooted and bootloader unlocked. Running CM 10.1 and now I have a SIM card unlock code the phone will not accept, I'm assuming because it's rooted. I'd like to take it off T-Mo and move to AT&T occasionally for coverage reasons in places I frequent like the VA Hospital in Louisville, KY. I'm trying to reflash a stock ROM and then try the unlock code again. I have a good, activated AT&T SIM card and the unlock code direct from T-Mo.
Any thoughts? Think it'll help by flashing a stock ROM?
Thanks, folks!
1gratefulvet
1gratefulvet said:
Hello Out There!
My Amaze 4G is rooted and bootloader unlocked. Running CM 10.1 and now I have a SIM card unlock code the phone will not accept, I'm assuming because it's rooted. I'd like to take it off T-Mo and move to AT&T occasionally for coverage reasons in places I frequent like the VA Hospital in Louisville, KY. I'm trying to reflash a stock ROM and then try the unlock code again. I have a good, activated AT&T SIM card and the unlock code direct from T-Mo.
Any thoughts? Think it'll help by flashing a stock ROM?
Thanks, folks!
1gratefulvet
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Yeah stock roms are going to work better than AOSP roms when using unlock codes.
Just download arhd or fireRom or something stock and then try the code again. It should work.
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Thanks, Super Afnan!
SuperAfnan said:
Yeah stock roms are going to work better than AOSP roms when using unlock codes.
Just download arhd or fireRom or something stock and then try the code again. It should work.
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I really appreciate your input. I'm downloading firerom now and will let you know what happens!
Great THANKS and much appreciation!!
Flashed fireROM and the SIM unlock code worked perfectly first time. Now I have a stock Amaze on T-Mo and a modded Amaze on AT&T. Way cool, this tech business. Thanks for your help and the great contribution to ROM development.
Frank Jones
Kentucky
1gratefulvet
SuperAfnan said:
Yeah stock roms are going to work better than AOSP roms when using unlock codes.
Just download arhd or fireRom or something stock and then try the code again. It should work.
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1gratefulvet said:
Flashed fireROM and the SIM unlock code worked perfectly first time. Now I have a stock Amaze on T-Mo and a modded Amaze on AT&T. Way cool, this tech business. Thanks for your help and the great contribution to ROM development.
Frank Jones
Kentucky
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Glad to know it worked! And even better, on my rom too!
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