Hello all. At first sorry if such topic is already opened and I opened it again, but I'm on a hurry, because I live in Georgia country in Europe near Russia, so here we use GSM sim card. So several ours ago I bought LS990 on EBAY, so I want to know if it is possible to use GSM operator. If not I'll ask the seller if he can refund me. Or it's better to take and in several weeks there will be a solution for that?
Sorry for my English and thanks in advance.
Regards
Konstantin Katsadze
here you are!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/sprint-lg-g3/general/unlock-sim-gsm-how-to-t2853594
Please continue discussion in the link provided above.
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I know that this has been asked before buy my question is more specific than, where do I get one.
I won an atrix and it arrived today, locked to AT&T (half expected) so I was wondering, is there anyone on Vodafone AU or anyone in Australia for that matter who has unlocked their Atrix and hasn't experienced wifi issues? if so, where did they purchase their unlock codes.
Thank you in advance
- Adrian
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hmm no one able to help? its okay I've ordered a code from cellunlock.net and expect it within the next 3 days.. I will post results of if the WiFi breaks and will also let you know if the posted solution works.
OK, Got this great deal on a locked Lumia 800. Have searched for a month now for someone who can provide an unlock code ( at any reasonable price ) with no luck. Not sure if it is specific to Claro Puerto Rico or not but I can find people offering to unlock this thing for most carriers except for them. Thought I would ask this community for guidance. I haven't been on since the windows mobile days , but used to find XDA users very helpful. I have the locked down bootloader, so I can't try flashing my way to a Sim unlock. If this is a lost cause I need to get this thing back on Ebay to find someone who can use it.
Thanks in advance, gentlemen and ladies
ecarpin said:
OK, Got this great deal on a locked Lumia 800. Have searched for a month now for someone who can provide an unlock code ( at any reasonable price ) with no luck. Not sure if it is specific to Claro Puerto Rico or not but I can find people offering to unlock this thing for most carriers except for them. Thought I would ask this community for guidance. I haven't been on since the windows mobile days , but used to find XDA users very helpful. I have the locked down bootloader, so I can't try flashing my way to a Sim unlock. If this is a lost cause I need to get this thing back on Ebay to find someone who can use it.
Thanks in advance, gentlemen and ladies
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I'm in the same boat -- we probably purchased from the same eBay seller.
I just called Claro to see if they would give me an unlock code, but I struck out. I don't speak Spanish, and the customer service agent I was connected to spoke with a very strong Spanish accent / broken English. I don't think he really understood what I was asking for ... despite 'speaking to his supervisor'. I told them a friend gave me the phone, and that I was trying to use it in the US, but that it asked for an unlock code. I think he tried to say I should just go down to a T-Mobile or AT&T store to try to get them to unlock it. I think if I was a native Spanish speaker I would just call until I found a rep that knew what I was talking about...
-e
Claro PR
ecarpin said:
OK, Got this great deal on a locked Lumia 800. Have searched for a month now for someone who can provide an unlock code ( at any reasonable price ) with no luck. Not sure if it is specific to Claro Puerto Rico or not but I can find people offering to unlock this thing for most carriers except for them. Thought I would ask this community for guidance. I haven't been on since the windows mobile days , but used to find XDA users very helpful. I have the locked down bootloader, so I can't try flashing my way to a Sim unlock. If this is a lost cause I need to get this thing back on Ebay to find someone who can use it.
Thanks in advance, gentlemen and ladies
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Yeah I have the Claro Puerto Rico 710. Whati did was downgrade to the qualcomm bootloader. Then flash the new Rainbow v 4.2. The I use the NSS sim locker to unlock. This forum has help me all the way to getting my 710 unlocked. Hope this help.
Thanks....Looks like Lumia 800 users are not as fortunate as Lumia 710 owners as far as the downgrade options. Oh well I guess it goes back to Ebay where it belongs.
Hello everyone
First i would like to thank you in advance for all the help you can provide me.
So, for a long time now i'm aiming to buy a Samsung Note 2 phone but prices here in Europe make it a bit "unpractical" to do so, a few days a go i read that it is possible to buy a US carrier locked SN2 and unlock it to European carriers, is this correct?
I mean, can a go on amazon.com and buy a AT&T SN2, ship it to Europe, unlock the phone and get it to be fully operational?, or at least if it is going to be able to support 3G?
I've read something about the frequencies it operates on and so far it seems right to that specific smartphone.
Btw my carrier in Europe is Vodafone Portugal
Many thanks for all the help you can provide
Cheers
EDIT: sorry i've kept gathering info and i missed something a "bit" relevant , the contract that i have to keep in order to get the phone at that price. Its not easy...not easy.
Any ideas?
Hello,
I recently purchased an LG G3 on Verizon here in the US. I am traveling to Germany for a week in January for work and staying for a few extra days for fun. Anyone know if it is possible to buy a pre paid SIM card in Germany and put it in my LG G3? If not, are there any good options that you know of?
Sorry, never been to Europe before, so I've never worried about SIM cards before. Thanks so much.
yacobito said:
Hello,
I recently purchased an LG G3 on Verizon here in the US. I am traveling to Germany for a week in January for work and staying for a few extra days for fun. Anyone know if it is possible to buy a pre paid SIM card in Germany and put it in my LG G3? If not, are there any good options that you know of?
Sorry, never been to Europe before, so I've never worried about SIM cards before. Thanks so much.
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yes, you should be able to buy a SIM in Germany and put it in your G3. You just need to get the APNs set up correctly. Whoever you buy the SIM from SHOULD be able to set those up for you. I'd do some research to see who covers the region you are going to be in and see what the APNs should be.
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yes, you should be able to buy a SIM in Germany and put it in your G3. You just need to get the APNs set up correctly. Whoever you buy the SIM from SHOULD be able to set those up for you. I'd do some research to see who covers the region you are going to be in and see what the APNs should be.
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Thank you for the speedy response Bladerunner. Do you know if you have to contact Verizon to tell them your doing this?
No you do not. The G3 is SIM unlocked already.
Hello everyone!
Okay so first off, sorry for having to post my first post as a question.
So I'm from Egypt (we still don't even have the s5e in stores..), I usually get all my tech from Amazon.com, seeing that the LTE variantof the Tab S6 is not available there yet, I went to check out amazon UK(also has global shipping)
I found an LTE variant of the tablet (Can't link it since I'm a new user) but its the "Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 LTE 256 GB 10.5-Inch Tablet - Mountain Grey (UK Version)". Link: amazon.co.uk/dp/B07W4KVH18?tag=dradisplay0bb-21&ascsubtag=8ae47d4591cfa385f0e63929fb543ed4_CT&ref=dra_a_ms_sb_ho_xx_P600_100
I found alot of questions getting answered by (it'll work only after you make a 10 min phone call in the UK using a UK sim card), is this what they call (Unlocking process) ? and is there anyway I can bypass that ? will I even need to do this ? since someone who lives in the EU asked that question and they said it'll work just fine without going through that process. also I use (Vodafone EG) as my carrier
I do apologies for a somewhat silly question, but I don't quite get how the locked/unlocked/GSM/CMDA thingy works
Thank you in advance !
Try putting in the link, but without the http(s)://www bit at the beginning
Oh and it's not at all a silly question.
Was it this one?
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Samsung-Galaxy-Tab-10-5-Inch-Tablet/dp/B07WC1BF34
pinsb said:
Try putting in the link, but without the http(s)://www bit at the beginning
Oh and it's not at all a silly question.
Was it this one?
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Done, and yeah that's the one.
OK, there are two issues.
Service Provider Lock
Region Lock
As this is from Amazon then it should be Service Provider unlocked.
However to stop what are known as 'Grey Imports' where a unit is destined for say the Hong Kong market, to stop it being then re-exported to say the UK they require a HK sim to be installed first (which is why if you but a new unit from Hong Kong it's usually been opened and a sim put in it so that it performs it's initial region check) this then allows you to subsequently install any sim, as long as the first sim is from a matching region.
In this instance I would guess that the unit Amazon are selling are probably region locked to Europe (I'm not certain though obviously), which means the first sim you installed would have to be a euro sim and you would have to do it in Europe for the sim to validate live and disable the region lock.
A potential way around this would be buy a used unit off ebay where the Region Lock has already been deactivated.
Hope the above makes sense, if you need further help and don't want to do it in the thread you could PM me.
Update: I got the tablet from Amazon UK and it worked just fine in Egypt, (I just popped in my Egyptian sim card and turned on the device
I am glad it works well for you.
I am wondering if it will work in the US if I get it from Amazon.uk. T-Mobile only carries the 128gb one; I need the 256gb one.