As above - i bought my s7+ from an ebay reseller and arrived requiring the previous users key. I contacted the reseller who essentially wasnt interested so got my money refunded from my credit card company (so i bought a new one!) so, ive got this locked tablet to which i can pretty well do anything with this one!.....ive not unlocked anything for a few years (my s9+ still works ok but its heading for it soon...)
Happy to be a mule for anyone that wants to try anything fancy!!
Fixed by @hainguyenthao - thanks very much sir for all the help.!
How did you do it? Would appreciate the help. @hainguyenthao
Fixed by @hainguyenthao! Thanks a lot!
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I recently bought a Samsung Galaxy Note I717R from Rogers and unlocked it to work with my existing service provider, MTS. I detailed everything in a blog post in case any one is thinking about doing the same (or something similar):
Setting up a Samsung.Galaxy Note for MTS
Hopefully someone finds this useful.
I had to pay $25 for this service, not $8. Did they drop the price?
Nice write up.. and always enjoying reading Canadian stuff
sashusmom said:
I had to pay $25 for this service, not $8. Did they drop the price?
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I think the price varies by phone. What make/model did you use?
Samsung Galaxy Note Locked - Help
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I think the price varies by phone. What make/model did you use?
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Hi guys,
I bought a Samsung Galaxy Note (i717) from Ebay.
It's locked on Rogers (Canadian provider) and I'd like to unlocked this device, because a live in Brazil.
How Can I do It? I need root my device and then you an App like Galaxy Unlocked?
Can you help me?
regards
Sorry Amigo, there is no free unlock for non at&t models. You can pay $19 from www.cellphoneunlockers.com.
Those free unlock apps don't work on the note.
Don57 said:
I recently bought a Samsung Galaxy Note I717R from Rogers and unlocked it to work with my existing service provider, MTS. I detailed everything in a blog post in case any one is thinking about doing the same (or something similar):
Setting up a Samsung.Galaxy Note for MTS
Hopefully someone finds this useful.
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I was a useful post. Just as a head's up, I tried to get a code for the same model from 'unlockphonenetwork' and paid $34.95. They promise a code in 0-5 hrs. After waiting half a day, and not getting any response from their email support address, I filed a dispute with Paypal. Now I just have to wait. Now I wish I had used the same code provider that you did.
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I was a useful post. Just as a head's up, I tried to get a code for the same model from 'unlockphonenetwork' and paid $34.95. They promise a code in 0-5 hrs. After waiting half a day, and not getting any response from their email support address, I filed a dispute with Paypal. Now I just have to wait. Now I wish I had used the same code provider that you did.
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see my guide, I explain how to get a free unlock
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2124544
crixley said:
see my guide, I explain how to get a free unlock
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2124544
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Thanks very much for that, I'll have to give that a try.
So in the interest of fairness as a follow up the code did eventually arrive after 12 hours. Now I normally would not be so anal (bad pun in light of the below) about these things, but the reason I bought one in a hurry and not spent more time in XDA Developers looking for a solution was because my daughter had been admitted to hospital in the Philippines (not serious, just dehydration from ongoing traveller's gut) and my son had just arrived with his Note that I had rooted before he left but not unlocked. As I wanted to communicate with them ASAP I thought the $35.00 would be a justified expense because they claimed they would provide it on 0-5hrs (within a minute of me paying for it the window on the site proclaimed that I (first name and last initial) had just completed unlocking a Samsung i717). At one point someone (Jason So) did reply to my email to support and just said 'were working on it'. In spite of me pointing out why I was in a hurry when they finally sent it, no apology or any explanation, so I'm not too impressed. I'll carry on with my Paypal dispute just to see what happens now and use your method instead, thanks again for the post.
Update: In the interest of fairness again, the seller did offer me a partial refund for being late ($14.95), which I accepted as the phone was already half a planet away with a 14yr old who would be challenged to flash it where he is. Interesting how these sellers never provide a name (I got the Jason from the embedded header) or engage the buyer in any sort of conciliatory dialogue, if they did they'd probably gain more respect. However I didn't want to give the seller an unfair rap, thus the update.
Hi, I´ve just bought an used atrix 4g.
It does not work properly and the seller does not want to refund me.
What can I do?
That´s the problem that I have.
Thanks.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=BwxeGpViG00#!
The seller got you, and he got you good. You were just sold a device with the infamous "wifi/bluetooth chip fried" problem.
If you paid with paypal, you can file a dispute with them. Other than that, I don't know, since I have no idea how you bought it.
Hello! I have a Acer liquid e320. A nice and not too expensive phone. The phones motherboard got damaged, and no service in my city would fix it, and for a long time i wasn't able to get another motherboard. After about a year i got one, ordered from taobao.com (like Ebay, only Chinese) I got it, but... found out it was locked to T-Mobile UK.
Ok, so i tried these things:
1. Tried contacting T-mobile, to get an unlock code. They refused to unlock it, because i wasn't their client.
2. I tried contacting Acer Worldwide Support, they said they can't help me and advised me to call the local support in Latvia - they will help me.
3. Called the local Acer support, they said, that this phone is not supported in our country, so they can't help.
4. Tried reaching again the worldwide Acer support and they sent me back to Latvian service support..... so i feel lika a hamster in the weel, no one helps me to solve the problem.
5. I tried using a different rom, maybe it would remove the network lock - it didn't.
6. Searched for an unlock code on the web, but nut sure it's legit and the price some websites ask for the code is higer then my phone costs... so not really happy with this solution.
In the end, i feel sad and came to conclusion that Acer support sucks! Maybe here someone can help me and advise what to do? Maybe there is a software i can use to remove the network lock? I don't want to throw out that phone in the garbage. You are my last hope!
I kinda thought that if I buy the carrier unlocked version direct from Samsung that it would be the Exynos. Woops just got it, and it is definitely SD. Anyways now Im wondering if I can exchange for an Exynos, or if im stuck with it forever
If you're within the return period, return it. If not, then you're stuck with it (unless you bought it with a credit card that has return protection).
Ok i got the first part. Now how do i get an Exynos?
You have to get it from a 3rd party. (Amazon, eBay, etc.)
Thank You!
Hi everyone, I'm new to xda forum and i don't know if this is the right section for this topic. I purchased two brand new sprint s9 phones at a very good price on ebay due to them being bad esn from unpaid bills , i always purchased bad esn phones and unlocked them to use outside the usa at about 10-15$ per phone via remote unlock. So i made this foolish mistake of not checking first if they could get unlocked for a cheap price like i used to do on my previous s8 and note 8 both from sprint ... now i got 2 brand new phones locked to sprint and as far as I've researched on the internet the only options to unlock them are some guys on ebay that demand minimum 150$ per unlock .... however i don't know of someone who had any success with their services ... 150$ for a unlock is a lot of money but it's still better than having 2 unusable smartphones... any news or any info regarding this topic is much appreciated... should i wait a few more weeks for a new unlocking method ? Anyone has had succes with the ebay unlocking services ? Please help me guys !
There's currently no way to unlock Sprint S9/S9+ phones for international use unless the phone is fully paid off. I've even messaged those remote unlockers on eBay and they've all pretty much said that's the one phone that they can't unlock. Furthermore, it's so difficult that there aren't really any devs working on this at the moment. Maybe someday, but not anytime soon.
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Chimera and SamKey now offer Sprint S9 unlock
Got my s9+ unlocked with chimera... IMEIgurus is now offering unlock for $25 and I saw it on $15 momentarily the other day
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Hi everyone, I'm new to xda forum and i don't know if this is the right section for this topic. I purchased two brand new sprint s9 phones at a very good price on ebay due to them being bad esn from unpaid bills , i always purchased bad esn phones and unlocked them to use outside the usa at about 10-15$ per phone via remote unlock. So i made this foolish mistake of not checking first if they could get unlocked for a cheap price like i used to do on my previous s8 and note 8 both from sprint ... now i got 2 brand new phones locked to sprint and as far as I've researched on the internet the only options to unlock them are some guys on ebay that demand minimum 150$ per unlock .... however i don't know of someone who had any success with their services ... 150$ for a unlock is a lot of money but it's still better than having 2 unusable smartphones... any news or any info regarding this topic is much appreciated... should i wait a few more weeks for a new unlocking method ? Anyone has had succes with the ebay unlocking services ? Please help me guys !
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Why not sell the phones and start over?