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I am in heaven as O2 have provided me with my unlock code for the new XDA 2 within 48 hours and it works fine with my t-mobile sim card (including GPRS). The O2 active screen allows me to access these pages via my t-mobile gprs connection (which i am only paying £10 for 100MB per month)
That#s very interesting... O2 told me that I could unlock my phone for £195 & it would take two weeks to get the code. so who at o2 did you talk to ??? I thinks I need to call 'em back
just spoke to customer services on sat..they charged me standard unlocking fee of £15 ..asked me imei number over phone ..they said it could take 4 weeks..but received call this afternoon with the code..60 seconds later i had a unlocked xda 2..no hassles at all..best thing is i only took out an o2 contract three months ago..free t610 on £15 line rental...and they allowed me to upgrade to the xda2 last week for £350--only extending my contract by three months...wow i am impressed...so i am now using my voice calls using my vodaphone tariff (1000 min for £37a month and my data using t-mobile 100mb for £10 at the same time)
Did you have to pay off your line rental?
Chaps I'm speaking to today won't have it without doing that
& I don't even get a fecking 02 signal where I live!
Can you please clarify something, you pay £10 a month for 100mb of gprs data on T-Mobile. How is this possible as I pay around £25 for 20mb through T-Mobile. If your right I will certainly be calling T-Mobile for a refund.
Landofnod
i doubt tmobile have to have the same prices all over the world as
it have to compeat with companys which different prices in different
countrys
i did not have to pay a penny apart from the £10...i live in London and T-mobile for a few days gave a special promotional gprs tariff - £10 for 100Mb..they then stopped offering it and instead are now offering a special email tariff (100MB for £10 until end of Dec 2003).
The person who dealt with my unlocking request dealt with it in the same way as unlocking any other handset...
Sanjive...if that is the case i must have one of the only o2 xda 2 unlocked...cool..i would sell it on ebay but i am enjoying it too much :lol:
Phonefreak
Just to clarify
Did you have to pay your line-rental in full before they unlocked your phone?
They WILL unlock my phone (anyone's) but they insist on my (anyone) paying up the contract at the same time. I can do this but would prefer to just continue to pay monthly.
not at all..i am only on a £15 tariff...
I PAY $10.00 (U.S.A.) FOR UNLIMITED GPRS....ADD ON TO VOICE SERVICE
Phonefreak, from what you say, does that mean everytime you wish to 'surf' you will have to go through the arduous task of swapping SIM cards and once you're finished surfing, swap again back to your voda number? Isn't that a massive pain?
I can't see any reason to unlock my xdaii as yet... wonder if we can unlock it for free... :wink:
use my voda sim in the xda for voice (1000min allowance) and use a bluetooth connection to my t68i (with my tmobile sim) for data..no need to swap sim
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I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY ONE DAT STILL HADA T68i
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use my voda sim in the xda for voice (1000min allowance) and use a bluetooth connection to my t68i (with my tmobile sim) for data..no need to swap sim
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I went for the xda ii so that I can get out of the PDA+mobile combo... my P800 went to someway to resolve this but unfortunately screen/size/software forced me to abandon it in favour of the xda ii.
Do you not find it cumbersome (granted t68i is small and I'm an owner too! ) to carry two devices?
I am currently looking at the most cost-effective mobile solution as at the moment, my PAYG SIM gives best gprs in terms of cost while my pay monthly gives better voice-call deal. You looked at those SIM card copiers that allows one SIM to hold multiple SIM/numbers? Or a device that allows you to cut :shock: your current SIM to just the SIM chip itself so it fits into a dual-SIM holder the size of one standard SIM hence allowing you to fit two SIMs into the one SIM slot of a mobile. Quite neat.
i wish that one carrier offered me the best data and voice tariff but since i have a good voice tarriff on voda (1000 min for £37) and a good gprs package on t-mobile (100mb for £10) i can live with a xda2 and a t68i..use to carry two phones and a ipaq 5550..so have still reduced one item
Hi,
I have an xda 2s which I would like to unlock to tmobile pre pay network.
However, I am only being given option of pay monthly.
I have unlocked the phone and am receiving a network signal from tmobile.
Is there a program i can run to remove this or do I have to go out and buy an pay monthly sim.
After all the effort of unlocking it aswell, when I could have just bought an 02 sim!!!
02 say that the xda2 is only pay monthly, are they right?
Grrrr
Help please.
Thanks in advance...
Whats the main difference between the 2, the woman in carphone warehouse assured me u can use any sim card in the phone which seemed strange cos i thought they were network locked on payasyougo....
Carphone Warehouse buy their phones Sim Free and just give you either a contract or PAYG SIM, that's why they can sell the phones on networks not officially supported.
Cool so she wasnt lying then! 399 pay as u go from carphone.
Baffles me why its 450 sim free and 400 payasyougo
Confuses me as well, doesn't seem like a network would give CPW £50 just to include a PAYG SIM.
Well technically u have to buy the top up which is £10 so it could just be to try and keep people on that certain network... I see crazier things regarding cashback ie o2 £100 caahback on a 12 month contract.
Go figure... Thx for the replies dude
Just checked out the GT in a local store. Cute hardware. But they wouldn't sell it to me without passport and social security number. So much for picking up a U.S. tab while on holidays...
Were you trying to buy it at the off contract price? Were you paying cash?
I definitely wanted the "off-contract" GT. I would have been happy to pay cash, but we didn't get that far...
PS: On the t-mobile web page you need to pick an "even more" or "even more plus" plan to order.
Are you visiting friends in the States? If so, have them buy it for you. Or try a different T-mobile corporate store.
They can sell it to you without any credit check just like any item in the store if you are paying up front. Maybe they were just trying to make more money and/or save it for somebody who was going to sign up for service. Sad but it happens.
I just brought mine
I just brought one from tmobile store (no contract), and didn't ask for any credit check
I called up the other stores in town and they do require you to get at least one month of service with it. Which then entails a credit check, even if its only month-to-month. I guess ahbvrh was just lucky and ran into a CSR who wasn't aware of these rules. Yay!
you can simply buy a prepaid data plan (10$) and that will save you the credit check.
Im still loooking for the tmobile sim unlock code so I can use my existing corporate sim card which is AT&T
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you can simply buy a prepaid data plan (10$) and that will save you the credit check.
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I am a current T-mobile prepaid user. I tried buying the tab with and without telling them my t-mobile number, but no luck...
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Im still loooking for the tmobile sim unlock code so I can use my existing corporate sim card which is AT&T
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Are you saying that the 599.- "off-contract" GT is sim-locked to t-mobile US?? That would be insane...
That's no policy of Tmobile but maybe something they are doing in that region or those particular stores. There is no policy that says you have to buy a month of service for any device on tmobile now that they have the prepaid webconnect plans too. Even before that though you never needed to sign up for service to just buy a device its just expensive.
Yes,it locked for tmobile,but im sure it is possible to find unlock code somewhete
If you pay full invoice price its still sim locked but you are allowed to request the sim unlock code from tmobile. Just one catch you gotta have an account with tmobile to process that request.
That good to know,I just faxed them my recipt ,I will see if they will send me the unlock .....
Good luck! The t-mo web page say: http://support.t-mobile.com/doc/tm51885.xml
For customers with a T-Mobile Postpaid Plan, T-Mobile will provide the SIM Unlock Code upon request to eligible customers, provided the requesting customer has a minimum of 40 days of active service with T-Mobile.
To me, that sounds like you have to wait >1 month... Yay!
it seem this is only for postpaid users....,I just bought prepaid data plan....
I'm sure there is a way to unlock using root or something
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it seem this is only for postpaid users....,I just bought prepaid data plan....
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Oh yeah good point, you are the lucky one that got one on prepaid. Though in that case its even worse, and the same page says:
For customers with a T-Mobile Prepaid Plan, T-Mobile will provide the SIM Unlock Code upon request to eligible customers, provided the requesting customer has a minimum of 60 days of active service with T-Mobile and either a Prepaid Plan account balance of at least $10.00 or a prior refill within the last 30 days.
However, a quick google search brings up various pages that send you an unlock code for $$$...
I dont mind paying few extra bucks for gettong the unlock code.
googling it up show only one site that promise unlock code for the galaxy tab,but it is for the sprint vetsion,and I'm not sure it will work on the tmobile one...
Confused! I thought CDMA devices were never locked and if you wanted to change carrier (eg Sprint to Verizon) you just needed to get the new carrier to register the devices ESN on their network (which is often easier said than done!).
Regards,
Dave
Tmobile is GSM
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I know. I was referring to the previous poster who mentioned unlock codes for sprint, which CDMA.
Regards,
Dave
Is it possible to buy PAYG from P4u and the phone is locked? Because yesterday when I wanted to buy PAYG for £499.99 the staff told me that is better to get the sim free version £530. I ask him why then he told me that the PAYG will be locked to network. (Whichever sim / network you choose your phone will be locked to that network). Is it true or he want me to buy £530 version?
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Is it possible to buy PAYG from P4u and the phone is locked? Because yesterday when I wanted to buy PAYG for £499.99 the staff told me that is better to get the sim free version £530. I ask him why then he told me that the PAYG will be locked to network. (Whichever sim / network you choose your phone will be locked to that network). Is it true or he want me to buy £530 version?
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02 are selling locked PAYG Handsets for £399. (Plus £10 sim card if not on 02)
Unlock, via a well known website, is £15, you loose the 02 warranty, but still have the Samsung 2 yr warranty.
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02 are selling locked PAYG Handsets for £399. (Plus £10 sim card if not on 02)
Unlock, via a well known website, is £15, you loose the 02 warranty, but still have the Samsung 2 yr warranty.
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I ordered yday but it seems on their website now they remove PAYG for SGS II.
I'm not sure whether my order went through because I cant track my order and no email confirmation. So just wondered if SGS II sold by P4u can be locked with any network?
SIM free
jonrwg said:
Is it possible to buy PAYG from P4u and the phone is locked? Because yesterday when I wanted to buy PAYG for £499.99 the staff told me that is better to get the sim free version £530. I ask him why then he told me that the PAYG will be locked to network. (Whichever sim / network you choose your phone will be locked to that network). Is it true or he want me to buy £530 version?
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Hi my is factory unlocked-ph4u
When I enquired about this phone at Phones4U last week (before upgrading to it through O2), I was told by the guy there they never sell locked phones and they're always direct from the manufacturer.
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Hi my is factory unlocked-ph4u
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Is yours sim free or PAYG?
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When I enquired about this phone at Phones4U last week (before upgrading to it through O2), I was told by the guy there they never sell locked phones and they're always direct from the manufacturer.
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I knew that all these while but why did that P4u guy told me is locked on PAYG? Sounds fishy to me as he keep on pushing to get the sim free version. What even more weirder is I ask him the phone will be locked to what network and he say to any network I choose. Is is possible?
I'm a store manager at phones 4u. All our galaxy s2 stock and in fact all our pay monthly stock handsets afe unlocked. We don't make much from selling the gs2 on pay as u go so we hold stock back for pay monthly as stock is limited. Selling it at a sim free price makes us about double the amount of money compared to payg. Btw anyone wanting a contract gs2 in London just let me know
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I'm a store manager at phones 4u. All our galaxy s2 stock and in fact all our pay monthly stock handsets afe unlocked. We don't make much from selling the gs2 on pay as u go so we hold stock back for pay monthly as stock is limited. Selling it at a sim free price makes us about double the amount of money compared to payg. Btw anyone wanting a contract gs2 in London just let me know
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That justified his action but the thing I dont understand is why he told me the phone is locked on PAYG. Maybe he just want to push the sales for sim free but if P4u are not going to offer PAYG then they should've not put it in the advert. Anyway I just want to know whether is true or not that the phone is locked on PAYG.
100% unlocked whether bought on payg, simfree, or on pay monthly.
You could save yourself some money though and buy it o2 for £399. My one came locked but I got it unlocked for £15 and then I followed the guide someone else posted to debrand the handset. Total cost is 414 for the same thing and takes very little effort.
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Get it from Carphonewarehouse! They come unlocked. Mine came unlocked. And it was a contract phone! Got the sim card separately!
I ordered from O2 before they took down PAYG so now i'm waiting for delivery. But I bought another set from CPW too. Give it one to my GF.