Functionality of an unlocked Wing without SIM or a nonTmobile SIM??? - Wing, P4350 General

OOOPS... I meant what is the functionality of a LOCKED Wing without a Tmobile SIM card or with a different foreign SIM card.
In case I cannot get mine unlocked in the first 90 days, can I still use the Wing for things other then making calls?
What happens if a different SIM card is put into a TMobile locked device.
Thanks!

Could someone please tell me if a Wing starts up without a SIM card in it...
If you could just try to turn it on without the SIM and tell me the results I would be very happy...
Or with a SIM other then TMobile on a locked Wing...
Just in case I have to wait for 90 days to have it unlocked from Tmobile to use in Europe.
Thank You!

Mine works. I just took the SIM out and restarted. the phone application came up and reported that the SIM was missing, but I was able to close it and access all of the other functionality.
Does that help?
qwkynuf

Yes, it helps perfectly, since now I know that I could still use the phone and wifi, etc, even before it is unlocked which might take a while.
Thank you very much!

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Having Problems SIM Unlocking

I have a Cingular 8125 that i recently reiceved. (G4, sorry I posted in wrong section)
I used Lokiwiz and got my Sim unlock code.
THe thing is I don't get a dialog telling me to insert the code...did i do something wrong? x-x
Please help me
have you tried putting another sim in the phone? As it wont ask you for the unlock code unless you try and put a different sim card in
and believe me when i say, people do unlock and expect the phone to ask for a code when the phone reboots, even when they have their original sim still in the phone
Yeah I've tried it.
Cingular to Tracphone to Nextel
T_T Is it because its an old Cingular and Nextel is like lame? And tracphone is just like everything XD Should I borrow like a Verizon or T-Mobile SIM?

T-Mobile wing - does it have simlock or not

Hi I'm new user of T-Mobile Wing. I found a thread on this forum that most of T-mobile wing don't have simlock. I get my sim card from era (polish carrier) and put inside wing. Then turned on and everything is working. It has found a service. But I still have some doubts. One is that the service name is T-mobile ( which is normal in my nokia using era because of roaming policy of my carrier) but I'm not sure if I leave USA the phone will work or not. I'm not sure how sim lock work here in USA. Should the phone report problem with other sim card when I turn it on? Or maybe it will stop working when I will come back to Poland.
From the other side when I put T-mobile sim card into my old nokia which is locked, the phone reported error "device is secured, please provide code" ( <- this is free translation from my polish)
I assume the same sittuation should appear in case of wing with era sim card, but it is my first pda and I don't know if in this case my assumptions are correct.
Thanks in advance for your answers.
yes its sim locked
you can get it unlocked so it does thru some companys try search in google.
So why right now when I put sim card from different carrier I'm able to use the phone and make calls??
yep. I've got wing registered in era without any unlocking.
huh. thats really strange. it may be some weird kind of roaming. update when you receive your phone bill? If it's kind of ridiculous, you know you need to sim unlock.
I believe that if you get a tmobile sim(prepaid or borrow one?) you can ask them to give you the simlock code and they will

HTC HD2 as a AT&T GoPhone

I'm trying to find out if anyone has tried doing this. For some reason when I install the sim from my gophone in the HD2 it doesnt say that there is no sim present, but it also wont give me the option to unlock the phone or make a call. If I hit the phone button nothing comes up. Oh yea, Mines the T-Mobile US version >_>
does it work with a regular t-mobile sim card?
Some phones require sim unlock with original SIM carrier in it - once code is typed in then it easily recognizes other SIM cards (AT&T in your case)
I have the unlock code for my phone. I just cant get the panel that asks for it to come up.
Oh and no I cant use it with the regular card because I have to go to the local tmobile shop on monday. I was told by tmobile that some how my sim number must have been a reissued number because it was registered to someone else and now I have to go pick up a new sim card.
My AT&T card was not recognised by my 9193 at first.
I had to put it in and try several times. Pushed it way down in the slot after lightly using a pencil eraser on the contact surfaces and off it went. Hasn't missed a beat in a month.
It's odd, cant seem to get it to work .. It doesnt say there is no sim like it does when I completely take it out, but it still wont let me bring up the phone panel. I've tried wiggling it, Putting it in 50 different ways... nothing seems to work.

[Q] [HD2] Antenna exclamation mark and 'SIM card is missing' issues

Hello all, I bought a used HD2 off CL (USA), hoping to unlock it (if locked) and use it with my ATT prepaid sim.
Outwardly, the phone looks fine and everything about it works quite nicely, EXCEPT that when I insert my SIM card and start the phone, it shows me an exclamation mark on the antenna icon. When I disable all wireless connections and then re-enable it, the icon now changes to the SIM card icon with an 'x' next to it, and I am shown a screen with a keypad and the following message: 'The SIM card is missing. You can still make emergency calls if your service provider supports it.'
Thinking it was a ROM issue, I successfully loaded the latest ROM from [showthread.php?t=789506] but it did not resolve the issue. There is no issue with the SIM because it works nicely with my AT&T Samsung a607. There are no signal strength issues either.
Please help!
Can someone please provide some insight on my situation? I hope I haven't posted in the wrong forum; if so, mods may move it to the appropriate place.
Any advice on diagnosing the issue will be appreciated; I don't even know why the phone is acting the way it is. Many thanks!
Wait a moment, so your device isnt already SIM unlocked? Sounds to me like you need to go ahead and get an unlock code for it, then navigate to the \Windows folder and hit up the program called "simlock.exe" and input your unlock code, then try your ATT SIM again.
Thanks much for the reply. Other phones usually prompt for a SIM unlock code by themselves... why doesn't this one?
Running simlock.exe from Windows does give me the message "Network is locked, please input unlock code". Before I buy the code, I want to make sure that there's nothing physically wrong with the phone. It should give me at least *some* sign that my SIM is being recognized, but rejected due to network-locking, no?
Thanks again!
See thats the thing. With a foreign SIM card in the device, IF LOCKED, simlock.exe should run automatically on startup and ask for the code....so honestly I do not know if your device is messed up somehow, or if its just being wonky for the sake of being wonky. Perhaps you might want to flash a new Radio ROM and see if it then recognizes your SIM. BE SURE to NOT flash one with .51 in its name.
Thanks again. Can you point to a thread with detailed instructions for flashing a new radio ROM for my device? I found many threads while searching and I am confused. I don't want to choose the wrong instructions and brick this device; I haven't done anything of this sort before.
Look at the top of these forums for a stickie by Snarksneeze that will teach you everything you need to know.
Hi again... I don't have a spare 8GB MicroSD card lying around. Is there any way I can do this flashing over USB? I did read that there's a risk associated with flashing over USB (cable yanks, power loss, etc.) but I did flash the newest ROM without any issue, and hopefully I can do the same for the new Radio ROM.
The Radio version shown in the 'About Phone' section is 2.14.50.04, btw.
You can use your 16GB that came with the phone, or any other one for that matter. That requirement is more of a recomendation really. I have flashed with my stock 16GB many times. And yes, you can do it via USB aswell.
OK, so I have more information about the problem. I got the phone unlocked (I heartily recommend 'fastunlocker' on eBay) thinking that it would solve the issue... but it didn't. But, on a lark, I tried my friend's post-paid T-Mobile SIM in the HD2 and it worked! My AT&T pre-paid SIM does not... can this be a problem? The damn thing works nicely in other (unlocked) phones.
Is anyone else successfully using a AT&T GoPhone (prepaid) SIM on a TMOUS HTC HD2?
It may very well be the problem then. I have heard that some phones are incompatible with pre-paid SIMs.
God, that would suck donkeyballs. Can someone confirm that an unlocked TMOUS HD2 does not work with AT&T GoPhone prepaid SIMs?
had this same exact issue and realized that one of the pins in the sim card reader was stuck in the down position. I poked it with a small screwdriver and it popped back into place. works like a charm now.
Thanks for the reply. Are you sure this is the issue? As I mentioned in a previous post in this thread, my friend's T-Mobile SIM works nicely with the phone.
EDIT: Also, are you using it with an AT&T GoPhone SIM?
Bump... anyone?
Final bump: maybe I am SOL. :'(
Is anyone successfully using a TMOUS HD2 with an AT&T Prepaid (GoPhone) SIM?
Give it some time. Sometimes threads at XDA stay dormant for months and then suddenly BAM! a breakthrough happens.
I would say its your sim. How old is it?
I had the exact same problem. I bought a HD2 off cl and put my sim in and got the no sim message and exclamation point. I was using a sim from the voicesteam days but guess what it worked just fine in the Nexus one I had just gotten so I figured it had to be the phone. I finally used a friends sim and it worked fine. So I would turn the phone off in settings then slip his sim out with the battery still in and put my sim in and turn the phone back on. Guess what, it would work for about 10 min then it would suddenly go back to no sim message. So I went and got a new sim from T-Mobile and walla works like a charm. So try what I did and if you end up with the same problem try a new sim from AT&T. I don't know what is different about the HD2 but there something about the older sims that it doesn't like.
Hope that helps!
Hey... thanks for ther reply! My SIM is brand new (about two weeks old). I will however go to the AT&T store and get it replaced to see if it fixes the problem. Thanks again, I appreciate it.
Dear look my problem...
ashasaur said:
Wait a moment, so your device isnt already SIM unlocked? Sounds to me like you need to go ahead and get an unlock code for it, then navigate to the \Windows folder and hit up the program called "simlock.exe" and input your unlock code, then try your ATT SIM again.
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I have a HTC HD2 working excellent with my card. Some day i received message : card is missing ....like you.
But restarting 2-3 times all ok. In a week the same problem again here.
Now i cant make a call. The same card in another hd2 works good. Any other card in MINE phone is missing...
Please help me.
Many thanks
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T-Mobile sent HD2 Unlock Code, HOW do you enter???

Tmobile sent me the unlock code for the HD2 today. I cant figure out where to enter it. Any Ideas??? I would try and figure this out but I need to do it quick any help would be appriciated!!!!!!
Thanks.
Stingerrray
Have you inserted a a different sim card other than the tmobile sim card. Try inserting a sim card from AT&T from one of your friends that will make the phone not recognized the sim and ask you for the unlock code. Good Luck.
Either that or use the File Explorer on your phone to navigate to the \Windows folder, then once there, scroll down and run the program called "simlock.exe" and input the code to unlock your phone.
Tried the sim unlock. It took the code not sure if its unlocked or not. I ran down to wal mart and picked up a tracfone but that sim will not register. I guess I wasted 10 bucks.
Stingerrray
you have to put in a sim card from another carrier, if the phone is locked, you will get the sim lock screen where you can input the code, if it is unlocked then you won't even see the sim lock screen.
It probably didn't register the tracfone sim because it isn't activated
Ya I activated the tracfone sim but it shows no connection when I turn on phone.
It's the current thought that the HD2 doesn't support pre-paid SIMs from any carrier other than T-Mobile for whatever reason...SIM unlocked or not. Try an ATT SIM if you can and see what it does. If the SIMlock.exe program took the unlock code and didn't throw an error, then you are more than likely SIM unlocked.
Yes it did do that. A message box came up that it took the unlock code so I guess its OK.
Thanks,
Robert
BTW I tried to run the sim unlock program again and it would not run so I guess thats a good sign. What do you think?
Correct, if your device is succesfully unlocked, the simlock.exe program will cease to run.
Thanks, You have been the greatest of help.
Stingerrray
Stingerrray said:
Thanks, You have been the greatest of help.
Stingerrray
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Well if you got it to work then disregard the rest of this post, Im pretty sure tracofone runs off a diffrent type of network just like boostmobile which uses sim cards but runs of igen network not gsm and if thats the case it wont work with your phone.
Tracfone Sim Card only work on tracfone phones since they require porperiary software to read your account and display it... So thats why it wont connect since it requres the tacfone software whitch is not avaible to the public and woudn't work on anyother phone

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