Well everyone, I did it! I managed to get the Cingular 8125 for $314.00 shipped next day from cingular. Got lucky with a nice sales rep.
Being that I am on the former AT&T wireless, I need to unlock this thing!
So, I am pretty much starving for knowledge here. I've combed the forum with little luck.
Anyone care to help out?
I am interested in Carrier Unlocking, and CID unlocking, flashing with button's cooked rom (which i was told to do but have no clue where to find this) , flash with radio rom 1.13. Any help would be awesome!
Thanks very much! Im very excited here!
Looking forward to responses.
Dan
I guess something i am not quite up to speed with is the phone also being the "wizard"
what else is this thing refered to?
I found the lokwiz post about unlocking. Is this what I will need for the 8125?
I just want to make sure Im doing this stuff right.
Tomorrow the phone is supposed to arrive, and I just wanna be ready to do what is neccessary to get it up and running
Thanks.
You got the phone for $314 with or without a contract? If you got it for $314 without a contract, please let me know how you did it and the name of the sales rep and everything. I really really want this phone badly and I don't want to get a new contract. And by the way, lokiwiz is the right program you need to unlock it. The 8125 is based on the original hardware called "Wizard." Lokwiz will work on any phone based on the "Wizard".
lokwiz is he right ting, unlocked my 8125 a couple of days ago.
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hi.. im pretty much a noob.
i bought an MDA off of another forum, and i was wondering if there is a way to tell if they phone is unlocked for like cingular/att GSM. thanks in advance.
Put your Cingular/ATT SIM chip in it and see if it works?
If you don't have an account, buy a cheap pay-as-you-go card with like $20 on it. You'll use it up quickly enough to keep it from going entirely to waste, or you'll have a nice emergency card when you forget to pay your bill.
i do not have another sim card other than t-mobile, and unfortunatly i do not know anybody else who does.
i am trying to sell the phone becuase i dont have service anymore and im trying to pay off the bill so actually BUYING another SIM is kind of an issue...
is there any thing else i could do like maybe on the device to see if it is unlocked.. and if it already IS unlocked and I unlock it again, will that be bad?
oraeanast said:
i do not have another sim card other than t-mobile, and unfortunatly i do not know anybody else who does.
i am trying to sell the phone becuase i dont have service anymore and im trying to pay off the bill so actually BUYING another SIM is kind of an issue...
is there any thing else i could do like maybe on the device to see if it is unlocked.. and if it already IS unlocked and I unlock it again, will that be bad?
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No, no harm will be done. Simply get WST (check my signature) and read the CID block and also the SIM condition.
Don't forget to pass by the Wizard's Wiki to know what we're talking about
cheers
Hello Everyone,
I got a second hand G1 from craigslist. I dont know how old it is or what. I have att as my carrier and I called tmobile from my company phone to get it unlocked. But if I need repair I know ATT wont do it! But will htc do it? Also can I get them to send me a dream like the ones in canada? Please let me know.
Thank You
bravekid20 said:
Hello Everyone,
I got a second hand G1 from craigslist. I dont know how old it is or what. I have att as my carrier and I called tmobile from my company phone to get it unlocked. But if I need repair I know ATT wont do it! But will htc do it? Also can I get them to send me a dream like the ones in canada? Please let me know.
Thank You
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the g1 was released on oct 22, 2008....so you have 9 days atleast to get it fixed
call them and tell them its broken. they will fix it. however, after 1 year, the warranty expires
ive been looking and i dont know where i can pick one up because im on att using the t-mobile g1 and the edge network is slowly killing my soul and i dont think i can wait like 3 more months for an official android phone for my network so id be pretty stoked to trade mine for the rogers one or find one for under 200
Redflagdeals.com
Go to BST
Wont be that cheap though
Rogers Dream
You can always go to the xda-marketplace and support fellow members. If that doesnt work you might try Craigslist Canada and see if you can set up a paypal transaction with someone. If you use PayPal you will have protection. I bought one from xda-marketplace from a member and everything went fine. Good luck
Please pardon my noobishness, I've been reading til my eyes crossed, but I can't seem to find a straight answer.
I just purchased an unlocked (UK) Defy+ because I need a durable phone and they don't seem to offer many options here in the US. I don't use many minutes and I just wanted text and phone coverage without a data plan: I have wifi coverage much of the time and can live without internet when I don't have it. Therefore, I snagged a cheap gophone ($20 got me a sim, a backup phone, and an extra charger) planning to run the sim in the Defy.
The problem is that while the gophone works fine, when I put the sim in the defy it tells me I have an invalid sim. The phone is supposed to be unlocked and it doesn't ask me for an unlock pin.
One possibility that I haven't tried yet - I have bypassed the motoblur setup so far, since my reading has had nothing good to say about it, and I don't use facebook, twitter or really any major social media (and if I did, I wouldn't want motorolla messing with it anyway). Could this be my problem? I didn't plan to root the phone (at least not yet...) since I didn't think I needed this level of access. I wanted to simply skip the motoblur service in the first place. I did run across some references on google of other motorolla phones having these symptoms because of not setting up motoblur. Should I just bite the bullet and set it up, or maybe root the phone and get rid of it? How intrusive is the motorblur service?
I don't think it matters. Try a friends phone with that sim?
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The sim works fine in the cheap gophone I got when I set it up. I can't imagine it being any different anywhere else. I tried plugging in an ancient cingular sim I still had floating about for some reason which gave me a different message - no service instead of invalid sim card.
Further reading, could this be a baseband version issue? They never intended the defy+ for the US market. I knew from the start that web access would not function except by wifi, but I was given to understand that I could make phonecalls. Not much of a phone without that...
I think maybe I'm on the right track with the baseband issue. I need to be running at 850/1900mhz which the phone will do according to the box... UK is 900/2100, correct? Is it possible that baseband ver. epu93_U_00.60.00 doesn't support my frequencies?
Thanks to everyone responsible for all the info on this forum. I'm overwhelmed at this point, but hopefully it will become more clear with time. I need to walk away from this for the night. Hopefully, tomorrow some of this stuff will have sorted itself out in my head. If anyone has any input, please weigh in!
If you want to see if baseband change helps.
Root the phone, install baseband changer (or something) and try out the Argentinian. They also use the 850/1900 frequentie band. T-mobile uses 850/1700/2100.
But normally I thought that was only needed to get 3g working.
Further updates and no luck.
I made the mistake of letting the phone update via wifi, thinking that might help, so now at 2.3.6 I can't seem to unlock it - tried superoneclick and doomlord, no luck so far. I'm very close to seeing if I can't get my money's worth of frustrations out of this phone with a 12lb sledgehammer. Wouldn't be the most expensive thing I've ever destroyed!
Its funny, this same kind of crap with the SLVR I bought years ago was why my last motorola product was going to be the last thing I ever purchased from them. Fool that I am, I thought I'd give them another chance.
For rooting the phone on 2.3.6 check the 'bl7 finally rooted' threat.
Have you tried factory reset? Read somewhere that that helps
Yes, I had tried the factory reset. The "BL7 finally rooted" thread did root the phone. I haven't done the baseband switch yet, but I'm hopeful.
Baseband switcher thread
Well, I should've listened to labsin in the first place - go figure.
My phone is now unlocked, rooted and baseband switched - it now recognizes US 3G, but the sim is still invalid. On the upside, I think I know what the problem is now. Turns out AT&T sometimes locks their sims for 180 days to the phone you activate it with. I guess I need to go to the store and try to get a different sim out of them.
If its at&t go phone u need to call at&t and have ur sim unlocked . Its locked to the phone u activate it in for so many months. Just tell them that ur go phone wont work and u cant return it . Hope this works for u . I had to do this couple times .
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Didnt read all of ur last post before i posted . Sorry . But just give them a call . U shouldnt need a new one ..
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Probably ought to call them from a landline, huh?
I tried going into the store yesterday. The girl there told me it was locked for 30 days, which is different than the six months I had heard elsewhere. I wonder if she was just trying to keep the great big scary guy (aka me) from losing his temper. I get it, I guess. They don't want people with smartphones using their $50 prepay unlimited, then tethering their laptop off it... What kind of person would do such a thing. On the other hand, don't call it unlimited if it isn't!
Ahhhh, victory. Thanks for all the help. By the look of things, switching basebands was necessary in the end, so I'm glad I went through all the trouble. I can't believe some of you guys do this as a hobby, I'd rather slam my privates in a car door than go through this again!