My phones on UK O2, and got the very annoying age verification stuff on it. This means that if I want to browse an 18+ website, no not just porn, I need to verify my age first. However, this can only be done by entering a valid credit card number, I choose not to have a credit card only a debit card, so I'm unable to remove it.
Just wondered if anyone knew how to get round this without flashing the ROM.?
just ring o2... i did and they released the account.
he is right, just give them a call. I've never been bothered much about this bar, but one day I got p....d off quite badly when I was trying to open google translator page and got their +18 bar message. (!)
edit: already been said.
Thanks for the info guys, I've just phoned O2 seems I got a 2 day wait before this can be removed.
Thx again.
admit it, its for porn
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Can some one please tell me how I can unlock my T-Mobile MDA Compact?
The site imei-check.co.uk says that it will
:arrow: Cost £20
:arrow: Take upto 48h
:arrow: AND they require photo ID
So basicaly my driving licence with my address on it.
not something I am willing to send to some unknown people.
I have used the utility I got from the site, to get the unlocking information.
it looks encrypted - does anyone know how to extract the unlocking code from it?
Thanks in advance!
I'd be very wary of giving people my full address, as well as my credit card details... especially when their website uses BLINK tags. Avoid.
Hello!
They are reliable. It´s a seious company! They have alot of happy customers.
Björn
That may be so, but I still do not want to send anybody a scan of my driving licence.
and, I am sure a free solution must exist!
I am quite surprised that no one has posted it. (or am I looking in the wrong places?)
voshkin said:
and, I am sure a free solution must exist!
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Free soultion would be contacting your vendor (o2, t-mobile, ...), from where you get your phone and ask them after the unlocking code....
Stefan
I got the unit second hand, and anyway the "vendor" in UK charges customers for unlock code.
There are plenty of FREE solutions available, however, they do not seem to work on my model
I'm from Poland, and I can't register @ PayPal... what should I do?
This is why I Like forums
You beg for help, some people say they have the same problem, others advise you to do what you do not want to do, and then the thread dies... without the solution :?
if its a second hand device and you dont have paypal find a friend that has and see if they can help, if you are unwllling to send photo id's they just go to your carrier and wait on them to get back to you with the details..... it doesnt get any simplier than that
I did not by the phone from a person I know personally.
If I were to do so, I would request that hypothetical person to get the unlocking code from T-mobile. Alas, that was not the case, and I am stuck with a phone that I cannot use.
I know that a software solution is available, I have seen it working, the most difficult part of the procedure is over, all that is left, is to decrypt the file produced by HTC PocketPC Phone Edition simlock remote unlocker. (probably with the password “we_took_you_for_the_ride_ha_ha”) and unlocking code gets calculated.
So once again, the software solution IS available.
Why must I search for friends willing to expose their ID’s on my behalf?
I have nothing to hide, in fact, I run a business, and my name can be checked on the http://www.companieshouse.gov.uk/ but I do not send copies of my documents to people who, as the Chinese gentlemen rightfully points out, use BLINKing text on their webpage
AND whose “business” address is
50 Belmont Street
Kilsyth
Glasgow
G65 9UP
Just see this map
Hi there,
I'm the Director of the IMEI-CHECK (brand of MIGsofT LTD UK --check us with company house too please), and we ask for the ID JUST to check that you are the real OWNER of the paypal account. Buying via paypal, we already have you details (NAME + ADDRESS) and the ID it will JUST confirm IT, THAT'S all.
Also MIGsofT Ltd signed the DATA PROTECTION ACT (please feel free in checking that too) so all your data are safe with us, and the address you posted is the correct one (please feel free to mail us some nice post cards, and if you want to visit our office please make an appointment first!).
We had to introduce this protection to avoid people buying with hijacked accounts, because two weeks ago we caught one of the big scammers/phishers and now police is investigating this and paypal and eBay need (a much to long) time to investigate.
So to protect ourselves we had to install this extra protection.
The seller is not getting any money if was used by hijacked paypal accounts. Even worse we have to pay GBP7 / reversed transaction...
To keep this service online we request something which proves identity of the paypal account holder. So the hijacker (which sold for 15GBP on eBay) will not have a chance anymore. We have to continue until police arrested this guy (full address and name are known)
Also the blinking text is really needed since 99% of customers will not read what not blink (we tried with red and bold and nobody read it so we had to do something)
what about users, that can't register to PayPal?
noone will help me
In the end, I paid £30 to a friend of mine who does unlocking as hobby.
I sent him the file produced by the HTC unlocking application, and he texted me the unlocking code. 8)
I am now a happy owner of a MDA compact; everything works the way I want, except voice dialling. :shock: But that is another issue altogether.
P.S. to the director of the IMEI unlocking company:
The address looks like residential to me…
voshkin said:
In the end, I paid £30 to a friend of mine who does unlocking as hobby.
I sent him the file produced by the HTC unlocking application, and he texted me the unlocking code. 8)
I am now a happy owner of a MDA compact; everything works the way I want, except voice dialling. :shock: But that is another issue altogether.
P.S. to the director of the IMEI unlocking company:
The address looks like residential to me…
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would he be able to unlock my MDA?
yes, but how will you give him £30?
voshkin said:
yes, but how will you give him £30?
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money transfer?
bank account?
Hallo
I want to unlock my mda compact
Has anyone experience with that issue.
On Internet I found these sites, which offer a simlock remove service by
generating a code.
What I am interested in, are this trustworthy services, because the payment of most of them is with credit card, and some of them wants to sent them a photographic id (like driver license, ..)
http://www.unlockthatmobile.com
http://www.unlockitnow.com/
http://www.imei-check.co.uk/
salewholesale
http://cgi.ebay.at/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=9393&item=6411078636&rd=1
salosakramtrade
http://cgi.ebay.at/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=43312&item=5786414473&rd
Or does anyone know a method to unlock mda compact (magician) for free ?
thanks
Peter
Most people have been using: http://www.imei-check.co.uk/
Thanks
Have anyone else expierence with one of the services ?
Perhaps everyone could post its experience on simlock remove services.
Perhaps with infos on
How long did you wait until you got the code ?
How complicated ?
What about payment.
Do you know any other service
I used this site http://www.imei-check.co.uk/
My phone arrived today, locked to T-Mobile.
I used http://www.imei-check.co.uk/ and within a few minutes I had the unlock code and it worked first time. Perfect.
Hallo
I tried this service imei-check too some weeks ago
I went to paypal sent them my money by credit card.
After one hour I got a mail to sent them a photoid
At that moment there was nothing on imei-check homepage like today, no red blinking info to sent them a copy of your driver license.
I don't like to sent such a document, because I don't know what they do with that and perhaps they also get the credit card info from paypal.
After some mails, imei-check told me they need this info because of frauds, that useed faked paypal account. I asked for other payment options.
Finally they chanceled the paypal and I got my money back.
Have you had to sent them such a photo id.
You wrote you got it in few minutes
What you have done to get this so fast.
At the homepage they wrote it coult last 48h
Thanks for your reply
Peter
I made payment, scanned in a copy of my passport and emailed it to them. Within 1 min I had a mail back with my details.
I also used the imei-check service. I was pretty drunk,
and had troubles to make a decent pic of any document.
I payed with paypal, and minutes later I had the software,
and unlocked my MDA Compact... They had my money, I had my
MDA unlocked, so that must be enough I think. Great service...
Freakydile
i haven't looked, but i think with the magician, the locking mechanism works the same way is it did for the xda2, just a different at%security string.
some one needs to have a look at the radio rom, and figure it out.
willem
Hi all
My girlfriend has recently got an HTC Tattoo on Orange after seeing my HTC Magic. Got it home to find Orange have removed Google Mail, Google Talk, You tube. Is there an easy way to get them back on? I've heard that just copying the app from another Tattoo isn't good as Orange have messed with the permission levels so it crashes when encountering images or attachments in emails.
download Youtube and GoogleTalk apk's, and been told they work fine. Have rad that GMail will crash due to permissions tho, but should be fine as long as you don't download attachments (personally I'm just sticking with my IMAP access for now.
From the android forum Orange has noted it as an issue, and may even put them back in the next ROM update (yeah right!!)
Have you got a link to the Orange forum where this has been posted? Thanks.
http://androidforums.com/htc-tattoo/13765-orange-customers-restore-your-google-applications.html
No sorry I meant this bit:
wilfmoralee said:
From the android forum Orange has noted it as an issue, and may even put them back in the next ROM update (yeah right!!)
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Yeah that is one of the posts towards the bottom of the linked thread. guy said orange told them they will look into and get back to him.
Seen lots of similar posts like this:
http://www.mobileexpert.co.uk/mobil...ers-google-to-offer-web-apps-on-handsets.html
...which talks about Orange and Google getting into bed with each other. I read this as Google Apps are coming to the HTC Tattoo... anyone else agree that I maybe correct in this?
I finally got a reply from HTC which said... ask Orange.
Orange replied saying "Yes we have removed the apps. Sorry for any inconvenience." We will be replying to ask them when they intend putting them back.
My wife had the same issues with her swiss orange tattoo. Obviously they have a standard procedure to handle things like that.
Let the customer factory reset his phone
Tell the customer the problem is with HTC
(HTC answers that the problem is with Orange)
Tell the customer it was a business descision to remove these apps. Period!
My wife didn't accepted that and finally some very important guy at orange.ch attemted to help her. But how he intended to do that was a bad joke. He send her the apps other poor orange customers extracted from the original tattoo rom to circumvent the problem. Of course the Gmail didn't worked as well.
Very weak, orange!
Now that the Tattoo is rooted (forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=637927), is it possible that installing the Gmail app as root would solve this problem? Just an idea.
I have called them twice today, did chat three times and even e-mailed them. 4 times i have been told they are out of the activation codes, and the last time i got asked for the imei......this is becoming a huge headache, are the apps and the xbox live functionality really that worth it? or should i admit defeat and go back to droid? Any one else haveing similar issues? or is anyone willing to pass along there code because they just dropped in to check it out than flashed back to something else?
Make up another email and name. They can check your chat history so making up more stories wont help. With a new name and email start a chat. Make up some BS like you use a throat mic and they customer service on the phone didn't understand you. It doesn't matter what name or number you give them Im more than sure their codes are pretty universal on devices of the same type. If no success make up another email and name and try again. I got it on my 3rd try via chat.
so i went back in armed and ready, new name, new email, and hopes for a code
Caleb: Welcome to Microsoft Customer Service Chat, Josh.
Caleb: I understand that you need an activation code for Windows Phone 7. Is this correct?
Josh: yes sir
Caleb: Thank you for the confirmation.
Caleb: My apologies but our tool to generate the activation code is undergoing system update. Kindly contact this number: 877-438-9863. Business hours are 9:00 am to 1:00am Eastern Time. (6:00am to 10:00pm Pacific Time). They are the team that can assist you in activation code
back at square one............
Just wait it out. N if they say to call make up some BS. Say you got some issue with your voice or speaking. If not then try the email route.
he told me to call, i said i had a horrible stuttor and tried to call them already but got frustraited with them not being able to understand me lol. I did send an email so we will see what tommorow brings. Thanks
I took two attempts for me to get a code from them.
They will give you a code - just wait it out.
You can still configure your handset to sync your contacts, email and calendar with windows live whilst your waiting to activate?
If you set-up an outlook exchange account and use the following server address:
server: m.hotmail.com
Domain: leave clear
Username: web
Password: web
I found it wont let you complete the set-up without entering something for the domain. I entered a couple of random characters so you can finish the set-up, then once the account was complete I went back into the email settings and deleted the random characters.
got an reply in email this morning, was excited thought i finally got it! and sure enough all they say is i hear you need to activate, call our office at blah blah blah
im done with WP7, not worth all these attempts to get this ID anymore, going back to droid after i get off work.
LOL .. Before you give up .. one last chance :
Here is my story : I called them when the method was just found, I got an activation code . Tried it but it didn't work, I thought I got it wrong so I called and got another Key. It didn't work either So I hard-resetted WP7 and tried the sec code and it worked .. So now I have the first key which I'm not sure whether I got it correctly or not but you can try it and PM me if it worked :
D7YJ4-TKXX2-PRRRM-M7X3G-XXXXX
I PM'ed you the red X's : )
Hello kawasaki, can you pm the red xxxx, i already try many ways with no luck
thank you
hey guys,
the chat that you guys mentioned, where can i find it? Can somebody be so kind and post me the link?
I went on Microsoft website and man, that thing's a maze. It just circles me around the website over and over and over...
http://support.microsoft.com/contactus/cu_sc_selector_chat?ws=support#
They don't seem to be giving out the codes as much now.... good luck and let us know if it works.
dnnyt said:
Hello kawasaki, can you pm the red xxxx, i already try many ways with no luck
thank you
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I'd love to, But I already PM'ed the |OP| : )
Can we not all use the same key? If some one has a spare one that is, or once used is the key invalidated?
Essjaythegreat said:
Can we not all use the same key? If some one has a spare one that is, or once used is the key invalidated?
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Sure you could all use the same key, and then have all the devices using that key be banned by Microsoft. It is as simple as that.
ah right, lol was just a thought. I think ill just try an guess my key lol! at the rate ms is taking to reply to my emails ill have ill have guessed it hehe
failed...they asked for my IMEI..and i gave it to them..and they said i have a HD2...they don't support it..told me to get a genuine phone..LOL! oh well....
rlydiard said:
Sure you could all use the same key, and then have all the devices using that key be banned by Microsoft. It is as simple as that.
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hey..did you get a key in Taiwan? if so, how did you get it and what number did you call? I tried calling in Taiwan but the lady was kinda strict...
Strange behaviour
kc73837 said:
failed...they asked for my IMEI..and i gave it to them..and they said i have a HD2...they don't support it..told me to get a genuine phone..LOL! oh well....
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Not sure if I missed something. What is your country?
I called M$-Support of Germany on Monday this week and they gave me a key while we were on the phone. No question about IMEI but the manufactorer of my phone. I said HTC and there were no further questions.
In parallel I've sent an email to M$-International support last weekend. I received another key just a couple of minutes ago
paddle72 said:
Not sure if I missed something. What is your country?
I called M$-Support of Germany on Monday this week and they gave me a key while we were on the phone. No question about IMEI but the manufactorer of my phone. I said HTC and there were no further questions.
In parallel I've sent an email to M$-International support last weekend. I received another key just a couple of minutes ago
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And a few minutes later, your inbox will get spammed ; )
kawazaki said:
And a few minutes later, your inbox will get spammed ; )
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Ha ha ha.I think so.
Someone tried to use my password from a foreign country. Blocked by Google. Good job.
I changed my password and am still getting a notification every single time my phone is started. Do I need to see this every day for the rest of my life?
Tried all the options and have looked at a hundred "help" websites. No help at all.