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I was stupid. I was screwing with my phone and I set the lock pattern and didn't pay attention. Now it's locked and I can't get into it.
I've got one of the newer Vibrants, which does not go into download or recovery mode through the physical buttons.
I've done a lot of research and there are several methods out there but nothing so far that will work for me.
I'm not able to log in to my google account. It's not working. I've tried wi-fi and 3G. It's just not working.
Please help. I'm totally stuck right now.
Isn't there a way to do a physical reset somehow???
Are you rooted?
Crapped from my sexy vibrant.
How do we know this isn't a stolen phone?
I don't always complain, but when I do, I #BlameWes
Yeah that sounds weird considering you have to repeat the pattern 2 times not once.
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Yeah that sounds weird considering you have to repeat the pattern 2 times not once.
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Making the same mistake twice... Sounds more of a stolen phone to me.
Yup. Phone is ganked. Report him.
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I think he deserves the phone he took the effort to steel it. That's a felony I don't see any of you risking the free life.
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Here is how to fix if the phone is really yours.
You have to know your gmail user/password.
If stolen you will still be locked out
If you try entering the incorrect pattern five times you will see a screen where there will be a place to click for people who forgot their unlock pattern. It will ask you to enter your gmail user name and password. then will ask you to set a new unlock pattern and you will be fine
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Missed the part were you said you dont know your google account...obviously stolen
Don't think just because he made a mistake with the code that the phone's stolen. I once set the passcode on my iPhone wrong even though I had to repeat it to set it, and I had to plug it into iTunes and restore to get back in.
If you can't get into your Google Account, OP, click forgot your password on the Google Account page (on your computer) and reset it.
Can you not get to download thro odin?
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It's NOT stolen.
Hello everyone.
First let me say, this phone IS NOT stolen. I enabled the pattern thingy without really paying attention. I was just farting around on the phone. Then I got locked out.
It asked if I wanted to log in with my google account.
HELL YEA. That would be perfect. I DO know my google account information and that's one reason I love Android. I don't have to sync anything.
But it wont validate. It wont even try to use the data to validate. It automatically tells me it's wrong the moment I click "log in". I've read that other people in my similar situation have had the same problem. The suggestion was to use 3g and not Wi-Fi which I tried but that didn't work.
I think maybe because I'm using SimpleMobile, the phone may be trying T-Mobiles APN when I'm using SimpleMobile's network. I dont know though.
Yes, the phone is rooted.
But as of right now, the phone is bricked. I can't get in.
And I just came back from T-Mobile. I can't find my receipt and they can't find my account. This was originally an AT&T number that was ported to T-Mobile, and then ported to SimpleMobile. The guy says it's impossible that he can't find my account under my number and thinks I'm a fraud.
I really really need some help here. Can anyone suggest anything?
I learned when I rooted this phone, that there is NO way to get into download mode or recovery mode using the power button and volume buttons. I had to use method on theunlockr.com to root.
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE help me. I'm being forced back into my European Hero and I hate it
Sounds like a data connection problem but yea wifi is not an option
u have a friend with tmobile with data plan?
Try putting their sim card in and try the Google account user/pass again
The T-Mobile rep tried that and it did not work.
Right now, I've got the phone configured to use SimpleMobile's network. I think the phone is trying to use the wrong APN for validation.
I found this post.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=485988
I'm pretty sure it's in debug mode. But I'm not really sure how to proceed. Does anyone have any suggestions?
Lol tmobile can't find your account sounds like your defrauding ppl here good luck and save this forum for ppl who really bought/own the phone . And simple mobil uses tmobile towers
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I just dug out my t-mobile contract and I'm on my way back to the store.
If you think I stole the phone, please move on to the next thread. YOU ADVICE IS NOT WANTED.
If you'd like to offer some real help, then please go ahead. Now maybe that I've got some paperwork they can get into the account I used when I purchased this and it will be covered under the warranty.
jameskever said:
The T-Mobile rep tried that and it did not work.
Right now, I've got the phone configured to use SimpleMobile's network. I think the phone is trying to use the wrong APN for validation.
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Sorry but if you're using a t mobile vibrant with another GSM carrier then its unlocked then swapping with t mobile and your sim vice-versa will work fine that's why i recommended trying that
And why don't you go check my posting history douche bag. I've had this Vibrant for a month already.
Im a douchbag?
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And why don't you go check my posting history douche bag. I've had this Vibrant for a month already.
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Talking to people like that wont get you the help you want.
Back from when i was a Tmo rep i only dealt with Sim lockouts and we could access this information and help unlock it with an 8 digit passcode.
However from what you are saying you are on a smaller GSM carrier and they are unable to get you this info because it is not a phone supported by them (they dont sell the phone thus no customer service for it). Only way to get this by yourself is to use Odin and flash back stock rom due to you not being able to access download mode.
Just because u had a stolen phone for a month dont mean any thing and looking u only been member a short time and your post are asking the same trash over and over again .may want to go back to using your htc hero
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Brief history. My wife has a G1 and apparently she has not been able to download apps for sometime now. When she took it to Tmobile for them to check out, they said,"you must have downloaded a corrupt app from the market, we're sorry, but we can't fix it. Meanwhile, she was not allowing me to root it, and possibly finding a solution. So now, we got her an HTC sensation, so I can have her phone to play with. My quest is to fix the phone to prove to my wife that I know more than your local Tmobile rep. With that being said,"What do I do?" JK I know where to start, I just wanted to know if there is any relationship between the G1 and this corrupt market issues as I spent most of my time in the Thunderbolt forum. Thanks in advance.
do you want to root it? or just wipe it out? you can do many different things.. not sure what the relation is with your market not working
ldrifta said:
do you want to root it? or just wipe it out? you can do many different things.. not sure what the relation is with your market not working
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Root and wipe, basically just make it right again and to show my wife the benefits of rooting. Before a complete wipe though, I would like to see if there is any validity to this "corrupt app" and "not fixable" statements made by Tmobile reps. My first roadblock seems to be the sim card, I don't have one, and can't find a way to root w/o it yet.
Options-
-Use my wife's current sim card (its a 4G sim now for her sensation, will it still work), but she would probably have a hissy and not let me use it
-Use my sim card from my Tbolt (which requires an unlock code)
-Find a way to root w/o a sim all-together
I am sure with a little more investigating, I'll find a way to make it work.
Why not just boot to recover and wipe?
Turn phone off.
Press and hold "HOME" button, press power button, keep holding home.
When it gets to the "!" screen, open keyboard, press ALT-L.
Then press ALT-W (W is for Wipe).
When finished, reboot.
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Why not just boot to recover and wipe?
Turn phone off.
Press and hold "HOME" button, press power button, keep holding home.
When it gets to the "!" screen, open keyboard, press ALT-L.
Then press ALT-W (W is for Wipe).
When finished, reboot.
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yes try that first!! see if you can get it to work... you will need her sim just for a second so you can get by the google sign in... than if you connect to wifi you can remove the sim, ad if you still want to root the device follow this guide here...
[Guide] (8-18-11) G1 How-to: Root, Un-Root & Everything in-between
you can do this whole guide pretty quick, and you only need to use your wife's sim card for 1 second... just to sign into google once you get to 1.5.. than you can give it back to her and do everything via wifi, let me know if you need some more help..
Done, finally! This might have been super simple for any of you to do, it took me a total of about 8 hrs to get where I am, which is successfully running cm5.0.8.
This process was made more difficult by not having an activated sim card, and not being connected to wi-fi to even set up google.
Using adb I found a way to bypass the google setup when you have an "expired" Tmobile sim card inserted, but to use adb I needed usb debugging enabled, and I finally figured that out.
Now to hopefully make this long story shorter, I am now flashing whatever rom I wish to run on a phone in which Tmobile said was not fixable.
The phone is, in fact, way better than any stock g1 could be.
The current rom runs great on it, (I aslo run cm7 on my Tbolt), and all market apps download and run correctly, to the contrary of what the Tmobile reps said.
Well, I guess I'm done. If nothing else, I said I could do it, and I did it.
Now maybe a little respect from my wife.
Well, the TMobile rep succeeded where it matters to their manager, they sold your wife a new phone!
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tronmech said:
Well, the TMobile rep succeeded where it matters to their manager, they sold your wife a new phone!
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Good one for them bad for you!!!
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Im not quite sure what to do, my HD2 got stolen 3 weeks ago lucky for me I had IMEI written so i reported it to cops. Two days later I got my phone back. Cops said I was lucky the guy didnt had time to sell it. When i got it back my phone it was completly reinstalled with WM6.5 (before I had WM7.5) I noticed that volume up stopped working so i started investigating deeper and to my suprise phone IMEI has been changed! When I went into boot mode (multi color) insted of cotula hspl it said something about freebox.
Here is my questions
1. Is there a way to repair phone so my volume up works? Or at least map any other key as volume up in wm7?
2. How can I get back my phone to show original IMEI?
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Im not quite sure what to do, my HD2 got stolen 3 weeks ago lucky for me I had IMEI written so i reported it to cops. Two days later I got my phone back. Cops said I was lucky the guy didnt had time to sell it. When i got it back my phone it was completly reinstalled with WM6.5 (before I had WM7.5) I noticed that volume up stopped working so i started investigating deeper and to my suprise phone IMEI has been changed! When I went into boot mode (multi color) insted of cotula hspl it said something about freebox.
Here is my questions
1. Is there a way to repair phone so my volume up works? Or at least map any other key as volume up in wm7?
2. How can I get back my phone to show original IMEI?
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Are you sure it is the same phone you had stolen?
I'm sure 100% it's the same phong, IMEI written on the back of the phone corresponds to the one I have on original box, but when I check IMEI from OS it's different
well if the SPL been changed then my first thought would be to put it back
So,
head on over to HTC and grab yourself an original stock ROM, flash away using the SD card method, with a bit of luck that will wipe all the crap off it, then HSPL > Radio >MAGLDR >WP7
happy to point you in the right direction for all of those or confirm your findings but its good to give it a shot yourself, a quick search will give you all you need
search for strings like
HD2 LEO SD card flash
i gather you already know how to install WP7
THIS IS IMPOSSIBLE. Unless you or someone else switch the sticker on the back of the device, or swapped the housing/chassis, it is nearly impossible to change the IMEI on a device.
If this was possible, I would of have done it so long ago to trick my device to think it was some other device.
Unfortunately, IMEI hacks are illegal. That is why developers don't go that route. It's not as simple as pirating apps (which is also illegal).
Why do I get the feeling that this is some fancy way of asking how to change your IMEI (i.e., insert sap story and request on "help" on how to change your IMEI)?
Why would you want to change your IMEI? You have your device back and different IMEI doesn't change anything. All the apps will work as they worked before etc, so I don't think you should worry about that.
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Why do I get the feeling that this is some fancy way of asking how to change your IMEI (i.e., insert sap story and request on "help" on how to change your IMEI)?
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Hahahaha my thoughts exactly. He want somebody to help him change it. Never heard of anyone changing imei. It's like DNA of the phone.
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well, I for one, would love to change the IMEI on a device so that it can bypass stupid carrier restriction (ie: use t-mobile $5unlimited internet on a mytouch4G for the 4G)
currently, it's not possible since t-mobile has blocked this device from loop-holes like that.
JUST SAYING though.......
Sorry, we don't allow discussion of IMEI changing on xda, as it *can* be used for unlawful reasons.
I have a at&t unlocked play 4g working with my tmobile and the at&t 2.3.3 has bloated apps they installed. I found a website that has a stock 2.3.3 firmware for an r800at and install it onto the phone with flashtool, now is this a vanilla 2.3.3 gingerbread or is it going to install the same way the phone is now with all the at&t apps n stuff?
If not what will be required to install a stock android vanilla 2.3.3 or even the new 2.3.4 onto the phone and Im not rooted btw just unlocked. Thanks
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I have a at&t unlocked play 4g working with my tmobile and the at&t 2.3.3 has bloated apps they installed. I found a website that has a stock 2.3.3 firmware for an r800at and install it onto the phone with flashtool, now is this a vanilla 2.3.3 gingerbread or is it going to install the same way the phone is now with all the at&t apps n stuff?
If not what will be required to install a stock android vanilla 2.3.3 or even the new 2.3.4 onto the phone and Im not rooted btw just unlocked. Thanks
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The 2.3.3 R800at FW I found has all the AT&T bloat. Just install the generic 2.3.4 R800a FW and it will add features (screenshot, tethering, etc) get rid of all of AT&T's bloat including some of the games (it will add Tetris and Bruce Lee but get rid of Tbloxx My City and SIMS 3). Sony Ericsson's bloat will still be there but it is MUCH more manageable.
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The 2.3.3 R800at FW I found has all the AT&T bloat. Just install the generic 2.3.4 R800a FW and it will add features (screenshot, tethering, etc) get rid of all of AT&T's bloat including some of the games (it will add Tetris and Bruce Lee but get rid of Tbloxx My City and SIMS 3). Sony Ericsson's bloat will still be there but it is MUCH more manageable.
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Cool thanks for this info.... Now just google the 2.3.4 or do you hvae a website to get the fw, and is it easy to install?.... Just use that flashtool I found at the xperiagamer website and is it easy as 123 or what?
I dont have to be rooted right? Thanks
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Cool thanks for this info.... Now just google the 2.3.4 or do you hvae a website to get the fw, and is it easy to install?.... Just use that flashtool I found at the xperiagamer website and is it easy as 123 or what?
I dont have to be rooted right? Thanks
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I got it from the "Xperia PLAY Super Compilation" thread on these forums and just used Flashtool to load it. It couldn't use cellular data until I manually entered my APN settings (it would fail to get it automatically and suggest going to Sony Ericsson's website), so you may want to write them down or back them up with an app first. You do not have to be rooted.
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I got it from the "Xperia PLAY Super Compilation" thread on these forums and just used Flashtool to load it. It couldn't use cellular data until I manually entered my APN settings (it would fail to get it automatically and suggest going to Sony Ericsson's website), so you may want to write them down or back them up with an app first. You do not have to be rooted.
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When you say cellular data you mean the internet right like having a data plan on your plan right? If so... I dont have to worry about that since I never had any data plan yet
Why does the stock at&t firmware pick up data plan? Why not the 2.3.4? Thanks Again
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When you say cellular data you mean the internet right like having a data plan on your plan right? If so... I dont have to worry about that since I never had any data plan yet
Why does the stock at&t firmware pick up data plan? Why not the 2.3.4? Thanks Again
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the stock 2.3.4 FW meant for the r800a does not have the APN settings for the AT&T r800at which is why you should use a apn backup app or write them down.
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the stock 2.3.4 FW meant for the r800a does not have the APN settings for the AT&T r800at which is why you should use a apn backup app or write them down.
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Yep, but it does go online and try to retrieve them. Supposedly, it can only do this over WiFi without APN data in the first place but I have tried that and it still fails. Also, when it attempts it without WiFi, you can see the HSPA "H" logo appear in the status bar for a moment and it *IS* online for that moment even without APN settings (you can load a web page if you request it at the instant).
Now, I think I finally figured out why it was sometimes saying that it wasn't connected to the Internet even though it was and was successfully loading the page even while the error was displayed: When you back up and restore APN settings or flash from 2.3.3 R800at to 2.3.4 R800a without wiping user settings, there are TWO APN entries, only one of which works. The first one is the one I needed to delete. I couldn't select it anyway (radio button would always go back to the second APN settings entry). I first tried deleting the second one to force selection of the first and I lost all data until I restored my APN settings from my backup again.
Ok so I just followed the " Little flashtool tutorial" guide from " Logseman " on this forum and just flashed my 2.3.3 USA play 4g at&t r800at to the latest north america 2.3.4 r800a firmware.
I got 2 questions:
#1: After the flash the flashtool said in the log this:
"For flashtool, Unknown Sources and Debugging must be checked in phone settings."
What does this mean and do I do this?
#2: Also I notice when the phone is on the locked screen the tmobile word at the top right corner under the time is there but when I unlock it to the home screen the tmobile word goes away, is this ok for this new firmware? The gingerbread 2.3.3 alsways displayed tmbole word all the time. Thanks
One more question I also notice when doing a cold turn off and back on it even takes longer for it to boot compared to the at&t branded firmware is this normal too? Or maybe because it was the very first boot and it was arranging files and such? Thanks
Sorry more questions where is or to get the xperia games icon that was on the home scrren with the stock at&t firmware. I know if I slide out the gamepad it auto opens it but sometimes I use the icon without always slideing in and out the gamepad?
Not a complaint just want to learn if its a reginail thing to specific roms or something but when i go to xperia play and then more games it has all or some of the games in the list that the stock at&t rom had but this one even has more games I never heard of and some are free. why is this? thanks
pctektgg said:
Ok so I just followed the " Little flashtool tutorial" guide from " Logseman " on this forum and just flashed my 2.3.3 USA play 4g at&t r800at to the latest north america 2.3.4 r800a firmware.
I got 2 questions:
#1: After the flash the flashtool said in the log this:
"For flashtool, Unknown Sources and Debugging must be checked in phone settings."
What does this mean and do I do this?
#2: Also I notice when the phone is on the locked screen the tmobile word at the top right corner under the time is there but when I unlock it to the home screen the tmobile word goes away, is this ok for this new firmware? The gingerbread 2.3.3 alsways displayed tmbole word all the time. Thanks
One more question I also notice when doing a cold turn off and back on it even takes longer for it to boot compared to the at&t branded firmware is this normal too? Or maybe because it was the very first boot and it was arranging files and such? Thanks
Sorry more questions where is or to get the xperia games icon that was on the home scrren with the stock at&t firmware. I know if I slide out the gamepad it auto opens it but sometimes I use the icon without always slideing in and out the gamepad?
Not a complaint just want to learn if its a reginail thing to specific roms or something but when i go to xperia play and then more games it has all or some of the games in the list that the stock at&t rom had but this one even has more games I never heard of and some are free. why is this? thanks
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The debugging is mostly if you want to root right away or do things over the ADB interface. You don't have to do it.
How did you get it on T-Mobile? Unlock code? Unlocked bootloader? Mine only says AT&T on the lock screen. It does take longer on the first boot as it creates cache files and such. It saves space in your status bar.
The icon has been renamed from "Play Games" to "Xperia(tm) PLAY," which doesn't quite fit in the portrait mode. Find it in the app drawer and make another shortcut to it by holding on it a second and then dropping it where you want on the Home screen. The "More Games" section changes all the time. The Bruce Lee game is new. I used Titanium Backup on the AT&T ROM to backup TBloxx My City and SIMS3 and reloaded them on the generic FW so I have all of them showing in my launcher.
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The debugging is mostly if you want to root right away or do things over the ADB interface. You don't have to do it.
How did you get it on T-Mobile? Unlock code? Unlocked bootloader? Mine only says AT&T on the lock screen. It does take longer on the first boot as it creates cache files and such. It saves space in your status bar.
The icon has been renamed from "Play Games" to "Xperia(tm) PLAY," which doesn't quite fit in the portrait mode. Find it in the app drawer and make another shortcut to it by holding on it a second and then dropping it where you want on the Home screen. The "More Games" section changes all the time. The Bruce Lee game is new. I used Titanium Backup on the AT&T ROM to backup TBloxx My City and SIMS3 and reloaded them on the generic FW so I have all of them showing in my launcher.
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Yes the very first boot took long but now it boots fast like normal.
I unlocked it by removing the battery and peeling off the white sticker and then on the bare circuit board theres two contact points that that you use a paper clip and touch both contact points with each ends of paper clip after of course you straighten out the paper clip first, then while holding u plug the phone to the computer usb port for about 10 seconds and that will unlock a locked xperia play 4g.
And yea the tmbile wording is at my locked screen it just goes away once unlocked to home screen, but I thought if I remember right the stock at&t rom had that t-mobile wording all the time.
Thanks
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I beleive for our phones there isnt any unlock codes, you have to do the procedure that I did.
After removing the white sticker underneath the battery, lay down the phone vertical/upright but the back of the phone still facing you/up.
Then turn the phone to the your right so the phone will be laying sideways.
Then while looking down at it sideways look towards the top left corner area of the green circuit board you will see gold contact points area, well right there theres 3 little circle gold contact points in a row, well the ones you want to touch/jump is the 1st and 3rd one which the 3rd is the last one. Dont worry about the middle one.
What I did was have the usb cable plugged in to the pc already before doing this, then used a paper clup to make like a u-shape then used it to touch the contact points.
So I first make sure the contacts are being jumped/touched and hold for about 10 to 15 seconds but after about 2 seconds into it being jumped/touched I plugged in the usb cable into the usb port on the actual phone and keep holding like this for about the 10 to 15secs i mention above.
Before doing all this make sure your windows has the sony pc companion installed and the drivers for your phone are working within windows and such.
After doing this pop in your sim card and put battery in but dont put sticker back on yet and battery cover, If you still get the sim unlock pop up, do the steps couple more times, if it doesnt work then you will need a special tool to install on the pc for this procedure to workl then. Heres the link where i got the unlocking procedure.
try these free steps incase they work before buying it for 25 bucks or so. If my steps are confusing then yea I would just buy the procudere from this website I give you and you'll bne good to go. Just dont waste time trying out different websites for a code cause there isnt any.
http://www.cellunlocker.net/
PS: You do this all without the battery in, only after you want to try to see if its unlocked you put battery back in.
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I beleive for our phones there isnt any unlock codes, you have to do the procedure that I did.
After removing the white sticker underneath the battery, lay down the phone vertical/upright but the back of the phone still facing you/up.
Then turn the phone to the your right so the phone will be laying sideways.
Then while looking down at it sideways look towards the top left corner area of the green circuit board you will see gold contact points area, well right there theres 3 little circle gold contact points in a row, well the ones you want to touch/jump is the 1st and 3rd one which the 3rd is the last one. Dont worry about the middle one.
What I did was have the usb cable plugged in to the pc already before doing this, then used a paper clup to make like a u-shape then used it to touch the contact points.
So I first make sure the contacts are being jumped/touched and hold for about 10 to 15 seconds but after about 2 seconds into it being jumped/touched I plugged in the usb cable into the usb port on the actual phone and keep holding like this for about the 10 to 15secs i mention above.
Before doing all this make sure your windows has the sony pc companion installed and the drivers for your phone are working within windows and such.
After doing this pop in your sim card and put battery in but dont put sticker back on yet and battery cover, If you still get the sim unlock pop up, do the steps couple more times, if it doesnt work then you will need a special tool to install on the pc for this procedure to workl then. Heres the link where i got the unlocking procedure.
try these free steps incase they work before buying it for 25 bucks or so. If my steps are confusing then yea I would just buy the procudere from this website I give you and you'll bne good to go. Just dont waste time trying out different websites for a code cause there isnt any.
http://www.cellunlocker.net/
PS: You do this all without the battery in, only after you want to try to see if its unlocked you put battery back in.
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I'm pretty sure that this only works when you have SETool or are remotely connected with someone who does and has software for accessing your USB ports.
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I'm pretty sure that this only works when you have SETool or are remotely connected with someone who does and has software for accessing your USB ports.
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Yea I think your right about a setool program because I just looked at the email that unlock website I mention here sent me a link to download the software and instructions to do the procedure I explain here and with that software running and when finally plugging in the phone to usb cable of the last step then about about that 10 seconds of holding the jumper on the 2 contact points the software pops up with a windows saying "unlocking done".
I had my wife plug the usb to the phone side since I was holding the phone and paper clip with my hands, thats when she told me about the pop window saying its unlocked.
The software they give you even has a youtube video built in into the software to show you the exact steps involved and they use tweezers instead of paper clips.
I was just hoping this will work without that tool software but I guess not.
Hey guys,
I'm new to this forum. A while back I found a phone in the gas station bathroom that I was working at. I kept it under the desk with a note and of course the camera watching it in case it disappeared without a customer picking it up. No one ever came for it and after 2 weeks (company policy) I took it home with me. Anyway, I've just been using it on my wireless internet and playing games, however my phone contract just ran out on my crappy verizon old flip phone and I want to go to straight talk and use this one.
So, I bought the Straight talk byop kit which includes a sim card for the phone, however, the SIM card that's meant for AT&T phones is too small for this one for some reason, however the TMobile one fits in it perfectly fine. The problem is that it's a tmobile sim card and I'm sure you all know that I need to unlock the phone to get it. So, last night I spent about 4 hours searching for ways to unlock it. I see it's possible to do it for free using the system settings phone codes, but the code combinations don't seem to work for me.
*#0011# - When i key enter 1 it doesn't do what the video I was watching says it's supposed to do.
*#9090# - Restarts my phone after I hit the what I'm told to.
There's another I tried however, I can't remember the code, it takes me to the debug menu, however option 6 isn't there to give me access to phone options or whatever.
So, I gave up as my laptop battery started to waiver around 10% and went to sleep.
Now, today, I hopped on and attempted to figure it out again, but got bored really quick, stumbling accross the same stuff I tried last night, so I tried rooting it thinking that getting admin access to my phone would make option 6 appear when I entered that number. I was wrong, but hey, I successfully rooted my phone so it's cool.
Anyway, I just want the SIM card to work. I really don't care if I have to unlock my phone or whatever, I just want my phone to be able to make calls. So if unlocking my phone works, please help me, if there's a way to get the super small AT&T SIM card to work, then that's be great.
I'm sure you need some of my phone info to help me out so here we go.
It's a Samsung S4 on 4.3 firmware, rooted. It's an I337 and the baseband version says I337UCUEMK2.
If you need any other information to help me out, please feel free to ask. I tried calling AT&T already btw, they said without a phone number they won't provide me with an unlock code.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2595457
I have tried this and it works
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jmjoyas said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2595457
I have tried this and it works
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I467 using Tapatalk
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I honestly don't understand 90% of the words in that post... Is there a post or article that'll teach me the basics to rooting and unlocking? I'd really love to do custom roms and everything. I honestly thought when I rooted my phone it'd give me admin access and the hidden system management options would become open to me.
Anyway, hope you can help, my wife is getting on my case about getting it unlocked. If I don't have it done tonight, she's going to make me add the straight talk to a different phone instead of this one and I really don't want to use a cheap piece of junk straight talk phone.
NeoGriim said:
I honestly don't understand 90% of the words in that post... Is there a post or article that'll teach me the basics to rooting and unlocking? I'd really love to do custom roms and everything. I honestly thought when I rooted my phone it'd give me admin access and the hidden system management options would become open to me.
Anyway, hope you can help, my wife is getting on my case about getting it unlocked. If I don't have it done tonight, she's going to make me add the straight talk to a different phone instead of this one and I really don't want to use a cheap piece of junk straight talk phone.
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I'm doing research on getting a custom rom installed right now, I'm looking at Carbon ROM. I guess I have another question, is there any roms that give me full access to system manager or whatever it's called when you enter those numbers?
Okay, I made an attempt to use your walkthrough, method 2. I went and downloaded odin, and tried to flash the mdl modem however they don't exactly explain in the walkthrough how to do that, I figured I'd take a hit at it and went to do it and odin says it failed.
Is there a walk through I can read through to find how to flash?
I'm not sure what safestrap is, I can't find it on my phone and google only brings up droid ones for me as far as I've seen. It sounds like if I get the mdl modem on my phone that because it unlocks the hidden options in system manager I just have to do that and use the system manager walkthroughs I've seen to go ahead and unlock it.
EDIT: Okay, I got safestrap installed, now I'm just trying to figure out how to get a different modem installed, any help there? I'm looking and asking around but I'm not seeing anything.