Is it possible to unlock for free ? Couldn't find an manual (only jtag).
should I risk to buy an locked phone?
This has been covered elsewhere.
Your simlock can be removed by the service provider.
either that or there is a site out there that charges about £20 to send you the unlock code.
Ive just got a G1 off my cousin today and have suffered the same. Luckily for me he is still a tmobile customer and should be able to get the unlock code from them for free.
Danh2009 said:
This has been covered elsewhere.
Your simlock can be removed by the service provider.
either that or there is a site out there that charges about £20 to send you the unlock code.
Ive just got a G1 off my cousin today and have suffered the same. Luckily for me he is still a tmobile customer and should be able to get the unlock code from them for free.
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Thanks for your confirmation (wasn't sure about this).Jtag can also be done (but thats madness)
Just another question:
I've read that the locked version uses different gsm networks(dual band), while the unlocked versions use quad band.
Can an locked phone that has been unlocked use the quad band (with the right radio) too?
Anyway I've bought the google phone
I found that unlocking on ebay is the fastest and the cheapest way of doing this.
BTW: the phone I'm going to buy has already CM 4.6, should I root again after every build I flash (the kaiser builds were always rooted) ?
I wouldnt have thought you needed to root again if it already has the Cyanogenmod on it as i think its already rooted.
im still learning the android stuff!
i do know that within 3hrs of having my (still locked to tmobile) "virgin" G1 i had the Danger-spl and the latest release of CM on it!
ebay i will have to look into as i have discovered that because im in the UK Tmobile will charge £15 to unlock even though my cousin has had this phone since release.
robuser007 said:
BTW: the phone I'm going to buy has already CM 4.6, should I root again after every build I flash (the kaiser builds were always rooted) ?
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Simlock has nothing to do with the rom, and a rooted rom has nothing to do with the simlock outside of prompting you for the code if the radio firmware tells the rom its needed to proceed.
There is no reason to unroot/reroot besides increasing the chances you make a mistake and brick the phone.
If you want a different rom that's your choice, but it will have no impact on the simlock.
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There is no reason to unroot/reroot besides increasing the chances you make a mistake and brick the phone.
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So after flashing a custom rom (phone was already rooted) , the phone is still rooted?
Reroot is only needed when flashing the original image back (if you want a custom rom later) ?
Sim unlock code is best to unlock the HTC G1,But free unlock code is not possible to get for this Model Phone,You need to pay for it,Get the unlock code from the site Superunlockcodes.com/htc/rs12wp8/ and Unlock it.
Dear All
I am from UAE & bought Galaxy Tab yesterday. I have inserted my SIM and it is working fine but need to jump into upgrading firmware business
I have read many threads but got confused with the information. Can some expert please answer following :-
1. How can i check that my TAB is Factory Unlocked? I have checked using that *# code and it says all locks are off.
2. If my tab shows me that all locks are off, does this mean it will not get Locked if i upgrade the firmware?
3. I have currently
PDA: P1000JPJJ1
PHONE: P1000JXJJ1
CSC: P1000OJPJJ3
Can you please advice which version from samfirmwares.com i need to take for upgrading it? Currently its Arabic but i dont need Arabic. Can i install Euro version? If yes which one please?
3. Can i root & unlock all available firmwares? Should i root after upgrading firmware or before upgrading?
4. I was an iPhone user. So curious if firmware upgrade will also upgrade baseband and phone can be locked?
zeeshee said:
Dear All
I am from UAE & bought Galaxy Tab yesterday. I have inserted my SIM and it is working fine but need to jump into upgrading firmware business
I have read many threads but got confused with the information. Can some expert please answer following :-
1. How can i check that my TAB is Factory Unlocked? I have checked using that *# code and it says all locks are off.
2. If my tab shows me that all locks are off, does this mean it will not get Locked if i upgrade the firmware?
3. I have currently
PDA: P1000JPJJ1
PHONE: P1000JXJJ1
CSC: P1000OJPJJ3
Can you please advice which version from samfirmwares.com i need to take for upgrading it? Currently its Arabic but i dont need Arabic. Can i install Euro version? If yes which one please?
3. Can i root & unlock all available firmwares? Should i root after upgrading firmware or before upgrading?
4. I was an iPhone user. So curious if firmware upgrade will also upgrade baseband and phone can be locked?
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I dont have a tab (I may get one)
1) put a sim card in from another carrier
2) should do
3) use the samsung update utility
4) like iOS updates may block the root exploit but if it is factory unlocked then it shouldn't lock the tab
5) there may be baseband updates (my htc wildfire has had 2) and they didn't lock it
Thanks for your reply but one question is Unasnwered. How to ensure that my Tablet is Factory Unlocked before i upgrade?
Putting another sim will not confirm that it is Factory Unlocked as it can be unlocked using methods in this forum and then any SIM can be inserted. Same concept like iPhone... Right?
zeeshee said:
Thanks for your reply but one question is Unasnwered. How to ensure that my Tablet is Factory Unlocked before i upgrade?
Putting another sim will not confirm that it is Factory Unlocked as it can be unlocked using methods in this forum and then any SIM can be inserted. Same concept like iPhone... Right?
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By factory unlocked do you mean so you flash stuff on it and do upgrades? If so you ll have to look at a rooting guide, they dont.come unlocked like that.
If its sim unlock puttin an other sim will tell you
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I understand that to flash firmware and custom rom, i need to root it.
By factory unlock, i mean network unlock. It works with all SIMs now. I dont know if it is Network unlock from Factory or using methods described in these forums.
So concern is that if i upgrade to new or Euro firmware now, will is become network unlock again? If yes can i unlock it again on latest firmware?
zeeshee said:
I understand that to flash firmware and custom rom, i need to root it.
By factory unlock, i mean network unlock. It works with all SIMs now. I dont know if it is Network unlock from Factory or using methods described in these forums.
So concern is that if i upgrade to new or Euro firmware now, will is become network unlock again? If yes can i unlock it again on latest firmware?
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Upgrading firmwares wont lock it if its unlocked. It will be in the same lock condition as it was before the update
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Hi. I'm new here and I would like to ask few questions:
I bought my phone from Rogers and it came LT15a_2.3.2, 3.0.A.2.181_Rogers firmware. When I checked if the bootloader can be unlocked, I couldn't see anything because there wasn't this menu. I flashed LT15a arc_v2.3.4, 4.0.2.A.0.42_Generic America and now it says Bootloader unlock not allow.
I have rooted my phone.
My questions:
1) What do you suggest me to do? to try to unlock the bootloader? What are the risks?
2) To reflash old rom and unlock bootloader and after that to flash a custom Rom?
Thank you.
if your carrier wont allow bootloader to be unlocked i think only option is to use test point to unlock the bootloader.
it is a paid for service search forum as there are,2 members here who will offer this service
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1) find someone with setoolbox and pay for unlocking (no free way), you can also do it over the web. check this guide: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1304634
there are ways with wotan server or omnius, but not sure about them, what they actually do. i think they only remove SIM lock and then you still need to unlock bootloader with ether official or s1tool method.
2) flashing back old fw won't help you
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Hi. I'm new here and I would like to ask few questions:
I bought my phone from Rogers and it came LT15a_2.3.2, 3.0.A.2.181_Rogers firmware. When I checked if the bootloader can be unlocked, I couldn't see anything because there wasn't this menu. I flashed LT15a arc_v2.3.4, 4.0.2.A.0.42_Generic America and now it says Bootloader unlock not allow.
I have rooted my phone.
My questions:
1) What do you suggest me to do? to try to unlock the bootloader? What are the risks?
2) To reflash old rom and unlock bootloader and after that to flash a custom Rom?
Thank you.
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Just give it a try and attempt to unlock your bootloader.Nothing must go wrong if you follow the official way of unlocking the bootloader.If your is unlocked then its very good and if doesnt then try the other way out i.e., find someone who can unlock the phone using se-tool
Hello everyone.
Yesterday I bought my Z1 factory unlock SIM in a store. The box with the phone was perfectly sealed. Anyway, the first thing I wanted to do is unlok the bootloader. When I try, I realize that getting into the mobile me menu appears bootloader unlock allowed: No.
I have contacted Sony and they say I need the SIMlock (number of unlock) and of course this does not have it and the operator said that neither does.
This may be so, or have cheated me in the store and sold me a mobile unlok for them?
What I can do? No way to get the number SIMlock?
Thank you.
Greetings.
PD. Sorry my bad English.
I think you getting confused. SIMlock have nothing to do with Bootloader.
SIMlock is a SIMlock from you provider, that means if you brought you phone from Vodafone, you can use Vodafone Sim only from them on your phone. But like I can see is not your case because, like you said, your phone is SIM Unlocked, that's mean unbranded.
Bootloader is that part of you device which allow you to flash your phone or root it. In your case if there is Bootloader Unlock Allowed: NO, that mean you can't unlock you bootloader. There is no way to unlock it. And you should search on XDA first.
Link: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2576948
What you can do with Locked Bootloader;
Root your phone, Flash Custom or Stock Roms, Flash Stock Kernels.
What you can't:
Flash Custom Kernels.
For the rest of the part search on XDA.
BoRoU said:
Hello everyone.
Yesterday I bought my Z1 factory unlock SIM in a store. The box with the phone was perfectly sealed. Anyway, the first thing I wanted to do is unlok the bootloader. When I try, I realize that getting into the mobile me menu appears bootloader unlock allowed: No.
I have contacted Sony and they say I need the SIMlock (number of unlock) and of course this does not have it and the operator said that neither does.
This may be so, or have cheated me in the store and sold me a mobile unlok for them?
What I can do? No way to get the number SIMlock?
Thank you.
Greetings.
PD. Sorry my bad English.
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This is kind of an off-topic, but how did you contact Sony? Email?
I'm also having a bootloader-lock issue similar to yours, but my phone is actually SIM-locked and I need to know how to proceed with my operator to be able to unlock it.
eclyptos said:
I think you getting confused. SIMlock have nothing to do with Bootloader.
SIMlock is a SIMlock from you provider, that means if you brought you phone from Vodafone, you can use Vodafone Sim only from them on your phone. But like I can see is not your case because, like you said, your phone is SIM Unlocked, that's mean unbranded.
Bootloader is that part of you device which allow you to flash your phone or root it. In your case if there is Bootloader Unlock Allowed: NO, that mean you can't unlock you bootloader. There is no way to unlock it. And you should search on XDA first.
Link: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2576948
What you can do with Locked Bootloader;
Root your phone, Flash Custom or Stock Roms, Flash Stock Kernels.
What you can't:
Flash Custom Kernels.
For the rest of the part search on XDA.
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Hello, thank you very much for responding.
The concepts have very clear, I come from a Xperia Z I bought right out. I had understood that to unlock the bootloader has to be mobile factory unlock or unlock if you have the attendant need to contact Sony to enable you to unlock the bootloader.
That condition must be met in order to unlock the bootloader with the traditional system?
Like I said it quite well how this works, I've had HTC's. The problem is that without the bootloader unlock AOSP I forget which I love. :silly::silly::laugh:
Emannxx said:
This is kind of an off-topic, but how did you contact Sony? Email?
I'm also having a bootloader-lock issue similar to yours, but my phone is actually SIM-locked and I need to know how to proceed with my operator to be able to unlock it.
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I contacted Sony Spain via chat. Then I attended a girl who told me what I have to do.
Emannxx said:
This is kind of an off-topic, but how did you contact Sony? Email?
I'm also having a bootloader-lock issue similar to yours, but my phone is actually SIM-locked and I need to know how to proceed with my operator to be able to unlock it.
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SIM unlock?
I had SIM lock...that's not problem.
Just check could your phone be SIM unlocked and if yes - order SIM unlock number from Internet.
There's million web pages and you'll receive your code in a day or two.
Sent from my Z1
BoRoU said:
That condition must be met in order to unlock the bootloader with the traditional system?
Like I said it quite well how this works, I've had HTC's. The problem is that without the bootloader unlock AOSP I forget which I love. :silly::silly::laugh:.
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Sorry to say but if your Bootloader Unlocking Allowed saying NO you can't unlock you bootloader, So no AOSP, CM11 or PACMAN.
Read the part 2. Link: http://unlockbootloader.sonymobile.com/instructions
I come from HTC too but is not the same with Sony, they made this more complicated.
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Sorry to say but if your Bootloader Unlocking Allowed saying NO you can't unlock you bootloader, So no AOSP, CM11 or PACMAN.
Read the part 2. Link: http://unlockbootloader.sonymobile.com/instructions
I come from HTC too but is not the same with Sony, they made this more complicated.
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The thing is: people are reporting that this "bootloader unlocking allowed: no" is done by the operator/carrier, in my case, Vodafone and they have means to change the "status" in order for it to be enabled. I've read reports of other xperia users saying that through the official support channels it's possible to send the phone to Sony with the SIM-unlock code and they'll unlock everything.
Also, in Portugal theres a new law implemented in 2010 that goes like this:
You can always unlock your device from the operator: if you're on a contract, you have to pay the remaining months entirely. If your device is at least 2 years old, you don't pay anything.
If you're not on a contract, you pay the difference of the unlocked-version price with the price you paid for locked-version device - say, I paid 250€ for my locked Xperia L, the unlocked xperia L at the time I bought mine costed like 279€, i'd have to pay 279-250 = 29€ to unlock my device.
Also with this law, there's a National Communications Authority (ANACOM) which controls everything related to communications in Portugal, I'm going to contact them and report this "double lock" that's being applied by Vodafone, because I'm pretty sure that, if I unlock my phone, they're forced by law to remove every restriction on it.
I don't lose anything on trying to fight back with everything I got so... that's what I'll do.
Emannxx said:
The thing is: people are reporting that this "bootloader unlocking allowed: no" is done by the operator/carrier, in my case, Vodafone and they have means to change the "status" in order for it to be enabled. I've read reports of other xperia users saying that through the official support channels it's possible to send the phone to Sony with the SIM-unlock code and they'll unlock everything. .
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This is something what clarified the situation. So this Lock on bootloader is done by the operator and there is a Double Lock on the phone Z1, SIM-Lock and Bootloader Lock.
And both can be unlocked?
But what have SIM-unlock code to do with Bootloader?
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This is something what clarified the situation. So this Lock on bootloader is done by the operator and there is a Double Lock on the phone Z1, SIM-Lock and Bootloader Lock.
And both can be unlocked?
But what have SIM-unlock code to do with Bootloader?
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Absolutely nothing.
They are different things
eclyptos said:
This is something what clarified the situation. So this Lock on bootloader is done by the operator and there is a Double Lock on the phone Z1, SIM-Lock and Bootloader Lock.
And both can be unlocked?
But what have SIM-unlock code to do with Bootloader?
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That's what I'm not sure. The SIM-lock is the basic thing the operators do in order to prevent users from switching to another one, but now they also apply the bootloader-lock in order to prevent users from installing modified-unnoficial software.
Sony might request the SIM-unlock code in order to "prove" that the phone has been released, thats my best guess. I don't really know if it is somehow related to the bootloader-unlock. But since it is a restriction applied by the operator, once I request it to be unlocked, I literally asking for the full access to the device... which can only be obtained by unlocking the SIM and unlocking the bootloader
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I don't really know if it is somehow related to the bootloader-unlock.
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It has nothing to do with the bootloader unlock!!!
I bought my first Z1 phone (i've got it replaced under warranty) branded and sim-locked, but the bootloader was ALLOWED to unlock.
So - i think sim-locking and not allowing the bootloader to be unlocked, are two DIFFERENT things.
p.s. - however, i think it's worth trying that request in Portugal law. There's nothing to lose.
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gregbradley said:
It has nothing to do with the bootloader unlock!!!
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This is what I thought.
So what conditions have to have a phone to bootloader unlock allowed: YES?
What a difference one bootloader unlock allowed: YES and another bootloader unlock allowed: NO??
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So what conditions have to have a phone to bootloader unlock allowed: YES?
What a difference one bootloader unlock allowed: YES and another bootloader unlock allowed: NO??
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Bootloader Unlocked: You can flash Custom Kernels, Bootloader Locked: You can't flash Custom Kernels, Stock Only but you can flash Custom Roms and be rooted.
Well. I gonna tell you what i did in spain. I got a Phone from movistar with the status to unlock bootloader set to "no". I ask to my provider for the sim-unlock code and I got it. I sended to sony an email "[email protected]" requesting to change this status. To certified that my phone is free i add the sim-unlock code, my imei, phone number and device model. After a week or two they answered to me with this:
In connection with an inquiry number 1-9......., we inform you that we will proceed to pick up your phone for the release of the bootloader of your phone.
For this we need you to contact us by phone to ask for the information needed to program the day of collection of the terminal.
Our phone hours are: 902 180 576 Monday to Friday, 9 to 19:30 hours uninterrupted.
Once you receive your terminal you will be able to unlock the Bootloader and make the process of "unlock" the bootloader, this operation could void the terminal as shown in the web http://unlockbootloader.sonymobile.com
My case
In my case, I'm survieving with a HTC Wildfire S because Sony has taken my Z1 to change from "NO" to "YES".
Mine was from Vodafone and after SIM-Unlocking I realized I can't unlock bootloader. I contacted Sony in Spain and they asked my about my IMEI and NCK code (SIM Unlocking code).
A week later they called me saying that they would pick my Z1 to "unlock" it and 3 days ago they pick it up.
I miss my Z1.
Regards,
Urko
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Bootloader Unlocked: You can flash Custom Kernels, Bootloader Locked: You can't flash Custom Kernels, Stock Only but you can flash Custom Roms and be rooted.
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Yes, what happens once I unlock it clear and I did with my old Xperia Z.
What is not clear is I have the phone in order to unlock the bootloader or not based.
I hope you succeed in getting an allowed bootloader-unlocking phone.
However, i'm curious if Sony will return you such a device, with the same IMEI as you originally had. Please keep us informed about that.
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I hope not to have to send it to Sony. If I can not solve this surely return the phone and buy it somewhere else.
Yet if I make the process of sending you the story.
guys it's my first post here..
i installed a custom rom on my motorola defy without taking a backup of stock rom. now, after installing a jellybean custom rom my defy is asking for a SIM unlock network PIN.
I searched over internet that flashing a stock rom again may unlock my phone. but i have no idea which stock rom to flash?
so, if i come to know about t-mobile uk or usa version than i can download the respective stock rom for motorola defy.
i am providing the following information that might be helpful and identifying whether it's usa or uk.
MB525
IMEI 3515 7304 0228 877
MSN LO26QG7SMR
MKQ7 334411B11
FCC ID IHDP56LC3
Don't post imei/etc online. The only way that your defy is asking for SIM unlock code is that if it wasn't ever fully unlocked(only soft unlocked).
It will NOT get magically unlocked by a stock rom.
You can search for soft SIM unlock for defy which will need to be done after every rom installation, or obtain the unlock code online(paid).
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thekguy said:
Don't post imei/etc online. The only way that your defy is asking for SIM unlock code is that if it wasn't ever fully unlocked(only soft unlocked).
It will NOT get magically unlocked by a stock rom.
You can search for soft SIM unlock for defy which will need to be done after every rom installation, or obtain the unlock code online(paid).
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thank you for your response, i will search over internet to resolve to issue.