Hey guys I'm looking for advice with my new Telus locked phone. I've tried the unlock menu method South the latest and even downgraded firmware. Every time it is still locked when I boot up.
Had the same issue with my s2 previously and resolved it by flashing a us carriers older stock firmware and modem then unlocking it then restoring back the Canadian one.
what I've read the bootloader complicated things with this phone. Can I change to old att modems and firmware? It seems only Odin ones exist and I don't want to do something stupid. I don't want to spend 45 on a code as I understand it won't work after trying the menu method. Any ideas or do I have to pay for the gsmusb method.
I ended up just doing the fast gsm usb unlock for $15.
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I have entered my unlock code from AT&T and it worked fine. I did find out the hard way that if you intend to use an unlock code supplied from AT&T you must use an AT&T firmware. If you use the Euro firmware on the AT&T to gain phone capabilities the AT&T supplies unlock code won't work. - yes, I know there are several ways to manually unlock your phone using Roto's method and others - this was just something I found interesting.
The question now is , if you use an AT&T unlock code and you then upgrade your firmware to the Euro firmware, will you loose the AT&T unlock?
is the Unlock lost during a .pit function.
just trying to learn more about how this works -
thanks
Anyone have any idea on this?
Just checking bac to see if anyone knows whether this will effect the AT&T Unlock - loading Euro firmware
Can You assist me on getting the code to unlock an AT&T tab?
I don't believe flashing a new rom should affect your subsidy lock status as long as it doesn't overwrite the efs partition. You should definitely do a rotobackup prior to flashing though, just in case.
Hey Guys,
I have had one heluva time trying to unlock my Rogers Galaxy s4. I purchased an unlock code, which did not work. I tried through service mode. Then I tried flashing the rom to a factory rom, which has now disabled my cellphone reception. At this point I am trying to put the stock rom back just get my phone working. Is there anything else I can do?
FastGSM.com has been the "last resort / saviour" for many here when service menu didnt unlock nor purchased-code.
fastgsm
I also used fastgsm to unlock mu i337m using the usb unlock method
Never try it but it could maybe help you out ;
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2285431
Ok, I'm going to try to make a long story short, i hope that i've posted in the correct forum, I've been scouring this forum and others but nothing I've found has quite fixed my issue.
Got my S4 locked to Bell in Canada. Heard it was really easy to unlock [service menu *#0011# method] but once I got to Indonesia [for travel] expecting to be able to use my phone I found that the service menu was no longer available. Ok, no problem, there must be other ways;
I ended up paying for an unlock code from a site, it didn't work. In fact, immediately after I press 'unlock' it would say 'network unlock unsuccessful'.
I thought they gave me a faulty code but when the code I bought FROM Bell was the exact same one, and had the exact same problem I figured it was likely 'region locked'
I ended up flashing a stock rom with odin, one from a weird unlocking site, and eventually I got it working. The only problem was that whenever I'd go into screen lock I'd lose reception and have to airplane mode on and off to get it again.
After Indonesia I went to Turkey, was unable to connect at all with one of their service providers, but had no problems with Vodafone. I think this may have been a side effect of regionlock away app, I needed to use that as well.
Once I got back to Canada I went custom recovery with cwm and flashed Cyanogenmod. This was fine, no reception problems, 10.2 - 11 was all good.
NOW I am in Poland, and getting the same problem I had in the first place. Whatever Cyanogenmod did, re-locked my device, in some way, I'm guessing.
I'm now rooted, with TWP recovery, running Android 4.4.4 Dave GPE rom, and would REALLY like to be able to use my Polish sim card with this fantastic setup. Chainfire's regionlock away app does not work, gives me a CSC error message. My phone now says it's an i9505 instead of i337m
Anything I have overlooked? Any way I can get this fully unlocked and working the way I want it to?
*NOTE* I can't access *#0011# service menu, even though I flashed [i think] stock dialer.
You are not in the correct section
You need to be in this section.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s4-att/general
I can help you a little though. If the unlocking methodes fail, then it's usually because you don't have an older modem. You need to look for the modem you should flash in order for it to work. Afterwards you can flash the modem again you are on now. If you can't find it, just flash an old modem and try.
I find it hard to believe that Cyanogenmod could have caused this though.
Cool, that will be my next phase of attack. I appreciate the redirect and thoughts (Y)
i all to everyone don't know if this is correct in putting this post here . I have a Samsung galaxy s4 i9505 locked to ee tried a ×#0011#. And tried the long number to enter service mode. I can change it to 1. But I don't get the other menu to pop up. I've had an idea. I have tried looking for this method and I'm 50/50 weather it will work or not. As this as phone has got ee branded phone. If I installed a custom firmware btu version black edition . What the chances of unlocking it via the method above or would this phone still know in it a ee phone what are your thoughts regards James. I don't want to root the phone. I'm quite happy to put a btu black edition on the phone . I have used odin in the past on my old i9505 but that phone was already unlocked
Changing firmware will not unlock the phone. To get the proper menu to appear you have to downgrade the modem (or firmware) to Android 4.2.2, then use the service menu. If the service menu does not work, your only other alternative is to root while the modem is downgraded and run RegionLock Away.
Strephon Alkhalikoi said:
Changing firmware will not unlock the phone. To get the proper menu to appear you have to downgrade the modem (or firmware) to Android 4.2.2, then use the service menu. If the service menu does not work, your only other alternative is to root while the modem is downgraded and run RegionLock Away.
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Many thanks for your reply. So if I down grade my firmware to 4.2.2 btu so I can enter the service menu . Are you saying this mite work 50/50
I did the downgrade myself when I lost my SIM unlock. The service menu worked but I messed up somewhere and failed to unlock. RegionLock Away worked perfectly.
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i all to everyone don't know if this is correct in putting this post here . I have a Samsung galaxy s4 i9505 locked to ee tried a ×#0011#. And tried the long number to enter service mode. I can change it to 1. But I don't get the other menu to pop up. I've had an idea. I have tried looking for this method and I'm 50/50 weather it will work or not. As this as phone has got ee branded phone. If I installed a custom firmware btu version black edition . What the chances of unlocking it via the method above or would this phone still know in it a ee phone what are your thoughts regards James. I don't want to root the phone. I'm quite happy to put a btu black edition on the phone . I have used odin in the past on my old i9505 but that phone was already unlocked
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Dont know if this will help you but after *#0011# press back then key input and type Q0 instead of 1. wait a few seconds and should take you to the menu.
So i successfully rooted my unlocked att version of the s5e.
everything was great until i popped my sim back in and the device wouldnt connect to att's network
im assuming thats it because the base os firmware was CDMA and not GSM so the bands i needed werent available.
i flashed another os i think its tmobile. no oem unlocking feature in the developer mode. im trying the trick to unlock it with not luck.
anyone have any advice?
So i figured something out. as ive been trying to flash different firmware.
it is now rejecting ALL Cdma firmware. and will only accept GSM firmware.
So after trying everything i finally just started trying every version of odin i could find. and finally found one that worked lol
Jobudden said:
So after trying everything i finally just started trying every version of odin i could find. and finally found one that worked lol
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Perhaps it will be helpful to others. Could you elaborate?
ok to start off i followed the steps from another post https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/...908u1-versions.4400511/page-155#post-88289615
i didnt have lte data and i needed it; so i reflashed ATT's firmware. when i went to try to load the us cellular firmware again. it would fail at system. everytime. after flashing lots of firmwares to get it to oem unlock, i finally discovered that. it was only failing on any firmware that was CDMA related.
spent an entire day and had almost given up.
then i started trying to flash the us cellular with every odin version i could find. and finally odin v3.13.1 raymond patched odin worked.
but after finally getting it to root again. i still have to figure out a way to get lte data on ATT sim
and i now have data with AT&T by following these APN instructions from AT&T
Program Data Settings for Your Device
Can’t connect to the internet on your mobile device? Here’s how to set up the access point name (APN) to get you going again.
www.att.com
used the broadband for android section,
hope this helps someone else