Hello, I live in Argentina and am a Movistar user. I am travelling to Madrid (Spain) and London this January and was hoping to buy the Galaxy Note 3 there and, naturally, I have some questions.
The version of the phone that arrives my country is the SM-N9000 but I want the SM-N9005 because of the Snapdragon and some additional features this version has. Is there a region unlocked version to purchase? Do I have to region-unlock the mobile phone myself? In that case, how do I do that?
And finally, do you have any reliable stores or retailers in those cities that you would recommend me? Maybe a Samsung store would be the best option, wouldn't it?
Samsung stated that u have to do more than 5 min phone callls with a local sim (country where u bought it) and its unlocked
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joaquinmesias said:
Hello, I live in Argentina and am a Movistar user. I am travelling to Madrid (Spain) and London this January and was hoping to buy the Galaxy Note 3 there and, naturally, I have some questions.
The version of the phone that arrives my country is the SM-N9000 but I want the SM-N9005 because of the Snapdragon and some additional features this version has. Is there a region unlocked version to purchase? Do I have to region-unlock the mobile phone myself? In that case, how do I do that?
And finally, do you have any reliable stores or retailers in those cities that you would recommend me? Maybe a Samsung store would be the best option, wouldn't it?
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I hate to tell you this but the best option is a Note 3 from Movistar Argentina - LTE bands in Argentina are different than those in EU (and so far I believe incompatible, there is a bounty to add the 1700 band to the international N9005 but no success so far).
2nd best might be a Note 3 from Movistar Spain - but those I would expect to be standard N9005 and you should get a guarantee in writing from them that it will also work in Argentina on LTE to be reasonably safe about it.
IMHO 3rd best is just the least expensive genuine EU N9005 you can get - surprisingly a version that is carrier-locked on a serious carrier COULD be a better option (since the unlock code is like 25EUR most and after that you will ALSO be region-unlocked even if you never root).
Hello All,
I will appreciate if someone can help.
We have purchased Note 3 N9005 LTE from Saudi Arabia on 9th January and I have switched it on for the first time in India using Indian SIM card. Now it is asking for SIM NETWORK UNLOCK PIN.
I am aware that this is regional locked. But I am trying to find a solution. I already tried to purchase unlocking codes but seems there are no codes providers for phones purchased from Saudi Arabia region.
I am also aware of regional lock App, but it will void the warranty.
I wanted to ask will Samsung India or Samsung Saudi Arabia help us in this case? Did anyone experiencing the same problem found a solution without voiding the warranty?
I made a phone call to Samsung India and they said if I register it in India then there is a possibility that it may get functional, but I am not sure.
I request someone to help.
Thanks,
Did you find a solution?
Did you find a solution?
I am stuck too... pruchased my n9005 from KSA, and it's not working with Indian SIM.
drfaizan said:
Hello All,
I will appreciate if someone can help.
We have purchased Note 3 N9005 LTE from Saudi Arabia on 9th January and I have switched it on for the first time in India using Indian SIM card. Now it is asking for SIM NETWORK UNLOCK PIN.
I am aware that this is regional locked. But I am trying to find a solution. I already tried to purchase unlocking codes but seems there are no codes providers for phones purchased from Saudi Arabia region.
I am also aware of regional lock App, but it will void the warranty.
I wanted to ask will Samsung India or Samsung Saudi Arabia help us in this case? Did anyone experiencing the same problem found a solution without voiding the warranty?
I made a phone call to Samsung India and they said if I register it in India then there is a possibility that it may get functional, but I am not sure.
I request someone to help.
Thanks,
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RegionLock Away only works with older firmwares afaik. You`re best bet is to activate it through Samsung. Register your device in India and if that doesn`t work contact Samsung again for more support.
gee2012 said:
RegionLock Away only works with older firmwares afaik. You`re best bet is to activate it through Samsung. Register your device in India and if that doesn`t work contact Samsung again for more support.
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How do I register my device in India?
Which Samsung should I contact? Samsung India or Samsung Arabia? And how do I get it activated?
The phone is currently in India.
rizwan.wangde said:
How do I register my device in India?
Which Samsung should I contact? Samsung India or Samsung Arabia? And how do I get it activated?
The phone is currently in India.
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Register the phone on the Indian Samsung site http://www.samsung.com/in/#undefined and choose Product Registration http://cybersvc2.samsungcsportal.co...n01.jsp?locale_id=in_en&ssoUseYn=N&ssoLang=en and contact Samsung India later for more activation support if needed.
Solution
Hello,
I managed to unlock my Note 3, however I sent it back to Saudi Arabia and they have unlocked it in their service center. I was charged 200 Riyals approximately 3200 rupees. However I heard software solutions are now supporting MJ7 as well? But I am not sure.
i have the simple solution
i have the simple solution, ........just email samsung "contact us" from the country of purchase
i bought a note 4 from saudi in jan 2015 , but indian sim do not work, ....in the box there is a pamphlet which says to unlock i must call (in/out) for 5 minutes...but i dont have a arabian sim, i contacted some local phone shops , they asked rs 3000 to unlock, i did not want to spend more money on a legaly bought phone...so i called samsung india, they said i have to contact saudi samsung, so i emailed samsung saudi, email is in arabic, but we can type in english....they repied with an email asking for model,imei, bill photo,...i sent it and they replied with the unlock codes ...and it worked
If you are stuck with Note 3 Region Locked 4.4.2 where CF's RegionLock Away no longer works , you can try sending an E Mail to Samsung Germany / Samsung Austria for an unlock code to totally unlock your Europe region locked note 3....I have a Note 3 N9005...I got it with 4.4.2 installed so I couldn't install CF's RegionLock Away app because as you know the app doesn't work with 4.4.2...From the last few days I was searching like hell how to unlock my Note 3 so that I can use the phone in my home country India...Hundreds of XDA threads & several Google searches didn't yield any positive results...I didn't want to pay for the 3rd party unlock services because many people in this forums have mentioned that , even after paying for an unlock service , their phones still didn't get unlocked...
So, what i did was , I sent almost 10 E Mails to different European Samsung customer care department like Samsung Romania , Samsung Austria , Samsung Germany , Samsung Slovakia etc...
Today I received an unlock code from Samsung Austria , Samsung Romania & also from Samsung Germany...I know it's only one single code but i didn't want to wait for a long time to unlock my N9005...So, I contacted almost 10 Samsung European country's customer care departments...And today I received the unlock code from the above 3 mentioned Samsung customer care depts...
So, no need to pay for an unlock code...If you have a Europe region locked Note 3 , just send emails to Samsung Germany & Samsung Austria & you will get your unlock code within just 4-6 days...
I'm really happy that my N9005 is fully unlocked now... :laugh:
Thanks for reading...
EDIT :- Since there are huge number of messages coming in asking for the unlock req to Samsung, I have decided to post the format of the letter here in this thread..
So, read this post of mine here please :- http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=56425244&postcount=75
Note 3 region unlock code
Hey, Can you send me a copy of the letter/request that you sent to Samsung? I am in the same situation and do not want to buy an unlock code if it will not work.
sushrukh said:
If you are stuck with Note 3 Region Locked 4.4.2 where CF's RegionLock Away no longer works , you can try sending an E Mail to Samsung Germany / Samsung Austria for an unlock code to totally unlock your Europe region locked note 3....I have a Note 3 N9005...I got it with 4.4.2 installed so I couldn't install CF's RegionLock Away app because as you know the app doesn't work with 4.4.2...From the last few days I was searching like hell how to unlock my Note 3 so that I can use the phone in my home country India...Hundreds of XDA threads & several Google searches didn't yield any positive results...I didn't want to pay for the 3rd party unlock services because many people in this forums have mentioned that , even after paying for an unlock service , their phones still didn't get unlocked...
So, what i did was , I sent almost 10 E Mails to different European Samsung customer care department like Samsung Romania , Samsung Austria , Samsung Germany , Samsung Slovakia etc...
Today I received an unlock code from Samsung Austria , Samsung Romania & also from Samsung Germany...I know it's only one single code but i didn't want to wait for a long time to unlock my N9005...So, I contacted almost 10 Samsung European country's customer care departments...And today I received the unlock code from the above 3 mentioned Samsung customer care depts...
So, no need to pay for an unlock code...If you have a Europe region locked Note 3 , just send emails to Samsung Germany & Samsung Austria & you will get your unlock code within just 4-6 days...
I'm really happy that my N9005 is fully unlocked now... :laugh:
Thanks for reading...
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trini1980 said:
Hey, Can you send me a copy of the letter/request that you sent to Samsung? I am in the same situation and do not want to buy an unlock code if it will not work.
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Check your inbox...
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Check your inbox...
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Hey i would also like to do the same, can you please show me what you sent then and how exactly you unlocked it. thanks
I have the same problem, but I can use my N9005 with GSM model instead of 4G
Can I request the unlock code as well? thanks,
nayanwaghmare said:
Hey i would also like to do the same, can you please show me what you sent then and how exactly you unlocked it. thanks
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Sent the details to your inbox...Thanks!
hinnn said:
I have the same problem, but I can use my N9005 with GSM model instead of 4G
Can I request the unlock code as well? thanks,
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If you can use your local SIM card with your N9005, then your Note 3 is already unlocked...I don't have clear idea why you can't use 4G...If your network provider provides you 4G LTE signal & you don't know how to connect to an LTE signal in your N9005 or if the LTE doesn't work , try changing the network mode to 4G ONLY using a software called " Advanced Signal Status " from Google playstore...
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If you can use your local SIM card with your N9005, then your Note 3 is already unlocked...I don't have clear idea why you can't use 4G...If your network provider provides you 4G LTE signal & you don't know how to connect to an LTE signal in your N9005 or if the LTE doesn't work , try changing the network mode to 4G ONLY using a software called " Advanced Signal Status " from Google playstore...
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thank you, actually, many guys have the same situation with me in my country, the IMEI and SN will be changed if we update to 4.4.2, and will unable to use again if we try to change the IMEI,
And seems my N9005 is from Germany
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Do not expose your imei & s/n in forum, delete it.
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Guys, im on the same boat. I lost my IMEI and after a month time, finally recovered it back. But prob is,now i cannot use 2G network, only 3G works wid my mobile now..
Please help!!!
Hey, I need it also. Can you kindly send me a copy of the letter that you sent to Samsung, and also the email addresses of these customer care departments.
Thanks so much!.
vndnguyen said:
Hey, I need it also. Can you kindly send me a copy of the letter that you sent to Samsung, and also the email addresses of these customer care departments.
Thanks so much!.
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Sent the details to your inbox...
hinnn said:
thank you, actually, many guys have the same situation with me in my country, the IMEI and SN will be changed if we update to 4.4.2, and will unable to use again if we try to change the IMEI,
And seems my N9005 is from Germany
IMEI:357507050008880
S/N:RV1D956TFKR
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If your N9005 is from Germany then please contact Samsung Germany by sending an E mail to : [email protected]...They should be able to help you...
haiderrr said:
Guys, im on the same boat. I lost my IMEI and after a month time, finally recovered it back. But prob is,now i cannot use 2G network, only 3G works wid my mobile now..
Please help!!!
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Try downloading " Advanced Signal Status " from Google playstore..Then use the app to change the network to 2G only & see if that works...If it doesn't work , then try contacting your local Samsung service center or send an E Mail to your country's Samsung customer care from here :- http://www.samsung.com/pk/support/erms3
thanks for the reply bro...
Actually i can see the 2G option and connect to it. But it does not register me with the network and Emergancy Calls only is diplsayed. ith 3G, everything works fine. Kindly let me know, my phone is not under warranty, Samsung care guys will help me?
haiderrr said:
thanks for the reply bro...
Actually i can see the 2G option and connect to it. But it does not register me with the network and Emergancy Calls only is diplsayed. ith 3G, everything works fine. Kindly let me know, my phone is not under warranty, Samsung care guys will help me?
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If your phone is not under warranty , then Samsung care will still help you but it will not be free of cost...They will charge you for it but if the problem troubling you too much , then i would suggest you to take your phone to a local service center in Pakistan & they will service it for you for a price...Now, how much they will charge you that i can't say for sure but they should be able to repair it...
Region Unlock Code from Samsung
I bought an SM-N900A and took it to T-Mobile, they said my sim was locked take it to att, so on and so forth. ATT said they couldn't help me. So I was going to purchase one from the Web, reading this and you say I don't need to pay for one, how do I go about this? Please help. Thanks!
BigBadWolfx4 said:
I bought an SM-N900A and took it to T-Mobile, they said my sim was locked take it to att, so on and so forth. ATT said they couldn't help me. So I was going to purchase one from the Web, reading this and you say I don't need to pay for one, how do I go about this? Please help. Thanks!
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please help me
I am in the same situation as you, please could you send me the letter that helped you with samsung customer service to retrieve the unlock code ?
Thanks you !!!
yashironc said:
I am in the same situation as you, please could you send me the letter that helped you with samsung customer service to retrieve the unlock code ?
Thanks you !!!
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Dear readers,
I'm on holiday in the US, and tempted to buy the Note 3 (or 4) to replace my trusted S2.
Are there any unfixable issues I'll run into when I want to use the phone in the Netherlands? I've read about the region lock issues that can be fixed by rooting and using Chainfire's Regionlock Away, but are there any hardware incompatibilities? Different types of sim than available in Europe, or antenna band frequencies that I should take into account?
Thanks for helping me out!
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Netherlands uses Note 3 N9005 versions (International). The issue you might run into, is the 2G/3G/4G bands used, as they vary by countries.
Not sure, how easy it is to get N9005 in the US though.
Samdien said:
Dear readers,
I'm on holiday in the US, and tempted to buy the Note 3 (or 4) to replace my trusted S2.
Are there any unfixable issues I'll run into when I want to use the phone in the Netherlands? I've read about the region lock issues that can be fixed by rooting and using Chainfire's Regionlock Away, but are there any hardware incompatibilities? Different types of sim than available in Europe, or antenna band frequencies that I should take into account?
Thanks for helping me out!
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I would stay away from it to avoid region lock as you mentioned but there is away around it i believe, Not sure if through root or not.
Samdien said:
Dear readers,
I'm on holiday in the US, and tempted to buy the Note 3 (or 4) to replace my trusted S2.
Are there any unfixable issues I'll run into when I want to use the phone in the Netherlands? I've read about the region lock issues that can be fixed by rooting and using Chainfire's Regionlock Away, but are there any hardware incompatibilities? Different types of sim than available in Europe, or antenna band frequencies that I should take into account?
Thanks for helping me out!
Sent from my GT-I9100 using XDA Free mobile app
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The frequency bands are incompatible.
2G will work without issue.
3G is a maybe depending on your provider and that of the phone. But mostly no. (And before anyone asks, getting a T-Mobile US phone does not mean it can run on T-Mobile NL networks. It won't. Yes I've had that question pop up before. Repeatedly.)
4G is an absolute NO.
Simcards are the same (MicroSIM).
RegionLock Away will take care of the Region lock (Yes it requires Root). But it won't solve the frequency issue, and you can't force N9005 firmware onto the USA devices.
Also, be sure to use it at least once, charge it before your flight and don't try to bring it through customs in the box or they will charge you the import and export fees.
You're better off buying one in Germany, Austria, Belgium or another EU country. (Fun note: The Note 4 will cost 806 euro's in the Netherlands. (With Media Tax). It's going to be 699 in Germany. (With Media Tax.))
I'm not sure Chainfire's region lock works on KitKat, actually I think it doesn't but I would like to be proven wrong. Also most carrier phones (like ATT or T-mobile) will be SIM locked as well and yeah, as already stated, some frequencies will not work.
Thanks for clarifying this guys, especially ShadowLea. I'll just get the phone back home
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I have a Galaxy note 4 with Videotron ( Canada ) ... i go to Peru for vacation 1 month... roaming is $$$$ ... i need unlock the phone for put other sim card from Peru. But Videotron say that is possible for him 3 month after. I need this urgent .... help please
I think you can buy unlock code from reputable sites. Search in youtube how to unlock galaxy note 4
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Just Google for how to do it. I bought a code from cellunlocker.net to unlock a Note 4 I got from Bell.
Thanks for the recomendation . I go to the webssite unlocker.net ... is just want this...a site reputable. .. sorry my english is basic