Good,
I have been around for 3 weeks with this "big" terminal. Until yesterday, it has been working perfectly. Suddenly when I turn it on I get the following message:
Type unlock SIM
It is as if the terminal had stopped being free and needed to be released, I tried to put the SIM in both slots (MicroSIM and NanoSIM) and the same thing, I have also tried to insert the SIM of another provider with identical result. I put the same cards in another phone (MI4) and they work perfectly.
The terminal I bought it in the store Gerbeast and comes with the global ROM 8.1.2.0 (MBEMIDI), has not given me time to unblock it or anything, this is how I take it out of the box.
Does anyone know or know what this may be because of this and how to solve it?
Regards!!
db25 said:
Good,
I have been around for 3 weeks with this "big" terminal. Until yesterday, it has been working perfectly. Suddenly when I turn it on I get the following message:
Type unlock SIM
It is as if the terminal had stopped being free and needed to be released, I tried to put the SIM in both slots (MicroSIM and NanoSIM) and the same thing, I have also tried to insert the SIM of another provider with identical result. I put the same cards in another phone (MI4) and they work perfectly.
The terminal I bought it in the store Gerbeast and comes with the global ROM 8.1.2.0 (MBEMIDI), has not given me time to unblock it or anything, this is how I take it out of the box.
Does anyone know or know what this may be because of this and how to solve it?
Regards!!
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Just give it your MI account password and it will unlocked. It's a security measure by MI, which is required when you change sim card.
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Now that the unlock is out I would like to do it for users without charging like other members.
From a terminal shell on your PC type the commands in the image. Sorry but the forum reads it as a link and since I am a "new" user I am unable to post it. Maybe someone below me can?
PM me and I will give you my email address to send the file to. Again, new user no links
If you wish to make a donation for this service be my guest but it's not necessary.
Thanks to rhcp0112345 for discovering this method but this community is about sharing not profiteering.
anyone wanna give this man a hand? : D
How to Unlock Your Samsung Captivate (AT&T) for FREE
Someone test this:
Code:
cd /dev/block <enter>
su <enter> <at this point your phone will ask for superuser access ALLOW it
dd if=/dev/block/bml3 of=/sdcard/bml3.bak <enter>
do that to your rooted phone in ADB
Then just open the file with a hex editor, and SHAZAM! your code is there,
Around line 515040
http://www.howardforums.com/showthr...t-Vibrant-quot-NAM-3G?p=13984529#post13984529
I have the file but cant find my code at the area he said it would be. Anyone have a search term that will make it easier to find?
Edit:
Actually, I think I have it. How many digits should the code be?
I posted some detailed instructions here
Got it. Thanks. Now I need a different sim card to try this out on, unless anyone has another suggestion.
Here is another guide. Credit goes to r34p3rex on Howard forums.
You must be rooted Here's how to grab your unlock code off your own phone, for free!
Connect your phone via USB and open an adb shell (you need the SDK installed)
My SDK is installed in C:\Android
cd c:\android\tools
adb shell
Now that you're in shell type in the following
su
dd if=/dev/block/bml3 of=/sdcard/bml3.bak
Mount your SD card on your computer and open bml3.bak in a hex editor. Search for the string SSNV (it's in caps). You'll see something like this
SSNV.±Ì.ž.Ì.å....`Få•1Š>...OÊÄÏñ..ý“œÌ5..ÇõÎ_.coõã Ò@×`^ãQ.ÚR=€[¥×‡ùáâß-P.5370859753708597.51531930.00000000100100101#3101503101703111803104103109809 9999#
In my case, the 51531930 is the unlock code! So basically, it's the second set of numbers (separated by periods).
Pop in a foreign SIM and it'll ask you for an unlock code. Punch this baby in and you're unlocked!
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That's great news
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I897 using XDA App
Confirmed working on my Captivate tried a Claro sim card and code worked fine.
Hey guys, I just bought a Captivate from eBay that said it was already unlocked (it was a sub $400 purchase too), how can I verify that it really is?
Hydrocharged said:
Hey guys, I just bought a Captivate from eBay that said it was already unlocked (it was a sub $400 purchase too), how can I verify that it really is?
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Put in a different SIM then an AT&T one...
Confirmed here too. Copied the BML3 to computer and used Hex Fiend (Mac), searched for SSVN (in caps). Code is right there between the dots.
Put in a T-Mo SIM and made and received a call.
THANKS!
I don't have any other sim cards, nor do I know any one that uses another SIM-based network (only ATT, Sprint, and Verizon people around here). Is there any other way?
I was thinking about grabbing a pay as you go sim card from walmart or a t-mobile store and trying that route.
Some of the links indicated this works with some firmwares and not others - I wonder if this is the same code AT&T would hand out - if so, it should work regardless of firmware.
Can any unlock expert weigh in?
Actually, I'm gonna use my gophone SIM in the Captivate. I've found someone online that did it and it's now his daily phone.
dweebs0r said:
Here is another guide. Credit goes to r34p3rex on Howard forums.
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that method worked great for me. Used HexWorkshop and did a text string search.
It works....So I guess my question is if and when custom ROM's start coming out will flashing a custom ROM undo the unlock?
Works perfect - I used an old T-mo prepaid sim that is not even active (no $$$) - all the SIM has to do is connect to a network.
At one time I bought this T-Mo prepaid kit online for $5 and they mail you a SIM card with 10 minutes on it. Put my AT&T card in and all is well.
I wonder if there is anywhere on the phone to see an unlock status (with the AT&T SIM installed). Does anyone know if Android has a setting to show if a phone is carrier unlocked?
BTW, I used HxD: http://mh-nexus.de/en/downloads.php?product=HxD
Hello everybody! please help me wtih next situation. I've bought Galaxy tab 7.7 in Tailand about a week ago. It is working fine, but one thing im worrying about - it is the impossibility to make my device wroking on local sim cards ( I live in Russia -operatos are Megafon and Beeline). I tried to switch my ROM to a stock Russian with changing region, and i tried to unlock my device by editing nv_data.bin but i did not succeed - i could not find 0x181469 and 0x18150e bytes in order to edit nv_data.bin manually via HexEditor. So i tried script method and i ran this in adb shell, having my device in debug mode ofc:
su
cd /sdcard
echo "this takes about 45 seconds"
if [ ! -f /sdcard/nv_data.bin.orig ]; then
echo "copying file to /sdcard"
cp /efs/nv_data.bin /sdcard/nv_data.bin.orig
fi
echo -en \\x00 > out0
dd if=nv_data.bin.orig of=out1 bs=1 count=1578089
dd if=nv_data.bin.orig of=out2 bs=1 skip=1578090 count=163
dd if=nv_data.bin.orig of=out3 bs=1 skip=1578254
cat out1 out0 out2 out0 out3 > nv_data.bin.unlocked
rm out0 out1 out2 out3
rm /efs/nv_data.bin
cp nv_data.bin.unlocked /efs/nv_data.bin
rm /efs/nv_data.bin.md5
reboot
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my device rebooted normally - i found new nv_data.bin.UNLOCKED file on sd-card. I replaced old nv_data with a new one (ofc i removed UNLOCKED tag) and rebooted. After both reboots (reboot via adb shell and manual reboot) - still no effect - it keeps telling me that i need to put my sim into a tab.
I am really desperate solving this problem - i cant find solution though i tried surfing internet more carefully. Please help!
Fuda163 said:
Hello everybody! please help me wtih next situation. I've bought Galaxy tab 7.7 in Tailand about a week ago. It is working fine, but one thing im worrying about - it is the impossibility to make my device wroking on local sim cards ( I live in Russia -operatos are Megafon and Beeline). I tried to switch my ROM to a stock Russian with changing region, and i tried to unlock my device by editing nv_data.bin but i did not succeed - i could not find 0x181469 and 0x18150e bytes in order to edit nv_data.bin manually via HexEditor. So i tried script method and i ran this in adb shell, having my device in debug mode ofc:
my device rebooted normally - i found new nv_data.bin.UNLOCKED file on sd-card. I replaced old nv_data with a new one (ofc i removed UNLOCKED tag) and rebooted. After both reboots (reboot via adb shell and manual reboot) - still no effect - it keeps telling me that i need to put my sim into a tab.
I am really desperate solving this problem - i cant find solution though i tried surfing internet more carefully. Please help!
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Refer back to your operator & change your sim card with a new one, had the same issue with my Vodafone sim card & a replacement with a new one solved this issue.
lsherif said:
Refer back to your operator & change your sim card with a new one, had the same issue with my Vodafone sim card & a replacement with a new one solved this issue.
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I already did! I tried with 4 different sim cards from 3 operators and i bought a new sim card just for an experiment like 2 days ago - still no result. Maybe i should try mini sim wtih adapter... but what confuses me most is absence of above mentioned bytes in my nv_data.bin...how can i check whether my device unlocked or not?
Maybe you have a broken Sim slot. Check the. Forums and you'll find lots of ppl with broken sim slots
Sent from my HTC Vision using Tapatalk 2
regius said:
Maybe you have a broken Sim slot. Check the. Forums and you'll find lots of ppl with broken sim slots
Sent from my HTC Vision using Tapatalk 2
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Turned out my sim slot was rly broken.
But guys from tech support with replacing my slot also chagned IMEI number. They said imei should be chagned in order to use your device in your country... now its functioning normally.
Anyone know where to get a replacement sim slot? Mine is broken and no-one locally in Sydney can source it from anywhere.
the SIM Slot seriously has issues!
the last few days, my 3g connection keeps dropping randomly and the device alerts "please enter sim card". I've only used a solid old style sim card, nothing else
i had the same problem "No Sim", and i just flashed PIT file from here and it worked perfectly
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1749854&page=6
Yeah!
dotvoid said:
the SIM Slot seriously has issues!
the last few days, my 3g connection keeps dropping randomly and the device alerts "please enter sim card". I've only used a solid old style sim card, nothing else
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glad to see i was not the only one with this problem :laugh:
After a month of purchasing my 7.7 tab i experienced this on HC but after a few weeks of just letting it happen, because i was thinking i have a defective sim card, the problem just went away and never occured again. But here comes ICS first 3 days are problem free but after that the sim card problem again is now reoccurring :crying:
mcbooth said:
Anyone know where to get a replacement sim slot? Mine is broken and no-one locally in Sydney can source it from anywhere.
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+1
I would also like to know this. Thanks
JoJo2211 said:
+1
I would also like to know this. Thanks
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sorry guys but i ve a question ...is it obligatory when i replace mine sim card slot as it brroken ..change my IMEI no. or it is optional...thank u in advance
Ok guys and girls I am pretty new at rooting a phone and the only reason I did was to see f I can use this Samsung Galaxy S5 SM-G900R4 from US Cellular. I called Samsung and was told to call US Cellular to find out how to use the phone on another network. US Cellular told me that the simcard reader would not read a sim card from another carrier. I installed my working Net10 sim card and the phone sys invalid sim card and does not ask for an unlock code, it just continues to say invalid sim card and I obviously have no network. I rooted the phone with CF-Auto Root and everything went well and SuperSU is installed. Phone still says invalid sim card and will not give me a network. I know settings can be changed with a rooted phone but don't know how to change these settings to make the phone use my network sim card. I use Net10 and he sim card works in my Galaxy S2 but I would very much like to use my new S5 phone. If anyone can help I would greatly appreciate it. Thank you in advance.
TheCustomFabricator said:
Ok guys and girls I am pretty new at rooting a phone and the only reason I did was to see f I can use this Samsung Galaxy S5 SM-G900R4 from US Cellular. I called Samsung and was told to call US Cellular to find out how to use the phone on another network. US Cellular told me that the simcard reader would not read a sim card from another carrier. I installed my working Net10 sim card and the phone sys invalid sim card and does not ask for an unlock code, it just continues to say invalid sim card and I obviously have no network. I rooted the phone with CF-Auto Root and everything went well and SuperSU is installed. Phone still says invalid sim card and will not give me a network. I know settings can be changed with a rooted phone but don't know how to change these settings to make the phone use my network sim card. I use Net10 and he sim card works in my Galaxy S2 but I would very much like to use my new S5 phone. If anyone can help I would greatly appreciate it. Thank you in advance.
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Check if your phone is sim locked by using secret code *#7465625#
Or install Phone INFO ★Samsung★ app > Menu > 'Secret Codes' > 7465625 and tap 'Launch 0' to launch (root required).
I believe it is, it says
Network Lock
Network Subset Lock
SP lock
CP Lock
did you unlok the phone please let me know i haved the same problem, ramirez19788 gmail
ramirez1178 said:
did you unlok the phone please let me know i haved the same problem, ramirez19788 gmail
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Have tha same exactly please tell me what happend ana what did yo do
Hi
I have a Sprint Galaxy S4 and I try desperately to put sim cards from other carriers and foreign (French) sim cards but nothing works. I always get a guy's voice saying something like "your account has not been authorized for this type of call"
I have done all the possible "unlocking" of the phone, but I'm not sure what it really means:
-I have made the procedure where you get to the hidden "service menu" type "debug screen>network lock>..." (btw my SHA256 was already off, whatever it means. No change here.) (I had to downgrade the radio)
-I have successfully done what was indicate in this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2415587 with the "unlock" software, at that point the phone was not saying "invalid sim card" anymore (thanks, Autoprime!)
-I have rooted my phone, clean installed a new rom (I put negalite, quite cool)
-I have obtained my unlock code from Sprint, but I've never been able to use it. If I type ##
Code:
# I get to a menu where I prefer not touch anything
I don't know how to make sure that my phone is able to support GSM. How can I be sure? It has a SIM card slot but I'm not sure what that means (and on Sprint the phone works without the sim card). I'm going to Singapore in one month and I would have liked to use local sim cards.
That's a lot of questions! But I'm really lost here, and I don't see any post that seem to help me...
Thanks
Raph
Hi!
I just bought a Galaxy J5 2015 (J500FN ). The phone is not registering to network. The seller said that they tried to insert an "incompatible" sim card, and after that, the phone could never register on network again. I have no idea what they actually did with it.
- I thougt that the problem is with the sim holder on the motherboard. It looks fine, no problems. Every pin to connect to the sim card is in its place and i resoldered it to the motherboard to secure the connection.
- APN settings are fine too
- IMEI is showing and correct
- Tried to search for a solution in google and youtube, non of the "traditional" ways did anything.
- Updated/downgraded the original firmware with Odin
-Installed TWRP and AOSP EX (the phone was never rooted before)
-I downloaded SIM toolkit from play store and it can handle the sim card. I can see every info, just like in my working Xiaomi Redmi 1S. I can even add and delete contacts to the sim card.
- Tried with multiple sim cards
The phone is still cannot connect to my network provider. Do you have any idea what is going on with this phone?
readdeo said:
Hi!
I just bought a Galaxy J5 2015 (J500FN ). The phone is not registering to network. The seller said that they tried to insert an "incompatible" sim card, and after that, the phone could never register on network again. I have no idea what they actually did with it.
- I thougt that the problem is with the sim holder on the motherboard. It looks fine, no problems. Every pin to connect to the sim card is in its place and i resoldered it to the motherboard to secure the connection.
- APN settings are fine too
- IMEI is showing and correct
- Tried to search for a solution in google and youtube, non of the "traditional" ways did anything.
- Updated/downgraded the original firmware with Odin
-Installed TWRP and AOSP EX (the phone was never rooted before)
-I downloaded SIM toolkit from play store and it can handle the sim card. I can see every info, just like in my working Xiaomi Redmi 1S. I can even add and delete contacts to the sim card.
- Tried with multiple sim cards
The phone is still cannot connect to my network provider. Do you have any idea what is going on with this phone?
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You need to take the phone to samsung support to fix it.