So, I just bought a new G3 from my carrier Vodafone Romania and wanted to unlock it so I can use it with other gsm carriers when I'm abroad.
Before buying a sim unlock code I wanted to make sure that it can be unlocked. So I popped in an Orange SIM and it worked without asking me for a code. Then I tried the other method by typing in the dialer 2945#*855# and got "the phone is permanently locked and cannot be unlocked".
How can this be? It's unlocked but permanently locked? Or this is the message you get after successfully unlocking?
Any insight will be appreciated.
I don't know if this matters but I'm rooted and twrp bumped on v20h
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Hi guys
I have a xperia play and is branded (Rogers canada) and i have a locked bootloader. I can use my phone with Chatr but next mounth i live for europe. I tried with a Vodafone sim card and ask for sim network unlock pin
what can i do?
thanks
nickmatine said:
Hi guys
I have a xperia play and is branded (Rogers canada) and i have a locked bootloader. I can use my phone with Chatr but next mounth i live for europe. I tried with a Vodafone sim card and ask for sim network unlock pin
what can i do?
thanks
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First I would contact your cell phone provider, Rogers, and tell them you are leaving the country and would like to have your phones sim unlocked. If they are decent and you have been current on your payments they should give you the code. When you get the code insert the Vodafone sim and when it asks for sim unlock code enter in the code they give you, and then if everything works. BAM you will be sim unlocked. The bootloader will still be locked, that is something completely different then the sim lock.
jgregoryj1 said:
First I would contact your cell phone provider, Rogers, and tell them you are leaving the country and would like to have your phones sim unlocked. If they are decent and you have been current on your payments they should give you the code. When you get the code insert the Vodafone sim and when it asks for sim unlock code enter in the code they give you, and then if everything works. BAM you will be sim unlocked. The bootloader will still be locked, that is something completely different then the sim lock.
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Rogers don't want to give the code because i use the phone with Chat-r (subdivision of rogers).
Like I'm new in androids phones i want to understand how many different issues i have (like if i unlock the boot loader is gone a be a simlock free also?, etc) Is any free software to give the simlock code?
thanks
anyone can help, please?
is any program, soft or something to unlock the Sim ? in few weeks we are going in vacation in France and i want to be able to use a prepaid card there
thanks
Contact Jinx13.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/member.php?u=4002805
[email protected]
He will unlock your bootloader and your sim at the same time for $24US. It's worth it. Rogers, if they even give you the code, will charge you like $50 AND make you wait 2-3 months.
Jinx13 will have it done in under 30 minutes if things go smoothly.
Masters2150 said:
Contact Jinx13.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/member.php?u=4002805
[email protected]
He will unlock your bootloader and your sim at the same time for $24US. It's worth it. Rogers, if they even give you the code, will charge you like $50 AND make you wait 2-3 months.
Jinx13 will have it done in under 30 minutes if things go smoothly.
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OK, thanks
Hi all new to the GNex.
I recently updated to IMM76I (Yakju) Please correct if I am wrong via OTA. However I am still locked to O2 UK. I hope to get my unlock code in the next few days from O2. I have one question.
Once I unlock my phone so it becomes sim free and then decide to go custom rom route, will I have to unlock the sim unlock again?
After reading threads about doing manual unlocking of the network lock. I was not sure if the scenario outlined in those threads about having to unlock sim after each reset will affect me in the same way.
Many Thanks
Tom
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I bought my Galaxy Nexus from someone on ebay and I assumed it would have been an unlocked phone .. However after using it for 2 months, it was suddenly unable to access the network (Vodafone, UK).
After upgrading phone to 4.2.1 and changing SIM card, there was still no improvement. Then Vodafone informed me that my phone is "locked" to their network and I need an unlock code.
I have, since, purchased an Unlock code, but the device does NOT prompt me to enter an unlock code when the Vodafone SIM is inserted. The directions in the unlock procedure have been advised as below:
1.So... type *#7465625*638*
2.Then type YOUR UNLOCK CODE
3.Type #
4.Press ENTER or OK
I have no idea how to type a number in the dialpad and press "Enter" because the only option I have is to "dial" .. which leads me to a "no network" error.
At my wits end ... any help or suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
thanks !
If it's a Vodafone phone then a Vodafone SIM should just work - the SIM lock would only apply to non-Vodafone SIM cards...besides, all Galaxy Nexus' were SIM-free AFAIK
EddyOS said:
If it's a Vodafone phone then a Vodafone SIM should just work - the SIM lock would only apply to non-Vodafone SIM cards...besides, all Galaxy Nexus' were SIM-free AFAIK
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I don't know what network the phone was tied to earlier .. but I bought it and was using it with a Vodafone SIM. It's not a Vodafone phone per se .. and I was quite sure my phone was a SIM-free unlocked phone anyways.
But the tech support team at Vodafone say that the phone is locked to their network.
EddyOS said:
If it's a Vodafone phone then a Vodafone SIM should just work - the SIM lock would only apply to non-Vodafone SIM cards...besides, all Galaxy Nexus' were SIM-free AFAIK
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That's not true. I know there are some that are sim locked
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using Tapatalk 2
Please let me know if there is any way to unlock a mobile when it is NOT prompting for an unlock code when the new SIM is inserted.
thanks !
My UK Vodafone 815 only fully works with certain sim cards. I used an unlock code from ebay and have zero issues with O2/GiffGaff sims.
Now I wanted to use a Life Mobile (EE) sim but the data speed won't go beyond E yet the same sim gets H+ in other phones. After the unlock iD Mobile/Three sims wouldn't make calls.
Can the network unlock have gone wrong somehow?
Still struggling with this....let me ask another question.
Is it possible to flash the original vodafone software (assuming I can find one) to re-lock the phone so I can start again with another unlock?
Hello.
I'm from Portugal and bought an HTC 10 wich is locked to T-Mobile.
Already got unlock code for it but i insert a portuguese network sim card and i never get the message to place the unlock code.
I checked the IMEI at T-Mobile website and it shows : Your device is blocked and will not work on T-Mobile’s network.
Already unlocked the bootloader and rooted the phone, thought that would be enough to overcome the T-Mobile app ( wich is to unlock the phone for the network ).
Any tips or comments on how i can solve this issue and use the phone with another sim card?
Thanks in advance