Unlock My iPhone?
- Thread starter Norm
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I didn't go, so the specifics are not entirely known. But...
The guy at T-Mobile took his SIM card and put it in the old iPhone. All I know from there is that "it didn't work."
I thought that in theory you could take an active SIM card, plop it in, and it would magically work.
The guy at T-Mobile took his SIM card and put it in the old iPhone. All I know from there is that "it didn't work."
I thought that in theory you could take an active SIM card, plop it in, and it would magically work.
michael.su
Master of the Pawpaw
The iPhone not working on a different carrier doesn't have much to do with Steve Jobs BTW, more so the carrier. Every GSM phone that I ever had was shipped with a carrier lock enabled. I've used at&t/cingular and voicestream/T-mobile and they all did the same thing, I've had Nokia's, Blackberry's and others and they were always locked OTB.
Blackberry's are a PITA to unlock. As an example, If you have a Blackberry from AT&T, they are the only ones that can give you the unlock code which is generated using the device ID.
No other carrier can get the code so, your up a creek without their help :-( (T-mobile and AT&T have both helped me)
I always tell them that I'm going out of the country and want to use my phone when I go and they always help me.
Not sure about unlocking an iPhone but does AT&T have an opinion on this matter since you only want it unlocked so you can use the phone out of the country and not just to hack it?
Has anyone asked?
JM2C
:flame suit on: 😀
Blackberry's are a PITA to unlock. As an example, If you have a Blackberry from AT&T, they are the only ones that can give you the unlock code which is generated using the device ID.
No other carrier can get the code so, your up a creek without their help :-( (T-mobile and AT&T have both helped me)
I always tell them that I'm going out of the country and want to use my phone when I go and they always help me.
Not sure about unlocking an iPhone but does AT&T have an opinion on this matter since you only want it unlocked so you can use the phone out of the country and not just to hack it?
Has anyone asked?
JM2C
:flame suit on: 😀
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rockscaler
Member
cell phones are evil
Yeah, my wife had to go back for a week in January and we ended up having to drop $30 for the 5 days on the ground just for her to have basic phone service. It was something like 20M of data which might get me to lunch on the first day we're there. I don't remember what it cost, but the calls were still expensive.
THATmanMANNY
Well-Known Member
WOW look at this thread!
Anyone request unlock with AT&T recently. I'm nearly going on two weeks and still says "inprogress". Site says takes up to two days. Chat said it's a waiting game basically.
Anyone request unlock with AT&T recently. I'm nearly going on two weeks and still says "inprogress". Site says takes up to two days. Chat said it's a waiting game basically.