[Q] Anyone in the uk got one, is it locked? - Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Anyone got one on orange or tmobile ? If so is it locked?
Normaly when a new phone comes out at first they not locked but seeing as its just orange and tmobile....

Got it on T-Mobile last Friday - it's locked.
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Cheers dude, did u try the sg3 unlock on it?

juDGEY2k10 said:
Cheers dude, did u try the sg3 unlock on it?
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No not tried as I have no need to unlock it just yet. Not sure whether to keep it or sell it just yet...it's on sale on AVF at the mo.

How much u selling it for?

I got one on release day, Locked to T-Mobile, Managed to get an unlock code for it from mobileunlocked.co.uk saying that it was a Galaxy S3 on the registration form and its working fine with my Three SIM.

omg, 7 open apps. My i9300 can't even run 3 apps

nutterlh said:
I got one on release day, Locked to T-Mobile, Managed to get an unlock code for it from mobileunlocked.co.uk saying that it was a Galaxy S3 on the registration form and its working fine with my Three SIM.
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Thank you very much! Still waiting for my I9305 to be shipped, and it's probably going to be locked too. Going to travel in March 2013, so I'm glad to hear it can be unlocked already.

Had to cut my Three SIM down to micro sim size but thats no big deal when the outcome is such a good phone.

Where did you get the phone from in the UK?
also what speeds are you getting with 4G in the UK?

I got the phone from T-Mobile shop in manchester. The EE 4G service hasn't been rolled out nationwide yet so currently still just on 3G until the end of the month.

Will be great to see what the UK can get

juDGEY2k10 said:
How much u selling it for?
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£460 with Special Delivery

I just hope the speed increase will be worth the price increase

Thats to much for me mate can get a brand new one for £450

juDGEY2k10 said:
Thats to much for me mate can get a brand new one for £450
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Fair enough just noticed the PAYG price they have. I have 2 more days to return it if I decide not to keep it.

juDGEY2k10 said:
Thats to much for me mate can get a brand new one for £450
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Where at? If so I might upgrade and sell my S3
Problem now is can I use this on o2/giffgaff? (4G I mean)

orange pay as u go, its locked but can be unlocked if u pay for code, or wait till someone makes a hack here

juDGEY2k10 said:
orange pay as u go, its locked but can be unlocked if u pay for code, or wait till someone makes a hack here
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If I get it unlocked will I get 4G on o2?

hmm not sure whether to buy the orange 4g s3 and try and unlock it or wait until the soon to be released google nexus.
anybody bought one from orange and managed to unlock it?

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ATT Unlock Purchase Experiences

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Some unlock sites are not playing fair with time lines that are not as advertised. Reviews are deleted daily to hide the fact they do not have codes. However some other providers are crediting purchases if they do not have codes and ask for you to try back. Please give feedback so others do not get stuck fighting for refunds
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i have ordered in cellunlock.net one month ago,they still no give me the unlock code,and i have sent some email to cancel my order,they didn't want to cancel order,no like what they have said,if want to cancel a order after 10business days ,can just sent them an email! i am so angry with them,even i can use my att lumia920 with a MR-SIM,but this not perfect to use
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xjqlfq said:
i have ordered in cellunlock.net one month ago,they still no give me the unlock code,and i have sent some email to cancel my order,they didn't want to cancel order,no like what they have said,if want to cancel a order after 10business days ,can just sent them an email! i am so angry with them,even i can use my att lumia920 with a MR-SIM,but this not perfect to use
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Hi there,
Does Mr. SIM allow Nokia Lumia 920 work with any network?
Where do you get Mr. SIM? I wanna try.
Thanks
Sophorth said:
Hi there,
Does Mr. SIM allow Nokia Lumia 920 work with any network?
Where do you get Mr. SIM? I wanna try.
Thanks
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i am in China,my sim card is produced before 2009,so it can deciphered,and writes the data into MR-sim,and use on att lumia920,you can find it on this link http://item.taobao.com/item.htm?spm=a230r.1.10.125.7mnHJd&id=21940400572
you can try translate it by google if you cann't Read Chinese
http://www.cellunlock.net/Unlock_AT_T_Nokia_Lumia_920_p/unlockattn920.htm ==> they said that they had just bought code and unlocked their Lumia 920. Anyone else can check this news is true or not ?
Thanks all,
Ninomaxx said:
http://www.cellunlock.net/Unlock_AT_T_Nokia_Lumia_920_p/unlockattn920.htm ==> they said that they had just bought code and unlocked their Lumia 920. Anyone else can check this news is true or not ?
Thanks all,
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i place an order one month ago,they can't give me an unlock code,so i sent them some emails to get my money back,they refund my money after i give them a nev feedback! see the below:
CellUnlock.net ([email protected])
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We don't sell a service we cant deliver, we have unlocked a lot of these phones and they are very hard to unlock which is why they have delays with Nokia. We don't delete every review, we delete the ones that are left by immature clients and think they can use it to speak their anger, it's reviews, NOT A CHAT, and you don't need to send numerous email which is called spamming, we reply to all emails in the order we get them. If you spam you end up in spam making us not see your email. We don’t only have you to reply to unfortunately. This order is being canceled and refunded as you requested.
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I would not purchase cellunlock. i been waiting 3 months and struggling to get refund. Hold tight until positve reviews are made on this forum. I think every unlock provider has been tried.
anyone tried this site: .unlocksexpress .com??
Vangink said:
I would not purchase cellunlock. i been waiting 3 months and struggling to get refund. Hold tight until positve reviews are made on this forum. I think every unlock provider has been tried.
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LG V10 DEMO (t-mobile) h901bk

Hello,
I need some help guys, so i'm looking into purchasing a LG V10 & I asked the seller to send me the imei just to make sure it's not blacklisted with t-mobile. The phone is clean, only problem I had was, beside the model number it says DEMO on the box. The seller said he won it through LG. Can a demo phone be unlocked & used as a normal phone or does it need to be rooted?
Thanks
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Call T-Mobile directly and ask.
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I did & they weren't sure lol. Going to go to the store tomorrow and find out. Just wanted to check if someone else on here knew.
Demos don't carry warranty, and legally cannot be sold words from my business Rep.
Thanks for the info, does it still work as a regular phone or will it have to be rooted?
My business Rep says itll be fine,but can't be traded in/upgraded through tmo or warranty exchange.
Is the phone unused as a demo model? I sometimes see demo devices advertised for sale, and the ones that were on display in stores are always shown to have some severe screen burn-in from displaying the same graphics for so long. The also say that the demo mode needs to be deactivated, but I'm not sure how that's done.
farufas said:
Hello,
I need some help guys, so i'm looking into purchasing a LG V10 & I asked the seller to send me the imei just to make sure it's not blacklisted with t-mobile. The phone is clean, only problem I had was, beside the model number it says DEMO on the box. The seller said he won it through LG. Can a demo phone be unlocked & used as a normal phone or does it need to be rooted?
Thanks
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Imho it's a risk. My G4 also came up clean on swappa as DEMOUNIT. 4 months plus using it as normal, no issues. YMMV
Thanks, i have verified it with tmobile and they advised a week ago these units were won in a competition and one rep won it as well. So he advised all were demo units. Only issue in having now is to make sure it will unlock. Tmobile has the device unlock app now
farufas said:
I did & they weren't sure lol. Going to go to the store tomorrow and find out. Just wanted to check if someone else on here knew.
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I have a demo one and it it was unlocked already I unlocked boot loader myself and rooted it but it's fully functioning in metro pcs right now
I have a close friend that works for T-Mobile. He won an Experia Z3 at a Christmas party last year that was a demo same as that V10. As others have said, the phone will not be warrantied in any way but will function exactly as any other V10. You'll be able to unlock and root just like any retail model.
tanked89 said:
I have a demo one and it it was unlocked already I unlocked boot loader myself and rooted it but it's fully functioning in metro pcs right now
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Thanks for the info. How did you unlock it?
Thanks everyone, i bought the phone. Now just waiting for the unlock code
farufas said:
Thanks everyone, i bought the phone. Now just waiting for the unlock code
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With how to unlock boot loader unlock
SIM Unlocking
Does anyone have any advice to SIM unlock this phone? T-Mobile tells me it isn't a T-Mobile device...
Huh
So, what's the experience with the demo v10 been? I just bought one.....looks and seems brand new "won in a sales contest".
loganfarrell said:
Does anyone have any advice to SIM unlock this phone? T-Mobile tells me it isn't a T-Mobile device...
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DId you get any help on this @loganfarrell?
nikhilatbits said:
DId you get any help on this @loganfarrell?
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Nope. What I have learned is that it is not treated as a T-Mobile phone and can't be unlocked. It isn't intended for commercial use but is fully functional as long as you have T-Mobile or a sister carrier.

[Q] Is the T-Mo version carrier-locked?

I know that the bootloader on this phone is locked (although there seems to be a workaround in development). Does anyone know whether the T-Mo version of the G5 is locked to the T-Mo network?
I believe it's normal practice for T-Mobile to unlock the phone once it's been paid for. My back up grand prime even has a app for this.
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Be careful, though. It sounds like T-Mobile has quite a few requirements for unlocking, with which a lot of people are displeased. I'm on AT&T and considered buying the T-Mobile version in full and requesting an unlock code, but it sounds like they won't give you a code unless you have an active T-Mobile account/phone plan and have used the phone on the account for several days (claims range from a couple to 40 days). T-Mobile CLAIMS it's because they have to register the imei of the phone on their system before they can unlock it. I think it's a load of crap, because with AT&T, all you have to do is pay in full and send them the imei number. I don't see why T-Mobile should be different, but it seems to be.
itiskonrad said:
Be careful, though. It sounds like T-Mobile has quite a few requirements for unlocking, with which a lot of people are displeased. I'm on AT&T and considered buying the T-Mobile version in full and requesting an unlock code, but it sounds like they won't give you a code unless you have an active T-Mobile account/phone plan and have used the phone on the account for several days (claims range from a couple to 40 days). T-Mobile CLAIMS it's because they have to register the imei of the phone on their system before they can unlock it. I think it's a load of crap, because with AT&T, all you have to do is pay in full and send them the imei number. I don't see why T-Mobile should be different, but it seems to be.
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Maybe I'd just be better off waiting and paying the same price for an unlocked phone through B&H?
Underwater Mike said:
Maybe I'd just be better off waiting and paying the same price for an unlocked phone through B&H?
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I think that's what I'm probably going to do. Just fingers crossed its bootloader will be as easy to unlock as T-Mobile's! I don't really need an unlocked bootloader, but I definitely need root. And with Marshmallow requiring an unlocked bootloader just for root, this is now non-negotiable for me.
http://phandroid.com/2016/04/01/loo...ader-custom-rom-development-likely-to-follow/
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Debranding samsung galaxy s8 active

Hi peeps,
I'm from Holland and i bought myself a Samsung s8 active global gsm unlocked from a seller in the usa via ebay. However the phone is branded with at&t firmware and somehow it isn't possible for the phone to find a network here in Holland. When i search manually for a network, it finds the networks which are operating here, but when i try to register onto the network it says that it's impossible to register...
I hope someone can help me with this!
Greetings from Holland
Martin
i search your device and it say it only has 3 variants AT&T
T-Mobile
Sprint
also openline is the right keyword not "Debranding"
in my country openline usually cost $20 US dollar but i guess you can do it yourself by following guides from the internet ?
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i search your device and it say it only has 3 variants AT&T
T-Mobile
Sprint
also openline is the right keyword not "Debranding"
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Well ok... thanks for your reply. Like i said, I'm from Holland, so pls excuse me for not knowing the correct terms. I searched the internet and found some pages in Dutch where i found the term branded phone and debranding, so i figured that is a universal term for it...
I happen to have a T-mobile subscription here in Holland. So it should be possible to use the phone with T-mobile firmware if there isn't a "unbranded" firmware version.
this guy has the same issue with you https://forums.att.com/t5/Samsung/Unlock-instructions-for-Galaxy-S8-Active/td-p/5850469
also this website is worth checking
https://www.att.com/deviceunlock/
Thanks for your answer. However, the top url doesn't work and i allready tried the bottom one... can't unlock myself via at&t because i don't have a at&t phone nr or account... never had. Can't create an account because they ask for a at&t phone nr which i don't have. I bought the phone on ebay and it was shipped to Holland.
Had contact multiple times with Samsung Europe and they said it would be no problem for me to use the phone here, but it seems that's not the case.
hmmn since most option require you to have at&t mobile# and account which you don't have the only option i see is contacting at&t FB page and say your case ( you just bought the phone on ebay and didn't know its network lock ) who know they might openline it without paying anything ??
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hmmn since most option require you to have at&t mobile# and account which you don't have the only option i see is contacting at&t FB page and say your case ( you just bought the phone on ebay and didn't know its network lock ) who know they might openline it without paying anything
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Lol... who said I'm looking for a free option?
I just want the phone to work here... in Holland they stopped selling the active series after the s5 active. I really wanted to have a upgrade for my s5 active so i bought the s8 active because according to samsung it should work fine here in Holland...
well clearly it did not works ??
at&t has free chat support on there site https://www.att.com/support/contact-us/wireless
nvm it's a fvcking bot hahaha
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MartinV84 said:
Lol... who said I'm looking for a free option?
I just want the phone to work here... in Holland they stopped selling the active series after the s5 active. I really wanted to have a upgrade for my s5 active so i bought the s8 active because according to samsung it should work fine here in Holland...
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Is there someone who can help me with this? I can't find anything helpfull on the internet so far...
I really want my new phone to work here on the Dutch networks but it seems to me it's solely because of the at&t firmware that's stopping me from doing so. Is there any way to get rid of that firmware safely? Personally I'm not interested in the whole warranty thing because since i have this phone shipped to holland, i can't get any warranty with samsung Europe, so for any warranty i have to ship it back to America which i won't do because of the costs that will come with that.
Suggestions/tips are more then welcome!
Some progress
In addition to this subject... been in france with my 'new' phone and inserted my sim-card to see what would happen. Immediately it found a network and I could make calls and use 4g internet. Back in Holland it still works but the reception is poor. Been searching for the right apn settings, found alot of different suggestions and tried a bunch of them. So far so good. When I change something in the apn settings, 4g internet becomes very slow or is entirely gone. It seems I'm on to something here but I can't find out which are the best settings.
I hope someone has more understanding of this problem...
Flashing firmware
Ok so it now seems the at&t firmware is the problem. But is there a save way to flash T-mobile software to the galaxy s8 active? It has bootloader 4 on it
Greetings from Holland

Android 10 Rolling Out Now

If you're a T-Mobile user in the US you should expect Android 10 final anytime now. Beta testers are getting the final as we speak. Hopefully everyone else won't be far behind except for us unlocked people which will wait I guess.
When is the unlocked s10 estimated to get the update?
I'm on cricket. So I assume I'll get it in June? Lol. There used to be a trick to just put in another carriers Sim but I am not unlocked yet so I don't think it'll work because of that.
Did Any that were in Beta Program with S10 Unlocked G973U1 get the Update Yet like they did with other Updates????
Verizon SM-G973U received Android 10 today 12-16-19 in the USA
Anyone receive on AT&T Yet?
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Verizon SM-G973U received Android 10 today 12-16-19 in the USA
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Did Any that were in Beta Program with S10 Unlocked G973U1 get the Update Yet like they did with other Updates????
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Not as an hour ago. The unlocked people are still hanging out in the beta forum.
Tel864 said:
If you're a T-Mobile user in the US you should expect Android 10 final anytime now. Beta testers are getting the final as we speak. Hopefully everyone else won't be far behind except for us unlocked people which will wait I guess.
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Android Police is reporting that Unlocked US S10s are receiving the update.
https://www.androidpolice.com/2019/12/16/samsung-galaxy-s10-series-android-10/
EDIT: it appears to be the S10+
MatthewPresley said:
Anyone receive on AT&T Yet?
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I am on AT&T and haven't gotten anything.
I got it. I'm on Freedom Mobile in Canada.
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I am on AT&T and haven't gotten anything.
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https://www.reddit.com/r/galaxys10/...hare/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share
Just got it on AT&T just did the old change the date manually a few days ahead and checked for update and started downloading.
i just checked on my AT&T S10 and got the update. (or at least what appears to be the update to Android 10)
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Just got it on AT&T just did the old change the date manually a few days ahead and checked for update and started downloading.
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Not working for me, on cricket, guess I'm SOL lol
carnivalrejectq said:
Not working for me, on cricket, guess I'm SOL lol
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Yeah cricket might be a little later
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rwc95 said:
Yeah cricket might be a little later
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I was hoping it'd be in sync with AT&T, since xfinity was with Verizon, ehh.
Just got it on AT&T this morning. No date change required.
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I am on AT&T and haven't gotten anything.
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Yea, they'll probably be the last carrier, hopefully after them the unlocked.
I had the change the date in settings for my AT&T s10+ to pull down the update

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