So my uncle got a moto e from his company which was tesco sim locked.
Now to make it work in India , i need to network unlock it. Before giving the £20 pounds to tesco, i tried alternate ways to network unlock the phone.
I unlocked the bootloader officially as per the motorola website, changed the recovery to clockworkmod, and flashed cyanogenmod, still it asks me for the sim unlock pin to use my local sim card.
i tried varioius codes on Ebay, with no success from them.
So now the only way is to pay tesco those £20....unless ofcourse you guys can help me out here...
I guess if I can flash an unofficial bootloader for this device, maybe it would be possible, but i was unsuccessful in finding one...
Thanks in advanced if you can help me sort this up
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hello everyone,
been out of the scene for a while, and I just sold my dell streak, however, the new owner cannot use his new dell streak as its locked to AT&T. I obtained an unlock code from them by calling them, but the streak is on MIUI and the menu that ask for the unlock number does not come up, is there any other way to do this? do I have to flash an original android firmware to it? Thanks in advance.
Foxhoundep3 said:
hello everyone,
been out of the scene for a while, and I just sold my dell streak, however, the new owner cannot use his new dell streak as its locked to AT&T. I obtained an unlock code from them by calling them, but the streak is on MIUI and the menu that ask for the unlock number does not come up, is there any other way to do this? do I have to flash an original android firmware to it? Thanks in advance.
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you said it is sim unlocking... therefore (usually) it is phone related locking... not from at&t... there should be a menu for security > sim card lock
im just trying to unlock the phone to be used with TMobile, it is locked to AT&T not sure if it's phone or sim. AT&T gave me a code to unlock it but when I insert the sim the menu to unlock it doesn't pop up
Foxhoundep3 said:
im just trying to unlock the phone to be used with TMobile, it is locked to AT&T not sure if it's phone or sim. AT&T gave me a code to unlock it but when I insert the sim the menu to unlock it doesn't pop up
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open Settings > Security and search for something similar to sim card lock... you should get something from there...
if you get nothing.. most probably the phone is network locked... my phone is network unlocked where i can insert any sim... and it does have sim card lock in case there is someone else want to use the phone and use another sim card in it...
If you mean CARRIER unlocking and not the sim card itself, you have to install a stock rom. Sim unlocking isnt exactly something that can be easily tested on a custom rom, so that's your only reliable way of doing so.
If you mean the actual sim card itself, cant help ya
anyone care to share some rom links, all the ones ive tried dont work or a whole bunch of ads come up.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/wiki/Dell_Streak_5
Hello Support,
I am in very bad situation.i bought Motorola Atrix MB860 4G from US via eBay and then I took it to India and when i use local sim card it asked me network unlock code. By mistake i gave more thn 10 times wrong code and now this phone is totally locked and not accepting correct code.
Please help me to unlock it,it very important and urgent for me.
I requested the unlock code from AT&T and they provided me the 8 digit code.
But meanwhile i tried some random unlock codes and because of that my mobile device is now not accepting correct unlock code that is provided by service provider.
I understand from AT&T that i exceed the limit for entering the correct code,So it seems hardware locked and can not reset the max number unsuccessful attempts only hardware manufacture can help me to reset that counter or unlock it for any other service provider.
I come to know from the internet that this is happening with many other mobile users who tried to connect to any other service providers and now their mobiles are now useless as devices are fully locked and not even access original service.
Hope i will get any positive reply else this device will be useless and i loose very important stuff from device.
Just found that my new ME302KL (LTE) just bought via E-Bay has an AT&T network lock - it requests a network unlock code when I insert a SIM. As I don't have an AT&T account or SIM, I cannot get it unlocked from there. Found a web site that wants 50$ for providing an unlock code, which would then take two weeks for processing.
I've unlocked the boot loader with the ASUS utility available on the ASUS web page, and have rooted it successfully with vROOT (the framaroot approach described in another thread did not work for me).
So, is there another way to get the network unlocked? Either by getting a code for the IMEI, or via USB?
which website? maybe ill give it a try because i have the same issue here i would like to unlock it also, i really dont mind waiting 2 weeks or so
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Just found that my new ME302KL (LTE) just bought via E-Bay has an AT&T network lock - it requests a network unlock code when I insert a SIM. As I don't have an AT&T account or SIM, I cannot get it unlocked from there. Found a web site that wants 50$ for providing an unlock code, which would then take two weeks for processing.
I've unlocked the boot loader with the ASUS utility available on the ASUS web page, and have rooted it successfully with vROOT (the framaroot approach described in another thread did not work for me).
So, is there another way to get the network unlocked? Either by getting a code for the IMEI, or via USB?
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Hi Forum. May be my first post. I just SIM unlocked LG V10 on T-Mobile. Here is what I can say about the process that might be helpful to others:
1-Phones can be SIM locked by manufacturers so that service providers ensure that phones can only be used on their network or certain countries. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIM_lock for more information.
2-The process of unlocking requires the service provider to request unlock codes from the manufacturer. The service provider may have requirements to unlock ( e.g. in my case I had to put $100 balance on T-Mobile prepaid card ). This process took 5 working days at which time T-Mobile emailed me to inform me that they were ready for me to initiate unlock on my device.
3-On my device, I ran a "Device Unlock" app which connected with somebody ( T-Mobile ? ) and verified my phone was actually unlock eligible and viola. I'm SIM unlocked.
What I would like to know is what has changed on my phone ( e.g. firmware, some information on some partition ) ? Does this mean I can now root, change ROMs and my phone will remain SIM unlocked ? Any links to information about what actually happens when device unlocked would be appreciated.
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What I can tell you is that, if you did unlock permanent it is going to be unlocked even after rooting and installing new roms etc.
Now, I want to ask in this forum if the phone can be unlocked if the t-mobile unlock app says it is not eligible to unlock. I bought my phone on eBay, called t-mobile the phone is clean, but they could not unlock it for me because needs an account... So now I'm stuck trying to find a 3rd party unlock website to do it, 2 already said they could not... So I have the phone but can't use it. Any suggestions?
Yes, I can confirm that on this LG V10 having performed a SIM unlock and then having switched ROMs the unlock remained in effect.
So I aquired a h830 Sim unlocked. I unlocked the bootloader. And flashed 20a.now the thing is Sim locked again and the unlock app fails and won't unlock it
Any ideas
Just to update everybody. I despite not being a T-Mobile customer. Hit up their face book team. The whitelisted my device on the unlock server in less than 24 hours. Tell em you bought it factory direct. Unlock successful and free