Re: Unlocking mobiles (untested)

Smartasss

@ MrLew

£25 sounds reasonable (£30 is regularly quoted)

Expect to pay around £15/£20 for the SE 500.

Neither of these phones can be unlocked yourself free.

Gem+Dave+Kaci

Thanks for the reply smartasss. To be honest I was hoping to just use my o2 sim and to throw the Tesco sim away. Hasn't anyone on here ever has to unlock one of these?

Smartasss

There is a firm who can give you the code over the phone whilst you wait - they need the imei number.

Calls cost £1/minute (from a landline) and last around 5 mins.

See https://www.dial-a-code.co.uk

Browntoa

robdog wrote:

I want to unlock my Nokia 3310 from O2 and followed the various links on here and finished up at http://www.uniquephones.com/index.php they quite happily relieved me of £1.20 via paypal since then nothing, have emailed etc. no replies, not a great sum of money but it wrankles :mad:

send me the details by private message and i'll do it for you for free

Browntoa

polybear wrote:

Is there anyone out there who can offer sound advice regarding the unlocking of two Nokia phones that i've been given please? They are models 6110 and 6310. I've just one Vodaphone Pay as You Go SIM card, which works fine in both. I want to use a BT CELLNET "U"/02 PAYG SIM Card.
1. Unlock codes from the "Trykill" website were first entered into the 6110 - the phone displayed "SIM was not restricted". However, the U/O2 SIM card still won't work in the phone. Any ideas?
2. I also carried out a similar process on the 6310 - the internet site offered seven possible unlock codes; I tried code 7 then code 1 without success (using the U/02 SIM card still won't work - "NO NETWORK CONNECTION"). I've noticed that the Trykill site offers the opportunity to enter a "BOXSERIAL" number also; some other sites ask for a "GEN" number. Any ideas on this please? Many thanks.

Polybear.

send me the details by private message and i'll do it for you for free

Browntoa

Gem+Dave+Kaci wrote:

Can anyone advise where I can unlock a Nokia 2650. It's currently locked to Tesco but I need to unlock it to o2. I've tried the 'cyber' downloadable program but there's too many options!! Has anyone managed to sucessfully unlock this mobile yet? Urgent help plz!!!

same again

send me the details by private message and i'll do it for you for free

Neil_Lamin

Have just un locked my Nokia 6100 for the chick !

Took about 2 mins....FANTASTIC

Thankyou

Zeldazog

I haven't read through all 26 pages of the this thread, so my apologies if this has already been mentioned, but...

Be careful if you are unlocking a phone (by not using the network's chargeable unlock service) that is under a year old - I think you might find that it would invalidate the warranty.

Even though using a code is not likely to cause any problems in itself, if something else goes wrong, and they know you've unlocked it with any other method than their own service, the network will not stand the warranty, even if the problem is completely unrelated.

Does anyone know if there is a way to "sticky" this to the start of the thread? It might save some people searching through all the pages in the first place.

freddyfeet

Zeldazog wrote:

I haven't read through all 26 pages of the this thread, so my apologies if this has already been mentioned, but...

Be careful if you are unlocking a phone (by not using the network's chargeable unlock service) that is under a year old - I think you might find that it would invalidate the warranty.

Even though using a code is not likely to cause any problems in itself, if something else goes wrong, and they know you've unlocked it with any other method than their own service, the network will not stand the warranty, even if the problem is completely unrelated.

Does anyone know if there is a way to "sticky" this to the start of the thread? It might save some people searching through all the pages in the first place.

I thought "sticky" was a person! Not only that, but the most knowledgable and sensible person on the forum. He seemed to know about everything and always offered sound advice. I had hoped to meet him one day and shake his hand...

freddyfeet

I was going to ask this to "sticky" (see previous post) but now I know he can't help me!

I have a Sony Ericcson t610 which I am hoping to unlock from a bt mobile contract and convert to payg (it seemed like a good idea at the time to give my daughter this deal -- big mistake!). I want to use the sim from the contract in another phone until the contract expires and I can escape.
However this is a cash back element to the contract and I am worried that if the network knows I have unlocked the phone they might not pay up.
Does anyone know if they can tell I am using a different phone?
Please help before I go bankrupt paying the monthly bill!