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Unlocking motorola V171 on tescos
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I have spent a while looking search results and have gleened lots of info but not on this specific make on the tesco's tariff.
It seems reading through that motorolas need a cable to be unlocked, but can some nice kind person verify what i need to do with a motorola V171 on tescos pay as you go which i want to use my O2 card in.
Thank you very much xx
It seems reading through that motorolas need a cable to be unlocked, but can some nice kind person verify what i need to do with a motorola V171 on tescos pay as you go which i want to use my O2 card in.
Thank you very much xx

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I phoned Tesco about this and they will give unlock code if you top up by £30 on the Tesco sim card0
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Tesco Mobile is through O2, so you should be able just to throw your O2 sim card in and it will work no worries.0
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Thanks bagand96, i have tried and it asked for a sim pin, which is ok and then a subsidy code?? which i don't know what one is?
Do you?
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subsidy code is the unlocking code
sim pin is you own pin number on your sim card
i think it may need unlocking as tesc use a different mcc & mnc to tesco0 -
bagand96 wrote:Tesco Mobile is through O2, so you should be able just to throw your O2 sim card in and it will work no worries.
are you sure? i thought tesco had a different network code than o2. maybe i should give the money back to the people who's phones i have unlocked from the tesco network.
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james-73 wrote:are you sure? i thought tesco had a different network code than o2. maybe i should give the money back to the people who's phones i have unlocked from the tesco network.
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Ahh, it seems it may have changed. Tesco is through O2, and up until recently they did not have their own network code, so Tesco/O2 sims were interchangeable, perhaps they have their own network code now...
Sorry for any misinformation.0 -
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V171 deffo locked to Tesco as I have tried 2 O2 sims and they dont work in0
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Do O2 sims work in any other service provider phones ie vodafone,t mobile.
I still have not opened the box so may be i can exchange it for a phone my sim will work in. If not i will have to pay to unlock it i spose - does any one have an idea how much this will be?
Thanks for all your help0
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