Finding the network a phone is locked to

indesisiv

Is there a way to find out what network a phone is locked to? Other than getting different sim cards and putting them in?

Thanks

Steve

drahcir_2

not without special hardware
unless there is branding on the housing
usually voda/orange/virgin have housing branding but tmob and o2 dont so you maybe able to eliminate some like this

indesisiv

Thanks drahcir,
Sadly no branding, however it's not t-mob, o2 or orange so i'm getting there. Just ordered a free vodaphone sim card, so I'll try that.

Thanks
Steve

ard123en

may sound daft but why not get it unlocked then it wont matter what card you put in it

espresso

ard123en wrote:

may sound daft but why not get it unlocked then it wont matter what card you put in it

To generate an unlock code, it is necessary to know which network it is locked to, unless a data cable is used to connect it to unlocking software running on a PC etc.

indesisiv

I have now found out it was locked to vodaphone.
Just had to find someone with a sim for each network.

Sadly no cable so need the network to generate the code.

happyhunter

indesisiv wrote:

Thanks drahcir,
Sadly no branding, however it's not t-mob, o2 or orange so i'm getting there. Just ordered a free vodaphone sim card, so I'll try that.

Thanks
Steve

You mean it works on all the above?

Am I missing something???? Surely if it's not locked to t-mob, o2 orange (as you have said) then the phone is obviously unlocked already!!???

indesisiv

Happyhunter,
What I meant was they were the sim cards that I had tried, that wouldn't work because of the phone lock.
Needed to go through and find one that worked (Vodaphone in this case) so that I could unlock it.