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Finding the network a phone is locked to
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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 this0 -
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“Time is intended to be spent, not saved” - Alfred Wainwright0 -
may sound daft but why not get it unlocked then it wont matter what card you put in it0
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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.:doh: Blue text on this forum usually signifies hyperlinks, so click on them!..:wall:0 -
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.“Time is intended to be spent, not saved” - Alfred Wainwright0 -
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!!???0 -
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.“Time is intended to be spent, not saved” - Alfred Wainwright0
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