Unlocking samsung E300

little_miss_broke_2

Hi all

I hope this is the correct place to post this, if not i'm sure the clever people will re-direct it to the proper place! I didn't want to post it on the big unlocking thread because i thought it might get lost there!!

Anyway, i found a site with instructions on how to unlock the above phone and i thought it might prove helpful to some:

(i have just copied and pasted the instructions for you - it worked perfectly for me!)

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1. Type *#06# on your phone and write down your IMEI (you'll need it
later) or get it from the back of your phone.
2. Put a simcard from another provider and power on your phone
3. At the "wrong card" message type: *2767*688YOURIMEI, for
example: *2767*68835363900065487#
(imei is 14 digits ignore the 3 digits after the slash "/")
4. Your phone will reboot and then your simcard from other provider will
work

--this 4 steps is for a temporary unlocking, when you power of your
phone
it'll be locked again, to permanently unlock it continue to step 5--
5. After your phone has rebooted on step 4, dont press any key or do
anything,
just type this: *0141# and hit the send button
6. A message will appear telling you that your phone is personalized
7. Shut off the phone and enter the SIM of yet another carrier.
8. At the "Enter SIM lock password" screen, enter eight zeros as in
00000000.
9. YOUR PHONE IS NOW UNLOCKED >>>>>>>>>>>>>

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I followed the instructions above to the letter and it worked for me. The only thing different was when i turned the phone off and back on again i was NOT asked to enter a "SIM unlock password" as it says above.

Hope this helps someone (i did contact orange to see if they could unlock the phone and was told it would cost £20 - no thanks, said me!!)