Unlocking Orange Phone

sort_me_own_yard_out

i looked into going onto giff gaff myself and my sons phones that I currently have with orange.when i went to my local market to have the phones unlocked they said they could no longer unlock orange phones due to the new licences with ee. has anyone got any insight into this?

Thanks in advance

Diane

reehsetin

Call Orange, it's £20 and you need an Orange phone number to request it from.

d123

sort_me_own_yard_out wrote: »

they said they could no longer unlock orange phones due to the new licences with ee.

I have a BS to English dictionary , what that means is the unlocker doesn't have the correct equipment or the phone has no unlocking solution. There is nothing special with the lock on EE phones.

What phone was it?

sort_me_own_yard_out

It is an iPhone 4 and a Sony experia. She didn't even look at them in all honesty I just asked how much and she said they couldn't! Never even got round to asking about my sons as he has locked himself out of the phone.

Rusty!

d123 wrote: »

There is nothing special with the lock on EE phones.

Actaully, there is.

Look at the Nokia Lumia 800 for example, Voda/O2 ones easily unlocked by third parties.

Orange/T-Mobile ones, nope.

d123

sort_me_own_yard_out wrote: »

It is an iPhone 4 and a Sony experia.

iPhone 4 is no solution except the network (which goes for all network phones), depending on the Xperia model, again no unlocking solution for some, no matter which network.

Rusty! wrote: »

Actaully, there is.

Look at the Nokia Lumia 800 for example, Voda/O2 ones easily unlocked by third parties.

Orange/T-Mobile ones, nope.

Not according to XDA, it seems to depend on the bootloader, not the network lock.

For example

If you have the Qualcomm bootloader you can use NSS 0.50 to unlock it (the post in a few posts down in this forum). If you don't have the Qualcomm then currently the only way to unlock it is to get Orange to do it