Help with transferring old phone

Firebird

Hi, I have a relative who has a new phone and would like to give their older iphone 4 to my teenager. Apart from cleariing their data, is there anything we need to do apart from getting a sim only deal with one of the providers.

macman

If changing provider, you may need to unlock the phone.
Teenager and a contract SIM-are you sure about that? It's basicallly a credit card with no limit.

Firebird

Thanks how do I go about unlocking it?
Pretty level headed teenager but i can keep an eye online hopefully

d123

Firebird wrote: »

Thanks how do I go about unlocking it?

Your relative just needs to ask the existing network to unlock it, and pay the unlock fee of around £15.

The unlock is activated by connecting to iTunes after the network has processed the request.

macman

What network is it on, and what network are you migrating to?

Firebird

the iphone4 was on O2 and relative has now got an iphone5 and is still on O2 with the same number. She does not know what she has to do now in order to give the phone to nephew.

Silk

Firebird wrote: »

the iphone4 was on O2 and relative has now got an iphone5 and is still on O2 with the same number. She does not know what she has to do now in order to give the phone to nephew.

If the Nephew is going to use O2 then just pass it on to him ....If the Nephew is going to be using a different network then she needs to get the phone unlocked for him

macman

What is the new network going to be?

Firebird

I was looking at Tesco at the moment. Is it 02 that will have locked the phone - sorry to sound a bit of a numpty but we don't know too much about it as you might have gathered

Silk

Firebird wrote: »

I was looking at Tesco at the moment. Is it 02 that will have locked the phone - sorry to sound a bit of a numpty but we don't know too much about it as you might have gathered

Good point as you mention it

Do you know if the phone is "locked" ...quite often a phone sold on a network plan such as O2 would be locked to that network ...however it may have been purchased unlocked already in which case no need to bother.

The Tesco sim should work in a O2 phone as far as I'm aware they use the O2 network

Firebird

I don't think that the phone is locked. i know that my relative went a few days ago and bought the iphone 5 from carphone warehouse - she is now up and running with it using 02 and the same phone
number as the iphone 4