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rachel90
rachel90 Posts: 306 Forumite
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Hi all, trying to find somewhere to unlock an iPhone 4 on Orange. Have been told places can't do it and have also had a quote of £100!!!
Have found this website: http://www.officialiphoneunlock.co.uk
They offer to do it for £19.99, with the IMEI number. I have googled reviews for the site and seems positive but I'm quite wary of it all! Has anyone used it?

TIA

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  • Hi, just interested to hear if you used the site, I want to use the same site
  • MrSilk
    MrSilk Posts: 1,515 Forumite
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    Why not ask Orange?, they only charges me £20
  • MrSilk
    MrSilk Posts: 1,515 Forumite
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    504 Gateway Time-out. Scam.
  • grumbler
    grumbler Posts: 58,629 Forumite
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    MrSilk wrote: »
    Why not ask Orange?, they only charges me £20
    Firstly, they don't do this for everyone and have serious restrictions in place.
    Secondly, often they take months to do this.
  • MrSilk
    MrSilk Posts: 1,515 Forumite
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    grumbler wrote: »
    Firstly, they don't do this for everyone and have serious restrictions in place.
    Secondly, often they take months to do this.

    Understand the restrictions, mine only took a 4 days!.
  • 19lottie82
    19lottie82 Posts: 6,029 Forumite
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    Orange only took 6 days to unlock my iPhone 4. I'd recommend you try them first before a third party website.
  • gjchester
    gjchester Posts: 5,741 Forumite
    rachel90 wrote: »
    Hi all, trying to find somewhere to unlock an iPhone 4 on Orange. Have been told places can't do it and have also had a quote of £100!!!
    Have found this website: http://www.officialiphoneunlock.co.uk
    They offer to do it for £19.99, with the IMEI number. I have googled reviews for the site and seems positive but I'm quite wary of it all! Has anyone used it?

    TIA


    Previously I put in my imei and told the site is was a iPhone 4. It thought about ait and said it could be unlocked based on the IMEI.


    Problem was the IMEI was from an old Motorola. Stay away from these type of sites.

    Apple phones are locked by Apples servers, when you put in a new sim the phone check home to see if it should unlock. If it's not on the list it will not unlock.
    The only way these companies can unlock the phone is to have a person working in the network who does them on the side, if the network ever audits their work you may find the unlock status reverts to locked.
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