Motorola Moto G 8GB £99 at Tesco BACK IN STOCK!!

Tallaght

Invalid if you unlock phone from a 3rd party.

Gloomendoom

Interesting. So an unlock code from Motorola wouldn't invalidate the warranty?

Tallaght

The only way to unlock a handset and not invalidate the warranty is to obtain the unlock code from the manufacturer's database.

neil40

The phone costs peanuts anyway so warranty would not bother me.

Gloomendoom

neil40 wrote: »

The phone costs peanuts anyway so warranty would not bother me.

I suppose it's all relative. I don't buy phones often. I've had three since 1995.

Rusty!

Tallaght wrote: »

The only way to unlock a handset and not invalidate the warranty is to obtain the unlock code from the manufacturer's database.

The codes all come from the same place. The code you get from eBay is identical to the code you get from any 'official' channel.

Zebrdee

neil40 wrote: »

The phone costs peanuts anyway so warranty would not bother me.

This phone costs way more than peanuts. Anyway, there's a dual SIM version on the way, so I wonder if they'll do a 4G version because the Moto X is £400 - too much for me. Any discount codes that still work?

This phone has the best feedback on Amazon that I've ever seen.

spannerzone

Rusty! wrote: »

The codes all come from the same place. The code you get from eBay is identical to the code you get from any 'official' channel.

Absolutely, Motorola wouldn't give a different unlock code so if the unlock works, it works.

As to warranty being affected I cannot see how this can affect warranty and I suspect it would not. Unlocking the bootloader would as would an unofficial firmware update.

I suspect that people are misunderstanding 'unlock bootloader' and 'sim unlock' which are two very different things.

Also consider that if your unlocked Tesco Moto G goes wrong and you send it back, do you think the service centre puts in a non tesco sim to check it's still locked to Tesco network? - I suspect not. Do they check it's running standard firmware and a locked bootloader? - yes they probably do especially if it relevent to the fault.

Personally I consider the 30% saving of buying it from tesco and unlocking it a risk well worth taking seeing as the chance of failure is fairly low anyway.

spannerzone

Zebrdee wrote: »

This phone costs way more than peanuts. Anyway, there's a dual SIM version on the way, so I wonder if they'll do a 4G version because the Moto X is £400 - too much for me. Any discount codes that still work?

This phone has the best feedback on Amazon that I've ever seen.

Relatively speaking for a reasonably high spec smart phone it is peanuts. But it's all down to each persons idea of peanuts of course.

The dual sim Moto G is unlikely to appear via official UK retailers but it certainly does exist in some countries already and likely to turn up here at some time.

Will they make a 4G Moto G? I suspect not this year, more likely they'll have to heavily discount the Moto X to £200 - £250 otherwise it won't sell very well at the £350 tag it will start at.

sillygoose

spannerzone wrote: »

Absolutely, Motorola wouldn't give a different unlock code so if the unlock works, it works.

As to warranty being affected I cannot see how this can affect warranty and I suspect it would not. Unlocking the bootloader would as would an unofficial firmware update.

I suspect that people are misunderstanding 'unlock bootloader' and 'sim unlock' which are two very different things.

Also consider that if your unlocked Tesco Moto G goes wrong and you send it back, do you think the service centre puts in a non tesco sim to check it's still locked to Tesco network? - I suspect not. Do they check it's running standard firmware and a locked bootloader? - yes they probably do especially if it relevent to the fault.

Personally I consider the 30% saving of buying it from tesco and unlocking it a risk well worth taking seeing as the chance of failure is fairly low anyway.

I agree totally, also think people get confused with rooting a phone the same which also means someone could easily break the operating system and send it back as a hardware fault when it isn't, I am sure they check for that.

My understanding of unlocking process was it set something imbedded in the chipset rather than any software in non volatile memory, as unlocking can survive even wiping and reflashing everything.