bought an iphone 5 on ebay really need advice, Thanks in advance

WTFH

Have you tried activating it through iTunes?

conorfarrell

WTFH wrote: »

Have you tried activating it through iTunes?

i have already said i have in the post

bris

conorfarrell wrote: »

ok sorry im a first time poster here , im from ireland phone was bought on ebay and from the UK, i have tried to activate with a sim, even if the phone is blacklisted it should activate it will just constantly say no signal, after it wouldnt activate i done an imei check to find it is on orange UK,
i was awear of all the problems i fix iphones, i have bought these phones before one for myself during summer and i got one and fixed it for my sister and one for my cousin and made about 50profit on each phone cause there family,

I understand it is sold as not working and for parts but if it was unlocked i would have the phone fixed and working by now it, is the fact that it is locked that i cant fix it unless i buy a barried unlocked for 125euro witch i shouldnt have to do if it was clearly stated as unlocked

It doesnt matter, you bought a broken phone, you are exactly what my first post described, buy a broken phone and dispute the transaction when you cant fix it, you got what you paid for so suck it up.

WTFH

conorfarrell wrote: »

i have already said i have in the post

Sorry, all I saw was that you tried to activate it with a sim.

I'm talking about plugging the phone into a computer and activating it that way.
Next step would be to jailbreak it. In fact, most experienced iPhone fixers do that first to check it over. That gets round the blacklisting (as I'm sure you knew).

Also, if it was blacklisted, that would only be with UK mobile operators. As yet there is no international blacklist.

bod1467

Nope - no mention of Itunes in this thread until WTFH's post #22.

WTFH

bod1467 wrote: »

Nope - no mention of Itunes in this thread until WTFH's post #22.

OK, glad to see that I'm not going mad(der)

pinkshoes

Have you actually PHONED Ebay to ask why they sided with the seller? They can often be persuaded to change their mind.

SuperHan

Are Orange really willing to unlock a blacklisted phone? That seems a bit pointless.

Can you post the link to the eBay listing, as I think how the seller has exactly described the fault could be the crux of this.

If he says it was not getting signal in the UK, I'm not sure this means that it will then get signal in Ireland, surely it just means the seller has tested in the UK and it doesn't work there, but it may not work anywhere?

And also, maybe the seller did have it on O2, after it had been unlocked from Orange, or have you already confirmed that the phone is indeed locked?

boo_star

WTFH wrote: »

Sorry, all I saw was that you tried to activate it with a sim.

I'm talking about plugging the phone into a computer and activating it that way.
Next step would be to jailbreak it. In fact, most experienced iPhone fixers do that first to check it over. That gets round the blacklisting (as I'm sure you knew).

Also, if it was blacklisted, that would only be with UK mobile operators. As yet there is no international blacklist.

Jailbreaking won't get around a blacklisted IMEI, only the network lock.

With the first iPhone there was a method to change the IMEI after jailbreaking but as I recall they changed the IMEI from being stored in software to hardware to prevent this.

DevCoder

Jailbreaking certainly wont get around an IMEI block, and most IMEI blocks are European (and northern America for GSM providers over there (ie non CDMA)) as they share the information.

However you can still change the IMEI but Im not going to condone that as its illegal (and quite difficult).