chinese/clone phones unlocking?

mumblebee62

Does anyone know if you can unlock a clone phone, my son brought one that is locked to EE...bit odd as i never heard of any clone phone thats locked to a network but that aside...Can they be unlocked please?:rotfl:

grumbler

What do you call "a clone phone"?

Indeed, what you say is very odd.

Browntoa

If it's a clone phone then no

grumbler

Browntoa wrote: »

If it's a clone phone then no

Why would anybody lock a clone phone in the first place?

forgotmyname

It wont be locked because the chinese sellers wont know what network your on. Maybe something in your settings? SIM lock activated?

mumblebee62

Nope this is deffo locked to EE tryed other sims and it wont have it.. has all the EE software to...EE wallpaers and start up stuff...P.S.... A clone phone is a chinese copy of a branded phone..He wanted to "keep up" with his mates and brought it to be "in" couldnt afford the real deal so purchased this one.

grumbler

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A copy of what? How is it called?
Orange software means sold by Orange. Orange do sell 'chinese' phones, but they don't sell 'copies'.

marleyboy

To be honest, I would be surprised if it even is locked or just a duff. As the majority of cloned items are made to simply LOOK the part.

mumblebee62

It says Samsung on the phone i tryed a EE, Orange and a T mobile sim all work perfect any other sim theres no network signal at all...It was sold as an Samsung Note 4 clone.. all the other features seem to work fine, seems very odd to me the software and start up stuff is all EE/Orange related to.. i tryed to change the auto network select to manual and put it on O2 but it says not alowed.. very odd..

eDicky

mumblebee62 wrote: »

Nope this is deffo locked to EE tryed other sims and it wont have it.. has all the EE software to...EE wallpaers and start up stuff...P.S.... A clone phone is a chinese copy of a branded phone..He wanted to "keep up" with his mates and brought it to be "in" couldnt afford the real deal so purchased this one.

A phone locked to EE networks must have been supplied by them. It is hard to believe that they market a Chinese knock-off Samsung complete with fake branding, there must be another explanation...


"Don't worry dad, it's just a cheap clone."

JJ_Egan

mumblebee62 wrote: »

It says Samsung on the phone i tryed a EE, Orange and a T mobile sim all work perfect any other sim theres no network signal at all...It was sold as an Samsung Note 4 clone.. all the other features seem to work fine, seems very odd to me the software and start up stuff is all EE/Orange related to.. i tryed to change the auto network select to manual and put it on O2 but it says not alowed.. very odd..

My guess is that its been flashed with EE firmware .