Help! Daughter put old O2 sim in to her new EE iPhone 6.

Fella

dealer_wins wrote: »

Reason no. 1595 not to buy Apple products.

Exactly the sort of comment I'd expect from someone who has clearly never bought an Apple product.


Those of us who have know there are WAY more than 1595 reasons not to..

d123

dealer_wins wrote: »

Reason no. 1595 not to buy Apple products.

Stupid comment no. 15950 from someone not understanding a thread.

cookie365

d123 wrote: »

Stupid comment no. 15950 from someone not understanding a thread.

Why? Apple make and sell the phones that do this, it's their shoddy firmware that's the problem.

d123

cookie365 wrote: »

Why? Apple make and sell the phones that do this, it's their shoddy firmware that's the problem.

Apple don't sell phones like this, only CarPhoneWarehouse does (presumably because it makes them more money).

grumbler

They sell boxed phones that at some point were sold in exactly the same condition by Apple.

dgl750

Thought I would update you all. Didn't return the iphone 6 (to mobiles.co.uk) as I had got a good deal and they had subsequently all disappeared. Had a short term fix as my O2 sim works in it so daughter (serves her right!) had to use my unlocked 5s with her new EE sim.

Just left it, then tried again last week to pay for unlock (quoted £65 in local shop) so decided to have one last go. Happened to get complaints specialist (Franklin) on web chat With O2 and much to my amazement - 2 days later my phone is unlocked!! Thanks for all your advice - perseverance seems to be the key. Keep going until you find a human being with a soul and a bit of internal persuasive power.

AJXX

dgl750 wrote: »

Thought I would update you all. Didn't return the iphone 6 (to mobiles.co.uk) as I had got a good deal and they had subsequently all disappeared. Had a short term fix as my O2 sim works in it so daughter (serves her right!) had to use my unlocked 5s with her new EE sim.

Just left it, then tried again last week to pay for unlock (quoted £65 in local shop) so decided to have one last go. Happened to get complaints specialist (Franklin) on web chat With O2 and much to my amazement - 2 days later my phone is unlocked!! Thanks for all your advice - perseverance seems to be the key. Keep going until you find a human being with a soul and a bit of internal persuasive power.

FYI this is a MASSIVE NO-NO with iPhones for anyone reading/considering this.

They'll basically jailbreak the iPhone (install modified firmware), which yes will unlock your iPhone but also leads to all kinds of hassle, especially when Apple release a software update which then turns your iPhone into a brick, forcing you to restore via iTunes then hey presto back to being locked as the unlock wasn't official with Apple so the restore re-locks the iPhone again.

And if you are still going to do it then forget paying £65! Spend 1-2 hours reading about it online then just do it yourself, worst comes to the worst a restore will sort it out.

d123

AJXX wrote: »

FYI this is a MASSIVE NO-NO with iPhones for anyone reading/considering this.

They'll basically jailbreak the iPhone (install modified firmware), which yes will unlock your iPhone but also leads to all kinds of hassle, especially when Apple release a software update which then turns your iPhone into a brick, forcing you to restore via iTunes then hey presto back to being locked as the unlock wasn't official with Apple so the restore re-locks the iPhone again.

That is wrong and about 3-4 years out of date. There hasn't been a jailbreak unlock since iOS 4 or 5.

What they do now is take the £65 and pay someone (a bribe) who works for the network to surreptitiously slip that IMEI into the system when a request list for unlocks is sent to Apple.

O2 and Voda have a large department with access to the unlocking request system with plenty of staff, so easier and cheaper to find someone to pay, EE had a very small number who do, so that's why it's so much more expensive to do.

Rev

AJXX wrote: »

FYI this is a MASSIVE NO-NO with iPhones for anyone reading/considering this.

They'll basically jailbreak the iPhone (install modified firmware), which yes will unlock your iPhone but also leads to all kinds of hassle, especially when Apple release a software update which then turns your iPhone into a brick, forcing you to restore via iTunes then hey presto back to being locked as the unlock wasn't official with Apple so the restore re-locks the iPhone again.

And if you are still going to do it then forget paying £65! Spend 1-2 hours reading about it online then just do it yourself, worst comes to the worst a restore will sort it out.

Literally can not deal with how wrong this is.


Jail breaking isn't 'installing modded firmware'. Jailbreaking installs an app. And app called cydia. Which is like an App Store for tweaks. It allows you to add things like themes to your phone, or different enhancements. I use to to hide apps I'll never use, resize icons. Theme. Long before Apple introduced quick reply, bite sms had it. Long before control centre there was sbsettings. The list is endless. And Apple have incorporated many jailbreak tweaks into their stock firmware. Quick reply, control centre, notification centre. All available via jailbreak long before Apple 'created' them.


There hasn't been a way to unlock via jailbreak for years. So why would any 'unlock shop' jailbreak a phone? It would achieve a total of zero.


Updating when jailbroken doesn't brick your phone at all, it will remove cydia and any tweaks you have installed from cydia and leave your phone with 'stock' iOS.


I've jailbroken every iDevice I've ever owned and never 'bricked' anything.


Perhaps before spouting complete and utter crap, do a little research.