Unlocking phones

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In <Ti9rd.591911$mD.578198@attbi_s02> on Wed, 01 Dec 2004 01:41:07 GMT, "Bob
K." <bob1030@hotmail.com> wrote:

>What's the deal with this and Cingular? I spoke to a rep today at the local
>mall while I consider switching and he told me that Cingular will not unlock
>their phones for you. I can see their point but I won't buy a phone if I
>have to be locked into them while traveling in other countries for extended
>periods of time. A day or two is ok but that's it. Is this really their
>policy or just that of an uninformed rep?

Uninformed rep.

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I travel to the UK almost every summer this year I took my V400 with me when
I called CS they gave me a few options but I took what my cousin suggested
and had it UNLOCKED and I used a prepaid sim card to unlock it was easy

"Bob K." <bob1030@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> What's the deal with this and Cingular? I spoke to a rep today at the
local
> mall while I consider switching and he told me that Cingular will not
unlock
> their phones for you. I can see their point but I won't buy a phone if I
> have to be locked into them while traveling in other countries for
extended
> periods of time. A day or two is ok but that's it. Is this really their
> policy or just that of an uninformed rep?
>
> Thanks,
> Bob
>
>

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Al Klein wrote:
>
>
> The two phones I've tried foreign SIMs in so far - Motorola V180 and
> LG 1400 - weren't locked right out of the box.
>
> (You didn't hear it from me.)

This is normal, if Cingular sells a phone that has international
capabilities, it will be sold unlocked. Only their US only phones are
locked.

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In article <41AE3362.1070100@usenetjunk.com>,
"R.M" <usenetjunk@usenetjunk.com> wrote:

> Al Klein wrote:
> >
> >
> > The two phones I've tried foreign SIMs in so far - Motorola V180 and
> > LG 1400 - weren't locked right out of the box.
> >
> > (You didn't hear it from me.)
>
> This is normal, if Cingular sells a phone that has international
> capabilities, it will be sold unlocked. Only their US only phones are
> locked.

and Cingular is to be commended for selling unlocked phones.

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On Wed, 01 Dec 2004 13:26:36 GMT, "Bob K." <bob1030@hotmail.com> said
in alt.cellular.cingular:

>"Al Klein" <rukbat@verizon.org> wrote in message
>news:tjhqq09ibtmc8j4ijqd72oek9ibpfgg4lp@4ax.com...
>> On Wed, 01 Dec 2004 01:41:07 GMT, "Bob K." <bob1030@hotmail.com> said
>> in alt.cellular.cingular:
>>
>> >What's the deal with this and Cingular? I spoke to a rep today at the
>local
>> >mall while I consider switching and he told me that Cingular will not
>unlock
>> >their phones for you.
>>
>> The two phones I've tried foreign SIMs in so far - Motorola V180 and
>> LG 1400 - weren't locked right out of the box.
>>
>> (You didn't hear it from me.)

>Do you mean "unlocked" right out of the box?

The LG and the V180 both accepted T-Mobile SIMs - out of the box.

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Who uses the 850 Mhz?

I see the 900/1800 are international and 1900 is US.



"Jack Zwick" <jzwick3@mindspring.com> wrote in message
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> In article <Oxqrd.597255$mD.462626@attbi_s02>,
> "Bob K." <bob1030@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > What qualifies as a international phone?
> >
> > 850/1900 is not international
> > but
> > 850/900/1900 MHz or 850/900/1800/1900 MHz are?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > "R.M" <usenetjunk@usenetjunk.com> wrote in message
> > news:41AE3362.1070100@usenetjunk.com...
> > > Al Klein wrote:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > The two phones I've tried foreign SIMs in so far - Motorola V180 and
> > > > LG 1400 - weren't locked right out of the box.
> > > >
> > > > (You didn't hear it from me.)
> > >
> > > This is normal, if Cingular sells a phone that has international
> > > capabilities, it will be sold unlocked. Only their US only phones are
> > > locked.
> > >
> > >
>
> 900 Mhz and 1800 MHz are the International frequencies

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Al, how can you check if the phone is unlocked or not? I just bought a
v180 (t-mobile) and gmm-software.com seems to be down.

Thanks in advance

Al Klein wrote:
> On Wed, 01 Dec 2004 01:41:07 GMT, "Bob K." <bob1030@hotmail.com> said
> in alt.cellular.cingular:
>
> >What's the deal with this and Cingular? I spoke to a rep today at
the local
> >mall while I consider switching and he told me that Cingular will
not unlock
> >their phones for you.
>
> The two phones I've tried foreign SIMs in so far - Motorola V180 and
> LG 1400 - weren't locked right out of the box.
>
> (You didn't hear it from me.)

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On 11 Dec 2004 17:01:54 -0800, "an_mo" <andrea.m@bufera.org> wrote:

>Al, how can you check if the phone is unlocked or not? I just bought a
>v180 (t-mobile) and gmm-software.com seems to be down.

The only sure fire way to tell is to insert a SIM not from that
carrier/operator. If you don't get the SIM rejected message it's
unlocked. If you get a SIM rejected message it means that it's
locked.

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In <1102897359.735099.91000@c13g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> on 12 Dec 2004
16:22:39 -0800, "an_mo" <andrea.m@bufera.org> wrote:

>Fester: can you describe exactly how you got it unlocked using a
>prepaid card? I checked a couple of sites and the minimum I found for
>the unlock code was $40. I'd rather avoid this absurd tax.

What makes it a "tax?"

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In <1102951080.171023.47040@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> on 13 Dec 2004
07:18:00 -0800, "an_mo" <andrea.m@bufera.org> wrote:

>It's just a figure of speech

Fair enough, but not a good one.

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Care to cite a couple? Thanks.

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On Sun, 12 Dec 2004 03:24:46 GMT, Al Klein <rukbat@verizon.org> spewed:
>>Al, how can you check if the phone is unlocked or not? I just bought a
>>v180 (t-mobile) and gmm-software.com seems to be down.
>
>Put in a SIM from another carrier. If the phone accepts it, it's not
>locked.

Barring having access to another SIM, is there a way?
I've been trying to find out forever.
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Bob K. Wrote:
> What's the deal with this and Cingular? I spoke to a rep today at the
> local
> mall while I consider switching and he told me that Cingular will not
> unlock
> their phones for you. I can see their point but I won't buy a phone if
> I
> have to be locked into them while traveling in other countries for
> extended
> periods of time. A day or two is ok but that's it. Is this really
> their
> policy or just that of an uninformed rep?
>
> Thanks,
> Bob
bob, what kind of cell phone do you have? if you have nokia i can help
you unlock that phone. go to www.kisland.com click on computer forum
and then click on gsm forum. post you imei, provider, model, country. i
can't do it here bcoz were not allowed to post any code here. im always
there giving a code for nokia. see you there.


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>
> Using appropriate software and data cables for other phones, there
> probably are ways too.
>
> None is as simple as getting a SIM card and turning the phone on.
>

On my Sony-Ericsson, I press <**< and it tells me on the Screen if it's
unlocked or not.

That's simple, IMHO :-)

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On Sat, 16 Apr 2005 18:07:32 -0500, erwin 10-4
<erwin.10-4.1nltmz@nospam.cellphoneforums.net> wrote:

> i
>can't do it here bcoz were not allowed to post any code here. im always
>there giving a code for nokia. see you there.

You seem to be under the impression that this is somehow a "moderated"
news group. It is not. Unless you were planning on posting some sort
of binary file I don't know that there's any restriction if someone
wants to reveal their IMEI to the world at large. It's conceivable
that someone could use that IMEI to clone a phone but it's highly
unlikely.

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<njrealtor@rcn.com> wrote in message
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>
> Paw-Paw wrote:
>>
>> On my Sony-Ericsson, I press <**< and it tells me on the Screen if
> it's
>> unlocked or not.
>>
>> That's simple, IMHO :-)
>
> I have a Z500a, when I do that if says "personalized with MNC3"
> what does this mean?
>
> Then, it goes to a screen with 4 choices:
> Network
> Network Subset
> SP
> Corporate
>
> All are unlocked except Network. What does this mean?
>
> Monica

I'm not sure what the MNC3 is, But, That means it's locked.

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On Sat, 16 Apr 2005 06:51:10 -0700, see.my.sig.4.addr@nowhere.com.invalid wrote:

<snip>
>Of course, these days it's really irrelevant if the phone is Palm OS.
>You can just find an unlock program off the bin groups and unlock it
>immediately.

Really? I've been watching, and have not seen a program for unlocking the 650.
If you could refer to such a posting, I'd appreciate it.

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"Joseph" <JoeOfSeattle@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> On Sat, 16 Apr 2005 06:51:08 -0700,
> see.my.sig.4.addr@nowhere.com.invalid wrote:
>
> >I thought PCS was bastardized (proprietary) CDMA not GSM?
>
> Do you eat with that mouth?
<snip>

From the dictionary:

bas·tard·ize (bàs¹ter-dìz´) verb, transitive
bas·tard·ized, bas·tard·iz·ing, bas·tard·iz·es
To lower in quality or character; debase.

Chas.