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marx404 - 24 Jun 2008 15:51 GMT

Last week, I called up ATT and asked to have the Subsidy lock removed from
my V3re phone as I may be traveling overseas soon. The lady gave me a code
number to put in when I get a new SIM. Just for fun, I tried the code a few
minutes later after hanging up and got an failed code message on my phone.
So I called up ATT and the CS asked for my phone number and said to me "your
phone is already unlocked, sir."

Ok, call me ignorant but I assume that the first time that I called, ATT
problably unlocked my phone then, right? So if they are right, my phone is
now unlocked and I can safely use the subsidy code when overseas and have
that companies SIM card?

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Bert Hyman - 24 Jun 2008 16:04 GMT

> Last week, I called up ATT and asked to have the Subsidy lock
> removed from my V3re phone as I may be traveling overseas soon. The
> lady gave me a code number to put in when I get a new SIM. Just for
> fun, I tried the code a few minutes later after hanging up and got
> an failed code message on my phone.

How did you enter this code? If you don't have a foreign SIM, how did
you get your phone to ask you for the unlock code?

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Todd Allcock - 24 Jun 2008 18:40 GMT

> How did you enter this code? If you don't have a foreign SIM, how did
> you get your phone to ask you for the unlock code?

Depends on the phone- most of the older Nokias I've unlocked allow you to
enter an unlock code by typing an ungodly long string of characters full of
"#"'s and "*"'s including the unlock code. It'll work if either a foreign
SIM or no SIM at all are in the phone (but not if the "home service" SIM is
in.) At the time I had no foreign SIMs so I just left the SIM slot empty.

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Dennis Ferguson - 24 Jun 2008 19:53 GMT

>> How did you enter this code? If you don't have a foreign SIM, how did
>> you get your phone to ask you for the unlock code?
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> SIM or no SIM at all are in the phone (but not if the "home service" SIM is
> in.) At the time I had no foreign SIMs so I just left the SIM slot empty.

Yes, this varies with manufacturer. I understand, e.g. from this

http://www.newmobilefreedom.com/imei/search_imei.html

that the OP's Motorola phone really needs a disallowed SIM in the
phone to be unlocked.

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Jer - 24 Jun 2008 16:34 GMT

> Last week, I called up ATT and asked to have the Subsidy lock removed from
> my V3re phone as I may be traveling overseas soon. The lady gave me a code
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> now unlocked and I can safely use the subsidy code when overseas and have
> that companies SIM card?

When you insert a foreign (non-ATT) SIM, your phone will ask for the
code. You could wait until you're on your trip, but I say go ahead and
unlock it now by borrowing any non-ATT SIM from a friend and using it to
prompt for the code. Also, when you enter the code, do so carefully -
after three failures and the handset is toasted with a permanent lock.

I'm also curious how an ATT rep would know whether your phone was
unlocked or not.

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Dennis Ferguson - 24 Jun 2008 20:35 GMT

>> So I called up ATT and the CS asked for my phone number and said to me "your
>> phone is already unlocked, sir."

[...]

> I'm also curious how an ATT rep would know whether your phone was
> unlocked or not.

My bet would be that what the AT&T rep really wanted to say was "we've
already given you the unlock code and directions to use it, there's
nothing more we can do for you, so please stop calling us about this",
but said the above instead since it had the same effect without sounding
so annoying.

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Jer - 24 Jun 2008 23:03 GMT

>>> So I called up ATT and the CS asked for my phone number and said to me "your
>>> phone is already unlocked, sir."
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>
> Dennis Ferguson

Musta been a politician he was talking to. :)

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