When you purchase a cell phone, the company that sold you the phone for example Cingular or AT&T they locked the phone before you bought it, so you can only use your cell phone on their network. That mines what ever you do, you cannot use your phone on any other network, even if you change the SIM card. The SIM card is the little piece of plastic that identifies your phone to your network. Unlocking your phone and changing your SIM card and have your phone work on another network is useful especially if you want to travel to another country and just buy a pre-paid SIM card so you can have cell phone access that country using your phone without roaming charges. There are services in the Internet that offers unlocking capabilities for a fee. Don't pay you could unlock your phone for free on the web try to view my first post about on how to unlock your phone on the Internet for free. there's allot of things that you could unlock your cell phone for free, try using free software like Nokia unlock codes calculator, World unlock and Code calculator there's a link that you could download the software choose what's the best software for you so that you could do it on your on way
Free Software's:
Code calculator
Nokia unlock codes calculator
World unlock
More software:
Software Unlock
Simple tips on How to unlock your cell phone using the software
Find the Serial number of the cell phone, also known as your IMEI number. This can be done by either removing the back of your cell phone and looking underneath the battery, or simply by typing in *#06# into your cell phone. It should look something like this 065122007542095 write your IMEI number on the paper. Using the software you have downloaded, enter in your Manufacturer for example "Nokia" the model number of the cell phone, this may be different depending on which software you are using. If your phone is the Nokia 3390 phone, select the model 3310, they are the same phone, Enter your IMEI number. Enter your country and your Network. Then calculate the code, You will get a list of 7 groups of codes that look something like:
#pw+164284406576522+1#
#pw+183774224451117+2#
#pw+811821553272360+3#
#pw+884301222527445+4#
#pw+263725507471163+5#
#pw+806981342733625+6#
#pw+403927744443466+7#
Turn off your cell phone and remove the SIM card from your phone. This is typically done by removing the back cover of the phone and removing the battery and sliding the card out. Put the battery back and turn your cellphone on. You should see a message "Insert SIM Card". Enter all of the characters you see in your code, including the # symbols. To get a 'p' press * 3 times, to get a '+' press the * key 2 times, to get a 'w' press the * key 4 times. Disregard any spaces in the code. In order to unlock your phone you generally need to enter only one code. Start with the first one. If your phone is not unlocked by typing the first code (MCC+MNC), use code "7" Multilock Once you have finished entering a code that works you should see a message that says "SIM is not restricted" or "Restriction off" message depending on your model. If not, try entering another code. Message "Cannot undo restrictions" means the phone is hard-locked and cannot be unlock.
Saturday, September 22, 2007
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