Hi!
Last week I bought a SIM-locked Sony Xperia Z and now I'm waiting for an unlock code to arrive. However, it may take several days and I bumped into the website http://un-lock.us/ which say it's free and fast.
I couldn't fins any reliable info or opinions about it, so I haven0t been so foolish of just entering my IMEI there, just in case. It seems surprising to me that no good or bad words about this service, since it provides a (AFAIK) legal service.
I would greatly appreciate any recommendation from reputable XDA members. Thank you very much
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Hi there, I use these brill forums a lot to get info, but I can't seem to find anything to answer my current question, so I am posting for the very first time, and would be super grateful if anyone could help me out.
My NIKI recently died apparrently due to water damage/corosion, which is annoying because it's been v. well looked after (though according to t-mobile it was probably 'steam or other condensation')
anyhew, voided warranty, blah, blah, so I bought a cheap knackered version of my last phone; the VOX, on ebay - which will be fine soon as I get some DR. Gonzo spleandour on there.
HOWEVER the main reason it was so cheap apart from the scratches etc., was that it's still SIM-locked to Orange. and although I've CID and APP unlocked before, I've never SIM unlocked- the guys at www.imei-check.co.uk/ seem to be legit, but also WELL expensive. There are websites such as this who claim to be able to do it for £4.99 -and others for £3 or £2 are all of those websites just lying? Will they steal my money or f*ck with my phone?
appreciate you probably didn't need my life story, but would be v. grateful for any help,
thanks, and sorry if this is tackled elsewhere, do link me,
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jockyw2001 will provide you an unlock code for a reasonable price. PM him.
oh, ok, thanks, I thought that thread was bad because people were complaining, read so much I must be getting mixed up! thanks for your help. Just didn't know what a reasonable price is- and now i did the stupid lame noob asking a question that it already answered thing. D'oh!
Hey no biggie. The thread is a little confusing, hope you get it sorted and get yourself an unlock code so you can use your device.
Try Jocky .....he will help you...
but as an alternate.. you can go imei..guys...I got my VOX unlocked from them online and it took about 30 min to receive the unlock code by mail and my phone was unlocked..
thanks
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Hello guys,
this is my first post on this forum and I hope it doesn't sound to agressive.
So, here goes:
I bought a HTC Touch Cruise that was locked on the RO Vodafone network. Before finding out about this great forum and all of you guys I ordered and paid, stupid me, ~30 euros for an unlock code from deblocage-htc.com
I sent them the correct imei, and the money via paypal and the next day i received my unlock code.
I inserted a sim card from the telecom company i work with and it asked for the unlock code, so i entered the code and... surprise: INVALID CODE.
I sent an email back to the site owners (that was 7 days ago) and asked them to help me solve my problem.
7 days have passed and still no answer, although I sent several other emails.
I filed a claim on paypal and the guy managed to send evidence that he is ok in only 2 MINUTES, but still doesn't find time to answer my emails.
This was the first time (and definitely the last one) I tried the easy way and I ended up with a "fat lip"
I managed to unlock my phone by miself today thanks to the nice utilities and the very explicit guide provided by Olinex (hope I remembered it right), so i promise i'll make a donation to you this week.
What I'm pissed about are not the money, but the fact that they didn't even bother to answer my emails.
PS.
My lawyer would love to know their real name and address, as I record each and every online purchase I make, and print screens with all the terms and conditions.
Hopefully the guys in the IT dept in my company will manage to provide me with the information I need.
I apologize again if this post doesn't belong here, but in a moment of stupidity (this was my first windows mobile phone and I didn't have any patience) i've been scammed for the first time in my life...
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Pardon my english, but I'm not native.
Did anyone else encounter the same problem?
We at XDA are sorry to hear that happen to you and pray that you get your funds back, but still this is not the place to discuss these issues. Hope you understand. I will keep this thread locked till someone can PM me if they have any information to share with you, then I'll open it again
Moreover within an hour, looks like no one else faced this problem
This is just to clean the forums clean so everyone can get the information that they seek regarding devices and ROMs and likes
Thank you
Hi guys. I'm selling my Flint...here it is:
link
Yeah, it's a bit cheeky, but when it's gone, it's gone...so hurry
If I saw this 3 weeks ago I would have gone for it surely
knowing HTC Athena 2 due out soon, I now prefers to wait till Athena 2 released.
best of luck! I did best offer you on that auction, but was declined.
Yeah too right it was declined. People offering me silly money. Think I'm stupid??? If people don't want to pay what these things are worth, they should either forget it and get a device that suits their budget, or wait a couple of years until it drops to the price you want to pay (judging by the offers, it'll be about 10 years!! ), instead of wasting my time and looking a little bit foolish...
Anyway it's still for sale if anybody's interested. Link updated and slightly reduced price.
Things to take into account:
Is it Simlocked to O2? I bought mine new and sim-free last year for £624 so if locked might be considered expensive for a second-hand item when you consider if anything goes wrong with it, they'd have to go through you go get it repaired.
Can you still actually leave buyers negative feedback? I thought that had been stopped by ebay.
Ponder said:
Things to take into account:
Is it Simlocked to O2? I bought mine new and sim-free last year for £624 so if locked might be considered expensive for a second-hand item when you consider if anything goes wrong with it, they'd have to go through you go get it repaired.
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O2 do not, and never have SIM locked their Windows Mobile devices. The Flint is pretty much the standard HTC offering, though the current ROM does not have the HTC Home front end.
O2 also tend to do warranty repairs based on the IMEI, so do not necessarily need the original owner to mediate things, as long as you are using an O2 SIM.
It seems amazing that prices seem to vary from around £320 to well over £500 on Ebay.
Thanks for clearing that up, if I were in the market it'd justify the cost for me.
Maybe if matmaneyre could point these things out in the item description it'd clear things up to the public in general and bring about a quicker sale
I still don't think it's possible to leave negative feedback to a buyer though, especially one with whom no transaction has actually occurred.
Yes- you're right. Ebay changed the rules at the end of last year, for better or worse, though as you say, it was never possible to leave FB for someone who didn't actually buy.
With Ebay, the content of the advert say's an awful lot about the product and the seller
I thought about buying that from you off of eBay.
Something doesn’t quite feel right about that auction.
You say it’s an upgrade, yet it’s not available as an upgrade!? Also you say it’s too complicated for you but it’s no more complicated than any other Windows mobile device.
Maybe I’m paranoid but...
To be honest, by 'too complicated for me' I really meant not quite right for me, as it has too many features I am not going to use, and I think I would be better off cashing in and getting something more suitable to my needs. Hope that clears it up a bit. I'd have put that in the description, but it seems to take so long to create a good listing just the way you want it, minor things that the everyday person browsing for such a device just get overlooked when you preview your listing before submitting it. Once you get to a stage where you think it sounds and looks good enough, you kinda just go with it.
As you say, it's no more complicated than any other WM device. It is available as an upgrade through O2, but strictly only to business customers. They are extremely hard to get hold of otherwise. I hounded them literally everyday for a month because I returned my faulty Serra (see my signature) and they couldn't offer me an equal or better replacement. All their Serras were out of stock - really messed me about for 4 weeks. In the end they backed down as there was nothing else they could offer me.
They don't know their ear from their elbow.
And I didn't realise you couldn't leave negative feedback to a buyer as luckily I've never been in a situation where I'd want to, although that's really only on there to make people think seriously before submitting an offer. I don't want to be relisting all the time for the sake of someone not reading the buyer restrictions or trying to scam me.
Hope that explains a few things...if you're still wary,. check my feedback. I've sold all my WM devices of the last 5 years on ebay (see sig again!) And see my postcount and view my posts too. I am a real, genuine human!!
Thanks everyone for the helpful info (didn't realise there was no simlock either!)
In general section is a thread called Buy & Sell
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=434069
Let´s use it for that porpose
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Thanks everyone for the helpful info (didn't realise there was no simlock either!)
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You're welcome, and IMO (for what that's worth) totally genuine.
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You're welcome, and IMO (for what that's worth) totally genuine.
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Thanks for that, means a lot!
I didn't realise there was a buy and sell section. Thanks for that. If a mod would like to move me, feel free.
Anyway, relisted (again), updated link (again) and reduced (again)!
SOLD now, thanks.
Hello everybody,
I have an unusual problem - I was given money...
To be exact, my company awarded me with around $800 gift voucher for amazon.com. The only problem is I live in Europe, Poland to be exact. And since it is a pain in the ... head to bother with spending all of it for small time shopping (all the shipment hassle and such). So I thought I might replace my current android device with Sony Xperia Z3. A quick search on amazon reveals a few options:
http://www.amazon.com/Sony-Unlocked-Warranty-without-contract/dp/B00NQC88IU/
this one seems to be most promising.
Now, can anyone advise me on this choice? As it's a GSM phone i get it will work in Poland, maybe with limited LTE capabilities but that is ok for me. What about anything else I might not be aware of? Is there any other potential problem regarded to moving phone to other part of the world?
Also, can anyone help me guess, what sort of guaranty does the item description mention? The seller was not very specific about it, which raise a bit of a concern by the way...
Anyway, I would appreciate any guidance on my crazy idea on buying this specific phone, what do you think?
The seller is Sony themselves lol... The Z3 is a great device. Do note that if you are someone who loves to root your android phone, this might not be the phone for you. In order to root the phone, you will have to unlock the bootloader which will cause the DRM keys to be lost forever. This will cause the camera to be very bad in low light especially and other features to be lost forever, even after u unroot.
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Also, you can select the color option on the website too. Be sure you get the color you want
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Hmm, here is how it looks from where I sit, the seller in lower circle, and sony mentioned as manufacturer... I think Amazon is a confusing place compared to ebay or our local shopping websites. If it was really Sony who sold this particular phone, I wouldn't be afraid to get it.
Anyhow, your information about rooting of Xperia Z3 is very useful... Thank you for this valuable piece of knowledge.
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Hmm, here is how it looks from where I sit, the seller in lower circle, and sony mentioned as manufacturer... I think Amazon is a confusing place compared to ebay or our local shopping websites. If it was really Sony who sold this particular phone, I wouldn't be afraid to get it.
Anyhow, your information about rooting of Xperia Z3 is very useful... Thank you for this valuable piece of knowledge.
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The seller shld be Sony themselves. Sony relies on manufacturers to make their phone and that OE USA is most probably the manufacturer for the z3. So i wouldnt worry abt it too much. U can ask for a refund if the z3 turns out bad.
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Sup guys, as you may know I review unlock sites often and here is my review for unlockcell.ca :
Site design was VERY, and I means, VERY good. I like it better than the other sites. However, it is the after-sale experience that boggled my mind. I bought an LG G3 Fido unlock code, and it took over 3 days to get to me. After I input the code in the phone, the phone rejected it???
Maybe their support will help me. I emailed their support, paypal email etc with absolutely no response.
This is the worst service on the planet. They just scammed me out of $40 and I am stuck with a phone that is not unlocked. Screw you, unlockcell.ca