I'm having trouble unlocking HTC one mini m4. I bought the phone, it was supposed to be unlocked, but I put in Croatian BonBon Sim card (T-Mobile) and it asks for code. Didn't feel like playing with it so I ordered the code from sim-unlock.net. When I type in Code it says incorrect password. Ordered from unlockcode247 , the've sent me same code ,and same thing happened. Later I found out that Eastern Europe HTC's won't unlock with online codes. When I put Croatian VIP sim (vodafone) it works , so it's obviously locked to VIP. CID is HTC_032 Eastern Europe.
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I unlocked bootloader, rooted, stock 4.4.2 , had trouble with S-OFF but finally made it, custom kernel, SuperCID . Tried and it's he same.
I tried to do it through fastboot and simlock, I have config.dat but since one mini doesn' have sd card I get SD init failed error. I don't have Y OTG cable and can't get any soon, but even with cable I'm skeptical that method would work since unlock code doesn't. Still, is there any way to emulate sd on internal storage? Or anything to avoid using Y OTG?
Or is there another way, like flashing different radio/baseband/modem? If so could anyone provide radio.img from unlocked phone so I can try. I can't find radios anywhere. Thanks.
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Now tried to flash new radio from other OTA, but it failed through fastboot. Look's like rumrunner S-OFF is not ENG but RV which can't flash radio.. Great.. Any way to flash new radio? Thanks.
As always, figured it out myself. If there is enough interest I will write full procedure.
Did it through fastboot simlock and config.dat.
Used IDE/Sata to usb converter and old hard drive. Gave power to usb through external source, connected to phone and , booted into bootloader , and choose simlock. It said everything failed imei , cid etc but when I booted with other simcard, the phone is unlocked.
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EjđiSixo said:
As always, figured it out myself. If there is enough interest I will write full procedure.
Did it through fastboot simlock and config.dat.
Used IDE/Sata to usb converter and old hard drive. Gave power to usb through external source, connected to phone and , booted into bootloader , and choose simlock. It said everything failed imei , cid etc but when I booted with other simcard, the phone is unlocked.
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Help me bro..im having the same problem would you please show step by step the whole procedure, i realy need my phone unlocked...
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I have a Bell Mobility HTC One S (S4 version) with bootloader unlock:
Rom: Leedroid
HBoot: 1.08.0000
Radio: 0.16.31501S.06_3
I have tried the sim unlock tried thread and also ordered unlock online and gotten the same code... Everytime I enter the code i get "incorrect password" ...
I am going spare because this is a gift and I cannot seem to unlock at all... any way to unlock this phone? whats causing this to happen
I read that others have this problem too...
Need to be on stock Rom I think
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i unlocked mine when i was on the 3uk rom but r u putting in another sim card first so then it asks you to input the unlock code?
hey,
what is it good for?
well i found the code when i was on stock rom... so dont think that has anything to do with it... and yes I am putting in another network sim card, when i enter the code it says "incorrect password" ... and this is sim unlock for use of phone on another network...
Don't u have like 10 attempts before locking u out phone ?
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I have a Bell Mobility HTC One S (S4 version) with bootloader unlock:
Rom: Leedroid
HBoot: 1.08.0000
Radio: 0.16.31501S.06_3
I have tried the sim unlock tried thread and also ordered unlock online and gotten the same code... Everytime I enter the code i get "incorrect password" ...
I am going spare because this is a gift and I cannot seem to unlock at all... any way to unlock this phone? whats causing this to happen
I read that others have this problem too...
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I had this problem and solved it. I discovered that the only way you can unlock your phone is that you must be on stock rom, otherwise it will not work. Get the RUU for Bell Mobility, unlock your phone, then you can put back on LeeDroid. I made a thread about this a few months ago and it has helped other people.
so i finally put the phone ack to the bell stock ruu..... but as before no luck :S... the password just keeps saying incorrect
Alright guys, I am posting out of desperation.
I am no pro when it comes to rooting/unlocking/ROMming Android phones but I have read myself to death and I am not getting anywhere. I am almost willing to send this phone to someone who knows what they are doing. I really don't feel like buying another phone. In hindsight, I should've made sure I was getting a true unbranded HOX.
I bought an unlocked, AT&T One X from Amazon while I was in Afghanistan. Received the phone via APO, put in my Roshan SIM card, and was working fine. I traveled extensively in the past few months, all over the Middle East and South Asia, phone was working fine, I just picked up a local sim card and off I went.
Well then I went back to the US for the first time with this phone. Put in my TMobile SIM, and was working fine as well. Well now I left the country again, and now I can't pick up any networks at all. I have changed the radio via the USSD to GSM, WCDMA, everything, but can't pick up any networks. Keep in mind I also still have my SIM card that I bought when I was here. I insert the card, it says preparing sim card, etc, but won't find any networks.
How do I know if the phone is still SIM unlocked? Woulnd't it prompt me for an unlock code when I insterted the foreign SIM again? Do I need to root? Does my bootloader need to be unlocked to use any SIM?
What I was figuring I would try to do was flash a different ROM so I don't have to worry about this being an AT&T phone anymore. When I boot into the bootloader, it says LOCKED at the top with S-ON. There has never been an update done to the phone since I got it.
Things i've tried:
Any root for 1.85 ( I have tried every root for 1.85 you can search for on here)
RUU to update to 2.2 (says main battery power low, but it isn't)
Factory Reset
I really don't care so much to get a new ROM, I just want my phone to work. Here is what I get in the info page on the phone:
The bootloader says HBOOT 1.09 is installed
Kernel Version:
3.0.8-01155-gca24d1e
[email protected] #1
SMP PREEMPT
Build Number
1.85.502.3_R2 CL63811 release-keys
Sense 4.0
Android 4.0.3
Software Number
1.85.502.3 710RD
If you need any more info let me know but I am dying here
Sim unlock and bootloader unlock are two different things. I don't think either has anything to do with the other.
Assuming you bought this from a legit seller on Amazon, factory unlocked is factory unlocked. I've never heard of a phone getting sim locked from putting in a sim card. If you didn't get a "input unlock code" the first time, your phone isn't sim locked and is not locked down to AT&T.
Before you can root, though, you have to unlock the bootloader. That's why your root attempts keep failing. You want to stay on 1.85, trust me--later firmware is more locked down.
Are you sure there's nothing wrong with the other sim card you got? Have you tried a new one?
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Sim unlock and bootloader unlock are two different things. I don't think either has anything to do with the other.
Assuming you bought this from a legit seller on Amazon, factory unlocked is factory unlocked. I've never heard of a phone getting sim locked from putting in a sim card. If you didn't get a "input unlock code" the first time, your phone isn't sim locked and is not locked down to AT&T.
Before you can root, though, you have to unlock the bootloader. That's why your root attempts keep failing. You want to stay on 1.85, trust me--later firmware is more locked down.
Are you sure there's nothing wrong with the other sim card you got? Have you tried a new one?
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Really? The bootloader has to be unlocked before you can root? I definitely thought it was the other way around. I guess that would explain it, then..
What I actually ended up doing was repeatably trying the RUU, and finally got it to take the 2.2FW upgrade. As soon as that happened, I was pulling down 4G like nobodies business. Though, now that i've read your post, I kind of wish I would've stuck with trying to get a new ROM on it, instead of upgrading. I really have no idea why a FW upgrade made the radio start working like magic, or what would casue that at all.
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Really? The bootloader has to be unlocked before you can root? I definitely thought it was the other way around. I guess that would explain it, then..
What I actually ended up doing was repeatably trying the RUU, and finally got it to take the 2.2FW upgrade. As soon as that happened, I was pulling down 4G like nobodies business. Though, now that i've read your post, I kind of wish I would've stuck with trying to get a new ROM on it, instead of upgrading. I really have no idea why a FW upgrade made the radio start working like magic, or what would casue that at all.
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Progress is swift. I rooted using the 2.2 xfactor exploit and then unlocked the bootloader with the spoofed CID, now as soon as I figure it out I will install CleanROM 5.1..Hope I don't brick it!
Frosty288 said:
Progress is swift. I rooted using the 2.2 xfactor exploit and then unlocked the bootloader with the spoofed CID, now as soon as I figure it out I will install CleanROM 5.1..Hope I don't brick it!
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As long as you stay in this forum, these phones are tough to brick. The only way to do it is to flash roms for the international (Tegra 3) version.
Note that on 2.20., you have to flash the boot.img in fastboot when you flash a rom.
Youll never brick your phone as long as you have access to the bootloader or recovery lol
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If he wants cleanrom he won't have to be confused with fastboot. Just download rom and flash that sucker
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Do NOT RUU to 2.20! (never mind too late).
Looks like you figured things out.
hello everyone,
of course im a total noob so i am in desperate need of your help.
i just bought an unlocked att htc inspire 4g from amazon and when i tried to use it with my carrier, i reside in argentina, it says "no service"
and i cant connect to my carrier. if i dont put my sim card it says " no sim card" but i put it in, it just stays in no service and doesnt ask me for any code to unlock it.
now i ve done some searching before posting and I've done the power, - volume thingie and my phone says s-off in the menu.
the phone's band matches the one in my country so thats not the issue.
how can i make this phone work so it can recognize the carrier?
hope sombody can give me a hand
opotiago said:
hello everyone,
of course im a total noob so i am in desperate need of your help.
i just bought an unlocked att htc inspire 4g from amazon and when i tried to use it with my carrier, i reside in argentina, it says "no service"
and i cant connect to my carrier. if i dont put my sim card it says " no sim card" but i put it in, it just stays in no service and doesnt ask me for any code to unlock it.
now i ve done some searching before posting and I've done the power, - volume thingie and my phone says s-off in the menu.
the phone's band matches the one in my country so thats not the issue.
how can i make this phone work so it can recognize the carrier?
hope sombody can give me a hand
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Can't anybody help me? Please! I've search troughout the forum and couldn't find anything related...the phone says s-off rl when I enter bootloader but apparently it is not rooted since i tried to instal cynogenmod and was not able to, neither could I use clockworkmod? (Can't remember if that is the exact name...)
I could not rooot the device either with htcdev tool since I can't install the ruu and can't use the rom.zip file either so I can't go through with the rooting
I don't care too much about rooting anyway, but I thought that if I root the device I can change the radio frec and finally I can use my freaki phone
Help would really be apreciated since I'm really lost here
Hi all, I think I looked everywhere for similar issue, including xda, but no luck. I got my "new" Sensation yesterday and, obviously, I wanted to have a custom rom as I do on my Desire. So I unlocked the bootloader and flashed both recovery and new rom (yes, the phone is still S-ON because I just couldn't get it to S-OFF, no matter what method I tried there was always an issue and I couldn't complete the procedure. if it's important I can explain in details what I tried/not tried). Right now it sits on CM-10.2 | AOSP 4.3 Jellybean [KANG] with 4EXT recovery. Everythin is fine however the phone is locked to O2 and I'm with T-Mobile. I tried to get the phone to S-OFF in order to remove the simlock myself but as I mentioned, no luck. So I got pissed off and I bought the unlock pin code. I've inserted my T-Mobile card, phone asked for the pin, I've entered it and boom, phone is unlocked. Great, I think to myself... well not really. One, the phone just won't get the signal (and I tried putting it to GSM mode only) and two, every time I reboot it the message to enter network pin come up . So I enter the code again and that's the end of the loop. Tried hard reset after entering the pin code but after a reboot it would still ask for the unlock pin and then won't pick up any signal. I've tried giffgaff sim card and that works straight away (as it works under O2) so it's not the phone issue (well, not the sim card port anyway).
Any ideas/solution/questions a-ny-thing would be greatly appreciated as I'm about to rage quit and give up on it .
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Hi all, I think I looked everywhere for similar issue, including xda, but no luck. I got my "new" Sensation yesterday and, obviously, I wanted to have a custom rom as I do on my Desire. So I unlocked the bootloader and flashed both recovery and new rom (yes, the phone is still S-ON because I just couldn't get it to S-OFF, no matter what method I tried there was always an issue and I couldn't complete the procedure. if it's important I can explain in details what I tried/not tried). Right now it sits on CM-10.2 | AOSP 4.3 Jellybean [KANG] with 4EXT recovery. Everythin is fine however the phone is locked to O2 and I'm with T-Mobile. I tried to get the phone to S-OFF in order to remove the simlock myself but as I mentioned, no luck. So I got pissed off and I bought the unlock pin code. I've inserted my T-Mobile card, phone asked for the pin, I've entered it and boom, phone is unlocked. Great, I think to myself... well not really. One, the phone just won't get the signal (and I tried putting it to GSM mode only) and two, every time I reboot it the message to enter network pin come up . So I enter the code again and that's the end of the loop. Tried hard reset after entering the pin code but after a reboot it would still ask for the unlock pin and then won't pick up any signal. I've tried giffgaff sim card and that works straight away (as it works under O2) so it's not the phone issue (well, not the sim card port anyway).
Any ideas/solution/questions a-ny-thing would be greatly appreciated as I'm about to rage quit and give up on it .
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Hi,
Could it just be the t-mob sim card?
Is there any chance to get a new one from them?
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Hi,
Could it just be the t-mob sim card?
Is there any chance to get a new one from them?
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Thought that but the card works fine in my Desire. Never had any problems with it. What gets me is that constant message asking for the network pin after rebooting the phone. Surely once the code is entered the phone is unlocked ...
If I can't find any solution by monday I'll visit their shop and ask for a new sim or I'll just move my number to giffgaff >_>
Obviously if anyone has any solutions or ideas feel free to share them and I will be sure to try them. I'd really appreciate it!!
Sorry for double post
Hello there, I am not new to xda but this is my first post. I've a question regarding my M8 Verizon bought from ebay. Its been a year now and everything was going well since one day I accidentally did s-on and locked the bootloader while using HTC ONE M8 Toolkit by Squabbi.
Then I again s-off'd my device using Sunshine method (firewater didn't worked as it was discontinued). So I paid 1600₹ to get my device s-off'd and unlocked bootloader. But since then I am unable to use any Indian sim whether airtel, idea or any other. I tried many possible solutions found on the internet as well as here on xda. Like I flashed firmware (old and new both), flashed radio firmware files old and new both but no luck. Either I restored my device to stock Verizon rom using the RUU provided by Dottat. But I couldn't find any luck and I'm still unable to use my sim card. My phone is unable to detect it. My device doesn't even pops up any notification for sim card now. Please Help. :crying:
Is there any solution for this? I'm in a need of this.
Waiting to be helped as soon as possible.
Hi,
I do not know if same pb...
Phone is working fine on Lollipop on european Gsm/LTE (sometimes going back to cdma by itself, a bit boring), and is asking for SIM pin number.
When going to marshmallow (by RUU or by OTA) the sim is deribed to be absent or invadid, and It did ask for the SIM pin number
I did not find any clue...
regards
After a lot of tries, it finally worked. And the sim is now detected. Thanks to Me.
shad.man92 said:
After a lot of tries, it finally worked. And the sim is now detected. Thanks to Me.
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Hello! I have same problem. I can`t use my sim card. Can you tell me how did you solve this problem?
User 1 said:
Hello! I have same problem. I can`t use my sim card. Can you tell me how did you solve this problem?
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I disassembled my M8, then replaced the sim reader inside the phone, then removed and reinserted the flex on the board. Then turned on the phone, and edited the system file located inside root/system/customize/ACC/default.xml to change the value of sku_id and region located at last in the file default.xml
You can search on google for SKU LIST XDA. It will show you the list for all regions.