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[Q] Unlocking SGS 2 Skyrocket

I looked around the forums and didn't see any programs to unlock the phone, but I've seen a few sites that will send you the unlock code for a fee if you give them your IMEI.
Question is, where do they get the unlock code? Is it created by an algorithm based on the IMEI? Is it just a big lookup table? Also, how did all these sites get the algorithm/lookup table?

An answer to this Q would be wonderful but I think if the algo is out, then carriers won't be happy. I think there is a global database from where these resellers sell us unlock codes.
Hope someone with some insider knowledge will jump in with a better answer!

Sill no ones answered this question???

jyazzie110 said:
Sill no ones answered this question???
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You need to buy unlock code. Program unlock unavailable yet.
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look here

or here also
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1599027
of course the real question jyazzie110 was answered in post #2, only thing he/she was originally asking can only be 100% confirmed by an "insider". From my experience post #2 is correct even though I'm not a true "insider".
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Oh forgot to add, I can tell you this much. Your carrier has to purchase the codes in blocks from the manufacture vendor, which is why a lot of times the carriers will not have the codes for several months and be telling the truth. They are lying to you in the standpoint "the codes aren't available yet from the manufacturer", the reality is they have not PURCHASED them yet. Its a completely convoluted system that I believe just subsidizes the manufacturers.

It's time to bring the pressure to HTC

Samsung released the source for the SGS III US versions TODAY and the phone isn't even released yet.
Please go to HTCDev and leave a comment like I did, that they need to hurry up and release source.

Go to their Facebook page if you want it quicker. PR is everything to them. That's how we got the bootloader unlock in the first place.

Ya its been 30 days since launch. They should post it...

Yep. Hasn't even been released yet for att. Starting to piss me off. I'm within my return period but I still like the one x
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Product F(RED) said:
Go to their Facebook page if you want it quicker. PR is everything to them. That's how we got the bootloader unlock in the first place.
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No we got bootloader unlock in the first place because we figured it out. You still can't officially unlock an AT&T HTC One X on HTC Dev,

Red5 said:
Ya its been 30 days since launch. They should post it...
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According to some emails I've gotten back its "usually 90-120 days"
Which is complete and utter BS

Nevermind.
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gunnyman said:
No we got bootloader unlock in the first place because we figured it out. You still can't officially unlock an AT&T HTC One X on HTC Dev,
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You can if you change the CID to Roger's. http://www.xda-developers.com/android/bootloader-unlock-for-the-att-htc-one-x/

gunnyman said:
Samsung released the source for the SGS III US versions TODAY and the phone isn't even released yet.
Please go to HTCDev and leave a comment like I did, that they need to hurry up and release source.
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Just left a comment, let see what they do.

Product F(RED) said:
Nevermind.
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You can if you change the CID to Roger's. http://www.xda-developers.com/android/bootloader-unlock-for-the-att-htc-one-x/
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/smh
yes that's what we figured out.

I think we're misunderstanding each other. Originally, what I said was that the reason they caved and gave us a bootloader unlocking programming and HTCDev is BECAUSE we hounded their Facebook page for weeks. Their entire page was covered in complaints.

Product F(RED) said:
I think we're misunderstanding each other. Originally, what I said was that the reason they caved and gave us a bootloader unlocking programming and HTCDev is BECAUSE we hounded their Facebook page for weeks. Their entire page was covered in complaints.
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ah I see. Ok. Thanks for the clarification
BTW I posted on the Facebook page and I have an HTC fanboy ragging me out.

See? https://www.facebook.com/HTC/posts/10150307320018084
I mean, it was only a half-truth, but it was still a response nonetheless.

I posted some supporting comments in a couple of Facebook posts about releasing source code. I went back today and it looks like they deleted all of the original posts.

Yeah mine was deleted too.

Looks like we're gonna have to drown them in comments. I just got my GS3 but I'm willing to support my fellow XDA'ers. This is the reason I avoided the One X, even though it was like $100 cheaper than an S3. Simple as that. HTC underestimates the number of modders who buy phones based on whether or not the bootloader is unlocked. It's time to show them.

Product F(RED) said:
Looks like we're gonna have to drown them in comments. I just got my GS3 but I'm willing to support my fellow XDA'ers. This is the reason I avoided the One X, even though it was like $100 cheaper than an S3. Simple as that. HTC underestimates the number of modders who buy phones based on whether or not the bootloader is unlocked. It's time to show them.
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Thanks Fred.
Samsung seems to REALLY embrace the modding community while HTC seems to just give it lip service.

It really is complete BS.
My comments were deleted as well. I can't believe that HTC thinks this is going to solve their problems.
Can't they be sued since they are in violation of GPL?
EDIT: Screw it, I'm making a bot that spams their damn "Contact HTC" form with kernel source requests. Be back soon.

rohan32 said:
It really is complete BS.
My comments were deleted as well. I can't believe that HTC thinks this is going to solve their problems.
Can't they be sued since they are in violation of GPL?
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They aren't "yet" the GPL states source must be released in a "timely" manner. and timely is not exactly defined.

isnt it 60 days when the phone is released.
They said it on twitter on htc dev

expertzero1 said:
isnt it 60 days when the phone is released.
They said it on twitter on htc dev
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Every time I've emailed them previously I've gotten the response of "90-120 days" which means we could be waiting till August. :O

Android security patch level for SM-G930U

I'm excited to own this new phone but I'm disappointed to see that the security patch level for this phone is at May 1st. This means the phone missing both June and July security patch updates. I tried to force an update but there was nothing to fetch. I'm using this model on Sprint's network.
Are other people with this model also seeing out of date security patches? Do GS7 phones usually get security patches on time?

The G930U is the only US variant that hasn't received updates yet. Updates are supposed to come directly from Samsung. The other variants receive updates on a very timely fashion.

TehPirate_ said:
The G930U is the only US variant that hasn't received updates yet. Updates are supposed to come directly from Samsung. The other variants receive updates on a very timely fashion.
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Do you know other model S7's tied to carriers have gotten security updates since May, or is it just that Google released them since then? I'm trying to clarify the update situation with Samsung support right now. They seem confused...

samnada said:
Do you know other model S7's tied to carriers have gotten security updates since May, or is it just that Google released them since then? I'm trying to clarify the update situation with Samsung support right now. They seem confused...
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G930T, G930A, G930V, G930P (T-mobile, AT&T, Verizon, Sprint)
They all receive security updates early of the month, if not days before the first. As another member mentioned in another thread, give it a couple weeks. It's a new phone so they probably have to add it to their server(s) and push out the updates. Seeing as its been out for 2? weeks or so, I'm giving them till next month to get things sorted.
Either way, I disabled all updates on my Sprint variant since pre-release and never had an issue.

Samsung support is saying I can try 1) manual updates on the phone, 2) connect to a PC and try Smart Switch, or 3) take the phone to Best Buy and get them to update it. Yeah, I'm hoping it new model chaos, and the AT&T LTE issues, and the update situation will get straightened out. We'll see.

samnada said:
Samsung support is saying I can try 1) manual updates on the phone, 2) connect to a PC and try Smart Switch, or 3) take the phone to Best Buy and get them to update it. Yeah, I'm hoping it new model chaos, and the AT&T LTE issues, and the update situation will get straightened out. We'll see.
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LTE issues? What issues? I'm not experiencing any?

TehPirate_ said:
LTE issues? What issues? I'm not experiencing any?
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There's a thread here regarding it. Some AT&T users can't get LTE.
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Well, Samsung support says Samsung doesn't issue updates and has no mechanism for doing that. They could only recommend contacting the carrier(for a phone not tied to any carrier?) or taking the phone to Best Buy and having them update it. I'll see what Best Buy says tomorrow, but not optimistic.

You need to at least understand that best buy can not update your phone....
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thegrants82 said:
You need to at least understand that best buy can not update your phone....
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Yeah, I assumed that. Samsung says Best Buy has the "tools" to update my phone. Sounds like we're SOL on updates, which could well force me to return the G930U.

samnada said:
There's a thread here regarding it. Some AT&T users can't get LTE.
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Well, Samsung support says Samsung doesn't issue updates and has no mechanism for doing that. They could only recommend contacting the carrier(for a phone not tied to any carrier?) or taking the phone to Best Buy and having them update it. I'll see what Best Buy says tomorrow, but not optimistic.
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Lol cmon man you are listening to the clueless samsung support people and taking phone to best buy for update? Really? Best buy is just selling you the phone and they have nothing to do with software on the unlocked or carrier variant.
Give it a some time the update will come directly from Samsung whenever that is. But word of advice don't bother calling samsung support since they will have no clue, heck they won't even have a clue about this model. They will probably read stuff from some notes or guidelines they have in front of them.
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samnada said:
Yeah, I assumed that. Samsung says Best Buy has the "tools" to update my phone. Sounds like we're SOL on updates, which could well force me to return the G930U.
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They have no special tools. They can hook up your phone to probably smart switch or something to see if there is an update on Samsung server Same thing you can do on your PC or via check updates from phone.
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kirdroid said:
Lol cmon man you are listening to the clueless samsung support people and taking phone to best buy for update? Really? Best buy is just selling you the phone and they have nothing to do with software on the unlocked or carrier variant.
Give it a some time the update will come directly from Samsung whenever that is. But word of advice don't bother calling samsung support since they will have no clue, heck they won't even have a clue about this model. They will probably read stuff from some notes or guidelines they have in front of them.
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They have no special tools. They can hook up your phone to probably smart switch or something to see if there is an update on Samsung server Same thing you can do on your PC or via check updates from phone.
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I know. Just reporting what they said.

kirdroid said:
Lol cmon man you are listening to the clueless samsung support people and taking phone to best buy for update? Really? Best buy is just selling you the phone and they have nothing to do with software on the unlocked or carrier variant.
Give it a some time the update will come directly from Samsung whenever that is. But word of advice don't bother calling samsung support since they will have no clue, heck they won't even have a clue about this model. They will probably read stuff from some notes or guidelines they have in front of them.
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They have no special tools. They can hook up your phone to probably smart switch or something to see if there is an update on Samsung server Same thing you can do on your PC or via check updates from phone.
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I wholeheartedly disagree that best buy even has that capability. Best buy is a total joke, why doesn't everyone who has ever been there realize this?
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thegrants82 said:
I wholeheartedly disagree that best buy even has that capability. Best buy is a total joke, why doesn't everyone who has ever been there realize this?
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Yeah I agree they probably won't even know what update we are talking about [emoji1]
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thegrants82 said:
I wholeheartedly disagree that best buy even has that capability. Best buy is a total joke, why doesn't everyone who has ever been there realize this?
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Actually it wasn't Best Buy they referred me to, it was the Samsung Experience in Best Buy. Samsung just sets up space in some Best Buy stores. Anyway, contacted the guy and he quickly understood what I was getting at. They do have a method of updating phones with patches from all the carriers. He did some checking and says the G930U model isn't even in their system yet. The G935U is, but no patches show up for it either. He's supposed to monitor and let me know when something is available, but we'll probably be able to see it on the phones about the time he does. Not exactly reassuring as far as updates on this model. Obviously the product release got ahead of the support network, so we'll just have to see how it plays out.

samnada said:
Actually it wasn't Best Buy they referred me to, it was the Samsung Experience in Best Buy. Samsung just sets up space in some Best Buy stores. Anyway, contacted the guy and he quickly understood what I was getting at. They do have a method of updating phones with patches from all the carriers. He did some checking and says the G930U model isn't even in their system yet. The G935U is, but no patches show up for it either. He's supposed to monitor and let me know when something is available, but we'll probably be able to see it on the phones about the time he does. Not exactly reassuring as far as updates on this model. Obviously the product release got ahead of the support network, so we'll just have to see how it plays out.
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Totally calling BS. You are trying to save face and frankly not doing a very good job. The Samsung experience as you call it is just a few tables and signs devoted to Samsung in best buy stores. Same crappy store, same totally incompetent employees. What you are saying is total BS.
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thegrants82 said:
Totally calling BS. You are trying to save face and frankly not doing a very good job. The Samsung experience as you call it is just a few tables and signs devoted to Samsung in best buy stores. Same crappy store, same totally incompetent employees. What you are saying is total BS.
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Listen sport, I'm telling you exactly what happened. I called Best Buy, was told the Samsung Experience is not actually Best Buy, but a separate entity that uses space in Best Buy stores. The Samsung guy I talked to was not an incompetent idiot. I have no idea what they're like in other stores, or what your experience has been, but what I said is accurate. I couldn't care less what you or anyone else here thinks about me, I just want a solution to the problem. If you can offer help then great, if not the f-off.

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Listen sport, I'm telling you exactly what happened. I called Best Buy, was told the Samsung Experience is not actually Best Buy, but a separate entity that uses space in Best Buy stores. The Samsung guy I talked to was not an incompetent idiot. I have no idea what they're like in other stores, or what your experience has been, but what I said is accurate. I couldn't care less what you or anyone else here thinks about me, I just want a solution to the problem. If you can offer help then great, if not the f-off.
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Listen skip, they are all best buy employees. Do you believe in all the hundreds of bb stores that Samsung has people working at the Samsung experience? LOL. Why is this so impossible for you to understand? Got it now, sport?
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thegrants82 said:
Listen skip, they are all best buy employees. Do you believe in all the hundreds of bb stores that Samsung has people working at the Samsung experience? LOL. Why is this so impossible for you to understand? Got it now, sport?
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Ok, spiffy. Let us know when you have a solution to this problem. And by the way, you're absolutely wrong. Can you man up and admit it? Place your bets folks.
http://mashable.com/2013/04/04/best-buy-samsung-experience-shop/#ktYI2jtw4mq3
"Samsung is going the extra mile when it comes to staff, putting its own "Samsung Experience Consultants" in the stores. These are employees of Samsung — not Best Buy"

samnada said:
Ok, spiffy. Let us know when you have a solution to this problem. And by the way, you're absolutely wrong. Can you man up and admit it? Place your bets folks.
http://mashable.com/2013/04/04/best-buy-samsung-experience-shop/#ktYI2jtw4mq3
"Samsung is going the extra mile when it comes to staff, putting its own "Samsung Experience Consultants" in the stores. These are employees of Samsung — not Best Buy"
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Hey skip. Yeah you are right, Samsung has thousands of people working at best buys across the nation. What was I thinking? My bad, you nailed it. LOL.
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samnada said:
Ok, spiffy. Let us know when you have a solution to this problem. And by the way, you're absolutely wrong. Can you man up and admit it? Place your bets folks.
http://mashable.com/2013/04/04/best-buy-samsung-experience-shop/#ktYI2jtw4mq3
"Samsung is going the extra mile when it comes to staff, putting its own "Samsung Experience Consultants" in the stores. These are employees of Samsung — not Best Buy"
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Hey skip. Yeah you are right. Samsung has placed thousands of employees in best buys from coast to coast. I can't believe that I could possibly think otherwise. Of course they will hook right into my Samsung phone no matter what the carrier and update it for me....all at best buy. LOL. Yep, you sure nailed that one. Nice almost 4 year old article that you posted a link to....LOL! LOL! LOL!
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samnada said:
Ok, spiffy. Let us know when you have a solution to this problem. And by the way, you're absolutely wrong. Can you man up and admit it? Place your bets folks.
http://mashable.com/2013/04/04/best-buy-samsung-experience-shop/#ktYI2jtw4mq3
"Samsung is going the extra mile when it comes to staff, putting its own "Samsung Experience Consultants" in the stores. These are employees of Samsung — not Best Buy"
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Wow things got out of control very quickly here !!
Irrespective of best buy or Samsung employee @samnada is trying to see if he can get update to his phone from them. @samnada don't bother asking any of them Samsung/Best buy or Samsung customer care. They won't have any info, just wait until Samsung pushes the update. It can be tomorrow or a months time. Have patience is all what I can say.
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When do you think Root will come out?

When do you guys think a root will come out for the galaxy 5? Its been a long time.

To be honest man. I don't think we'll ever get root for this one. It is frustrating to know that the S7 and the almost identical S6 got root but we are sh!t out of luck with the Note5. Do yourself a favor and get the T-Mobile variant so you can enjoy your phone's full potential.

brandon110 said:
When do you guys think a root will come out for the galaxy 5? Its been a long time.
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When I was working on root no one wanted to help me so I just worked on it myself and I refuse to give out any information about it because of 1, no one cared to help 2, I spent months working on it alone and broke 3 phones which isn't cheap and 3, the bounty they have out isn't worth nothing to me.

MrMike2182 said:
When I was working on root no one wanted to help me so I just worked on it myself and I refuse to give out any information about it because of 1, no one cared to help 2, I spent months working on it alone and broke 3 phones which isn't cheap and 3, the bounty they have out isn't worth nothing to me.
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I'm just glad there IS a chance of root! You just gave me hope

A chance that money rules all it seems
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MrMike2182 said:
When I was working on root no one wanted to help me so I just worked on it myself and I refuse to give out any information about it because of 1, no one cared to help 2, I spent months working on it alone and broke 3 phones which isn't cheap and 3, the bounty they have out isn't worth nothing to me.
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How much is the bounty? I haven't seen it. I would contribute
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Ryano89 said:
How much is the bounty? I haven't seen it. I would contribute
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I have no idea at this point because the people who did pledge some money aren't interested in it no more because most of them went and got different phones already so there is no point anymore.
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kinjo28 said:
A chance that money rules all it seems
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It's not that money rules all (it usually does in most cases so you're correct), it's the simple fact that when you lose 3, 4, 5 phones trying to get the community what it wants, do you think it would be fair to the Dev that spent a lot of time and money to get what a lot of people want and not get anything back in return for everything? The reason I said the bounty is worth nothing to me is because I already spent way over that amount and people are backing out of it and taking their pledged amount back so it's just not worth nothing.

brandon110 said:
When do you guys think a root will come out for the galaxy 5? Its been a long time.
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Questions belong in the Help section, not development. Please refer to the sticky titled "Rules for Posting in the Development Section" before posting in there again.
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At this point, Samsung could cut a lot of blood loss from their Note 7 fiasco and enable easy root for all current unrootable devices and see some surge in interest and competent development. This would be a betterment to everyone, but the kickbacks from the useless preinstalled apps is probably more important than customer satisfaction and loyalty. Oh well.

Aw man you quit working on it and you broke several phones. That sucks. Well my cousin was wanting root. I just wonder what makes finding the root so hard. I'm learning HTML and CSS and soon afterwards javascript and I'm telling you its tough.. I couldn't imagine a coding language like java which im assuiming is what andriod is programmed in I think.

Covert from TMO to international

Is there a way to do this yet? Only thing from keeping me from getting this phone.
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smallsmx301 said:
Is there a way to do this yet? Only thing from keeping me from getting this phone.
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Unlike the McLaren 5g edition you'll be able to convert.

Exathi said:
Unlike the McLaren 5g edition you'll be able to convert.
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Is this something that has already been accomplished? Or is it just possible?

Sheradrax said:
Is this something that has already been accomplished? Or is it just possible?
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I have tmo variant and is rooted and converted to EU.

Shooter7889 said:
I have tmo variant and is rooted and converted to EU.
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I'm sorry, are you saying you have a OnePlus 8T+5G with T-Mobile USA and you've somehow converted to international? There's no tool available yet. How did you do this?
There's no MSM Tool out (unless you've developed an unreleased one?), and the T-Mobile bootloader can't be unlocked yet because OnePlus' bootloader token site is broken for the time being.
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Is there anyone currently working on the conversion tool? How about a way to unlock bootloader without sim unlock? Just interested in wether there's progress being made.
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Shooter7889 said:
I have tmo variant and is rooted and converted to EU.
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Umm how? No publicly available MSM conversion tool is yet available, are you hinting us that you are testing now a MSM tool and it will be released shortly?

SmileBigNow said:
Umm how? No publicly available MSM conversion tool is yet available, are you hinting us that you are testing now a MSM tool and it will be released shortly?
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I'm sorry I thought it had already been posted. Mine was used to test. I know it will be made public. I responded to the post originally to let anyone wondering know it will be possible, in case that was the only thing keeping anyone from getting the device.

Shooter7889 said:
I'm sorry I thought it had already been posted. Mine was used to test. I know it will be made public. I responded to the post originally to let anyone wondering know it will be possible, in case that was the only thing keeping anyone from getting the device.
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So now that the beans are out of the box, let's hear more, #1 does it need to be bootloader Unlocked or we can drop OP broken Unlock Token site and go straight to conversion?
#2 how does it work? Are you getting the OP OTA like the original international version?
#3 what's the ETA when it will be available for the public?

SmileBigNow said:
So now that the beans are out of the box, let's hear more, #1 does it need to be bootloader Unlocked or we can drop OP broken Unlock Token site and go straight to conversion?
#2 how does it work? Are you getting the OP OTA like the original international version?
#3 what's the ETA when it will be available for the public?
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From my experience had to unl bl then cross flashed. And yes afterward local update is now in my settings and u was able to take latest OTA sent out afterward(11.0.2.3 I think)
But I think the reason it has not been released yet is bcuz the bl unl is still a little sketchy and needs more perfecting.
When I first read this thread I just wanted fellow users who were skeptical of getting the 8t(tmo) to not be held back bcuz of no chance of being able to achieve bl unl/crossflashing/root on tmo varient. I will find out when this will be published

Shooter7889 said:
From my experience had to unl bl then cross flashed. And yes afterward local update is now in my settings and u was able to take latest OTA sent out afterward(11.0.2.3 I think)
But I think the reason it has not been released yet is bcuz the bl unl is still a little sketchy and needs more perfecting.
When I first read this thread I just wanted fellow users who were skeptical of getting the 8t(tmo) to not be held back bcuz of no chance of being able to achieve bl unl/crossflashing/root on tmo varient. I will find out when this will be published
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You can't Bootloader Unlock without the stupid Token and you can't get the token since OP site is drunk, I wish this comes out pretty soon and we will be able to just avoid OP token site and just convert it into international version.
Thanks for the information when you have a ETA I'll appreciate if you let us know.

Shooter7889 said:
I have tmo variant and is rooted and converted to EU.
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Is there anything I can do to help with the conversion testing. I have my phone SIM unlocked and OEM unlocking is available in my settings.

Here's the thing on converting Tmo to Intl
Yes it requires a bootloader unlock.
Yes it's possible to unlock the bootloader
Yes it can be done without a token (however this is very hacky and isn't anywhere near ready for public use)
Yes some people have it done for testing
No it's not public yet.
No I didn't find or make it
Theres a lot going into this right now with limited options of how to proceed with unlocking. That paired with no twrp makes things kind of a nightmare to deal with.
unfortunately I can't give an excess of information, as im only testing/developing, however I will confirm these things for you.

SmileBigNow said:
You can't Bootloader Unlock without the stupid Token and you can't get the token since OP site is drunk, I wish this comes out pretty soon and we will be able to just avoid OP token site and just convert it into international version.
Thanks for the information when you have a ETA I'll appreciate if you let us know.
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Just FYI, it seems OnePlus' token/unlock site is working now. Late last night I successfully submitted my token, and I believe a few others were able to do the same.
The thing is though, it says I know have to sit tight and wait one to two weeks for an email with the token...but I'll call this progress, none the less.
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stmims1124 said:
Just FYI, it seems OnePlus' token/unlock site is working now. Late last night I successfully submitted my token, and I believe a few others were able to do the same.
The thing is though, it says I know have to sit tight and wait one to two weeks for an email with the token...but I'll call this progress, none the less.
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Yeah, submitted my token request as well, now it's a waiting game

This is gonna drag for a while I can feel it...
Next time me personally I'll buy from OnePlus directly I mean guys is the same price wtf.

I would totally buy from oneplus.com but their financing option sucks.

sameog said:
I would totally buy from oneplus.com but their financing option sucks.
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That it definitely does! T-Mobile also makes it easy to pay off early as well.

I managed to get Affirm, oneplus's financing lender, on the phone. I spent a good hour, advocating my case. I told them that I would have love to buy the phone outright, if I had the means. Rep said the underwriters make the final decision. I argued further and stated that if I knew what Affirm looked for in their lending criteria, I could make an educated business decision, still said no.
With that, went to TMobile, threw down my down payment.
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BTW gang, I got my sim unlock (not bootloader, but sim unlock) done already. Bought my phone on November 1st and now it's sim unlocked. Just waiting for the unlock code from oneplus.

sameog said:
I managed to get Affirm, oneplus's financing lender, on the phone. I spent a good hour, advocating my case. I told them that I would have love to buy the phone outright, if I had the means. Rep said the underwriters make the final decision. I argued further and stated that if I knew what Affirm looked for in their lending criteria, I could make an educated business decision, still said no.
With that, went to TMobile, threw down my down payment.
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BTW gang, I got my sim unlock (not bootloader, but sim unlock) done already. Bought my phone on November 1st and now it's sim unlocked. Just waiting for the unlock code from oneplus.
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How did you get it sim unlocked?