Dear XDA members,
Please can you help me to unlock my iphone 5 from fido canadian carier because I don't have money right now and it's so high in the market online or stores is about 125 Dollars. I wanna to give it to my fiancee that I love so much as a birthday gift. Please please help help me as soon as possible. Thank you very much in advance and looking forward to hear from you soon.
Best regards,
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Mouahed
Montreal
Moandro said:
Dear XDA members,
Please can you help me to unlock my iphone 5 from fido canadian carier because I don't have money right now and it's so high in the market online or stores is about 125 Dollars. I wanna to give it to my fiancee that I love so much as a birthday gift. Please please help help me as soon as possible. Thank you very much in advance and looking forward to hear from you soon.
Best regards,
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Le IMEI number : :good:
Mouahed
Montreal
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Take off ur imei number immediately. No one should know it
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okey thank you, but can you please help me with issue.
Moandro said:
okey thank you, but can you please help me with issue.
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This site is not for Crapple products. Try using Google to search or our sister site at http://iphone-developers.com/
There is lots of website available on the internet, just Google it. Pick the best site where you can resolve your problem.
@brookeaidan - Not to trole you or anything but I noticed a pattern forming of telling people to just google it. Though its a good suggestion to use google, I'm not saying write pages or something, just be a bit more helpful if your going to post help. Maybe post a link to a google search for them (not everyone is a wiz a google) because this is hard to get into (unlocking or hacking or rooting) the first time but once someone gets a win it's all good for the most part from there on.
I would suggest;
1. example Google search the following or to help resolve the questions in this here thread:
"Iphone"+"unlock" how to similar:xda
Or
"Iphone"+"unbrick" how to similar:iphone-developers
2. If you've got some knowledge to drop or experience to share its a good idea to post it so that the original poster can benefit and all future readers. For example:
When I had to unlock my first phone I first read up on the legalities, the how to(s) and then picked the best rout of action... at that time it was not illegal in the nation I resided and most of the how to(s) where way over my head (at that time) so I found that adding "solved" to the search queries pulled one up on "how to unlock your phone with help from service provider" in that guide it went over the steps of escalating a call without burning bridges and the legitimate reasons that you can give a service provider to assist you with unlocking a device.
Example of escalating the call
Service provider turns a request down
Respond something like
"That's ok <insert name> I won't waist your time further, can you please connect to your supervisor"
When supervisor answers, this is usually after the person you've just talked to has shared some words about you to their supervisor, so be polite but firm with the first person you talked to they'll likely also try to turn you down as well. Don't get impatient here, instead re-state your wishes completely, pause long enough that the supervisor can "grunt" that they've herd you but not long enough that they can interrupt you until you've finished everything that you need to say, if they do interrupt say something like
"I respect your time <insert name> and I need you to listen because this is very important <continue statement>"
When you're telling your story some things to keep in mind; don't lie, don't raze your voice (tention in the voice works far better), know that the first 2 or 3 people you talk to may not have the knowledge or the ability to do what you want so treat it like an adventure
Now for the reasons why a service provider might be cool enough to help you;
~ A family or business emergency, vacation, or trip is taking you out of your provider's coverage without incurring steep roaming charges wile your abroad.
This was the one that worked for me at least and was suggested by others. Make it sound like it could happen soon and let them know that you love your device and your service and don't want to have to leave them just to get a phone that'll work over seas because you love your phone (remember )... most people get it by then and are more apt to be on your side about connecting you to the department that handles unlocking.
So to recap
~ polite but firm and prepared to repeat yourself
~ request to be connected to the person(s) or department that can resolve your issue
~ use the persons name and the names of the persons to talked to before
~ treat it like an adventure
Doing so ensures
~ the person you are talking to is willing to help
~ prevents you from getting turned down and hung up on
~ let's them know that you will remember them, this is powerful when used correctly
~ by being up beet with company represinitives on the phone you can make them really eager to please. Note though; not to be to chatty or friendly as this will drag things out.
Some additional notes about unlocking devices:
I've unlocked many phones (no iphones yet) and two with the above method before doing it with guides and USB and programs or exploits on other devices. Both routs are tedious at times but if you take notes and are persistent you'll find a method that works in either rout.
In all companies the least secure and most flexibility/leverage can be found in the call centers, as a customer it's a good idea to know how to get your moneys worth out of 'em so perhaps look up social engineering (The Art of Deception was an entertaining read) or NLP (Darin Brown can be found on Youtube and it's good for a laugh too. Tools like that when used to get what you want as a customer can make life far quicker and easier even if your not out to exploit something but instead have a legitimate concern. I'm not saying that you should become some kind of mind master but instead take a look at the key concepts and apply them to actively construct a conversation that leads to your goal. After playing round with both ways of unlocking I can say getting a service provider to do it for you is kinda more fun, ya get to make peoples days a bit more interesting (such as when ya get a talker that then clams up because the realize that the conversation is recorded on their end and they've just said... something...) and not stare into a PC screen but instead kick your feet up and let them handle it.
If you go with option 1 and find a guide and unlock your device at home do be sure your not going to get stuck with some kind of fine for breaking a law and be sure to look up guides on how to unbrick and or recover from boot loop; bricks and boot loops happen, knowing how to solve it before it happens makes things so much quicker.
If you go with option 2 be sure to not cancel or suspend your contract or otherwise alter your contract (such as adding international roaming, they tried that one a few times on me, just said "no, thanks though" and moved on) because such things are not needed And if they suggest it then; let them know that you will make contact just before traveling and that "this" call is to ensure that the next rep you talk to has only those steps left to do and that "this" call is to get all the time and technical intensive things out of the way so that you and the next rep are not scrableing to get it done that day. They may suggest all sorts of other solutions, like a pre-paid phone, this is where you loving your phone or needing something on it for business to work comes into play. If one level of supervisor doesn't cut it go higher. And if you're transfered more than twice and had to repeat yourself more than that then on the next transfer ask to be directly connected or to have the person that is trasfering you to stay on the line to help explain why your being trasfered to the new person; this makes it so that you are using duble the resources of the company and most of them know it, so getting you quickly trasfered and the issue explained becomes a priority to the first person you talked to and the second person your about to talk to is being put at ease because someone from their company is explaining things to them before you do (prepping the target) these two forces combined cause you to become viewed as within their circle and leads to them wanting to work with you more rather than just push you down the line. Like I said though don't go lieing to your service provider but know that there are ligit reasons you may have to require your service provider do this.
As with all things you see on the web use at own risk
And happy hacking, whether it be on humans or what they make.
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Debian Kit/QEMU Linux Install guide for all android devices that I'm writing:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2240397
Now have working Installers for ARM Java 7 JDK + Maptools + jMonkey
Sorry, but there isn't a lot of iPhone development on xda and sooner or later this thread is going to see some heavy anti-iPhone trolling. So thread closed, and please try a website that is specialized for iPhones....like this one: http://iphone-developers.com/
Now a Lot of You are quick to say oh this has been addressed before and what not now ...please ....read my question before giving negative nonsensical replys.
So The Question is.
1. Will Unlocking my bootloader allow me to remove a Network/sim Lock on lets say a Blu Studio 5.0
2. If No, Then Why Not?
3. What Other Methods Can I Use to Unlock my Phone For "Free"
The Reason i'm asking is simple really, i'm From the Caribbean, and purchasing things like unlock Codes doesn't really work out well (at all)when we convert our currency into US Dollars or even worse yet english pounds.
i wanna have a solution that's free so i can help ppl out who come to me with locked phones i don't wanna purchase a box or anything cuzz it'd take like a months salary just to purchase one and then i'd have to charge ridiculous prices just to help somebody out and i dont want that.
so any methods that require no cost besides having software and a pc and an internet connection doesn't matter how much time it take (i have a lot of that )would do me just fine.
thanks in Advance to all the awesome ppl who are gonna help :good::good::good:
Jaysblog said:
Now a Lot of You are quick to say oh this has been addressed before and what not now ...please ....read my question before giving negative nonsensical replys.
So The Question is.
1. Will Unlocking my bootloader allow me to remove a Network/sim Lock on lets say a Blu Studio 5.0
2. If No, Then Why Not?
3. What Other Methods Can I Use to Unlock my Phone For "Free"
The Reason i'm asking is simple really, i'm From the Caribbean, and purchasing things like unlock Codes doesn't really work out well (at all)when we convert our currency into US Dollars or even worse yet english pounds.
i wanna have a solution that's free so i can help ppl out who come to me with locked phones i don't wanna purchase a box or anything cuzz it'd take like a months salary just to purchase one and then i'd have to charge ridiculous prices just to help somebody out and i dont want that.
so any methods that require no cost besides having software and a pc and an internet connection doesn't matter how much time it take (i have a lot of that )would do me just fine.
thanks in Advance to all the awesome ppl who are gonna help :good::good::good:
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Hi and thank you for using XDA Assist
If you are reffering to the Carriers Locked phones you can't do anything about it.
You can't use a different SIM on it because it will simply not work.
Usually you take a phone from a carrier with a plan and a contract, so the phone cannot be touched in these terms (To use other carrier), but you can freely flash and unlock the bootloader (of course at your own risk) but this thing about changing SIM on a locked phone from what i know is not possible.
Sim locking is done in a different area than the bootloader unlocking. So while unlocking the bootloader is sometimes the first step in unlocking the sim, sometimes you can not unlock the sim even in this way. Check out the Blu Studio 5 Forums for more specific information.
Recently I came across this issue, since I just recently bought this phone. Usually I will root my phones as soon as I get them, by following the excellent guides in XDA here, but this time, I didn't do much research before getting this phone (Mate 20 X). Aside from this unlocking bootloader issue, I like this phone and I hand-picked this from my list of options because it ticked what I was looking for in my new purchase - big battery, IR and 3.5" audio jack. Plus the latest 7nm 980 Kirin processor is a nice hardware to have. (I had Mi Max 2 before, but had some issues.)
I don't intend to pay any 3rd party and pay prohibitively expensive money to unlock my phone. It's absurd how much they are ripping off the people and on the other hand, I'm surprised how much people are willing to throw money at these dubious sites. Now crossing 100++ USD!!?? What the....
Anyway, back to my question :
1. How do these sites get YOUR phone's codes? I'm sure they are not paying Huawei to get your codes. If not from Huawei, then how are they able to obtain the codes just by having the serial number and IMEI numbers?
2. I hope it's just a matter of time before XDA developers can find out how they do this so that this can be shared with the community so that we can continue unlocking like how we used to do before with other phones.
This is an enthusiast community, not some dumb people who are ready to throw money to some 3rd party hackers to get your codes.
And looking at the latest developments, most of these dubious sites have ceased providing the service....wonder why. Something's fishy here. And prices are shooting up, no doubt, fueled by so many people ready to throw money for them.
I am not a developer but always follow the guides written by excellent deveopers in XDA. It's fun and educational that way. We all have paid for the phones ourselves. Tinkering with our phones is our hobby.
I wish people won't rush to pay and get 3rd party questionable "unlockers" spoil the spirit of XDA.
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Recently I came across this issue since I just recently bought this phone. Usually, I will root my phones as soon as I get them, by following the excellent guides in XDA here, but this time, I didn't do much research before getting this phone (Mate 20 X). Aside from this unlocking bootloader issue, I like this phone and I hand-picked this from my list of options because it ticked what I was looking for in my new purchase - big battery, IR and 3.5" audio jack. Plus the latest 7nm 980 Kirin processor is a nice hardware to have. (I had Mi Max 2 before, but had some issues.)
I don't intend to pay any 3rd party and pay prohibitively expensive money to unlock my phone. It's absurd how much they are ripping off the people and on the other hand, I'm surprised how much people are willing to throw money at these dubious sites. Now crossing 100++ USD!!?? What the....
Anyway, back to my question :
1. How do these sites get YOUR phone's codes? I'm sure they are not paying Huawei to get your codes. If not from Huawei, then how are they able to obtain the codes just by having the serial number and IMEI numbers?
2. I hope it's just a matter of time before XDA developers can find out how they do this so that this can be shared with the community so that we can continue unlocking like how we used to do before with other phones.
This is an enthusiast community, not some dumb people who are ready to throw money to some 3rd party hackers to get your codes.
And looking at the latest developments, most of these dubious sites have ceased providing the service....wonder why. Something's fishy here. And prices are shooting up, no doubt, fueled by so many people ready to throw money for them.
I am not a developer but always follow the guides written by excellent deveopers in XDA. It's fun and educational that way. We all have paid for the phones ourselves. Tinkering with our phones is our hobby.
I wish people won't rush to pay and get 3rd party questionable "unlockers" spoil the spirit of XDA.
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I doubt that anybody can provide unlock code without inside information/certain servers approach. If that hadn't been true, xda would have the code a long time ago.
What raises two issues. The first one is why Huawei changed its policy regarding AL00 bootloader after it was already on the market. Huawei had known all implications of unlocked bootloader a long time ago, that is the reason why it had stopped providing codes for other models recently.
It could be assumed that Huawei lured buyers to went for this model because they believe that it is only with unlocked bootloader and it will stay that way. A lot of buyers had wanted an unlocked bootloader, otherwise, they would have taken the international model which required fairly less customization.
Locking bootloader out of the blue and then enabling trading it through middlemen for huge extra profits is at least unfair to the buyers.
And there could be more. Is it possible that sudden change toward locking bootloader arise from the temptation to control users? That stuff that is basically what US accused Huawei and what makes discomfort even in more countries?
Finally, there is one question for xda, too. Until recently xda was a synonym for a free exchange of knowledge, solutions, software. Basically, almost everything I know about Android, phones, hacking, I've got from xda. And if I have something to share, I do it with gratitude for everything I received and gained from this great community. But I'm not even important, my knowledge is basic. There are many devs with a massive contribution, whole solutions, modifications, entire systems. For free.
It's quite acceptable to make reference to paid solutions or stuff and to recommend it in the forum. As it was always acceptable presenting royalty-free solutions in the forum and offering more customizing one via Google Play or similar portals. Or asking for a donation. But selling pure commercial solutions for ripoff money for something that has been already paid to the phone producer is an entirely different story. It may turn this forum into a commercial portal. If one could gain huge profits for participation only due to his connection with the producer, what is the point to spend hours, days and weeks of hard work just to bring a perfect rom or solution to the community?
Then, perhaps we'd need another forum. For contributors instead of traders.
Bootloader codes can only be provided by Huawei. FunkyHuawei and other "sellers" likely had an inside source that was providing codes at a cost - these people likely lost their jobs which is why there are no codes available from any source. XDA has found ways to load custom recoveries on many devices in the past, but this was never by locating the bootloader unlock code, only by exploiting a security flaw.
Personally, I don't think this issue has anything to do with Huawei wanting to lock down users. (despite what they're telling us) I think they are scared of research firms finding evidence of Huawei stealing hardware/software from other manufacturers. I don't mean this as a dig on Huawei, I think Apple is guilty of this as well. Both guilty in stealing radio hardware design and software from Qualcomm.
Has anyone actually obtained an unlock code in the last few weeks? If so, for which version of Mate 20 X and how much did you pay?
It's simple guys, 2 options:
Either 1. Insider that gets very busy now because if the many requests since OEM unlock is available again in the new updates.. so price goes up.
Or 2. Someone has the algorithm to generate these codes based on IMEI.
Since the price has went up by 4x I think option one is more realistic, however I don't rule out option 2. Perhaps we can fix a bounty for a team that can look into a key generator?
https://theunlockingcompany.com
Seems to be advertising to unlock at 39.99 US. I am hesitant though not only because of the issue developers have with the ethics behind such a service, but becasue I am a bit of a newb. Once I give out my IMEI number, doesn't that put me at risk of ending up with a brick?
s327374 said:
https://theunlockingcompany.com
Seems to be advertising to unlock at 39.99 US. I am hesitant though not only because of the issue developers have with the ethics behind such a service, but becasue I am a bit of a newb. Once I give out my IMEI number, doesn't that put me at risk of ending up with a brick?
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I just bought it I hope to have the code in 12 hours
Kurocham said:
I just bought it I hope to have the code in 12 hours
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Wait ... I am now advertising for them. I thought the point of this thread was to not pay these companies. Although I am interested to know if your EVR-AL00 gets a code. I will be tempted
s327374 said:
https://theunlockingcompany.com
Seems to be advertising to unlock at 39.99 US. I am hesitant though not only because of the issue developers have with the ethics behind such a service, but becasue I am a bit of a newb. Once I give out my IMEI number, doesn't that put me at risk of ending up with a brick?
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Are you sure this company will give you code to unlock bootloader? Looks like what they do is unlock phone from carrier. For example, you buy a phone from AT&T and you want to use it on Tmobile but you can't because it is carrier locked.
Kurocham said:
I just bought it I hope to have the code in 12 hours
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You realize that this is the unlock code for the simcard Carrier right? That has nothing to do with bootloader unlock...
Kurocham said:
I just bought it I hope to have the code in 12 hours
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mscion said:
Are you sure this company will give you code to unlock bootloader? Looks like what they do is unlock phone from carrier. For example, you buy a phone from AT&T and you want to use it on Tmobile but you can't because it is carrier locked.
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I am not sure - I just assumed that this would be for unlocking bootloader.... I guess we will know from Kurocham soon.
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You realize that this is the unlock code for the simcard Carrier right? That has nothing to do with bootloader unlock...
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OMFG I DID NOT KNOW!!!!:crying::crying::crying::crying:
Kurocham said:
OMFG I DID NOT KNOW!!!!:crying::crying::crying::crying:
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Sorry bro. I feel your pain. I am sorry for the accidental misdirection.
Good day all huawei customers. I have been pondering on a business idea for quite a while now but would love to know all of your thoughts before proceeding. As the title says I have found a method that can unlock/downgrade/flash all current and a previous Huawei phones that does not require test point or the risk of totally screwing up your phone!! Now my question to all of you would you prefer this method to work like remote support i.e TeamViewer and so on or an online Virtual Machine that user will have access to for the given time? Now for the one downside of all this unfortunately this service cannot be done for free as just getting the things needed to have access to this service will already cost me alot of money. So my final question is would any of you pay $10-$15 dollars for this service? It will take me a long time to make my money back but i cant ask an arm and leg for this kind of service so please I would like to hear from all of you of your thoughts if you would pay for this service or not, and if not why? All advice welcome you can dm me aswell if needed. Thank for your time reading this god awful long post. Thanks and enjoy the rest of your day
Because of financial problems I've be forced to keep this samsung note 3 I've had to unlock it using chailfire's regional unlock apk I also t pored it using chainfire and Odin on my laptop I put Titanium Backup and of course super user but it's all basic and old and out dated I've been. Told by a few here on XDA and thank you for that but why tell me somethinks is old and leave me hanging ..I am having network issues have some network called Ting I won't say anything bad about them because I don't know if it's their fault I can't get T-mobile on the phone to get the pin to get off their network it's always a 3 hour hold and their call back feature is a joke ..sorry t-mobile anyway what I'm trying to say is I'm a struggling android owner and Lover but I don't have the knowledge to experiment and the resources to take the chance of brick in my only phoneso could someone show me the way I can get my chime account my phone.and I need some serious help with spam and pop ups you see I'm a mess I'm afraid to put anything on my phone now once again someone take my lack of money and things into consideration my family makes fun of my old phone but what they don't know is I'm their life line they all have new phones and they don't understand it's not the tooth fairy that that world of information going it's me and I'm only suffering because my brand new phone hot stolen out of my truck T-mobile wants me to give them $1,400 for a phone that they said I didn't have insurance on come on. So they think I'm paying them $1,400and I'm paying the phone off monthly and I'm still paying monthly but I canceledmy service but I'm still paying the phone so that's it I'm a mess I just need some info on this phone I work for myself I'm struggling but I'm getting by please I know I'm probably out of line and I'm probably miss using this thread but no smart elic comments I'm putting it all out there ladies and gentlemen ok thanks so much ...
the note 3 has forums here still probably visited by people who know all the best options that phone can take advantage of.
it's not actually that clear what you're asking for BTW, but I think older versions of magisk will be more up-to date than superSU. adaway sounds like something you'd benefit from and maybe even Xposed and minminguard to stop ads too. AFWall+ will stop all apps using the internet unless you want them to and save you data. you might enjoy a newer but still dependable rom too. all of this is free except for bandwidth / data.
the old xda advice is still good... read read and read some more. most questions you'll want to ask have likely been asked and answered before.