some lowlife sold my teenage kid a t mobile sim locked oneplus 9 this past weekend after claiming it could be use on att ugh cant believe someone would take advantage of someone like that.
idk anything at all about this sort of stuff so im stumbling my way thru this like a blind man thru a maze
i called t mobile twice last night and they didnt seem to care at all about the situation so a google search led me here
is there anything we can do to get this thing unlocked so it can be use on att? any help and/or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. i dont mind paying if necessary
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the account originally associated with the phone must be in good standings. must also be paid off. if you can confirm those through imei etc, then try going into settings, about phone, scroll down until you see network unlock. go for the permanent option.
That was the first thing we tried
so the phone is not financially compromised and the original account is in good standing? run the imei number on a blacklist checker. most likely your son bought a paper weight.
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@Imbmfk Imagine your device was stolen, I'm sure you would appreciate that the people who took it would be unable to use your device. I do understand that this can bring problems on the second hand market but this is of no concern to XDA. I assume you speak the truth but even then our community will not be able to assist as any unlock solutions would be considered illegal. Which takes us to:
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I can only advise you to get in touch with the seller and/or the platform your son has bought the device on.
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I'm trying to decipher where it's made and when its made. I'm not asking for all 15. I just want to see if our shares anything in common. Thanks in advanced guys. Loving this phone. It's crazy that some of our displays are lg and others are Samsung. That's also what I'm trying to look into.
Source for "some are Samsung"?
XL is Samsung, non-XL is LG
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Greetings,
Due to some unfair regulations where I live in where any outsider phone has to be regulated by spending huge amount on it (around 250$) to use it without time limit on the carriers. Could anyone point me on the direction to the method of writing new IMEI's to the phone? I have 2 paperweight phones that I could use to keep the phone running on the network without that limit.
*Any risk of bricking the phone of doing so ?
*If done properly? would it get affected by future updates? would it still get future updates if the process is done ?
As anyone is getting older , I lost the interest of rooting bootloader unlocking and such things so it is preferred if there is a way of doing so without those steps ...
Any help is much appreciated
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I went to one of those code websites and they quoted $95, which is out of my reach at the moment. Is there perhaps a way to d it myself? I am comfortable rooting and flashing roms so I'm sure I can handle it, I just don't know what to do.
Paying off the phone usually does the trick...
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The person I purchased it from told me it was network unlocked. I did not find out it was not unlocked until I inserted my sim into it after it was delivered.
If I had the money to pay it off I would not be here asking if there's a chance this can be done.
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I have a bit of experience with this given I have a Cricket model and I was going to sell it on eBay. Cricket themselves told me that the DEVICE itself is locked to the purchasers ACCOUNT until 6 months of service has been paid for. After which the network can be unlocked and the device sold to anyone. They told me the device wouldn't function for another Cricket account even if I wanted to just give it away to a friend. I'm not sure a code is really going to solve anything, given it sounds more like an IMEI lock within Cricket's database, and only once prereqs are met will they lift those restrictions.
Take this with a huge grain of salt, of course. Half the time I'm not sure Cricket's support has a clue what they're talking about. All I know is, tons of people are scooping them up for $49.99 from their website as "new customers" and then immediately trying to sell them.
To anyone else wanting to pick up one of these second hand, the safest way is to make sure it's the 6GB 256GB model. These aren't sold at any carrier, and are fully unlocked directly from Motorola. Picked one up myself a few weeks ago for slightly under $200.
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Hi,
can anybody tell me which mobiles are the easiest to root and the IMEI number is possible to change after root? I will be in a country for 3-6 months from my internship and to use an imported mobile the tax is almost 325$ on a 500$ mobile. So, I was thinking if I could change the IMEI to some low-cost mobile and use for this time period.
Thanks in advance
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Changing IMEI for whatever reason is illegal in atleast some countries. XDA being an international forum can not afford to get into legal hassles due to users seeking advice on changing IMEI or other users providing help in that. Hence we have been closing such threads consistently and your thread has been closed for that reason. Please also read Rule 9:
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Thank you for your understanding!
Hello I need this for job as well as educational purposes.. I flashed a device that has security plugin from a loan on it hoping the security plugin would disappear but I found out the phone got locked immediately after flashing I would like to know how to get rid of it for good through software method
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