unlocking cell phones

[der affe]

due to my catching fire, loss of income, getting screwed by my long term insurance plan, and 3 months in the hospital without money coming in, i was forced to switch to a budget cell phone company for the time being. on my drive to work everyday i pass by several cell phone places that offer to unlock and reflash any phone to cricket (my current shitty phone company). i am using my roommates old cell, which aside from being free, sucks ass. the features suck, crickets service sucks (both reception and customer), & to top it off, the battery goes almost completly dead from a full charge with one 10 min call. end rant

i have a nokia 5110 (actually 3 of them) that i would like to get flashed/unlocked so i could use it insted. the phone was orginally a t-mobile. can i do this myself? can they screw up the phone by doing it wrong? it is a sim card phone, does that make a difference?

i also have 4 razors, but they were total crap, so i would like to not use them if possable. that being said if the nokia can't be reformated would the razor be more suited for this?

thanks for helping a poor cripple out......
greg

ps a new battery for the current phone is $40ish and there is no way it is worth spending on that phone

[Maluco]

without reading your post, search the internet for the codes (I'ev found a few that way), if you are the owner or know the owner have them call and request a SIM Subsidy unlock code from the orig carrier, other than that you may need to find someone/store that will do it for a fee... GL

I work for T-Mobile. The reps there have to submit a SIM Subsidy unlock request which is in turn e-mailed to the customer. I imagine the RAZR unlock codes are very easy to obtain with a few mins on google. As far as the Nokia, not sure but it should be out there. There are forums...

[der affe]

i actually have 2 extra tmobile sim cards (never used them, so they are blank) any difference using them to unlock?

ALL the phones are mine. i found a loop hole in the shipping procedure for t mobile on warranty phones alowing me to keep the old ones, hence the multitude of extras, along with crappy phone manufactures

[der affe]

so i could just go to a t mobile store and ask for the unlock code to be emailed to me?

am i searching the web for the code # one the sim card?? sorry i am new to this

[Maluco]

firstly, you will need to pm me on this loophole joint... trust me, for my own interests. Secondly, yes, by all means, if you own them, a call in requesting the codes will do it for you. Use the reason of you moving overseas and that should smooth out anything that might possibly need to be....

[der affe]

what about these sites?

http://www.cellunlock.net/tmobile.htm?gclid=CO-WxMfhzJACFROYiQodoDe7Og

http://www.thetravelinsider.info/roadwarriorcontent/nokiaunlocking.htm

http://www.phoneunlocknow.com/#

http://www.thetravelinsider.info/roadwarriorcontent/nokiamailin.htm

[der affe]

apparently this phone can do all kinds of fun stuff!

here's a question for all the phone "geeks" for lack of a better way to put it....
is any of the info contained here>>> http://www.indiamobiles.com/unlock_c...okia/5110.html

useful to the average Joe like myself as far as added features blocked by t-mobile, etc???

thanks in advance

[rwh11385]

Did you get it unlocked yet? The people who do it everyday should be cool to serve you right - I was recommended to get my old Moto V551 unlocked in a Barber shop and sure enough $20 and 10 minutes later it was free to use any provider.

[der affe]

not yet, both batteries were dead so i put it on the charger this morning prob do it tomarrow. bump for any more help/comments on the phone......

[Gooch]

Isn't Cricket a CDMA provider? If so, your T-Mobile phone will not be able to be used because T-Mobile is a GSM provider. If your RAZR was a Sprint, Verizon, Altell or any other CDMA provider, then you will be able to unlock and use one of those. (If it doesn't have a SIM card, it's CDMA as CDMA providers do not use SIM cards. Yet.)

[der affe]

i don't know to be houest with you, i had to get a budget phone since the accident and my roommate had cricket so i jumped on her account and used her shitty old phone. i'll find out on wed i guess

[rwh11385]

cricket is CDMA. use a verizon/sprint/altell razr

[Ben Carufel]

On this topic, I've got a Nokia 6070 that I bought in Croatia. It's locked to the Vodafone network.

I tried a few local places; all said they are not able to unlock the 6070. Maluco or others, do you guys have any tips/advice?

Thanks.

[rwh11385]

They might not be familiar with it.

No personal offense intended, but why do you want to unlock such a shitty phone? You can probably get a phone for free and spend less for a prepaid sim card next time you are abroad - and I assume you have a better phone for here.

If you need to unlocked, mail it to Europe and unlock it and have it shipped back. May take some time and cost just a little but would be most reliable. Or trust the intraweb:

http://unlocknokia.byyourcommand.net/index.php

http://www.wirelessforums.org/uk-telecom-mobile/unlock-nokia-6070-a-11184.html

http://www.unlock123.com/step1.asp?model=6070&currType=EU&referName=Unknown

http://www.unlocks.co.uk/unlocking_details.php?asic=Nokia-6070&band=Dual-Band&gsm3g=GSM

http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/438454

[thectrlguy]

I bought in Croatia.

Off topic... but on holidays? I was just there not long ago...... nice place.