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How to unlock the blackstone?

Hello anyone knows how to unlock the Blackstone?
many thanks

HTC Touch HD
Me too, how to unlock the HTC Touch HD locked to Oange?
TA

there this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=430048

HTC Touch HD
XeonSX said:
there this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=430048
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I meant a cheap unlocking!

IF you mean free then I dont know but theres a link to 22$ unlocking service, not too much.

zmalach said:
I meant a cheap unlocking!
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thats the cheapest so far ... unless you ask your carrier for the sim unlock code. I know in US your carrier has to give it to you after 3 months of service don't know about UK regulations.

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thats the cheapest so far ... unless you ask your carrier for the sim unlock code. I know in US your carrier has to give it to you after 3 months of service don't know about UK regulations.
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Only here they are alllowed to charge you for it, 20 pounds for orange unlock code but thats not even posssible as the phone is only a month old in the UK I think

XeonSX said:
Only here they are alllowed to charge you for it, 20 pounds for orange unlock code but thats not even posssible as the phone is only a month old in the UK I think
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aah that sucks ... sorry .. That was a suggestion for op as he didn't want to pay the 50 (wait it out another 2 months ).

UK providers
UK phone providers Orange - will ask for the full value of the contract to unlock it - ie if you have 12 months left at £30 then £360 for the code + unlock fee £20 quidish.
Not sure about T-Mo - but i believe at the end of the contract they will give it for free, but dont say your going to another network, as they'll charge you for the privilidge.
Been there done that... htccode.com appear to be the cheapest at present at £15.
Reviews of service appear to be very positive!

crystal_clear said:
UK phone providers Orange - will ask for the full value of the contract to unlock it - ie if you have 12 months left at £30 then £360 for the code + unlock fee £20 quidish.
Not sure about T-Mo - but i believe at the end of the contract they will give it for free, but dont say your going to another network, as they'll charge you for the privilidge.
Been there done that... htccode.com appear to be the cheapest at present at £15.
Reviews of service appear to be very positive!
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Found this Forum whilst looking for quick way to unlock HTC Touch HD - follwed this recommendation and it's unlocked From sending Paypal payment to getting code took about 5 mins - made contact via MSN and they are really good - if anyone is going to do this, saves asking them the same question as I did - when you enter the unlock code it'll say it's accepted but will then say it's locked again - enter the code once more - that'll do it

hi
i need help i recently got a HTC Touch HD on a orange UK contract 18th of december to be precise from buymobilephones.net. The problem is i cannot unlock it i have tried (unlock-HTC.com0 and (htccode.com) both of them gave me the same code for my phone and it didnt work i have attempted it 7 times now and my phone has a long time out in order to try again please is anything i am doing wrong or do i have install something before inserting a sim locked card i am in the process with htccode to see if they can do anything for me or is it a case that the unlocking code isnt available i prepared to pay a donation or what ever it is to get it unlocked thanks.

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devioust said:
hi
i need help i recently got a HTC Touch HD on a orange UK contract 18th of december to be precise from buymobilephones.net. The problem is i cannot unlock it i have tried (unlock-HTC.com0 and (htccode.com) both of them gave me the same code for my phone and it didnt work i have attempted it 7 times now and my phone has a long time out in order to try again please is anything i am doing wrong or do i have install something before inserting a sim locked card i am in the process with htccode to see if they can do anything for me or is it a case that the unlocking code isnt available i prepared to pay a donation or what ever it is to get it unlocked thanks.
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I have the owner of HTC Code on my MSN Messenger contacts - I will quiz him about this and then get back to you mate... hang on. I intended to use HTCCODE as well upon delivery of my handset.

HTC Code
devioust said:
hi
i need help i recently got a HTC Touch HD on a orange UK contract 18th of december to be precise from buymobilephones.net. The problem is i cannot unlock it i have tried (unlock-HTC.com0 and (htccode.com) both of them gave me the same code for my phone and it didnt work i have attempted it 7 times now and my phone has a long time out in order to try again please is anything i am doing wrong or do i have install something before inserting a sim locked card i am in the process with htccode to see if they can do anything for me or is it a case that the unlocking code isnt available i prepared to pay a donation or what ever it is to get it unlocked thanks.
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I have the owner of HTC Code on my MSN Messenger contacts - I will quiz him about this and then get back to you mate... hang on. I intended to use HTCCODE as well upon delivery of my handset.

What's funny, I bought my HD at Bouygues Telecom in Paris. They claimed it's locked to them. Once I came to the hotel and inserted my SIM card - it worked with no problems. They lied! Actually, I think the same thing was at Fnac. They had two versions of the phone - locked to one of French providers for EUR 589 and unlocked for EUR 699. I guess it was the same phone. I bought my one for 549, flashed to WWE and it works like a charm!

its illegal
In france, its against the law to sell phones that are locked

crystal_clear said:
In france, its against the law to sell phones that are locked
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huh????? I get plenty of phones LOCKED to french networks from visitors here in Canada! what r u talking about?

Vodafone magic is supplied unlocked

Vodafone UK are supplying almost all of their handsets UNLOCKED AS STANDARD,
(Blackberry Storm excluded, and a few others)
This means that NO UNLOCKING IS REQUIRED by code or otherwise, as no UK Magic is supplied locked, confirmed to me by the HTC Employee doing my product training, and by Vodafone Second Line Technical Support.
Should you source a UK Magic that is locked, VODAFONE UK WILL UNLOCK FOR FREE, for contract customers (different terms for PAYT and Enterprise)
PM me for any queries you may have.

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ok, guess we shall wait and see. but my experience as a corporate buyer from vodagroan business
all have been locked recently and cant be unlocked if they have an exclusive. just me experience.
anyway unlocked for us htc magic users is still good news non the less.

The devices are supplied from a single SKU code (it is the same phone regardless of who/how supplied)
and they are all sim free.

I can confirm... my Vodafone Magic is supplied unlocked - my Three SIM works in it. I didn't get a 3G data connection, but that's probably just a configuration or network issue - I didn't get the time to look into it.

yea my magic also came unlocked, my o2 sim worked fine.

My Magic cam unlocked too. Can confirm that my Orange Sim works fine.

We don't have the same luck in Spain.
My Magic came sim locked.

I noticed their are already loads of these on e bay, oddly some are marked as unlocked & some not which is confusing?

All Magic are unlocked, some sales chimps from Vodafone do not know this and so the customers also don't know or bother to check

How safe is it too buy a Magic off ebay?
It's just I was reading a few horror stories about the G1 off ebay in the relevant part of this forum.

viw9419 said:
All Magic are unlocked, some sales chimps from Vodafone do not know this and so the customers also don't know or bother to check
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I think that this comment can lead into confusion.
As i said, my Magic that i got from VF Spain came sim locked.
Maybe in UK and Germany are all unlocked. But based on my own experience, mine was locked.
I needed to buy a code in order to put a sim card from another company (another country).

rommelin said:
I needed to buy a code in order to put a sim card from another company (another country).
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How much did you pay for it?
Can you tell us where did you get it?

Vodafone Spain Magic's are locked.

ferraripassion said:
Vodafone Spain Magic's are locked.
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I wonder why they seem to be unlocked in the UK but not other EU countries?

In Germany Vodafone versions are also supplied unlocked (not only in UK)

stickman said:
How much did you pay for it?
Can you tell us where did you get it?
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I paid 17.50EUR for the code. I got it in 5 minutes in my email.
I'm not sure if I can say the web page here (long time without reading the rules) but it was a very easy url link that appears one of the top when you search in google.
Something like unlock now, or similar.

Anybody in the U.S. been able to import one yet? Seriously interested in this phone

I can confirm that UK Vodafone Magic's seem to be unlocked..
I have just received one and it's working fine with an O2 Sim right out of the box!

unlucky in france
with SFR (vodafone in france)
it's locked
voila
any idea for unlock it will be welcome... or I ll wait 6 mounth (french law about unlocking)

Super Chimp said:
How safe is it too buy a Magic off ebay?
It's just I was reading a few horror stories about the G1 off ebay in the relevant part of this forum.
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I was that man...
I'm now running a Magic - bought in store at a Phones4U retail outlet as a "handset only" deal. The sales guy was very helpful and tested it out with my O2 SIM before I purchased. Cost GBP440 - about 100 more than they're going for on eBay but I couldn't face the risk again.
Caveat emptor big time..

Hello Tattoo community! Need urgent advice to potential buyer :)

Hello,
Probably will buy this device tomorrow, used, dont sure ifs its unbranded or Vodafone (Portugal) branded.
I have a question ...
- If it's unbranded (and so on unlocked), there's anything I need to know (something in the firmware), so I can install "anything" I want?
- If its branded and sim locked... it's easy to unbrand and unlock? Should I take a look of something on the firmware?
Really appreciate your help.
Thanks,
Tiago

There is no good way yet to unlock the htc tattoo locked to orange uk except from using the ismart sim 2008. Besides the simlock problem, you have a smaller screen than other android devices. So some apps or games might not work properly.. but most of them do. Also you have limited access to the market, that is, you can access products that have been specified htc tattoo compliant only unless you root the device and install the cracked market app. Besides that everything is ok.

yash08 said:
There is no good way yet to unlock the htc tattoo locked to orange uk except from using the ismart sim 2008. Besides the simlock problem, you have a smaller screen than other android devices. So some apps or games might not work properly.. but most of them do. Also you have limited access to the market, that is, you can access products that have been specified htc tattoo compliant only unless you root the device and install the cracked market app. Besides that everything is ok.
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I never said it's tattoo orange uk... I said maybe its vodafone portugal tattoo...
smaller screen? what's the normal screen for tattoo ?

he ment its small screen, compared to other HTC phones, most phones got 3+ inches screen, tattoo is 2.8.
about unlocking - its ur rights to try put ur sim card in the phone before u buy it. Myn was unlocked, thought they sayd its locked to they network. At same time - they use same phones for selling as locked to they network with a contract, as same phones for selling it for full price...

Stiflerlv said:
he ment its small screen, compared to other HTC phones, most phones got 3+ inches screen, tattoo is 2.8.
about unlocking - its ur rights to try put ur sim card in the phone before u buy it. Myn was unlocked, thought they sayd its locked to they network. At same time - they use same phones for selling as locked to they network with a contract, as same phones for selling it for full price...
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I dont want to count with simcard... always had problems with it.
So its not easily possible to unlock and unbrand a tattoo ?

Dude, if I had the chance I would have bought a device which is easily upgradeable to another Android OS or other ROMS (maybe with different OS').
But returning to your issue:
Unbranding shouldn't be a problem (I removed Vodafone Germany branding), but with unlocking there are problems with certain providers. Just put your SIM in first and see if it boots, otherwise I would take another device if the tattoo should be locked.

TheSSJ said:
Dude, if I had the chance I would have bought a device which is easily upgradeable to another Android OS or other ROMS (maybe with different OS').
But returning to your issue:
Unbranding shouldn't be a problem (I removed Vodafone Germany branding), but with unlocking there are problems with certain providers. Just put your SIM in first and see if it boots, otherwise I would take another device if the tattoo should be locked.
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But if I put my TMN sim card on Vodafone Tattoo, it's suppose to work ?
Not understood what you explained, sorry.

Some carriers sell phones that are locked to them, others sell unlocked phones.
Here in the UK for instance, vodafone phones are not locked and an HTC Tattoo bought from them can be used with any SIM. Ones sold by Orange are locked to them and can only be used with an Orange SIM.
I do not know if Vodafone in Portugal lock their phones or not, the simple way of checking is by trying your non vodafone SIM and seeing if it works.
Unlocking the Tattoo can be done but costs $15 or so I believe (although with the Desire they then charge you another $20 - a very dodgy practice), far better to buy one that's not locked in the first place unless you want to use it on the carrier it's locked to.
You posted a couple of days ago - have you already bought the phone? Was it unlocked? Or have you not bought it yet?

Confucious said:
Some carriers sell phones that are locked to them, others sell unlocked phones.
Here in the UK for instance, vodafone phones are not locked and an HTC Tattoo bought from them can be used with any SIM. Ones sold by Orange are locked to them and can only be used with an Orange SIM.
I do not know if Vodafone in Portugal lock their phones or not, the simple way of checking is by trying your non vodafone SIM and seeing if it works.
Unlocking the Tattoo can be done but costs $15 or so I believe (although with the Desire they then charge you another $20 - a very dodgy practice), far better to buy one that's not locked in the first place unless you want to use it on the carrier it's locked to.
You posted a couple of days ago - have you already bought the phone? Was it unlocked? Or have you not bought it yet?
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Now I understood.
Here in Portugal, ALL phones are SIM Locked. Unlock goes from 50$ to 150$.
That's why I asked if it's easy to do it by us.

HTCCode.com say on the front page that it costs $15 but people in the Desire forum are saying they are being told that their device costs more - but only after they've paid the $15.

unlock G1 / simlock G1

Hello,
I´am from Austria and i have a rooted G1.
I have a contract with T-Mobile Austria and i can use the phone only with a sim card from them.
I want to know, if it is possible that i can unlock my G1 for all other provider?

slekk said:
Hello,
I´am from Austria and i have a rooted G1.
I have a contract with T-Mobile Austria and i can use the phone only with a sim card from them.
I want to know, if it is possible that i can unlock my G1 for all other provider?
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yes you can. either call t-mobile up or go thru one of the providers on ebay.

Ok and is there also any way, without some costs?

slekk said:
Ok and is there also any way, without some costs?
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In the US you can call T-mobile as long as your account has been active for 90 days and in good standings and they will give you the code for free. I dont know how it is where you are.

i fought my fight trying to unlock my G1 without any costs and it didn't work out, finally i settled for an online sim unlock code order.
i got mine from http://www.gsmliberty.net/shop/
extremely fast delivery and worked like a charm

3uk default unlocked

This may already be common knowledge, whilst playing about with my 3uk s3 in preparation for using a dual sim adapter on it, I discovered it was network unlocked from new, nice suprise as I was looking at paying £15 plus to get an unlock code for it

paulus3476 said:
This may already be common knowledge, whilst playing about with my 3uk s3 in preparation for using a dual sim adapter on it, I discovered it was network unlocked from new, nice suprise as I was looking at paying £15 plus to get an unlock code for it
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Mines locked!

paulus3476 said:
This may already be common knowledge, whilst playing about with my 3uk s3 in preparation for using a dual sim adapter on it, I discovered it was network unlocked from new, nice suprise as I was looking at paying £15 plus to get an unlock code for it
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Where did you purchse your phone and is there any 3 branding on it?
If you bought it from somewhere like Phones4u it will be unlocked and accept your 3 sim because most of the phones they supply are unlocked.
If you bought from a 3 phone shop and it has 3 branding on it , then it will be locked to 3 network.
there is a simple unlock method floating about which i used to unlock mine
regards

marrila said:
Where did you purchse your phone and is there any 3 branding on it?
If you bought it from somewhere like Phones4u it will be unlocked and accept your 3 sim because most of the phones they supply are unlocked.
If you bought from a 3 phone shop and it has 3 branding on it , then it will be locked to 3 network.
there is a simple unlock method floating about which i used to unlock mine
regards
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i got mine from Three online. i got 100GBP cashback so it was worth doing online. only the OS was branded which i removed for the stock updated rom.

irzero said:
i got mine from Three online. i got 100GBP cashback so it was worth doing online. only the OS was branded which i removed for the stock updated rom.
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Yeh that's why it's locked 3 supplied it you you. Doesn't help now but in future if you want a chance of getting a unlocked phone buy/ upgrade from somewhere like phones4u or onestopphoneshop.
As I said there's a simple completely free permanent sim unlock method on xda which is what I'm using
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I per ordered my blue handset from 3 and got it quite early on. It's unlocked and un branded I think the first few batches they sent out were straight from Samsung and they had no time to change them to the 3 branded software what with the delays.
I don't know this for certain but it's my two pence.
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