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Re: Which major cellular carriers also unlock phones using a free push-button app like T-Mobile does today?
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Arlen Holder
Aug 17, 2018, 4:35:12 PM8/17/18
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On 17 Aug 2018 09:52:04 GMT, nospam wrote:
>> On my $130 LG Stylo 3 Plus, I unlocked it, for example, using the free app.
>> 1. You find & press the T-Mobile "Device Unlock" app
>> "com.tmobile.simlock 1.2.31"
>> "/system/priv-app/opt/OSA_TMO_Simlock/OSA_TMO_Simlock.apk"
>> <http://www.bild.me/bild.php?file=5526355unlock01.jpg>
>> 2. You press the "Permanent Unlock" button.
>> <http://www.bild.me/bild.php?file=8149927unlock02.jpg>
>> 3. You reboot.
>> <http://www.bild.me/bild.php?file=9720915unlock03.jpg>
>> Which major cellular carriers also unlock phones
>
> all of them.
>
> verizon lte phones are legally required to be factory unlocked.
Well then ... cellphone ease of unlocking has vastly improved over time!
I've had cellphones for as long as cellphones existed (almost), where those
that I have had unlocked in the past often took, in the beginning, a week
or two for the carrier to get the series of codes from the manufacturer.
At some point, years ago, you could get the unlock codes directly from the
carrier, and then you punched the sequence into the keypad (which is, as I
recall, how I unlocked my S3).
Finally, at this point in time, with my LG Stylo 3 Plus, you don't even
need to call the carrier. The unlock app is on the phone - just sitting
there - waiting for you to press it.
1. Click <http://www.bild.me/bild.php?file=5526355unlock01.jpg>
2. Click <http://www.bild.me/bild.php?file=8149927unlock02.jpg>
3. Click <http://www.bild.me/bild.php?file=9720915unlock03.jpg>
Voila! You're unlocked!
That's pretty easy. Click, click, click, unlocked!
Are you intimating that all the major carriers now put that type of simple
click-click-click unlock app on all their locked phones nowadays so that
after only 40 days of service, you can unlock them yourself without even
talking to the carrier like I was able to do just now with T-Mobile?
- T-Mobile
- Sprint
- AT&T
- Verizon
etc.
>> On my $130 LG Stylo 3 Plus, I unlocked it, for example, using the free app.
>> 1. You find & press the T-Mobile "Device Unlock" app
>> "com.tmobile.simlock 1.2.31"
>> "/system/priv-app/opt/OSA_TMO_Simlock/OSA_TMO_Simlock.apk"
>> <http://www.bild.me/bild.php?file=5526355unlock01.jpg>
>> 2. You press the "Permanent Unlock" button.
>> <http://www.bild.me/bild.php?file=8149927unlock02.jpg>
>> 3. You reboot.
>> <http://www.bild.me/bild.php?file=9720915unlock03.jpg>
>> Which major cellular carriers also unlock phones
>
> all of them.
>
> verizon lte phones are legally required to be factory unlocked.
Well then ... cellphone ease of unlocking has vastly improved over time!
I've had cellphones for as long as cellphones existed (almost), where those
that I have had unlocked in the past often took, in the beginning, a week
or two for the carrier to get the series of codes from the manufacturer.
At some point, years ago, you could get the unlock codes directly from the
carrier, and then you punched the sequence into the keypad (which is, as I
recall, how I unlocked my S3).
Finally, at this point in time, with my LG Stylo 3 Plus, you don't even
need to call the carrier. The unlock app is on the phone - just sitting
there - waiting for you to press it.
1. Click <http://www.bild.me/bild.php?file=5526355unlock01.jpg>
2. Click <http://www.bild.me/bild.php?file=8149927unlock02.jpg>
3. Click <http://www.bild.me/bild.php?file=9720915unlock03.jpg>
Voila! You're unlocked!
That's pretty easy. Click, click, click, unlocked!
Are you intimating that all the major carriers now put that type of simple
click-click-click unlock app on all their locked phones nowadays so that
after only 40 days of service, you can unlock them yourself without even
talking to the carrier like I was able to do just now with T-Mobile?
- T-Mobile
- Sprint
- AT&T
- Verizon
etc.
nospam
Aug 17, 2018, 5:31:45 PM8/17/18
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In article <pl7bhu$nj$1...@news.mixmin.net>, Arlen Holder
their web site and it will take as little as a few minutes to complete
(assuming it's not blacklisted). for iphones, they update it server
side and you just need to reset the phone. other phones usually require
a code to be emailed, which can take a day or two.
verizon is legally prohibited from locking lte phones in exchange for
using the 700mhz spectrum (see below), however, they recently decided
laws no longer applies to them and announced plans that they will be
locking phones, then paid off ź to look the other way.
sprint can be a pain, but they'll usually unlock phones.
you already dealt with t-mobile.
<https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/47/27.16>
§ 27.16 Network access requirements for Block C in the 746-757 and
776-787 MHz bands.
...
(e)Handset locking prohibited. No licensee may disable features on
handsets it provides to customers, to the extent such features are
compliant with the licensee's standards pursuant to paragraph (b)of
this section, nor configure handsets it provides to prohibit use of
such handsets on other providers' networks.
<arlen...@nospam.net> wrote:
> At some point, years ago, you could get the unlock codes directly from the
> carrier, and then you punched the sequence into the keypad (which is, as I
> recall, how I unlocked my S3).
for at&t, you don't even need to be a customer. fill out the form on
> At some point, years ago, you could get the unlock codes directly from the
> carrier, and then you punched the sequence into the keypad (which is, as I
> recall, how I unlocked my S3).
their web site and it will take as little as a few minutes to complete
(assuming it's not blacklisted). for iphones, they update it server
side and you just need to reset the phone. other phones usually require
a code to be emailed, which can take a day or two.
verizon is legally prohibited from locking lte phones in exchange for
using the 700mhz spectrum (see below), however, they recently decided
laws no longer applies to them and announced plans that they will be
locking phones, then paid off ź to look the other way.
sprint can be a pain, but they'll usually unlock phones.
you already dealt with t-mobile.
<https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/47/27.16>
§ 27.16 Network access requirements for Block C in the 746-757 and
776-787 MHz bands.
...
(e)Handset locking prohibited. No licensee may disable features on
handsets it provides to customers, to the extent such features are
compliant with the licensee's standards pursuant to paragraph (b)of
this section, nor configure handsets it provides to prohibit use of
such handsets on other providers' networks.
Arlen Holder
Aug 17, 2018, 7:14:01 PM8/17/18
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On 17 Aug 2018 14:31:44 GMT, nospam wrote:
> for at&t, you don't even need to be a customer.
Thanks for that information on AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, T-Mobile, law, etc.
> for at&t, you don't even need to be a customer.
From both your answers, it seems your first response was dead wrong (again,
as always), but it doesn't appear obvious that you were purposefully being
malicious as you normally are - so I'll assume you're not being sadistic
again.
I think you may have simply misunderstood the question in the subject line,
which was repeated in the first line of the OP, and which was repeated as
the last line of the OP.
Your factual information on current carrier unlocking is appreciated though
- but it still doesn't answer the original question - where only those
experienced in such things would know the answer.
Since you'll exclaim that you answered the question, I'll summarize your
answers as:
1. I ask which carriers provide the native app to unilaterally unlock.
2. You respond that they all do
3. Which may be true - but you posted an update which indicates they don't.
So it's hard to tell, from your two posts, which, if any, other carriers
provide a native push-button app that unilaterally unlocks the phone sans
carrier intervention.
Here's the question again for those who have recently unlocked phones:
Q: Which carriers now unlock phones using a free native push-button app?
nospam
Aug 17, 2018, 7:22:45 PM8/17/18
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In article <pl7kro$gvt$2...@news.mixmin.net>, Arlen Holder
<arlen...@nospam.net> wrote:
> Since you'll exclaim that you answered the question, I'll summarize your
> answers as:
> 1. I ask which carriers provide the native app to unilaterally unlock.
> 2. You respond that they all do
> 3. Which may be true - but you posted an update which indicates they don't.
nope. my response clearly stated they all offer unlocking.
> Since you'll exclaim that you answered the question, I'll summarize your
> answers as:
> 1. I ask which carriers provide the native app to unilaterally unlock.
> 2. You respond that they all do
> 3. Which may be true - but you posted an update which indicates they don't.
Arlen Holder
Aug 17, 2018, 9:11:21 PM8/17/18
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On 17 Aug 2018 16:22:44 GMT, nospam wrote:
> my response clearly stated they all offer unlocking.
Your statement proves, yet again, you are just playing silly semantic
> my response clearly stated they all offer unlocking.
games.
You have no formal education - so - you _wish_ you had some knowledge!
I think you gain a sadistic glee out of your constant fabrications, where,
you're never right - but - you desperate *wish* you could be right - at
least once or twice out of fifty times.
*You are wrong so often - I think you _wish_ you were right even once!*
The question was never about unlocking alone, so, as always with you:
a. Either you're so stupid that you don't understand the question, or,
b. You're just playing your childish silly games again.
While it's clear you, nospam, lack even the most basic of formal education,
I don't actually think you're as stupid as everything you post makes you
sound - so - I'm assuming you're just playing your time-wasting childish
semantic games.
Moving forward, the question remains for *adults* to answer:
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