First ever try with a blackberry

[Dazza2008]

right guys next door but 1 to me passed me a blackberry...

anyway the story is he picked it up from a pub as someone dropped it so he ditched the sim card and took the phone..

so he passed it to me to have a play

i went to a phone shop today and the guy in there said he can unlock it for 15 notes but if its been blocked by t-moblie (if it was on contract) its no good but we would only find out after he unlocks it....

is this right as i don't have a clue

when i put it on it says on the screen as follows

Device is locked
Unlock
Phonecall
Emergency
Cancel

on the top right it says SOS in blue

any idea's if it can be sorted or a code etc?

thanks for help guys

[unadkat]

Originally Posted by Dazza2008

right guys next door but 1 to me passed me a blackberry...

anyway the story is he picked it up from a pub as someone dropped it so he ditched the sim card and took the phone..

so he passed it to me to have a play

i went to a phone shop today and the guy in there said he can unlock it for 15 notes but if its been blocked by t-moblie (if it was on contract) its no good but we would only find out after he unlocks it....

is this right as i don't have a clue

when i put it on it says on the screen as follows

Device is locked
Unlock
Phonecall
Emergency
Cancel

on the top right it says SOS in blue

any idea's if it can be sorted or a code etc?

thanks for help guys

Unbarring phones is highly illegal and it can be done no doubt, however you need to know the '' right '' Individual with the correct tools.

The phone which you mentioned above is most likely ''Barred''. In other-words that phone cant be used in the UK yet it would work abroad!

Unlocking AKA GSM is totally different to Unbarring the phone. The GSM side is where the phone is open to work on all network providers and nothing to do with the change of IMEI number.

So if the phone is currently saying SOS that in it self is a big clue to what has happened to the phone. (barred).

However if the phone is locked on T mobile then there is nothing stopping the shop owner of the phone to put a T - mobile Pay as you Go Sim - card into the phone and checking with that, rather then unlocking it first and you having to pay 15 notes.

The way I think of it is that the owner of the shop is trying to be smart... In other-words the phone is currently locked on T-mobile, however if he goes and unlocks the phone then it would mean that your still liable to pay that £15, whether or not the phone works.

I would suggest you get a Pay as you GO Sim card from somewhere and put it the in phone. And then try calling the phone from another phone.. i.e a Phone box and see if the call goes through.

[leeds6]

it should say insert sim if there is no sim in it

if its locked to tmobile and you put another sim in it it should say wrong sim if it dont it might not be network locked

if it accepts sim but wont work sometimes no signal icon or signal icon with a red line or bar accross then its blocked and a code will not unblock it

[Dazza2008]

tried my sim as im on tmobile but when i ring the number it says calls are not connecting to this number...

the phone booted and it says on the top tmoblie and where it said sos its now gone and it has signal

so it just needs the code right?

oh i forgot my sim is pay as you go....

[unadkat]

The fone is blocked aka barred mate

No code is going to solve that issue

Sent from my Desire HD

[Dazza2008]

Originally Posted by unadkat

The fone is blocked aka barred mate

No code is going to solve that issue

Sent from my Desire HD

so NO point trying anything at all?

seems strange how it picks up the sim and all that...i thought if it was barred it wouldn't pick up anything etc or am i been silly

[unadkat]

Once the calls don't go through or I can't make any calls from that phone, then it means that is barred.

So in a nutshell no point trying anything, as no codes or even making the phone as gsm solved anything.



Sent from my Desire HD

[leeds6]

you can of course take the phone overseas on holiday with you because its only blocked by the networks in the uk it will still work in some other countrys but first you would have to get it unlocked from tmobile and i'm not sure you would be able to call anyone in the uk might be better off buying a second hand phone

[unadkat]

As stated above by leeds that the phone is bound to work abroad without a problem but am not sure if the blackberry messenger will work if you do decide to take it abroad and sell it or give it to a friend of a family. Either way am pretty certain that the BB messenger service will never work.

However making the phone GSM will enable you to use any Sim card aboard but it will not work here even if the phone is GSM.

[50pounds]

Sell it on ebay as blocked.. :P some dude will buy from another country unlock it first tho

also IMEI change is against the law don't do it you could get 5 years in jail.. :S

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