Carrier SPRINT IMEI unlock sites? Help!

i'm not sure if you can unlock it for use in the USA. i believe sprint iphones are unlocked for NON_USA gsm carriers. for example if you take it to Canada, you can just use it with Canadian carrier in Canada or another country.

In the USA however, you are stuck with Sprint or its subsidiaries (boost mobile, virgin etc). it will not work with US gsm carriers.

corrystile said:

I live in italy so no problems

Click to expand...

Well, as you are finding out, there may be a problem !

I'm not sure anybody except Sprint can unlock your phone for International GSM use!

That is why re-sale Sprint devices are so cheaply priced.

corrystile said:

Uhm. I found some sites but they asks 170 $....

Click to expand...

The time to research this was BEFORE buying the phone.

You have bought yourself an expensive iPod Touch.

Sprint will unlock for international use only.

Here's how to get that done.

1. Establish Sprint service with this iPhone. No ASL (Account Spending Limit) account.
2. Stay on Sprint for 90 days.
3. Pay your bill on time for 90 days.
4. Call and ask for the international unlock.

You're in Italy, so it's unlikely that you're going to come here to do any of this, hence my statement about having an expensive iPod Touch.

As to a third party unlock. The don't exist. It's a fantasy, like a unicorn. They'll take your $170 and you won't ever see it again and nothing will happen.

Your best bet is an R-SIM or a Gevey or some other SIM interposer. Those are not true unlocks but they will trick your phone into thinking it's on the Sprint network when it's not.

I hope you didn't pay a lot for this phone…

You wasted your time and your money.
Next time buy a phone that you know you can actually use as a phone.
Not whatever you find cheap and hope that you can unlock it and use it later.
Only option like said above is to try one of those gevey sim adapters but if you ever decide to update the ios version in the future or when ios 8 comes out soon you wont be able to update. If you do you will lose the unlock.

corrystile said:

That sucks.
Thanks. Will sell it

Click to expand...

Buy a GSM phone that is ALREADY unlocked since new unlocks cost a fortune nowadays.

Yes, of course they cost more.
Because nobody wants cdma locked iphones that cannot be used on GSM networks.
That's why those are way cheaper and not in demand.
Makes sense, you get what you pay for.
Unless you want a useless phone that you can only use as an ipod touch.