I suspect you used a Gevey Ultra S sim interposer for this to work.
Not an unlock from Verizon.
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iPhone How can CL dealers factory unlock phones???
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I suspect you used a Gevey Ultra S sim interposer for this to work.
Not an unlock from Verizon.
But this thread is about IMEI unlocks by grey market dealers.
You are using what is referred to as a hardware unlock.
Yeah, sorry my bad. I still want to know how these guys do these factory unlocks. I switched from a Verizon phone to a att factory unlocked for tmobile and couldn't be happier.
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hi..if u find out how those guys get unlock iphone gsm only with the imei number please let me know i would to enroll to do this ..thanks...
hi..if u find out how those guys get unlock iphone gsm only with the imei number please let me know i would to enroll to do this ..thanks...
Follow the link in the post above yours.
I understand how they do it.
If you read the thread, you also can understand.
True, but in July, when i posted that, it was an accurate statement.
So, 2 weeks ago Verizon started fully unlocking their iPhone5.
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Just trying to keep us current is all. It starts getting confusing after awhile and becomes hard to keep up.
$100! Yikes. I had my wife's unlocked for $35. Then had 2 others unlocked for the same price. Took less then 3hrs for each one. Found the guy on eBay.
Due to massive competition, prices have come down since July.
I paid $65 for my first grey market unlock on a 4S a very long time ago, now it is about $15 from my source.
I paid $65 for my first grey market unlock on a 4S a very long time ago, now it is about $15 from my source.
Just like what Dhlizard said... I first reported this back in July and at the time, there weren't too many unlockers on eBAY so the alternative was to look on Craigslist. Back in July prices ranges from $80 up to $140.
Now a lot more people that are able to do it and with so much competition, this means unlockers dropped their prices significantly.
AT&T does not have an unlock server.
All iPhones are unlocked when their IMEI numbers are submitted to Apple's whitelist server.
When iTunes "calls home" during activation, boom "Congrats" window appears (most of the time)
does these unlock work for phones outside US like in canada?
I have my old iphone 4s and new iphone 5..stuck with rogers
how can i unlock them. I noticed here they charge like 60-140$ for unlocks where as in the US its like 10-20$
I have my old iphone 4s and new iphone 5..stuck with rogers
how can i unlock them. I noticed here they charge like 60-140$ for unlocks where as in the US its like 10-20$
No, its different for every carrier.
You can unlock an AT&T iphone for as low as $2-3 per iphone.
On some carriers like Canada, UK and other countries the IMEI unlocks on ebay are very expensive like $100-150 or more.
If you try giving your Rogers iphones imei to an AT&T unlocker on ebay you will just waste your money and time cause it wont unlock.
im curious as to where the ppl who unlock get their source from? is it legal or illegal? if its not unlocked directly from carrier etc
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Most likely an inside job.
People that work for AT&T that have access to their system to enter IMEI numbers.
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I tried to get an unclock for Softbank here in Japan but ti was going to be over $200 USD. Apparently the Softbank unlocks have only been available for a couple weeks now or something. But I call BS if all these are only Apple server side unlocks. Shouldn't matter what country right? Why do unlocks for other countries take so long compared with other countries?
Could I use an eBay unlock for my iPhone 4 here in Japan?
This ^^ or even Apple employees
For years, it was nearly impossible to get AT&T iPhones unlocked unless you paid the "no commitment/unlocked" price.
Now, they are the least expensive to get unlocked.
Who would have thought before April 2012 that AT&T unlock options would have gone from nearly the most difficult to clearly the easiest/cheapest to get unlocked.
I doubt its on Apples side.
The carrier that the phone is locked to has to send the request to Apple to unlock the phone.
And only the carrier that the phone is locked to can unlock it. AT&T cannot unlock a Softbank iphone or a vodafone iphone for example. Only iphones that are locked to their network.
So that leads me to believe its done on AT&T's end.