Yea! Just got confirmation from ATT with both iPhone 6+ (mine and wife's). Do I still need to got thru restore in iTune or it should be unlock automatically? I can test it with my friend's T-Mobile SIM...
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Yea! Just got confirmation from ATT with both iPhone 6+ (mine and wife's). Do I still need to got thru restore in iTune or it should be unlock automatically? I can test it with my friend's T-Mobile SIM...
I did, not sure that is matters if you wait, it says it will respond to your request within 48 hours, so I think it's fair to give it 48 hours before requesting again.
No you don't need to restore it on iTunes. I took my verizon work sim and put it in my phone before I made the request and it failed. As soon as I got the email from AT&T I put my sim back in and it worked.
I didn't have a SIM readily available, so I restored via iTunes and received the unlock message. If you have a different SIM, should be able to activate it that way as well,
Yea! Just tested it with my co-worker's T-Mobile SIM and it's working after activation (I guess the activation thing replaced the mandatory restore from iTune like we had to do before, a one time thing)
Never had to do the iTunes restore. I unlocked my 3G and my 4S and never did the restore and I used them in Japan on vacation. The iTunes is just a way to confirm it.
I believe the new activation thing is for stolen phones. So that only the owner of the phone can activate it on another network.
So it will require activation every time I switch to another carrier SIM? Or is it a one time thing when you put in the "other" SIM for the first time after unlocking?
Just curious. When you put the SIM in, does it give you some kind of activation message?
Nope. The only message you will ever receive is if you restore in iTunes. The new sim just works. That's how you know it works. At least that's what happened to me.
Yes, it does ask for activation require and I need to activate thru WiFi Network before I can get to home screen. That is why I ask is that only for the first time after unlocking using different carrier SIM or it will be like this every time I insert a foreign SIM (different countries or provider) for the first time?
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Apple will see your old phone as unlock and exchange an unlocked one for you as well. Happen to my iPhone5 couple years ago that I need to replace my unlocked damage one and the replacement iP5 is also unlocked.
The phone is unlocked, not your account. It's up to Apple if it will replace it with a locked device or not.
Well let me go further. I have a t-mobile sim but I think it might be at the office. I know I can swap back and forth with my Verizon and AT&T sim without it popping up again but I wonder if I try a new sim carrier if it will ask. I will report back as soon as I have a chance to test it.
So I found a old t-mobile sim and put it in and it doesn't go through the activation thing again. Just the first time you change SIM cards.
It can be hit or miss. I had mine denied twice before the third person unlocked it. Put a TMo SIM in and was in business. I have it activated on the free 200MB tablet plan just for coverage checks and stuff.