I just got a rejection email from AT&T saying they can't unlock because I'm not a customer. So I checked imei.info and guess what?! No sim lock! I just plugged it into iTunes with my tmobile sim and voila. No update or restore, it just said the congrats, unlocked iPhone thing...Awesome
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AT&T Will Unlock Off-Contract iPhones Starting Sunday, April 8
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I submitted the case on may 7 and they said I'll get an email by the 14th. Lol I swear I spoke to nearly a dozen and a half reps before I got a case opened.
I just did an iPhone 4 for a friend of mine. Put the request in this past Friday, May 11, and was told I would get a response in 7-10 business days. But yesterday morning I received the email that the case had been "resolved." Checked the IMEI and, sure enough, it's unlocked.
I should note that I called AT&T after getting the email yesterday, as it was vague. The rep practically berated me with BS instead of looking up the case number as I asked (and as the email said I should do if I wanted more info). The rep told me that the phone was still on contract blah blah blah (she was acting like I wanted to unlock my current iPhone 4S and was extremely rude about it). I politely ended that call and instead used imei.info to check and found it was unlocked.
Then today I received the unlock instructions email from AT&T.
To be clear: While I am an AT&T subscriber this particular iPhone 4 was never on my plan.
Michael
I should note that I called AT&T after getting the email yesterday, as it was vague. The rep practically berated me with BS instead of looking up the case number as I asked (and as the email said I should do if I wanted more info). The rep told me that the phone was still on contract blah blah blah (she was acting like I wanted to unlock my current iPhone 4S and was extremely rude about it). I politely ended that call and instead used imei.info to check and found it was unlocked.
Then today I received the unlock instructions email from AT&T.
To be clear: While I am an AT&T subscriber this particular iPhone 4 was never on my plan.
Michael
Jailbroken/Gevey Experience
Wanted to share my Jailbroken Gevey Sim - old baseband experience.
I had my iPhone 4 jailbroken, old baseband, gevey sim - tmobile (a friend was using it) and got the go ahead email from AT&T (I'm still a customer) saying the phone was ready to be restored for the unlock.
Neither of us was excited to do the restore because if the unlock didn't work for some reason, She'd be without a phone until I got it sorted out with AT&T. So the first thing she did was take the Gevey adapter out of her phone and put her sim in - and plug into iTunes. A few min later it attempted to activate - and then it said she had a voicemail (wasn't true) and then the tmobile logo appeared and it worked. The unlock works without a full restore.
I think now that she knows its unlocked, she'll restore and update the phone because we know it will now work. Wanted to share my experience.
Wanted to share my Jailbroken Gevey Sim - old baseband experience.
I had my iPhone 4 jailbroken, old baseband, gevey sim - tmobile (a friend was using it) and got the go ahead email from AT&T (I'm still a customer) saying the phone was ready to be restored for the unlock.
Neither of us was excited to do the restore because if the unlock didn't work for some reason, She'd be without a phone until I got it sorted out with AT&T. So the first thing she did was take the Gevey adapter out of her phone and put her sim in - and plug into iTunes. A few min later it attempted to activate - and then it said she had a voicemail (wasn't true) and then the tmobile logo appeared and it worked. The unlock works without a full restore.
I think now that she knows its unlocked, she'll restore and update the phone because we know it will now work. Wanted to share my experience.
I live in Belgium and have a iphone4 from AT&T. I received the phone from my ex girlfriend that lives in the states. I ask her to do it she doesn't wan't to. Can someone help me for unlocking my phone?
you can do it yourself provided you have the details regarding the original number the iphone was attached with
you call your babe and ask her for the number it was locked to. then you call AT&T with that number
or
you just honestly disclose that you got the iphone as a gift and there is no girlfriend and maybe i'll help you
I got the phone as a gift from a friend. There is a sim card in it from at&t. But in settings at Number. I see 0. Can you help me?
Aaaaah okie. now you're talking.
go to iTunes connect your iphone and see what number comes up on screen under serial number, capacity and all that mumbo jumbo.
use that number to apply for unlock
go to iTunes connect your iphone and see what number comes up on screen under serial number, capacity and all that mumbo jumbo.
use that number to apply for unlock
Would they do it for a pre-paid customer? maybe activate a pay as you go sim and try it?
I am in Belgium, cannot buy from here a pre-paid card.
I am stuck with it and use it as an ipod touchEven if you bought a pre-paid SIM, they will verify the history of the phone and make sure the phone itself is out of the two year contract, i.e., the phone has been used for 2 years or if less than that, an ETF needs to be paid.
If you've been an AT&T customer in good standing for several years and the remaining contract of the phone is 6 months or less, AT&T may at times do a goodwill unlock, which they did for me. As everybody dealing with AT&T probably already knows, YMMV.
Well I bought my iPhone 4 off of somebody on CL. I have the accountholder's name and phone number, but not their last 4 digits of SSN. Without it, the chat reps won't even let me go any further. Any suggestions?
Tell them you bought phone for full price in Apple store and they will say you need to fax proof of purchase in meantime they will unlock it without fax, good luck.
Ok I'll try this. Is imei.com completely accurate to see if the phone's been unlocked?
you can try clicking the phone number and see. if it says n/a then you are out of luck. you need the original sim though. usually the phones come shipped with it unless if course the owner took it out.
try to get an existing customer to unlock
imei.info not .com
and yes it's accurate as it pulls info from apple servers. legitimate tool.
Few days back you asked 200$ to unlock my phone, reasonable price my ass. AT&T unlocked it for free.
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