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Does anyone know if it will work with an ATT different sim card?

I dont think that any place (Like a Tmobile kiosk) will give me for free a simcard if I dont have an account there and dont want to spend some cash if it doesnt work. I might be able to get one from an ATT store nearby, but if it wont work then dont want to spend time and gas driving there for something that won't work.
 
Ah ok thank you :).

If I find one then I can put my normal att sim card back in, correct?

Would it be ultra horrible if I got the request saying it's done and put my normal sim card back in, if I cant find another sim card from a different provider?
 
ok wait, if this request works for me it won't mess up anything with my current att sim right? I'm planning on keeping att just not when I go abroad.
 
I submitted my household's three iPhones (2 4s and a 3GS), all with different emails, different fake mobile numbers, etc.

I'll let everybody know if any of 'em stick.
 
scirica said:
Wirelessly posted (iPhone: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_3_2 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.17.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.2 Mobile/8H7 Safari/6533.18.5)

I'm planning on doing the upgrade to 4.3.3 this weekend, buy I'll wait until I get the confirmation email that the process is complete.

I'm an optimist. This will work!
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updating wont remove or effect an official unlock
 
Well I got this email. Let's see what happens in 2 days I guess

Dear Mr. Ali,

We have submitted request for NUC (Number Unlocking Code) & reference number for the same is ######. The turn around time for the same is 48 hours.

Kind regards,
Rashmi Agrawal
NUC Resolutions
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vincenz said:
Wait, why did you reactivate with your AT&T sim card when it says specifically to use a sim card that's never been used before (and preferably a t-mobile one)?
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apparently I dont know how to follow instructions. I am about to restore right now with the tmobile sim inside. stay tuned.......
 
Nope sorry guys no luck. I got the following message when the activation part of the process came up:

My next step is to reply to the email and tell them that it didnt work, other than that I give up, unless someone here figures something out.
 

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Unless the lock has been delayed (my official unlock in the UK didn't happen within 48 hours), I'd say that they've simply caught the fact that the unlock is unauthorised, but after contacting you.
 
bigjnyc said:
Nope sorry guys no luck. I got the following message when the activation part of the process came up:

My next step is to reply to the email and tell them that it didnt work, other than that I give up, unless someone here figures something out.
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Give it a couple of days and try again.
 
I wonder why it wouldn't work after they added the IMEI to Apple's system? I'm assuming that's how it works.
 
Just got this response to me 2nd try.

The reference number 220630 for the IMEI xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx is closed as we are unfortunately not able to unlock this device as it is not a Vodafone UK device. Please reconfirm the IMEI number of the handset by dialling *#06#.

Kind regards,

Hillary Fernandes

NUC Resolutions
 
Try Again?^^

So, in the 2nd email if you get "We have submitted request for NUC & reference number for the same is ******. The turn around time is 48 hours." Then does the iPhone have a really high chance of being unlocked???
 
I wonder if you could just call them and ask them to unlock it, with the purchase of a pay on the go type sim. You can just tell them you plan on going to the uk sometime in the future.
 
TSX said:
I wonder if you could just call them and ask them to unlock it, with the purchase of a pay on the go type sim. You can just tell them you plan on going to the uk sometime in the future.
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You think anyone else has tried this before? C'mon man, everyone has thought the same thing. If you tell them you're from the states, with AT&T, they'll tell you to piss off.

krUnIzZlE said:
Try Again?^^

So, in the 2nd email if you get "We have submitted request for NUC & reference number for the same is ******. The turn around time is 48 hours." Then does the iPhone have a really high chance of being unlocked???
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This is the 2nd email everyone gets.

I still haven't heard back! I am hoping no news is good news :)
 
bigjnyc said:
Nope sorry guys no luck. I got the following message when the activation part of the process came up:

My next step is to reply to the email and tell them that it didnt work, other than that I give up, unless someone here figures something out.
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Yeah, with all my attempts, that is the only message I can get to show up.... I think they are etiher sending out an unlock message and then realizing after the fact its not Vodafone and undoing it, or apple is blocking it on their end
 
diamondschwin said:
Yeah, with all my attempts, that is the only message I can get to show up.... I think they are etiher sending out an unlock message and then realizing after the fact its not Vodafone and undoing it, or apple is blocking it on their end
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That's too bad, I'm still hoping I'll get it, but I'm about ready to give up and just go with the iPad baseband.
 
diamondschwin said:
Yeah, with all my attempts, that is the only message I can get to show up.... I think they are etiher sending out an unlock message and then realizing after the fact its not Vodafone and undoing it, or apple is blocking it on their end
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As I have said before:

Vodafone UK will only unlock phones that were originally supplied by them on contract, PAYG or box only.

Contract phones need the person to who the phone was supplied on the original contract to request the unlock. VF wil not unlock a phone unless the IMIE appears on the VF system. VF will not unlock phones from another network.

Requests for unlocks are automatically sent an email acknowledgement on receipt of the mail (up to 48 hours) then another when the unlock request is dealt with ( i.e someone sactually looks at it).
 
ckc said:
As I have said before:

Vodafone UK will only unlock phones that were originally supplied by them on contract, PAYG or box only.

Contract phones need the person to who the phone was supplied on the original contract to request the unlock. VF wil not unlock a phone unless the IMIE appears on the VF system. VF will not unlock phones from another network.

Requests for unlocks are automatically sent an email acknowledgement on receipt of the mail (up to 48 hours) then another when the unlock request is dealt with ( i.e someone sactually looks at it).
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I don't believe anybody here doubts the policy or procedure used by Vodafone in regards to iPhone unlocks. However, I think most of the folks here are banking on human error on Vodafone's end.

Based on the confirmation e-mails people have been receiving, it seems like they're outsourcing these duties to an Indian company. It wouldn't surprise me if some of these sub-minimum wage workers just don't give a flying flip and request an unlock despite the user not being a Vodafone subscriber...
 
Well I got rejected twice and I just submitted a third request. Looks like this is going to be a no-go though.
 
psywzrd said:
Well I got rejected twice and I just submitted a third request. Looks like this is going to be a no-go though.
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Same but I'm going to stop trying. Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.
 
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