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Maybe this will help our Transatlantic Cousins

Holoshed said:
I did it before it blew up just on the off chance it would work, I just logged in to this email from an actual person, I dont understand it so I cant tell if they mean they actually sent it to apple or if this is just them sending it to another dept in voda:

Dear Mr. X,

We have submitted request for NUC & reference number for
the same is *XXXXX

Kind regards,

xxxxx
NUC Resolutions
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just got the same one this morning, twice actually, but both with the same reference number. lets see what happens!
 
secretanchitman said:
just got the same one this morning, twice actually, but both with the same reference number. lets see what happens!
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Thats a good sign, I got this email twice as well and a few hours later got the email saying my phone was unlocked :D
 
Holoshed said:
I did it before it blew up just on the off chance it would work, I just logged in to this email from an actual person, I dont understand it so I cant tell if they mean they actually sent it to apple or if this is just them sending it to another dept in voda:

Dear Mr. X,

We have submitted request for NUC & reference number for
the same is *XXXXX

Kind regards,

xxxxx
NUC Resolutions
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I got this same email this morning after about a week's wait. I assume this is the #2 email everyone gets, and #3 is the one that gives either great joy or deep misery?
 
So for those following my process with this you will recall I received this email yesterday:

Dear Mr.XXXXXX,

Thank you for writing to us.

Kindly provide the make and model of the handset in regards to process with your request.

Kind regards,

Ishita Dave
NUC Resolutions


I immediately sent a response letting them know my model and make. I figured I'd push a little today and just sent this:

Ishita,

What happens now? How long will I have to wait? I am going on holiday soon and would like to have my iPhone unlocked.

Thank you for your assistance!


Notice how I didn't say vacation :p
 
I don't understand why AT&T has to be such a pain and not allow the iPhone to be unlocked after contract's end, we wouldn't have to be jumping trough so many hoops.
 
pbateman said:
I don't understand why AT&T has to be such a pain and not allow the iPhone to be unlocked after contract's end, we wouldn't have to be jumping trough so many hoops.
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2 reasons

1. So that people don't unlock them and use it on T-Mo. AT&T likes to be the only GSM carrier in the US.

2. So they can rape you with fees overseas :)
 
Sorry to dash any hopes for the AT&T folk, but I received the "Your iphone is now unlocked" email as I posted a few days ago and today went and purchased a prepaid T mobile sim card and micro sim cutter and guess what? its STILL LOCKED.... looks like there is some magic maybe higher up at apples servers that arent allowing unlocks to happen to ATT devices. Plugging into itunes tells me that the sim card I have installed is not for an official carrier etc. so looks like even if you get a good email, it doesnt matter.
 
diamondschwin said:
Sorry to dash any hopes for the AT&T folk, but I received the "Your iphone is now unlocked" email as I posted a few days ago and today went and purchased a prepaid T mobile sim card and micro sim cutter and guess what? its STILL LOCKED.... looks like there is some magic maybe higher up at apples servers that arent allowing unlocks to happen to ATT devices. Plugging into itunes tells me that the sim card I have installed is not for an official carrier etc. so looks like even if you get a good email, it doesnt matter.
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Ah, hell. Oh well, I guess it was too good to be true. Thanks for that though.
 
Thanks for the info. I was thinking about that too...its probably locked so that a phone company can only unlock phones assigned to them, otherwise imagine there'd be a few employees making money on the side unlocking other company's phones. I'm sure Apple thought about that and worked to prevent it.
 
diamondschwin said:
Sorry to dash any hopes for the AT&T folk, but I received the "Your iphone is now unlocked" email as I posted a few days ago and today went and purchased a prepaid T mobile sim card and micro sim cutter and guess what? its STILL LOCKED.... looks like there is some magic maybe higher up at apples servers that arent allowing unlocks to happen to ATT devices. Plugging into itunes tells me that the sim card I have installed is not for an official carrier etc. so looks like even if you get a good email, it doesnt matter.
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Dang...did you do all the steps? I tried this but don't really need an unlocked phone.
 
diamondschwin said:
Sorry to dash any hopes for the AT&T folk, but I received the "Your iphone is now unlocked" email as I posted a few days ago and today went and purchased a prepaid T mobile sim card and micro sim cutter and guess what? its STILL LOCKED.... looks like there is some magic maybe higher up at apples servers that arent allowing unlocks to happen to ATT devices. Plugging into itunes tells me that the sim card I have installed is not for an official carrier etc. so looks like even if you get a good email, it doesnt matter.
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Have you tried de-activating and re-activating?
 
Dont have my home computer to do a restore here at work unfortunately.
The phone now actually says 'No Service' which is better than invalid sim, I actually had a hunch it was just t mobile taking a long time to activate the sim card (I activated online)

so i called them and they said it could take 24 to 72 hours to activate!

I will leave the sim card installed for now I guess, and see if it eventually works.
 
awadeee said:
Have you tried de-activating and re-activating?
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diamondschwin said:
Dont have my home computer to do a restore here at work unfortunately.
The phone now actually says 'No Service' which is better than invalid sim, I actually had a hunch it was just t mobile taking a long time to activate the sim card (I activated online)

so i called them and they said it could take 24 to 72 hours to activate!

I will leave the sim card installed for now I guess, and see if it eventually works.
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It specifically says to restore so that could be your issue. Although I believe the OP didn't and it still worked for him.

Plus bigjnyc got it to work.

May also be slow ass T-Mo :p
 
iFiend said:
It specifically says to restore so that could be your issue. Although I believe the OP didn't and it still worked for him.

May also be slow ass T-Mo :p
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Yeah I just dont want to restore on my work computer... not sure if I have everything backed up at home
 
pbateman said:
Were you able to test it yet with a different SIM?
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I haven't had a chance to try it, The micro-sim cutter was shipped to my parents house (its my verified address on paypal) I'll be by this weekend to pick it up... I already have a pre-paid T-mobile sim card ready to go.
 
I think you can also-deactivate with Redsn0w and then just re-activate with iTunes. Should do the trick! Restoring would also work though.
 
bigjnyc said:
I haven't had a chance to try it, The micro-sim cutter was shipped to my parents house (its my verified address on paypal) I'll be by this weekend to pick it up... I already have a pre-paid T-mobile sim card ready to go.
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I would activate that sim card now if you have any way to... just to make sure its ready to go when you get the sim cutter
 
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)

diamondschwin said:
awadeee said:
I think you can also-deactivate with Redsn0w and then just re-activate with iTunes. Should do the trick! Restoring would also work though.
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how do you deactivate with redsnow?
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Use SAM to deactivate. In Cydia install the Bingner repo and then install SAM.
 
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