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My AT&T-subsidized iPhone 5 is unlocked!

Applejuiced said:
It took like 15 minutes since I send him the money with paypal and he responded.
It said that its unlocked but I dont feel like restoring now.
And most imei check sites are down or showing inacurate info.
But since the seller is reputable and unlocked tons of iphones Im not really worried.



Did you get the email saying its unlocked?
I did too but that site seems to be down now.
I dont feel like doing a restore now, wanna do it for me and let me know if yours got the congrats message?
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I got that email saying its unlocked. Did a restore but did not get congrats message. Doing it again just in case.

I am afraid since all the unlock sites are down and all, may be their unlock process also did not finish (if its all related, if at all).
 
Took less than 10 mins for me and got the response saying that it is unlocked... have not tried the restore yet...
 
bzavala said:
Took less than 10 mins for me and got the response saying that it is unlocked... have not tried the restore yet...
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I did restore once and it did not show any congratulations message. So I did erase all and and now it shows the message, hope its for real - going to use one spare t-mobile sim (got it free with 10 mins time on it) to confirm.

Let us know how does your restore go.
 
IndianGuy said:
I did restore once and it did not show any congratulations message. So I did erase all and and now it shows the message, hope its for real - going to use one spare t-mobile sim (got it free with 10 mins time on it) to confirm.

Let us know how does your restore go.
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I did the exact same thing, and I also picked up a free T-Mobile Sim with 10 free minutes. It turns out you need a $10 activation kit to use it though. You can confirm your unlock with that though, if you put the sim in it will have you call T-Mobile to activate your phone. If that happens, you're unlocked.
 
IndianGuy said:
I did restore once and it did not show any congratulations message. So I did erase all and and now it shows the message, hope its for real - going to use one spare t-mobile sim (got it free with 10 mins time on it) to confirm.

Let us know how does your restore go.
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Nice, that makes me more confident.
Once you see that message at least once its unlocked for good.
I dont have a Tmobile nanosim to check either but the sellers rep speaks for it self. I know in the past even though my phone was unlocked by AT&T it didnt show the message but worked with any sim.
That site http://s-url.ro/ shows it locked and other times server down.
Not sure if I can trust it 100%
 
Unlocked.

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astral125 said:
I did the exact same thing, and I also picked up a free T-Mobile Sim with 10 free minutes. It turns out you need a $10 activation kit to use it though. You can confirm your unlock with that though, if you put the sim in it will have you call T-Mobile to activate your phone. If that happens, you're unlocked.
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Did you get a nano sim or did you have to cut the one you got from T-Mobile?
 
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astral125 said:
I cut the T-Mobile MicroSim down, it was really easy.
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Cutting the sim was easy. But now I can't find anything to pop the sim tray - FML! With 4s I was able to do with pencil, but looks 5 is much harder to press :( not opening even with solid metal pin :|
 
IndianGuy said:
Cutting the sim was easy. But now I can't find anything to pop the sim tray - FML! With 4s I was able to do with pencil, but looks 5 is much harder to press :( not opening even with solid metal pin :|
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:confused: paper clip did the trick for me.
 
Hi, can someone please post the guide how to cutsim card into a nano sim?

Thanks!
 
Damn so for $16.88 you can really permenantly unlock the iPhone 5? No risk and it works like it's supposed to and doesn't affect the warranty?

Seems great, would love to have that for when I travel to Europe.
 
WOW! This works!!!

Put in T-Mobile SIM, activated number and made a call to wife (in next room).
So now I can confirm that phone is unlocked!!!! wow!!
 

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IndianGuy said:
Cutting the sim was easy. But now I can't find anything to pop the sim tray - FML! With 4s I was able to do with pencil, but looks 5 is much harder to press :( not opening even with solid metal pin :|
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I am guessing you are single. I am using wifey's earring studs to pop it open with no issues.
 
I have two iPhone 5s from AT&T that I would like to unlock. My question is do the phones have to be active? I used my upgrade to get them but we might switch to Verizon so I didn't have them open the new phones. I just had them make sure my old phones were still working. I believe they had to activate the new phones but then deactivate them when I wanted them to switch back to my old phone. Hope this make sense, thanks!
 
KPOM said:
It comes up "Unknown," which seems to confirm my suspicions about the Dev.MK site.
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Did checked at iphoneox.com and my iPhone sim status is "unknown" as well. Although the Dev.mk site states unlocked.

Device IMEI: 01xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Product description: IPHONE 5
Telephone technical support: Active
Telephone support expiration date: December 20, 2012
Warranty(repairs and service coverage): Active
Warranty expiration date: September 20, 2013
Activation status: Activated
Is registered: Yes
Sim lock status: Unknown
 
Jdsolid1 said:
I have two iPhone 5s from AT&T that I would like to unlock. My question is do the phones have to be active? I used my upgrade to get them but we might switch to Verizon so I didn't have them open the new phones. I just had them make sure my old phones were still working. I believe they had to activate the new phones but then deactivate them when I wanted them to switch back to my old phone. Hope this make sense, thanks!
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Unfortunately you won't be able to use the AT&T phones on Verizon even if they are unlocked. The AT&T models don't have the CDMA radio activated, which is necessary to use Verizon's voice and 3G data networks. The Verizon model works on AT&T because it has the GSM radio activated (which it needs n order to roam overseas).

However, the good news is that if you switch to Verizon, the iPhone 5 you get from them will be unlocked so you can use a local SIM overseas, or for that matter even an AT&T or T-Mobile SIM here.
 
Daremo said:
I paid $16.88 on eBay, and received the email that my iPhone 5 is now unlocked. I'm restoring now to confirm. I wanted to restore anyway, since I'm having wifi issues.

This is the auction...

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=160887533503&ssPageName=ADME:X:AAQ:US:1123


EDIT: After a restore, I DID get the "Congratulations, Your iPhone is Unlocked" message. The link above works, 100%.
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Confirmed this link too. After restoring, I got the iTunes message that my iPhone has been unlocked!!

I am so excited :D
 
if i buy a full price Att phone with no contract, will i be able to unlock it without activating first via itunes ?
 
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