Replacement warranty question

[Appl3FTW]

if you buy a locked tmobile phone and was able to unlock it thru tmobile, can you get a replacement Unlocked tmobile phone from the apple store if its still under warranty? what im trying to say is, lets say you bought a phone that was originally locked and under warranty, will apple replace it with an unlocked version since you've already unlocked the original?

 

[deeddawg]

While I've not done it myself, I've seen many people post here that the unlock status follows to a replacement phone. If you warranty exchange a locked phone you get a locked phone, if you warranty exchange an unlocked phone you get an unlocked phone.

 

[Applejuiced]

Yes.
The replacement gets the same exact carrier lock or unlock properties as the phone you're handing in.

 

[AronDraws]

You get what you had, but something different happened to me. My friend gave me his old 5 when he got a 6 and we tried for a week to get it unlocked. The carrier gave him the WORST runaround and nonsense.

I use Straight Talk and needed it to be unlocked but I noticed the glass was lifting so I took it to Apple store and they opened it to find the battery was swelling

They replaced it free out of warranty with a refurb (practically new). I asked if the new one was unlocked. The lady looked the item up and the system said no BUT that as soon as I activated a different carrier, it would be unlocked. Not sure how that worked but it did.

I'm not sure if they all come like that or what but I put the new sim from ST in, activated according to instructions and got a buttload of errors on the ST site. Next morning it had filtered through the system and is now an unlocked phone.