If this is the case, I'm gonna start a civil war when I go back to China this December.
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If this is the case, I'm gonna start a civil war when I go back to China this December.
Yeah, this was my only concern with regards to the method I posted on the previous page. I fear you might be right.
I'm not sure that 'activating' the phone has anything to do with the unlocking process. It's the IMEI that's unique and it's used for identifying the device.
Also on the unlock form only the IMEI is required.
There's no mention anywhere that the phone should be operating or anything...
But maybe I'm wrong...
You will never guess what!
IT'S GONE BACK TO PREPARING FOR DISPATCH.
What the hell is going wrong.
This is the most unorganised order I have ever been involved in.
Go to ups website and track using reference. The reference is your apple order number. It may appear on their system before the apple order status page updates to dispatched.
True, nothing specific on there. Three only said it was raising the unlock with the manufacturer so could be just a wait for the IMEI being tagged as 'unlocked' in Apple's database.
Maybe you should be the first to confirm if it works as you hope
One thing from my unlock: the swapping SIM didn't work when I plugged into iTunes using an O2 SIM - it still said the phone was network locked despite numerous phone and computer restarts. I had to do the restore route mentioned earlier after searching the Apple forums and finding quite a few others having the same happen to them.
I could be wrong too, but doesn't the phone only lock to a network when the first sim is inserted? Until this happens Apple won't know which network the phone is locked to, so would they process an unlock request from any provider? Also would it be listed in Apple's locked database before locking to a network? Maybe the unlock command would only work if the phone is listed as locked?
I don't know but they are just thoughts that occurred to me while reading this thread.
iphone 5s gold 32gb ordered 20 September - October ship date
I ordered my iphone 5s gold 32gb at 9.30am on 20 September. My order status is just stuck on processing. Losing patience and wondering if anyone else ordered around the same time as me. Checking my online status every 10 minutes now and becoming slightly obsessed.
I ordered my iphone 5s gold 32gb at 9.30am on 20 September. My order status is just stuck on processing. Losing patience and wondering if anyone else ordered around the same time as me. Checking my online status every 10 minutes now and becoming slightly obsessed.
I ordered my iphone 5s gold 32gb at 9.30am on 20 September. My order status is just stuck on processing. Losing patience and wondering if anyone else ordered around the same time as me. Checking my online status every 10 minutes now and becoming slightly obsessed.
Hold on, I know plenty of similar cases.
I live in Portugal. Have a friend living in UK, and asked her to order 2 16gb white Silver 5s's. She ordered on 22nd of september and been here watching this post every day about 20 times a day hehe. Still no progress.
Today Apple announced that on the 28th october the iPhone will be available in Portugal. My god. Almost 3 weeks and still nothing. So many ppl still waiting for their iphones and so many countries will get them this month.
I wont cancel the order for 2 reasons. First i dont want to go to a line full of people and risk not having it in stock. When i bought the 3GS it was march and it was still out of stock since january here in Portugal.
Second reason is the price. Here in Portugal It will cost around 699 locked and 799 unlocked. So i will save at least 50 in each one.
Hope Apple ships a lot of iphones to us before those countries hehe
Today Apple announced that on the 28th october the iPhone will be available in Portugal. My god. Almost 3 weeks and still nothing. So many ppl still waiting for their iphones and so many countries will get them this month.
I wont cancel the order for 2 reasons. First i dont want to go to a line full of people and risk not having it in stock. When i bought the 3GS it was march and it was still out of stock since january here in Portugal.
Second reason is the price. Here in Portugal It will cost around 699 locked and 799 unlocked. So i will save at least 50 in each one.
Hope Apple ships a lot of iphones to us before those countries hehe
I ordered on the 21st (early am) and still stuck at processing
OT: i cant believe in the US a 64GB unlocked costs around £500! such a rip off here cos of VAT
No point comparing prices from other countries, in some US states there is a sales tax that comes on top, our prices for consumers already include those taxes. And there are many other factors that influence this pricing, just ignore other countries' prices. Pay, forget and enjoy!
I ordered my iphone 5s gold 32gb at 9.30am on 20 September. My order status is just stuck on processing. Losing patience and wondering if anyone else ordered around the same time as me. Checking my online status every 10 minutes now and becoming slightly obsessed.
If there isn't any movement soon, we'll be starting an angry mob.
Iphone 5s gold 32gb ordered 20 September - October ship date
LOL. I am telephoning Apple every day which only serves to wind me up really. The Customer Service people are very nice and polite but just wish they could actually give some information. If I was told an actual date in "October", I could deal with that and work towards it. The unknown is just awful. I have no phone at the moment as I sold my iphone 4s (got an offer too good to turn down) and honestly never thought Apple would do this to me. They better hurry up.
If there isn't any movement soon, we'll be starting an angry mob.
LOL. I am telephoning Apple every day which only serves to wind me up really. The Customer Service people are very nice and polite but just wish they could actually give some information. If I was told an actual date in "October", I could deal with that and work towards it. The unknown is just awful. I have no phone at the moment as I sold my iphone 4s (got an offer too good to turn down) and honestly never thought Apple would do this to me. They better hurry up.
Apple survey after delivery
As one of the midnight launch purchasers who only received their phone this week! I was glad to receive a survey from Apple asking about the delivery and order etc. I made sure to tell them how bad this launch has been for online customers. If everyone recounts their experience, then it might be better next time...
As one of the midnight launch purchasers who only received their phone this week! I was glad to receive a survey from Apple asking about the delivery and order etc. I made sure to tell them how bad this launch has been for online customers. If everyone recounts their experience, then it might be better next time...
There is a lot of us in the same boat. Here's hoping for some kind of movement in the next few days
Everyday I say "surely it'll dispatch today" and nothing happens.
This is only true for what CarphoneWarehouse sell as "simfree". An iphone supplied by a network will already have the lock implemented.
I don't know about Three, but O2 won't process the lock until they have seen the IMEI live on their network (from personal experience, it took 2 attempts to get the request in on an iPhone 5 as it hadn't updated first time I phoned).
Mine is perfect except its 1 deg out in the spirit level does that worry me I don't think so!
I am sure that Apple will sort it but if not I will not use it to put shelves up.
Everything else is brilliant absolutely love the fingerprint sensor works like a dream every time.
I've never been one for showing off but it knocks the socks off everyone that I've shown it to!
It's very very fast and the camera is great what more do you want?
I am sure that Apple will sort it but if not I will not use it to put shelves up.
Everything else is brilliant absolutely love the fingerprint sensor works like a dream every time.
I've never been one for showing off but it knocks the socks off everyone that I've shown it to!
It's very very fast and the camera is great what more do you want?
