I have 2 AT&T iPhone 5 which I bought of ebay recently. I am not in the US and would like to have them unlocked to use on a different carrier. Is there anyone who can help in unlocking them? I am confused with all these AT&T unlock issues and don't know who is reliable to unlock.
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Carrier Unlock AT&T iphone 5
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I am not in US. Just bought the phones from ebay and was told AT&T was thw quickest and easiest to unlock. But when the phones arrived AT&T seems to be the most difficult to unlock. Need 3rd party unlockers, or someone with a AT&T account. I am willing to pay a fee for that.
iPhone unlocks have gotten much more expensive since then iPhone 5s and 5c have came out. I remeber when they were only .50¢ those were the times. Haha
Cellunlocker.net. Have used them at least a dozen times and never a problem. Little expensive, but they guarantee their service or full refund. Easy to contact their support as well. Permanent unlock.
And two months before that it was $2.99. Really kicking myself for not unlocking my 5S when I got it.
I have found a few sites which i have listed below. There are offering AT&T unlocks at reasonable price. But are there trustworthy and reliable? I hope there is someone out there who may have dealt with them?
www.gsmunlockonline.co.uk
www.viperunlocks.com
www.letsunlockiphone5.com
www.keys2iphone.com
www.atfdl.com
http://hackiphone.me/
http://www.taker.im/
www.gsmunlockonline.co.uk
www.viperunlocks.com
www.letsunlockiphone5.com
www.keys2iphone.com
www.atfdl.com
http://hackiphone.me/
http://www.taker.im/
What area At&t conditions for unlocking, how far into your contract you can request unlock?
I've used Chronic Unlocks in the past.
http://chronicunlocks.com/
They currently charge $125 to unlock an iPhone 5.
I used Chronic Unlocks to unlock an ATT 5s with success. A little expensive, and I was concerned as expedited service too an extra couple of days, but when I put in my Tre Italy sim, I was blessed with an unlocked phone.
If you're not in the US and are buying American iPhones for use outside the US, it seems best to buy Verizon. They're unlocked for GSM which is most of the world's cell phone carriers. The CDMA part is locked to Verizon, but that doesn't matter much.
This suggestion applies mostly to the 5c and 5s. The Verizon iPhone 5 doesn't have the same LTE bands as the GSM models.
It will still work on a GSM network though without having to bother with unlocking. I'm sure there are places out there that don't have LTE yet where it would be fine.
I have an out of contract iPhone 4 locked by AT&T. I have an iPhone 5 now; and I have tried to unlock the old iPhone 4 through AT&T a couple of times - but I haven't gotten any replies to my request. Each time they gave me a reference number and made me wait indefinitely with no results.
Carrier unlocking may a waste of time!
If you looking to unlock your iPhone 5 I can talk to you about my experience.
I requested my iPhone 5 unlocking code several times to T-mobile, though I met all the criteria I was told it could take as long as 20 days for the unlocking. I then waited for 23 days and when the email with the instruction - it didn't work!!!
I paid to www.UnlockCode4U.com and got an email within 3 days with instructions and IT WORKED!
If you looking to unlock your iPhone 5 I can talk to you about my experience.
I requested my iPhone 5 unlocking code several times to T-mobile, though I met all the criteria I was told it could take as long as 20 days for the unlocking. I then waited for 23 days and when the email with the instruction - it didn't work!!!
I paid to www.UnlockCode4U.com and got an email within 3 days with instructions and IT WORKED!