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Website to ensure my iPhone 5 is still unlocked?
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The websites are wrong sometimes. I suggest you get a SIM from a different carrier and put it in your phone to test.
You can also use redsn0w 0.9.15b2 to deactivate the sim, start itunes and it will activate the sim and show the UNLOCK message.
Borrow a nanoSIM from a friend on a different provider. That's the simplest and cheapest. Free is always cheapest. 
You can go to the T-Mobile store and get one. It's very cheap. If they only have micro sim, get that and cut it into a nano sim.
Redsn0w doesn't even recognize my iPhone 5's model number. It gives me an invalid model warning. It does see it as an iPhone 5 though.
Has anyone else seen this?
Where can I buy the tmobile nano sim for iPhone 5?
If someone can send me a link that'd be awesome
Where can I buy the tmobile nano sim for iPhone 5?
If someone can send me a link that'd be awesome
Search on ebay for a tmobile nano sim or microsim.
I got a tmobile microsim for 99 cents shipped.
Then I just cut it down to nanosim size and just used it to confirm my unlock.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/NEW-Simple-...170922996392?pt=SIM_Cards&hash=item27cbcdf2a8
http://www.ebay.com/itm/NEW-SIMPLE-...190738289616?pt=SIM_Cards&hash=item2c68e353d0
http://www.ebay.com/itm/ULTRA-MOBIL...190738271419?pt=SIM_Cards&hash=item2c68e30cbb
I think everyday you'll have to check to make sure it is unlocked, starting at 6am and again at 10am. That is the only way to be safe.
So if you get "No Service" you're good? I assume that if you're locked you get some other error message?
Yeah, if you're locked to a carrier, when you insert another SIM, it'll say something along the lines of "This SIM card is not compatible".
I can verify this since I've done it to my iPhone 5 and an iPhone 4 that I unlocked for someone who was using T-Mobile. I bought two SIMs, one to actually activate on my line and another one to replace it with my friend's T-Mobile Sim card since she didn't want to cut hers down.
The Sim I was planning to activate said "T-Mobile" on where the carrier usually is, and the other Sim Card (on the iPhone 4) said "No Service". However, the Micro-Sim (for my friend) from T-Mobile eventually changed to saying "T-Mobile" after a few minutes. I believe that the "No Service" eventually changed to "T-Mobile" since it had to scan for a carrier around the area, and once it found the T-Mobile service, it changed the carrier on the phone automatically.
Another thing you can look for, is in the Settings App, look for a new selection called "Carrier" right under the "Bluetooth" section in the Settings App. Once I put in an AT&T sim back in my iPhone, the "Carrier" section would disappear.