Websites Offering New Remote iPhone Unlocking Services

[polishmacuser]

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Alright awesome thanks I've unlocked many phones but iPhone to be officially unlocked is a new thing to me

 

[Coleman2010]

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Alright awesome thanks I've unlocked many phones but iPhone to be officially unlocked is a new thing to me

When did you order from cutyoursim? I order Tuesday 9am. Still no unlock here. In 6 hours I will be at 48 hours.

 

[polishmacuser]

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I ordered mine wenseday at around 1 got my confirmation email and it's processing I have to wait my order number was 2457

I'll upload a pic in a sec I'm doing this from my phone

Edit 2:Your order #2974 has been submitted for processing. Please allow 24-72 hours for the unlock to be complete. You will receive an email with instructions, once the unlock is complete.

Order Date: Apr 13, 2011 02:56 PM CDT

 

[skinned66]

Money-back Guarantee it will not re-lock

As far as the guarantees go, this is what I see at negrielectronics.com right now:

Your iPhone is now unlocked permanently!

Unlocked. Permanent. 100% Guaranteed or your money back*.
Your order may require verification. Please look for an email from us to further verify your order. This is a high fraud item and we take every precaution and approach fraud very seriously.


*(If the unlock is not successful, please email us a video link showing your IMEI and the unlock being unsuccessful).

**To deter possible fraud, we also reserve the right to remotely lock your device by IMEI
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That's awfully tempting...they accept major CCs. You could always dispute the charge...

 

[polishmacuser]

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People were curious on how they relock your device. How is this possible? Isn't once it is unlocked it's unlocked? I guess apple does it differently than other phones like I suspected.

 

[tom613]

Tired of Apple's locked ecosystem

Switching to Android.

I travel to China half of the year, I NEED and unlocked phone so that i can pop in my Chinese SIM card when i'm there.

iPhone is just not for me.

FU Apple.... so much for Freedom in the US.

You can buy factory unlocked on the Swiss Apple Online-store (maybe in other countries too)

 

[tom613]

I called up my mobile carrier in Switzerland:

I have a (quite expensive) one year contract. They all say the phone is officially locked for two years. I argued that what happens after the one year contract ends? Most of the call agents said: "You'll have to wait two years, it's a decision made by Apple". It's funny, because this company has only been selling the iPhone 4, which started (at least here) in August 2010.

Funny. I called Apple and the technician said (and asked his boss) that the mobile carrier can request an unlock and it will be done usually in 48 hours.

So according to Apple (any?) mobile carrier can request an unlock, send the IMEI (and serial no.?) and it will be unlocked fully automatically through Apple's server in the U.S. through iTunes...

I'm still trying to get my iPhone officially unlocked through my mobile carrier...quite difficult...I have been transferred like six times already...

 

[cere]

As far as the guarantees go, this is what I see at negrielectronics.com right now:

Your iPhone is now unlocked permanently!

Unlocked. Permanent. 100% Guaranteed or your money back*.
Your order may require verification. Please look for an email from us to further verify your order. This is a high fraud item and we take every precaution and approach fraud very seriously.


*(If the unlock is not successful, please email us a video link showing your IMEI and the unlock being unsuccessful).

**To deter possible fraud, we also reserve the right to remotely lock your device by IMEI
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That's awfully tempting...they accept major CCs. You could always dispute the charge...

This is what is scary about this new unlocking avenue. Obviously someone has access to Apple's DB and from this statement, it seems like the access they have allows the to lock it. This means they could lock anyone's iPhone at anytime, even factory unlocked units. Even the carriers do not have this level of access. I was told by the Rogers unlocking team, that they could unlock but could not relock any phones...only Apple had that access. These unlockers have greater access to the Apple systems than the carriers do (already obvious, since they can unlock multiple carriers and the carriers can only unlock their own).

 

[cere]

In Canada it's $50-$55, but you're SOL if you have greymarket phone like me. I have a Rogers phone and have never had a contract with them, even though I've been a subscriber to their discount brand Fido for 5 years they won't unlock it.

It's a 3GS so it's a little easier to take things into my own hands.

I've had 3 iPhone 4's unlocked by Rogers, 2 of which were under contract. It is against their internal policies, but it partly depends on the rep you get. For the second phone I got one that was so confused (policy was only a week old) that I was able to convince him the policy allowed me to be unlocked and so he did.

 

[TeamMojo]

My favorite are the aggressive comments here demanding that Apple unlock your phone because it is your property. Yeah, the phone is your property. But the network is not. It's AT&T's property. You pay for the service to use it.

If you don't like that, you can switch to a phone that is hackable, and violate the terms of your contract with AT&T. Or switch to another carrier. Or move to another country where there are different regulations regarding carriers. Or write your Representative or Senator. But don't whine that someone owes you something because of what you'd prefer.

 

[polishmacuser]

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Clearly you don't travel, it's not like we want these unlocks and bankrupt AT&T to go to tmobile, we use it to mostly travel and avoid roaming charges. It's bull that every other phone can be unlocked by AT&T but the iPhone. I'm not going to buy another phone, or use some crazy gevey sim, or wait months for a software unlock that will be broken once more. Moving to another country is just not an answer. Land of the free my ass.

 

[daniels]

Competition regulation in many EU countries require apple (or providers) to unlock any handsent with some restrictions (you may have to prove you've waited a certain time, or you are required to pay a fee etc), but I know that in France for example the provider that sells the iPhone there is required to unlock any handsent provided it was sold at least 6 months ago, for a 100 euros. Even if it wasn't bought/sold in France.
Some countries like Belgium don't even allow sim locked phones (or used to not allow) and some carriers sell them with out sim lock by choice in others, like Slovakia, and then some other countries I think can only unlock phones that are locked to a certain providers network, like Hungary T and Voda I think can only unlock T and Voda iPhones respectively, but perhaps phones bought on other networks (Ie T-mobile Germany, or Voda UK or New Zealand or whatever) some of these services maybe taking advantage of these work arounds. If this is the case, these unlocks are legal and Apple has no legal way of relocking these phones. IE in france they HAVE to unlock your phone even if it is ATT... or one would think so logically. Although this info maybe off, but it was definatley the case during iPhone 3g sales...

Are you sure that's correct? So you're saying if I go to France with my locked AT&T iPhone 4, the carriers there will have to unlock it for me if I ask? I actually just asked this question in another thread and I'm getting mixed responses: https://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=12393503

 

[gbb]

Wow, what a ripoff. You can get it done here in Spain for under $30.

I do live in Spain and I would like to know were and how can you do that.

Hola. Tengo un iP4 de ATT y me gustaría saber dónde y cómo dices que se puede hacer eso por 30$.
Estoy hablando de un iPhone con 4.2.1 y BB 03.10.01.
¿Estás seguro??

 

[paxlau]

My first post here

I did some search and found some really interesting result.

This is the very origin souce, dated from 07-23-2010, 14:45. GSMman187 declared that successeded unlock iphone from Telia Sweden permenately. Following the initial post he declared that unlocking for other carriers is possible. This page can only be seen via google snapshot.
http://webcache.googleusercontent.c...rum.gsmhosting.com/vbb/archive/t-1055116.html

GSMman187 shall be the same guy with the sweden_gsm id(I guess, since he provided some info on that thread). This is his official blog, with some info about unlocking old phone models. You may get more info about sweden_gsm via google.
http://swedengsm.blogg.se/

Sweden_gsm is running his own service for unlocking phones. Now this site can only be seen via snapshot also.
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:lXV0LEY6OdQJ:www.swedengsm.com/

This shall be the ultimate wholesale source providing the permenant unlock service for iphone, running by Sweden_gsm. I found www.swedengsm.com providing a link to this site.
http://www.unlocker.com.au/

Finally, I agree with the conclusion by this post. - They’re unlocking iPhones in almost complete legality. The way they are doing it is by having accomplices at major phone carriers that offer legit iPhone unlocks. - by Lucky
http://www.pinoyiphone.com/2011/04/13/how-a-permanent-iphone-unlock-works/

 

[ruftytufty]

Personally, I'd wait and see on this before putting down this much money. I expect that AT&T can track down and relock phones unlocked through this method. And, if they do, it probably won't take them that lock.

Second: while the seller claims they will refund your money, I wouldn't place a lot of faith in this if your phone gets relocked after a period of time. While Negri Electronics doesn't appear to be a scammer, some of the complaints about their customer service definitely would make me cautious about doing business with them - esp. in a case where I might be needing to get a refund from them months down the road. See reviews here.

 

[taran420]

I've had 3 iPhone 4's unlocked by Rogers, 2 of which were under contract. It is against their internal policies, but it partly depends on the rep you get. For the second phone I got one that was so confused (policy was only a week old) that I was able to convince him the policy allowed me to be unlocked and so he did.

Wait, you got Rogers to unlock your iPhone?! Is this a new policy or did u get lucky?

 

[vandal138]

Wait, you got Rogers to unlock your iPhone?! Is this a new policy or did u get lucky?

Yes, how did you work that out? I've been in Australia for months and I've pleaded with Rogers to unlock my phone while I'm here. They refuse to do it unless I pay $400 to end my contract and another $100 for the unlock. I've been using Rogers for over 8 years and they still won't help me out.

Never again will I use another Rogers service after this whole fiasco. They are a bunch of jerks.

 

[polzii]

Yes, how did you work that out? I've been in Australia for months and I've pleaded with Rogers to unlock my phone while I'm here. They refuse to do it unless I pay $400 to end my contract and another $100 for the unlock. I've been using Rogers for over 8 years and they still won't help me out.

Never again will I use another Rogers service after this whole fiasco. They are a bunch of jerks.

They seem to be better than AT&T here in USA, , at least you have the option of an official unlock.

 

[Themanatj]

Extortionate

UK carriers offer this service for just £15 to own-carrier-activated iphones. is this ridiculous price not for cross carrier iphones. coz if this is what O2 had offered me, I would have sent them to fly a kite.

Do US carriers offer a similar unlock service does one always have to go 3rd party.(might as well jailbreak while your at it, to further enjoy your $170 spend)

Apple should get in this too - after-all it is itunes based [freee money-inhouse]
Guess the usual is evident: Apple produce the best product, and pirates make it even better below the board...

 

[Coleman2010]

Do US carriers offer a similar unlock service does one always have to go 3rd party.(might as well jailbreak while your at it, to further enjoy your $170 spend)

ATT does not offer unlocks for the iPhone 4. That is why we're willing to pay $170 for it. And yes, I have my phone jailbroken as well.

 

[readyforryan]

Anyone?

Hi! Just wanted to check if anyone has successfully unlocked their phones through any one of these services. Just want to make sure before I make the jump.

 

[LapsangSouchong]

Hi! Just wanted to check if anyone has successfully unlocked their phones through any one of these services. Just want to make sure before I make the jump.

Lots of folks saying they've done it "successfully" here:

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1135132/

 

[johnnyturbouk]

i brought my ip4 from ebay, back in jan
despite being new and sealed three refuse to unlock it as the phone was registered to the original seller and only he can request the unlock
mailed the seller and offered to pay £15 + £10 for making the effort - no response - even offered more ££ but zero contact......

$170 is day light robbery imo

 

[Coleman2010]

$170 is day light robbery imo

Of course it is for you. You're from London where you can request an iPhone unlocked for free or for a very small price. In the US all iPhones are locked and ATT will not unlock them PERIOD!! So $170 is not robbery when there are no other options for a factory unlocked phone.