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Will AT&T unlock iPhone for you?

This is not correct. Cingluar unlocks the phones as long as you've had it for 30 days and that's only if you buy the phone at the reduced price, if you buy full price, you get the code in 3 business days.


yg17 said:
AFAIK, Stinkgular won't unlock ANY phones, whether it's an iPhone or a cheapo RAZR. BS if you ask me.


Gotta love T-Mobile's unlocking policy. I needed my BlackBerry unlocked, so I called them, gave them my IMEI and e-mail addy, and the next day I got an unlock code e-mailed to me. Too bad ATT isn't like that.


And no, they're not legally required to unlock your phone. I think the law that was passed regarding unlocked phones means that it's legal to unlock a phone (it was illegal? gotta love this country's laws :rolleyes: ) but doesn't require carriers to actually unlock it for you.
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As part of AT&T's deal with Apple, they may not be allowed to unlock the iPhone for you (or AT&T may not even tell them how to do it!).
 
Unlockable

the device will not be unlockable to begin with..so no they will not unlock it for you.
 
Hi everyone. I need help with this myself. I live in the UK BUT I have an iphone that I bought off ebay and had shipped from the US. I would like it unlocked. I havent yet tried to contact at&t to ask them for an unlock because I have heard that they will not supply any unlocks for iphones. Is it worth my contacting at & t and telling them I do not live in the US, that I live in the UK. Do you think they would listen??
 
BigCol said:
Hi everyone. I need help with this myself. I live in the UK BUT I have an iphone that I bought off ebay and had shipped from the US. I would like it unlocked. I havent yet tried to contact at&t to ask them for an unlock because I have heard that they will not supply any unlocks for iphones. Is it worth my contacting at & t and telling them I do not live in the US, that I live in the UK. Do you think they would listen??
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Please don't bump old threads.

You will have better luck unlocking the phone via jailbreak than going through the loops AT&T will make you jump through.
 
The answer is no. AT&T absolutely will not unlock your phone, regardless of your location and lack of service through them.

Sit tight, and hope there's an unlock with the 4.1 jailbreak...whenever it may be released.
 
I dont know what the set up in the US is like for unlocking iphone but here in the UK there are shops (stores) that unlock iphones. Is there anything like that in the US. BUT I cannot get an at&t iphone unlocked over here
 
Carriers in the US are under no legal obligation to unlock phones, so they mostly don't. The "shops" I've seen that claim to unlock iPhones use the same tools the rest of us do--JB and ultrasn0w--only they charge you money to do the same thing you can do at home for free. This won't help you as you're on 4.1.

You'd do far better to buy a factory unlocked phone from Apple in the UK. At least you have that option, they aren't sold that way in the US and a software unlock, as you've found, can be a dicey thing to keep sometimes.
 
IrishVixen said:
Carriers in the US are under no legal obligation to unlock phones, so they mostly don't. The "shops" I've seen that claim to unlock iPhones use the same tools the rest of us do--JB and ultrasn0w--only they charge you money to do the same thing you can do at home for free. This won't help you as you're on 4.1.

You'd do far better to buy a factory unlocked phone from Apple in the UK. At least you have that option, they aren't sold that way in the US and a software unlock, as you've found, can be a dicey thing to keep sometimes.
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Thanks for your reply. I purposely wanted a US iphone 3GS. The reason being that all EU iphones have the volume capped. I'll hang fire and wait for the JB for 4.1 to be released along with an unlock (whenever that will be). Thanks
 
BigCol said:
Thanks for your reply. I purposely wanted a US iphone 3GS. The reason being that all EU iphones have the volume capped. I'll hang fire and wait for the JB for 4.1 to be released along with an unlock (whenever that will be). Thanks
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Buy a Canadian or Mexican unlocked iPhone. Presumably, these have no EU volume limiter.
 
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