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02-05-2010, 12:08 PM
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I have just been given a 8100 from a friend and the phone is locked to another provider. I have the unlocking codes (5 of them) but the 8100 only had 2 attempts left.
As you can guess from this message the first two did not work and now I am stuck on what to do.
Does anyone know how I can re-set the phone to get some more, I don't mind if re setting the phone means losing everything on it, just would like to unlock it so that I can use it with my provider.
Any help would be greatly received.
Thanks
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02-05-2010, 03:58 PM
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Your phone is now what they call "hardlocked". You'll need to take it to a store that can do a cable unlock. Its still unlockable, but you're not going to be able to do it your self. It will require some special tools.
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02-06-2010, 05:01 AM
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maybe not necessarily bcause, we crackberrians have a taste of doing risky things to our blackberrys, but we always come out successful
Now befire you go to carrier, i suggest u reload ur os, its risky, but it may work, just reload the os and make sure to delete 'vendir.xml'
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02-06-2010, 05:08 AM
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Originally Posted by Mattellicott  I have just been given a 8100 from a friend and the phone is locked to another provider. I have the unlocking codes (5 of them) but the 8100 only had 2 attempts left.
As you can guess from this message the first two did not work and now I am stuck on what to do.
Does anyone know how I can re-set the phone to get some more, I don't mind if re setting the phone means losing everything on it, just would like to unlock it so that I can use it with my provider.
Any help would be greatly received.
Thanks | How did you end up with 5 unlock codes? Are you just randomly guessing what they are?
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02-06-2010, 10:30 AM
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Originally Posted by Ansaf maybe not necessarily bcause, we crackberrians have a taste of doing risky things to our blackberrys, but we always come out successful
Now befire you go to carrier, i suggest u reload ur os, its risky, but it may work, just reload the os and make sure to delete 'vendir.xml'
Posted from my CrackBerry at wapforums.crackberry.com | Reloading the OS will not reset the unlocking attempt counter. The only way it it can be unlocked now is through cable unlocking.
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02-06-2010, 05:33 PM
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Originally Posted by Mattellicott I have just been given a 8100 from a friend and the phone is locked to another provider. I have the unlocking codes (5 of them) but the 8100 only had 2 attempts left.
As you can guess from this message the first two did not work and now I am stuck on what to do.
Does anyone know how I can re-set the phone to get some more, I don't mind if re setting the phone means losing everything on it, just would like to unlock it so that I can use it with my provider.
Any help would be greatly received.
Thanks | As a poster above mentioned a local shop that does unlocking via cable method would have to do it. You cannot reset the counter.
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02-06-2010, 05:39 PM
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Sounds like you only have a choice to going to the carrier where its locked to i guess.
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02-06-2010, 05:40 PM
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Originally Posted by Ansaf Sounds like you only have a choice to going to the carrier where its locked to i guess. | Carrier won't do anything, needs to be a local unlocking shop.
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02-07-2010, 12:40 AM
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Originally Posted by Mattellicott I have just been given a 8100 from a friend and the phone is locked to another provider. I have the unlocking codes (5 of them) but the 8100 only had 2 attempts left.
As you can guess from this message the first two did not work and now I am stuck on what to do.
Does anyone know how I can re-set the phone to get some more, I don't mind if re setting the phone means losing everything on it, just would like to unlock it so that I can use it with my provider.
Any help would be greatly received.
Thanks | Only way to unlock it will be for us to have the physical phone.
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02-08-2010, 01:11 AM
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Originally Posted by CarrierUnlock Carrier won't do anything, needs to be a local unlocking shop. | Aren't phone unlocker/repair shops found usually in shopping centres, like i go to any regular shopping centre i always find at least one phone unlocker there...
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02-08-2010, 07:17 AM
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I just skimmed this thread (gotta leave for work soon) but I think the OP has a phone that has a password on it. Hence the "3 tries left" statement. I think the OP is asking how to get past the security code before doing anything else.
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02-08-2010, 09:06 AM
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Originally Posted by dancing-bass I just skimmed this thread (gotta leave for work soon) but I think the OP has a phone that has a password on it. Hence the "3 tries left" statement. I think the OP is asking how to get past the security code before doing anything else. | You'll need to skim better next time.  .
Op is asking how to unlock his phone so that he can use another carriers Sim card.
Nice try to help though. 
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