1. kirstennorris89's Avatar
    I found a blackberry last week and tried to contact the owner to give it back. No one got back to me and then the sim card was locked.
    After a week of trying I thought I would keep it and it worked fine for a day, with SMS, calls, internet and BBM working.

    Now although the BBM and internet still works, whenever I try to send a text a little clock appears and then comes up with the message "retries exceeded".
    When I try and make a call it says "no service currently available".

    Does anyone know what is wrong?
    04-18-11 06:46 PM
  2. Fubaz's Avatar
    the IMEI could be blocked/blacklisted as it was probably reported lost or stolen.

    it is now a paper weight.
    04-18-11 07:50 PM
  3. roalf's Avatar
    In my country if you found a lost phone, there are people who could easily unlock or whatever it's called, even if the IMEI is locked or blacklisted

    Find someone there who could.
    04-19-11 05:45 PM
LINK TO POST COPIED TO CLIPBOARD