Has anyone unlocked a dumb phone (keypad phone) ?

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• Atti@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I used to sell used cell phones on eBay. Verizon, AT&T, and T-mobile (and perhaps others) phones could be unlocked by calling the original provider’s customer service line to ask for the unlock codes and providing them the IMEI or ESN. Call from another phone because there’s sometimes a need to cycle the device off and on. Keep in mind that if the phone was never paid off with its initial contract, customer service may be unable to provide you the unlock codes.

  If you meant breaking a PIN, search for instructions on how to do a hard reset and be prepared to lose everything on the device.

  Good luck!

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  • ROMMMELLL@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Hi A

    Are you still there ?

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  • ROMMMELLL@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Dear A

    Thanks for your reply. That is very helpful.

    I am new to the terminology.

    Does ‘original provider’ refer to the phone maker, or the phone seller, or the provider of the first SIM card, or someone else ?

    If the phone was NOT locked by the original provider, how else could it be locked ?

    And how would you decide what sort of lock you were dealing with ?

    Yours sincerely

    ROMMMELLL

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• Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Unlocking older cell phones used to requiring taking them into the phone store. Very few had a way of doing it on your own in my experience.

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  • ABCDE@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    There were plenty of ways to unlock phones; I used to work in a store that did it and lots just used software and a cable.

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    • ROMMMELLL@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Dear A

      Thanks for your reply.

      Did you ever go ahead and unlock a dumb phone when you were working in the store ?

      Yours sincerely

      ROMMMELLL

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  • ROMMMELLL@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Thanks K

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