I have always used ATT phones and am wondering if I switch to Tmobile, is the flashing process any different? Do you use the same files to unlock it?
Yes it is the same process
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what happen if i get my tilt2 unlock and after that i flash a different ROM would the phone lock it self again, what would happen i m addicted to flashing every week.
fastguebo said:
what happen if i get my tilt2 unlock and after that i flash a different ROM would the phone lock it self again, what would happen i m addicted to flashing every week.
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When you get your phone unlocked it just allows you to use different carriers sim cards. It is no longer locked onto their system. You could then use a ATT phone on Rogers for instance.
If you are refering to HardSPL, and I think you may be, that allows you to write unsigned roms and radios to the phone. Without the HardSPL the phone will not process any rom but the ones that are signed by that carrier or HTC. You would not be able to flash any cooked roms until you get the phone HardSPLed. After that is done you can continue to use the stock rom, flash a cooked rom or different radio. The phone will not relock so flash away.
On verizon I need to call and reprogram my phone with a custom ID everytime I hard flash. not the normal phone programming, I litterally have to call and manually enter a number to get my phone working again. Not sure if this is the same for other carriers, but I have a feeling they might get suspicious if it happens a lot.
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On verizon I need to call and reprogram my phone with a custom ID everytime I hard flash. not the normal phone programming, I litterally have to call and manually enter a number to get my phone working again. Not sure if this is the same for other carriers, but I have a feeling they might get suspicious if it happens a lot.
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That's because the activation of a CDMA phone is stored on the phone itself. In GSM phones the activation is stored on the SIM card so this should not be a problem.
i mean paying to unlock my phone or calling att because i will travel very soon. and if i flash another rom do i have pay to unlock it again or not.
no, sim unlock will stay, it will not re-lock if u flash a new rom.
Dont pay for a sim unlock, just call at&t and tell them your going overseas for business and need the unlock code. They'll email it to you within a week.
I have a hrad time believing they will just give you an unlock code when they go through all the trouble of locking them and keeping them locked.
El_Capitan2 said:
I have a hrad time believing they will just give you an unlock code when they go through all the trouble of locking them and keeping them locked.
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You don't have to believe us. I've done it a few times, as have many other users on this board, but you don't have to believe us, try it yourself
Is it really that easy to unlock your phone? I am going to try it. Thanks guys.
Hello
I just wanted to say HI. I just registered. Been exploring this site for some time now. I have the touch pro 2. I really like it. I have had a lot of phones, mostly iphones and blackberries (I used to sell them). Done a lot of unlocking, but now am getting into serious business
So just wanted to say Hi. Thanks for helping me get an education. I will say this information is very hard to navigate though. You guys are amazingly smart about this stuff.
So far I have the MightyROM. Trying to understand the different types of locks/locking. For the TP2. From Iphones I learned about basebands and firmwares. This TP2 is on a whole new level by comparison though. Very confusing. Trying to skim through the wiki. Information seems hard to come by. I have basic knowledge only pretty much, but it's all diverse (done light java programming, etc...)
Really interested in the Registry edit capabilities. Right now I just have Rescoe. I thought for sure there would be a way to unlock by going that route but doesn't seem to work on anything I have tried. Don't really understand the parameters/keys and don't know how exactly to find out.
I will just keep plugging away I guess. Tried to buy the security unlocker but ran into problems with paypal freezing my account and what not... I really hate paypal...
Thanks though. You guys do great things!
What is Security Unlock?
Ok hello again, I now have a very good question I think:
What is Security Unlocking?
I was reading the wiki and that clarified a lot of things for me as far as CID/ROM unlocking and SIM unlocking but I didn't see anything about security unlocking. I am under the impression that I need to security unlock but I don't know why and I would really like to know.
Last nite I tried to download and install the radio upgrades from Olipro but the phone bricked into bootloader and I had to reflash the mighty ROM to get it back up and running again. As my understanding is that I am currently CID/ROM unlocked but I can't seem to unlock the Radio/GSM without Security unlocking. Can please tell me why? Is this an added mechanism to prevent this that is recent advancement on the carriers part I am guessing but how does it work and why? Thanks so much if you tell me!!!
derekstaroba said:
Ok hello again, I now have a very good question I think:
What is Security Unlocking?
I was reading the wiki and that clarified a lot of things for me as far as CID/ROM unlocking and SIM unlocking but I didn't see anything about security unlocking. I am under the impression that I need to security unlock but I don't know why and I would really like to know.
Last nite I tried to download and install the radio upgrades from Olipro but the phone bricked into bootloader and I had to reflash the mighty ROM to get it back up and running again. As my understanding is that I am currently CID/ROM unlocked but I can't seem to unlock the Radio/GSM without Security unlocking. Can please tell me why? Is this an added mechanism to prevent this that is recent advancement on the carriers part I am guessing but how does it work and why? Thanks so much if you tell me!!!
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what do you mean by trying to unlock the radio? SIM unlock?
security unlock allows flashing non-stock radios. (but you must pay attention if you're flashing a radio that's compatible with your phone model.)
cmonex said:
what do you mean by trying to unlock the radio? SIM unlock?
security unlock allows flashing non-stock radios. (but you must pay attention if you're flashing a radio that's compatible with your phone model.)
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Well I'm not quite sure but I will explain what I am seeing.
When I put a SIM in the network doesn't register but it shows the new phone number in phone settings on the first tab. On the second tab in 'Network' it doesn't detect and keeps saying "searching for network" etc...
My radio says WF. the hhspl works fine and I can flash any ROM. The only ROM I haven't tried is a GSM ROM because in my understanding that bricks the phone (What is the brick? Tricolor? Black screen?). However I haven't been able to flash any Radio's at all. It gets to 100% and then quits with an error and reverts the phone to tricolor screen and the only way to get it out is to Reflash a ROM. I was able to Flash a Sprint ROM with the windows mobile 6.1 version. I have to say that one really sucks lol but it did manage to change the radio version. After I changed the Radio Version to 1.96WF I reflashed back to MightyROM and tried to run the unlocker again, didn't work. Then I tried to reflash another radio. Didn't work and bricked the phone to tricolor/bootloader again.
So am I CID locked Or Security locked? Either way the process should work I thought? None of the programs seem to be doing what they are fully designed to do.
Thnx a bunch!
Something!
I purchased a brand new T-Mobile SIM and IT REGISTERED!
I was able to call the T-Mobile Help line.
There was some trouble with the activation, but I think I got it. I guess I didn't need the security unlock after all???
weird. And the radio version is sprint. In my understanding, a sprint baseband/radio is not supported on T-mobile, yet I have access to the frequencies/bands. For example on an iphone in order to pick up frequencies from T-mobile or any other GSM carrier you have to upgrade the baseband/radio version to one that supports those frequencies. The last iphone I had I had to use an IPAD baseband in order to unlock it. So this is completely different.
THIS MAKES ME VERY VERY CURIOUS!
Yea the security unlocker doesn't work for the U.S. Cell version... at least mine it doesn't. I made some youtube videos and a thread to show that. I figured out another way to unlock though using the HardSPL, Flashing to a Sprint Stock ROM to get that radio, and then flashing again to MightyROM.
What I meant by unlocking the radio is basically I am thinking of the radio in terms of the radio picks up certain signals (like 800mhz, 850mhz, 1900mhz, etc...) but each carrier prevents their radios from picking up all but one of the signal, the one they use, and prevents the rest from communicating with the device (guessing this would be the device modem?) so when I say "unlock Radio" I was meaning unlock those other frequencies and get rid of the programming which blocks them and use my device to full capability.
So now I get to see what this baby can really do thanks
derekstaroba said:
Well I'm not quite sure but I will explain what I am seeing.
When I put a SIM in the network doesn't register but it shows the new phone number in phone settings on the first tab. On the second tab in 'Network' it doesn't detect and keeps saying "searching for network" etc...
My radio says WF. the hhspl works fine and I can flash any ROM. The only ROM I haven't tried is a GSM ROM because in my understanding that bricks the phone (What is the brick? Tricolor? Black screen?). However I haven't been able to flash any Radio's at all. It gets to 100% and then quits with an error and reverts the phone to tricolor screen and the only way to get it out is to Reflash a ROM. I was able to Flash a Sprint ROM with the windows mobile 6.1 version. I have to say that one really sucks lol but it did manage to change the radio version. After I changed the Radio Version to 1.96WF I reflashed back to MightyROM and tried to run the unlocker again, didn't work. Then I tried to reflash another radio. Didn't work and bricked the phone to tricolor/bootloader again.
So am I CID locked Or Security locked? Either way the process should work I thought? None of the programs seem to be doing what they are fully designed to do.
Thnx a bunch!
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if you only flashed Hard-SPL, then you are still security locked in terms of radio.
Hard-SPL is only designed to unlock the SPL, not the radio. so, it does do what it was designed to do, unlocks your phone for normal ROM flashing.
derekstaroba said:
Yea the security unlocker doesn't work for the U.S. Cell version... at least mine it doesn't. I made some youtube videos and a thread to show that. I figured out another way to unlock though using the HardSPL, Flashing to a Sprint Stock ROM to get that radio, and then flashing again to MightyROM.
What I meant by unlocking the radio is basically I am thinking of the radio in terms of the radio picks up certain signals (like 800mhz, 850mhz, 1900mhz, etc...) but each carrier prevents their radios from picking up all but one of the signal, the one they use, and prevents the rest from communicating with the device (guessing this would be the device modem?) so when I say "unlock Radio" I was meaning unlock those other frequencies and get rid of the programming which blocks them and use my device to full capability.
So now I get to see what this baby can really do thanks
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both Hard-SPL and our sim/security unlocker (separate program from Hard-SPL) work for US cellular tp2.
as for the Tmobile SIM, some of the newer SIM cards will work with that sprint radio. not all of these SIM cards will.
I recently purchased an unlock code from a company online. I finally received my code tonight but I'm unsure how to go about using it to unlock the device. The Device Unlock application wouldn't allow me to enter anything, so I dialed #7465625*638*# and entered the code that way. I followed a few trouble shooting techniques but it still won't work on AT&T. Does anyone have any experience with this using this device? If so, I'd love to hear what to do.
Try flashing a different Rom from another carrier through recovery. Maybe the AT&T rom. I simply put a tmobile sim in the phone and it successfully my phone through the application.
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Try flashing a different Rom from another carrier through recovery. Maybe the AT&T rom. I simply put a tmobile sim in the phone and it successfully my phone through the application.
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Youre saying to flash the stock rom from AT&T? Have you done this? What do you mean you put a TMobile SIM in and it unlocked it..
1. Did you have a TMobile S6?
2. Did you flash an ATT rom to it? Custom recovery or stock?
3. Did you use a code?
I have a T-Mobile N10+ and thinking of switching to Verizon. Getting it carrier unlocked by t-mobile shouldn't be a problem, but can I then flash Verizon firmware without losing everything?
I've been reading a bunch of threads and I'm super confused.
Something about using HOME_CSC instead of CSC would enable me to keep apps/settings/files/everything as-is? Can anyone confirm? Thanks in advance.
Just heard from a tmo employee on Reddit that since the October update, the phone has auto CSC so all I would need to do is get t-mobile to unlock it and then just inserting a vzn sim would take care of the rest. True?
seebasso said:
Just heard from a tmo employee on Reddit that since the October update, the phone has auto CSC so all I would need to do is get t-mobile to unlock it and then just inserting a vzn sim would take care of the rest. True?
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when u put in vzw sim itll most likely reconfigure it for vzw hence the multi csc.. ive heard mixed results but it wipes when i do it..
safest bet is to create a backup and be prepared for it to wipe
I have a "carrier-locked" ATT note 10 (SM-N975UZKEATT) that I would like to use on Tmobile.
1) Is the only thing required to get the phone working with Tmobile a carrier flash? Do you really no longer need to unlock the device (carrier unlock)?
2) any guides that show this process from att to tmobile?
Thanks
rogue1ne said:
I have a "carrier-locked" ATT note 10 (SM-N975UZKEATT) that I would like to use on Tmobile.
1) Is the only thing required to get the phone working with Tmobile a carrier flash? Do you really no longer need to unlock the device (carrier unlock)?
2) any guides that show this process from att to tmobile?
Thanks
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You still need to get your device carrier unlocked before it will work on another carrier.
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You still need to get your device carrier unlocked before it will work on another carrier.
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Thanks for the clarification
rogue1ne said:
I have a "carrier-locked" ATT note 10 (SM-N975UZKEATT) that I would like to use on Tmobile.
1) Is the only thing required to get the phone working with Tmobile a carrier flash? Do you really no longer need to unlock the device (carrier unlock)?
2) any guides that show this process from att to tmobile?
Thanks
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Adding a little more to this:
1.) As an option (if preferred) you can most likely just keep the firmware installed on the phone and use it as it is. Tmobile is rather friendly with BYOD compared to AT&T. The phone will reconfigure some settings based on the settings that the Tmobile SIM card will have on it. Once unlocked just put the Tmobile sim card in and that should be all it takes. You may need to double check the APN settings though to make sure they are complete and accurate.
2.) Just look/search/research and you will find the multitude of discussions and tutorials on this. The process is the same as on the S9+. You won't have any problems finding out how to do this.