[Q] Will i lose unlock after hard reset - Wildfire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hi i purchased a unlock code for my HTC Wildfire at the beginning of the year and i cant find email with code in.
i am now giving the phone away and want to hard reset using this method:
Turn the power off. If your HTC Wildfire is frozen, pull the battery out and reinsert it
Hold the Volume Down button
Press and release the Power button
You are now presented with a menu that allows for Fastbook, Recovery, Clear Storage, and Simlock
Select Clear Storage by pressing the Volume Down button
Press and release the Power button
Now simply confirm your decision: Volume Up for YES and Volume Down for NO
If i do this will it become locked again.
i have a wildfire running froyo and was originally locked on tesco mobile

Sim lock should be permanent.
So it should not change.

Thank you just to confirm I did hard reset my wildfire and it was still unlocked cheers

I live at Brazil.
My father went to USA and bought me a Wildfire UNLOCKED at J&R (i have the receipt).
He is not used to mobiles, so he turned the phone on and said: "it´s working".
When a took the phone i realised that it is locked. I believe by "Three", since it's logo shows up when turning on.
J&R refuse to replace the phone.
How could i get it unlocked? At Three site said i could buy the code. But i don´t have a Three phone to call them.
Do somebody knows how much does it cost? Is there any other way to buy, not calling them?
And most important: does the phone got permanently locked if i enter a wrong unlock code? I had tried some codes from my sim card (i thought it was what the phone was asking for).

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hi, yes i have, as soon as i put the battery in and press power it automatically goes into bootloader mode without even holding the back key, which is puzzling..
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Doogles said:
Hello, I just bought the HTC desire Z and have put the draw pattern lock code on, and have forgotten the pattern. I have had it just 4 days so any lost data is not a big deal. I have tryed the volume down power button hardset way. but it always just sarts the phone and brings me back to the draw pattern lock. If anybody has had to hard reset their phone, any ifno would help. Otherwise my phone is going away for 4-6 weeks.
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what happens when you goto forgot pattern?
I can't get into anything. The phone starts up and then you can slide down on the screen then the 9 dots come up for the draw pattern. thats all i co do
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I need help on this and unfortunately, being my dad's phone, I don't physically have it with me. Basically, it won't read his SIM so it's in emergency mode only, and then on top of that it's locked him out. He doesn't want to hard reset because he has some photos on the phone itself that he would lose and the PC won't recognise the phone (no clue what that's about). He got another SIM card and that didn't help.
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fast69mopar said:
What has him locked out? Is he locked out because of entering an incorrect PIN too many times? Is he locked out because of FRP, or Factory Reset Protection?
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Ok, I had him look into the Google Photos sync and turns out he had unknowingly been syncing all along. I'm telling you, my dad isn't that old, but he is incredibly disorganised when it comes to tech and digital content, and the mobile world with online ecosystem logins is where he really lost track of things. Getting him to understand "Google", the "Outlook" account world, why you don't need a separate Skype account PER device... anyway...
So he says he never had his phone with any kind of lock screen lock. None whatsoever. He knows his inability to remember passwords and didn't want that hassle on his phone. So this is a lock he's never set up or asked for. So what is it, do you think? And since he didn't set it up would the stock code be available somewhere?

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