I want to unlock the SIM on an old HTC one SV from EE, which sill has a good battery from circa 2013, but not getting much sense on the web. I get two sets of web pages:
(i) No problem. Do it for free with our unlock codes
(ii) it's not possible to do it for free. Buy our codes for anything betwween £5 - £20.

So Which set of pages is telling porkies. Why should anyone do it for free.. Are the lot that charge just a rip-off.

Grateful for expertise, thanks

On 23/10/2017 08:23, therustyone wrote:
I want to unlock the SIM on an old HTC one SV from EE, which sill has a good battery from circa 2013, but not getting much sense on the web. I get two sets of web pages:
(i) No problem. Do it for free with our unlock codes
(ii) it's not possible to do it for free. Buy our codes for anything betwween £5 - £20.

So Which set of pages is telling porkies. Why should anyone do it for free. Are the lot that charge just a rip-off.

Grateful for expertise, thanks


You can request a free unlock code on O2 so I would imagine you can do
the same on EE unless its a prepay phone.

Try contacting their customer support and ask.

dennis@home wrote:
On 23/10/2017 08:23, therustyone wrote:
I want to unlock the SIM on an old HTC one SV from EE, which sill has a
good battery from circa 2013, but not getting much sense on the web. I
get two sets of web pages:
(i) No problem. Do it for free with our unlock codes
(ii) it's not possible to do it for free. Buy our codes for anything betwween £5 - £20.

So Which set of pages is telling porkies. Why should anyone do it for free. Are the lot that charge just a rip-off.

Grateful for expertise, thanks


You can request a free unlock code on O2 so I would imagine you can do
the same on EE unless its a prepay phone.

Free on contract when 6 months old, prepay is 8.99 even if you aren't a
customer. You just call them up with the IMEI, take a payment over the
phone and they give you an unlock code.

Generally 'unlocking guides' are useless: the feasible methods of unlocking
varies by model, and lots of the guides say 'you can do it free or pay for a
code' but then don't admit this is generic advice for every model - the free
method only works for some models.

If you're after a free unlock, search XDA for the model number of your phone
(not the name, the model number) which is the only place I'd trust for real
info.

Given that it's 8.99 from the horse's mouth, it's not worth bothering with
pay unlock services any more.

Theo

On 23/10/2017 08:23, therustyone wrote:
I want to unlock the SIM on an old HTC one SV from EE, which sill has a good battery from circa 2013, but not getting much sense on the web. I get two sets of web pages:
(i) No problem. Do it for free with our unlock codes
(ii) it's not possible to do it for free. Buy our codes for anything betwween £5 - £20.

So Which set of pages is telling porkies. Why should anyone do it for free.. Are the lot that charge just a rip-off.



Why does anyone write free software/Apps. Why do people reply with help
on user support forums?

Often the people charging the fees will only direct you to the web page
which requires no fee.


Are you trying to unlock the SIM or trying to unlock the phone so that
you can use a SIM from any supplier?

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On Monday, October 23, 2017 at 10:56:20 AM UTC+1, Theo wrote:
dennis@home wrote:
On 23/10/2017 08:23, therustyone wrote:
I want to unlock the SIM on an old HTC one SV from EE, which sill has a
good battery from circa 2013, but not getting much sense on the web. I
get two sets of web pages:
(i) No problem. Do it for free with our unlock codes
(ii) it's not possible to do it for free. Buy our codes for anything betwween £5 - £20.

So Which set of pages is telling porkies. Why should anyone do it for free. Are the lot that charge just a rip-off.

Grateful for expertise, thanks


You can request a free unlock code on O2 so I would imagine you can do
the same on EE unless its a prepay phone.

Free on contract when 6 months old, prepay is 8.99 even if you aren't a
customer. You just call them up with the IMEI, take a payment over the
phone and they give you an unlock code.

Generally 'unlocking guides' are useless: the feasible methods of unlocking
varies by model, and lots of the guides say 'you can do it free or pay for a
code' but then don't admit this is generic advice for every model - the free
method only works for some models.

If you're after a free unlock, search XDA for the model number of your phone
(not the name, the model number) which is the only place I'd trust for real
info.

Given that it's 8.99 from the horse's mouth, it's not worth bothering with
pay unlock services any more.

Theo

Maybe it's not so easy from EE though I'm still on EE with a new phone. Their web page says it's free at first then says it's 8.99 further down. Folk who go in person into the EE shop have paid this amount, the shop sends the online form in, but then it's still locked after an unreasonable number of weeks. Other folk say the shops claim they can't do it anyway.
So it sounds like the usual runaround.
I would try the free method but it may brick the phone.

therustyone wrote:
Maybe it's not so easy from EE though I'm still on EE with a new phone.
Their web page says it's free at first then says it's 8.99 further down.
Folk who go in person into the EE shop have paid this amount, the shop
sends the online form in, but then it's still locked after an unreasonable
number of weeks. Other folk say the shops claim they can't do it anyway.
So it sounds like the usual runaround. I would try the free method but it
may brick the phone.

All I can say is that it worked for me:
http://ee.co.uk/help/getting-started...ng-your-device
'non-EE customer', did it on the phone, unlock code sent by email.
I didn't even need to put an EE SIM in it.

Theo

On Mon, 23 Oct 2017 00:23:13 -0700, therustyone wrote:

I want to unlock the SIM on an old HTC one SV from EE, which sill has a
good battery from circa 2013, but not getting much sense on the web. I
get two sets of web pages:
(i) No problem. Do it for free with our unlock codes (ii) it's not
possible to do it for free. Buy our codes for anything betwween £5 -
£20.

So Which set of pages is telling porkies. Why should anyone do it for
free. Are the lot that charge just a rip-off.

Grateful for expertise, thanks

Are you trying to unlock the SIM (when you have forgotten your PIN) or
are you trying to unlock the phone itself so you can use a SIM from
another telecoms company in it?

The answer to each will be very different.

On Monday, October 23, 2017 at 8:23:16 AM UTC+1, therustyone wrote:
I want to unlock the SIM on an old HTC one SV from EE, which sill has a good battery from circa 2013, but not getting much sense on the web. I get two sets of web pages:
(i) No problem. Do it for free with our unlock codes
(ii) it's not possible to do it for free. Buy our codes for anything betwween £5 - £20.

So Which set of pages is telling porkies. Why should anyone do it for free. Are the lot that charge just a rip-off.

Grateful for expertise, thanks

On Monday, October 23, 2017 at 8:23:16 AM UTC+1, therustyone wrote:
I want to unlock the SIM on an old HTC one SV from EE, which sill has a good battery from circa 2013, but not getting much sense on the web.....


Surely if you need to unblock the SIM then it is irrelevant what phone it is in. You need the 'unblock code' for the SIM.

If it's the phone you want to use, rather than the SIM, then you can just put a new SIM into it, can you not?


Robert

wrote
therustyone wrote

I want to unlock the SIM on an old HTC one SV from EE, which sill has
a good battery from circa 2013, but not getting much sense on the
web.....

Surely if you need to unblock the SIM then it is irrelevant
what phone it is in. You need the 'unblock code' for the SIM.

If it's the phone you want to use, rather than the SIM,
then you can just put a new SIM into it, can you not?

Not if the phone is locked to a particular carrier and you want to use a
different one.

The OP should have said phone, not SIM.

On 23/10/2017 16:42, Rod Speed wrote:
wrote
therustyone wrote

I want to unlock the SIM on an old HTC one SV from EE, which sill has
a good battery from circa 2013, but not getting much sense on the
web.....

Surely if you need to unblock the SIM then it is irrelevant
what phone it is in. You need the 'unblock code' for the SIM.

If it's the phone you want to use, rather than the SIM,
then you can just put a new SIM into it, can you not?

Not if the phone is locked to a particular carrier and you want to use a
different one.

The OP should have said phone, not SIM.

And if he is worried about rip off merchants just use the official
unlock process

From http://ee.co.uk/help/getting-started...ng-your-device

Non EE Customer (Second-hand devices)

If youre on EE and you've bought a second-hand device, you wont be
able to unlock the device using our online form.

If you're not with EE, Orange or T-Mobile, but have a device locked to
EE, please call us on 0800 956 6000 (option 2, option 4). We can unlock
most devices for £8.99. It will take 10 days to unlock the device after
the request has been submitted.



It might be worth £9 for peace of mind.



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"Chris B" wrote in message
news
On 23/10/2017 16:42, Rod Speed wrote:
wrote
therustyone wrote

I want to unlock the SIM on an old HTC one SV from EE, which sill has
a good battery from circa 2013, but not getting much sense on the
web.....

Surely if you need to unblock the SIM then it is irrelevant
what phone it is in. You need the 'unblock code' for the SIM.

If it's the phone you want to use, rather than the SIM,
then you can just put a new SIM into it, can you not?

Not if the phone is locked to a particular carrier and you want to use a
different one.

The OP should have said phone, not SIM.

And if he is worried about rip off merchants just use the official unlock
process

From http://ee.co.uk/help/getting-started...ng-your-device

Non EE Customer (Second-hand devices)

If youre on EE and you've bought a second-hand device, you wont be able
to unlock the device using our online form.

If you're not with EE, Orange or T-Mobile, but have a device locked to EE,
please call us on 0800 956 6000 (option 2, option 4). We can unlock most
devices for £8.99. It will take 10 days to unlock the device after the
request has been submitted.

Wonder why it can take 10 days to turn the
IEMI into an unlock code they send you.

All those hamsters or mice furiously running like mad on their treadmills I
spose.

It might be worth £9 for peace of mind.

Yep, poor sentence. Unlock the phone I meant.

On 23/10/2017 21:24, therustyone wrote:
Yep, poor sentence. Unlock the phone I meant.


it does say unlock the phone in the subject.
Maybe some don't read the subject?

On Mon, 23 Oct 2017 13:24:28 -0700, therustyone wrote:

Yep, poor sentence. Unlock the phone I meant.

That's the easy bit. Ignore the on-line 'we can do it' folks and go
straight to the network its locked to. That way you don't risk bricking
the phone and it won't cost that much more than any other way.

On Monday, October 23, 2017 at 11:12:49 AM UTC+1, alan_m wrote:
On 23/10/2017 08:23, therustyone wrote:
I want to unlock the SIM on an old HTC one SV from EE, which sill has a good battery from circa 2013, but not getting much sense on the web. I get two sets of web pages:
(i) No problem. Do it for free with our unlock codes
(ii) it's not possible to do it for free. Buy our codes for anything betwween £5 - £20.

So Which set of pages is telling porkies. Why should anyone do it for free.. Are the lot that charge just a rip-off.



Why does anyone write free software/Apps. Why do people reply with help
on user support forums?

Often the people charging the fees will only direct you to the web page
which requires no fee.


Are you trying to unlock the SIM or trying to unlock the phone so that
you can use a SIM from any supplier?

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I saw a rumour that freebie unlock sites might be harvesting the IMEI codes for use on stolen phones overseas.

On 23/10/2017 11:25, therustyone wrote:
On Monday, October 23, 2017 at 10:56:20 AM UTC+1, Theo wrote:
dennis@home wrote:
On 23/10/2017 08:23, therustyone wrote:
I want to unlock the SIM on an old HTC one SV from EE, which
sill has a good battery from circa 2013, but not getting much
sense on the web. I get two sets of web pages: (i) No
problem. Do it for free with our unlock codes (ii) it's not
possible to do it for free. Buy our codes for anything
betwween £5 - £20.

So Which set of pages is telling porkies. Why should anyone do
it for free. Are the lot that charge just a rip-off.

Grateful for expertise, thanks


You can request a free unlock code on O2 so I would imagine you
can do the same on EE unless its a prepay phone.

Free on contract when 6 months old, prepay is 8.99 even if you
aren't a customer. You just call them up with the IMEI, take a
payment over the phone and they give you an unlock code.

Generally 'unlocking guides' are useless: the feasible methods of
unlocking varies by model, and lots of the guides say 'you can do
it free or pay for a code' but then don't admit this is generic
advice for every model - the free method only works for some
models.

+1

And certain models of phone can be incredibly awkward requiring you to
take them to some expert dodgy geezer in a backstreet somewhere. These
are usually the sort that lock down on the first SIM they see from new.

If you're after a free unlock, search XDA for the model number of
your phone (not the name, the model number) which is the only place
I'd trust for real info.

Given that it's 8.99 from the horse's mouth, it's not worth
bothering with pay unlock services any more.

Theo

Maybe it's not so easy from EE though I'm still on EE with a new
phone. Their web page says it's free at first then says it's 8.99
further down. Folk who go in person into the EE shop have paid this
amount, the shop sends the online form in, but then it's still locked
after an unreasonable number of weeks. Other folk say the shops
claim they can't do it anyway. So it sounds like the usual
runaround. I would try the free method but it may brick the phone.

You will always get the odd clueless muppet claiming that something
doesn't work if enough people do it.

ISTR EE would have quite happily unlocked my mums phone for me but at
the time £9 would have more than doubled its value! Instead I found an
original Orange SIM in a Poundshop for £1 (on their recommendation).

Unless you are tech savvy (and asking here says that you are not) it
isn't really worth chancing a dodgy unlock code from an unknown source.
Some of the guys on market stalls do slightly cheaper unlocking than the
official high street outlets. Depends if you trust them not to brick
your phone in the process.

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