Hi all, hope everyone is ok.

Can I unlock my cell phone myself?
No mobile phone company want to do it for me, the only thing they want is sell me another phone I don’t need (I already have one).

Can I just download a small program and do it myself, or will I be doom to buy a new one?

It’s a sony ericsson if it helps.

Thank you

Mucho love

Juan

Probbly just be able to download something, Juan. I’ve unlocked a couple of phones using software off tinternet.

Could bork your ‘phone completely, though.

Az what does an “unlocking cell phone shop” does?
Do you know?
Cheers

This might be useful to you

iSmart SIM

I’d do it properly rather than use that cut-up sim card solution above. You need to know the model of the phone though to know if it is an easy unlock or not.

A fair number of older phones can be done just with a code calculator you calculate the unlock code based on your IMEI number (*#06# to find it).

Quite a few phones can be unlocked with a USB cable using special software.

Some newer phones can only be unlocked with special magic boxes and expensive cables that attach to internal connections on the phone circuit board. If you have one of these phones, then your only choice is to take it to a shop and pay them the £20 to unlock it.

Joe

I would take it to your local mobile phone shop and get them to do it, £20 and zero hassle.

If it’s a vodafone phone then they will give you the unlock code for free if you ask them

It’s a k550i from orange. And funnily enough orange France doesn’t want to unlock it from me 🙁

Juan, pity you’re not here! Plenty of places like that round my way. I’d probbly be able to get it done for a tenner or less, too!

You can apparently flash it to make it a ‘walkman’ phone, and in the process you can unlock it.

http://www.thinkdigit.com/forum/showpost.php?p=593140&postcount=1
http://www.thinkdigit.com/forum/showpost.php?p=713563&postcount=602

http://www.akshayy.com/sonyericsson/patching/applying-patches-for-db2020-phone/

http://www.akshayy.com/sonyericsson/

I’ve done stuff like this to a few phones and as long as you follow instructions carefully, you can usually get away without bricking your phone. Never had to pay someone for an unlock.

Joe