HELP-Subsidy Code for Cingular Motorola V551???
Oct 6, 2006 | 4:55 pm
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HELP-Subsidy Code for Cingular Motorola V551???
Help!
I'm a Sprint Cell user, but have a used Cingular Motorola V551
Cingular WILL NOT give me a subsidy code to unlock my phone!
I don't have a cable and am getting close to departure.
Anyone know the subsidy code for a Motorola V551!?!?
Thanks
Kevin
I'm a Sprint Cell user, but have a used Cingular Motorola V551
Cingular WILL NOT give me a subsidy code to unlock my phone!
I don't have a cable and am getting close to departure.
Anyone know the subsidy code for a Motorola V551!?!?
Thanks
Kevin
Oct 6, 2006 | 5:01 pm
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Originally Posted by boulderflyer21
Help!
I'm a Sprint Cell user, but have a used Cingular Motorola V551
Cingular WILL NOT give me a subsidy code to unlock my phone!
I don't have a cable and am getting close to departure.
Anyone know the subsidy code for a Motorola V551!?!?
I'm a Sprint Cell user, but have a used Cingular Motorola V551
Cingular WILL NOT give me a subsidy code to unlock my phone!
I don't have a cable and am getting close to departure.
Anyone know the subsidy code for a Motorola V551!?!?
Anyways, I would recommend you either get an unlocked GSM phone or you pay a 3rd party to unlock it (look for folks in Chinatown, etc to do this cheaply locally depending on where you are, or you can try one of the online places; I've never had a phone "illegally" unlocked so I'm not quite sure on where to do it though.)
Oct 6, 2006 | 6:12 pm
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Motorola phones are difficult to unlock, versus Nokia phones, which can be done for free or almost free.
If you have been a Cingular customer for 90 days, they may give you the unlock code. T-mobile does this for sure.
Unlocking the phone by a third party is not illegal or against your contract, but cellular providers obviously don't want you to have the phone unlocked.
If you can do it locally, do as Karthik suggested. Otherwise you can try to have it done at your destination... Shouldn't be more than 20 dollars or so.
fuzz
If you have been a Cingular customer for 90 days, they may give you the unlock code. T-mobile does this for sure.
Unlocking the phone by a third party is not illegal or against your contract, but cellular providers obviously don't want you to have the phone unlocked.
If you can do it locally, do as Karthik suggested. Otherwise you can try to have it done at your destination... Shouldn't be more than 20 dollars or so.
fuzz
Oct 6, 2006 | 8:07 pm
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If you are not a Cingular customer, and it sounds like you aren't, have a friend who is call and give them IMEI. They won't know or care whether it is his phone, as long as they have been a customer >90 days.
Good luck!
Good luck!
Oct 11, 2006 | 2:48 pm
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Ridiculous but true - however many of the cell phone shos around the country and world that I have been in have a back room full of folks who just unlock phones for a smallish fee - worst case you can get it done where you are but are at risk of nto gettign it done...
I liked the sugestion of finding a cigualr customer tho' cool if you can find someone
I liked the sugestion of finding a cigualr customer tho' cool if you can find someone