Cell Phones in Great Britain - Tesco Mobile Unlocking

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Tesco Mobile Unlocking

stevepetmonkey

2005-11-26, 5:48 pm

Just purchased a mobile from Tesco,
Its locked to Tesco Mobile, I was hoping my O2 sim would work in it but no
such luck,
Its a Nokia 6030, any ideas how to unlock without having to spend £30 on
Tesco mobile first?
Thanks, Steve.

Brian Morrison

2005-11-26, 5:48 pm

stevepetmonkey wrote:
> Just purchased a mobile from Tesco,
> Its locked to Tesco Mobile, I was hoping my O2 sim would work in it but no
> such luck,
> Its a Nokia 6030, any ideas how to unlock without having to spend £30 on
> Tesco mobile first?

3rd party unlocker who has the correct service cable. Ask in local
independent shop, local market trader or look on the net.

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David

2005-11-26, 5:48 pm

"stevepetmonkey" <rodgerramjet@itv.tv> wrote in message
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> Just purchased a mobile from Tesco,
> Its locked to Tesco Mobile, I was hoping my O2 sim would work in it but no
> such luck,
> Its a Nokia 6030, any ideas how to unlock without having to spend £30 on
> Tesco mobile first?
> Thanks, Steve.
>

join the forum on here and post a request for the unlocking code
http://www.unlockme.co.uk/unlockme.html

stevepetmonkey

2005-11-26, 5:48 pm

"David" <wavey86@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>
> "
>
> join the forum on here and post a request for the unlocking code
> http://www.unlockme.co.uk/unlockme.html
>

Thanks so much for the link, got a prompt reply with unlocking code, worked
a treat.
Nice one.

Endymion Ponsonby-Withermoor III

2005-11-27, 5:48 pm

stevepetmonkey wrote:
> Just purchased a mobile from Tesco,
> Its locked to Tesco Mobile, I was hoping my O2 sim would work in it but=
no=20

> such luck,
> Its a Nokia 6030, any ideas how to unlock without having to spend =A330=
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> Tesco mobile first?
> Thanks, Steve.=20
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Yes, just go to an unlocker at a Market stall or CBS, and pay =A310.

Don't bother with these web-sites that allegedly provide an unlocking
code for a given IMEI: I've never ever got one of these to work.

Richard [in PE12]

Peter

2005-11-27, 5:48 pm

On Sat, 26 Nov 2005 17:22:47 GMT, "stevepetmonkey"
<rodgerramjet@itv.tv> wrote:

>Just purchased a mobile from Tesco,
>Its locked to Tesco Mobile, I was hoping my O2 sim would work in it but no
>such luck,
>Its a Nokia 6030, any ideas how to unlock without having to spend £30 on
>Tesco mobile first?
>Thanks, Steve.
>

Yes.....I've just unlocked a Nokia 6030 (from Orange) today for free!
Take the following steps:

1) Go to http://www.unlockme.co.uk/downloads.html and download the
'DCT4 Code Calculator by Hollowman 5.4' on that page. Install it and
run it

2) Key in the IMEI number (under the battery)

3) Select 'United Kingdom' and 'Tesco Mobile'

4) Make sure ASIC is set to '2'

5) Click on 'Use box serial id' and type in '32836'

6) Click on 'Calculate'

6) THIS IS IMPORTANT: Contrary to the instructions on the above
website, the 6030 will NOT accept an unlock code until you actually
insert a sim card from a different network and turn the phone on. You
will get a message saying 'Phone restricted' (or something like that)
but click on the option 'Undo'. An input box is displayed.

7) Key in the last of the codes that are displayed in the unlock
program (the 7th one with '+7#' at the end). Follow the instructions
on the above web site if you don't know how to find 'p' and '+' and
'w' on your keypad

8) You should get a message saying something like 'restriction
removed'

Peter

Endymion Ponsonby-Withermoor III

2005-11-27, 5:48 pm

Peter wrote:

> Yes.....I've just unlocked a Nokia 6030 (from Orange) today for free!
> Take the following steps:

Hm. That's quite informative. I've never got one of those sites to work
before.

> 1) Go to http://www.unlockme.co.uk/downloads.html and download the
> 'DCT4 Code Calculator by Hollowman 5.4' on that page. Install it and
> run it

> 4) Make sure ASIC is set to '2'
How do we know it's ASIC 2 ? Is a phone of a specific model always tied
to a specific ASIC, or can several different ASICs appear in different
revisions of what is ostensibly the same model ?

> 5) Click on 'Use box serial id' and type in '32836'

Where do you get "32836" from ?

> 6) THIS IS IMPORTANT: Contrary to the instructions on the above
> website, the 6030 will NOT accept an unlock code until you actually
> insert a sim card from a different network and turn the phone on. You
> will get a message saying 'Phone restricted' (or something like that)
> but click on the option 'Undo'. An input box is displayed.

Hmm. Is this sort of thing Universal ? I've tried it both with and
without SIMs installed; it never occurred to me to try having
the "new" SIM installed at the point of code-entry.

>
> 7) Key in the last of the codes that are displayed in the unlock
> program (the 7th one with '+7#' at the end). Follow the instructions
> on the above web site if you don't know how to find 'p' and '+' and
> 'w' on your keypad

Why do these calculators always give a LIST of codes ? Why can't they
just give the single one that works ? Surely no-one's going to be interested
in "unrestricting their phone just a little bit" : they're going to
want to unrestrict all the locks, surely ?

Seems to me someone ought to produce unlocking software, which tells you
how to use unlocking software.

Richard [in PE12]

Richard Colton

2005-11-27, 11:48 pm

"Endymion Ponsonby-Withermoor III" <a@a.false> wrote in message
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> Why do these calculators always give a LIST of codes ?

Because each code opens a different lock or set of locks. For Orange you'll
usually get away with using code five, whereas code seven should (but
doesn't always) release all locks.

> Why can't they
> just give the single one that works ?

For the reasons above.

> Surely no-one's going to be interested
> in "unrestricting their phone just a little bit" : they're going to
> want to unrestrict all the locks, surely ?

Yes, but you can't always use code seven as it will fail on some handsets
depending on which locks have been set by the operator.

> Seems to me someone ought to produce unlocking software, which tells you
> how to use unlocking software.

Now there you have a good point.

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