Woot, a new Cell phone!

[swestrup]

I haven't been able to afford a new cell phone, but my old one has been becoming increasingly unreliable of late. A few weeks ago, a friend gave me their old phone because they had upgraded to a newer model. Its been sitting in a box ever since (except for a bit of experimentation) because it was locked to Rogers and even though Fido is now owned by Rogers, my Fido sim card doesn't work in the new phone.

Today I sat down and figured how to unlock the phone so that it would accept my sim card. Its a sad comment that it took me longer to figure out how to turn the phone on than to unlock it once I had it running.

Anyway, I now have a newish phone that shouldn't die once I've been out of the house for a few hours!

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[http://users.livejournal.com/hub_/]

so what is the secret ?

[swestrup]

It depends on the make and model of the phone. For mine, you have to compute a passnumber based on the serial number and the provider number the phone was locked to. Enter #pw++7# and the phone is unlocked. There are online calculators that calculate the passnumber for you.

[http://users.livejournal.com/hub_/]

where can we find these calculators ?

etc.

Don't tell half of the secret...

[swestrup]

Like I said, it depends on the make and model of the phone! What make and model do you want to unlock?

Without knowing that, all I can say is: Use Google!

[http://users.livejournal.com/hub_/]

like what I said, you are just sharing half of the secret. I know it depends of the model. But why not sharing what you have.

And google has been helpless so far....

[swestrup]

I didn't bother to keep any of the URLs for what I found. Here: I'll do another google.

Okay, here is one of the sites I went to before: http://www.unlockme.co.uk/dct4free.html

[thebabynancy.livejournal.com]

>ON< button?

>POWER< button?

non?

*giggles*


Glad for the new-to-you phone!


:) Nancy

[thebabynancy.livejournal.com]

or did you just do a little dance for the telephone to turn it *airquote* ON?

*wink*

[gregorama.livejournal.com]

and to be justly rewarded by the vibrate feature!

[swestrup]

I am still attempting to determine if it has a vibrate feature! I may be forced to RTFM.

[gregorama.livejournal.com]

Manual bad.

Pressing every button until you find the feature good.

Think how much you'll learn!

[swestrup]

There is no button labelled 'ON' or 'Power' or anything useful at all. The ON button turns out to be an anonymous rubber bump in the middle of the IR plate on top of the phone. If you push that bump, nothing happens, BUT if you push it really hard, nothing happens *BUT* if you push it really hard and hold it down for 5 seconds THEN the power comes on.

WTF? I mean WHAT THE FUCKING FUCK????