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iPhone 5 bought in USA does not send messages in the Indian Network

hi there

i have brough my iphone 5 in USA,and i am now in India.

All features on my phone are wroking fine, except sending sms.

Due to this features i cant activate imessaging and cant use a bunch of mobile banking applications as they need to send an sms on start up.

When i check with Apple Bangalore (India) they told me that my phone is locked :-(

i paid the full price for the phone 681.45 USD!!!!

can someone help me figure out how i can unlock my phone and get this sms feature to work please!!!!

iPhone 5, iOS 6

Posted on Oct 20, 2012 8:25 AM

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Ethmoid

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Oct 21, 2012 1:59 AM in response to Avi India

Well that is very good to hear, because if you do, at least you will have half a chance of buying an iPhone in the actual country that you want the phone to work in, rather than buying a phone at exorbitant cost from another country that will not fully work, as is the case now.

Oct 21, 2012 12:26 PM in response to Ethmoid

tomorrows news: you are buying a costly product like a car:

make sure you read in detail google, nokia and tomtom maps to make sure which car is designed for which roads... after all its your choice to buy or not buy a car.different roads are made of different materials so how do you expect a GM to definitely run on california roads. they only guarantee it can start on those roads, not actually run 🙂

whereas ford runs on california street, but not freeways. you see freeways are a completely different ballgame and the car has to be designed for that road specifically. too bad you didn't contact engineering teams at ford before you bought your car. !

Oct 21, 2012 1:58 PM in response to Avi India

I fond this try it

I had the same problem but was able to find a temporary workaround until Apple/Sprint releases some kind of fix. It's not perfect, but it gets me by for now. worked for me, but I don't know if it'll work for every locale:

I am outside the US and trying to use a GSM SIM card in a Sprint iPhone5 but could not send SMS messages (only receive)

Try this:

1. Go to Settings / Messages

2. Make sure "Show Subject Field" is on

3. Try sending a message but type your message in the subject heading instead of the main box. The key is that the subject line has to have something in it, even a " " blank space will do

I tried sending it this way to other iphones and smart phones and both the subject and body of the SMS would go through, but to older cell phones only the subject heading goes through, and only the first 39 characters.

Hopefully Apple/Sprint will come up with an actual fix, but I'm hoping this is of help to some people out there

Avi India Author

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Oct 22, 2012 3:13 AM in response to Alyahmadi

omg!!!!! you are a genius...it actually worked...i can’t believe it.....how did you figure this out and what is the logic...you are probably the only person who has managed to give any sort of advise which has actually made any sense.....while everyone was giving their wise comments opinions and views, which was of little use, your suggestion seems to the best solution as of now and seems to work...i tried sending the sms to an android phone and i tried sending the sms to a blackberry phone, while both sms's seem to go through, the android phone is the only phone that actually received the message.

my friend you are a genius and i am indeed grateful to you for your suggestion as this definitely seems like a work around.

THANK YOU SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO MUCH!!!

Avi India Author

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Oct 30, 2012 4:24 AM in response to Avi India

to all the critics who mostly spoke bull **** and offered little help to solve the problem, heres some NEWS FOR YOU GUYS...

APPLE FINALLY HELPED AND RESOLVED MY PROBLEM...i escalated the problem to them and inspite all your "encouraging" words, heres a slap in your face, apple has solved my issue, i can finally send messages from my iphone :-)

so to all you guys who are facing this issue, dont bother about anything what anyone says, have faith, your problem will be solved coz eventually apple does care!

dont loose faith guys......apple will resolve your issues as well! APPLE DOES CARE!!!!

all the best to you guys.