i am in south africa, my phone is locked to orange network in the uk. how do i unlock it?
iPhone 4S, iOS 5.1.1
You should have asked about unlocking before purchase.
Bought an ipad, and then the iphone. but will this will defenitly be my last apple product. I would rather buy another product like Samsung who do not try to control their customers by forcing you to register with the manafacturer and then you must contact your service provider to deregister before you can sell YOUR property! Don't see this as sour grapes, i have spoken to a lot of apple owners and they all came to the same conclusion: Apple wants to control, and that is how they have seen their backsides years ago, looks like they are on the same path again! Or are there only a few of us who sees that?
Hogwash.
Idle threats are for losers. Anyone serious about such a threat would just do it. Why wait, sell both now. Be sure to purchase antivirus for that swiss cheese for security mobile OS that is Android.
This is no different with ANY carrier locked phone. With every carrier locked phone, only the carrier can unlock it, not the manufacturer.
This has EVERYTHING to do with Orange in the UK with this iPhone since the iPhone was sold as carrier locked with Orange in the UK. Apple also sells the iPhone as officially unlocked and can't unlock an iPhone that was sold as carrier locked without the carrier requesting it.
The control in this case is with Orange in the UK and the same with any carrier an iPhone or any cell phone is sold as carrier locked with.
You don't have to connect an iPhone to iTunes, either. If you put a SIM in and it "just works," then you have an unlocked phone. You chose not to buy an unlocked iPhone. You can just as easily choose not to buy an unlocked Samsung phone.
"I just put in my sim and it works?"
Unless the cell phone is locked to another network, regardless of which brand it is, then you will have to unlock through the original provider.
Very few iPads are locked, only those that were sold with a subsidy through a cell phone provider.
Don't need to do this with an iPhone or iPad running iOS 5 or later either.
When you purchase a carrier locked phone, it must be registered and activated with the carrier.
Sell both now. Don't walk, run. You will be able to sell both much faster and for more $ than some swiss cheese for security Android device.
I bought the iPhone, making sure the seller was the legal owner of the phone, the contact was presented to me! I also bought an iPad brand new, before i could use it, it showed a picture of a USB cable on the screen and I could not do anything with it. I had to download iTunes, install it and connect the iPad to the computer before I could use it. Is it wrong of me to think that Apple try to control me or my iPad? If I decide to sell my cellphone, I can go to my service provider, they can unlock it themselves and I can sell it. I may be wrong, but it looks like with Apple products, I need to contact my service provider who then have to contact Apple to have the phone unlock? And I also have to pay to have it done. And by the way in the past 15 years I never had a phone which was locked to any network, and they all were and is contract phones. I do understand that there are Apple supporters who do not want to hear any negative comments about Apple. At the moment I do have a Swiss cheesecake, called Android, (not a Smasung but a Motorola), I do not have any problems with it, but i do have a minature iPad with a sim card slot which cannot make any calls! 🙂
Yes, the seller was the previous owner of the iPhone but he bought a subsidized model that was locked to his provider and he never bothered to get it unlocked. I have a friend with an Android phone he is trying to sell. He bought it subsidized and has not unlocked it. If you buy it and put your SIM in it you will get the same result. Has nothing to do with Apple, has everything to do with your seller and the cell provider he bought his iPhone through.
And yes, you are wrong.
I also bought an iPad brand new, before i could use it, it showed a picture of a USB cable on the screen and I could not do anything with it. I had to download iTunes, install it and connect the iPad to the computer before I could use it.
This was prior to iOS 5. This means the iPad you purchased had iOS 4 installed. Prior to iOS 5, this was required. Not anymore with iOS 5 or later.
Just because you have never had a cell phone that was locked with any network does not mean there are no cell phones sold as carrier locked.
If there is a charge to unlock an iPhone or ANY cell phone sold as carrier locked, that is up to the carrier, not Apple. AT&T in the US does not charge to unlock an iPhone.
The process is the carrier contacts Apple requesting the unlock for a carrier locked iPhone which is entirely up to the carrier. Your complaint is with Orange. It is up to the carrier an iPhone was sold as carrier locked with to unlock the iPhone and to charge or not charge for the unlock.
You won't know you have a security problem with that swiss cheese for security garbage that is Android until after your personal info on the device is compromised. By then, it will be too late.
You are nothing but a troll. Exercise your idle threat and sell both now. No reason to wait.
Only the carrier an iPhone was sold as carrier locked with can officially unlock the iPhone. In this case, that would be Orange in the UK. You need to contact Orange in the UK.
Contact Orange in the UK. Only the carrier the phone is locked to can authorize unlocking.
i want to use another sim in south africa!
The only way you can do that is if Orange (UK) unlocks the phone.
i bought the phone from the original owner. orange will notunlock it.
Return it and get your money back.
Purchase an officially unlocked iPhone instead.
i am in south africa, my phone is locked to orange network in the uk. how do i unlock it?
