how cani tell if its been unlocked from three network, previous owner upgraded and sold methis and i paid for 3 to unlock but its been 10 days n omly takes 3sim

i dont know three network logged into my pc and sync iphone, transfer purchase and back up and restore, it came along top of itunes extracting somat and restore 72minutes, he then took my number as i was on my sons 3 phone, he rang my number back and said it had disconnected, he then moved arrows about my screen and got to same place again,he stayedonphone till last 10 mins or so assuming it was gonna do what he was doing and last minute or so disconnected again and said unable to complete download due to an internal error... ...it was rather late by then and id also been sick of the sight of the same thing again n again, but the guy on the phone said something about going to an apple store to do it if it failed again ...

I've had enough trying to understand your stream of consciousness writing. James Joyce I can deal with, but not this.

If you don't know what the error is no one can help you. But that is the first problem you must solve. Nothing else will work until that error is resolved.

what is actually wrong with what im writing, is it coming up on your screen in double dutch or something because it reads well to me

You don't use any proper sentence structure. You have one long run on sentence. You didn't use any periods to mark the end of a sentence nor capitalize the start of a sentence. Several words do not have a space between them. That's what makes your posts difficult to read.

i explained the spacebar was not working in an earlier reply and deggie keith doherty3 aswell as lawrence finch still managed to read my question inspite of the spacebar problem, if lawrence does not want to help then he doesnt have to, i dont feel there is any need for his rudeness, i merely asked a question rudeness was not part of the answer required...ill continue trying the unlock process anyway im sure ill do it someday

Leachstar - English may not be your first language however please refer to my earlier post: -

repeated here - with stress modified to refer to the registered user

If you have purchased the iPhone from someone else and you intend to use it on a differing network the ORIGINAL OWNER MUST DO THE UNLOCK as the phone iMEi number is tied to that account and network.

The system is the registered user contacts their Mobile operator confirms iMEI number and pays appropriate fee.

That Mobile operator submits the iMEi number to Apple.

Apple white list iMEi number on their iTunes server and confirms this back to Mobile operator.

The Mobile operator sends the registered user an sms/e-mail inviting them to sync phone via USB cable to their ITunes account.

Registered user follows on screen prompts (With registered sim onboard) until they see the “Congrat's .........” message

The registered sim can now be removed and replaced it with a sim from another supported network.

Caveat with some of the Virtual networks such as Giff-gaff /Virgin/Lebara/ BT/ Tesco etc........ you may have difficulty getting SMS/MMS to send due to the APN settings being wrong (They default to the actual network sighted).

Some of those Sims may give you access to a hidden menu feature that allows you to set the correct APN manually however others don't.

Those that don't may mean you only receive SMS/MMS messages.

hi guys just thought id get back to you and let you know 12 weeks and much stress later the phone is still not unlocked, i managed to update it with my friends wireless network so its usable but still on three pay network, the previous owner requested unlock and after all this time i have now been informed they unlocked the previous owners iphone 5, so whichever way i tried to sync with itunes it was never going to work but hopefully now we have finally had some explanation i might be able to finally unlock my iphone 4... thanks for your help all the same

hi, is she still logged into 'find my iphone'? dont think you can unlock an iphone whilst someone else is logged in to 'find my iphone' _ its a security issue... or otherwise everyone would be stealing iphones and then simply unlocking them... 🙂