Unlock t-mobile iPhone-5

Those instructions are lacking important information. When your device is connected to iTunes, you need to click Restore. Follow the on screen instructions, and when it is done, load your data back using the backup you made in Step 1.

Restore iPhone restores to factory settings, Restore Backup restores from the backup you made. I'm not sure, but I believe you must first restore to factory settings to complete the unlock. It certainly can't hurt, since you can still choose to restore from a backup later.

You're quite welcome.

I backup and restore to factory settings and it stilled not worked. Help please!!!

By whom was this phone unlocked?

T-Mobile

How long ago was it unlocked?

Actually, I just received an email that I can unlocking my phone today. I follow all instructions but didnt get the “Congratulation, your iphone has been unlocked” message.

I would give it a little more time for them to register your phone in their database. Try again tomorrow or the day after.

Can some one give me the complete steps please i got the email but i am confuse now and i dont want to make a backup because i have nothing important in my iphone 5.

Thanks in advance

One step that is often omitted from the instructions is that the iPhone needs a Device Firmware Update, otherwise known as DFU.

Read each of the steps before initiating the DFU.

!. Connect the iPhone to any computer running a fully updated version of iTunes.

2. Press and hold both "home" and "sleep/wake" buttons

3. After eight seconds let go of only the sleep/wake button.

4. Keep holding the home button until you see a popup mesage in iTunes.

5. Read all all the popups, then use iTunes to update the iPhone's software.

If the popup fails to show, repeat steps 2 through 4

Okay i was going through this and i finally found an answer 😀

I found myself backing up, restoring and then restoring from backups so many times back to back

for like 3 days trying to get that "Your device has been unlocked" message! Lol, sounds funny but

i know the fustration here.

The thing is that i was doing the whole process with the sim card that the phone was originally

locked to inside the phone! So what i did was, i took another nano-cut sim-card (from another company , of course!) i had laying around the house and popped it in while the phone was restoring. As soon as the iphone was finished and detected the sim card it automatically said "Your device has been unlocked" 😮 😀

But i was thinking..... maybe you dont even have to go through all that, Maybe you could just try by turning off your phone, pop out your original sim-card, put a random nano sim-card in there (I REPEAT, IT HAS RO BE FROM ANOTHER COMPANY OTHER THAN THE PHONE WAS LOCKED TO), then try and turn on your iPhone.

If that doesnt work, then you will have to do the restore process....

Dont take out the second sim card you put in there if you tried the last step, just proceed to restore.

I hope this helps anyone ! Cheers !😎

How do you actually request an unlocking code from t mobile?