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[theevaluator]

some guy in glasgow has one unlocked for sale on ebay, at least he claims its unlocked.  i sent him an email with some questions regarding what that means precisely.  the auction looks legit, hes got real feedback, so i guess we'll see what he says.

[pierre]

Anyone tried SPVUnlock2 ?

[gazza1000]

Yes powered up the phone holding camera button to get the red/blue/green screen.

Terminated activesync

Ran SPVUNLOCK2.EXE throws up a error " Verify the phone is in bootloader mode"

And thats it.

Can anyone help

[mcwarre]

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If I'm not mistaken, you're not allowed to downgrade your price plan for 3 or 6 months if you've bought your phone from an Orange shop.

Only if a new contract (and it is 6 months for new contracts). On an upgrade do what you like

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That means in month 11 you can get a SIM Unlock c500 for circa £34 (free upgrade, £20 unlock code and one month's lowest charge of £13.99).  

When you upgrade (month 10, 11 or later) you agree to a new 12 month contract so this wouldn't work.  Elsewise people would upgrade their phone and walk :roll: :roll:

[Pinga]

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This is a reply from www.imei-check.co.uk when I asked them about unlocking the C500


     "We don't have a c500 yet, we order few of them and as soon we receive
     them, will start to work at the solution."

And God bless them!  :wink:

[kiza]

today i received this email

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Just now we working on a solution for it and as soon we finish it will let u know.
Best regards,
The Imei-Check Team

[shadamehr]

The sooner Florin or the imei-check team crack this, the sooner I can get a C500.

Have I said that before?

;-)

[vodaman]

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Yes powered up the phone holding camera button to get the red/blue/green screen.
 
Terminated activesync

Ran SPVUNLOCK2.EXE throws up a error " Verify the phone is in bootloader mode"

And thats it.

Can anyone help

Is this the procedure to unlock a C500??? Can you explain more how does it work. I will need it for unlocking mine! Please!!

[Thumper Net]

iam trying something else as i bought a c500 without a contract so the full price should be interesting if i get the unlock code :wink:  :wink: UPDATE well it is now a simfree c500  i got the code within 2 minutes on the line to orange nl good luck guys       

[kiza]

how did you get the code?

[plantagoo]

Hi!

I rang up Orange NL today to ask if it's really possible to get the phone unlocked if bought without a contract (so paid full price of 429 EUR)?

The customer service told me that it is *not* possible - they don't have the codes. In fact they told me to look after some internet-pages where they unlock phones...  :shock:

*confused*

Greetings
plant

[kiza]

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Hi!

I rang up Orange NL today to ask if it's really possible to get the phone unlocked if bought without a contract (so paid full price of 429 EUR)?

The customer service told me that it is *not* possible - they don't have the codes. In fact they told me to look after some internet-pages where they unlock phones...  :shock: 

*confused*

Greetings
plant

i get the same answer.

[Erhnam]

Same answer here.. I called customer services and they told me that it is possible to get an unlock code for 100 euro's. I sold my spv e200 and went to the shop and the shop manager told me that it is not possible to get an unlock key (shop in Haarlem)... Really strange!!! And now i don't have a phone!!!

[Newchurch]

I ´ve got the same answer in Maastricht, they told me that it is not allowed to sell the C500 without any contract ?!?!

@peekie:
please tell us how you´ve done this ???

Greetings,
Peter

*confused like plant*

[Thumper Net]

i got my code from calling orange nl.
i told them i had purchased the phone for full price 435 euros to replace my old spv ( i have a contract on another phone ) and told him that i needed to use my orange uk card in the phone . he disappeared from the line for a minute to check if he could give the code
he took my telephone number and the imei number and directly gave me the 8 number code .i would if you live in holland phone again and for the i don't believe it group look at the picture it has o2- nl on my screen the simcard is an old o2nl simcard, try again .i bought the phone from the zoetermeer shop plus the shop in rdam will also sell it loose as well :wink:  :wink:  :wink:

[Erhnam]

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i got my code from calling orange nl.
i told them i had purchased the phone for full price 435 euros to replace my old spv ( i have a contract on another phone ) and told him that i needed to use my orange uk card in the phone . he disappeared from the line for a minute to check if he could give the code
he took my telephone number and the imei number and directly gave me the 8 number code .i would if you live in holland phone again and for the i don't believe it group look at the picture it has o2- nl on my screen the simcard is an old o2nl simcard, try again .i bought the phone from the zoetermeer shop plus the shop in rdam will also sell it loose as well :wink:  :wink:  :wink:

Okee thanks for your post but a few misunderstandings for me.

What do you mean with: "i have a contract on another phone"? That you have a contract with another telephone company in Holland (o2-nl)?

"needed to use my orange uk card" Do you mean with that, that it is not possible to use a SIM from the UK in a locked c500 phone?

And "he took my telephone number and the imei number" Which number did you give? The phone number from the other company (O2-NL)? Because I don't have a contract with Orange right now and I prefer not to have! So do you think it will work by giving the phonenumber from Vodafone?

[Thumper Net]

i have a orange nl contract on the e200 but i wanted a c500 .the o2 nl is to show that its simlock free . i bought the phone and being a customer i got the code for free. if you are not a customer then it will cost you .the c500 will work on any uk network if the phone is network free ( simlockfree ) i gave only my telephone number (orange nl ) to prove i was a customer with orange and then he asked for the imei number , and then he gave me the code to unlock it,the o2 was only used to show it was done :wink:  :wink:  :wink:

[Erhnam]

Do you think it will work with a Orange pre-paid crad ?

[Thumper Net]

dont know you can try     but if its unlocked it will work with any card  :wink:  :wink:  :wink:

[plantagoo]

@peekie: Where did you enter the 8digit code you got from the hotline?

Greetings
plant