Problems unlocking my orange spv

[Guest dononemaccaboy]

ive looked on varius web site and found a programme to unlock my spv to all networks. i got to the stage where itsays enter your code, so i did and after 5 minutes it said my phone was unlocked so i put a vodaphone sim card in and it says no service the phone can read the numbers off the sim card which before it couldnt does this mean the phone is blocked by orange

[Guest Vector]

does that sim card give a signal in any other phone?

can you get a reception in the phone with another sim in it?

:D

[Guest dononemaccaboy]

yes i use the vodaphone sim in my nokia. i can look throught the menu and stuff but make no calls i havent tried any other sims

[Guest Vector]

where did you buy the phone from? ebay?

[Guest dononemaccaboy]

yep off e bay i know i could of bought somat dodgy but i thought ill give it a try

[Guest Vector]

Best bet is to ring orange to see if the handset is blocked:)

[Guest dononemaccaboy]

do you think it could be then ...have you herd of this problem before thanks for your help

[Guest Vector]

another thing to check is if you have the radio off...

Tap power button...If there is an option saying "airplane mode off", select it, if it says "airplane mode on", then that isn't your problem :D

[Guest slider]

There's a very good chance that the h/s is registered on the service providers blacklist, orange, voda, T-Mob and O2 all have them. Problem is they may refuse to talk to you if it is. If the h/s was originally reported stolen or lost it's almost certainly on one of them and since these list register by IMEI num, you'll have probs no matter what sim you put in it... Trust me i know this from first hand experience... :-)

[Guest dononemaccaboy]

thank you i phoned orange last night and they said that the phone is deffinatley not black listed and i managed to get hold of a orange PAYG sim and the phone worked so i think its back to google to look for the answer.

just one more question how do you get the camera going.(and i dont mean how to plug it in )

cheers

[Guest Vector]

there should be some software on the phone?

not sure what it's called since i haven't used an spv/e100 for a while :D

[Guest martin]

Go to Settings-telephony-Networks and make sure that Network selection is set to Automatic. You could also try Menu-Select Network to confirm which are networks are found and select them manually.

[Guest dononemaccaboy]

martin i could give you a kiss i selected the network manualy to voda and it works now i just need to now how to get music and other stuff on there

[Guest Vector]

Have you got an SD Card?, If you haven't, i advise you to get one... cheap places are http://www.ebuyer.co.uk and check ebay :D

If you have one, connect your phone to the PC, Sync it up using activesync, click "Explore" and then click "My Smartphone", then drag and drop the files into the Storage Card folder, or any other folder, but it's best to keep phone memory free and put music and large files on the SD Card ;)

[Guest dononemaccaboy]

cool how do i then access my documents on the phone i cant find anything

also do you know how to apply the camera do i need a driver

ive got the soft texter keyboard again i cant work that do i need drivers

[Guest Vector]

check Orange update for keyboard drivers ;)

and to access My Documents, do the same as with transferring music, but go to IPSMMy Documents instead of Storage Card :D

[Guest slider]

To get access to the camera, you need to use the picture manager, if the camera is plugged in and working then you'll see a 'New picture from camera' or somthing similar entry, as for music, i recomend using win lame/razor lame for win32, loading in the 'Phone settings profile' then encoding directly from 44.100Khz/Stereo/16 Bit CD Rips, you'll get an entire album on the 8Mb SD card that you get with the h/s. Create a folder on the Storage card called 'My Documents' then drop the encoded tunes in here. Fire up Media Player and bob's your uncle.

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