How to remove the SPV E100 SIM LOCK... PERMANENTLY!

[Guest n4src]

:) Hi there i have try it with a sim from Greece nad still works!! :twisted:

[Guest westy1507]

Hello all

I'm having a spot of bother unlocking the phone using the SPVunlock prog.

I've done evrything as per instructions from coolsmartphone.com, but it just stays on 0% no matter how long i wait!

If it helps, i've de-certified the phone and updated using the french update.

I'm running Windows ME.

Any help chaps, greatly appreciated

Westy

[Guest jcinfo]

For Win98 & Windows ME users, try to remove activesync , reboot.

Now you can use the program for unlock your phone.

After , re-install activsync.

[Guest Kelso]

Hi!

This is my first time to post... I am from the Philippines.

This coming weekend I will be getting my Tanager and

just like your case it will also be simlocked.

Do you have an idea if this unlocking procedure will

work on the Tanager?

Thanks!

[Guest awarner [MVP]]

Welcome to the site :)

Firstly It should work as the rom and os etc are basically the same.

No one has really played with the tanager yet as

the lucky few who have them were inlocked already.

Have fun and let us know how you get on.

[Guest bensy]

How to remove the SIM LOCK... PERMANENTLY!

Go to :

http://www.smartphone.fr.fm/delock.htm

Thanks to the author who want to stay anonymous !

ENJOY IT

I have a tanager phone (Smart Amazing Phone) with bootloader 0.98, but the SPVunlock did not gave the Authorization code (0% all the time)

I tried terminating wescomm, also tried disabling it using startup manager

but still get the same result (0%)

I am running win98SE

I hope that the author of SPVUnlock (or someonelse) can help me, and the others who have the same problem--- perhaps a few tricks or a version of SPVunlock for win 98?... whatever, please help us

thanks....

[Guest Syvwlch]

Have you tried rebooting the PC?

There have been reports of these USB progrAms needing or reboot after a failure ...

[Guest pete1312]

I personally gave up trying to do SIM Unlock using Win ME several weeks ago. I was getting nowhere. (Win 98 / 98SE are similarly causing problems).

It may not be the answer you want to read, but I've recently upgraded both my PC's to XP Pro, and I then unlocked very easily following the original instructions.

Having said that, I originally had no real desire to to unlock my SPV. I have an Orange SIM as supplied with the phone, and I'm happy with it. I may nevertheless possibly wish to buy/borrow a foreign SIM to use temporarily in the future, to save Roaming costs whilst abroad. I've never previously had a locked phone, and did not wish to become forever tied to Orange.

I "invested" in Win XP Pro anyway, simply because I soon realised from reading most of the threads on this whole site that my own OS was fast becoming obsolete. (Orange UK Update being just one example)!

I'm now (relatively) happy with my SPV, though admittedly a little poorer.

[Guest son_of_thunder]

excuse my ignorance as im a newbie but in order to do this do i need a orange sim in the phone to unlock it as i have purchased the phone with no sim card to start with and I would like to use my o2 sim but it is about 2 or 3 years old will this sim work? If not wheres the best place to get an up to date one?

[Guest Chris b.a.r.f.]

OK, it's getting late and this might just be me being dense: You purchased it with no SIM card yet it's still locked to Orange? How come? I thought Orange only sold SIM-free SPV's without cards - in which case you wouldn't need to unlock it anyway.

[Guest son_of_thunder]

Well I bought the phone from a guy that was using an orange sim and its still locked to orange

[Guest mcwarre]

Son_of_Thunder

Got it sorted out yet?

[Guest Kelso]

guys, pardon me for my ignorance... just got my tanager 3 days ago.

i am in the process of unlocking my phone but i do not know how to restart my phone in bootloader mode. please give me a walk through on this subject. thanks a lot.

[Guest laxxe]

Hi!

I get this error when trying to unlock a Orange SPV. I've unlocked alot, only this one makes trouble:

Retrieving SPV Unlock Code : 66 %- Invalid code - Aborting

It has bootloader 0.95

Any ideas?

[Guest awarner [MVP]]

Laxxe please try not to cross post as you had already started a topic in main

[Guest laxxe]

Well, as you see in my first thread, a guy says I should look in this thread - since other people have had this problem...

[Guest awarner [MVP]]

What I forgot to add was please could you give a link to your original post if you do crosspost,

I have done it for you in my last post. This is a better place for the topic.

Sorry for not making myself clearer :oops:

[Guest Chris b.a.r.f.]

It has bootloader 0.95 

Any ideas?

Bootloader 0.95 has been known to give problems whilst unlocking. You need to up/downgrade (i.e. 0.91, 0.93 or 0.98 ) it in order to sort it.

[Guest mpak]

Hi

I just bought a locked SPV from UK, but somebody told me that i must be into home network(orange-UK)to unlock it via the instructions that

http://www.smartphone.fr.fm/delock.htm is giving.

Now im waiting to deliver it, u think i got to send it back to uk again?

thanks

thanasis

[Guest Firaas]

Hi

I just bought a locked SPV from UK, but somebody told me that i must be into home network(orange-UK)to unlock it via the instructions that 

http://www.smartphone.fr.fm/delock.htm is giving. 

Now im waiting to deliver it, u think i got to send it back to uk again? 

thanks 

thanasis

You don't need to boot it into the main bit to get to simunlock, so you don't need it to be on the home network.

[Guest ejoya]

hi... guys.. if i unlock my phone.. can i relock it? if yes how? i want to relock my phone for warranty purposes.. thanks

[Guest Will]

not as far as I am aware, the simlock cannot be reversed :?

Will

[Guest ejoya]

oh well ;) ... how about the decertify thing? can i recertify it? thanks

[Guest Will]

You can remove the decertify, if you did it the 'file edit and copy' way:

simply perform a hard reset, see the thread in here for a walkthrough.

Otherwise you can revisit the OTA orange site, and select 'lock'

Will

[Guest ejoya]

thanks... i hope someone can create a software to relock the phone again.. coz here.. the warranty will be void if it is unlock..