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There are now "unlock" apps on the app store (in addition to unlock emails)

From	Horace Algier <horatio@horatio.net>
Newsgroups	misc.phone.mobile.iphone, comp.mobile.android, alt.cellular
Subject	There are now "unlock" apps on the app store (in addition to unlock emails)
Date	2016-09-14 08:07 +0000
Organization	Aioe.org NNTP Server
Message-ID	<nrb0f0$129i$1@gioia.aioe.org> (permalink)

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This is just FYI as I just got off the phone with USA T-Mobile because they
lied (four times) telling me that they lock *all* their phones when there
is a balance due on the phone (which just isn't true).

However, if your phone from T-Mobile is carrier locked, and if 40 days have
passed (even if you owe money for the phone) but your service is paid up
and not past due and your account isn't suspended, then T-Mobile *will*
unlock your phone.

There are TWO ways to T-mobile suggests you unlock your phone:
1. Ask them to email you an unlock code email (which you knew about)
2. Use the App Store unlock app (which is news to me as of today)

HERE IS THE IOS UNLOCK APP:
https://support.t-mobile.com/docs/DOC-14011

HERE IS THE ANDROID UNLOCK APP:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tmobile.simlock&hl=en

This unlock topic came up when I asked T-Mobile (multiple times) if the new
"free" iPhone6-to-iPhone7 trade in will be locked, to which they said
(i.e., they lied) that "all T-mobile phones are carrier locked if you owe
money on the phone".

I knew that wasn't true, but they insisted it was true, so I told them to
just send me the unlock code for the Nexus 5 that I financed from them for
two years, and this came back during the phone call, proving the Nexus 5
device was unlocked from the start (even though I owed money on it for two
years):
http://i.cubeupload.com/HpZFzy.jpg

My main point of this message is just informative:

a. Not all phones (even from the carrier & even if you owe money on them)
are locked from the outset.

b. If they are locked, T-Mobile will unlock them after 40 days, even if you
owe money on them (as long as your *service* contract is paid up at the
time).

There are two ways to unlock that phone at the 40-day mark:
1. The old way (with the email)
2. The new way (with the app)

HERE IS THE IOS UNLOCK APP:
https://support.t-mobile.com/docs/DOC-14011

HERE IS THE ANDROID UNLOCK APP:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tmobile.simlock&hl=en

This is fyi.

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There are now "unlock" apps on the app store (in addition to unlock emails) Horace Algier <horatio@horatio.net> - 2016-09-14 08:07 +0000
  Re: There are now "unlock" apps on the app store (in addition to unlock emails) nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2016-09-14 05:59 -0400
    Re: There are now "unlock" apps on the app store (in addition to unlock emails) Elfin <elfinarc6@gmail.com> - 2016-09-14 07:58 -0500
      Re: There are now "unlock" apps on the app store (in addition to unlock emails) Horace Algier <horatio@horatio.net> - 2016-09-14 18:40 +0000
    Re: There are now "unlock" apps on the app store (in addition to unlock emails) "Anthony R. Gold" <not-for-mail@ahjg.co.uk> - 2016-09-14 18:58 +0100
      Re: There are now "unlock" apps on the app store (in addition to unlock emails) nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2016-09-14 14:10 -0400
      Re: There are now "unlock" apps on the app store (in addition to unlock emails) Horace Algier <horatio@horatio.net> - 2016-09-14 19:53 +0000
        Re: There are now "unlock" apps on the app store (in addition to unlock emails) nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2016-09-14 15:59 -0400
      Re: There are now "unlock" apps on the app store (in addition to unlock emails) Horace Algier <horatio@horatio.net> - 2016-09-16 18:11 +0000
        Re: There are now "unlock" apps on the app store (in addition to unlock emails) nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2016-09-16 14:46 -0400
          Re: There are now "unlock" apps on the app store (in addition to unlock emails) Horace Algier <horatio@horatio.net> - 2016-09-16 19:30 +0000
            Re: There are now "unlock" apps on the app store (in addition to unlock emails) Elfin <elfinarc6@gmail.com> - 2016-09-16 14:39 -0500
              Re: There are now "unlock" apps on the app store (in addition to unlock emails) Horace Algier <horatio@horatio.net> - 2016-09-17 03:13 +0000
                Re: There are now "unlock" apps on the app store (in addition to unlock emails) nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2016-09-16 23:19 -0400
                Re: There are now "unlock" apps on the app store (in addition to unlock emails) Horace Algier <horatio@horatio.net> - 2016-09-17 03:57 +0000
            Re: There are now "unlock" apps on the app store (in addition to unlock emails) nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2016-09-16 15:40 -0400
              Re: There are now "unlock" apps on the app store (in addition to unlock emails) Horace Algier <horatio@horatio.net> - 2016-09-17 03:10 +0000
                Re: There are now "unlock" apps on the app store (in addition to unlock emails) nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2016-09-16 23:19 -0400
                Re: There are now "unlock" apps on the app store (in addition to unlock emails) Horace Algier <horatio@horatio.net> - 2016-09-17 03:57 +0000
                Re: There are now "unlock" apps on the app store (in addition to unlock emails) nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2016-09-17 00:06 -0400
                Re: There are now "unlock" apps on the app store (in addition to unlock emails) PAS <abc@doremi.net> - 2016-09-20 11:42 -0400
                Re: There are now "unlock" apps on the app store (in addition to unlock emails) Horace Algier <horatio@horatio.net> - 2016-09-20 17:02 +0000
                Re: There are now "unlock" apps on the app store (in addition to unlock emails) nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2016-09-20 13:32 -0400
                Re: There are now "unlock" apps on the app store (in addition to unlock emails) Horace Algier <horatio@horatio.net> - 2016-09-21 05:02 +0000
                Re: There are now "unlock" apps on the app store (in addition to unlock emails) "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2016-09-21 17:09 +1000
                Re: There are now "unlock" apps on the app store (in addition to unlock emails) PAS <abc@doremi.net> - 2016-09-20 14:06 -0400
                Re: There are now "unlock" apps on the app store (in addition to   unlock emails) Elfin <elfinarc6@gmail.com> - 2016-09-20 13:57 -0500
                Re: There are now "unlock" apps on the app store (in addition to unlock emails) Horace Algier <horatio@horatio.net> - 2016-09-21 05:02 +0000
                Re: There are now "unlock" apps on the app store (in addition to unlock emails) "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2016-09-21 17:03 +1000
                Re: There are now "unlock" apps on the app store (in addition to unlock emails) "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2016-09-21 04:19 +1000
                Re: There are now "unlock" apps on the app store (in addition to unlock emails) "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2016-09-17 16:57 +1000
            Re: There are now "unlock" apps on the app store (in addition to unlock emails) "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2016-09-17 10:11 +1000
              Re: There are now "unlock" apps on the app store (in addition to unlock emails) Horace Algier <horatio@horatio.net> - 2016-09-17 03:10 +0000
                Re: There are now "unlock" apps on the app store (in addition to unlock emails) "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2016-09-17 15:27 +1000
              Re: There are now "unlock" apps on the app store (in addition to unlock emails) Travis Bickle <3S96@taxi.net> - 2016-09-17 10:09 -0400
                Re: There are now "unlock" apps on the app store (in addition to unlock emails) "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2016-09-18 05:05 +1000
                Re: There are now "unlock" apps on the app store (in addition to unlock emails) Horace Algier <horatio@horatio.net> - 2016-09-17 22:35 +0000
                Re: There are now "unlock" apps on the app store (in addition to unlock emails) nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2016-09-17 18:42 -0400
                Re: There are now "unlock" apps on the app store (in addition to unlock emails) Horace Algier <horatio@horatio.net> - 2016-09-18 02:06 +0000
                Re: There are now "unlock" apps on the app store (in addition to unlock emails) "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2016-09-18 11:32 +1000
                Re: There are now "unlock" apps on the app store (in addition to unlock emails) Horace Algier <horatio@horatio.net> - 2016-09-18 02:06 +0000
                Re: There are now "unlock" apps on the app store (in addition to unlock emails) "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2016-09-18 15:25 +1000
                Re: There are now "unlock" apps on the app store (in addition to unlock emails) Horace Algier <horatio@horatio.net> - 2016-09-18 07:11 +0000
                Re: There are now "unlock" apps on the app store (in addition to unlock emails) Horace Algier <horatio@horatio.net> - 2016-09-18 07:31 +0000
                Re: There are now "unlock" apps on the app store (in addition to unlock emails) "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2016-09-18 19:21 +1000
                Re: There are now "unlock" apps on the app store (in addition to unlock emails) Horace Algier <horatio@horatio.net> - 2016-09-18 23:00 +0000
                Re: There are now "unlock" apps on the app store (in addition to unlock emails) "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2016-09-19 09:46 +1000
                Re: There are now "unlock" apps on the app store (in addition to unlock emails) Horace Algier <horatio@horatio.net> - 2016-09-19 16:22 +0000
                Re: There are now "unlock" apps on the app store (in addition to unlock emails) "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2016-09-20 05:40 +1000
          Re: There are now "unlock" apps on the app store (in addition to unlock emails) FPP <fredp151@gmail.com> - 2016-09-16 15:42 -0400
            Re: There are now "unlock" apps on the app store (in addition to unlock emails) Horace Algier <horatio@horatio.net> - 2016-09-17 03:10 +0000
              Re: There are now "unlock" apps on the app store (in addition to unlock emails) "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2016-09-17 15:21 +1000
    Re: There are now "unlock" apps on the app store (in addition to unlock emails) Horace Algier <horatio@horatio.net> - 2016-09-14 18:05 +0000
      Re: There are now "unlock" apps on the app store (in addition to unlock emails) nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2016-09-14 14:10 -0400

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