topic Sim lock in XPERIA archive

Sim lock

integralac — Sun, 10 Mar 2013 23:21:40 GMT

hi, i received present from ch, orange sony xperia u, sadly its locked and i cannot use phone here in my country, can i get codes for unlocking, thanks

p.s. its an awesome handy

protechyu@yahoo.com

Re: Sim lock

Uliwooly — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 02:00:00 GMT

that's not up to Sony to unlock the phone but the carrier.

Re: Sim lock

Uliwooly — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 02:00:46 GMT

you can pay and get it unlocked here

www.cellunlocker.net

Re: Sim lock

integralac — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 09:37:39 GMT

why, its a pure sony

and i wonder why its locked anyway

Re: Sim lock

Uliwooly — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 16:11:33 GMT

lets check if it was locked to a carrier

Service Menu

http://talk.sonymobile.com/thread/24534

Re: Sim lock

integralac — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 18:07:54 GMT

im in menu but what to look,

i can give you this for now

service info-sim lock

[]network 5

[]network subset 5

[]service provider 5

[]corporete 5

Re: Sim lock

Uliwooly — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 18:10:01 GMT

as you can see it is locked to a carrier

it should be all 0s if it was Sim free.

Re: Sim lock

Uliwooly — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 18:18:46 GMT

the question is where did you bought this phone? was it from a carrier as a contract free phone?

Re: Sim lock

integralac — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 18:28:27 GMT

it was a present

bought i switzerland, orange prepay

Re: Sim lock

Uliwooly — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 18:38:56 GMT

well there you have it, it is locked to orange Switzerland, contact them they might be able to unlock it for you if not there's another option check the link above

Re: Sim lock

integralac — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 18:46:29 GMT

ok, thanks a lot for your time

btw, sony phones are realy great, now im considering another one for my wife

my first handy was sony with strange microphone, i think z1, i loved that little thing

see ya

Re: Sim lock

Uliwooly — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 18:58:18 GMT

Anytime, Sony smartphones are good there are some issues that seems that Sony is working on, such as, releasing software updates a bit faster than before.

Re: Sim lock

dragpyre — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 19:50:23 GMT

uliwooly wrote:

Anytime, Sony smartphones are good there are some issues that seems that Sony is working on, such as, releasing software updates a bit faster than before.

I got Jelly Bean for my XPJ on release day, so I'm rather happy with Sony, they seem to have picked up their game since the fiasco with updating the XPU.

Re: Sim lock

Uliwooly — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 19:58:52 GMT

@dragpyre there are multiple fiascos

2010 Xperia X10 has a 65K display instead of 16m and a single touch screen instead of multi and/or dual touch as advertised

2010 Xperia X10's update 1.6 to 2.1 took over 6 months

2010 Xperia X10 took a lot of customers pressure for Sony to release 2.3.3 a year and a half later

2010 Xperias 2.1 was the final update

2010 Xperia X10 mini and mini pro have multitouch digitizer but are set to single touch

2011 Xperia Arc housing cracks issue

2011 Xperia Play stuck on 2.3.4 (no ICS nor Jelly Bean)

2011 Xperias ICS updates slow down its performance

2011 Xperias ICS notification, wifi and data issues/bugs

2012 Xperia S/SL ear-speaker low volume issue

2012 Xperia U, Sola, Miro and Tipo are not going to receive Jelly Bean

2012 Xperias have some issues with Jelly Bean

as you can see the number of issues are diminishing but after all it is Sony we expect a lot more from them

Re: Sim lock

dragpyre — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 13:27:50 GMT

Only issue I have with Jelly Bean is that its not rootable on the XPJ, but I see what you mean.

Other companies have their fair share of blame too with their handsets, its not just Sony that do these kind of things.

Re: Sim lock

stetvasile — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 15:56:18 GMT

Hi ihave same probleme with my xperia zl...

im in menu but what to look,

i can give you this for now

service info-sim lock

[]network 9

[]network subset 0

[]service provider 0

[]corporete 0

please help me

Re: Sim lock

Uliwooly — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 16:03:28 GMT

@stetvasile you have 2 options

1) contact your carrier and ask them for the code to unlock your phone

2) go to a cellunlocker website to get your phone unlocked.

Re: Sim lock

vijayprince — Fri, 13 Sep 2013 06:34:59 GMT

Just purchase unlock codes for Sony Xperia u from any vendors online like Onlinegsmunlock.com

Re: Sim lock

hotdog888 — Thu, 10 Oct 2013 10:43:09 GMT

I have an xperia tipo. It worked fine for 11 months. Now suddenly it wouldn't detect my SIM CARD so I got it reaplace with a new one of the same number(vodafone) . Still won't work. I tried 3-4 other sim cards and only 2 worked, these 2 belonged to a carrier called (reliance). only reliance cards were working.

this is what my SIM LOCK screen says.

[x] network 0

[x] network subnet 0

[x] service provider 0

and basically it's [x] in the begining and "0" at the end for all fields. What does this mean? sim locked or not?

Re: Sim lock

hotdog888 — Thu, 10 Oct 2013 10:45:22 GMT

note: I updated my phone and when I inserted the vodafone sim card it worked. 15mins later it died again. I guess hardwares okay right?