Invalid S after unlocking iPhone

damienjohnson

2011-04-09 16:15:01

Have recently moved to France and taken Iphone4 with me.
Wanted to unlock it from O2 so could use in France, filled in the online form and got a text from them yesterday saying Your iPhone can now be unlocked. To use a non-O2 SIM card in your iPhone swap it with your existing O2 SIM, connected to iTunes and sync as usual.
Have done and entered my Orange France SIM, syncd with iTunes but getting Invalid SIM. Have tried SIM in another French phone and works fine so problem seems to be Iphone related.
When syncing with iTunes, iTunes doesnt seem to notice anything is different and syncs all files, contacts etc as usual but no luck with SIM.
Any help would be hugely appreciated
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RE:Invalid S after unlocking iPhone

Peter Gillespie

2011-04-09 16:15:01

No one yet has managed to complete an unlock with O2 unless the iPhone is physically in the UK ,active on the UK network and that does NOT include roaming
ref O2 iPhone Technical forum
Looks like you are confirming that finding
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RE:Invalid S after unlocking iPhone

damienjohnson

2011-04-09 16:15:01

Hi Peter,
Thanks for your reply.
There are many shops around my local area in Nice that offer unlocking - would going to these for a 2nd unlock be of any worth or is it just essentially doing the same... nothing?
If so, the only way round it is to send the phone back to the UK to be unlocked whilst in O2 territory? What a joke if so! What year are we in!?
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RE:Invalid S after unlocking iPhone

Peter Gillespie

2011-04-09 16:15:01

Only the carrier can process an unlocking request ....why...
because they subsidised the price at original purchase and locking protects their
investment
Any other offers of unlocking will involve hacking and next time you try to update the iOS will revert to the locked status if it works at all
try standing opposite to the 7 sisters by Dover and see if you can get a UK signal and make some calls
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