How long does Vodaphone normally take unlocking iphones?
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Yes another iphone thread 
So i bought a mates iphone 5S off him but its locked to Vodaphone, so he put the unlock request in via the website and paid the £20 etc. Whats the normal time for it to take? it was done last night about 10-10:30pm.
It does say ''up to 48hrs'', but just wondered what other peoples experiences were, was it less than 48hrs, was it bang on 48hrs or more than 48hrs?
As you can tell i cant wait to put my Three sim card in it and start using it
So i bought a mates iphone 5S off him but its locked to Vodaphone, so he put the unlock request in via the website and paid the £20 etc. Whats the normal time for it to take? it was done last night about 10-10:30pm.
It does say ''up to 48hrs'', but just wondered what other peoples experiences were, was it less than 48hrs, was it bang on 48hrs or more than 48hrs?
As you can tell i cant wait to put my Three sim card in it and start using it
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Unlocking team don't work weekends.
oh damn!!
Your both correct, ive just been on the livechat on Voda website, he said the 48hrs is referring to working days
T-Mobile/EE took a working day arrange an unlock with Apple for my wife's 4S.
Filled in the on-line form Sunday afternoon, SMS confirming they were processing at 13:00hrs Monday, e-mail confirmation received at 19:00hrs that evening. I don't know how quickly Apple updated their database, but I tried an O2 SIM in the phone the following weekend, and after asking me to confirm Apple u/n and p/w it burst into action.
Was that Voda mate?
Looking promising for a quick unlock then
Took around three working days from form submission to unlocking.
Brilliant thanks
Couple more question, can i go ahead and put my Three sim in the phone BEFORE its unlocked, or is it best to keep the Voda sim in(the carrier its locked to) until its done? i wouldnt have thought it makes a difference would it?
And i also just wondered, if a phone is a contract phone, can someone(i.e NOT the person who took out the contract) put in a PAYG sim from the same network the phone is on, and request an unlock using that sim? or would it require the original owner who took out the contract to request it?
In answer to your first question you'll get an email from them when the phone is unlocked.
After that you can put a new SIM in and it'll go through the basic initial set up and work aOK.
The original owner would need to submit the request to get the handset unlocked.
Certainly the case with iPhones and i think Samsungs too, so could be that the delay was down to Samsung
I won't get an email as my mate put the request in and I can't expect him to keep checking his email every 5mins for me.
You DO need to put another network's SIM into it to cause it to try and reactivate.
Yes, I seem to remember when I did mine that (despite their instructions) nothing happened when I connected to itunes but it unlocked when I put my three sim in.
I really thought i was stuffed not being able to unlock the phone, but while trawling through ebay i found a seller who offers factory unlocks for £20 i was skeptical about trying it out but i had nothing to lose so took the gamble and brought the unlock, I had to provide my imei number to them and they processed it. around 5 days later i had a email saying my iphone was unlocked and i needed to put in another networks sim and connect it to itunes to complete the unlock process, slaped in my 3sim and did itunes
BANG !!!! she was unlocked
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/111240468034?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649
Yes thanks mate, it is indeed unlocked now, as soon as I got home from work and had my dinner the Three sim was straight in the phone, happy days
And yes I didn't use iTunes, just put the 3 sim in and the phone did the rest. So good not having to deal with iTunes anymore!