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How long does Vodaphone normally take unlocking iphones?
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![]() 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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It took them a couple of days when I did mine late last year.
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Ok cheers mate, so theres a chance it ''may'' not be done today, but i hope it is
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Ok cheers mate, so theres a chance it ''may'' not be done today, but i hope it is
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I would think they mean 2 working days. I wouldn't expect them to do it on a Sunday. I may be wrong of course. Mine was on a business contract which may be different as well. They do have to go through the same palaver with Apple though.
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Unlocking team don't work weekends.
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I would think they mean 2 working days. I wouldn't expect them to do it on a Sunday. I may be wrong of course. Mine was on a business contract which may be different as well. They do have to go through the same palaver with Apple though.
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48 hours - I've just contacted Three to get my old S3 unlocked and they've said it could take up to 7 days. But they do it for free so I suppose I can't complain too much!!
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Orange took 48 DAYS to unlock mine so hopefully Vodafone are a bit quicker!!
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Orange took 48 DAYS to unlock mine so hopefully Vodafone are a bit quicker!!
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. |
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Did this about a month ago, they managed to do it in 2 days or so. Very fast and prompt.
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Did this about a month ago, they managed to do it in 2 days or so. Very fast and prompt.
Looking promising for a quick unlock then
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Did this myself the other week.
Took around three working days from form submission to unlocking. |
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Did this myself the other week.
Took around three working days from form submission to unlocking. 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? |
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I would keep the Voda sim in the phone, as the other sim won't function until the phone until they physically submit it.
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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? 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. |
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Hopefully it won't be long I waited two months for them to unlock my note 3 and gave up and got a firm to unlock it instead. It is ridiculous people have to wait that long as expected they blamed Samsung for the delay.
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I think with most modern phones, the networks have to request the unlock from the manufacturer.
Certainly the case with iPhones and i think Samsungs too, so could be that the delay was down to Samsung |
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Three unlocked my iPhone in two days.
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Well they took the money from my credit at lunch time today, does that mean it will be unlocked pretty soon then? I've connected the phone to iTunes and it's not unlocking yet.
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. |
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Is it unlocked yet?
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Well they took the money from my credit at lunch time today, does that mean it will be unlocked pretty soon then? I've connected the phone to iTunes and it's not unlocking yet.
You DO need to put another network's SIM into it to cause it to try and reactivate. |
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You no longer need to connect to iTunes - the phone can do it itself if it has WiFi!
You DO need to put another network's SIM into it to cause it to try and reactivate. |
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when i got my iphone 5s it was locked to vodasmack, I brought a payasyou go sim and topped £20 on it and filled out the online form for the unlock request, few days later i had a email saying that they can not unlock the phone as i am not the original owner and the imei is on another account.
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/1112404680...84.m1423.l2649 |
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Is it unlocked yet?
![]() 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! |
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