Which mobile phone shops can you take mobiles to, to have them unlocked?

Independants or shops that aren't even phone dealers but sell them 2nd hand even do them. Getting the phone unlocked by the network is cheaper these days. Phone them up to get a price.

Do any of the high street retailers provide this service?

If you go down to your local Saturday/Sunday market there are usually guys with laptops waiting at the mobile phone stall to unlock your phone.

I don't know how much they charge though or if they fry your phone

Virgin told me they will unlock phones for free if you've spent £30 on airtime.

Which suits me fine because I have subscribed for a about a year with an old phone and spent a few hundred £ on airtime, just bought a new phone and they told me I can get it unlocked for gratis. I used my old SIM card in it.

I have an unlocked nokia with a back that holds three sim cards and I can swap from one to the other, it is very useful..

I had a mate who fried his nokia 3210 - he used the wrong type of cable and locked it up totally - my only advice was, "why didn't you ask me to do it for you?"..

..that's unlock it, not fry it

This site Here offers a service to unlock they also sell the kits to do it. I bought a kit from them and its quite simple top use

What program would you recommend to unlock a Nokia 3310.

I've got a nokia cd with tons of programs on it, but don't really want to try unless i know it's going to work and not mess up my phone.

I have a datacable, but have only used it for ringtones and logos.

I unlock 3xxx phones using dejan flasher (+ mbus cable) and a a partial flash file, although you have to be careful, a lot could go wrong!

im sorry ot everyone- this is tottaly off topic- dslrocks, i just saw ure reply to my message about sky dishes being banned,,,, yes i do go to the state school u were talking about..... do u?

Yeah, I do...you might know me

I think it's best to continue this via PM rather than on the forum...

I just took my phone round a back street market stall place and he unlocked it in 30secs, cost £10

Weird thing was I traded my dud 3310 in for a new 3310 on Virgin for 49.99! the guy in the shop didn't seem to be bothered that I was trading in an identical phone. After that I unlocked it and put my old Vodaphone sim card back in

As I understand, its now a criminal act for any "unlocking" or "unblocking" of phones unless you can prove ownership of the said phone and a name and address showing proof of identity (i.e driving license, passport, utility bill etc).

This only stands for the IMEI (International Mobile Identity Number) to not to be changed or altered, not for perhaps if you have forgotten your phone PIN number.......

REFERENCE :: http://www.crimereduction.gov.uk/stolengoods4.htm

Hope This Helps.....

Regards, The Wardster II

Pfft, £10? Got mine done for £5 in leeds market, £4 is the cheapest ive seen at a boot sale.

This is not the same as removing a network lock.

This refers to altering a phone that has been blocked by a network because it is stolen or changing the IMEI number.

Hope this helps your obvious confusion.......

anyone know where I can download an unlocking program for the sony t610?
Thanks, missile2uk

I got mine unlocked at my local computer fair.

only £5

mine came onlocked its 12 months old, all new o2 and orange phones do, not to sure about other networks though

£10 at Scarborough market takes about 30 seconds.

shouldnt this be in the mobile telephony forum?

oh, I'm terribly sorry, but I am sure this is under "mobile phone unlocking" at the top of the page!!!!!

as I posted on another thread nokia dct-4 phones can be done yourself, download one of the many calc programs that are not available free, enter your imei number and select your network, and type in one of the 7 numbers it generates to unlock.

lots of info about this is available on other forums (try search for gsm-forum on google).

Hx