Dear Technology
I have a 10 year old dumb phone (keypad phone).
Has anyone unlocked their dumb phone ?
If so, could you tell me how you did it please ?
Yours sincerely ROMMMELLL
Even unlocked, it might not be capable of connecting to modern networks. Some of the older phones used bandwidths that the carriers no longer have towers for
*spectrum
Yeah I’m not sure if they had lte dumb phones yet 10 years ago. It might not work unless they’re somewhere with really old cell networks.
Most of the operators still keep their 2G networks active. There’s simply too many iot devices that use 2G as a main or fallback comms to end old gsm network with only few years of warning. 3G on the other hand is going the way of the Dodo.
You mean it’s locked to a certain carrier? Sometimes you find unlock codes online, it depends on the model. Other times you have to buy the unlock code from the carrier and it’s usually not worth it because you can get an unlocked Nokia keypad phone for less. I bought one of those for like 20 Euros at a pawn shop and it’s still working with a prepaid SIM card from the supermarket.
once I unlocked a Samsung. problem was that the code I’ve found had a side effect zeroing out the IMEI of the device. tho, it worked, but acted strangely sometimes
Years ago, yes. Not recently. As others have said, I wonder how useful it would be on modern networks anyway.
10 years old? Not many keypad phones were made around that time anymore. Either way, every phone maker had their own system, so every one needed something different to get unlocked. You’d need to specify the exact model, and what exactly you need to unlock on it.
Anyway no I can’t help with that.
also, if you have a Sony Ericsson (db2010, db2020, a200) there’s a great chance some russian dude made a VKP patch to unlock the phone on that firmware. this was completely software, and easily restorable
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Phone locked :(
People like playing with old stuff
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