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Did You Buy Your Blackberry from eBay or a Private Seller?
Did You Buy Your Blackberry from eBay or a Private Seller?
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When unlocking a Blackberry handset; it is imperative you know which carrier and country your handset is locked to. If you select the wrong carrier and/or country then a code can still be generated, but it will not unlock your phone. If you purchased your phone from eBay or a private seller or store and it has not been connected to any service yet; you may have a difficult time knowing which carrier and country the handset is locked to.
You can determine 100% who your phone is locked to, by looking up the Vendor Id (three digit number). There are several ways of doing this, depending on the model of your phone.
Most models - Press Alt+Shift+h or Alt+Caps+h or Go to Settings >Advanced Options>Status
Storm - From the home screen press and hold escape, then press the left top corner, the right top corner, then the left top corner and right top corner again. This will bring up the Help Me screen which contains your Vendor Id.
Pearl - Hold down the Alt key and type the letters R A C E, then let go of the Alt key.
Once you have your Vendor Id, then check this list to find out who your phone is locked to:
1 Rim 157 Aethur 224 PCCW Sunday
100 T Mobile - US 158 E Plus 225 Hawaiian Telcom Credo Mobile
101 Cingular Wireless 159 Base 226 Verizon MVNO
102 AT&T Wireless 160 Dobson Communications 227 Mobily
103 Nextel 161 Vodafone - Egypt 228 BWA
104 Sprint PCS 162 Orange - Switzerland 229 02 - Czech Republic
105 Verizon Wireless 163 Rim Wlan 230 Hutchison - India
106 Alltel 164 T Mobile Suncom 231 Celcom
107 Rogers AT&T 165 Maxis 234 Dialog
108 Microcell 166 Vodafone - Denmark - TDC 235 XL
109 Bell Mobility 167 Vodafone - Singapore - M1 236 Reliance
110 BT Cellnet 168 Vodacom - South Africa 237 Verizon Wireless Whoesale
111 02 - Germany 169 T Mobile - Poland 238 Vodafone - Turkey
112 Digifone 170 T Mobile - Czech 239 Telefonica - Morocco Meditel
113 Telfort 171 T Mobile - Hungary 240 Indosat
114 T Mobile - Germany - Austria 172 AT&T Sprint 241 Alcatel - Shanghai Bell
115 Tim - Italy 173 MTN - South Africa 245 3-UK-Italy-Swdn-Dnmrk-Astria-Irelnd
116 Hutchison 174 TIM - Chile - Entel - PCS 247 Vodafone Essar
117 Bouygues - Telecom 175 Orange - Spain 248 Centennial Wireless
118 Vodafone - SFR - France 176 Vodafone - Smartone - Hong Kong 250 T Mobile - Austria
119 Orange - France 177 TCS Telecommunication Systems 254 OI - Brazil
120 Vodafone - UK - Netherlands 178 AVEA 255 Telecom - New Zealand
121 Telcel - Mexico 179 Fast 100 258 Hutchinson 3G - Australia
122 Telstra 180 Turkcell 259 Cable & Wireless - Trinidad Tobago
123 T Mobile - UK 181 Partner Communications 268 BMobile
124 Vodafone - Germany 183 Orange - Romania 269 TaTa Teleservices - India
125 02 - UK - Ireland - Isle of Man - Netherlands 186 Orange - Romania 271 T Mobile - Croatia
126 Telus 188 Vodafone - Greece 273 BT - Italy
127 Smart 189 United States Cellular Corp 274 1&1
128 Starhub 190 Mobilink 277 MTS Mobility
129 Telefonica - Spain 191 Velocita Wireless 278 Virgin Mobile
130 Vodafone - Switzerland - Swisscom 192 Vodafone - Croatia 280 Orange - Slovakia
131 Cable Wirelss - West Indies 193 Vodafone - Slovenia 282 Taiwan Mobile
132 Vodafone - Italy 194 Vodafone - Luxembourg 285 Orange - Austria
133 Vodafone - Spain 195 Vodafone - Iceland 286 Vodafone Malta
134 T Mobile - Netherlands 196 Vodafone - Fiji 288 Base Jim Mobile
135 Cincinnati Bell 197 Vodafone - Romania 295 CMCC Peoples
136 Telefonica - Mexico 198 Vodafone - Czech 298 Digitel Wireless
137 Vodafone - Austria 199 Vodafone - Bahrain 299 SK Telecom
138 Vodafone - Australia - Fiji 200 Vodafone - Kuwait 300 Solo Mobile
139 Vodafone - Ireland 201 T Mobile - Croatia 301 Carphone Warehouse
140 Telenor - Sweden 202 T Mobile - Slovakia 302 20:20 Mobile Group
141 CSL 203 Nortel 308 XL - Indonesia
142 Orange - UK 204 China Mobile 309 FIDO Solutions
143 Vodafone - New Zealand 205 Movilnet 310 Wind - Italy
144 Singtel 209 Sympac
145 Globe 210 Personal - Argentina
146 Optus 212 Etisalat UAE
147 Orange - Be - Mobistar 213 Cbeyond
148 Vodafone - Hungary 214 AMX
149 Bharti 215 Telefonica - Venezuela
150 KPN - NL 216 Telefonica - Brazil
151 Wind Hellas - TIM - Greece 217 Orange - Romania
152 Vodafone - Belgium 218 KTPowertel - Korea
153 Vodafone - Portugal 219 Rolling Stones
154 TIM - Brazil 220 Docomo
155 BT Mobile 222 Vodafone - Bulgaria
156 Earthlink 223 Nextel International
IMPORTANT: This list is provided so you can determine who your phone is locked to. It does not indicate the handsets that we can unlock. You must first determine the carrier, and then check our website to learn whether or not we support unlocking that carrier. If it's not listed, then we cannot unlock it.
If your Vendor Id is 179 (F100 or Fast 100) the the phone is basically unassigned, and we cannot unlock these handsets.
If you are unable to locate your Vendor Id on your handset, or you just have more questions, please contact support at 888-813-1575 or email us at
support@uniquephones.com
, or you can contact us live on our website.
Remember! You must be certain who your handset is locked to
before
you order an unlock code.
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27 Aug 2009 03:13 PM
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