Motorola V551 / V330 / V547 / V555 / V557
Cingular store-purchased V551 was unlocked
Contrary to what the sales rep said would be the case, my V551 came unlocked from the store. I guess there were a batch sent from the factory that way. As I had an upcoming trip to Jakarta planned I asked for the subsidy code. The store rep said that you could only get that by calling support. When I did so, I was told that I had to be a Cingular customer for at least 90 days. I guess the 10 years I spent as an AT&T customer don't count. 😡
While shopping for my trip I popped into a Phones+ store in Denver. The nice folks there popped in a T-Mobile card which worked immediately. They tried the same on one of their Cingular V551's in the store, but it was indeed locked.
At any rate, I'm in Jakarta now with a Telkomsel SIM car...
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While shopping for my trip I popped into a Phones+ store in Denver. The nice folks there popped in a T-Mobile card which worked immediately. They tried the same on one of their Cingular V551's in the store, but it was indeed locked.
At any rate, I'm in Jakarta now with a Telkomsel SIM car...
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Same with my phone. I popped in a friends T Mobile sim and he could receive calls on my phone. My sim would not work on his V300 as his was locked.
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My phone's Network Setup menu now shows more options than when I was just using my Cingular SIM.
I only had the "Network Setup" option before, but now have the following additional options: "New Network", "Available Networks", "My Network List", "Service Tone" and "Call Dropped Tone".
Other than seem editing, can I enable these options once I return to the US and switch back to my Cingular SIM?
Mark (from Jakarta)
I only had the "Network Setup" option before, but now have the following additional options: "New Network", "Available Networks", "My Network List", "Service Tone" and "Call Dropped Tone".
Other than seem editing, can I enable these options once I return to the US and switch back to my Cingular SIM?
Mark (from Jakarta)
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how can you tell if its unlocked or not without having a different company's SIM?
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