HTC Sensation 4G T-mobile. From USA, trying to make it work in Norway.
According to the previous owner it was SIM unlocked, but stopped working after an upgrade (which was the reason for passing it on to me....). When I got it it had S-ON, HBOOT 1.27, Android 4.0.3 ICS, HTC Sense 3.6. No bootloader or root access. Everything worked flawlessly, except calling: whenever I put my SIM I'd get a "your SIM does not allow connections to this network" error message, so I figured it had to do with the phone being simlocked to T-Mobile.
Then I tried numerous guides to obtain SIM unlock:
So I learned a lot, but basically didn't solve my original problem: When trying to call I get "Mobile Network Not Available" and when searching for networks it's "Unable to connect at this time" and asks me try again later.
My new specs are: Android 4.0.4, S-OFF, HBOOT 1.27.1111, Radio 11.23.3504.07_M2, OpenADSP-v02.6.0.2226.00.0131
Despite the guide stating it wouldn't work with HBOOT 1.27 I also tried this one, but running PG58DIAG.nbh expectedly returned error messages. They were "security fail" and "update fail".
The output of the "strings -n 8 /dev/block/mmcblk0p6" command shows "T-MOB010" under my IMEI number, so to me it seems likely it's still locked. However, the phone doesn't ask for any unlocking code except for the PIN.
Hope anybody on this forum is able to point me in new directions. Thankful for any and all input.
According to the previous owner it was SIM unlocked, but stopped working after an upgrade (which was the reason for passing it on to me....). When I got it it had S-ON, HBOOT 1.27, Android 4.0.3 ICS, HTC Sense 3.6. No bootloader or root access. Everything worked flawlessly, except calling: whenever I put my SIM I'd get a "your SIM does not allow connections to this network" error message, so I figured it had to do with the phone being simlocked to T-Mobile.
Then I tried numerous guides to obtain SIM unlock:
- Made contact with T-Mobile to see if they could unlock the SIM, but I didn't meet their requirements.
- Unlocked bootloader the official way. http://www.htcdev.com/bootloader/
- Rooting done following this guide: http://theunlockr.com/2012/09/20/how-to-root-the-htc-sensation-on-hboot-version-1-27-0000/
- Installed SuperSU https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.chainfire.supersu (downloaded from the author's site)
- Installed CWM http://www.clockworkmod.com/rommanager
- Did the wire-trick to obtain S-OFF: http://unlimited.io/juopunutbear.htm
- Ran this SIM unlocker: http://www.sieempi.eu/blog/2011/09/22/universal-sim-unlock-for-s-offed-htc-devices-536
- Finally installed CyanogenMod 9.1
So I learned a lot, but basically didn't solve my original problem: When trying to call I get "Mobile Network Not Available" and when searching for networks it's "Unable to connect at this time" and asks me try again later.
My new specs are: Android 4.0.4, S-OFF, HBOOT 1.27.1111, Radio 11.23.3504.07_M2, OpenADSP-v02.6.0.2226.00.0131
Despite the guide stating it wouldn't work with HBOOT 1.27 I also tried this one, but running PG58DIAG.nbh expectedly returned error messages. They were "security fail" and "update fail".
The output of the "strings -n 8 /dev/block/mmcblk0p6" command shows "T-MOB010" under my IMEI number, so to me it seems likely it's still locked. However, the phone doesn't ask for any unlocking code except for the PIN.
Hope anybody on this forum is able to point me in new directions. Thankful for any and all input.
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