[Q] What about simlock?

hilaldroid said:

Hi friends,

Before buying this cute smartphone, I want to know if we have solutions to unsimlock the Xperia S.

Thank you all

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marcoplo said:

if you have option, buy unlocked one


why?

1) phone is locked so no other network
2)unlocking phone would be very expensive since is new so £30-40 + wait to people work out how to (price in highstreet)
3)instatly lose warranty - (test point)
4) locked bootloader no fun on xda
-no fastboot
-no unlocked botlooader
-no xrecovery
-no custom rom
-no root
- long wait for update.
- i am not sure whether unlock simlock = unlocked bootloader.

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moonset said:

Are you sure?

A network locked phone cannot be root and no unlocked bootloader?

my X10 was locked and I could root it easily and flash other official roms (different baseband).

Then I sim-unlocked it before flashing custom roms, so I don't know if I am able to do that with a locked phone though.

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MattNoblett said:

Just got my Xperia unlocked officially from Three UK. So it works on any network however all the Three integration is still there and after checking the bootloader status I am unable to unlock the bootloader as of now.

So although it's unlocked to any network, it's still kinda locked with regards to the bootloader and rooting.

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moonset said:

Have you flashed an un-brand firmware? (there is a way to flash another official rom without rooting/unlocking) Maybe it would be bootloader unlock-able after that...? (i really not sure about this)

But there should be a way to root the phone without bootloader unlocked soon or later anyway (just like the others)

and i know that the X10 can be bootloader unlock even with simlock (although the method came out quite late...)

it's just a matter of time, shouldn't be the end of the world

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