[Q] SIM unlocking a unactivated SGS2

[shadowofdarkness]

I would just like to double check if this is possible since I have never done anything like it before and don't want to risk my money.

But I found a place (Costco) that will sell me a Bell SGS2 unactivated and not tied to any account and I wanted to make sure that I can get far enough without a Bell SIM card to root it then using WiFi install the Market app to sim unlock the phone for use on Telus.

I am pretty sure I can but just would like to make sure that nothing strange like files get generated when Bell would first activates the phone, that I would not have. I don't even have any friends with Bell sim cards to use.

 

[cue_32]

they're ready to go... nothing else gets added by Bell upon activation.

 

[shadowofdarkness]

Thanks I was sure but since this is going to be my first time ever unlocking a phone or even getting a phone outside of a 3 year contract pricing I wanted to be sure.

 

[veyka]

The SIM unlock isn't garenteed to work, but it took about 1min to generate the codes, and worked perfectly first time for me!

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[0mega1]

CF-Root + Galaxy_S Unlock (market app, free) = Good to go for Bell/Virgin, took a few minutes total once I got mine home.

You will however, have an annoying yellow caution symbol on boot for a while.

 

[shadowofdarkness]

CF-Root + Galaxy_S Unlock (market app, free) = Good to go for Bell/Virgin, took a few minutes total once I got mine home.

You will however, have an annoying yellow caution symbol on boot for a while.

Yep I have been reading a few threads and that was my exact plan.

I just wish I could of found concrete reports of Heimdall working under Linux for the SGS2 so I wouldn't have to drive to my mom's house to use Odin on her Windows computer.

 

[veyka]

Yep I have been reading a few threads and that was my exact plan.

I just wish I could of found concrete reports of Heimdall working under Linux for the SGS2 so I wouldn't have to drive to my mom's house to use Odin on her Windows computer.

The people who make villainrom and the ninphetamine kernel use heimdall on linux with the sgs2

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[shadowofdarkness]

The people who make villainrom and the ninphetamine kernel use heimdall on linux with the sgs2

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I tried searching xda and even just Google but could not find anything stating that so either my search terms are bad or I just unlucky. Either way I will take you at your word and at least try. Hopefully I wont wreck anything before a good backup and learning the differences in backup/restore compared to my Motorola Milestone.

 

[shadowofdarkness]

Just wanted to thank everyone for the input, it worked out fine. I flashed cf-root with Heimdall then SIM unlocked with Galaxy_S Unlock.

Now to play with the new phone.