I bought a Sprint M9 from a guy on eBay and had it shipped to me outside of the US.
The seller had it advertised as an unlocked phone that he got straight from HTC.
I got the phone.. booted up and saw that dreaded Hands Free Activation screen.. alerting me immediately that it was a Sprint phone.
It has no Sprint branding or software or apps on it though..
I asked the guy about it and he said he had a Sprint phone that was defective and Sprint told him to send it to HTC to be replaced and HTC sent him back that phone and he assumed it was unlocked.
Anyway.. after a few emails back and forth, he was able to contact Sprint and get the unlock codes.
First was the MSL code to reset the phone.. which worked fine.. and now it recognizes that there is a foreign sim card, but still says that the SIMLock is enabled.
There are a couple others codes he gave me, the PUK1 code, OTKSL code and SID code.
I tried going into the System updates and UICC unlock, but it attempts to get an update from the network.. which i am not connected to.. and it all fails from there.
Does anyone know of a way to get around that problem? is there anyway to unlock it if I am already outside of the US and not connected to the Sprint network in anyway?
The seller had it advertised as an unlocked phone that he got straight from HTC.
I got the phone.. booted up and saw that dreaded Hands Free Activation screen.. alerting me immediately that it was a Sprint phone.
It has no Sprint branding or software or apps on it though..
I asked the guy about it and he said he had a Sprint phone that was defective and Sprint told him to send it to HTC to be replaced and HTC sent him back that phone and he assumed it was unlocked.
Anyway.. after a few emails back and forth, he was able to contact Sprint and get the unlock codes.
First was the MSL code to reset the phone.. which worked fine.. and now it recognizes that there is a foreign sim card, but still says that the SIMLock is enabled.
There are a couple others codes he gave me, the PUK1 code, OTKSL code and SID code.
I tried going into the System updates and UICC unlock, but it attempts to get an update from the network.. which i am not connected to.. and it all fails from there.
Does anyone know of a way to get around that problem? is there anyway to unlock it if I am already outside of the US and not connected to the Sprint network in anyway?
