[Q] UNLOCK AT&T Samsung Captivate (SGH-i897)

[ron_barcello]

Hi folks

New on this android thing - noob question:

Has anybody a prove link getting an unlock code for AT&T Captivate (SGH-i897)?

Want to use this phone in Europe with vodafone...

Thanks in Advance for you help

 

[ron_barcello]

No solution available?

Is it true that there is no solution available till now?

 

[jentech]

Is it true that there is no solution available till now?

No, there is no solution available at the moment. A couple of people have been able to persuade ATT to give them codes after many days of phone calls and support chat. A few have had some varying success with turbo sims that supposedly fool the phone into thinking the sim is an ATT sim, but that's it.

 

[PUTALE]

based on what I have read online. ATT often will unlock your phone when you are in the contract for like 6 months or a year.

I called them with my tilt 2 about a year into my contract. Tell them that I am traveling oversea and want to use the phone internationally. They gave me the code without much hassle.

Not sure if this is partially due to the fact I have been with ATT for years.

Online search also shows that ATT will often unlock almost all smartphoen for you except iPhone, so keep try them and if the CSR does not help, ask for supervisor.

 

[foxbat121]

based on what I have read online. ATT often will unlock your phone when you are in the contract for like 6 months or a year.

The official requirements are:
1. at least 90 days into a contract
2. Have a post paid account with contract
3. Paid all bills on time.

I called them with my tilt 2 about a year into my contract. Tell them that I am traveling oversea and want to use the phone internationally. They gave me the code without much hassle.

Not sure if this is partially due to the fact I have been with ATT for years.

Online search also shows that ATT will often unlock almost all smartphoen for you except iPhone, so keep try them and if the CSR does not help, ask for supervisor.

Captivate has proven to be an exception to this. There is already a long thread about Sim Unlock. The bottom line is AT&T won't give you a unlock code for Captivate until 10 months later.

 

[ron_barcello]

No, there is no solution available at the moment. A couple of people have been able to persuade ATT to give them codes after many days of phone calls and support chat. A few have had some varying success with turbo sims that supposedly fool the phone into thinking the sim is an ATT sim, but that's it.

Hi jentech

have read the whole thread "SIM unlock" till yet and have not a good feeling when my captivate will arrive to contact AT&T for the unlock code.

I never has been a AT&T customer cause living outside the US and won´t be to become one so hope they could understand my problem...

Do you have an email contact for their support-center?

 

[foxbat121]

Hi jentech

have read the whole thread "SIM unlock" till yet and have not a good feeling when my captivate will arrive to contact AT&T for the unlock code.

I never has been a AT&T customer cause living outside the US and won´t be to become one so hope they could understand my problem...

Do you have an email contact for their support-center?

If you're not an AT&T customer, they typically won't help you with unlock at all. Good luck.

 

[alphadog00]

Not sure why there is another unlock thread, but At&T told me they would. Unlock in 90 days. I have no reason to doubt them.

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I897 using XDA App

 

[ron_barcello]

Phone is unlocked now

with the awesome tool from nbs11 i unlocked my captivate today on my MAC and it worked without failure with vodafone here in germany

Bye bye AT&T

 

[nbs11]

and bowsa1152 has a nice tool for PC (although slightly more complicated) it is still one click.

 

[SiL3nTKiLL]

yeah its easy to unlock it now!

 

[nakulssood]

Need Help Unlocking My SGH-i897 from AT&T

Hi,

I need help unlocking my Samsung SGH-i897 from AT&T.

I have gone through the other methods devised by XDA folks to no luck.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[baseballfanz]

Hi,

I need help unlocking my Samsung SGH-i897 from AT&T.

I have gone through the other methods devised by XDA folks to no luck.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

If you're still 2.1 Eclair use WiFi and go to Android Market.
Search for SGS unlocker, can't get any easier

 

[tatipaka48]

Can please help me with my Captivate unlock. I tried all the ways but couldn't able to find the networkcrontrolkey

please help me with it

 

[lenin70]

I successfully unlocked Captivate with this solution 2 times.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=8942669

 

[iNFRiNGE]

Changed imei

I successfully unlocked Captivate with this solution 2 times.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=8942669

This worked for me also but it changed the phones imei number so now I have to fix that. Check yours out to see if it did the same to your phone.

 

[iNFRiNGE]

Sorry double posted.

 

[dodg1500]

unlock Captivate with froyo

today i unlocked my captivate with an app called Galaxy S Unlock get it in the market very easy to do also on youtube i am running froyo 2.2, version I897ucji6 and i am rooted (need to be rooted)

 

[jayjr1105]

Finally got the captivate to unlock and accept the tmobile sim today. Everything seems to be working fine so far. No data on the plan but using wifi til I add data. One thing I'm really curious about is.... Now that the phone is unlocked and working, If I flash a custom rom (say cognition for example) will I lose the "unlock" ?

*edit* forgot to say how I did it... I just simply flashed back to stock 2.1, master cleared,rooted, installed busybox and galaxy unlock app, used the #2 method with the unlock app and it worked. PATIENCE IS KEY! ===> It takes a good 2-4 minutes for the tmobile signal to kick in so it may seem as if the unlock failed but it just takes alot longer than the at&t signal to kick in.

 

[gorgy76]

Finally got the captivate to unlock and accept the tmobile sim today. Everything seems to be working fine so far. No data on the plan but using wifi til I add data. One thing I'm really curious about is.... Now that the phone is unlocked and working, If I flash a custom rom (say cognition for example) will I lose the "unlock" ?

*edit* forgot to say how I did it... I just simply flashed back to stock 2.1, master cleared,rooted, installed busybox and galaxy unlock app, used the #2 method with the unlock app and it worked. PATIENCE IS KEY! ===> It takes a good 2-4 minutes for the tmobile signal to kick in so it may seem as if the unlock failed but it just takes alot longer than the at&t signal to kick in.

You've post this already in paragon thread...simply no you are permanently unlock now the lock code inside your phone has been wiped out by the app you used.