Unlocking a mobile phone - Where do I go?

[Kayleigh]

We have won a new pay as you go mobile phone in a text to win competition. The phone is a Sony Ericsson on Voadaphone.

My current phone is on T-Mobile and I want to put my T-mobile SIM into the Vodaphone phone. Vodaphone will unlock the phone for £25 but I have been told that a small independant mobile phone shop should be able to do this for around £10-15.

Has anyone had this done - and if so where did you go ?

Local independent, Kayleigh - the guy had a boxful of little cable things - that was to unlock a Vodafone. It was supposed to be £15 but I only had £10 notes and so did he so he did it for £10 (it takes about 30 seconds, money for old rope).

I believe there are codes you can tap in to do it yourself but what they are and where you find them I have no idea.

thanks janh, now i know it is possible will wait till weekend and have a look locally. I thought vodaphone had a bloody cheek charging £25 but as i was working today and all the phone shops in the city are vodaphone/orange/carphone warehouse etc I thought I had no choice

thanks again X

free here

seriously, i unlocked my phone (nokia 3100) with it yesterday

£25 just to unlock it? Blimey, what a rip off! Have you googled? Can't believe there isn't an answer out there.

here but I haven't looked at the sites

lilaclotus that site doesn't do vodaphone

www, i googled this yesterday and there are quite a few sites that charge. i tried one and it sent me a code for a different mobile. so that was a waste. the site i linked to generates the codes for free and it worked straight away.

ooohh www thanks - will check those out

lilaclotus, meant to say they don't do sony ericsson, not vodaphone. Doh !

it does for nokia, came up with all the networks for that, it might depend on which make you have

ahh ok. hmmm. i'm sure there would be other sites like that out there,.

I went to an independant phone shop on my local high street, and they unlocked the phone in about 10 seconds - cost me £10.

Have recently unlocked my old nokia with a free site. I chose the download option rather than the website online version and made sure it couldn't access the internet (as I didn't like the idea that my IMEI (sp?) code would be known by them).

meant to say - you only get x number of goes typing in the codes yourself. Then the phone locks up and you have to go to a shop to unlock it with the wires...

have looked at the unlocking sites and it looks like the phone i have has to be unlocked with a cable, and not codes. Typical !!! So i either have to buy the cable or go into a shop. Will check out local phone shops at the weekend.

Hi Kayleigh, when I sold on my old phone earlier this year I found unlocking services on ebay. It worked for mine, and for 99p is worth a go IMO! phone unlocking

Still wanting to come to a meet up with you again soon if thats ok?

Just seen last post. Check and see if your phone is listed first.

Ahem, ooops, just read the ebay advert. You have to send it off for 6.00 to get it unlocked. Urm, up to you whether you want to or not. What a pain you won this make of phone!

Hi FlounceyFlossam. Why are you Flouncey ?
I can't believe I won this and now i am having to pay to use the bloody thing. Wouldn't be so bad if i could just do it on a code. No way am i sending someone on ebay the phone to unlock. Will just have to troll around the shops

meant to add there is a meet-up that i posted today for lunch in a couple of weeks - check out the meet-up thread.

Want to put a virgin simcard into my motorola (?sp ) but is looking for a code.Anyone know of a free service.Thought someone might as its after Christmas and prob lots of new phones on the go !