[Closed] Nokia Lumia unlocking questions and discussion (All models)

I wish people would stop the trolling on here. 

If the phone is paid off, and it is not stolen, with a clean imei number then they will unlock it.

I bought a lumia 920 on Ebay last week. Submitted my unlock form on Fri, today just now I got the email with my unlock code.  Today is a SUNDAY.  And I am not even an At&t customer, I just clicked the "used to be customer" option and entered the # that i used to have with at&t about 5 years ago. 

I am baffled as to how so many of you actual at&t customers are claiming that you can't get unlocks.  I'll admit im luckier than some of those that don't have a past at&t account like me to enter but still, it means you don't even have to be an existing customer or enter the current phones last at&t number. 

How is it that I got my unlock code, I ask all you trolls?  Got it within 50 hours, on a sunday. 

And to tx600 shooter , if you want to seriously  tell people you were told by at&t reps that 5 gb data would cost $700 then I'd tell you to seriously consider if maybe you weren't even speaking to at&t.  Maybe some scammer in Serbia?

I bought mine while on holiday in the USA at Target. I live in Australia where AT&T have no service. Therefore how am I supposed to have the service for at least 6 months? Does this mean my phone will never be unlocked? I fully comprehend the need for AT&T to make profits and not give their phones away but it doesn't seem reasonable either to deny overseas customers the ability to use their phones...not to mention environmentally irresponsible.

Prepaid / GoPhones: Device has been active for at least 6 months.

What category do No Contract AT&T phones bought on the Microsoft store fall under?

Prepaid or Postpaid Phones and Tablets with no Service Commitment?

Also, I can't seem to see the difference between

Postpaid Phones and Tablets with no Service Commitment 

and

Postpaid Phones and Tablets with a Service Commitment . It seems to have your Postpaid device with service commitment unlocked, you first of all have to convert it into one without a service commitment. Am I right?

Hello,

I got a Nokia Lumia 520 as a gift from my friend from Maryland. It is a AT&T go phone and has a SIM Card which, obviously, hasn't been activated (I even don't know the number associated). I'm Italian and I live in Italy right now but I've lived in the States for work (I'm in the Military). I would like to have this phone unlocked but the application online doesn't allow me to do that. I can pay for that but I don't even know if it is possible. On the other side I don't want to send the phone back to my friend telling him that his gift is unusable.

Please let me know if there is a chance to unlock the phone in this situation.

Thank you 

v/r

Gianni

PS: I miss the States

Hello! I'm from China and bought a Nokia Lumia 2520 tablet from amazon. There is an AT&T sim card inside and I activated it as a prepaid GoPhone account. But when I tried to forward an unlock request through https://www.att.com/deviceunlock, the website said that "This device is not currently eligible to be unlocked." I bought the tablet from amazon at the full retail cost without contract with AT&T, why can't it be unlocked? The IMEI:

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    Hello. I bought a LUMIA 1020 several months ago from Amazon. It's a no-contract full price phone. And I am from China. However, it can't be used in China unless unlock it. I asked the carrier AT&T for the unlock code and explain that it's a no-contract full price phone and I have paid full price, besides, I can provide the official receipt and proof from Amazon to prove it’s a full price no-contract phone and really not a smuggling phone. However, they refused it still. They said I must be user of AT&T and have the Social Security Number and Wireless number in America that they can provide the unlock code. Unfortunately, I don’t have these things because I am from China. Could you help me apply for the unlock code?

   Thank you very much

   Sincerely LIU

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@anythingforu wrote:

    Hello. I bought a LUMIA 1020 several months ago from Amazon. It's a no-contract full price phone. And I am from China. However, it can't be used in China unless unlock it. I asked the carrier AT&T for the unlock code and explain that it's a no-contract full price phone and I have paid full price, besides, I can provide the official receipt and proof from Amazon to prove it’s a full price no-contract phone and really not a smuggling phone. However, they refused it still. They said I must be user of AT&T and have the Social Security Number and Wireless number in America that they can provide the unlock code. Unfortunately, I don’t have these things because I am from China. Could you help me apply for the unlock code?

   Thank you very much

   Sincerely LIU

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Unfortunately, if you never had service with AT&T, they will not provide an unlock code.

https://www.google.com/search?q=at%26t+unlock+phones&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&channel=fflb

It doesn't help much now, but for future reference, I would never buy a locked phone with the intention of unlocking it.

A couple non-AT&T options:

1. Amazon has pretty good customer service. Can you contact them and see if you can return your phone for a refund?

2. If you Google, there are a number of non-service-provider ways purchase phone unlocks. Beware, though, the legality of such options varies by jurisdiction and you probably have little recourse if it doesn't work.

Nobody love AT&T so much that we spend our time here 'trolling', if AT&T could solve our issues.

I did the same through phone calls and the website, all I got was 'not eligible'.

P.S. Bought mine brand new, full-price-off-contract, at Microsoft Store.