Any ideas how I can unblock mobile?

[pasco]

Can any one help?

Brought a brand new sony erricson p910i off e-bay.
It has worked on voda phone for the last 2 months now i can not make or receive calls !!

Any ideas how i can un block it ?

Thanks

Pasco

>> Edited by pasco on Wednesday 11th January 23:50

[NiceCupOfTea]

Sounds to me like it's been barred. Which would suggest you've bought a pinched phone

unlocked = type a code in so that the phone is not locked to one network
unbarred = not possible AFAIK.

(although you used to be able to change the unchangeable IMEU on Nokias )

Sorry, misread lock/block.

But I suspect it has been barred.

>> Edited by NiceCupOfTea on Wednesday 11th January 23:55

[pasco]

Is there any way i can sort this Nice?

[NiceCupOfTea]

I'm afraid I don't know... maybe there is somebody on PH who works in the mobile trade?

[406tm]

pasco said:

Is there any way i can sort this Nice?

If you paid by paypal, log a complaint with them and also with Ebay. Contact the seller - ebay will give you his address and ask for a refund.

[Parrot of Doom]

Contact Vodafone CS and ask them.

[NiceCupOfTea]

Just found these pages :

www.3g.co.uk/3GForum/showthread.php?t=20006
www.unlockme.co.uk/

Basically, nowt you can do except change your IMEI if you can find a way - which is apparently illegal and punishable by up to 5 years porridge

Personally, I would find out if it is on The List by ringing Voda or something, and if it is using paypal/ebay to try and get money back, or even calling your credit card company if you used that to pay...

UnLockMe said:

How to Check If Your Phone is Blacklisted!! Different networks blacklist handsets in different ways: Vodafone & T-Mobile If you place an active Vodafone or T-Mobile sim into a blacklisted handset, the phone will appear to function perfectly UNTIL you try to make an outgoing call. When you try to call out from the handset you will hear a sequence of beeps and then the call will be dropped!!

Sound familiar?


>> Edited by NiceCupOfTea on Thursday 12th January 00:11

[pasco]

Thank's for that hope someone can help me out.

Have just e-mailed the guy who sold me the phone but he has no listing's at the mo even though he had 100% feed back just goes to show you can not trust anyone!!

If anyone can help me un block this hand set or any idea's !!!

Going to Bed now well Pi**ed OFF.Its a Soney Erricson P910 i

Pasco

[miniandy]

Give me the IMEI (by email) and I'll check the list tomorrow at work for you. There is a way you can get round your 'issue'...

[NiceCupOfTea]

Probably no help to you but the best thing I ever did with my SE P900 was to dump it for an SPV C500 - far better phone (and a free upgrade on orange)

[g_attrill]

I would recommend just getting your money back or failing that bin the phone and eat the loss.

Changing the IMEI is illegal and if you want to risk it then do so at your peril - it might be unlikely that you will be "caught" but you can kiss goodbye to getting security clearance and a shedload of different jobs with any sort of conviction. Also IMEI reprogramming might be considered to be an offence involving dishonesty due to the fact it inevitably involves handling stolen goods.

edit: You didn't actually explain your problem though, it might be something simple of course, does another SIM from the same network work in it?

Gareth


>> Edited by g_attrill on Thursday 12th January 01:19