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Originally posted by Daniel J*:
Contract or PAYG?

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Originally posted by Ella:
I unlocked my fone and a few others through this site Unlock

Might take a while to find the right one but maybe if you search 'unlock nokia 7100 gsm forum'' in google it might take you to the page that you need. They don't have unlock codes for all fones and sometimes it's not very easy to unlock but it's worth a look.

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Originally posted by spongebob squarepants:
oooooo i dunno ski sorry.......the only time we had to do it we took it to the market in town and he did it

i spose you've tried customer support malarky etc?...

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Originally posted by skive:

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Originally posted by Daniel J*:
Contract or PAYG?

He's on contract to Virgin which is an all in package with TV and broadband. The phone is locked to O2 pay as you go.

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Originally posted by Daniel J*:

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Originally posted by skive:

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Originally posted by Daniel J*:
Contract or PAYG?

He's on contract to Virgin which is an all in package with TV and broadband. The phone is locked to O2 pay as you go.

Have you tried O2? They will probably charge you to unlock it but it might be, say, £20. I had an Orange phone unlocked for that. PAYG phones sometimes have a bit of subsidy bit in to the topup charges but not that much.

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Originally posted by Garage Joe:
I'm not sure if my advice is up to date. But at various Sunday markets near me there usually exists a mobile phone stall.
I know that tghey would unlock your 'phone for a fiver, especially if you told 'em a hard luck story. It seemed a very quick job. However maybe the technology is more complex now?

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Originally posted by skive:

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Originally posted by spongebob squarepants:
oooooo i dunno ski sorry.......the only time we had to do it we took it to the market in town and he did it

i spose you've tried customer support malarky etc?...

Mr Skive wants me to take it back to the shop as it was their fault for not telling me it was locked to O2. I feel bad tho cos I already took the first one back claiming it was faulty.

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Originally posted by spongebob squarepants:

i agree with him..they should have told you and they didn't.......their fault i reckon...

get down there an give em what for....

honest they'll be fine about it and it'll be problem sorted....


then tell mr skive it's givin you a proper stressout and he needs to buy wine to help you recover....

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Originally posted by skive:
I've just had a brainwave! I've done online shopping with the supermarket before so I have an 'account' with them. If I email them and explain the situation and claim to be a loyal customer maybe they'll send me an email saying take it back and I can just take a print out of the email with me to the shop and save my blushes?

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Originally posted by Growlybear:
If you're worried about what the supermarket might think, could you not take it back to a different branch where they wouldn't remember you?

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Originally posted by Ella:
As someone else said, O2 will inlock for a fee, although I have to say I think o2 are the best provider.

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Originally posted by skive:

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Originally posted by spongebob squarepants:

i agree with him..they should have told you and they didn't.......their fault i reckon...

get down there an give em what for....

honest they'll be fine about it and it'll be problem sorted....


then tell mr skive it's givin you a proper stressout and he needs to buy wine to help you recover....

Lol he does that already. Keeps me sweet.

I'm normally pretty good at standing up for myself it's just in this case cos I lied the first time it feels like karma.

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Originally posted by RENTON:
OMG STOP !!!

Just to let you know i did just this

I wanted to unlock my phone - you will lose your sent texts and possibly most others

Unless your numbers are SAVED TO THE PHONE - you run the risk of losing them too

BUT THEY WON'T TELL YOU THIS

... and get all your pics off that phone if you hae any cos they sent me a PAC unlocking code that jammed my phone and i lost everything

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Originally posted by spongebob squarepants:
i'm well up on this stuff trust me i'm a squarepants.....

that wasn't lying it was bending the truth...and it was faulty to mr skive cos he couldn't use it cos the keypad was too small...

therefore it wasn't a lie and it's all good....

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Originally posted by skive:

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Originally posted by spongebob squarepants:
i'm well up on this stuff trust me i'm a squarepants.....

that wasn't lying it was bending the truth...and it was faulty to mr skive cos he couldn't use it cos the keypad was too small...

therefore it wasn't a lie and it's all good....

haha I love your reasoning! Taking it back it is then!

Thanks for all your help everyone, I knew I could rely on you guys.

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Originally posted by skive:
Lol sponge

I've sent off an email to their online customer services so hopefully I can just show them the reply and not have to get narky.

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Originally posted by skive:
You folk are so good at helping out so I'm adding myself to the advice needed queue.

I bought Mr Skive a new phone for his birthday last week but he didn't like it because the keypad was too small for his fingers. So I took it back and said it was faulty and exchanged it for a different model.

Unfortunately I didn't realise the new one was a locked phone. He doesn't want to change networks and so we tried an onine unlocking service but they said they couldn't do it and had lots of trouble with this model (Nokia 7100 supernova).

Anyway today he tried several shops and only one said they could unlock it by sending it to Manchester for £30. The phone cost £60 so that doesn't seem worth it.

I can't take it back to the shop again as he's opened it and I already used the faulty excuse when I took the first one back.

Does anyone know what we can do? Can I complain to Nokia about it being locked to a network we don't want?

Thanks.

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Originally posted by queenshaks:
I've checked for you Skive and what I've read it's not possible to unlock this particular phone....you been duped!


Use Spongey's tactics and make a racket...

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Originally posted by 15:10:
These might help
One
Two

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Originally posted by queenshaks:
You're welcome


Now you really have a reason to kick up a stink.

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Originally posted by spongebob squarepants:

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Originally posted by queenshaks:
You're welcome


Now you really have a reason to kick up a stink.

i don't fink farting will help q....

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Originally posted by queenshaks:

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Originally posted by spongebob squarepants:

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Originally posted by queenshaks:
You're welcome


Now you really have a reason to kick up a stink.

i don't fink farting will help q....

You ain't smell my ones have you?

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Originally posted by skive:

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Originally posted by 15:10:
These might help
One
Two

Thanks 15:10, I'll pass the links onto mr skive as he's better at this stuff than me and I won't be able to take the phone back til after the bank hol now anyway.

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Originally posted by spongebob squarepants:



my cabbage one's are immense!!!...you've never seen aisle 8 in tesco's clear so quick.....