One of the main advantages when we "unlock" our phone is that it will work with any SIM card, from any carrier (telecommunication service provider) in any country, but the process of unlocking can take up quite a lot from our precious time.
Telecommunication service providers often lock the phones which they sell or include in certain services because of their desire to increase customer loyalty by hampering their free movement from one network to another, blocking those phones into their own network.
Your phone is locked if you insert a SIM card from another network provider and it asks for a network unlock code (not to be confused with PIN numer).
Orange Stockholm as it name shows (a device from the network provider called Orange) is a locked or blocked device. It's a fact. But on the other hand if you own a Huawei U8180, it is probably not locked.
So the question becomes available: How do you unlock your Orange Stockholm?
Well, you can't unlock your phone by installing CyanogenMod or any custom or stock ROM, nor by any known software, nor by rooting the phone (in that case you can only uninstall branded software). I tried it, so you don't have to.
It can not be unlocked by those so called free unlock code generators, which generate a code depending on the IMEI code of your device. I tried a dozen of them only ending up with a blocked phone, not willing to show the panel in which to enter the unlock code because of the large amount of incorrect unlock codes I entered into my phones.
In the end your asking: Is it actually possible to unlock it?
The answer is: Yes! The problem is that it is not free. There are many offers on the Internet where you only have to type your IMEI code, I'm not going to advertise them because they differ for every country/region, and after paying the fee which is about 10 euro or about 10 pound they give you the unlock code by SMS or e-mail, depending on the type of the service. Or you can also check out your friendly neighbourhood mobile phone kiosk, or GSM Shop for the same amount of money. You can get your phone's IMEI by calling *#06# with your mobile phone.
Remember: Don't waste your time with free unlock code generators, because at the moment none of them work. Paying 10 euro for the unlocking of your Orange Stockholm isn't much, and this way you won't end up with a blocked device which would cost more to unlock.
Thx bro
ReplyDeleteGreat! Thank you :).
ReplyDeleteHello again,
ReplyDeleteWhen I change sim card it doesnt ask to enter a code to unlock. It turns the phone as usual, but there is a exclamation mark on status bar. How to enter unlock code? Thank you
Hello, thank you for posting. The problem is that CyanogenMod 7 does not provide the field in which we can enter an unlock code. Hopefully in the near future developers will include this into the future releases. You could fix this by installing a stock ROM, unlocking the phone, and then reinstalling CyanogenMod. If you unlock your phone once, you don't have to do it again because it is permanent.
DeleteThank you for this information. Did you succeed in unlocking using a website? Can you give its address? Thank you.
DeleteI cannot advertise other sites, but feel free to google them, there are tons of these sites.
DeleteI tried two unlocking websites that both gave me
ReplyDeletethe same 16 figure code number, but it still did
not unlock the phone. Is the Orange Stockholm phone
totally unlockable?
No you can unlock the Orange Stockholm (Huawei U8180 Ideos)
ReplyDeleteLeave your OLD simcard in the phone and carry out a FACTORY RESET.
If you are not sure how to do this, visit the official Orange Stockholm
website which takes you through the steps. When you have reset the phone,
turn it off, remove the OLD simcard, and insert the NEW one. Turn on
the phone and you should see a white window with a prompt to enter
your 16 digit unlock code, tap the window and a keyboard will appear.
Carefully enter your code and press the UNLOCK button. THIS DOES WORK!