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  • 09-02-2014 6:55pm
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    Pretzill
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    Hi

    Greenhorn question if anyone can help it would be great.

    So my pup got my phone - samsung galaxy pay as you go sim on the meteor network. It's not wrecked but there's some chew marks indented near the top of the screen.

    Now the OH has a HTC that he's never used - it was on the O2 network but he hated the smart phone and took his sim out to use in his old phone same network.

    Can I just use my meteor sim un the HTC or do I need to look for unlocking codes - and do I contact O2 or meteor?

    Thanks.


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    pah
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    Have you tried putting the sim in the htc? what model is it - it may take a microsim. o2 are mad for locking their phones to their network. test it first to see obviously


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    Pretzill
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    pah wrote: »
    Have you tried putting the sim in the htc? what model is it - it may take a microsim. o2 are mad for locking their phones to their network. test it first to see obviously

    I will.indeed just have to charge it up first - htc1 - yeah I feared that because originally the htc was wrongly put on the vodaphone network (in the shop we bought in over christmas ) and it was a bugger to change it to O2 - Is there a way to unlock a phone to work with any network?


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    pah
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    The htc one takes a microsim. You can usually change with your provider foc

    im confused. A phone doesn't get wrongly put on one network or another. if a network sells a phone they can simlock the phone to their own network.

    if the phone was locked to vodafone and you managed to get it working with o2 then i imagine it is now unlocked - it is highly unlikely that the phone would be then sim locked to o2


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    Pretzill
    Registered Users Posts: 4,683 ✭✭✭Pretzill


    pah wrote: »
    The htc one takes a microsim. You can usually change with your provider foc

    im confused. A phone doesn't get wrongly put on one network or another. if a network sells a phone they can simlock the phone to their own network.

    if the phone was locked to vodafone and you managed to get it working with o2 then i imagine it is now unlocked - it is highly unlikely that the phone would be then sim locked to o2

    Thanks for that Pah.

    Re: the phone being put on the wrong network - my OH hadn't got his phone with him when we bought the HTC and the shop checked his mobile number and said it was on the vodaphone network - we realised after it wasn't - I know most people would know their phone network - but we're not huge mobile users ;)

    But thanks for your help.

    Update

    sim works fine I was wrong about the model it's a vodaphone smart - hence the probs I had initially - thanks again!


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