Penners
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Hi All
I've recently upgraded my contract and as such I now have a spare HTC OneX which I'm planning on giving to the father in law. However when trying his sim it was prompting that there is a provider lock code needed to unlock from Orange.
Cut a long story short I called Orange who informed me it would be £20 and would take up to 16 days to receive the code via the post. First and foremost I own the phone so I was a little miffed that they would charge me £20 to use a device which I own etc..
So I thought the easy way would be to root the phone put a custom ROM on and voila ???
But no life isn't that easy lol I successfully rooted the phone and installed the ROM (cyanogenmod) but as soon as I launch into the new image I'm prompted with Orange sim unlock code again :-(
Is there any way to remove this lock? I heard a rumour you could read the hex and compile the code (but I wouldn't know where to start with Android etc..)
All help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks Penners
I've recently upgraded my contract and as such I now have a spare HTC OneX which I'm planning on giving to the father in law. However when trying his sim it was prompting that there is a provider lock code needed to unlock from Orange.
Cut a long story short I called Orange who informed me it would be £20 and would take up to 16 days to receive the code via the post. First and foremost I own the phone so I was a little miffed that they would charge me £20 to use a device which I own etc..
So I thought the easy way would be to root the phone put a custom ROM on and voila ???
But no life isn't that easy lol I successfully rooted the phone and installed the ROM (cyanogenmod) but as soon as I launch into the new image I'm prompted with Orange sim unlock code again :-(
Is there any way to remove this lock? I heard a rumour you could read the hex and compile the code (but I wouldn't know where to start with Android etc..)
All help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks Penners