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Locks ||||
SP Lock stands for a code your service
provider put in your phone to prevent the ability to use this phone with a SIM
Card different than the one you purchased it with.
This is due to a commercial trick:
usually, Service Providers sell phones and SIM cards together at a lower price
than the phone itself because they will earn from your telephone bill the money
they not charged you on the phone. Well, it's easy to understand they are not
very happy to let you spend such money with a different provider.
If you
ask a Service Provider to unlock your phone, it will ask you some money to
cover the income it will not earn from you.
The code your Service Provider uses to
lock the phone may be freely selected and so, theoretically, there is no
software which may calculate it. In practice, they often use an algorithm to
obtain a different code for each phone from their international code and phones
IMEI number (which are both unique), to avoid the case of duplicate codes.
However the code is stored in memory and
may be read with the right equipment and knowledge.
At very first, you need a PC and an
interface to connect your phone with it; second you need to know the memory map
of your phone (each phone's model has its own); now you're ready to make a dump
of the Eprom of your phone and read there the code you are looking for.
Little by little we'll collect info about
the above mentioned interface or memory maps, we'll add them to the page of the
phone it applies to.
 info@mytone.co.uk
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