topic Re: Unlocking Amazon fire phone in Android

Unlocking Amazon fire phone

Anonymous — Sun, 06 Nov 2016 11:28:55 GMT

How difficult is it to unlock an old Amazon fire phone so someone else can use it?

Re: Unlocking Amazon fire phone

MI5 — Sun, 06 Nov 2016 11:30:59 GMT

Depending on when you bought it either real easy or impossible.
Follow instructions here to find out http://community.o2.co.uk/t5/Other-Products-and-Services/Unlocking-an-O2-phone-to-use-a-different-SIM-card/ba-p/1014131

Re: Unlocking Amazon fire phone

Cleoriff — Sun, 06 Nov 2016 11:31:07 GMT

Hi @Anonymous We have had people on here who have never been able to unlock. O2 won't take responsibility for the unlock...(unless any change recently?)

Re: Unlocking Amazon fire phone

jonsie — Sun, 06 Nov 2016 12:50:47 GMT

To be honest I haven't seen anyone on here who have been able to unlock this phone, exclusive to O2 as was but between O2 & Amazon, they can't seem to or are reluctant to unlock.

Re: Unlocking Amazon fire phone

adamtemp64 — Sun, 06 Nov 2016 13:08:09 GMT

Posts here say o2 have unlocked scroll down to see the methods used to unlock on o2 http://spinyourfire.com/fire-phone-tips-and-tricks/unlock-fire-phone/

As long as the fire is showing in myo2 using the unlock form should work according to posters there

Re: Unlocking Amazon fire phone

jonsie — Sun, 06 Nov 2016 13:15:03 GMT

Should be simple but many on here have had problems but maybe they managed to get the phone unlocked eventually ?

Re: Unlocking Amazon fire phone

Cleoriff — Sun, 06 Nov 2016 13:27:31 GMT

@jonsie wrote:
Should be simple but many on here have had problems but maybe they managed to get the phone unlocked eventually ?

Thats why I posted 'unless anything has changed'. I didn't hear of anyone on the forum who managed it..

Re: Unlocking Amazon fire phone

MI5 — Sun, 06 Nov 2016 14:48:12 GMT

Early handsets sold before April of launch year, if I recall correctly, are impossible to unlock. Later ones are OK, hence why I said it depends when you bought it.