Can anyone confirm if my iPhone 4S has been successfully unlocked?

[Anonymous]

Evening All,

Sorry, I’m new here (except for a bit of lurking) and I need your expert help with unlocking my iPhone 4S.

It was obviously an 02 phone and when I tried a mates “3” SIM in it last month, it said something along the lines of SIM/Network not supported.

So when I got my new iPhone 5 I called O2 and requested that they unlock it with a view to selling it.  After a lot of toing and froing between O2 and Apple I received a text to advise me that it had been “successfully unlatched”.

To test this I got a TESCO PAYG SIM today and put it into the phone and connected it to iTunes.  However, I didn’t receive a confirmation window to advise that the phone had successfully been unlocked.  But the phone seems to be working fine with both voice and internet.  Can anybody confirm; is there a way to see if an iPhone is fully unlocked without having to stick in every other type of network SIM card into the **bleep** thing?  I just want to unequivocally state that the phone is fully unlocked when coming to sell via eBay etc...

Thanks in advance for you help, it’s appreciated!

Charlie

[Liquid]

If you can use another networks sim other than O2 you have been "unlocked" my friend:)

What size is the phone? I know a website you'll probally get a lot more money for it if your interested?

[MI5]

You need to be careful putting a Tesco SIM into an O2 phone as it is essentially the same network and I have used Tesco sims in a locked O2 phone before now. (doesn't always work the other way round though)....

[Liquid]

That I did not know:( thanks mi5

[MI5 · Accepted solution]

Same with Giffgaff, you can use those in a locked to O2 phone. Really need to check with a Voda or Orange sim unless you can check with USSD code on an iPhone, like you can with android?

[Liquid]

There's no legal way of doing it anymore:( apple locked it out

[Anonymous]

Thanks for the comments guys!  Will look to getting another SIM card to try it out.

Liquid, it's a 32GB iPhone 4S.

Cheers,

Charlie

[Anonymous]

will 4s please work on a virgin sim card?

[Anonymous]

Im in a similar situation. Been on an O2 pay monthly contract and bought a second hand iphone 4S from ebay locked to O2. However I also want to use it on the 3 network so requested O2 to unlock it. This is after I used the phone on my O2 card (after SIM swap to a micro sim).

Now it has been 5 days since I requested the unlock, if 3 could do the unlocking in 2 days, why is O2 taking so long??

[Liquid]

Unlocking can take up to 28 days unfortunately. As for why 3 can do it quicker 😕 maybe you were just lucky.

@pykey yes it will if the 4s in unlocked