Tag: IMEI

Understanding Phone Unlocking

In mobile repair the term unlock can mean many different things, when I started doing unlocks in 2008 the term unlocking meant that your phone was locked to a specific carrier. These days an unlock could mean you need an IMEI repair or an FRP Google lock removal.  In this article I am going to…
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The Delicate Art of the Network Unlock on a Smartphone

Unlock is a term in our business that often means several different things to the customer, but most people understand that in order to use their carrier branded smartphone or tablet somewhere else it requires an unlock. In this article, it means a network unlock. All major carriers in the US, except Verizon, have network…
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