On 03/07/08 04:34 pm losttheplot@tesco.net wrote:

> On Fri, 07 Mar 2008 11:16:14 -0500, "Percival P. Cassidy"
> <nobody@notmyISP.net> wrote this with the utmost thought:
>
>> I have the unlock code T-Mobile sent so our son can use his phone with
>> prepaid SIM cards when he's overseas on a study program.
>>
>> Do we enter that code now to unlock the phone, or does he have to wait
>> until he has the "foreign" SIM card? Some Web sites seem to say that the
>> "foreign" SIM card has to be in place first. And if that is so, does it
>> unlock the phone only for that specific SIM card?

> Put any other SIM in the 'phone and then enter the code when prompted. Try
> and make sure it's a SIM from another network as other T-Mobile SIMS
> won't/may not ask for the code.

The instructions from T-Mobile say nothing about inserting the other SIM
card first or about being *prompted* for a code: they set out a bunch of
keystrokes to enter, followed by the unlock code they sent, followed by
more keystrokes.

Perce