calling all boffins
I have an old Nokia PAYG phone I want to use again. Can anyone tell me how to fool it so it doesn't think it belongs to the Sporange network anymore, and I can change it to Skodaphone?

I'm offering a whole cake as reward.

thanks!
(happylittletulip helpless and delicious, Thu 7 Aug 2008, 14:11, 7 replies, latest was 17 years ago)

Go to the market
and get it unlocked for a fiver
( disasterprone "Pyjamas caused the Holocaust", Thu 7 Aug 2008, 14:13, Reply)

^ yep
Orange suck for their phones though. They lock features out of the phone using the firmware.
(Ethelred is watching cheese grow, Thu 7 Aug 2008, 14:16, Reply)

Nokia phones
should be easily unlocked by typing in a code - no need to pay.
Linky for more info
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Thu 7 Aug 2008, 14:17, Reply)

@Ethelred: Probably true...
...though I'm reliably* informed that mobile phones are programmed almost entirely in Java. Anyone know how to connect a phone to a computer such that one could get at the source code? Then all we need is someone who actually knows some Java**.

Edit: Or we could just take the simple option and follow chcb's suggestion above.

*_{Probably not all that reliable
**I tried. But I was a bit shit at it.}
(LongJohnBaldry, Thu 7 Aug 2008, 14:18, Reply)

thanks for the linky chcb
will look into it!
(happylittletulip helpless and delicious, Thu 7 Aug 2008, 14:22, Reply)

@The Supreme Crow
Sorry to be pedantic, but they'd have to know Java bytecode.
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Thu 7 Aug 2008, 15:06, Reply)

I stand corrected...
...have to admit, I didn't think you could talk to devices using normal Java.
(LongJohnBaldry, Thu 7 Aug 2008, 21:32, Reply)