anyone know anything about blocked/barred iphone 4's?

[sebo123]

ok so i bought a cheap iphone 4 unsure of its history,

assuming its blocked does anyone know what happens with the signal to does it say no servic when a sim is in or does it show the carrier with no signal? basically im looking for the tell tale signs to see if it has be blocked or not

[daveg1]

Do you know the network it's on? As it's nicked I'm guessing not?

[Manu]

if it says no service, then you have no service. Go to your service provider's shop or talk to Apu, err I mean Kevin your indian phone customer service provider who will send you on a tour of repeating the same story over and over again until you get tired and hang up.

tip: the sim holder shows the sim it's been locked to on the bottom side of it. Put the matching sim card or brick it.




TL;DR buy iphones from shops, or doorstops everywhere else.





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[iFurio]

if it says no service, then you have no service. Go to your service provider's shop or talk to Apu, err I mean Kevin your indian phone customer service provider who will send you on a tour of repeating the same story over and over again until you get tired and hang up.

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So bloody true, soetimes the service provider will hang up on you :L

[Manu]

So bloody true, soetimes the service provider will hang up on you :L

also true. Hello I am Wroberlt and aye vill be yourl assistant today.

[holdawayt]

Sounds like its been stolen and theyve remotely blocked the phone.

[devilsadvocate]

Sounds like its been stolen and theyve remotely blocked the phone.

This

I don't reckon it would show the carrier when blocked, you would likely get a message to say no service or similar.

Where did you get it from (back of a lorry?)?

[Manu]

Where did you get it from (back of a lorry?)?

+1

unsure of its history

then don't buy

/rocketscience

[GolfJay]

I'd never even think about buying an iPhone without knowing about where it came from. More than likely you've bought a very expensive iPod.

[Chico999]

There a guy on ebay that will take your blocked one, and give you a new one for £50. My brother done it when his got insurance scammed, bought it off mr.nahasapeemapetalon

[0110craig]

Once they have been blocked (reported stolen/lost) only the service provider can unblock them.
There is a way as previously mentioned with the "eBay guy" basically I'll save you £50 all they do is go to apples website, fill the online diognotics out and make it have intermittent signal, it will eventually diognose it as faulty and offer to send you a returns bag (if still under the 1 year warranty) you then get a new (refurb) iPhone sent within 3 days,
The reason this works is because Apple don't check blacklisting, and they put a sim
In see it says no service and that's it.
So in theory the eBay guy is charging £50 to fill out a couple of boxes on the net!