11-22-2015, 02:13 AM
A few months ago I unlocked my wife's and my iPhone 5 and got the congrats. Two nights ago we unlocked my son's 5, got the email approval with instructions about how to unlock and we followed the steps - no congrats that I again expected. AT$T provides a link where you can check to see the status of your approval process which did tell us we had successfully unlocked. Yesterday we went to a local cell service provider and bought a prepaid SIM which came with minutes (the SIM was essentially 'free'.) Popped it in and it was immediately active (and tested so, voice and text) so I knew the unlock worked just as stated on the status page.
We had backed up to iTunes and restored from the backup. We swapped the SIMs at the provider so it remained in the phone until after it was unlocked but I don't know that that matters. We did this out of the USA and will just pop our AT$T SIMs back into all of our phones when we return in a few weeks.
We had backed up to iTunes and restored from the backup. We swapped the SIMs at the provider so it remained in the phone until after it was unlocked but I don't know that that matters. We did this out of the USA and will just pop our AT$T SIMs back into all of our phones when we return in a few weeks.