hello guys how you doing in this video I
want to show you how to use the AT&T
device unlocked portal I'm getting a lot
of questions about what happened if my
phone does not qualify for the free
unlock service from AT&T I happen to
have a phone that actually does not
qualify this is the iPhone 7 and this is
an AT&T phone and let me try to unlock
it using the AT&T 4 so the first thing
we're gonna do is we're gonna copy the
IMEI number we go to settings
we're gonna go to general about and
here's the IMEI number so we're gonna
click on it and hold it win a copy
instead of going to settings and getting
the IMEI from here you can also go to
the phone app and dial star pound o 6
pound and you will get the device info
in this way to you cannot copy it like
this so you have to write it down or
memorize it or type it on the website
right there you can also get the IMEI
number from here but it's better
together from the settings because you
can copy and paste it we're gonna open a
browser and we're gonna type AT&T unlock
click go and the first result is gonna
be the AT&T portal
we're gonna click on it and this is the
page that we need guys so it says unlock
your device we're gonna click here
unlock your device we're gonna put that
we are not a customer of AT&T the IMEI
when I click and hold so we can paste
the IMEI number when I click here we are
not a bot they're asking us for bosses 3
ok so we verified and you can see that
the website actually recognized the
phone as an iPhone 7 a 1 7 7 8 we're
gonna click on this one that we agree on
the legal stuff and we're gonna click
Next so look at these guys look at the
message looks like you have been paid
off your device yet follow this step to
pay off your contract then wait 24 hours
before you submit a new request so
basically this phone is on
contract the initial owner bought it he
get a discount or he get like install
payments monthly payments on the phone
and they decide not to use AT&T anymore
and but they didn't complete the
payments so that's why AT&T is not gonna
unlock your phone if you didn't complete
the payments on your phone and that's
reasonable
you know let's try to do it on the
website just for the sake of it you know
so we're gonna click on a love to device
AT&T customer know the IMEI number is
already there I'm gonna paste it again
you're gonna select here I'm not about
oh and also yes I read the legal stuff
click Next and the same message appear
guys looks like you haven't paid off
your device yet follow these steps to
pay up the contract so what happened if
we click here though it's a check
Wireless contract or insulting
agreements and they find your contract
and they in order to do this you need to
have an account on AT&T guys go to your
econo review you see so you're gonna
need to have an account yeah you need an
18 my AT&T account you need a username
and password for this are the things
that people do is they actually go to an
AT&T store and they try to find out how
much they own maybe it's not a lot maybe
it's worth it there are websites out
there that offer you to unlock these
kind of devices the ones that are under
contract if you try to get this phone
unlock online make sure you read all the
instructions because some of them they
clearly say that they will not unlock a
phone that is under contract or under
payments so make sure that when you buy
something online that's here on eBay or
whatever it is that they will tell you
that they will support this kind of
phones actually if you do a google
search lets you say I type unlock code
iPhone 7
AT&T under contract and you will see
this first website it's called sell
unlock earth net so I'm gonna select the
model the iPhone 7 okay I'm gonna put
that is AT&T and I'm gonna paste the
IMEI number I'm gonna check unlock now
and look at these guys 5 to 15 business
days and they want to charge me eighty
nine ninety nine guys up I mean you can
buy these iPhone seven four
less than $200 now so what I'm gonna pay
ninety bucks to unlock the phone I mean
I have better chances gs-7 it as an AT&T
phone or as a cricket phone
these AT&T phones will also work with
cricket and any other company that is
using AT&T towers so let's try that done
so we're gonna try first with cricket
I'm gonna use a prepaid cricket SIM card
that I never used before and let's see
what happened guys you can see here the
searching in rare occasions you need to
turn off and on the phone but are
usually gonna pick up the signal from
here it says no service first and
anything you should change to cricket
right there guys you see it took a
little bit the cricket and this is the
other thing guys and this happened to me
because I cellphone sometimes you know
sometimes I meet with a person in a
public place and I tell them yeah this
phone is unlocked to cricket so they
want to put their SIM card you know and
they don't want to wait they want to
insert the sim and they want to see
cricket right away but you saw that it
takes a couple of minutes I mean it
doesn't take that long but it does take
some minutes so you can see it here so
whenever you do a transaction guys you
know be patient and wait for the look at
this and actually cricket send me a text
message to activate the line with them
they send you a text message with a link
when you click on it this is the way to
activate the sim car you see welcome to
Cricut you can activate it right there
let's activate your new phone on untied
we're about to breeze through this I
connect it to Wi-Fi that's why I can see
this but I just wanted to let you know
guys what happened when you put a
cricket SIM card on an AT&T phone is
gonna work no matter what the second
thing we're gonna do is we're gonna put
a AT&T SIM card this is for is gonna
work because this is an AT&T phone but
let's see how long we take to get the
signal no service so we can see the
pattern first is searching then it's no
service and then is gonna pick up the
signal AT&T okay perfect and you can
also dial 6 1 1 and AT&T is gonna pick
up no problem with that
alright so I want to show you what will
happen if you put a SIM card
from a carrier that is not AT&T in this
case we're going to use this Metro SIM
card and I wanted to see what happened
on the phone look at this
immediately activation required dismiss
hello sober up they completed and again
we are using the thirteen point two
point three which is the latest iOS
software continue is that it might take
a few minutes to activate your iPhone
it says sim not supported it's really
clear guys
sim not support I'm gonna try again sim
not supported so we can have you see
guys with Metro or t-mobile or any other
company Verizon only with AT&T cricket
and any other company you've seen the
AT&T towers right there's other
companies like h2o I think there's some
companies using AT&T towers so how can
we unlock this phone I think this
happens to me before and I kind of wait
like a month or something and I was able
to unlock the phone for some reason
maybe the contract expired I don't know
what happened but I wait a little bit
and I was able to unlock it for free the
other option is to pay like that crazy
amount of money to unlock it or the
other option is to just sell it as an
AT&T phone or cricket phone or I mean in
the worst case scenario just using it as
a Wi-Fi device you know you have a good
camera you can watch pictures and
everything as long as the iCloud is
empty the icon needs to be empty so you
can use it right yeah uses an iPod you
know whatever it is but yeah guys a lot
of people asking me hey I cannot your
video is bad because I cannot unlock my
phone I said on my videos that this is
not for everybody this is only if you
qualify for the free unlock and how you
qualify if you make all the payments if
your contract is off all that kind of
stuff for usually on the all iPhones
let's say before the 7 all the AT&T
iPhones usually you're gonna be able to
unlock for free because they're already
old but on the new iPhones you know 7
and up is gonna be harder to unlock it
for free because usually they're gonna
be tied to an account or under a
contract or under install payments so I
think that answered the questions of all
the people saying why I cannot allow my
phone you know now you know why and I
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