How to unlock galaxy note 4
How to Unlock Samsung Galaxy Note 4
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hi everyone Aaron here for Zolo Tech and
I wanted to show you how to unlock the
Galaxy Note 4 unlocking your phone has a
lot of different benefits to it and I've
actually unlocked devices in videos
before and what it allows you to do is
take a phone that's locked to a carrier
in this case this phone is actually
locked to AT&T it'll allow me to put a
sim in it from a different carrier such
as t-mobile or any worldwide GSM carrier
you can use it worldwide at that point
and with any different carrier as long
as you've got the SIM card for it so
this one's actually locked to AT&T like
I said and I'll show you that in a
moment but in order to unlock the phone
you'll need to do a couple things and no
it's not illegal some people have that
actual question for me and have asked me
that in the past it's not a problem just
do a little search on it and you'll find
that but what you'll need to do is
actually get your IMEI number and you
can do that by going into your phone
turn on the phone
go to your phone dialer and what you
want to do is just dial star pound zero
six pounds so star pound zero six pound
that will pop up the IMEI number now
you'll want to copy this down as
precisely as you see it here you want to
make sure you don't make any mistakes
get it exactly how you have it there and
then what you'll need to do is go to a
website that sends you the unlock code
now there's a bunch of them out there
some aren't as reliable as others I
actually used unlockriver.com
and they sent me a code pretty quickly
and I was able to just get the code to
unlock this but in order to get to the
point where you need to unlock it what
we need to do is turn it off and once we
turn it off I'm going to take this the
back off of it then I'm going to take
the SIM card well there is no sim card
in it right now but if you have a SIM
card in take it out and you'll need to
get a SIM card from a different carrier
so either that be Verizon t-mobile
someone that's not AT&T or whatever your
phone's locked - I've got my different
SIM card I'm going to put this in place
just slide it in here and you can see
it's in place now that my SIM cards in
place I'll just put my battery back in
pop the back on will boot it back up and
it's going to give me an error that the
Sims not recognized and it will give me
the option to actually unlock it
you can see the phone has booted up but
it's an invalid SIM card because it's
not AT&T and we have the option to
unlock or dismiss because we want to
unlock this just tap in the box and we
need to put in the number we received
from unlockriver.com where I got my code
now we'll put in the number make sure
you put it in exactly unlock network
unlock successful it's a little bit dark
but you can see that it's permanently
unlocked it will never lock again the
phone is completely unlocked and you'll
see right here
I will pull down and it says well the
SIM card is not showing yet but we'll
give it a moment and we'll go to
settings
we'll go to networks and you'll see our
mobile networks and here we have network
operators and in this case access point
names you'll see APNs we can add one for
whatever our SIM card is let me reboot
this device put in a different SIM card
and I'll show you that it works on a
different carrier now I've got my other
sim in it it's actually a t-mobile SIM
you can see right there there's two bars
not very strong in the area I'm in but
let's go to settings we'll go to our
mobile networks and you can see right
here it's t-mobile USA it auto
recognized it and the SIM card works
just fine now obviously you're going to
need to have an active account on
whatever SIM card you're using but
that's pretty much it now Verizon SIM
card won't necessarily work because it
may not have the chipset in it for you
unless of course this was a Verizon
device but in this case this is an AT&T
device I'm running a t-mobile SIM and
let me just pop this back off I'll show
you you can see the corner of it this is
actually a t-mobile SIM card right there
you can see so it's actually working
just fine and the phone's permanently
unlocked like I
said it's great to have an unlocked
phone especially if you travel worldwide
you'll have the ability to use whatever
SIM card you need from country to
country so it's definitely convenient in
my case I'm in the United States if I go
up to Canada I can just go buy a prepaid
SIM pop it in use it while I'm there and
not use all my data there's plenty of
things you could do as far as that goes
so that's how you unlock the Galaxy Note
4 pretty simple
I used unlockriver.com I'll leave a link
to them in the description below if you
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think as always thanks for watching this
is Aaron I'll see you next time
