How to unlock galaxy note 5
How To Unlock Samsung Galaxy Note 5
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hi everyone Aaron here for Zolo Tech and
I wanted to show you how to unlock the
galaxy note 5 this is actually the AT&T
branded note 5 and in order to use it
with any other carrier we need to unlock
it so there's a couple steps we need to
do in order to unlock it and what this
will allow us to do is put a sim card in
there for pretty much any GSM carrier
worldwide so if it's locked to AT&T
right now that's all we can do but if we
want to use it overseas or say with
t-mobile in the United States or some
other carrier we can't do that until
it's unlocked it won't allow us and I'll
show you that in a minute
the first thing we need to do is get the
IMEI number so we're going to tap on
phone and then we're going to put in
star pound zero six pound that will pop
up the IMEI now that we have the IMEI we
need to go to a website in order to
unlock it so let's check that out now
now that we're at the unlocking company
comm we need to actually put in our
information about our phone so first
thing here is your phone manufacturer so
we'll scroll down to Samsung will pick
our phone model and we'll find the note
5 this can take a while because
Samsung's released quite a few products
so you can see here's the Samsung Galaxy
Note 5 unlock code so we'll click on
that we'll click get unlocking code
we've got a couple more options we need
to select the country purchase from in
this case it's the United States then
the carrier of the phone so right now
these are the supported carriers that we
can unlock with so we'll hit AT&T and
then we need that IMEI code that we had
earlier so go ahead and enter that in
here once you have that entered you can
see the price depending on where you
live in the carrier and then click on
get unlocking code once you're at the
next screen you just simply need to pay
and this has been pretty quick in the
case of this phone it took about two and
a half to three days to get the code
back sometimes it takes hours sometimes
it takes days just depends on how old
the phone is and if it's the weekend or
not that can actually slow things down a
little bit but really for the most part
it's it's within a couple days you'll
get the unlock code once you have this
information in place and you've paid
just wait for that email you'll get the
unlock code and then we'll move on to
the next step and I'll show you that now
now that we've gotten our unlocking code
back via an email from the unlocking
company comm what I need to do is
actually put that code into the phone
and now what I'll need to do is actually
turn this off so let's turn it off here
power it down and then we're going to
swap the SIM card and then once we swap
the SIM card to the carrier we'd like to
move to or really any carrier other than
80 in this case we can unlock it so
let's go ahead and pop the SIM card out
in this device it's in the top here so
we'll push this push this in here this
is the little sim removal tool they give
you pop the SIM card out you can see
it's an AT&T SIM card now that we have
that SIM card out we need to get the
other SIM card and it's actually in my
iPhone and since I'm reviewing this
phone I need to actually use it so let
me put my own SIM card into it slide
this away and you can see it's a
t-mobile SIM card so we'll pop this in
and slide this into place and power it
on there you go now it's going to take a
moment to boot up but once it boots up
it won't allow us to actually use the
SIM card because it will tell us it's
carrier locked and once you have the
email from the unlocking company you can
use the code they gave you to unlock and
I'll show you that as soon as this boots
up here so right now you can see it says
invalid SIM card so let's unlock it with
my fingerprint and immediately it says
sim network unlock pin so since we've
got that tap here and we'll go ahead and
enter it you only have a few attempts at
unlocking this so be careful so once you
enter it you've got about ten ten tries
depending on the phone to unlock it so
make sure you put the number in
accurately so I've got the unlock code
in let's hit unlock network unlock
successful there we go now it will allow
us to use it on whatever carrier we want
so it says auto update of time and date
it's going to connect to my carrier
which in this case it's t-mobile and
we'll give it a moment now I'm on Wi-Fi
so let's turn Wi-Fi off so we can try
the other one you can see it says 4G
right there so let's see if we can get
to a website
and I don't want to go to AT&T let's try
so low tech give it a second and we're
not on Wi-Fi now we're actually on
t-mobile so it's actually working and it
was that simple so once you've got the
unlock you can do whatever you need to
as far as the carrier goes now once you
have the unlock you're good to go and
you no longer need to worry about what
SIM card you're using as long as it's
GSM you can use it worldwide so I'll
leave a link to the unlocking company
comm in the description below if you
have any other questions or comments or
any experience with them please let us
know there as well they've been pretty
reliable for me so let me know in the
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always thanks for watching this is Erin
I'll see you next time
