How to unlock galaxy s5 for any carrier
How To Unlock Samsung Galaxy S5 To Any Carrier!
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hi Otto from check for geeks and today
we're going to take a look at how to
unlock the Samsung Galaxy s5 to be used
with any supporting carrier worldwide
let's take a look
so the galaxy s5 is Samsung's latest
flagship device and it's a pretty badass
phone so we're running the latest
version of Android 4.4 KitKat along with
Samsung's newest version of TouchWiz
there's a 16 megapixel camera on the
back that shoots awesome photos in 4k
video there's a heart rate monitor under
that camera a fingerprint scanner on the
home button and unless you're like me
and you've already broken off the USB
charging flap it should also be ip67
certified water-resistant so this is a
great phone that a lot of people are
going to find a lot of value in I've
been using mine for about a week and
loving it the only issue is my my Galaxy
s5 is only for t-mobile it's locked to
that Network and my carrier of choice is
actually AT&T so what we're going to do
is plug in an unlocking code from our
friends at the unlocking company comm
and get this working on any carrier now
this is something that you can do with
any galaxy s5 no matter what carrier no
matter what country so you should still
be able to go to the unlocking company
comm get your code from them and use the
instructions in this video to get your
phone unlocked so let's get started
unlocking this one alright so the first
step we're going to take here is
actually finding the IMEI of the phone
and what the IMEI is is basically the
serial number to the phone and that's
what's going to tell the unlocking
company comm exactly what unlocking code
to send us so define that what we're
going to do is just go to the settings
of the phone we're going to scroll to
the bottom here and hit about device now
from here just can't want to hit status
and I'm gonna scroll down and right
below phone number you're gonna see it
says IMEI I'm not gonna scroll on any
lower because that's obviously the iami
of my phone but that's that's how you're
going to find it
alternatively what you could also do is
go to the phone dialer which is going to
be right over here you're just going to
want to type in star pound zero six
pound
once you type that it's gonna have a
little dialogue pop up with your IMEI
again I'm not going to type that in so
you don't see my IMEI but you know you
understand how that works so that's the
first step now we're going to actually
take a look at the website and see where
to go from there now that we're on the
website we're going to go ahead and get
started by moving over here to begin by
selecting your phone when I click on
your phone manufacturer is going to
bring a drop-down menu of and of course
when I click on Samsung and then your
phone model it's going to give us this
huge drop-down menu of all the different
phones
Samsung has made over the years there's
a ton of them scroll through and go all
the way to the bottom and hit galaxy s5
unlock code right here and then from
there you're going to hit get unlocking
code it's going to take you over to the
next page now over here it's going to
ask for a little bit more info so it's
going to ask for the country was
purchased from which i'm gonna click
United States and carrier of the phone
as I said before is t-mobile now right
here is where it's going to ask for the
IMEI I'll put that in and be right back
in just a second alright so I've put in
my IMEI and now we're at the final step
of the process this is where it's just
going to ask for our billing information
so you can see that you can pay by
either credit or debit or alternatively
if you prefer you can also pay by paypal
there's also a spot down here where you
can enter a discount code if you have
one and once all said and done all
that's left now is to play the waiting
game so now that we've got our unlocking
code what we're going to do here is a
pop out the battery and backing of the
phone like I've already done here and go
ahead and put our AT&T SIM card into the
t-mobile galaxy s5 again you can do this
with any carrier so it doesn't really
matter what you've got we're just going
with AT&T right now because that's what
I have a hand so we're gonna put the
battery back in put the flap of the the
battery door I guess back onto the phone
and let's power it back on and see what
happens now the phone is power back on
what we're gonna do from here is just go
ahead and unlock the screen and here you
can see it says sim network unlock pin
so what it's doing right there is is
asking us for that unlocking code that
we just got what we're going to do here
is just type it in it's going to be 6 1
4 2 607 for hit unlock you can see
network unlock successful which is great
news so now what you're going to see
it's going to prompt me to close the
battery cover which I
already done and now if we just give it
a minute for the network to pull in
right up here you can see it still has
that little cross shows no signal and
just a minute we should blow Network
again and there it is
so just moments later you can see that
that circle with a cross through it has
gone away and in its place is four or
five bars of service with AT&T as you
can see right there by the pull down
menu which is great news so the phone is
unlocked now which you are going to
notice also is that there's no data
indication so I don't have an H for HP
plus there's no 4G LTE nothing like that
so what we're going to have to do is
actually set up the APN settings for
AT&T or whatever carrier you have so to
do that what we're going to do is just
go to settings if you're going to go to
the gear network connections over here
you're going to want to hit more
networks and then you're going to hit
mobile networks and access point names
that's what APN stands for in case you
didn't know and what we're going to have
to do is just go online look up the APN
settings for AT&T put those in manually
just by hitting that plus button you'll
just go ahead and type everything in
it's same once you've done that you
should start to pull in HSPA+ or
whatever data is currently available to
you and what's supported by the device
so that's about all there is to
unlocking the galaxy s5 you know again
thanks to the unlocking company comm
it's a really simple procedure you know
for a very very reasonable price so
thank you guys for watching I hope you
enjoyed this video if you want to see
more videos like this for how to unlock
other devices we'll have more of that
soon as well as well as smartphone
reviews unboxings and other coverage
thanks for watching guys and I'll see
you in the next one
