and I wanted to show you how to unlock
your Samsung Galaxy s5 now this means
not unlocking the screen I had someone
comment on one of the videos I did
similar to this it means how to unlock
it to use it with a different carrier
you can see this is the AT&T branded
galaxy s5 and what if we want to use it
with a different GSM carrier around the
world so that means t-mobile in the
United States or some other prepaid
service or things overseas such as maybe
Virgin Mobile or orange or other
networks as well in the United States
it's completely legal to unlock your
phone this is an off-contract phone it's
completely legal to actually unlock your
phone and use it on a different carrier
and no problem there now other than that
we will need to know a little bit of
information before we do that and this
does help a couple things too as far as
resale and things so I've always done
that with my iPhones but let's unlock
this and what we want to do is get the
IMEI number so we'll hit phone and to do
that real simple
star pound zero six pound I had someone
comment also that's a hash mark in the
United States its pound or hash it
doesn't really matter it depends on your
view of that however this is the IMEI
number so what you need to do is find an
unlocking service and give them this
number and what they'll do is provide
you with a code now it may take a day or
two to get that code back but what
you'll need to do is in order to input
that code you'll have to reboot your
phone so let's turn this off wait for it
to shut down here and once it's shut
down I'll need to this one does not have
a sim card in it what I'll need to do is
put a SIM card that's not AT&T in it can
be borrow one from a friend it won't
hurt anything it just contains data this
is not an AT&T SIM card you can see it's
in place and what will happen is it will
notice that when we boot it back up so
let me put this back on turn the phone
on
it'll boot back up and it will notice
that it's not the right SIM card so wait
just a moment and you'll see what I said
let's see what I mean
again the AT&T branding that won't go
away you can see it says invalid SIM
card unlock and it says sim network
unlock pin now we can dismiss this but
we only get a few shots at this so you
don't want to get this wrong so we want
to input the code and in my case this is
specific to the device it won't work on
yours as well so so you can see I put
that in that code is in hit unlock
network unlock successful I don't know
if you can see that and it went away and
now it will attempt to find a network on
the SIM card you have you get one shot
it stays unlocked permanently it's it's
hardware built-in so you can restore the
phone reset it doesn't matter it's
unlocked permanently and we can set it
up on a different network or whatever
we'd like not