yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] fluxgfx:
If you need to get SIM UNLOCK to use the phone with a different carrier you need to get an unlock code.

Unfortunately this isn't free. You can have this done by cellunlocker.net they require to get your IMEI to generate the unlock code for you device.

In about 2 hours from that point on you'll get an EMAIL with the unlock code. This will set you back by 7,99$ USD.

There you go you can now use your phone with any carrier afterward.

Cheers bud.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] shakash3obd:
Sorry about the misplacement of the thread.

I know that I need an unlock code, it's just that I away from USA for couple months and going back so that's why I don't want to spend money on something for only couple months.

I thought that there exist some method in this forum which will allow me and others to have our devices sim unlocked.

It's a shame that I am a programmer but I can't do it myself because I don't know from where to start so I can sim unlock my own device.

If someone is willing to guide me through some hacking tutorials, I will be very happy to learn how to hack myself and I would love to share my hacking work with others but the question is from where should I start.

still looking for a potential help if possible :)
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] fluxgfx:
No problem. The likely hood that you'll find what your looking for are quite slim to none at this present time. Cheers mate.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] pck25283:
Use www.cellunlocker.net

I unlocked my ATT HTC One X through them.. They are legitimate and the code they provide works .... cost abt 11$... but definitely worth it... they sent me the carrier unlock code in abt an hour...
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] redpoint73:
There is no free method at this time. Some folks are working on it, look for the thread in Development. But at this time, you will need to use a paid service if you want it SIM unlocked.

It only costs $11. What's your alternative, not use your One X for a couple months? Even if you have a backup phone that is SIM unlocked, my guess is that you will end up wishing you had spent the $11 so that you can use your awesome One X!
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] veliksam:
$7 on Ebay, i got my code in a matter of minutes.

Sent from my HTC One X
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] lamenramen:
Is this unlock code a permanent same-as-factory-unlock carrier unlock? In other words, flashing some type of radio, rom, boot loader, etc will not re-lock this phone to a carrier?

How do these services and ebay vendors get an unlock code? I'm not looking to do this myself, but I just thought that these phones have unlock codes that are controlled by htc and held in some database. So I'm not sure what these companies are doing.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] sharp2G:
unlock code bought online = unlock forever even if you factory reset or w/e you kids do with your smartphones these days.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] veliksam:
^ What he said, permanent.

Long live the One X
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] shakash3obd:
Thanks to everyone.

I will just wait because I am carrying 2 devices with me all the time anyway so it does not effect me at all, I thought there is a free way, plus I am going back to the US in few weeks and I will be using AT&T again.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] veliksam:
For me $7 is less than 2 packs of cigarettes, so to me it's like free ;)

Long live the One X
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] anethema:
Ya not doing it because you don't want to spend seven dollars is pretty crazy IMO
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] theking_13:
Even if it wasn't permanent, its not like the unlock code changes if you flash a radio/rom, you'd just have to re enter. :)
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] ThePhoneGeek:
I just want to know how to do for the sake of knowing how to do it... I figure there's several services out there that do it and all the ask for is the carrier and IMEI so there must be fairly easy way to do it...
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] Vendetta-NY:
?

If I've ever had a legit need to sim unlock, such as overseas travel, I simply call my provider and they just tell me the code.

-V
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] garciajose8:
I paid 10.99 over at cellunlocker.net. In about a hour i had the unlock code. I have use them for all my cells and never had a single issue with them.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] veliksam:
Oh man, you got ripped off, $11 is tooooo much!!!! :p

Long live the One X
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] danielsaenz:
How did you guys get them for so little? Least I've seen is $15.

Sent from my HTC One X
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] MarkMRL:
I updated to 404, and kept it for a week. Now I'm back on GB and oh man it's so much better.

Why is ICS so freaking horrible on this phone?

Compared to GB, ICS is buggy, slow, unstable, unresponsive and prone to hang.

I don't know what you use your phone for, but with mine, I used to play games, browse the web, and listen to music, other than normal phone usage for calls and SMS.

The browser on ICS is pathetically slow and unstable compared to the one in Gingerbread. In GB, you could actually run 720p youtube videos in desktop mode page and it would actually work perfectly. If you do it on ICS you risk hanging your phone and having to remove the battery. Either that, or the browser either crashes or becomes extremely unresponsive to the point even haptic feedback on the back and home buttons becomes delayed. On certain complex desktop pages, swiping becomes unresponsive and responds up to a full second late. Try this on the youtube desktop page or any other big page. Also, the new ICS browser tends to close on it's own for no reason, and as far as I know, there is no way to go back to the home page using it. The only way is to open a new tab, go back to the tab page, close the old tab and switch to the new tab. On the old one all you have to do is simply close all tabs and the browser would automagically put you back to the home page.

Games used to run fairly well on GB but in ICS they are so much more laggy. Some games that were perfectly fluid and playable are choppy on ICS, for example, Wind Up Knight, Let's Golf 3 (which is unplayable), Asphalt 6. The Angry Bots tech demo ran well on GB but it lags like there is no tomorrow on ICS. Another game that used to work perfectly in GB is Riptide GP, after I updated to 404, the game tends to hang the phone after a while, requiring a battery removal.

Other than this, the ICS update has several bugs including malfunctioning led notifications, no compass in google maps (this basically renders google maps unusable), and general clunky feel when scrolling through homescreens, when in GB the whole thing was smooth as silk. Even using a live wallpaper couldn't make the phone slow on GB, while on ICS it looks like even moving a bunch of icons is too much for this phone to handle.

Sure, ICS adds some eye candy such as the NXT theme which I really like, an animation for screen rotation, but I'd rather have a functional phone than a pretty but slow, clunky, unstable phone.

Again, I have no idea why you guys love ICS so much, GB is a lot better in every way imaginable, and as an added bonus, you can use all the Xperia S stuff on it without any problem, including the beautiful new music player.

ICS is simply a slow clunky mess which barely works. I'd love to know why you think it's better than GB.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] lokenok:
not true .. it is laggy because it runs on 1ghz .. imagine if ur phone had 600mhz .. laggy as hell but weirdly htc desire c ... can run ics

be lucky that sony actually updated ur xperia ray unlike scamsung they didnt update the galaxy s to ics because its specs cant handle it but it has same specs as our ray

hope u understandd
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] jjdoctor:
This is the reason Sony wont provide more updates when they see such threads.....:rolleyes:

Remember what they did to XPeria Play users...?

Sony released a Beta ICS for Xperia play and all users started complaining games are laggy !!, it sucks!!, ICS is fail!!... the end result was Sony cancelled ICS for Play..
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] sameq:
You are wrong ics runs super smooth on galaxy ace 800mhz older gen cpu
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] MarkMRL:
You are wrong.

The user has every right in the world to complain if something doesn't work properly. I don't think the users complaining has anything to do with Play not receiving ICS.

ICS on Ray is slow and it is much worse than Gingerbread for whatever reason. Maybe our phone is not powerful enough to run ICS in the first place?

Also, I would have preferred an update to Gingerbread with all the Xperia S stuff and gingerbread 2.3.7 to this ICS which is exactly the same as gingerbread for the most part, only much slower and buggy.

A smartphone should be all about ease of use, if I have to resort to modding and overclocking to get the damn thing running at an acceptable level of performance, there has to be something very wrong with it.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Derzis:
Sony did offer an explanation for this: ICS was made for a dual core phone with 1 GB RAM

:rolleyes:

although ICS is new and compelling in many ways, we would like all of our users to make an informed decision when selecting what Android™ software to use. We are actually proud to say that our Gingerbread software is very stable and has great performance, so it’s not a bad idea to stay on this release. Ice Cream Sandwich is more intensive, for example in terms of resource usage.

When it comes to ICS, it’s a major upgrade of Android™, and there are a lot of things that have changed compared to the Gingerbread release. Some of these changes affect the performance and stability of the system, for example by using more CPU power and RAM. ICS was developed with Galaxy Nexus in mind, which is based on a TI platform with dual-core processor and 1GB RAM

http://developer.sonymobile.com/wp/...nical-differences-between-gingerbread-and-ics
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] rikee:
Phone is phone

Game console is game console

Phone is not a game console, and you would not get same experience....ever.

ICS is overall much better and functional than GB. Who wants to use 3.3" display for gaming has some serious mental problems :banghead:
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] costicladk:
Try custom ROMs :P

I have SE Xperia Ray and try almost all options (rooted/unrooted with custom ROMs or not) sincerely Stock firmware a little laggy in browser or then multitasking particularlry at version 4.03 BUT at 4.04 i see it a big difference in smoothness the OS is much stable. The big problem now is 512 RAM, problem until you root your phone and install custom ROM (you need to unlock bootloader without loosing DRM data) delete aplications who work in backround you really didn't need them like update, livemanager I was very happy when i unninstaled Gmaps that all time worked in background even if GPS off, and now I use Igo for GPS Navigation. Now I have KA20.2 ROM and I can you assure the phone are so smooth and stable. My advice: root your phone, unlock bootlader with a safe method ( I used S1) a install a custom ROM, here on XDA you may found so many nice performing ROMs, and of course remove useless aplication who work in backround and eat your precious RAM. And of course before you unlock bootloader and root the phone, install cwm, read the guides, exists a risk, you know so you need to be informed how to unlock bootloader, root your phone, use fastboot and flashboot mode, of course in the case you never rooted a phone.

Best regards.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Icel.me:
YMMV

On my device I didn't encounter any bugs, lags or poor performance with the ICS.

It's stable, runs smoothly and has the same battery life I had with BG.

One can't say for a fact the ICS don't run well on this device, since other people have different experience with it. A person my note his personal experience - and it's just fine to do so!
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] paolinhos:
Where i can find i go navigation? it's free?
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] sirkay:
play games on ICS? ahaha you make me laugh. small screen but still eager to play games? LOL. go get Xperia Play mate, it build for gamers. i feel sorry for you then. GB is history for me. you'll never move forward if you keep looking back. neway, enjoy your phone mate ;)
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] muppetmania:
@MarkMRL: That's been my experience too, though I don't play games.

I haven't tried the latest ICS though, which people report as being much better.

I moved to CM7.2 - it's very fast, with lots of great features the stock ROM doesn't have.

At the end of the day use what you're happy with :)
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] MrTapa:
ICS is not buggy but it needs time.

Ok so 1.ICS is better looking cause gingerbread is a pain to ur eyes

2. Its better optimized than gb games are slightly better

3. It is not just for non rooted phones. Like it needs lots of optimiztion. Cuz stock one ahs lot of procceses and u have only 50mb ram free at all time so thats why is laggy. But if you supercharge or smurph out you ray-bam its perfeckt:)

I have 130 apps lots of procceses running at backround 5 HD games i play and i still

have 120 mb free ram so.. you have wrong thoughts about ics on ray...
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] firzenfrenzy:
Hey man I was in the same boat as you, when I first upgraded to ice I asked myself WTF is this **** and I really hated it, it was slow as hell and laggy but you got to know that developers know a lot more than you and that everything happens for a reason. Sorry but you come across asa huge cry baby

A few weeks back I was almost in the same mind set as you are in right now, I thought gingerbread was the best and ics was just crap but boy was I wrong

follow these steps and il bet you'l make another thread about why you love ics this time

I bet you your device will be faster and better than gb now, also its not the end of the world so be patient sony will make it better with each update and please, if you want to game that much why did you buy a phone with a 3.3in screen bro? Pm me if u have any problems

Oh also use root explorer or any other app similar to uninstall the se bloatware crap, I always have 150-120 free RAM always now, plus ics seems to have ajdusted the internal memory a bit

Its better than gb (coming from someone who hated ics 2 weeks back)
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] MarkMRL:
This is not a "phone", it's a smartphone. It should be able to run games and internet browser. And 3.3 inches is more than enough for those silly smartphone games. Every game I tried is perfectly playable and looking good too. I'm not a "smartphone gamer" (just the name makes me cringe), but I enjoy wasting some time with those little games every now and then (I also have a PSP, DS and PSVita by the way). It annoys me that I was able to play certain games before but not anymore.

The point is that I was able to do all of that when I bought it, but now I can't do it anymore.

Are you telling me your Ray has fully functional led notification and compass in google maps? Or that you can watch 720p youtube videos in the browser (or equivalent heavy browsing) without the crappy thing slowing down to a crawl or locking up entirely?

And no, I'm not crying I'm just stating facts.

Also, firefrenzy, that's exactly what I did when I updated to 404. I know all there is to know when it comes to installing stuff, I have unlocked bootloader and installed a stock kernel with CWM I found on this board, and also supercharged to 100%. Still horrible. I haven't tried ICS custom roms yet.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] firzenfrenzy:
i dont know about the compass in the maps because i dont use the google maps ever, but i have no problems with the led notification or lag when playing hd video through browser, i have multiple tabs, of xda developers and another bodybuilding forum tabs and im using whatsapp messenger and normal messenger with my earphones plugged in listening to music altogeather at once on an almost daily basis and im having no problems, sure all that is slurping away my battery but that is understandable, only issue i had was i could not charge the phone when "switched off" the phone used to go into a bootloop, but the awesome people here fixed that too

BRO TAKE OFF ALL THAT STUFF,CLEAR ALL CACHE AND DATA AND START OVER FROM STOCK, ICS IS BETTER THAT WAY

AND WHAT DO YOU MEAN UPGRADED TO 4.0.4, SE'S OFFICIAL IS STILL 4.0.3
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Aiwa:
ICS was smooth for me & it's smoother now i'm on JJ's Hybrid ROM.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] paolinhos:
Try a custom rom...
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Vidurs:
Run on 4.0.4 Original rooted with all bloat remove, including all FB stuff. It runns realy good. Sure get a redraw some times after surfing on some heavy sites or a long driveing session with waze. But in may normal daily use, read e-mail, check calander and make phone calls it runs realy well and lag free.

But the Sony dailer is crap, I use exDailer & Contacts, much better and faster.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] nuttkrakk:
This toic should be moved to general. Unless it helps developers in some way which i have a hard time believing.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Ridho1:
Try all custom ROM before you create a thread like this.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] sucker for sony's:
I have none of these probs with ics on my phone it works perfect, I don't know why you guys have such a prob with it? theres now way I'm going back to gb. Talk about "I want the moon on a stick". At the end of the day its just a phone so as long as it does what a phone is meant to and makes phone calls where's the problem, you obviously aren't keen on gb why else would you try ics which btw is still in the early stages of development so rather than moan like my mom try to be patient and not put developers off from developing a rom that works, posts like this will do you or anybody else no favours.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] ZN6:
I would like to taste new jelly bean android on my ray and you still stuck with GB:)

Come on man ICS is already stable on our ray but with a little bug, the UI itself make me upgrade to ICS. Im not fan of gaming but some heavy game like Modern Combat 3(play coz of online multiplayer) still running smooth on ICS. GB will be vanish soon from 2011 line xperia.

Looking forward for something better:)

ZN6.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] costicladk:
It's not free

Nope It's not free, but the kit with crack exists :)
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] absbrain:
My thoughts exactly...until I tried custom ROM

Bought Ray with 2y contract and made promise to myself to not mess with it, because I don't have time for that, and I would lose warranty...

Great phone with GB, when Sony made available ICS, made the upgrade, and instantly phone was horrible, just like you said...BUT XDA came to rescue...

Unlocked phone, unlocked bootloader, tried MIUI, Rayonioum, JJ, ... and it is much much much better, there's no way I would go back to GB.

Now I'm using Arcatarc ROM Superleggera V2, which for me is perfect, you get just the most basic system, and you can put packages as you need.

Main problem of Sony's ICS is bloatware, nothing else, and once you rid of it, it simply flies
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] sameq:
I tried almost any ICS rom and every rom is laggy like stock. AOKP was very smooth but scrolling was sometimes laggy and u can fix that by rotating phone to 180° but srsly who the fck is holding phone upside down.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Warst675:
Like MarkMRL, I still prefer GB rather than ICS.

ICS 4.0.4, even with all the tweaks hansip and other bros. provided to us, a fantastic aire's OC kernel, a deep bloatware removal and some bugs correction, has worse performances than 2.3.4 in media sampling and playing, HD gaming, clients syncronization.

I like so much the new UI, the new text editing functions, the "polished" browser, the far better settings menu, a slightly faster gallery and a good multitasking management, but these lovely features can't compensate for poor performances and are also nearly achievable in GB by modding the rom.

On the other hand nobody at this moment can obtain GB-like performances in ICS, so I still prefer to use a perfectly working 2.3.4 that, with various tweaks from this forum's great developers, a good kernel and some (veeeery very little) personal work, is actually making this Ray an incredible phone.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] hassan_eldhraawy:
I've updated to 4.0.4 yesterday and this is it .. NO PROBLEMS AT ALL ..

I think it's faster now with more free ram and more stability\

camera is perfect no wifi problems just nothing ..

I've used Sony ericson update service and wipe all my data to do clean update ..

I advice everyone to do update :)
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] buguk1010:
i'm using 2.3.7 on my ray for a month now and i must say i'm pretty happy with. got nothing against ics, but i don't see myself flashing it back again in my phone.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Ridho1:
2.3.7???? :confused:
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] trasmatero:
2.3.3 (4.0.A.2.368) is incredibly fast and smooth in comparison to ICS.

I hate ICS, yes, it's beautiful UI, but camera app sucks, green notification led does not work in 4.0.4 :confused:
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] yujin_11:
I haven't got any problems with the camera, wifi, browser, etc.

it's just that the gallery doesn't update as quick as GB (porn and other stuff still shows even when they were locked up), and the LED doesn't flash (not much of a problem for me)

I'm on Nova Launcher BTW
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] duxxyuk:
I miss the working compass on google maps ... Why doesn't this work on ICS on the Xperia 2011 devices ???
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] yujin_11:
you could get MapDroyd :)
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] weedpuff:
good to know, no more porn on Ray ICS hahahahahah:p
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] sirkay:
btw, how do you define GB-like performances?

laggy scrolling? - i dont have that

better fps? - i got 71fps avg in 3D

launcher redraw? - never face it

i simply enjoy my ics performances with new adreno drivers, tweaks. i dont even think to flash back to GB. running 806mhz max cpu still i feel smooth
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] bruj4h:
@ sirkay

Your Official 4.0.4 mode with XRay Kernel v7.2.6 is modified or you simply changed the kernel?
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] sirkay:
official ics with bloatware removed. keep only what i need
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] swam87:
Although I am past ics and the phone is buggy browser wiifi disconnection problems, the app will not be ichiudono or use the KA mod 20.2 I recommended a good mod to work? with the same performance in 3D, but ics official sony has new drivers adreno? sorry my english I'm Italian
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] efx_d3:
my phone works as the friend says, I have not had much problem, it works pretty well, and for me, much better than GB, not because you have these problems
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] yujin_11:
I still do have it, it's stored in my sd card :p