[Galaxy Note 3 General] midnite_blue:
onward...!

It's not getting harder, its getting more fun! For one thing, you received your phone!! And... it

is

going to unlock.

Congrats & Condolences. Congrats for having it in your hand... condolences that it's such a project to get it to work.

''

Blunder

:'' Not at all... not only is it OK, it's even better that you now have the MJ1 firmware build. I'll explain the experiment in more detail as we get findings, but J1 puts you right at the beginning of October, right after the N3 came out... Perfect! (Let's keep it at MJ1 for now.)

your report

: awesome, man! Nicely done. I meant to ask you, how did your sister get ahold of this phone... where did she get it from?

the sim's country of origin

: you raise a really good question, lion_sta. Like I said, when the phone first came out the unfortunate customer-facing Samsung staff were scrambling for information, spreading some rumors, starting others, working from a few lines of PR stuff Samsung (global) Electronics distributed, little more than the ''in order to optimize consumers' mobile experience'' spin we started hearing all over the world at one point.

Most customer service representatives were saying we could use a sim from any of the 37 countries in their company's version of 'Europe' to unlock these phones. Some were saying it had to be in the country the phone was built for. We've been trying for months to get someone out of one of Samsung's national offices to give us a clear answer in writing.

It would be a good experiment to see if 5 minutes of roaming phone calls with the sim of any one of the non-Romanian MCC's below would trigger the region-lock release.

Samsung's Europe

MCC

....

COUNTRY

276	.... Albania

213	.... Andorra

232	.... Austria

206	.... Belgium

218	.... Bosnia and Herzegovina

284	.... Bulgaria

219	.... Croatia

280 .... Cyprus

228	.... Czech Republic

238	.... Denmark

248	.... Estonia

244	.... Finland

208	.... France

262	.... Germany

202	.... Greece

216	.... Hungary

272	.... Ireland (+274)

222	.... Italy

247	.... Latvia

246	.... Lithuania

270	.... Luxembourg

278	.... Malta

212	.... Monaco

297	.... Montenegro

204	.... Netherlands

260	.... Poland

268	.... Portugal

294	.... Republic of Macedonia

226	.... Romania

292	.... San Marino

220	.... Serbia

231	.... Slovakia

293	.... Slovenia

214	.... Spain

240	.... Sweden

234	.... United Kingdom (+235)

225	.... Vatican City State

So...

next

: approach a stranger on the street who looks like they might be from one of these countries -- a tourist, business person or someone just visiting the fam for Christmas -- and ask them if you can borrow the sim out of their phone. ;) j/k

Yeah, you do need to get ahold of a 'European' sim somehow to complete the experiment, a sim with an active account with a carrier.

Anyone here have a suggestion for how lion_sta might do this?

I want to tell you, we may have to resort in the end to using one of the online unlock-code providers, so if you're getting impatient to be able to crank up the phone part of your new smartphone, that's cool, we can skip to that now.

But if you are willing to continue with the experiment, it could answer some questions a lot of us have had for months!