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[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] mr.pnutt:
If this phone is factory unlocked for any US carrier Sim card; then why does it have to be Sim unlocked?
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] autosurgeon:
Some were sold sim locked to Sprint and Telus maybe others that I am unaware of.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] mr.pnutt:
Well that sucks and defeats the purpose of calling a lot of phones factory unlocked.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] autosurgeon:
Well the ones you buy from essential or Amazon that are not from resellers and that say unlocked are unlocked. The ones sold though Telus and Sprint or from a reseller that is unethical are locked and may be unlocked via some less than ethical means that may fail.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] awireless:
Bro lol you keep using those kinds of words i don't know who did you wrong in the past but not everyone is like that sprint made a mistake with uicc unlock so they allowed all phones to be unlocked then essential made a mistake pushing out September update that's re-locking devices no ones unethical and the way everyone was unlocking phones was buy taking an ota update that's it. 99% of customers don't care if phone was unlocked by hacking the phone and changing nv items all people care about is if it works and actually if you unlocked your phone the "unethical" way from the begging your device wouldn't become locked again like the "ethical" way is doing.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] crankiro97:
Will this work on September update?
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] awireless:
Yes it will work on any update/security patch everyone can use it
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] autosurgeon:
I have had reseller unlocked devices have issues across several manufacturers. Sprint has made similar mistakes multiple times over the years. At this point I don't believe it's a mistake but rather laziness.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] awireless:
No one can argue with that sprint software is just awful so slow and there policies suck that's why we need to find a solution to fix these problematic phones such as these kinds of exploits just how the business goes no ones being unethical or anything re-sellers just try to make devices unlocked so anyone can use it and sometimes there are mistakes on both ends but we try and solve the issue personally like with the tool we provide :)
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] autosurgeon:
Your tool is a good thing for sure. I wish the US would move completely away from subsidy locked devices it would end these issues once and for all. Looks like they want to bring it back in a big way for 5g though. Bloody mercs.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] crankiro97:
Thanks, I'll try it since my network was locked from the last update.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Rwin01:
i have a phone that was locked after updating to android 9 , now i'm using the latest OTA update , i tried unlock v1.0.1 , my still locked (no service ) any suggestions !!!
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] awireless:
please do it again and when finished copy and paste the log so i can see it
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Rwin01:
i did it 4 times , i followed all the steps 1 by 1 and still no service , i tried 1.0.0 as well .

[MENTION=5788393]abena[/MENTION]rreg my telegram if you want a screenshot or logs
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] SuperBrolySSJ:
I got the Sprint essential phone today on Pie, will try the unlocker later
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] olipbo100:
Can anyone confirm the website. It looks like a scam service.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] grod46:
I got it, For some reason using USB C port on my laptop it wouldn't find the Com port, but using a USB C to MicroUSB adapter then using a MicroUSB to USB A Cord made it work, I just sent a PM to the OP with my NV Item. Going to update to Oreo Beta and then send another copy afterwards just in case something changes between them
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] bananameat:
lol I was about to ask about that since I used a USB C to A type cable but figured it probably wasn't the reason, turns out it was.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] grod46:
I can confirm they are sprint chat, after I finished with them they sent the Chat Transcript to my email like they always do when I live to chat with them, and they were able to do what no other rep was able to do and that was to unlock my phone, Sprint has who knows how many different sites up its not even funny, except the errors you sometimes get are pretty funny, Funny enough that I started posting them on Reddit

https://www.reddit.com/r/Sprint/comments/7m88ty/this_is_the_funniest_one_yet/

https://www.reddit.com/r/Sprint/comments/7kz2em/sprint_should_really_insert_a_title_there/
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] runderekrun:
It's legit in the sense that it is sprint. They did not let me out of my 50 days requirement though. I am really hoping this method pans out because I am sick of dealing with Sprint support. I was legit trying to give Sprint a shot at my business but I've had to call them twice and chat with them twice and my bill is still not right. I just want to port out and deal with whatever they try and charge me after. Sprint support SUCKS. T-Mobile's support was great compared to this, though way ****tier service.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] grod46:
Sorry to hear about that, I'm waiting for the oreo update to finish on my phone then ill send the second NV Item list over, Glad I got an iPhone X now so I can play around with my essential freely and without having to worry about data loss if I need to restore. And thankfully I took advantage of sprint's free year promo and have 3 Lines, Unlimited everything with an iPhone X Lease on one line and Both the X and Essential have insurance, 3rd line is my old Pixel XL I gave to my dad and ported his Cricket line over to sprint.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] rillo561:
I get this too, when I check 'diagnostic mode" I've even installed the drivers from the website. Don't even have 'ports' in my device manager, I'm guessing because the device isn't installed.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] grod46:
Try to use a USB C to USB A Connection or a USB C to MicroUSB Adapter, that's what finally fixed it for me
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] rillo561:
Thanks, don't have one unfortunately. I'll just keep trying and keep an eye on this thread.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Wredal:
Tried several times, finally checked the logcat. Looks like you can't invoke this option when you don't have a Sprint card inserted (see attachment).

I don't even own the Sprint card anymore, and unless there is another way to backup this partition it seems that I can't help.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] bananameat:
Wow I didn't know you needed a Sprint SIM card to show the menu. Thanks for figuring that out.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] tech_head:
I suspect that this method won't bear fruit.

Chances are they used some hash code with the file.

If they use a hash to generate the correct file, then without that hash a diff is pretty useless and says nothing.

I could be wrong and they did not use a ash code.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Wredal:
No worries, it is always some step forward. Let me know if you learn any other way to do the backup and I will be happy to help.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] whymoo:
[MENTION=4559752]grod46[/MENTION] Is your phone unlocked internationally or domestically? Have you tried using a domestic SIM? Did it work? If it did work with a domestic sim then, unfortunately, the lock status isn't stored in nv-data. I tried flashing every difference of your nv-data and my nv-data that wasn't different across my phone, the other locked phone, and your phone. That didn't work so I enabled airplane mode and flashed your whole nv-data, upon reboot, the invalid sim message still popped up this means that the unlock isn't stored in nv-data or for that matter on the server since airplane mode was enabled. Unless your phone is only internationally unlocked, I do not have an international sim to test with.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] slikerhael:
[MENTION=4248655]whymoo[/MENTION] I have two sprint essential phones. I picked up one before they started running the deal and even though it says its UICC locked and it hasn't been paid off, it works with my friends Verizon sim. Started recieving texts and phone calls when inserted. My other essential will always say sim not supported. If there is anything I can pull from either of my devices to help your cause I will gladly try!
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] jackzhu:
if we can go DIAG,which nv item is the key that done the sprint sim unlock?
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] cfclay:
How is that possible? Strange
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] runderekrun:
Some of the essential phones from sprint came unlocked. Not strange at all.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] cfclay:
Thanks I understand that some came unlocked. Maybe I misunderstood your post. Are you stating the phone appears to indicate it is locked but it works on Verizon?
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Timbaland7:
My phone is still locked by Sprint, but I sideloaded Oreo beta and now it works on Cricket wireless. I can confirm that it's the Oreo beta that is allowing me to run Cricket, and it worked on both Beta 1 and Beta 2.

I sent my phone into Essential to get my speaker grill installed and they did a factory reset of my phone (back to 7.1). When I got it back, it wasn't working on Cricket. After a few days of trying to figure out what happened, I sideloaded Oreo Beta 2 and bingo! Cricket works again. My IMEI shows that the phone is still locked.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] awireless:
Can you post log here there is no fail checker so if it fails you wont know it will keep going i need to see if its working and also so other people can see what its supposed to look like
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] SuperBrolySSJ:
So.. if we are on the September Patch of Pie, then the phone can't be unlocked and we have to downgrade? Or if not, then what? Just need some clarification.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] awireless:
use the tool and it will be unlocked so you can use on September patch
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] ceelos218:
Any of the Sprint variants take the Oct update?
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] jon_ybanez:
I'm anxious to know if it's safe to take today's update as well. My phone was SIM locked after the Sept update.

If i get any courage tonight/tomorrow, I'll backup, give it a try and report back.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] awireless:
I have tested it is safe to update to October security patch after using my tool you will remain unlocked.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] jDally987:
So wait, I read through the whole thread but this is confusing as hell.

Let me get this straight. I just got the Sprint variant (used) today, I think (at least it says so on the bootloader) - was on stock Nougat and used the 1.0.1 unlock tool. Now I'm on Pie and still getting a No Sim. (on Verizon)

So to make sure:

1. Does the 1.0.1 tool update to the Pie rom, and if that's the case, should it NOT be used for the sprint variants, since apparently Pie breaks the sim unlock on those versions of the phone?

2. If the phone is rejecting your sim, will it at least recognize there IS a SIM in the first place, but just say "no service" - instead of "No Sim" as if you didn't insert the sim at all?

(I ask because I got this phone from an owner who said it may have a hardware problem reading SIM cards, so trying to narrow it down)

EDIT: 3. also, once you successfully unlock the phone, will it turn the "Variant - Sprint" on the bootloader into "Variant - OPENUS"? I'm guessing not but jw.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] ziddey:
[MENTION=4738509]jDally987[/MENTION] it displays "invalid sim" if it's locked. "no sim" is a hardware defect.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Rwin01:
[MENTION=584916]ziddey[/MENTION] mine displays no service , how i can unlock it !!
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] jon_ybanez:
backed up my data. grabbed Oct 2018 OTA from Essential's site

rebooted in recovery, sideloaded OTA

after reboot, SIM still unlocked

I can't speak for downloading the OTA from the phone itself, but the above steps worked for me
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] awireless:
No service means sim card defected/not activated
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Rwin01:
the same card was working on the same phone and still works on other phones
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] awireless:
1. The tool downgrades the boot loader allowing to flash modemst1 and 2 this will unlock the phone as if its factory unlocked then it flashes the phone to android pie because its now safe to take September update which was causing the issue

2. I test the devices with an att and Verizon sim card when i put sim card in it will say Verizon if it says no service then its a defect with your sim card/not activated if it says no sim could be phone sim slot is damaged/sim card is damaged

3. No it will stay Sprint in the boot-loader i dont think its possible to change boot loader to openus

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Try to do a wipe data factory reset ive unlocked 100+ of these now with no issue
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Rwin01:
mine is openus not sprint
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] SuperBrolySSJ:
I have 2 questions:

1. Will the tool update essential to the September or October security patch?

2. will the bootloader stay unlocked, or will I have to re unlock it after I use the tool?
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] awireless:
1. The tool updates to android 9 right before September its the first build the September fast boot i heard is glitchy

2. The tool will re lock boot loader at the end

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This tool and thread is for sprint never had one to test on openus

If you used the tool you probably need to get the modemst1 and 2 from an openus device to fix it
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Rwin01:
mission impossible to get those files :(
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] tech_head:
No it's not.

I have copies.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Rwin01:
can you upload them !!!
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] tech_head:
The last post on page 21 of this thread:

https://xdaforums.com/essential-phone/how-to/discussion-brainstorm-sim-unlock-t3724135/page21

Remove the spaces from the link.

THat's at least one place to find them. I don't need to post them.

Search is your friend.....
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] ziddey:
The modemst images used to unlock spr variants were dumped from an openus device.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Rwin01:
no solution to unlock my phone !!!!! sprint won't unlock it because it is not attached to any sprint account .

openus variant locked after september update
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] ziddey:
openus variants are not sprint and are not locked. check that your network setting is appropriate (not set to cdma only or similar). otherwise, a factory reset / reflash may be in order. either way, it's outside the scope of this thread.

no service != simlock, unless it states invalid sim.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] jDally987:
[MENTION=9079296]awireless[/MENTION] [MENTION=584916]ziddey[/MENTION] thanks guys I guess it is indeed a hardware problem then. Good thing I made sure to buy the one with 30 day returns. (wish I would've used that 15% off one-day-only Ebay coupon on a working one, though)
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Rwin01:
sprint confirmed that my phone is locked to their network
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] SuperBrolySSJ:
The tool worked. Thx. So no matter what Android version I go to, I'll always be unlocked?
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] awireless:
Yeah it should never lock again
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] mexicandroid:
I got a Sprint Variant that Sim locked while I was flashing different firmware to get TMobile WiFi calling to work. I got the last owners Sprint Sim and let it sit for an hour and then I tapped on the UICC unlock option in settings and then it unlocked, restarted and then I was able to select Global settings and use my TMobile Sim. Do you think it could lock again or should I run your tool just encase.

Simply asking because in order to use TMobile WiFi calling I had to flash Oreo Open market Firmware, setup WiFi calling and then flashing the Pie update. I might also get rid of because for some reason it didn't hey the best reception on TMobile network and it gets annoying, plus I don't want the next owner to have issues with it.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] awireless:
Uicc unlock should be permanent thats the official way to go i would leave it like that it should be good
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Bad_MOFO_33:
Great work putting this tool together. I personally use Linux so had to create a .sh file based on your UNLOCK.bat file. Also updated the PPR1 directory to October update

heres the .sh file if you would like to include it in your zip https://drive.google.com/file/d/1r4pXvv28jsSUF_KWP6EOVQyDKoaQAj16/view?usp=sharing
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] awireless:
Thank you i will definitely add it!
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] thepolishguy:
THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

DANG IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I could not get those modems to flash! This worked!
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] thepolishguy:
So this tool flashes a modified boot.img ?

I just wanted to make sure I won't get an update that will break this and relock me on the Sprint network.

Thank you for the tool.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] awireless:
No it flashes necessary files to downgrade bootloader to android 7 which alows us to flash the modem files which permanently unlocks the device then just flash stock firmware
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] thepolishguy:
So, after I flash these modem files (I have already flashed them) - I am safe to take the OTA's from Essential?

Or, should I avoid them?

Sorry, just want to make sure I understand 95% of what I am doing. I used to do stuff like this all the time. Then I just got to old/to busy/to tired … So it has been a few years. And this is the first time I have dealt with an a/b partitioned phone. I have successfully unlocked (SIM card capabilities) with the modemst1 & modemst2 … I don't want get locked back into Sprint. (I guess the good news is I can always flash to NMK24B and flash the modems).

Thanks.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] awireless:
Yep good to take ota will not relock
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] lavin40:
This method is really interesting to me I would like to see it at work in a video if all possible if not that's cool
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] roca44:
Hi, im using the Essential Unlock v1.0.1 but my console get stuck at "waiting for device", the cellphone boots ok, but i can see that the USB debugging its on.

The cell phone reboots like 3 times, always had to press start with the power button.

Any help will be useful!

Thanks!

Update: I tried from another computer and it works!!! Amazing!! Thanks!!

Update 2: I updated via OTA, works perfect. Awesome work!!!
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] m3latino:
So I updated the drivers and connected my phone. As I restart it says your device software cannot be checked for corruption. It then reboots and that status on the tool says failure.

What exactly is wrong?

Please connect phone

< waiting for any device >

...

FAILED (remote: Device already : unlocked!)

finished. total time: 0.078s

---------------------------------------------------------------------

Use the volume buttons to select yes and press power button

Once phone boot's back up go and enable usb debugging

Waiting for device

---------------------------------------------------------------------

< waiting for any device >

...

FAILED (remote: Device already : unlocked!)

finished. total time: 0.109s

---------------------------------------------------------------------

Use the volume buttons to select yes and press power button

Once phone boot's back up go and enable usb debugging

The next step will take a few minutes

Waiting for device
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] arjunv:
Your device is already unlocked that is what it states.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] m3latino:
ok so when i insert another sim it doesnt work however.

also how can i close the bootloader since this app was supposed to do it.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] awireless:
It says this becuase your device already has bootloader unlocked as well as critcal when it says failed device already unlocked simply press power button on the device where it says start and the program will continue on it has nothing to do with the sim lock that will come later in the program once program done it will fix that error message by locking boot loader so just continue with the program
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] adop_19:
[MENTION=9079296]awireless[/MENTION]

The tool work with patch of november 5?
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Teevan:
So, I need some help...I flashed my modem files back in September to keep my phone on Verizon after the september update. But now i am looking to go to Sprint, and i thought it would be just a matter of adding my SIM card.

However, looks like its not that easy. I was trying to flash the old modem files to go back to where it was before the Sept update, but doesn't seem to be working. I can't connect to the network and get a 639e error. So does anyone have a copy of the modem files they can share to make sure that isn't an issue?
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] ziddey:
The modemst images don't cause problems on Sprint.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] enigma2446:
This worked for me for those who are having issues.

https://xdaforums.com/essential-phone/how-to/network-locked-update-heres-how-fixed-t3886418
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] darco24:
essential ph-1 bricked

Hello all .

I tell you that my phone is spoiled.

when downloading a rom a flashboot I disconnected the USB cable by accident, now the phone does not turn on,

as the connection to the computer it is seen as Qualcomm HS-USB QDLoader 9008.

now my question is how to run it?

I did not have contact to use QPST.

(sorry for my English 'translator' I'm from Poland)
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] awireless:
You need the firehose programmer which i doubt is leaked there probably is not fix.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] darco24:
you say firehorse programmer ... hmm ... a files (system) are under him to upload to essential ph-1 ?. someone was already doing it .... I looked at the xda change on this subject but no one put in what and how to do it
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] awireless:
Use QFIL with firehose programmer and repair maybe boot/fastboot from there flash full stock rom.

This is my understanding of how it works the only problem is you need the specific firehose for the essential phone which are extremely hard to get they need to be leaked from deep inside the company.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] darco24:
no massacre k and once there was such a program flashone 1.9 wonder if it would not go away. goes the weekend and I will probably spend it in front of the computer to look for solutions ?