[HTC Aria General] tongas:
No I don't mind since I was on your same place 2 days ago!!!

Let me tell you guys my whole experience.

I live at Mexico. My brother lives at Miami. 2 weeks ago, days later after the Aria was released to market I was looking to buy a without contract Aria.

Tried the HTC shopping site but I needed an AT&T number which I don't have. Bummer.

So I tried ebay and found this seller offering the Aria for 395 (pricey, I know, but I needed the phone right away as it was a present for the wife). His auction was closed so I contacted the seller and we talked over the phone and he delivered the HTC Aria in an unopened box to my brother whom flew the day after that to Mexico for a 1 week visit.

I have this phone since past Friday and was about 2 weeks before buying looking for info on how to unlock it.

As all of you might imagine and had experienced, there is little to none info on the internet about unlocking this phone. Most of code sellers ask from 15 to 20 to 25 and up to 30 or 35 bucks for a code.

I tried first to buy a code for 15 or 16 bucks from one of the first google search results (htcsimunlock with the com or sumtin like that) and thought, well whatever, worst it can happen is to be out of 15 bucks. Somehow the site couldn't complete the order, so in the mean time I was still searching the net for info about it. Traditionally I use google, but tried a yahoo search and found this and another topic at this forum xda-developers. Previously, I had registered to other android forums asking about info on the reliability of unlocking codes purchased on the internet (ebay, website, whatever), had zero feedback. Me my self have been admin of forums and developed some sites but when you get into something new like this you never know when you can be scammed, so I had certain doubts. Meanwhile wife got excited with phone and wanted unlocked right away.

I checked yesterday the ebay link posted on this topic. I read of course the whole listing and wrote the guy an email asking about the message the phone said. You can find my post above on this regard.

The guy has his email published on the listing but never replied back.

I went to read his ebay feedback and over 50k+ sales with 99.8% positive, but I am still reluctant anyway so tried the 'ask seller a question' thing. Hasn't replied either... that was yesterday. This morning I was waiting to hear from the many forums I've posted this same question, something about this deal, and the only place I had some replies was this topic an another on this same place ( usings aria on tmobile.

Before buying and still not being sure if this will work or not I have tried an ebay search and found another seller offering codes for the Aria too.

Both sellers I believe are reliable, I bought from the first one because of the postive 99.8% feedback and over 50k positive reviews (as stated by the original poster here) (by the way my first time buying something through ebay after 4 years of having the ebay account, so today I had my first positive feedback :cool:)

These are the two links:

I bought from this guy: http://cgi.ebay.com/UNLOCK-Code-AT-T-HTC-Aria-Android-Pure-Tilt-2-Fuze-/120587065425

An looks this seller has the same code for same price too: http://cgi.ebay.com/Unlock-Code-AT-T-HTC-Aria-8125-8525-8900-8925-/250661252067

I placed the order early in the morning and was waiting for the code all day. It arrive about 7 hours later to my email registered with PayPal.

Inserted the Telcel Sim card on the phone, turn on, unlocked screen, showed me the phone key pad and I inserted the 8 digit number sent (the code) based supposedly on my IMEI. Clicked on enter and VOILA!!!! Phone unlocked!!!

I just taked some pics with my too brand-new Milestone (this one I bought it unlocked, NAM version for GSM with negrielec, they stole my money but phone is great!)

Pics are below of the HTC working with Telcel, pictures taken minutes ago: :D (please read TELCEL GSM which is the mexican carrier I use). My wife is mexican and speaks spanish, that is why the phone is in spanish... enjoy :)

Hope this solves anybody doubts! I'm happy to help anyone, since there's less to none info on the internet regarding how to unlock this phone.

PS. got some replies from other forums while I was writing this saying the ebay unlock codes do not work, that's not true from my experience. Most of the trolls posting that, offered me to go sites that charge up to 35us for a code!!! (yeah right) I know the code can be obtained from AT&T for free, but I don't have AT&T and not planning so I don't mind to pay 10 bucks for getting a code and a working phone.