yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Desire General] lurbi:
Success!

Had to try 4 times (with CD).

4 times "Done" message by the program.

1 time nothing happened, 2 times the phone rebooted, but was not unlocked.

4th time it worked.

thanx!
[Desire General] juanchotolas:
Wildfire

Tried this like 15 times on a Wildfire, it doesn't work.

If you could manage to make this work for the wildfire, I'm sure you could get a lot more beers!

Thanks anyway man, appreciate your effort!
[Desire General] qwsdder:
Thank you. Worked first time even though I got error messages before the golden "done".
[Desire General] sheaky:
does this means we can use any sim card on desire? i have desire t-mobile

one more Q, can we make a bootable USB instead of making a cd, these days booting with usb is very common .
[Desire General] lurbi:
You have noticed that you are on the desire gsm section?

BTW it also does not work for nokia3110 :-)
[Desire General] lurbi:
Yes

@USB yes as mentioned here before
[Desire General] DarkInovator:
I am never wrong, if something works for some users and doesn't work for you under the same conditions YOU ARE THE FAILURE not the method!

Read and learn b4 you ***** about everything.
[Desire General] slimag:
worked after eleventh try ;) tried via virtualbox (with and without cards) 8 times with no luck, then ive tried usb method. at first with no card - no errors, no success. then with foreign card two times without rebooting phone between tries (second try have many many tty errors) then rebooted desire and new network name was right where it suppose to be :) thank you so much!

one question though because i havent found anwser - is it permanent method? will my phone be unlocked after update using official update files? or radio?

one thing more worth to mention - phone never rebooted itself after "unlocking" even after last time when it worked.

for stats: desire with cm7 nightlybuild41, cm7 hboot (0.93.100), radio 5.09.04.30_2 simlock orange PL (not anymore ;] )
[Desire General] sieempi:
The thing is that the app is doing it's stuff without getting feedback from the phone (hence these false positives..I don't have time to solve this right now..). Everyone should manually retry (by rebooting both the computer and the phone) if it didn't unlock the phone from the first shot. And as I said, it should be permanent.

Thanks for the sharing your info.
[Desire General] juanchotolas:
Hahaha yes I'm aware of that, was trying to answer the questions of the other members that have a wildfire and were trying this method, and maybe help so we can all enjoy htc sim-unlocking tool for every htc phone!

Also in latin america, the wildfire is named Desire A (don't ask why), which made me think that these phones were related.
[Desire General] jmarden:
Ignore me, was a stupid question ;)
[Desire General] moroccan_hack:
nice job man go ahead

nice job man go ahead
[Desire General] Trugglepunts:
bought a new desire and this was the first thing i did, worked first time :)

thanks a million!
[Desire General] rolandalbert79:
Awesome

Hey it worked as a charm for me. Good job and thx alot! Keep up the good work:)
[Desire General] ems1234:
Right I now have an unlocked but orange branded htc desire.

The phone is rooted. But my question is how do i put on the new cynagon 2.3 roms on it?

Anyone kind enough to give me some simple instructions or pointers on how to do it?

Thanks in advance
[Desire General] AVAIL:
Hello friends,

To be a friend that this method works perfectly for the HTC Desire, but you know if it works also for the HTC Wildfire, or in your case there is a similar program and specific for the HTC Wildfire.

Thanks.
[Desire General] EraserHR:
Is there a possibility of bricking the device if I try this? If so, what are the chances for that to happen?
[Desire General] sieempi:
None
[Desire General] *damo*:
It doesn't work at all for me, it won't even boot up :L
[Desire General] Crustyloaf:
Firstly, and most simply, have you set your PC to boot from cd?

If yes, then have you created the cd properly? You must burn the iso image file to create a bootable cd and not just put it on the cd as it is. Somewhere in your burning program there will be an option to 'Burn Image' or something siimilar. Use that.
[Desire General] Crustyloaf:
The simplest way is to get Rom Manager from the Market. Before you flash any roms flash ClockworkMod Recovery to your phone from the Rom Manager program (if you haven't already done so when you rooted the phone).

Next I would STRONGLY advise you to backup your current rom using the option in the Backup and Restore section. That will allow you to resore the phone to how it currently is in case something goes wrong. You can then go to the Download ROM section and download CyanogenMod 7.0.0-RC1. That is the Android 2.3 version. Click on the option to also download Google Apps. When the rom has dowloaded the rom and wants to instal you MUST use the Wipe Cache option or it probably won't work properly. Note that this will delete all of your previous data and settings from the phone.

Once the rom has installed it might take several minutes for it to boot up the first time as the rom configures itself on the phone.

You can also install roms by downloading the relavant file from the forum or other source, and then using the 'Install from SD Card' option in Rom Manager. Again I would recommend that you ALWAYS make a backup before switch roms. I have had several instances where a new rom has refused to boot properly and only restoring a backup has saved the day.

If you have any problems installing CyanogenMod or other roms I would suggest reading some of the many threads and posts on the subject (the search tool is your friend here). That's how I learnt to do it. The people in the forums are here to help where you're stuck not to do it all for you. You won't learn anything that way.

Also, if you have further questions of this type you should really post in an appropriate thread. This topic of this thread is clearly the wonderful Sim-Unlock Utility provided by Sieempi.
[Desire General] *damo*:
I put the file on my memory stick and set the computer to boot from that, will that method not work?
[Desire General] lphtc:
I am going abroad in a few weeks. Because I had use the HBOOT before to reset my phone I assumed that the option SIMLOCK would unlock my phone and allow me to use it abroad with another network.

After stupidly selecting that option, my phone stopped recognizing my T-mobile SIM card.

When I turn it on it shows the message "Please insert a SIM card" even with the SIM card in it. I also tried with O2 SIM card as well.

Any solutions please? I'm panicking I have damaged my phone.
[Desire General] ems1234:
Thanks a bunch crustyloaf.

I cant post in the development thread as i dont have enough posts for the forum to allow me hence the reason posting in this wonderful thread!

Regards

ems1234
[Desire General] 6.5x55:
Many thanks Sieempi - errored the first time but said successful the second time. Can't wait to borrow a friend's SIM tomorrow at work to test it :).

If it works, I'll happily PayPal you a beer!
[Desire General] Crustyloaf:
You can boot the utliity from USB. i don't know how though - never tried. I think there was something earlier in the thread. Post #36 or #38 I think. I don't think its as simple as just putting the iso on a USB stick. I would suspect you would have to make it bootable somehow. I could be wrong though.

On a quick google I came across this:

http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/

I haven't got time to do anymore. Anyhow I'm sure you can search as easily as me.

I'd recommend doing it from cd anyway. I've done it with 3 Desires now. Works a treat this way.
[Desire General] *damo*:
I just remembered from when I wanted to s-off my desire I just copied the files onto my memory stick and booted that, I just checked your link and remembered having to do that too, think a was being a bit forgetful :S

Thanks loads, I will now unlock my phone :)
[Desire General] logrosan:
Thank you

HTC unlocked! Thank you very much.
[Desire General] tnt3:
Please help me:

I burned the ISO trough Nero and next... haw to boot it?! On the disk are just a few files, no one is executable... So how to start the process? How to run it?

Thank you.

EDIT:

I managed to boot it, i tried 6 times in a row, but i have no success. :(

On Orange,

Bravo PVT4 Ship s-on

HBOOT 0.93.0001

Radio 5.10.05.30

MICROP - 051d
[Desire General] *damo*:
At the boot screen on your computer you should be able to press f12 and select where you want to boot from, I also think you need to be s-off, you can do that using another iso from alpharev.nl
[Desire General] tnt3:
I've managed to get it "s-off" /first i've root it/ but again it refuse to be unlocked... I've tried many times but - nothing.
[Desire General] *damo*:
Finally unlocked, thanks xD
[Desire General] Crustyloaf:
I'm glad that you finally managed to get it to work.

By the way, you don't need S-OFF to use the unlock utility. I did it with S-ON.
[Desire General] Psyco-Man:
gonna give it a try
[Desire General] Psyco-Man:
seems to work,

i ve

BRAVO PVT1 SHIP S-ON

HBOOT-0.80.0000

MICROP-031d

TOUCH PANEL-SYNT0101

RADIO-5.11.05.27

Anyway to proof it without any other Sim Card ?

Thanks for any tips
[Desire General] *damo*:
Ok thanks, mine was s-off anyway because I needed it s-off for the Rom I wanted to flash
[Desire General] sieempi:
You can if you have a rooted phone.
[Desire General] scutworker:
Works just fine. Had to try twice using a T-Mobile UK Desire. First time nothing, second time fine. I'm rooted, but have s-on.

Cheers, mate.
[Desire General] Psyco-Man:
...

To all the User posts before:

just burn that ISO to a CD using Nero or any other Burn Tool and dont forget to close/finish the Disc (No Multisession),

Reboot PC and set up in Bios

"Boot From CD ROM as first Boot Device)

Put Disc in CD Rom Drive

Save settings and leave Bios

Wait until Program calls you to Boot your Handy in HBOOT (Vol Down und Power ON)

when HBOOT loaded then connect Handy with PC and press any button (the programm tells you to do press one time any button on keyboard)

then sit down and wait ...

thats it... isnt that easy?

Had no prolems at first try.

Good luck

Will have to spend a beer :)
[Desire General] Feuerbard:
doesnt work for me

locked on 3

воот ok and process is ok

BRAVO PVT4 SHIP S-ON

HBOOT-0.93.0001

MICROP-051d

TOUCH PANEL-SYNW0101

RADIO-5.11.05.14

may be try on different PC ???
[Desire General] ergosteur:
Works for me! Had to try a couple of times, also for anyone who is trying to save time, it does NOT work with virtualbox.

However, to save a CD I created a USB with unetbootin and it worked beautifully.

Thanks a lot for this!
[Desire General] jukyO:
I have exactly the same configuration on my phone...guess it'll work for me too....
[Desire General] vdias:
How to check SimLock state without using a different gsm card????
[Desire General] mic10:
have you solved your problem? I'm in the same situation. thank you

:(
[Desire General] sieempi:
It's the same thing as the one described here: http://xdaforums.com/wiki/index.php?title=HTC_Vision#3._.28OPTIONAL.29_Verify_you_did_it_right
[Desire General] paul.c:
Not working for me

Hi,

Appreciate the work you've done but I doesn't seem to work.

BRAVO PVT1 SHIP S-ON

HBOOT-0.93.0001

MICROP-031d

TOUCH PANEL -SINT0101

RADIO-5.11.05.27

I hope this is helpful.
[Desire General] sieempi:
Is it throwing any errors?
[Desire General] paul.c:
No. Still tinkering with it. I used Virtualbox although I saw it wasn't recommended but I couldn't boot the image on any of my laptops using any of my 2 USB sticks. I'll retry.

I've used another utility to make the boot USB and it booted but, the Attempting connection message appeared, I got the error:

usb_serial_generic_resubmit_read_urb - failed resubmitting read urb, error -1

Update:

Changed the computer, got rid of that error, followed instructions everything seemed ok but the device isn't unlocked.
[Desire General] GeeM:
Hi all,

I tried to unlock my Desire (bought last week, rooted, Orange FR ROM). I burnt the ISO on a CD-RW, booted it on my laptop, everything went well ("Done XD" appears) but it still says Network locked when I change my SIM card :(

I tried a couple of times (at least 5 times) but no change, any idea?

During the process, is anything supposed to appear on the Desire Screen? I can see the bootloader, the menu and the "HBOOT USB PLUG" but when the utility is running, there is nothing happening on the Desire screen, is it normal?

Thanks :)
[Desire General] mikeandjaimie:
CM7 Nightly #8, S-OFF 0.93 , latest radio.. Burnt to CD, booted laptop with it.. ran perfectly first time! SIM Unlocked.. Telus phone, tested with wife's Rogers sim...
[Desire General] sieempi:
@paul.c & GeeM: keep trying, it does that sometimes..
[Desire General] paul.c:
Your apps really do listen to you. It worked, finally.
[Desire General] *damo*:
Do it whilst the sim you want to use is in it,

thats what I did when it didn't work
[Desire General] Rohaq:
Never mind, I fixed it, dear god I'm retarded.

I put the SIM card in the wrong way :o

Working on Orange now, thanks! That said, there should probably be a backup/recovery method for this tool.
[Desire General] Mister_Tea:
Worked for me on the 3rd attempt.

I've got UK T-Mobile Desire, rooted and with S-Off

1st and 2nd attempt I did with a Giff-Gaff sim in the phone. The program reported success both times, but the phone was still asking for an unlock code at boot.

3rd attempt was with no sim in. Reported success, put the Giff-Gaff sim back in, and no unlock code requested. So its worked perfectly - now running on Giff-Gaff

So for me it worked with a sim in.

Thanks!
[Desire General] roblin:
Worked for me first time!! Waited until the app started to look for the phone then plugged it in while it was sitting at the hboot screen!!! Ran it with original O2 sim inside! Then replaced with 3 sim once complete!

Rooted with S-On

Running latest Clockwork Recovery

Baseband - 32_49.00.32U_5.11.05.27

Kernel - 2.6.32.15-Leedroid_2.3
[Desire General] sieempi:
Nice! Enjoy it!
[Desire General] ems1234:
I have downloaded the rom but it keeps coming up as verification failed?

any advice?
[Desire General] *damo*:
On the "install .zip from sd card" menu try pressing toggle signature verification (or something along those lines)
[Desire General] widu13:
Unlocked. Drink en-route. Thanks.
[Desire General] vonsvarc:
Problem

Hi,

i managed to unlock the phone through virtualbox - Unlock done! I am on Hungarian Telenor/Pannon network, HTC Desire (GSM), HBOOT 0.93.001 Radio-5.11.05.27, 2.3.3. Oxygen ROM

I tried to put in a different sim - Orange PL - and it asked unlock sim... I tried the unlocking with this PL sim in - success - unlock done, however after reboot still unlock sim is required.

Could you please advise?

thanks
[Desire General] sieempi:
Burn the iso on a CD or use the usb-stick method, they have better success rate.
[Desire General] almir1984:
Thanks,I try this. ;)
[Desire General] Rohaq:
Virtualbox can be a bit tetchy with USB device bridging too: If you're running under Linux, make sure you're part of the vboxusers group.

Not sure about under Windows. I know you need the PUEL (closed source) version rather than the OSE (open source) version though.
[Desire General] janeku:
I have to say this: My practice (3 HTC Desire) says it need 3-4 unlock procedures to unlock the phone. Why, I do not know. Even it says unlocked done, it could be not opened for other sim card.

So for me, trying 3-4 times and without SIM card is SUGGESTED . Also after every procedure, check if it is unlocked.

Regards
[Desire General] swinster:
Have a brand new Desire on Orange UK - though I'd give you my experience

If it makes any difference here is the hboot info

BRAVO PVT4 SHIP S-ON
HNOOT - 0.93.0001
MICROP - 051d
TOUCH PANEL - SYNT0101
RADIO - 5.10.05.30
Aug 10 2010, 17:52:18

Downloaded the software from the second link and Burnt ISO is CD under Win 7.

The CD gave the following error:

end_request : I/O error on dev sr0, sector 24056
Buffer IO error on Dev sr0, logical block 6014

This repeated around 8-10 times but then the Linux boot loader continued and we get to the "Press any Key" page.

From here I tried to unlock the phone around 7 times, eventually trying different USB ports on the laptop (which then gave me other errors, of which I didn't note). Each time though it would end in "done", the phone would reboot but the Network Lock page would show.

I thought the IO error was something wrong with the image so re-downloaded from another link and re-burnt to another CD. But still the same errors persisted and the phone would nt unlock.

I then tried a different laptop (Samsung) and although the same errors showed above still occurred, this time when the program said done and the phone rebooted, it did actually unlock the phone.

It has taken me around an hour or so of trying different things but eventually succeeded.

All I can say is don't give up, but maybe try different PC as well.
[Desire General] ovidiusoft:
I just unlocked my phone with this great tool.

Technical details:

BRAVO PVT3 SHIP S-OFF
HBOOT-0.93.0001
MICROP-051d
TOUCH PANEL-SYNT0101
RADIO-5.11.05.27
Aug 10 2010,17:52:10

After plugging in, this happened really fast, in about 10-15 seconds:

Initiating connection

Attempting Sim-Unlock
Done! XD

Now go Paypal me a beer ;)

The phone was locked on Vodafone Romania, I tested the unlock with a Orange Romania SIM card. I needed to re-enter my Google account password, of course, and everything worked perfectly.

I had to re-select my Vodafone APN when I booted back with the Vodafone SIM in order to have data transfers enabled - the list of APN's, including a few custom ones, was still there, just that none was selected. Most likely a bug (feature) in Android itsself and not related to the SIM unlock utility.

Great work! Thank you so much, sieempi
[Desire General] vonsvarc:
I managed with cd! Thanks a lot!!!
[Desire General] cesc8:
Dear Genius,

I am a new user and I read all this HTC desire forum. But I am a beginner in computer and I don't know how to do. I am using DELL Laptop to boot as you said. I burnt it to CD. But I can't boot. Can you mention step by step from the scratch to the end? It will be much appreciated.

Thanks

Hey Sieempi and snakeeyes,

Forget it the above message! I unlocked it now!

Thanks Men! That's awesome, I did it after 4th attempt! I burnt it CD.

Here is my phone :cool:!

Bravo PVT3 SHIP S-ON

H BOOT- 0.93.0001

MICROP-051d

TOUCH PANEL- SYNT0101

RADIO 0.5.

Bravo! Much Appreciated your help!:):D
[Desire General] snakeeyes21:
Hi.

did you just burn the .iso file to disc? if so you need to use an image burning tool like imgburn www.imgburn.com

just put a disc in to the drive, choose the iso file and burn it..

Most laptops are already setup to boot from cd if there is one inserted, if yours doesnt you need to go in to bios, usually by pressing f10 on start up, going to boot menu settings and move your dvd / cd drive to the top so it boots from this first.

then exit setings and reboot your computer with the cd in the drive
[Desire General] cesc8:
Thanks

Hey Sieempi and snakeeyes,

Thanks Men! That's awesome, I did it after 4th attempt! I burnt it CD.

Here is my phone :cool:!

Bravo PVT3 SHIP S-ON

H BOOT- 0.93.0001

MICROP-051d

TOUCH PANEL- SYNT0101

RADIO 0.5.

Bravo! Much Appreciated your help!:):D
[Desire General] blacklion33:
Mate, you're a genius !!! Thanks a lot.
[Desire General] wakubaku:
I had the same situation (Orange UK, new Desire) as "swinster" describes in his post here yesterday and got the phone unlocked after going through exactly the same steps.... fail, fail, fail, burn new cd, fail, fail, new computer, unlocked! There are so many error messages when the software boots that it seems like there must be a problem with the image but it worked first time when I tried it in a different computer (after about 6 attempts on another).

Note I didn't get any error messages when test loading the image in VMWare - although couldn't mount the USB in VMWare so had to burn a CD.

I do have a question though.... how do we know this method is safe? Can anyone comment authoritatively on how this software works and whether it has potential to edit data beyond hboot's SIM unlock? It strikes me that the £8 it costs to buy an unlock code off Ebay might be safer than trusting an HTC 'bios hack' from an anonymous programmer. Didn't stop me doing it though!
[Desire General] AzureusPT:
It worked without problem.

BRAVO PCT1 SHIP S-OFF
HBOOT-0.93.1000
MICROP-031d
TOUCH PANEL-SYNT0101
RADIO-5.09.05.30_2
[Desire General] Latty:
Worked flawlessly for me on the second try. First try didn't reboot the phone, and different sim didn't work. Second try rebooted phone and unlocked properly.

Done using VMWare :)

Thanks!
[Desire General] baggy247:
Anyone tried this on other devices? Soon to be trying it out on my Desire but my girlfriend has a Wildfire she has wanted unlocking for a while now.
[Desire General] Rednasman:
Works fine, thanks. Really need this so I can buy another sim when I am abroad hehe :p
[Desire General] Methisfaction:
I have just one problem, when i go to recovery mode und plug in my device, it say "connection could not be established"...whats the mistake? i do?

thanx
[Desire General] Rohaq:
Is your device showing FASTBOOT USB? Are you booting from a VM, or an actual machine?
[Desire General] Methisfaction:
when i plug in my desire, it shows up HBOOT USB PLUG, i use VM!...
[Desire General] Rohaq:
There should be a FASTBOOT option, go to that! Use your Volup/down keys to pick, and the power button to choose it.
[Desire General] Methisfaction:
ok But:

i tried to pick up fastboot und press any key...

i tried to pick up fastboot, then bootloader, and then press any key..

both of these options doesnt work?

do i have to install any drivers? (HTC driver already installed)

Thank you very much for the fast answers, u have to know: i got my desire on Hour ago :D im new at this section...
[Desire General] Rohaq:
You go into FASTBOOT, then wait for your phone to show FASTBOOT USB.

The entire thing is booted off a CD, so no drivers should be required. You shouldn't even be in Windows!
[Desire General] Methisfaction:
jep, i dont know...i just click any button to continue with the procedure...but it always shows me up "...could not established..."

i klick on fastboot and the headline is " FASTBOOT USB" but when i press a key...it shows me that message :(
[Desire General] Methisfaction:
OK thank you very much, now it works for me :))

I just boot the CD via VM...

i had to boot the PC from the Burned CD...That was the problem...!!

THANK YOU VERY MUCH MATE :)
[Desire General] cdogg311:
has anyone been able to unlock a cdma uscellular desire for use with sprint?
[Desire General] Berto20:
I didn't see any Canadians post on this thread yet so I will add that this worked flawlessly on my Telus locked Desire. Booted from CD, and program ran without any errors. Checked with a Rogers sim, everything worked including data. Thanks very much sieempi, your well deserved beer is on its way.

In case anyone is interested.

BRAVO PV4T SHIP S-On

Hboot-0.93.0001

MICROP-051D

Radio-5.11.05.27

TOUCH PANEL-SYNT0101
[Desire General] sieempi:
Thanks!
[Desire General] brentow:
Thank you very much this is awesome, works great!

btw i ordered a few months ago a unlock code from HTCsimunlock.com and they couldn't find a code for my phone but i still have not got my money back from them, i sent them 5mails but they are not answering >:(. do anyone knows what should i do? and btw they have a 100% refund guarantee
[Desire General] marinierb:
File a complaint with PayPal, or your credit card company.