A few weeks ago we told you in Actualidad iPhone as find out which phone company an iPhone is from to, knowing this data, proceed to unlock iPhone by IMEI, two services that you can perform with the confidence of Actualidad iPhone and that you can find at the top of the website. Now we add a new service for know if an iPhone is locked by IMEI.
There are 3 reasons why an iPhone can be locked by IMEI, the first and most obvious is by robo, another option is for the iPhone to lose and their disappearance is reported, very similar to the case of theft, and the third option is for non-payment to the operator, that is, for owing invoices to your telephone company.
Checking if an iPhone is locked by IMEI is difficult because the blocking is done in the database of each country. There is a general database that does not contain information from Spain or Latin America, so automated checkout services don't work; you have to see each phone one by one, check your operator and country and do the verification in the database of that country. A complex job that requires a lot of knowledge and access to each of the databases of all countries.
More and more people buy an iPhone online, second-hand devices that most of the time belong to their owners, but we may have the bad luck that a thief wants to sell us a stolen iPhone, and there is a possibility that if it is locked it cannot be released never then will you have spent the money on an iPhone that you can't use
To check if the iPhone is locked you just need to have its IMEI, so the best thing is ask the person who sells it for the IMEI before making the purchase, in this way you can check on our page if the iPhone has any blockage or not. If the seller does not want to give you the IMEI, it is because they have something to hide, distrust that person because the IMEI is very easy to find: it is in the iPhone settings, in the SIM tray, in the iPhone case and even on the lock screen if the iPhone has been restored and is not activated yet.
With the IMEI you can ensure a safe purchase And you don't risk losing a lot of money on a non-working or unlocking iPhone. Some carriers allow the unlocking of locked iPhones by IMEI, as is the case with AT&T; But these terminals, even if you release them, will never work in the country of origin, that is, if it is AT&T it will never work in the USA, but it will work in other countries and the same happens with each country. On the other hand, in the case that it can be released even if it is blocked (which only happens with some operators) the iPhone It will work in every country in the world except the country where it was purchased. If you have a blocked iPhone from the USA and you live in Spain or Latin America, it is likely that you can unlock it and use it normally.
If you have already been scammed with a stolen or blocked iPhone you may be able to free it, we can tell you in the analysis if it can be released or not when you request it. If it cannot be released, we recommend you contact the seller and ask him to return the money, or if he does not respond, file a complaint. Stop the business of selling stolen iPhones.
Link - Know if an iPhone is locked by IMEI
More information - How to find out which company my iPhone is from
I tell you my case, my father is a taxi driver and the other day a client forgot an iPhone 5 and is blocked by imei but they have told me that if I get orange here in Spain it will work but that in the rest of the companies it will not ? That's right
Yes, apparently Orange operates in Spain under a French network, that is why the blockade does not work in Orange
THANK YOU, for supporting a person who is not going to return the phone to its owner, OLE YOUR EGGS !!!
Even if he returned it to its owner, he could not use it either, it is already locked.
Well, I would still prefer that they give it back to me even if it was to use it as an expensive paperweight. 😛
Sure, and me too.
At no point have I told the partner not to return it, I have commented why blocked iphones work on Orange
Wouldn't it be better to return the iphone to the taxi customer? I did not know that taxis have their own legislation and everything that people forget there becomes the property of the taxi driver. I hope no one answers your question since what you are trying to do is use a STOLEN iphone.
It is not the same to STEAL than to leave FORGOTTEN or NOT RETURN an item either an iphone or a pen
this one eats it
Here it costs about $ 70 to unlock an iphone locked for theft / imei. Not a bad price to save the phone.
Here I see that some speak of returning the phone if you find it, but I think about it.
If I really know that the iPhone is going to end up in the hands of the owner, for example because you can contact him through the information that the phone carries, something very feasible to do, well, yes, it should be returned.
But if you can't find the owner, and what you want to do is take him to lost objects, then that's another story. Most of the objects deposited in lost objects remain in that place until after a while or are destroyed or donated to an organization, in this option I would probably keep it, because 1 I have found it, therefore I have I rescued myself and I can put it to better use than being lost in oblivion in a lost and found box.
2nd who assures you that in the place where you deposit that phone, there is no one who likes it and taking advantage of the situation makes it his.
With your hand on your heart, how many of you, if you found an object of value, would you return it? What if it was money, enough money?
Let's be honest, very few would return it, let's not be more popish than the pope.
There are a few things to clarify here; First, the price they charge for giving the information is excessive, there are places that charge $ 1 for the same service, even places that provide it for free. Second, the released Att phones work in the USA, they are the only devices most in demand for being able to use them right here. This page sometimes disappoints me with proven information, they need to do better research before misinforming people.
And that link that they leave works for the iPhone of any country, I live in Central America Guatemala and I want to know if it is valid for my country.
It works I suppose that's why they leave it, if not Google finally if you don't find anything look for me on Facebook Twitter I have the same nick I tell you how
Thanks, I found a link from the government that provides the service for free for Guatemala.
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Hello, I hope you can help me, I bought an iPhone 5 that is supposedly free from the factory, it works perfectly with Movistar, Orange and Vodafone ... but not with Ono, Yoigo and others. Googling I have seen that my iphone is blocked by EMEA services, which seemed very strange to me. Then I called Apple and they told me that it is effectively blocked but by Movistar! which does not suit me because I can use it with Orange and Vodafone as well. So I need help to see what I do, since I want to use it with another company!
Thank you very much for the help
When this happens with the iPhone EMEA there is usually no solution, that they change it in an Apple Store
I bought it secondhand ... what do I tell them at the Apple Store so they can change it?
That does not work for virtual operators, first you will have to release it if it is not, despite this it will not work in OMV, but they will change it for a free one.
Released this, because it works for me with all operators except OMV ... so I'm going to try to go to the Apple Store to see what they tell me, but being second hand, I don't think they will change it.
Thank you for all
easier, dial * # 06 # and voila, the screen shows you the imei
I found an iPhone, when I found it it was turned off when I turned it on, the sim that it brought was not working and there was no message that said it was blocked, so I restored it and it already appeared that it will activate the iPhone with email and password, but I had no information How to contact the owner, I would like to know if there is a way to find the owner through the IMEI, since it is the only data that the iphone has and the account that begins with a s…@gmail.com