SIM unlock and CID unlock your HTC Wizard

Submitted by Stanley on Sat, 08/04/2006 - 18:57. ROMs | Software | Tweaking

Your HTC Wizard can be locked in two ways. There is the well known SIM lock that your operator may have put on, and there will be the CID lock. This CID lock is sometimes called Vendor lock, because it was put on your device by the manufacterer to prevent installation of a ROM not released by them.

Both these locks can be removed.

Before we get into the details, please take a moment to consider wether you want to and are allowed to remove the SIM lock and CID lock.

Operators put a SIM lock on their phones because they do not charge you the full price for phones you buy from them. Putting a SIM lock on the devices they sell prevents end users from using the device with another operators SIM and protects the operators investment in getting you to sign a contract with them.

With most operators, you can have the SIM lock removed after a certain period of time into your contract and/or by paying them. Check your contract, removing the SIM lock yourself might be a breach of contract and might be unnecessary because your operator will do it for you. Furthermore, removal of a SIM lock might be illegal by law where you are, and (charging for) unlocking someone elses device may be illegal by law where you are. It is up to yourself to investigate the legal consequences of removing any SIM lock before you attempt to do so. And of course, it is up to yourself to consider wether it is okay to remove the SIM lock from an ethical point of view.

Removing the CID lock is not illegal, but it will void your warranty. Again, it is up to yourself to consider the ethics.

Removal of the SIM and/or CID lock is made easy by Lokiwiz, a program developped by machinagod at the XDA Developers Forum. Registered members of the HTC Wizard Web will find his tool attached to this article. Unzip the file on your desktop and follow the following instructons, which I copied from this topic on the XDA Developer Forum.

Unzip lokiwiz.zip to somewhere in your computer
Copy EnableRapi.cab to your Wizard
Execute the EnableRapi.cab in your phone. Wait for it to finish
Guarantee that your phone is connected via ActiveSync with the computer
Execute lokiwiz.bat (on your desktop computer!) and follow the instructions on your screen

If you removed the SIM lock, you will now be able to use your device with a SIM from any operator. If you removed the CID lock, you will now be able to install any manufacterers ROM on your device.

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Unlocking Tip

Submitted by ballerbrian on Tue, 25/04/2006 - 07:02.

Use the original ROM to unlock. In the case of the Cingular 8125 at least, the modified AKU2 ROM doesn't run with this unlock tool (lokiwiz). I went back to the release ROM and it worked like a charm.

Didn't work!!

Submitted by smokebeast on Mon, 08/05/2006 - 20:04.

I had a go at doing both the sim unlock and the CID unlock.

I went through all the stages and it all seemed to go really well. But when i tried to put my Three sim in it said it was locked. (Reason fro trying with three was i wanted to copy my numbers across using the sim card)

Any reason why it didn't work??

P.S I did the sim unlock first followed by the CID unlock.

Cheers
Smoke

So do i need to reinstall

Submitted by xxpinballxx on Wed, 28/06/2006 - 21:22.

So do i need to reinstall the older ROM that the phone came with then run the CID unlock then reinstall the newer ROM?

Neither did mine!!

Submitted by lootenantdan on Tue, 11/07/2006 - 17:46.

I did the same and had no luck unlocking the SIM code.

Anyone got any other ideas??

It works on the older 1.83

Submitted by flippy on Wed, 12/07/2006 - 05:09.

It works on the older 1.83 ROM, is there another unlock for the 2.25 version ROM?

How about newer versions?

Submitted by lootenantdan on Wed, 12/07/2006 - 12:50.

Mine is ROM version 2.21.2.6.

Perhaps thats why it wont unlock. I can't find a more up to date unlock.

Any luck with unlocking HTC

Submitted by netmark on Tue, 24/06/2008 - 12:30.

Any luck with unlocking HTC Touch Diamond?

CINGULAR 8125 Original ROM

Submitted by acharyarajesh on Sun, 13/05/2007 - 13:03.

Can any please tell me where can i get the Original Cingular 8125 ROM... Thank u

high

Submitted by aurelihous on Sun, 17/02/2008 - 00:55.

any idea where can i get the orignal ROM for the cingular 8125 any web pages
thanks
i need to unlock the cell phone

T-mobile MDA unlock

Submitted by jyrgos on Fri, 21/07/2006 - 22:47.

The unlocking worked without any problems with a T-Mobile MDA, ROM version 1.8.10.2, which was the original version of the ROM on the phone. Great!
thnks

T-mobile succes!

Submitted by mvanderpot on Wed, 26/07/2006 - 13:26.

T-mobile unlocked very wel with me!! THX!

it didnt work on my t-mobile

Submitted by zeesha_n on Sat, 30/12/2006 - 11:36.

it didnt work on my t-mobile MDA :s my rom version is 1.6.2.4 . can any one plz help me wid this

Worked fine for me!

Submitted by ap55 on Mon, 07/08/2006 - 17:54.

I followed the instructions and I got it unlocked.
T-mobile ROM version is fairly old (1.6.0 i think) as I have not upgraded since I got the mobile.
Cheers

Uh . . . I'm not sure it worked

Submitted by mbayers on Tue, 15/08/2006 - 00:50.

The on-screen comments flowed by too quickly for me to follow. I don't have another SIM card handy to check. Is there an easy way to determine if either unlocking process actually worked, short of trying to insert a non-Cingular SIM card or to install a new ROM?

Thanks,

MBA

T-Mobile ROM 1.8.11

Submitted by Catinella on Tue, 15/08/2006 - 03:16.

Does anyone have a copy of the T-Mobile 1.8.11 ROM or know where to get it?

Thanks,

C-

New Version of Lokiwiz unlocker

Submitted by pierro78 on Fri, 08/09/2006 - 11:21.

new version is 0.3a as of today on xda-developers :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=50768
(today the version in this thread is 0.2b)

Re: New Version of Lokiwiz unlocker

Submitted by stac on Mon, 18/09/2006 - 15:10.

pierro78 wrote:

new version is 0.3a as of today on xda-developers :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=50768
(today the version in this thread is 0.2b)

OK - maybe I'm just dense, but for the life of me, I can't find the link to download the tool. Can someone please post a valid URL directly to the tool or email it to me at rootdude at gmail dot com? I'd be more than willing to host a dl link to the tool so others can dl it easily...

Thanks!
Stac...

at the top of the page

Submitted by rayroy on Wed, 20/09/2006 - 02:24.

there is an attachment at the top the page before the users start to put thier comments thata where i saw the software..

what i dont know if ut is latest version has i have not gottne a chance to try it out

Worked great for me.

Submitted by binary-G on Fri, 06/10/2006 - 03:07.

Worked great for me.

ROM: 2.26.10.2 6/7/06

Ran version 0.3a
it generated the unlock code
put a cingular SIM in
entered the code
transferred my contacts from my cingular SIM to CONTACTS
put my t-mobile SIM back in

Now I have all my contacts from my old phone in my super new one.

Thanks MachinaGod. YOU RULE!

01000111

new version on xda-developers 0.3

Submitted by thesystem on Sun, 21/01/2007 - 20:05.

i unlocked my mda vario with the 0.3-version. after i manualy installed the cab i get a ulock-code from the script back...while i write these comment my mda gets a wm6j-update. i hope the CID lock is now away. when i do my first update this morning there was no changed os....

CID lock

Submitted by bobby505 on Fri, 16/02/2007 - 16:38.

Just ran the 0.3a version of the unlocker, SIm is definately unlocked but how do I check if the CID unlock has worked? I noticed the .bat file says at the top says "NOW WITHOUT CID Unlocking POWER!"

without?!

Couldn't unlock my Vodafone VPA CompactII.

Submitted by EricCartman on Fri, 02/03/2007 - 09:30.

I followed the steps, but get the Message

CopyFileToTFFS(unlocked.bin:0, 0, 00010000)
ERROR ITWriteDisk

I then found out that I first have to downgrade my phone using CUSTOM__RUU_Wizard_1050412_WWE_101_11210_WWE.exe. I tried that, but the Upgrade-tool tells me that it won't work with my phone.

Can anybody pls help?

coulddnit unlock my blackjack

Submitted by gunjansood on Fri, 10/08/2007 - 04:13.

I was able to unlock my 8125 but when i am trying to unlock my Blackjack - i found that even after copying EnableRapi file to my phone I am not able to see using the phone file explorer application.

Not sure why? Does any one tried unlocking the blackjack????

unlock SIM

Submitted by rookcnu on Mon, 01/10/2007 - 16:27.

I am a noob (sorry).

I have two questions about unlocking my Cingular 8125:

1. If I unlock it, can I re-lock it some other time if I want?
2. What carriers can I use this phone on once I unlock it? Will it work on Nextel or Alltel?

Thanks!

unlock SIM

Submitted by rookcnu on Mon, 01/10/2007 - 16:28.

I am a noob (sorry).

I have two questions about unlocking my Cingular 8125:

1. If I unlock it, can I re-lock it some other time if I want?
2. What carriers can I use this phone on once I unlock it? Will it work on Nextel or Alltel?

Thanks!

Copy EnableRapi.cab to your Wizard

Submitted by bajai on Wed, 14/05/2008 - 21:28.

thanx

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