I know i know this kind of thread should belong in /wsr/ but there is no one in there, so i guess i'll post it here
Look im trying to revive my 10 year old phone (Sony ercison walkman w200i) (to use it as an emergency phone), but when i use a modern SIM (the white one) card, its says "insert correct SIM card".
in the other hand, when i use the old one (the blue one) all goes flawesly, but it says that the SIM is inactive,
The questuon is, how can i use this phone in this modern age?
Woh man i still have my Sony erickson W810i probably the best sony phone. It's eating dust right now maybe i will revive it thanks yo this thread.
Nathaniel Foster
seems like the phone is carrier locked, but for your fortune i remember that these things used to be super easy to unlock, i remember that all you needed was a program called setoollite or something like that, USB cable and a zip file you had to flash the file, i use to do all crazy shit with it like changing the walkman player skin, the audio setting and even changing the battery color, i think the forum where you could find all these stuff doesnt exist but try looking up on the internet, its been a decade since i mod a sony ericsson, i honestly miss those days
Brody Walker
Oh hey I do have one of those, still works though the battery's fucked. Aand yeah phones used to be carrier locked a lot back then. There were huge communities built around patching and improving the firmware of SE phones, though I'm afraid most of forums and stuff are gone by now.
Look for setool/lite like said.
Also those phones used a proprietary Sony Ericcson USB cable so if you don't have one you're fucked. Well you can ghetto rig it with wires but lets not get ridiculous
then google setool/setoollite/setool2lite and simlock removal. I can't really help you more as I haven't used one for like 7-8 years
Ryan Ward
apparently this phone uses GSM SIM cards, but i don't know if there are still on use
Sebastian Bennett
country?
Aaron Sanchez
It's carrier locked.
Matthew Bailey
Seems like Chile.
Jordan Bell
My guess is argentina
Nicholas Collins
I'm Argentinian, and unlocking your phone is super easy here. As long as it's at least 2 years old, you can go to the carrier that the phone is locked to and request an unlock code free of charge.
