Sim locked but t mobile says fully unlocked

tmadrid wrote:

did u find a solution!? i'm experiencing this as well 

if youre experiencing this as well keep in mind that even though you purchased it the device must be on the TMO network for a certain amount of days before it can be unlocked..along with a few other criteria that must be met in order to have it unlocked.

for exampl.e...are you a TMO customer? did you purchase the phone from TMO or through some other route? was the phone ever on TMOs network? and for how long?

La elegibilidad del dispositivo se determina de la siguiente manera:

• El dispositivo debe ser vendido por T-Mobile.
• El dispositivo no puede estar denunciado como perdido, robado o bloqueado.
• La cuenta asociada con el dispositivo debe estar al día.
• El dispositivo también tiene que cumplir todos los requisitos de desbloqueo para dispositivos con planes pospagados o prepagados que se indican abajo.

Elegibilidad para desbloqueo para dispositivos móviles con planes pospagados

• El dispositivo debe haber estado activo en la red T-Mobile por al menos 40 días en la línea que solicita el desbloqueo.
• Si el dispositivo se financió o arrendó a través de T-Mobile, deben haberse hecho todos los pagos y el dispositivo tiene que estar totalmente saldado.
• Si el dispositivo está asociado con una cuenta cancelada, el saldo de la cuenta debe ser cero.
• T-Mobile puede solicitar el comprobante de compra o información adicional a su criterio y es posible que se apliquen otras excepciones.

Elegibilidad para desbloqueo para dispositivos móviles con planes prepagados

• Deben haber pasado al menos 365 días desde la activación del dispositivo en la red T-Mobile.
• Si el dispositivo se activó hace menos de 365 días, entonces la cuenta prepagada asociada al dispositivo debe haber tenido más de $100 en recargas durante ese período por cada línea activa en la cuenta.  Además, deben haber pasado más de 14 días desde que se compró el dispositivo.
• No se deben haber completado más de 2 desbloqueos de dispositivos por línea de servicio en los últimos 12 meses.
• T-Mobile puede solicitar el comprobante de compra o información adicional a su criterio y es posible que se apliquen otras excepciones.

if all of the criteria has not been met for either Post paid or Prepaid then they will not unlock it.

also adding on..if you are not the original purchaser then they will need to be the one to contact TMO..not however ended up with it after the fact.

Can a T-mobile representative from the "upper management" reply to our requests. I have provided all the information you need to the 3 people that I spoke to. What are we suppose to do now? I have been a loyal customer for 10yrs and have unlocked phones with you so many times before. Why is this different? 

What type of plan did you have and did it meet the usage requirements?

Sounds like reseller flex policy device.  The device is not in T-Mobile's system as they did not sell the device.  It was purchased from a third party which will lock itself to the first sim put into it.  BestBuy, Walmart, and Amazon for example of 3rd party vendors.  You will need your receipt(with IMEI) AND you need to talk to elevated T-Mobile support for them to put the device into the system to unlock it.  It will take time because they do have to verify with Apple to make sure everything checks out.

did u find a solution!? i'm experiencing this as well 

jstyle0000 wrote:

I bought Iphone 14 pro in September and I moved to Indonesia. 
So I fully paid for my phone before I came here and when I was paying for the device, t mobile expert said that it has been fully unlocked. 

On my setting, it still says SIM Locked and it is not working here. 
I called T mobile more than 10 times, they say that it's been fully unlocked but my phone says it is still locked! I even tried to scan a new esim on the phone it says I need to contact the original carrier to unlock the phone. 

Every time I called all they say is the device is fully unlocked. 
I was even connected to Apple experts but they could not help me with anything. Apple suggested me to reset the phone, which I have tried. 

 

Now I don't know what to do. It's been more than two weeks and I'm not able to use this phone that I've paid $1000 for. 

 

Please help!!!

You're not alone. It's happening to me where I bought phone from T-Mobile office, paid the phone fully and now I cannot use the phone in any network because it says sim locked. I'm sick of calling the customer service number because they tell me the same thing - phone is fully unlocked but they have to email the upper management to release the sim lock 🙄

magenta7491669 wrote:

Can a T-mobile representative from the "upper management" reply to our requests. I have provided all the information you need to the 3 people that I spoke to. What are we suppose to do now? I have been a loyal customer for 10yrs and have unlocked phones with you so many times before. Why is this different? 

the site is primarily peer to peer assistance..

with that being said..even though you purchased it outright..did it meet the other requirements needed in order for them to unlock it?

you quoted my post with all the requirements on it..

gramps28 wrote:

Try contacting tmobile support using messenger on one of tmobile's social media platforms to like Facebook or the newly named X to see if they can help you they also are a higher tier of support and dealt with this issue.

Did this work?

I paid cash for my phone from Tmobile about a year ago, trying to switch providers, and no matter what I do and what TMobile support does it says 'SIM Locked.' It meets all requirements for unlocking and T-Mobile says "it's unlocked on our end, talk to Apple".

Apple Store couldn’t find anything wrong.

Are there any known issues? How can I start using my phone again? This is really disruptive and a huge PITA and not legal.