: I WIN!
The last time I tried to recredit my Vodafone Pay As You Go account, I was told my card had expired.
I checked with my bank, and discovered to my unsurprise that Vodafone had got it wrong; my card was still perfectly valid.
So I tried to check with Vodafone what the problem was. I found that Vodafone had no means to let me do that:
( for length )
So that was the end of Vodafone for me. Well, at least until next time. I mean, all phone companies are garbage. But oh, the joy of PAYGO: to be able to just decide "screw you!" and go. (I transferred all my contacts across on Sunday in an Orange shop, before I rang Orange to port my number.)
And then I had a problem. I got a Nokia 1600 with a Vodafone SIM card last year in the aftermath of the 3 thing. And the Nokia turned out to be locked to Vodafone only: which I found when I inserted my Orange SIM card and got "SIM CARD NOT VALID".
But,![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif)
solo put me on to a site called www.moneysavingexpert.com, and there was a subsection for unlocking mobile phones for free, so I tried a couple of the websites from there (unlock.nokiafree.org and www.unlockitfree.com) and found the second one had the clearer explanation so I went with the number one code from that website...
...and WHEE. It worked. My phone was unlocked. My Orange SIM card works.
I am wizard of my own phone. :-D
Tags: *bounce*, 3 are bastards, cool things people do with software, evil phone company plots, mobile phone blues
The last time I tried to recredit my Vodafone Pay As You Go account, I was told my card had expired.
I checked with my bank, and discovered to my unsurprise that Vodafone had got it wrong; my card was still perfectly valid.
So I tried to check with Vodafone what the problem was. I found that Vodafone had no means to let me do that:
( for length )
So that was the end of Vodafone for me. Well, at least until next time. I mean, all phone companies are garbage. But oh, the joy of PAYGO: to be able to just decide "screw you!" and go. (I transferred all my contacts across on Sunday in an Orange shop, before I rang Orange to port my number.)
And then I had a problem. I got a Nokia 1600 with a Vodafone SIM card last year in the aftermath of the 3 thing. And the Nokia turned out to be locked to Vodafone only: which I found when I inserted my Orange SIM card and got "SIM CARD NOT VALID".
But,
solo put me on to a site called www.moneysavingexpert.com, and there was a subsection for unlocking mobile phones for free, so I tried a couple of the websites from there (unlock.nokiafree.org and www.unlockitfree.com) and found the second one had the clearer explanation so I went with the number one code from that website......and WHEE. It worked. My phone was unlocked. My Orange SIM card works.
I am wizard of my own phone. :-D
Current Mood: 
pleased
pleased
