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V801SA unlocking?
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Posted by: mrcrispin

Does anyone here have experience with unlocking a V801SA and the subsequent results?

How reliable is the V801SA after unlocking? Does unlocking stop it from prompting to get network information every time you press the menu button?

I have a V801SH (Sharp, not Sanyo) that I just unlocked, and found that the results were less useful than I hoped. I am trying to decide if I should get my V801SA (Sanyo, not Sharp) unlocked, or call it a matter of not throwing good money after bad...

Posted by: altNz

Not really an answer to your question, but I doubt unlocking the phone with get rid of the reprov nag (prompting to get network information every time you press the menu button) as it's a common part of owning a Vodafone JP phones.

Posted by: mrcrispin

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Originally Posted by altNz

Not really an answer to your question, but I doubt unlocking the phone with get rid of the reprov nag (prompting to get network information every time you press the menu button) as it's a common part of owning a Vodafone JP phones.

Thanks for the information.

My old V801SH did that for the last several months. I think it happened because I went on an extended trip, forgot to turn the V801SH off, and its battery ran out.

I couldn't get rid of that nag, even though I had a perfectly good native SoftBank SIM with an active account (and at the time said phone was still locked to them).

SoftBank technical support's answer was that they'd be happy to sell me a new phone. I held out and eventually they gave me a new 812SH (not even requiring a contract renewal!) as part of them kicking out all V8 series phones.

I'm surprised that the hackers haven't fixed the reprovision nag yet, e.g. via a "no not never" patch. Presumably, all it does is load the web and email settings as opposed to having those wired in or giving a menu item to set them...and as a side effect makes the phone less useful with other providers.

This seems a bit silly since it must wire in the reprovision server instead. I'm guessing that the reason the reprovision didn't work on my V801SH (and V801SA, it does the same thing) is that the reprovision server was a .vodafone.jp server that is now history. My new 812SH reprovisioned with the same SIM without issue.

What made it even more silly was that I only have voice service on my SoftBank account (no web or email) so the reprovision would do nothing useful.

I also don't understand why SoftBank says that the V8 phones won't work for voice after July. It must have cost them a lot of money to replace all those phones, especially for people like me who are voice-only. But I have a much better phone that doesn't nag me now, so I'm not going to complain.

Posted by: altNz

Just for reference I've read that putting in another SIM card into the phone and then replacing it with your original one should get rid of the nag if it appears all of a sudden. Not knowing it at the time I use to do a master reset everytime the problem occurred and reinputted all my info which was very time consuming.

Beats me as to why the hackers haven't gotten rid of the problem, but it doesn't occur as often on the 903SH and the Toshiba's I believe.

I'm not a 100% sure but I think Softbank is still using the vodafone.jp naming for their servers, maybe they finally updated. Because I know that T-Mobile USA still uses the voicestream naming even though it's been awhile since the company has been called T-Mobile.

Wow voice only and especially in Japan that's tough

That is weird, doesn't make a whole lot of sense unless their newer phones run a different freq or something. Maybe they just wanted you to upgrade to motivate you to use their other services to get more money out of you or something.