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Blacklisted iPhone Unlock Or What You Can Do with a Blocked Device

You don’t think to unlock blacklisted iPhone when you purchase smartphones on eBay, Amazon or through other online markets. These devices, especially Apple handsets, are often offered with blacklisted IMEI code. In other words, you are unable to use this gadget or change your carrier. For example there are a lot of blocked AT&T iPhone models on the third-party market.

There is no need to panic if you happened to buy a blacklisted iDevice. We can share some ideas on how to use blacklisted iPhone. Take a look as you might find a good solution to your problem inside this post.

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How to Use Blacklisted iPhone

List of networks supported unlocks by Blacklisted IMEI

You can use such iPhone but only after factory unlocking and outside the country where it was blocked. Just select the package depending on the carrier by which your device was blocked and get official unlocking solution.

Some owners who got a blacklisted iPhone locked to AT&T,  Three (3), Vodafone, KT Freetel SK, Netcom and Movistar, you can order service that gets IMEI cleaned, simply removing it from Apple’s blacklist database:

Sadly, this solution doesn’t work for a lot of networks.

Let’s see how you can figure out that you got a blocked device. It doesn’t get any signal from the networks the minute you have turned it on or a couple of days after your purchase. Luckily, there are things that can bring a smile upon your face.

List of iPhone blacklist checking Tool:

Unlock Blacklisted iPhone

If you are in US and your iPhone is blacklisted by AT&T but factory officially unlocked, resell your iOS smartphone. You can sell it to students, tourists and other people who leave at US.  Don’t worry that it is blacklisted. Foreign customers can use blacklisted AT&T iPhone in their home countries because it is blocked in the U.S. only. Just tell your customers the truth about your gadget.

Get a Refund

The first solution we’ll mention is asking for a refund. It is good for users who got their blocked iPhone using PayPal and are able to open a dispute/claim/chargeback. You can ship the gadget back to the seller, and PayPal will get your funds back. This might not work for you if you got the handset on the street or some other online site.

Take iPhone Apart and Sell It

If you don’t want or unable to do things we discussed above, you can take your gadget apart and sell its parts [logic board, dock connector, screen] separately. You will get some of the money you spent on it back.

Play Games, Watch TV Shows and Listen to Music

Since you are not able to make phone calls, exchange data or unlock blacklisted iPhone, you can turn it into your games console or an iPod. Listen to music, play games and enjoy your new entertainment device.

Great news for owner locked iPhone 5S! Now you  can unlock  iPhone 5S AT&T easy!

Why is iPhone Blacklisted?

There are some questions asked by iPhone users and people who wish to purchase factory unlock for iPhone but are afraid to get the wrong device. Why is iPhone blacklisted? What can happen to the gadget which has a barred IMEI number? Are you interested to get the answers? Continue reading, and you will find out why Apple blocks its handsets and how you should react to this policy.

It is hard to imagine modern people without a smartphone in their hands. More and more customers prefer to communicate via expensive devices. They spend bunch of money on handsets, and get smartphones for themselves and their family members. No wonder that muggers and thieves target expensive gadgets.

Find out how to unlock blacklisted iPhone and why it gets blocked in different countries.

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A lot of iPhones and other phones are stolen and resold in the black market. The new users of a stolen device might not even know their handset belongs to someone else, so they start using it. In order to protect people from having their iPhone used by third-party people, carriers and developers started to check iPhone IMEI number and then block it [IMEI is a unique 15-digit identifier of every iPhone manufactured by the Cupertino-based tech giant which can be found in Settings – General – About].

Stealing and iPhone lost are two main reasons for why iPhone gets blacklisted. There are other terms that identify this. They are barring and blocking. If the iPhone is blacklisted by a carrier, it is impossible to use this handset on this carrier’s network.

Also its IMEI can be listed in the black list if user doesn’t pay for his gadget, if there are insurance claims and not-agreed terms of used. There can be other reasons as well.

Mobile operators in some countries even share one database of registered devices, and if a gadget gets blacklisted in such a country, it will be impossible to use it with any local carrier.

And if your iPhone is not blacklisted you can find out 10 frequently asked questions about IMEI unlock and then order unlock. Also you can check the services we offer for several worldwide networks:

Check more:
iPhone IMEI unlock for 6S, 6, 5S, 5C, 5, 4S/4.