What is up guys? Unlock River here, and in today's video, I'm going to show you
How To Unlock Samsung Galaxy Alpha.
All right, as you can see here, I have the Samsung Galaxy Alpha. It is a very cool phone. The
problem is that I have it locked to AT&T, but I want to unlock it to switch to use it with my T-
Mobile sim card. Now, it is very simple. I'm going to show you how to do it step-by-step. You
will only need your sim card of your choice. In this case, my phone is locked to AT&T, and I'm
going to need the sim card of my new carrier. In this case T-Mobile. You will only need a
computer, and that's it guys. That's all you need to unlock this phone. It is very simple, and I'm
going to show how to do it step-by-step. Unfortunately, it is not free. There is no way possible to
unlock this phone for free, but trust me guys, it is worth every penny to have your phone fully
unlocked to use it worldwide. Now with that said, let's start with a tutorial.
So the first thing you have to do is power on your phone ,and you go to the phone application
just as if you were dialing a call, and then you will type star, pound, zero, six, pound. As you will
see, your 15-digit IME number will appear. That is very, very, very important. Probably, the
most important step of the whole unlocking procedure. Now, we're going to use only the first 15
digits. For now, we're just going to put it here to the side, and we're going to switch to the
computer. Remember, this is a factory unlock, which means that your phone will be unlocked
permanently, forever. You don't have to worry about updating or anything. Your phone will
always be unlocked.
All right, so you go to the website unlockriver.com. In this website, we will request the unlock
code to unlock this phone. So it just takes a couple of steps. It's very simple. On the right-hand
side here, you will first select the original carrier of your phone. The current company, which it
is currently locked to. So in this case, I brought my phone on AT&T United States, and you
scroll down, and then you select the brand. We're going to be unlocking a Samsung phone, of
course. All right, so next you will have to select the exact product and region of your phone. So
we're going to look for Samsung Galaxy Alpha, United States, AT&T. So as you can see here, it
says Alpha, AT&T. Make sure you select the right region. The next step will be to enter your 15-
digit IME number.
That's the number we got at the beginning of the video, remember? So just make sure you write
down here the first 15 digits of your IME number. I already have it saved on my keyboard, so I'm
just going to copy it and paste it here. Now, if you scroll down, it will ask you to enter your
email address. This is where they will send you your unlock code, so just make sure it is correct
as well. So I'm just going to write down here my personal email. Now, if you scroll down, you
will see the price to unlock your phone. This will vary depending on your phone's brand, carrier,
and country. So the price you see here may be different than the one you're seeing right now. So
then we click unlock now.
On the following screen, you will see a summary of your order. Just make sure you read
everything here, it is important. There is some information here you need to consider before
unlocking your phone, and then, as I promised you, I was going to show you step-by-step how to
unlock it, so I'm just going to go in front of you through the payment really quick. I will click
where it says checkout with PayPal. So if you do have a PayPal account, it is very fast. If you
don't, you can click here, down here where it says pay with credit card or debit card, and you can
use any card.
I do have a PayPal account, so I'm just going to log in, and click where it says Pay Now. Now, as
I said, it's going to take probably three seconds, and the payment will go through, and we should
get a confirmation message. As you can see here, it says thanks for your order, and on the next
page it says thank you for your order, everything has gone through, so that's it guys. You can see
here your order number as well, and all you have to do right now is wait. Wait until they send
you the unlock code to your email. It can take one hour. It can take 24 hours and up to three
business days. It depends on every phone.
I'm going to show you how the email will look like. So this is my personal email account, and as
you can see, I just received this email from Unlock River. Your unlock code is ready. I'm just
going to open this email, and as you can see here, I'm going to make it a little bigger, I'm sorry
bigger. There we go. You will see that I have step-by-step instructions on how to insert an
unlock code. It says your unlock is ready, and if you scroll down, you will see the actual unlock
code. That's basically the most important part of the whole email. That's all you need to unlock
your phone. This simple code.
It is unique for every phone, so this exact code will not work for you. Down below you see the
unfreeze code. That's in case the first code didn't work. So I'm going to show you how to insert
the unlock code into the phone. So I'm just going to power off this phone. So we're going to click
here, press the power on button, and click where it says power off. Click power off, turn off, and
we're going to remove the back cover of the phone. Now, remove the battery, and the following
step is a little important. Now, we're going to remove the battery, and we will insert a sim card.
In this case, my phone is originally from AT&T, so I'm going to use a sim card that is not from
AT&T. In this case, I'm going to use a sim card that is from T-Mobile.
So I'm just going to insert it here. It can be any GSM sim card in the world. Your phone will be
compatible now. So I'm just going to put back the battery. So we're going to press the power on
button, and once the phone is fully on, it will detect that you have inserted a non-accepted sim
card. That is obviously because we have inserted a T-Mobile sim card on an AT&T phone. So if
you insert an unacceptable sim card, it will ask you to enter the unlock card into the phone. So
for now, we're going to put the back cover of the phone, and we're going to wait a couple of
seconds until the phone is fully on. You will always see your original carrier logo. There's no
way to change that.
Now, once your phone is fully on, you're going to swipe the screen to unlock, and you will see
the following message. As you can see here, it says sim network unlock pin. So we're going to
unlock the phone using the code we received in the email. So we're going to write it down here,
7-2-5-8-3-0-9-0. That's it. Now, we will click unlock now, and you will see a success message.
Network unlock successful.
That's it guys. The phone is now fully factory unlocked. This means you can use this phone with
any GSM sim card worldwide, T-Mobile, AT&T, Rogers, O2, any sim card of your choice, and
it is as simple as that. If you have any questions, please do leave them in the comments below. I
will try to answer most of your questions and remember to subscribe. We upload videos every
week. Thank you for watching. Peace!
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