What is up guys? Khristian here from Unlock River, and in today's video, I'm going to show you
How To Unlock ZTE phone so that you can use it with any GSM sim card in the world.
All right, so I'm going to show you how to unlock your phone. This will work for any other ZTE
model, all right. So in this case, I have my phone, which is currently locked to T-Mobile, but I
want to unlock it to use it with my AT&T sim card. So we just need to follow a couple of steps,
and we will be able to use it with any GSM sim card after it is fully factory unlocked. Now
before we start, I have to mention that unfortunately there is no possible way to unlock a ZTE
phone for free. Unfortunately, we will have to pay a small amount, but trust me guys, it is worth
every penny to have your phone fully factory unlocked.
With that said, let's begin. All right, so the first thing we're going to have to do is get the phone's
IME number. To do this, you simple open your phone application just as if you were making a
call, and you dial the following command: Star, hash, zero, six, hash. As you will see here, your
15-digit IME number will appear. This is probably the most important step of the whole
unlocking procedure. For now, we're going to use it later, so we're going to put it here on the
side, and we're going to switch to the computer. So once you're in your computer, open your
Internet browser, I use Google Chrome, and we're going to go to the website unlockriver.com.
Okay, so once you're in this website, we just need to fill in information of the phone we wish to
unlock. Here, we just need to fill in this form here, so we're going to start by selecting the
original carrier that your phone is currently locked to. So in this case, I brought my phone on T-
Mobile USA. So I'm going to select that one. Then you select the brand of your phone. Of
course, we're going to be unlocking that ZTE, and then you will select the exact product or the
exact model you want to unlock. So ZTE has different phones. You can select AT&T, T-Mobile
or just make sure you select the right model. In this case, I'm going to unlock a ZTE Zinger.
All right, so the next step is one of the most important ones. Here, you have to type your 15-digit
IME number. That's the number we got at the beginning of the video. The next step is to write
down your personal email where you want to receive the unlock code. So I'm going to write here
my personal email, and they will send me my unlock code here. Just make sure it is correct. If
you scroll down, you will see an average delivery time and a price to unlock your phone. So the
price and delivery time vary depending on your phone's brand, carrier, and original country of
purchase. So that's what they charge to unlock your phone. That's what your carrier charges to
unlock your phone. We're going to click unlock now. On the next page, you will see a summary
of your order. Just read everything here. There's important information you need to consider
before unlocking your phone.
All right, so we're going to click where it says checkout with PayPal. So as I promised, I was
going to show you step-by-step how to do it, so I'm going to go through the payment in front of
you. If you don't have a PayPal account, don't worry you can create a new one or you can use a
different method. I do have a PayPal account, so I'm just going to log in, and then we click where
it says Pay Now, and that's it. We should get a confirmation message saying that the order was
placed successfully. Perfect. So you will see a screen just like this if your order was placed
successfully. So basically, all you have to do for now...it's done, and now you just have to wait
until they send you your unlock code to your email.
This can take 20 minutes, 30 minutes, one hour, and up to two business days, so be very patient.
I'm going to show you my personal email account. So this is my Gmail account, and I got this
email from Unlock River, and as you can see here, it says your unlock code is ready, step-by-step
instructions on how to enter your unlock code, and, of course, they will send you your unlock
code. This is a unique code and will only work one time. I'm going to show you how to insert
this code into your phone. Okay, so once you have your phone here, we're going to completely
power it off. Just click where it says power off, okay. Once your phone is fully off, we're going
to go ahead and remove the back cover of the phone, and the following step is important.
My phone is currently locked to T-Mobile, so I'm going to need a sim card that is different from
T-Mobile. In this case, I want to use my phone with AT&T. It can be any other sim card as long
as it is different from the original one. All right, so we're going to power on the phone once our
new sim card is in, and it will prompt you to enter the unlock code, okay. So were just going to
give it a couple of seconds until the phone is fully back on, and you will see that it will require a
network unlock pin. So let's just give it a couple of seconds until it's fully on. Remember guys, it
only works one time, so this exact code will not work for you.
All right, so we're going to go ahead and insert the unlock code. We're just going to unlock the
screen, long press this screen to unlock, just give it a couple of seconds, there we go, finally. As
you can see, it says sim network unlock pin. So basically, it's requesting the pin, 0-4-9-8-1-4-8-6-
8-5-3-1-5-6-5. We're going to hit okay, and you will see a success message if the code was
accepted. Sim network unlock successful. Perfect. That's great news guys. The phone is now
fully factory unlocked.
Now, you will be able to use it with any GSM sim card. It will detect your new carrier. In this
case, I have AT&T, so it will automatically connect to the AT&T network. It is as simple as that
guys. If you have any questions, please leave them in the comments below. I will try to answer
all of your questions, and remember to subscribe to my videos. We upload videos every week.
Thank you for watching my video guys. I hope it helped you unlock your phone. If it did, give it
a thumbs up. Thank you for watching. Peace!
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