I have been using an Orange SPV C500 Smartphone for a couple of years now, I like the functions of the phone and it isn't too big or bulky and it syncs up with my computer fine. The phone I got was one of the spares that we had at work and I unlocked it so I could use my O2 SIM in it. However 3 or 4 years on now my phone was beginning to look a bit scratch and knocked about so about time to replace it. However the Other C500 I had was not unlocked.
I found the site I used before to unlock my phone, however it required you to be able to to connect to the Internet on the phone with orange prior to unlocking as there are some registry changes you need to make on the phone so you can run an unassigned installer.
So my predicament is I have a Smartphone that is locked to orange but do not have an active Orange SIM.
I found this blog which meant I did not need to get on to the Internet with Orange prior to unlocking the phone: http://spod.cx/blog/unlocking_orange_spv_c500.shtml
So here is what you need to do unlock your SPV C500:
Perquisites
- An Orange SPV C500
- USB Sync Cable
- A Windows XP PC (I could not get it to work on Vista :( )
- Active Sync installed and working
- An Orange SIM (just so you can turn the phone on).
How to unlock the phone
- Connect the phone to your PC using the sync cable
- Download regeditSTG.zip and copy to the phone. You need to copy the file as a zip as the EXE will not work on its own, the phone can read the zip archive.
- Using the File Manager browse to the Folder you placed the Zip file. Open the zip file and run regedit.exe.
- To "application unlock" the phone change the following registry values:
- in HKLM/Security/Policies/Policies
- Change 00001001 from its current value to 1
- Change 00001005 from its current value to 40
- Turn the phone off and back on.
- Download spv-services.zip to your PC and unzip.
- Copy the cert.cab file to your phone, find it again using file manager and run it. This will install an app signing certificate that the next step relies on.
- Run the SPVServices.exe on your PC, it will communicate with your phone using Active Sync. You need an Internet connection on your PC as the file will connect to a remote server to do the unlocking calculations.
- Finally put in your non orange SIM and turn the phone on.