{"id":4589,"date":"2012-07-24T13:09:27","date_gmt":"2012-07-24T18:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/?p=4589"},"modified":"2012-07-24T13:09:28","modified_gmt":"2012-07-24T18:09:28","slug":"unlocking-a-completed-contract-att-iphone-what-happens-if-you-replace-the-glass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/?p=4589","title":{"rendered":"Unlocking a completed-contract AT&#038;T iPhone &#8211; what happens if you replace the glass?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/discussions.apple.com\/message\/18981899#18981899\">Link.<\/a> &#8220;I met with two Apple Genius Bar staffers today, and neither knew the answer. This is what they do know:<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n1. Only ATT&#038;T does US post-contract carrier unlock. Verizon\/Sprint can&#8217;t\/don&#8217;t. So nice advantage AT&#038;T.<br \/>\n2. If you buy an unlocked phoned it will show as unlocked in Apple&#8217;s database and if you have it serviced it will be replaced with an unlocked phone. However, if you have a post-contract phone unlocked they don&#8217;t THINK Apple updates the database used to check replacement status.<br \/>\n3. If you are post-2 years with AT&#038;T, but haven&#8217;t switched to a new phone\/contract (so old contract is current) there is an option. What happens is that in this situation you do the glass repair \/ refurb switch, then put your SIM into your phone and AT&#038;T changes the IMEI associated with your current (completed) contract. Then you go through the unlock process with AT&#038;T.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThey&#8217;ve never come across my situation. My guess is that there&#8217;s no way to do it at this time.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Link. &#8220;I met with two Apple Genius Bar staffers today, and neither knew the answer. This is what they do know: \u00a0 1. Only ATT&#038;T does US post-contract carrier unlock. Verizon\/Sprint can&#8217;t\/don&#8217;t. So nice advantage AT&#038;T. 2. If you buy &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/?p=4589\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[6,35],"class_list":["post-4589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-share","tag-b","tag-s"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4589"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4590,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4589\/revisions\/4590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}