Unlock your i-mate cellphone
i-mate - for Business, for Pleasure, for Life
Is your cell phone locked to Cingular, NEXTEL, T-mobile or Sprint carrier network? Cell phone companies when you buy a phone from your provider will "lock" your phone, so it can only be used on their wireless network. Not very good when you want to switch providers, but maintain the same phone.
You may download software to generate the unlocking code. Software is available on some websites for free and some pay websites that also offer support if things go wrong.
A lot of i-mate models can be unlocked with free software unlock code calculator and all you deed to do is to get your free unlock code and enter it into your cellphone.
Once you have finished entering a code that works you should see a message that says "SIM is not restricted" or "Restriction off" message depending on your model. If not, try entering another code.