Unlocking your GSM Treo 600
My GSM Treo 600 with AT&T Wireless service is, IMHO, the first essential smartphone. Even with the amount of effort to get it configured, it’s a net benefit to your daily life. However, international travelers know that one of the great features of GSM is being able to buy prepaid cards with a local number in whatever country you’re visiting (Croatia, Ecuador, Morocco…). That way, people you’re interactining with in the country don’t need to call a long distance number in the States, you pay reasonable prices, and you don’t get waken in the middle of the night with an office worker calling about a minor issue.
AT&T locks their phone to make this impossible, which is especially ridiculous since I already signed up for a year service package. Thankfully, people on treocentral have figured out how to crack the lock.
The file is currently available from here (updated). If this link breaks, go to TreoCentral and search for “patched.zip”.
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