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Originally Posted by herr_oigg View Post
Hey guys, sorry for this thread but I'm very desperate. After having N900 for a couple of months, I've never thought that my first thread on this forum will be about such stupid thing.

I just bought my brand new black N9 with Harmattan 1.2. Of course I used something like Polish version of eBay (called allegro and way more popular than eBay.pl).
To save a couple of bucks, I bought N9 locked to Orange operator (we call it actually "simlock" in Poland). Auction said that for additional 30$ I could buy magical unlock code from Orange. Your guesses are right, I bought additional code. I forgot to add, that my current SIM is not from Orange...
After getting back home I powered my N9 for the very first time (quick peek into gallery showed that seller was actually playing with my phone). Of course phone was powered without any SIM card. Then I began unlocking process. Unlock code written on some scrap of paper, instructions taken from following location:

http://www.nokian9specs.com/1797/unl..._nokia_n9.html

Everything was going just fine until I tried to enter "w" character.
A couple of google searches later I even found this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzWuw4fg6nw

Seems that someone else is having similar issue.
This topic:

http://forum.gsmhosting.com/vbb/f608...-code-1441260/

mentions SendCodeUsb.exe, but I've found on other forum that it isn't working.
So, since Harmattan bugzilla is closed what can I do?
I've got some experience with flasher tool but I'm afraid that flashing my N9 with some image won't solve my issue.
Is there any other way to actually enter this stupid code?
Maybe entering this code from console level would help?

Again, I'm very sorry for such stupid thread, but I've had my previous phone for 6 years (Motorola E770v) and I really waited for my N9.
Please help...
Had the same problem. You only need to ask the operator, the one owning the lock, to unlock it for you. They will do that over the air by issuing a GSM operator message. After that you only need to reboot your phone.