maemo.org - Talk - View Single Post - Ad-Hoc restrictions in the USA ?

itsnotabigtruck	2012-07-28 , 18:30
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Originally Posted by somedude

AFAIK, its looking at the sim MSI, and figuring you are using a USA sim, nothing do with the firmware and it blocks it.

If it's like the N9, it's based on the MCC (mobile country code) of the tower you're connected to when you boot the phone - not the SIM.

Symbian is dramatically less hackable than Linux/Harmattan, so you might be SOL in this case. There's probably some way to fix it (ROMPatcher?), but it won't have much in common with the ad-hac approach.

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