Is it possible to unlock the N9? (ie sim restriction/tied to a network?). Ive been googling, it seems information is pretty sparse..

Say hello to Aegis Security Platform. Or, sell this crap and go buy N900. Sorry, just being honest

Anyway, answering Your question - you won't be able, until custom kernel - with Aegis cut off - pop-up. IF it's going to pop up...

Actually, custom kernel is now feasible, as AEGIS works in open-mode
http://forum.meego.com/showthread.php?t=4575&page=8
There's still some things that are broken...
But it's a far cry from where thing where originally, if you read that entire thread.

It's true, but You've forgotten to mention, that it breaks warranty - no matter if You're gonna get issue with USB port or screen, it's void, cause You've flashed custom kernel. Which, of course, was not the case in N900.

It seems, that Nokians found solution to sell 500-600$ phone without warranty. And, the funniest thing, is that they actually find many idi... unwise people, agreeing on this

/Estel

AFAIK, it hasn't yet been determined if there's a write-once hw flag.
If there is there'll be no going back w/o a service center knowing that warranty was voided.
But if there isn't, go back to stock image, & they'll be none-the-wiser.

I see we started to talk about same thing in two topics, eh?

Write-once HW flag was present in N900, where flashing kernel did not void the warranty. Do you really believe, that they've omitted such a things in N9, where it void warranty?

Nokia executives may be idiots, but they engineers are not, usually.

What are you going on about?
I was simply updating the other user in this thread.
As what you're claiming as the "absolute truth".
Many not yet in-fact be the truth.
Is there a problem with that?

You've misunderstood me - by "we', I mean "we" without irony - You and me. I'm just pointing out fact, that exactly the same posts (in terms of meritum) started to appear in two threads.

It's nothing wrong with that, still it seems little counter-productive to me. It's not better to just paste link to first thread, here, without doubling the same content?

On other topic, I totally agree that it may not be a truth (hardware write-only part). Still, I think it's most unlikely scenario, just like thinking that tomorrow everyone on the world will be beautiful and rich.


Peace,

/Estel

point taken.

What the hell does this have to do with the OP's question? This has nothing to do with Aegis. Lock state is generally stored somewhere on or near to the ROM baseband chip. There is no real way to reliably write lock state on the N900, it's going to be even more unlikely on the N9.

I don't see why the N9 wouldn't be capable of being SIM unlocked via code, if indeed operators decide to lock it.

N900 was done via #PW+CODE+1# as far as I know. The better option is to simply buy it unlocked