11-27-2017, 02:58 AM
space-time wrote:
I bought one of those iPhone SE (ATT Prepaid) from Best Buy. I finally took SIM card from my wife's iPhone (ATT prepaid) and put in this new phone, then restored from her backup, and everything looks and works great.
That was about 2 days ago. now I want to see how l need to wait to unlock the phone, and I get this message from ATT (yes, IMEI is correct)
Looks like the IMEI number you entered doesn’t match an AT&T device. Try entering it again. Dial *#06# on your mobile phone to make sure you have the right IMEI.
Any ideas why ATT does not know this IMEI?
I bought two of those iPhone SEs at the same time, tried the AT&T unlock portal for both. One told me to wait 6 months, and the other phone got the same message as yours.
My only guess was that as far as AT&T was concerned, the phone was unlocked (not an AT&T phone), but I don't have another carrier's SIM to test out that theory.
If you lookup the Apple model number on the box of those phones, it's actually the model number for an unlocked phone, so I don't really know how they get locked. I never used the prepaid SIM that came with either phone.