subject: How To Unlock Any Lg Optimus One [print this page] The LG Optimus One P500 was released in July 2010. It is an entry-level touch screen smartphone with a simple design. It has a good weight to it and undoubtedly appears like a strong, well constructed cell phone. It comes in a soft touch black plastic and offers a nice and responsive plastic 3.2 inch display (a bit smaller then the displays used on it's higher end competitors such as the iPhone 4). The large battery that comes with the P500 is really good, delivering several days of usage before needing a charge up. It ships with a tweaked release of Android 2.2 courtesy of LG, which results in enhanced text message and bookmarking widgets, plus a number of other minor interface tweaks. The cellphone can work on 2G networks (GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900) and 3G networks (HSDPA 900 / 2100).
A number of important features on this cellphone consist of a 600 MHz ARM 11 cpu, Adreno 200 GPU, Qualcomm MSM7227 chipset, 2 Gigabytes of built in storage space (in addition to an external microSD card slot that can support up to 32 Gb of additional storage), and 512 Mb of RAM. Its dimensions are 113.5 x 59 x 13.3 mm, weighs 129 grams, comes with a 3.2 inch (320 x 480 pixels) TFT capacitive touchscreen with 256k colors, 3.15 Mp (2048x1536 pixels) auto-focus digital camera, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth v2.1 with A2DP, microUSB, Gps, and works on the Android v2.2 Froyo Os.
If you bought this phone and have decided to switch service provider, or maybe you're vacationing and want to use the phone with a different simcard, you'll need to unlock the phone. If you do not unlock it, an error message will appear on the cell phone the moment you put in a new simcard.
Below are the instructions you will need to unlock your LG Optimus One P500:
1. Insert a non-accepted simcard in to your phone (a simcard that is not from the original carrier).
2. Turn on phone. Go to your keypad and type 2945#*500#
3. The phone will indicate "Sim network unlock PIN. Unlock attempt 1 of 10". This means you have 10 attempts to input a correct unlock code.
4. Enter in your unlock code. In the event that you do not have an unlock code, have a look at the bottom of this write-up for details on where you can get one.
5. Your phone is now unlocked.
The moment the unlock code has been entered and accepted, your phone will be unlocked permanently. After that you can pop in a simcard from just about any provider and your cell phone should immediately pick up the network. You will also have to update your web and e-mail settings with the settings of your new carrier.
