subject: Unlock Your Blackberry Bold 9900 [print this page] The Blackberry Bold 9900 was released in August 2011. Blackberry have taken a jump forward with this model, providing some impressive new capabilities such as a touchscreen display, a powerful 1.2GHz processor, the latest Blackberry OS7, plus an HD video camera. The keyboard on the 9900 is the very popular wide-set physical keyboard like the one seen on the original 9000 model. And they have also eliminated the track ball and substituted it with a track pad. The mobile can operate on 2G networks (GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900) and 3G networks (HSDPA 900 / 1700 / 2100 or HSDPA 850 / 1900 / 2100 / 800).
A few crucial features on this mobile phone consist of a 1.2 GHz QC 8655 processor chip, 8 Gigabytes of built in storage space (as well as an external microSD card slot that could support up to 32 Gb of extra storage), and 768 Megabytes of RAM. It measures 115 x 66 x 10.5 millimeters, weighs 130 grams, comes with a 2.8 inch (~286 ppi pixel density) TFT capacitive touchscreen with 16M colors, 5 Mega pixel LED flash camera, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth v2.1, microUSB v2.0, Gps navigation, and works on the BlackBerry 7 Os.
If you bought this cellphone and decided to swap service provider, or maybe you're vacationing and wish to use the phone with a different simcard, you will have to unlock the phone. If you don't unlock it, an error message will appear on the phone as soon as you insert a new simcard.
Listed below are the instructions you'll need to unlock your Blackberry Bold 9900:
1. Insert a non accepted simcard (a simcard that's not from your original carrier). Power on mobile phone.
2) After the cell phone boots up, it will show the message "Your current sim card requires an unlock code. Would you like to unlock it?". Press on "Yes".
3) Enter the unlock code. If you do not have an unlock code, take a look at the bottom of this write-up for details on where you can get one.
4) The phone should say "Code accepted". Your Blackberry is now unlocked.
The following are alternate unlocking instructions in case the method above gives you problems.
1. Place a non-accepted simcard into your phone (a simcard that isn't from the original service provider). Power on phone.
2) Go to Options > Device > Advanced System Settings > Simcard
3) Type MEPD
4) A Personalization screen will come up, that should show "Sim", "Network", "Network Subset", "Service Provider", "Corporate". On that same screen, hold the ALT key and press the buttons MEP2 (while you type, you won't see anything on the screen, but simply proceed to type it anyway).
5) Phone should say "Enter Network MEP Code"
6) Key in the unlock code.
7) Phone will display "Code accepted". Your Blackberry is now unlocked.
As soon as the unlock code is typed in and accepted, your phone is unlocked permanently. After that you can pop in any simcard from any other carrier and your cellphone should instantly pick-up the network. You will also need to update your internet and email configurations with the settings of your new carrier.
