subject: Unlock Your Lg P990 [print this page] The LG Optimus 2X (otherwise known as LG P990 Star, LG P990 Optimus Speed, T-Mobile G2x) was introduced in February 2011. It's the world's very first cell phone that features a dual-core processor, as well as the third LG phone to run the Android Operating-system. The phone can operate on 2G networks (GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900) and 3G networks (HSDPA 900 / 1900 / 2100 and HSDPA 900 / 1700 / 2100 ).
A number of key attributes on this cellphone include a Dual-core 1GHz ARM Cortex-A9 cpu, ULP GeForce Gpu, Tegra 2 AP20H chipset, 8 Gigabytes storage space (with a microSD card slot that can support as much as 32 Gigabytes of added storage), and 512 megs of RAM. It measures 123.9 x 63.2 x 10.9 mm, weighs 139 grams, comes with a 4.0 " Gorilla Glass (~233 ppi pixel density) IPS LCD capacitive touch-screen, a primary 8 MP auto-focus camera with LED flash, a secondary 1.3 Mega-pixel digital camera, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth v2.1, microusb v2.0, GPS, and functions on the Android v2.2 Froyo Operating system.
In the event that you bought this smartphone and decided to swap service provider, or maybe you are traveling and would like to use the phone with another simcard, you will have to unlock the phone. If you don't unlock it, a warning message will appear on the cellphone the moment you put in a new simcard.
Below are the instructions you will need to unlock your LG Optimus 2X P990:
1. Put a non-accepted simcard in to your phone (a simcard that is not from the original carrier).
2. Power on the phone.
3. The top of the screen should display "phone is sim network locked". Glide the lock image to the right, which will bring you to the unlock code screen.
4. Phone will indicate "Sim network unlock PIN. Unlock attempt 1 of 10". This means that you have 10 tries to type in a correct unlock code.
5. Type in your unlock code. If you dont have an unlock code, have a glance at the footer of this write-up for instructions on where you can get one.
6. Your phone is now unlocked.
As soon as your cell phone unlock code is entered and accepted, your phone is unlocked. Then you're able to pop in a sim card from just about any carrier and the cellphone should automatically pick up the network. In some cases you may have to change some settings on your phone (e-mail as well as other web related services) by pointing them to your new carrier.
