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- A strange glitch is allowing users to network unlock T-Mobile Samsung phones.
- The glitch appears to work regardless of your phone’s status with T-Mobile, essentially allowing you to bypass network unlock restrictions.
- The glitch will undoubtedly be fixed soon, but it is unlikely T-Mobile could re-lock a phone remotely.
When you buy a smartphone from a carrier, you usually are locked into some sort of payment plan. During the period of that plan, the phone will be network-locked, meaning you can’t bring it to another network. Once the phone is paid off, you can then contact the carrier and have it network unlocked so you can take it to another provider if you want.
However, it looks like folks with Samsung phones on T-Mobile can bypass this restriction thanks to a strange glitch. As first spotted by The Mobile Report and corroborated by dozens of Redditors, through a simple series of taps on your phone, you can get network unlocked regardless of whether or not you still have payments left on your plan.