Unlocking HTC Touch
When I bought the HTC Touch Smartphone I was never told by the reseller that it was locked onto Airtel Network in India. Only after seeing some of the comments left on my earlier post, I realized that it was a SIM locked phone.
Recently when I traveled to Beijing, I felt the pain of having a SIM Locked phone. I had all my contacts and other details on this phone and yet it wasn’t useful when I needed it the most.
When I inserted the China Mobile SIM onto the phone, I was prompted to enter the "Unlock Code". A search for the unlocking procedure on Google pointed me to a lot of paid sites which were ready to send the unlock code on a payment of 20$.
However I did stumble upon a thread in XDA Developers forum which helped me to easily unlock my HTC Touch ! (free of cost)
Instructions for Unlocking HTC Touch
1. Use ActiveSync to copy the following files onto your phone
- Cert_SPCS.cab
- EnableRapi.cab
2. Install the above 2 applications on your phone by clicking on the CAB
3. Unzip Touch_Unlock.zip on your PC and run Unlock_Touch.exe (See that the ActiveSync connection between the PC and the mobile is still up)
4. A file unlock_code.txt will be generated which will have the 8 digit unlock code (Ignore any other digits if generated.)
Download: Cert_SPCS.cab/EnableRapi.Cab/Touch_Unlock.zip
More information can be found on the following official thread on XDA Forum.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=328221
The procedure was quite simple and thanks a ton to Rishi, the guy who submitted the procedure on the XDA forum 
Unlocking HTC Touch Dual
Many visitors have landed on this post searching for a unlock solution for HTC Touch Dual.
Going by the comments on this thread, it seems like the Unlock solution for Touch mentioned above does not work for HTC Touch Dual.
I spent some time on XDA forums and finally found this thread which lists the procedure to CID unlock the HTC Touch Dual
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=355730
CID Unlock is also referred to as the vendor lock and is done by the manufacturer to prevent installation of ROM not released by them.
After unlocking using the procedure, you can flash any ROM of your choice.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=355397
Note: Use the above procedure at your own risk. I will not be responsible for any damage caused by the files attached in the procedure.
If you know about any other procedure/tools to unlock HTC Touch/Dual, please feel free to suggest the same in the comments section.
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Hello Venu,
I have unlocked my HTC TOuch phone and it works great. I am having fun using it.
Thanks a lot
I Will try it soon! Would love my phone to be unlocked whether or not I need to use a different network.
And welcome back!
[...] Unlocking HTC Touch by Venu [...]
Dev, yup the unlocking doesn’t harm the phone in any way
Raj, yup better to unlock now itself. Else you would repent for not doing the same once you travel out of India
Nowadays all mobile phones can be unlocked, but in first place the seller should have notified you abt the Airtel sim being locked into your HTC.
hi , thanks for the information but i dont know where to find folder ‘C:\unlocker’. to my htc …please help. thanks in advance
Hi All
if we did unlock to our HTC phone, any problem with warrenty cliem?
Rgds/murugesh
Dear members
We are able to unlock the Airtel HTC ,blackberry and sony ericsson phones remotely.
For further details please visit http://www.totalgsm.org
Regards
Can we use this to unlock the Touch Dual?
any body please help me to ulock my HTC Tmobile phone?
Hi
Message us , we will do the unlock.
Regards
pls help my htc toutch. to unlock
Please let me know how to contact one about unlocking the HTC Touch remotely.
I take my HTC touch phone to Pakistan, It was frem Rogers, now phone is asking the code to open it up, what is the code for that phone, please help me out, Thanks
Mahmood, click on the link mentioned in this post. It has the tool which can be used to unlock HTC touch
followed to the letter but did not work, text file popped up blank
I have the HTC touch dual as well and the text file came up blank, my phone is locked on orange can you help?
Morpheusmizz, the instructions for HTC Touch only, not sure if they work for Dual too !
In fact Dual was SIM unlocked when initially release I believe, anyway please do have a look at the XDA forum link on this post and also on the following link in XDA covering topics just related to HTC Dual !
Please do let me know if you find a way to unlock dual !
@Ardent-devil, please confirm if you too are referring to HTC Touch Dual ?
Nope it’s an HTC touch exactly as pictured above…
Hi
We provide codes for all HTC locked to any network.
All you need to do is to punch in the code.
Visit http://www.totalgsm.org for more details.
@ admin let me know if you approve of this.
Ardent-devil,
You should definitely check on the XDA forum thread, I know its a pain with so many pages
(I will also check if there are some well known issues with the above approach)
Brilliant, !!! Works also perfectly for T-Mobile MDA Touch latest model.
Thanks
Hi
We offer remote unlocking for all HTC phones.
We will give the unlock code.
Please check out http://www.htccode.com
thanks
it is amazing … it worked .. I unlocked my Rogers HTC Touch phone
I didn’t have to pay anything to any ones
Brilliant - You should get an award for this!
Just unlocked my touch, worked perfectly..
DrM/Izeman,
Glad to know that the unlock worked for you !
And yes more than me, we need to thank the author and XDA forum for coming up with a simple unlock mechanism
Hi again
I need a favor. My friend just bought Motorola q9h which is locked with Fido network
Can someone help me in getting an unlock code for it please
I would appreciate it
love it man thx i have freed my phone
Using this on my touch dual - orange locked - unfortunately it generates a blank notepad file
cheeky I know but any advice folks
I did the steps and I get the unlock code but it did not work, please help……
DrM,
Suggest you to search in XDA forum.
Glad it worked for you Abhishek.
JHamil, please check my earlier comment
http://www.venukb.com/2007/10/15/unlocking-htc-touch/#comment-128185
Usama,
it should work with no issues with HTC touch, you must be doing something wrong, double check against the steps again.
thanks dude……. ur a life saver…… i faced a similar problem recently……
thanks again !!!
Hi does the unlocking code work for HTC s620?
Hi,
I did everything you said, and it came up with an 8 digit number, followed a few spaces later by a 2. When I insert my t-mobile sim into the phone, it’s fine at first, then asks me for a new pin number, asks me to confirm it, then says that it hasn’t worked and is still locked :s. Any help?
[...] I am sure that the intelligent folks at XDA will surely come up with an unlock mechanism for HTC Diamond as they did for HTC Touch. [...]
Thank You Thank You Thank You, i have spent the better part of 2 weeks paying different sites to unlock my phone, but kept getting my money back as they couldnt unblock my htc touch, but 20mins with the information on this page has me up and running. i am not an expert in any way or form but if i can do it so can anyone.
CagedInferno, Rebecca,
Glad that the unlock app worked for you guys
Arnez,
Not sure if it works on Excalibur. you should search in this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=309
Scott,
Please confirm if you ran the app against HTC touch or was it some other model of HTC ?
hi thx for the software and glad tht ir worked on mine, does any one knows how to unlock the htc touch dual i would b thankful
Hi all,
I would really recommend htccode.com.
I bought a HTC touch dual with a vodafone lock on it. I asked them to b quick. They got me the code witin 24 hours.
Very nice of them.
Greetz
Danny
Hi there
I totally recommended htccode.com.
i recently bought HTC TyTN II from virginia, they got me the code and now the phone its working here in bolivia.
Thank you ever so much for this post, it was quite simple to do and unlocked my phone instantly. I was quite woried that it’d go wrong and i’d end up with a (very expensive) paperweight, but it worked a treat.
Thanks again.
Kittie xxx
Hi there,
These codes work for the HTC Touch DUAL also?
Thx for helping me out!
Further to yesterdays question ^^
Steps 1 to 3 were completed and all is running.
Step 4 however creates an EMPTY popup in Notepad. Does this mean it’s not working for the HTC Touch DUAL?
Thx again for helping me out!
Abhishek - Many on this thread are asking for the unlocking of Dual, will definitely check on it.
Kittie - Glad that it worked for you
Bernarda - For a moment I was surprised to know that this solution even worked for Dual; Many had complained that this solution did not work for Dual. And now when you reported the blank file, it kind of confirms that the unlocking does not work for dual.
Please lookup further on this thread for more info on Dual. If I do find something, will definitely ping you
Hi All….I did the procedure mentioned here and then I found a very odd issue. I have a Touch from SPRINT and there is NOWHERE to put in a sim card for ATT…so basically this touch I bought is useless??? Please help
Hi,
I unlocked my HTC Touch phone, but it is still giving error while making calls,
Also that software gave me 10 digit code, when i need just 8 digit.
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