Puk Unlock

Umm... Well to tell the truth I found this cellphone on the train
so i got it and it still works until last night when i tried to figure out the
PIn for the phone because there are voicemail so I tried 3 times and it went to PUK Pin which i tried a lot of times and it dosen't work so it now it saids
"PUK Disabled Card Blocked" what should I do ?
What does PUK means?
And did the owner of this cellphone locked this or is it because
I tried to figure out the pin and you only have 3 tries ....
PPL need help please

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Originally Posted by cuteykutti

Umm... Well to tell the truth I found this cellphone on the train
so i got it and it still works until last night when i tried to figure out the
PIn for the phone because there are voicemail so I tried 3 times and it went to PUK Pin which i tried a lot of times and it dosen't work so it now it saids
"PUK Disabled Card Blocked" what should I do ?
What does PUK means?
And did the owner of this cellphone locked this or is it because
I tried to figure out the pin and you only have 3 tries ....
PPL need help please

Yes, 3 unsuccessful tries locks the sim card. What service was the phone through(T-Mobile, Cingular, etc.)? Now if you really don't want to find out who it belongs to, you can still use it buy purchasing another sim card(contract or prepaid) through the service provider that the phone was used with. Slip in the new sim card and it should work, but I really don't think you should keep it(I have lost phones before).

Ask yourself what you would do if you lost YOUR cell phone, and then imagine the possibilities. Isn't that a grand feeling?

I know but I found it in a train how am i suppose to know who is it??
I"m not going to that train everyday and wiat for someone 2 come back and look for their cellphone and by the way the cellphone is cingular ... I know how it feels to lose a phone

by the way how much is the sim card? you mean that if I buy another sim card and put it in it will work... which means the one who owns this cellphone will have to pay for it?? nah dat's mean .....

hmmm...is that the only possible sol'n you can come up with? How about returning it to a cingular store? If thats not possible, call cingular cs and ask how it might be possible to reunite the owner with the phone? Wouldn't you have been thankful and amazed had somebody done the same for you?

Also, what was so compelling about the voicemail that wasnt meant for you either? If the phone worked before you attermpted to guess the PIN to retrieve the voicemail, then you would have had access to the phone book and could have tried to locate the owner thru a contact.
Also, who paid for the phone you lost and its replacement? Just curious.
I just hope that replacing the phone isn't an economic hardship on its owner.

Originally Posted by cuteykutti

Umm... Well to tell the truth I found this cellphone on the train
so i got it and it still works until last night when i tried to figure out the
PIn for the phone because there are voicemail so I tried 3 times and it went to PUK Pin which i tried a lot of times and it dosen't work so it now it saids
"PUK Disabled Card Blocked" what should I do ?
What does PUK means?
And did the owner of this cellphone locked this or is it because
I tried to figure out the pin and you only have 3 tries ....
PPL need help please

Simple, you open the phone, remove the battery and copy down the IMEI number, then you call Cingular customer service, and read the number back to them, and have them contact the owner of the phone, and have the owner call you to make arrangements for getting the phone back to them. Or you take it to a Cingular store (same results).

But since the phone is not registered to your account, without spending money, you ain't getting past that PUK lockout. And manybe not even if you do spend money.

And if you had to try to guess the SIM Pin number, then yes the owner added a SIM pin code to keep people out of the phone if found (always a good idea to change it from it's default). I always have a SIM pin and a phone PIN, to keep the avg Joe from rebooting the phone to try to get around it.

Hopefully thr rightful owner called Cingular when he lost his phone. That way they can blacklist the IMEI # on the phone, making it a fancy paperwieght and anyone who "found" the phone couldn't use it. Then the only thing left to do would be to return it to the true owner through the suggestions mentioned in this thread.

gee, every time i found a cell phone i just tryed calling #'s on it. try one labeled dad mom boy/girlfriend.

That would have been the thing to do from the beginning, but since the finder of the phone wanted to listen to the voice messages and tried to guess the PIN, it then required a PUK PIN (an added layer of security). tried to guess it and ultimately rendered the phone disabled and SIM blocked as well. Suffice it to say that the phone is of abslute no use for communication purposes for the finder. I believe, in order to get the PUK PIN, you have to be able to give the service provider info that only the owner would have(more security).

You'll need to call customer service for the puk code. And if you've tried more than 10 times, the sim is burnt.

Getting a new sim won't be much help. The sim needs to be registered with the network to work.

On a less technical note, if I lost my phone and someone found it, I would be thrilled - even if the sim was burnt. $25 for a new sim is a heck of a lot cheaper than getting a new phone.