KP501 USIM locked Emergency call only.

[moshman]

If thats the case you should get in touch with whoever supplied the code and see if they have the other code available and request both the NCK and SPCK codes

[fopetesl]

I became impatient and bought a NCK for $6.99 which worked

Now I have another potential problem.
What I haven't said so far is that I already have a KP501 which works locked to EE/Orange.
I wanted to use that one, (my original phone), for my carer's patient and use my SIM in this 'new' phone. My original is a bit tatty but works fine.

I transferred my working Orange SIM to this 'new' phone and it works fine, so far.

Putting my 'new' Orange/EE SIM into my tatty phone I get the "USIM locked" situation again.
If I put the 'new' SIM into the 'new' phone it works without error.

Look like I'll have to fork out another $6.99 to fix the old phone?

[moshman]

Looks like EE sims are classed as a different network to Orange with the old KP501... strange. Never heard of this before, they should be using the same network code but obviously not in this example - maybe because EE didn't exist when phone manufactured.

[fopetesl]

Yes. Shame really.
I'll have to raid the piggy bank for the fix.

Changing the firmware to KP500 on the 'old' phone I'm assuming won't alter the lock since it didn't on the 'new' phone.

[moshman]

You're correct, flashing does not affect the phones network lock status.