Question about MetroPCS/T-Mobile Device Unlock

[chupacabra8686]

I already know that there are currently no solutions for directly unlocking the LG models that require the use of the Device Unlock app. Only if you pay for the device unlock server to read your phone as eligible, and then only if the phone is not blacklisted.

I know it is illegal in many places to change the imei of a phone. This is strictly a hypothetical question for educational purposes. I do not intend to try this nor am I encouraging anyone else to. Here goes:

What if you were to take a phone, say perhaps an LG H345, one that is for sure eligible to be unlocked. Before you unlock it, you copy the security/nvm and device unlock app info. You take a phone with the identical model that is not eligible for unlock. You copy over the security and nvm and the device unlock app info, and change the IMEI to reflect the other phone's. In theory would this allow you to use the app to unlock the other previously ineligible phone? How would the unlock server respond if the "same phone" requested a sim unlock twice?
Alternatively: what if you simply copied everything from the first phone after it was unlocked, write everything to the locked phone, and repair the imei to its original. Would this unlock the phone, accomplish nothing, or would it potentially brick it?



Also, as a side question. Why are these phones so hard to find a direct unlock solution for? Is it so that every LG phone that MetroPCS and TMobile have sold since June 2015 are immune to the Octopus Team? Is there any hope of a solution in the future or is it simply impossible?

[rasec7]

i dont think it will work i tried many times the app is enbedded in the software useing forescic software you can dissaemble it but im not goodenough with linux to write it back

[Octopus box]

Also, as a side question. Why are these phones so hard to find a direct unlock solution for? Is it so that every LG phone that MetroPCS and TMobile have sold since June 2015 are immune to the Octopus Team? Is there any hope of a solution in the future or is it simply impossible?

We are working on a solution, in future we will try to add support for more phone model.

You take a phone with the identical model that is not eligible for unlock. You copy over the security and nvm and the device unlock app info, and change the IMEI to reflect the other phone's. In theory would this allow you to use the app to unlock the other previously ineligible phone? How would the unlock server respond if the "same phone" requested a sim unlock twice?

You can try to do this method, on your own risk, but first please make all backups, but 99% that it doesn't work.