How To Unlock Your Lg P970

The LG Optimus Black P970 was released in January 2011. It's an extremely thin, light, as well as beautiful looking cellular phone. Because of its all plastic housing, it weighs in at a mere 109 grams. It's also one of the slimmest cell phones for sale, measuring no more than 9.2 mm thick. LG has equipped the cell phone with one of the brightest touchscreens available, a NOVA 4-inch IPS-LCD display. The phone is also quite fast, due to it's 1 Ghz Cortex-A8 processor. Although it isn't as powerful as several of the other higher end dual core phones, it still has plenty of processing power to work with. Phone calls on this phone sound very clear, the speakerphone performed nicely, and the battery life was rather good for a cell phone with such a sizeable and bright screen. The phone arrives pre-installed with the Android 2.2 Froyo operating-system and LG has supplied an assortment of widgets to help make the user interface tremendously user friendly and easy to customize. The phone can function on 2G networks (GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900) and 3G networks (HSDPA 900 / 1700 / 2100 & HSDPA 900 / 1900 / 2100).

A number of key features on this mobile phone include a 1 GHz Cortex-A8 cpu, TI OMAP 3630 chipset, PowerVR SGX530 GPU, 2 Gb of integrated storage space (1 GB user-available), and 512 Mb of RAM. It measures 122 x 64 x 9.2 mm, weighs 109 grams, comes with a 4.0 inch (480 x 800 pixels) IPS LCD capacitive touchscreen with 16 million colors, 5 Mega-pixel auto-focus LED flash camera with a 2 MP secondary camera, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth v2.1, microUSB v2.0, Gps, and runs on the Android v2.2 (Froyo) Operating-system.

In the event that you purchased this phone and have decided to switch service provider, or perhaps you are vacationing and wish to use the phone with another simcard, you will have to unlock the phone. If you don't unlock it, a warning message will appear on the cellphone the moment you put in a new simcard.

Below are the instructions you'll need to unlock your LG Optimus Black P970:

1. Place a non-accepted simcard in your phone (a simcard that is not from the original carrier).

2. Power on the phone

3. Phone will ask you for the "Sim network unlock PIN"

4. Enter the unlock code. If you dont have an unlock code, have a peek at the footer of this article for instructions on where to get one.

5. Your phone is now unlocked

OR

1. Power on the phone (may be carried out with or without a simcard inserted)

2. Proceed to your mobile phone's keypad and type in 2945#*970#

3. Phone will ask you to key in your "Sim network unlock PIN"

4. Key in the unlock code

5. Device will display: "Network Lock Deactivated"

6. Your phone is now unlocked

As soon as your unlock code has been entered and accepted, the phone will be unlocked permanently. You may then pop in any sim card from just about any provider and the cell phone should immediately pick up the network. You will also need to update your internet and e-mail configurations with the settings of your new service provider.