Could a restore unlock my phone?
I was updating my iPhone 4S to iOS 6.1.1 last night and it glitched during the update process so I had to do a factory restore. Not a big issue, but when the restore finished I got a message in iTunes that said, Congratulations, your phone is now unlocked. I thought this was really odd, but I have not had to do a factory restore like this before, I guess I have been really lucky in that everytime inthe past that I updated my phone it went smoothly and I didn't lose anything or have to restore from my backup.
Is it possible that the factory restore I did unlocked my phone? And is there a way to check other than putting in a different carrier's sim card to find out?
I am with AT&T. I have never heard of this before either. I am sure it was another glitch of some type in the update process but I thought I would see if anyone had heard of or seen this happen.
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'Congratulations. Your iPhone is now unlocked' message?
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My hardware serial numbers is: 86025A71A4T
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