Is the sims card suppose to be locked - Motorola Mobility TracFone® V170 Cellular Phone

I suppose you are talking about the PIN code you received with the SIM card?? Well at the same time you received also a PUC1 & PUC2 code,(' sometimes you have to call you service provider and they will supply you with the PUC1 code, after verifying your identity) if the SIM card is locked, you need to enter the PUC1 code to unblock it, if you mess this up ( more than 10 attempts) the SIM card becomes unrecoverable! Only your service Provider will issue e new card!

HI if you want to activate or use your telus sim in your phone then you must first check that whether your phone is locked or unlocked one .If it is unlocked one then it will freely accept telus sim else if it is locked to some other network provider then it wont accept telus sim until you unlock it .You can easily unlock your phone using sites like UnBBLock.com they are rendering unlock code for all blackberry mobile models at reliable cost .Else if you want to unlock some other mobile model then visit sites like Unlock-Zone.com they are rendering unlock code for all mobile models ,After unlocking your phone you can freely use it with any GSM sim ...

Dose your phone have a sim card? If it dose you can get a new sim card with your service provider or a new account with t-mobile, at&t or boost the new sim card should unblock your phone let me know if you needed to know where and how to get and change sim cards and companies

contact whatever carrier you bought the sim card from, they usually lock the sim to one phone to prevent users from upgrading without paying them. once you contact them they will either unlock it or sell you a separate unlocked plan and give you a new sim that you can use with whatever phone you like.

uhh how am i supposed to call my carrier if my sim is locked??

Your sim card may be permanent lock and will need a new sim card.
Do not enter any more codes.
Contact Tracfone at 1-800-867-7183 or go on their website
to sent them an email. At the bottom of the website, click on Contact US.
Tracfone will be able to provide you with the PUK code.

If the handset isn't locked to those three networks i.e. Tmobile, ATT and Alltel, then any sim card will work. Almost all handsets are locked to certain networks and so we can't use sim cards of other networks. You can verify this in only one way. If you have a sim card of another network (in your hand at the moment or you can borrow it from your friend or from other family members), you can insert the sim card, suppose a Verizon sim card, not those three. If the verizon works, then all sim cards should work on your handset.

Since your phone already works with Tmovile, ATT and Alltel, I hope all other network sim cards should work without any problem. Suppose if a phone is locked to network means, it's locked by the Service Operator to preserve their customers so that the customers will return to them if anything happens with the sim card or with the phone, this is a business plan logically designed.

For now, I can't confirm you, but at least if you could try with another sim card of another network (verizon) and it works, the no doubt, all sim cards should definitely work. But if you can't try it that way, I wouldn't recommend you, until you get it tested.
And that Advertisements seems a kind of something, "....unlimited everything...." sounds good, but must be unlimited Incoming Call and could also be without monthly rental fees. I don't recommend unless you ask about it to someone who already used the same sim card ($50). As we know, advertisement is advertisement.

If you need further help, let me know.

Good luck.

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Well ...bad news. PUK locked that means your friend typed 10times wrong code and now sim card is locked for good-can not be used anymore.If you are on contract then call your provider and ask for new sim. If you wanna keep your number you can ask your network provider and see if its available(in 95% NOT). Even you'll get the new sim with your number all numbers stored in old sim will be gone.

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you could try this

By doing the reset (1st temp) you will lose all your
data ie contacts, messages, photos, videos etc etc so
back them up on your pc first.
Take out your sim card and follow the instructions below :
1st temp. put this number in the keypad
*2767*3855# let it reboot(restart)
now its ready for permanent.
Put in a sim card of a network that the phone won't
except and follow the instructions below.
( If you can't type anything with a locked sim
card inserted just take it out and do the next
step without a sim card in the phone)
Don't worry if your screen shows - - - - - - - when typing
it is supposed to do this.
Permanent.
ENTER :
*7465625*638*00000000*0000000
0#
NEXT ENTER
#7465625*638*00000000#
AND THEN *#7465625# to check the locks....all locks are
inactive...these are all the locks...
network lock - inactive
subset lock - inactive
sp lock - inactive
cp lock - inactive
sim lock - inactive
activa lock - inactive
phone lock - inactive
auto network - inactive
auto subset lock - inactive
auto sp lock - inactive
auto cp lock - inactive
auto sim lock - inactive
Enjoy !
This procedure does not change your imei number at all

i bought my phone throught e-bay too i got optus sim card ask me about secuirty code (sos) i just put 4 zero ( 0000) the phone accepted and un locked try that