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Factory Reset on an Unlocked HTC Hero. Would the reset cancel the unlock and revert t

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gerryish

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Hi,
I had a HTC Hero which I sold to a friend.
Before sending him the phone I Goolged how to log my Google account out of the Hero so that my friend could log in under his account.
The answer I found on a multitude of website was to perform a hard reset of the phone, back to factory setting.
As such, I performed the Factory Reset but the phone was originally Unlocked.
Now my friend is saying he cannot make calls with ihs Tesco mobile sim.
Would the reset cancel the unlocking and revert the phone back to locked to a network?
Please confirm this and let me know asap!
Thanks in advance!
 
Unlocking a phone is a permanent thing, you can't accidentally relock it.
 
I know that not to be true with normal mobiles like Sony and Nokia, as I have had to unlock a few in the past after reset.

Are you certain it is the case with android?
 
Xyro is right.

I have personally run a factory reset on my unlocked HTC hero and it has not, and will not lock. You are perfectly safe to do so.

Must be some other reason he is having trouble with his SIM.
 
You can't relock a phone after it has been SIM unlocked. Another guy had a similar problem with his Hero and it showed a message saying - "This could be a temporary problem or your SIM card may not be provisioned for data services...." - does your friend get this message or anything similar? In that case he would need to contact Tesco, but I think its not the problem, it must be something else.
 
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