Root Will Rooting Desire S Unlock It?

[Gunnzie]

I have a Desire S which is currently locked to O2. Will rooting the phone make it unlocked to other sim cards?

 

[notebook]

No, rooting is entirely different to 'unlocking' your phone. Rooting allows you to fully access the phone's read/write commands (security settings), so you can change the ROM and firmware of the phone. This won't allow you to unlock your phone from a particular provider, even if you change the provider ROM to a stock or custom ROM. Unlocking requires a specific code that's unique to each phone, rather than the generic process involved in rooting.

 

[Gunnzie]

No, rooting is entirely different to 'unlocking' your phone. Rooting allows you to fully access the phone's read/write commands (security settings), so you can change the ROM and firmware of the phone. This won't allow you to unlock your phone from a particular provider, even if you change the provider ROM to a stock or custom ROM. Unlocking requires a specific code that's unique to each phone, rather than the generic process involved in rooting.

The reason I asked is that I read that on the original Desire, once you rooted the phone you could run an app which would unlock it for free. Is this not the case for the Desire S?

 

[notebook]

To my knowledge there's no such app for the Desire S.

Also, the app which I think you're talking about didn't require the Desire (Bravo) to be rooted.