Hello,

I keep reading blog posts and forum answers from people saying that the N900 is an unlocked phone and if it is then there must be something else wrong with my phone.

Here's the story. I have an N900 from Vodafone UK. Now as I work both in the UK and mainland Europe I often swap my sim cards depending on the country I'm in and for how long. It's first destination was in Holland where my dutch SIM worked perfectly. No problems, issues or hassles. When I took it to the UK, it stopped working and said SIM not detected. Thinking that this could be because of the dutch SIM, I went a bought a pre-paid vodafone SIM. That didn't work either.

As soon as I got back to Holland, both the UK card and the dutch card worked perfectly. Very weird.

Then I headed to Sweden, bought a Swedish SIM and it too didn't work.

It seems odd that a Vodafone UK sim won't work in the UK on a phone that was from Vodafone UK.

Any ideas why this would happen?

At first we thought it must be locked to the UK but then surely it wouldn't have worked in Holland.

Very strange but I'd really like a solution as I LOVED using this phone in Holland.

My next trip is planned for Australia and I'd really like to have it worked there too.

Did anyone have any ideas about this wacky problem?

Now that is bizzare. You don't state where the phone came from, did you buy it in the UK or holland?

I am not sure but I think the vodaphone version uses a gimped firmware that was never updated beyond the initial firmware release.

The FIRST thing I would do is do a COMPLETE flash (rootfs AND emmc) of the pr1.3 firmware (latest version). That way we can be sure we are on the same page and start hardware trouble shooting if need be.

So, Flash your firmware to generic pr1.3 please.