Unlocking Huawei E173 modem entirely eliminates the particular cell phone network lock which usually prevents your usb dongle from using other cellular network service providers.Once you unlock the Huawei E173 modem, its going to make use of any type of cellular service provider on earth: Optus, Virgin, Airtel, 3, Cingular ,MTN and many other cellular networks. You can unlock it to use it with any sim such as Tigo or Vodafone .Huawei e 173 supplied by airtel comes pre configured. you can unlock it to use it with any sim as you wish. the procedure to unlock e 173 is simple.first you need to update the firmware of huawei e 173. download the firmware update from here.
What You will Need :-
- Firmware update sofware
- Universal Master Code Writer
Download Huawei E173 Firmware Update(MTN)
Download Universal Master Code Writer
Download
Method of Unlocking:-
- Download and extract the zip files from the links above.
- Insert your modem into the USB Port of your computer.
- Make sure no program is using the modem.
- Open Huawei e173 update folder and double click on (E173Update_11.126.85.00.114_B427)
- Accept the terms and conditions for e173 updater and click Next
- The e173 firmware updater window will now start searching for device.
- When you click next after a device has been detected a warning window appears.
- If you are prompted to enter a password, start the huawei modem unlocker
- Type in the IEMI number of your e 173 modem and click generate
- You will get two codes in the box one is unlock code and the other is flash code.
- Copy the 8 digit flash code, marked with red ellipse, this 8 digit flash code is the password for the e 173 updater.
- Now you can enter this password and and update your firmware to an unlocked version.
Enjoy.
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