How to unlock your LG vx 5200, 6000, 8100, 9800
June 10, 2006
One of the major problems I have with my vx5200 phone is that it takes hundreds of pictures of the inside of my pocket…
Right now I only have one solution for this: Lock the keypad.
However, I was expecting it to unlock by pressing Menu * like my old (I-didn’t-know-how-good-I-had-it-when-I-had-it) Nokia phone.
Now however, with the new Verizon menu system on all of their LG phones, my lg5200 did not unlock the same way… After trying all logical four digit number combinations I could think of in 15-20 minutes, (1234, 4321, 1111, 2222, 5432, 6543, 0000) I stopped and thought “OK – if it is not a number pattern, it is a specific number. What specific number is associated with this phone…”
Well the answer is obvious… The unlock code for Verizon phones is….
Drum roll please……..dddddddddddddddddddd
The answer is The last four digits of your phone number.
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78 Responses to “How to unlock your LG vx 5200, 6000, 8100, 9800”
Thanks for the info! My wife locked her phone accidentally and asked me to figure out how to unlock it. Viola!
you are a gunius, and i feel stuipd
hi,Im need hellp with my enter lock code.I dont now my number for lock code
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Put in the last four numbers in your phone number.
awwww man, im so mad i didnt realize that myself. lol, thanks for the help bcuz i was getting really frustrated. =)
OOOOOOHHHH MY GOOOOOD!!!!!! That was so easy and it took me hours browsing the web to find this site and know the simple dumb answer…. I NEVER FELT SO STUPID!!!!
THANK YOUUUUU…….!!!!!!!
Thank you soooooooooooooo much!!!!
I didn’t kno wat 2 do or how 2 unlock it i felt so stupid!!! U R A GENIUS!!!!!!
what do you have to do before you enter the last four digits
Thank you for the information you listed it really healped me. God bless you.
i need to know how to do it if you dont know your number like i just got the phone and i cant look at the info to find the number can you help me
Chris: The word UNLOCK should appear on the bottom right side of your screen. Press the button below it.
Matt: If you just got the phone and forgot your own number after locking the phone, you can still hit *611 Send. That will take you into the Verizon customer service line. It does work with the phone locked.
Once they confirm your identity, they may be willing to provide you with your phone number. However, you should be aware that with the high number of stolen phones out there, you might have a hard time convincing them to do it… I recommend that you have your SS#, as well as the credit card number used when creating your Verizon account, when you make the call. Just be patient, calm and polite and you should prevail.
Thank You So Much!!! I Locked My Phone accidentally, and couldn’t figure it out
Actually it doesnt work like that ALL of the time. I promise you that. Im trying to figure out what my unlock code is. Mine, as well as many other peoples, will be different because if you have a Refurbished phone, or a replacement phone, its not brand new anymore, and already has a unlock code.
what’s the lg vx8000 lock code? i got da phone from ebay therefore i don’t know the girl’s old number? it’s 4 digit’s. ????
thanks..
Unfortunately, if you bought the phone used, you need to ask the original seller for the last four digits of their phone number. You can change it after that,,,
Do a star 228 on it, and it will reset it to the last 4 digits of your phone number. Yay for slow moments of my brain. Call LG if that doesnt work. they are actually VERY helpfull.
Hello! I’ve got to be the dumbest smart person ever! I changed my lock code Monday night and then I turned around and forgot the new code! So my question to you is do you have a master over ride code or something so that I can by-pass going into the store??
No, they keep a pretty tight leash on that information. Otherwise, the lock code would provide no real security. You might be able to fix it by doing a binary edit of the phone’s data using QPST or something like that, but that’s about the only thing I can think of that would fix it. If you do go to the store, see if you can look over their shoulder and then send me an email with how they fix it!
Good luck!
hey-
that wasn’t a smart move, wasn’t it. I’ve ran into the same problem, but your going to need to enter the last 4 digits of your number. Call customer service, or go into the store. It could also be 0000, or 1234.
thanks.
You are a God. I wish they’d change the manual to reflect that. I had gone through about 1,000 combinations and thought for sure it’d be 0000 or last 4 SS digits or something similar.
“You are a God. I wish they’d change the manual to reflect that.”
Actually, they did, but I asked them to remove that section. Sometimes I’m too modest. Glad I could help!
Thank all of you who sent me comments about getting my phone unlocked but i
finally figured it out! Thanks again! Bye!
~I wAs FiNe BeFoRe YoU cAmE n2 mY lIfE!
it didnt work for me i got my phone yesterday and was messing with it and locked it but the last 4 digits didnt work for me is there any reason why ??? plese help
I have a hand me down Nokia 5125 TracFone. I don’t know much about it except that the keypad is locked and is asking for the lock code. I don’t know the phones’ number so, I can’t sue that as a passcode. Any other suggestions?
Thank you that helped soo much
hey guys thanx for the info for my LG VX8100 but i found this cell phone, and im not in usa now and i dont know the phone number, soo, what could i do to unlock it?? :’( :’(:’(:’(:’(:’(:’(. i got a lot of photos and stuff inside it :’(. i hope you could help me. bye
you’re great!!! I don’t feel too stupid, cause it only took me 3 minutes to find your website (plus the 10 minutes I spent trying to find my book)… (and the 3 minutes I spent trying codes)…
I’ve done worse before!!!
You are a genuine GOOF!!!
Now that I can’t deny!
Thanks a bunch
Thank for your unlock code for lg, it safe my time
Man, Thank you! You took away my excuse to buy a new phone. Have a super day!!
Bless you. I have a business phone and you saved me the humiliation of calling corporate one day after Iocked the keys in my car.
..And yes, I am blonde.
Awesome- Thanks for the advice my daughter locker her phone and was in a panic about it…..
God Bless you!!!!!
Wonderful! My mother just accidently locked her phone. The manual said the default code was 0000.
Obviously it was not. This was the second google result for ‘lj 5200 locked’
thankgod.
What if you changed your password because you didnt want anyone to get in, but then you forgot your lock code! Yea, i’m stupid =0). How do I get it reset so I can friggin get back in my phone? I’ve turned it off then back on but it still prompts for a password. PLEASE HELP!
Need help I own a Verizon Wireless LG VX7000 I cant remember the last 4 of my old number and I actually think I went in and set up my own lock code and forget that code also. I haven’t been a verizon customer for a long time because I kinda for got to pay the bill so is there anyway at all to unlock the phone
I don’t think so. If you have lost the code, or never knew it, and you can have no contact with Verizon, I think you are out of luck. I don’t think you have a way to retreive the number.
I have that same problem. My daughter forgot her passcode and now she can’t use her phone. Is there an easy solution???
I have the vx5200 and i got it wet. And ever since it has the words car kit on my phone and i can’t hear anything from my phone. i need help asap thanks
Tiffany, I think you’re in trouble.
Now, water doesn’t really cause damage to electronics. The contaminants in water do. So, depending upon what kind of “water” you dropped it in, you will have more or less problems. Chances are that your phone is just ruined.
If you are PATIENT, you can try something, but it is just as likely to break your phone worse as it is to fix it. If you’re gonna toss the phone anyway, it is worth a shot.
Buy a gallon of DISTILLED water from the grocery store. NOT spring water, but distilled water. Distilled water should be very pure. You then take the battery out of the phone and soak the phone (NOT THE SCREEN END) in the water. Swish it around a bit every now and then. If you can get the phone apart before hand, all the better. Then take the phone out and let it dry for two full days, shaking it now and then to get any built up water out. after two full days, and assuming you’ve shaken it well enough to dislodge any water trapped in puddles inside, you might just have a working phone again. But as I said, if you are not patient enough to let it evaporate, or if the minerals in the water you dropped it in spread to another area, you might end up frying it for good.
If it is under warranty, you might want to try that approach first…
Tom – did you try the last four digits of her phone number?
Pretty much I’ma dumbass and i didnt know my lock code…totally locked my cell…BOUT cried and then i read this and yay it worked! so just to let u know u saved my life lol!
wow you are amazing! thank you so much!!!!
how do you add music to the lg vx8000.
mp3.
oh my god i cant belive i was so stupid. i just bought this phone from a buddy of mine and he said hey im getting a new phone for my b-day and two days before i dropped minesomewhere in the grand canyon god for bid i was having to much of a good time to realize that i had lost it until i went to take a picture with it and no phone its gone any ways thank you thank you i took it to a lg dealer and it was gonna cost like thirty five bucks to unlock and i said kiss my well thanks a lot.
oh my god i cant belive i was so stupid. i just bought this phone you are a freakin life saver dude
Thanks a lot dude. That one took me a while.
umm thanks so much haha i accidently locked my phone last night and i tried every combination and nothing worked..you saved me so much stress
Huge Thanks dude, I was getting desperate
but i dont know my number cuz i just got this phone from someone lol
Thank you so much!! I just got a vx5200 today and locked it and the master code ’0000′ they listed in the manual didn’t work. After 20 minutes of trying different codes like you, a wuick google led me here. Thanks again.
Thank God, I was hoping I wouldn’t have to sit here and possibly enter 10,000 numbers into this dang phone… Thank you!
A (former) frend of mine decided it would be funny to reset my unlock code. Well it’s been a few weeks and he still won’t tell me ( I beleive he forgot what code he input), anyway is there a way to unlock it now that it is not the last 4 digitd of my phone number? Please help
OH MY GOODNESS – life saver! Thanks much!
Oh my goodness… I accidentally locked it and FLIPPED out because this is my friend’s old phone and I figured now I’d never know what the code is.
Thank you so very very much!! =)
The world needs more people like you to help us dumbasses out. Thanks!!
so… my brother decided to change the lock code on my phone and forgot what he changed it to. Is there any friggen way to unlock it without going to a verizon store (closest is 2 hours away). Oh yeah the phone is a vx5200 and I DO have bitpim and a usb cord if that could somehow help. Thanks
Hey all I found a new way to crack the unfourtante code. If you have a usb cord hook it up to your phone and then connect to bitpim (free to download from bitpim.org) and search for the phone. After you have connected, hit view on the top and select filesystem now look on the left toolbar and click on filesystem again.
Now, click on the folder and many folders will come up, click on the folder called nvm and then select nvm_0002 (atleast on my phone. when opened it has alot of jibberish but on the far right it has a seperate column. Look for the FIRST four digit number and try it – that was mine and after I entered it I changed it, hooked it back up and found it in the same spot.
So……. if you bought the phone refurbished or used, you can now get the security code to work for you to.
Thanks Ryan!!!
Is there a way to reset settings while in lock mode? I dont have a data cord for this phone and am stuck in lock mode. No code I can possibly think of is working.
Sam, as far as I have found there is no possible way. The best would be to purchase a cable off of ebay (I got mine for the 8100 etc) and they are like $20 shipped.
mmmmmmmm, goood, very goood, BUT….. waht if i dont now the numer, cause i find a cell and it was already block…. now how can i get the number
hey i got a LGizzle vx5200. i dont KnOw how to unlock it. i need you assistance. i forgot my unlock code and the phone has been inactive for a year. i dont have the previous cell number to get the last 4 digits. i would like to reactivate the phone but cant unlock it. is there a default code or some other way i can reset the password???
zerge if you are asking about how to get the security code – which I think you are- take the following steps above that I listed with using the program bitpim. The only other way I can think of is using another program that reads the phone programming and lets you read it or else enter in the 10,000 combinations
shaniqua same thing the only real thing to do is either find the old phone number and try that or else purchase a usb cable and use bitpim to read the programming of the phone until you find the security code
I have changed my lock code but forgot it and my phone is locked… Is there any way i can fix it and unlock my phone?
Thank you for your info.
I really appreciate your help. Good luck!
Thanks alot. I dont normally post this kind of thing, but apparently the idiot phone companies expect you to just know this for some reason…
I have been searching for a while now; you would think that it would be more common on the internet.
The 4 digit power on password code was changed from the default and is no longer the last 4 digits of cell number, How can get pass teh lock code to reset back to factory, or do I have to go into Verizon store to get it reset?
Thanks
Thank’ s God, for this magnificent helpfullness
I almost desperate to solve this trouble, unlock the lock insidentil keypad,
Thanks You VERI much Indeed,
Hello, i have a verizon LG phone and currently it is off and i locked my phone by accidently sitting on it. Is there any way possible that i can get it open????? Please Help. I have so many important numbers in this phone.
HELP!!! I have a VX5200 and my girlfriend change my lock code.. She claim she forgot the number.. I try to put the last four numbers in your phone number, but didn’t work… PLEASE HELP!!!
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thanks for the tip!!! i was wondering what the heck it was!
i almost cried until i read this…..
if the phone isn’t locked and you need to change the code back, call *611 on the phone. this also resets the voicemail pasword though
I CANT UNLOCK MY PHONE AND ITS NOT THE LAST DIGITS OF MY NUMBER,ANY OTHER IDEAS?
http://www.thecodecave.com/article167
Man ur such a genious!!!!Another great mind
My lg 8100 phone locked heelppppppppp
Hey.. i have got the sansumg e530.. and i have got a code.. for like messages and to get on the phone but it isnt a pin code.. and i have forgot it.. the stupid person i am… can any one helpp…. relii frustrated
Taahh x