hello Pandemonio100
maybe this can help, I call my fridn and se with him and he tell me this :
put an differente sim card from original network but with disable pin code, after you power on the phone the phone ask you enter pin code, now enter unlock code when phone ask you pin code, normaly your phone is unlocked,
and this information too :
if you put an sim card with enable pin code, the phone ask you this code and after power on normaly, but not realy unlocked,
post result pls.
Best Regards,
JAVA Good.