MDM lock (Mobile Device Management lock)
Buyback & Trade-inOperations
MDM lock is a corporate security profile that prevents a device from being configured or used outside the enrolling organisation, making it effectively unusable on the consumer secondary market without authorised removal.
MDM-locked units are a common source of losses in enterprise trade-in programmes because devices can appear functional and cosmetically strong while carrying near-zero consumer resale value. Detecting MDM lock before pricing is therefore critical in workflows handling corporate fleets. Unlike SIMlock, MDM status is not reliably detected by visual inspection or basic IMEI lookup and often requires powering on and attempting setup; MDM-clear status is increasingly treated as a quality signal in B2B wholesale lots.