Im trying to restore my iphone 3gs to its factory setting at the same time updating to a newer version 6.1.2. while restoring, itunes states"We're sorry, we are unable to continue with your activition at this time." i cant open my phone, what does it mean
Im trying to restore my iphone 3gs to its factory setting at the same time updating to a newer version 6.1.2. while restoring, itunes states"We're sorry, we are unable to continue with your activition at this time." i cant open my phone, what does it mean
99.9% of the time, the cause of this issue is the fact the phone was jailbroken/hacked to unlock it for use on networks other than the network the phone was originally locked to. Apple maintains a database of officially unlocked iPhones, and when Apple's servers detect phones such as yours, activation stops & you get the message you got.
So, either get a sim card from the carrier your phone was originally locked to, or get it officially unlocked, because it appears that it was not officially unlocked.
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Now update ios 6.1 through itunes, but it is not activating
We're sorry, we are unable to continue with your activation at this time.This frequently occurs when the phone has been hacked or jailbroken. Was your phone jailbroken before trying to update? If so you'll have to go elsewhere for assistance because the terms of Use for this forum prohibit discussing support for jailbroken phones.
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Assist to help on my iphone when trying to restore and update. Is state "We're sorry, we are unable to continue with your activation at this time". How am i going to restore back? As my iphone unable to use now.
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IPhone 4. We're sorry, we are unable to continue with your activation at this time.
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We're sorry, we are unable to continue with your activation at this time. Please try again later, or contact customer care.
Derick Edwin wrote:
We're sorry, we are unable to continue with your activation at this time. Please try again later, or contact customer care.
Possible causes:
1. Your antivirus is blocking access to gs.apple.com.
2. Your phone is jailbroken.
3. Your computer has been used at some time in the past to jaibreak some iOS device (not necessarily the phone with the problem), and its network database was corrupted by the hacking software that was used.
4. Apple's activation servers are down (very rare, and never for more than an hour or so).
For 1. try disabling your antivirus.
For 2. & 3. you need to go somewhere other than an apple forum for help. Although you can try deleting lines containing gs.apple.com from your "hosts" file on your computer. -
I tried to update my iPhone 3GS with iOS, data was restored but on continue with activation in the iTunes stores, it is replying "We're sorry, we are unable to continue with your activation at this time." what could be the reason?
Hmm, well... iTunes trys to activate your iPod using the Apple server to make sure you have bought it legit.
Two things come into my mind:
1) Your iTunes can't access the internet.
2) Apples activation servers are down.
That's just my cents, maybe anyone else has an idea. -
Gents
i forgot my IPhone 3gs passcode , i done the restore thru ITune , restore was ok for 6.1, when i start to configure my device , i stuck on the activition step
I can't activing me IPhone 3gs after restore following message showen in iTune :
We're sorry, we are unable to continue with your activation at this time.
I done some internet seach , most of the stuff said use the RedSn0w uploadf following IPSW or something like that :
IPHONE2.1_6.0_10A403_restore.Ipsw
PS. if update the above , every reboot your Iphone device should reboot from same IPSW using computer for upload
your advise please how can i activite my Iphone back
apprecite your help
KnofalHi
i sure my sone done it , how can i resolve this please, is there way to activite it again
Thanks
KNOFAL -
I was trying to update operating system of my iphone but it gives the following error(We're sorry, we are unable to continue with your activation at this time) Now my phone is not work working can anyone help?
Is your iphone hacked/jailbroken?
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Trying to sync an old iPhone to iTunes and error message in iTunes appears: "We are sorry, we are unable to continue with your activation at this time" so unable to sync.
How long has this been going on?
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when i connect my iphone 3Gs to itunes in my computer they say, they have an update for my iphone ios 5 to ios 6.1, this is the message that apear in my itunes, We're sorry, we are unable to continue with your activation at this time.Ask your question. what should i do for now for iphone didnt activate of itunes?
Ask the person who owns the iPhone.
Which version of Cydia appears on the iPhone - the one
with the black and white icon or a different one?
If it was jailbroken, contact the developers of the jailbreak.
Not all jailbreaks can be completely removed.
Google may provide some direction. -
I tried to restore my iphone last night but it show this massage we're sorry we are unable to continue with your activation at this time on my itunes. As i wanted to get back all my apps and info to the iphone, but no i couldnt, because of this massege. is there anything tht i can do?
Hey algouhi!
Here is an article that can help you troubleshoot this issue with iPhone activation:
iPhone: Troubleshooting activation issues
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts3424
Thanks for coming to the Apple Support Communities!
Regards,
Braden -
My iphone 3gs software of ios updation time iphone restart. then strat the phone but phone is not strating normal like previous version.
1. selection country
2.next region select india
3 then for wifi and select connect to itunes but that time message is came "We're sorry, we are unable to continue with your activation at this time" at present my iphone 3gs not working previous version.https://discussions.apple.com/message/21709610#21709610
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i tried to restore wont work it says (We're sorry, we are unable to continue with your activation at this time.) please help i have take it to school tommorrow to a friend i have 6 hours help FAST
plus the iphone isnt mineDiscussing jailbroken iPhones is against the T&C of use of this forum. We need to stop here itself.
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im trying to restore my iphone with itunes and it gives me this error "We're sorry, we are unable to continue with your activation at this time."
This is usually a symptom that the phone was hacked/jailbroken. Was it?
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I have the same problem after updating to the latest iTunes. I purchased an iPhone 4S this past summer and gave my 3GS to my 6 year-old minus the SIM card-- an instant iPod Touch. Things were fine until the latest version of iTunes 11.0. Until I updated to 11.0.1, iTunes would not even "see" the iPhone.
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