My iPhone 4s suddenly said activation required
I have had the phone for a year and I pulled it out of my pocket and that's what it said. I tried to reactivate it but it didn't work. I talked with someone at Apple and they said they have received a whole bunch of calls about this today. They were not able to help me. I am trying to do it through iTunes but not sure what to do. I don't want to restore as it is not backed up recently enough. Took a bunch of pictures today.
It's because you were on the iOS 6 beta, which just expired. You'll need to get the final 6.0 release from the developer iOS portal and install it manually.
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Hi
So I've been using my IPhone 5 for many months now.
I'm a developer and did install beta versions of iOS 7 but
lately when I've gone to update it says I am up to date.
Anyway today sudenly my phone is saying it needs activating
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*** is going on, Apple you are so sh*t this phone cost in excess of
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