Activate the iPhone 4S

I bought an unlocked iPhone 4S in Miami and I'm trying to activate it in a brazilian carrier, but appears this message: "Only compatible sim cards from supported carrier may be used to activate iPhone". Does anybody knows what it means?
Thank you!

The specific message you're getting indicates that the phone is NOT unlocked. Apple has not announced general availability of unlocked iPhone 4S's in the US yet, so if you're talking about Miami, Florida, it sounds like you got an off contract phone that is locked to AT&T.
If that's the case, see if you can send it back. AT&T will not unlock iPhones for any reason.

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I got a new iPhone 3G S for christmas (unlocked). I travel back to the UK in a couple weeks when I'll get a compatible SIM card for it. For now I just want to play around with the non-phone features. Whenever I try to turn it on it asks me activate and won't accept any SIM card I put in. It won't even accept my dad's sim card which is currently used for an iPhone.
Is there anyway to 'activate' the iPhone so I can use it in the meantime?
thanks.

If the iPhone was purchased at an Apple "approved retailer" in India, the iPhone can be taken to that retailer with a problem, or to an Apple store if one is available.
What I do know is there are two official carriers for the iPhone in India and neither one offer unlocking for the iPhone. And there is a significant "brown" market for the iPhone in India as well - non-official retailers selling the iPhone that was originally purchased in another country as carrier locked with a designated carrier in the other country and hacked to be unlocked by a non-official retailer.
Was the retail sales box shrink wrapped or was it open when you received the gift? If the retail sales box was not shrink wrapped, that is not a good sign.
Keep in mind that you will get very little if any support and no warranty coverage from Apple for this iPhone in the UK.

I purchased an iphone 4 from a friend, i called the carrier and they have unlocked it for me but the phone still needs to be activated as i have restored it. Can i activate the iphone through itunes by using a different carriers sim card?

Help Please,
I purchased an iphone 4 from a friend, i somehow cleared it and it's now at the original activation screen, i have spoken to the carrier and they have unlocked it for me. Once the carrier unlock details get sent to apple, will i be able to use any carrier sim card to activate the iphone? currently when i connect to itunes it says the sim is not the original one and i need to insert the original sim... will this happen now that it has been carrier unlocked? i have been told the unlocking can take between 5 and 72 hours, do i just keep trying with itunes or do i have to do something different?
This is a christmas present for my son and i am running out of time, i'm not in an area that i can just go into an apple store and ask, i'm currently overseas in a very poor country and there are not many iphones that i have seen here so your help would really be appreciated.
i think the operating system is 6.0.1
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scrapman26 wrote:
i was told it can take between 5 and 72 hours for the carrier unlock is done.
And have you waited that long? If not, then that's why it's not done yet.

HT1937 I have upgraded my iphone 3gs to ios6.1, the ios6.1 got downloaded but while installing it, it say "We are unable to continue, we can't activate the iphone at this time"

Hi ,
I am using iphone 3gs and have unlocked it officially from apple. Now when I tried to upgarde to ios6.1 I was able to download the ios software on my iphone successfully, but when it started installing the ios on my iphone it restarted my iphone and now it says " We are unable to countinue, we cannot activate the iphone at this time. The activtation server is currently down please try after sometime or you can also activate it by connecting to iTunes." .
Please anyone can help in either resolving this issue or restoring it back to my original ios5.1.

This generally is a sign that the iPhone had previously been jailbroken
or hacked to unlock it from the original wireless provider and the update
has relocked it to that carrier. You must contact the wireless provider it
is locked to and ask if they offer unlocking and if you qualify.
Exactly how did you get Apple to unlock your 3gs? Only wireless carriers
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Hey Guys, Do I really need to activate the Iphone 4 when I buy it without contract at the apple retail store? Thanks.

If you are in the US, you cannot purchase an iphone directly from Apple without an AT&T contract. If you want to purchase a no commitment/no contract iphone, you will have to purchase such directly from AT&T. However, the phone will have to be activated on AT&T's network before you can do anything with it. AT&T will require that you establish a post paid account at a minimum.

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You might be interested in visiting this thread which discusses a similar problem: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4673269

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You may get more help from the iPhone discussion group, as this area is for discussing the iPod touch. Here's the link to help you get there: [http://discussions.apple.com/category.jspa?categoryID=201]

How do I activate the iPhone, which is linked in the calculation do not know Model iPhone 4 Frameur IOS7.0.2

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How do I activate the iPhone,
Activation Lock
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH13695?viewlocale=en_US

Can't activate the iPhone 3GS after updating to iOS 5

Hi All,
I updated my iPhone 3GS to iOS 5 and i got the setup screen for the language and region and eventually i can't activate the iPhone
as the iTunes says " there is no sim card installed in the iphone that you are attempting to activate "
However the iPhone is already unlocked and i've been using it with 4.3.3 and also 4.3.5 and it was absolutely fine.
Now i keep rebooting it and removing the sim card (which is working on another handset alreay) and it says the same msg
PLEASE HELP !!

First off, if you're using stuff like Redsnow and Ultrasnow you have violated any kind of warranty you had. This is no longer Apple's problem so look for help elsewhere. Second, you should have known that if you try to upgrade an illegally jailbroken or unlocked phone with the stock apple update, you would lose both the unlock and jailbreak. Obviously you're baseband is messed up and if you flashed it with the iPad 6.15 baseband you're out of luck ever trying to update the iOS version legitimately since you can't undue a baseband flash. You should have known that before you started messing with it. So either get a legit contract with AT&T, sprint or Verizon or try to salvage your mess through a jailbreaking/unlocking forum. You won't get any help here my friend.

Do I need to activate the Iphone 4 on the network prior to unlocking it?????

I bought a Iphone4 on three UK network but never activated it as I bought it as a present. However I requested three to unlock the phone and for a charge of £15.00 they said they have sent an unlocking request and I have received a text message the following day to confirm the unlocking request is successfully processed.
My question is that do I still have to activate the iphone on three or can the person in abroad who gets this as a present activate the phone with a foreign SIM in the country. The reason I dont want to activate with three sim is that it is being given as a present and I would rather prefer to give it in a selaed box unused and brand new condition.
Hope some one has a answer to this question as apple technical support could not give a answer to this..

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Not activate the iPhone 4s because the server temporarily unavailable . . What can I do?

Not activate the iPhone 4s because the server temporarily unavailable . . What can I do?

There are 3 possible causes for this message:
1] activation server is down. Very rare occurrence but does happen.
2] iPhone is jailbroken or hacked
3] computer on which the iTunes is trying to activate the iPhone has been
used to hack or jailbreak iOS devices.
In scenario 1], retry the activation. If the server were down, it would be up in short order.
In scenarios 2] & 3], you are on your own. Google may provide some direction. Terms of Use
for this forum prohibit discussion of hacked or jailbroken iPhones.

Someone changed my icloud login password, and I can not activate the iPhone after recovery

someone changed my itslud login password, and I can not activate the iPhone after
recovery

You could try to reset your password via a webbrowser here: https://appleid.apple.com

After I activate the iphone with an internet connection..

After I activate the iphone with an internet connection on my home computer, do I ever have to have internet on my home computer for my iphone to work? Like do I need the itunes store for my iphone if I'm never going to buy anything from it or can I just use the internet connection from my iphone? Because after I activate my iphone I was thinking about canceling my internet on my home computer because I'll have it on my iphone..would that work? Thanks!

As posted above me here. One of the Requirements for an iPhone is a PC and an Internet Connection.
1. iPhone needs Internet to communicate with the servers when you do any iPhone Updates
2. iPhone needs Internet to communicate with the servers when doing a restore
3. iPhone uses internet when you connect to iTunes to confirm you are an AT&T User so you can see your number in the Summary screen
Also if you ever want to put music, tv shows, podcasts etc. On iPhone most of this comes from the iTunes Store so that requires the Internet to download the content.
Also if you want to take advantage of WiFi in your home then you need active internet if you got a Wireless Router
If you do not use Internet on a PC allot, Check into a cheap DSL package and that should suite your needs for using the internet only when you need it.

My friend gave me his iphone 4s and the phone is asking me to activate it under my friends apple id and password. my friend and i were wondering what would happen when we activate the iphone 4s? we don't know if its just going to unlock it or somethinels

my friend gave me his iphone 4s and the phone is asking me to activate it under my friends apple id and password. my friend and i were wondering what would happen when we activate the iphone 4s? we don't know if it ist going to unlock it so we can use it or if it is going to activate his phone again into the iphone 4s

No it's not stealing. They have an allowance that you can share with so many computers/devices. You'll have to authorize her computer to play/use anything bought on your acct. You can do this under the Store menu at top when iTunes is open on her computer.
As far as getting it all on her computer....I think but I am not sure (because I don't use the feature) but I think if you turn on Home Sharing in iTunes it may copy the music to her computer. I don't know maybe it just streams it. If nothing else you can sign into your acct on her computer and download it all to her computer from the cloud. Not sure exactly how to go about that, I haven't had to do that yet. I wonder if once you authorize her computer and then set it up for automatic downloads (under Edit>Preferences>Store) if everything would download. Sorry I'm not much help on that.

I want to ask that if some one restore iphone and the icloud is activited before it was last so the can activate the iphone and after restore can we track it

i want to ask that if some one restore iphone and the icloud is activited before it was last so the can activate the iphone and after restore can we track it

No.
If the iPhone is running iOS 7, activation lock included with iOS 7 will prevent someone from restoring the iPhone or completing the process.
If the iPhone can be restored, it cannot be restored from the iPhone's backup - only as a new iPhone or not from the backup.

Impossible to activate the iphone

Hi everybody! Tomorrow my iphone 4 doesn't want to works! Last month I've installed the IOS 5 beta 3 and everything works. This morning I wake up and my phone asks me to remake the configuration (something like the first time when we install the new firmware). The problem is that: when it asks me to connect the phone to itunes, I connect it but it do nothing! So now I can't activate my iphone and I can't use it.
If i try to make the restore, it doesn't work.
there is a way to solve this problem? If is possible, I can make the downgrade of the firmware, but I don't know how to do this.
Thanks at all!
Greetings

As a registered developer(you are a developer, correct?), you have access to the iOS developer forum. That's where you need to post your question, as the NDA you signed prohibits discussing beta software in a public forum. If you're not a developer, you're on your own.

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