Activating the german t-mobile iphone without t-mobile contract

As this topic is important for german customers find a german translation below:
After a day of trying i found out how to activate the iphone which is currently sold in germany by t-mobile without contract:
The currently sold iphones in german t-mobile shops are all prepared for the use with t-mobile.
so they have to be activated with a t-mobile simcard in the shop.
There is NO OTHER WAY to activate these phones.
The following preconditions have to be met in order to activate this phones:
1. iphone
2. Simcard for demonstration provided by the T-shop
3. Customers Simcard
4. PC or Mac with itunes installed and itunes account of the T-shop
5. itunes cable
6. T-shop employee who is used to working with itunes.
With the following steps the iphone can be activated:
1. Buy Iphone without contract.
2. T-Shop reports IMEI to apple by phone
(Important: Note IMEI on invoice)
3. activate iphone with demonstrator card and itunes
4. Now the user can access the menu of the iphone
Without this step the user can not use the iphone !
5. Click 'Einstellungen' in the iphone menu
6. Click 'Allgemein'
7. In 'Allgemein' click 'Zurücksetzen'
8. In 'Zurücksetzen' click 'Netzwerkeinstellungen'
9. Confirm 'Netzwerk zurücksetzen'
10. Now put users sim card in iphone.
11. After 24hrs (Apple needs 24hrs to release the IMEI) connect the iphone to the users itunes-Installation.
Bind the iphone to the user itunes database.
12. After release by apple itunes reports:
'Congratulations your
iphone is unlocked now'
13. On the iphones display top left corner now the carrier is shown.
The user can now do calls.
If the customer does not have a T-Mobile iphone plan 'Visual Voice Mail'
is not available, Voicemail workslike with any other mobile phone an can be accessed via 'Voicemail' in the phone menu.
German translation
Die aktuell im Umlauf befindlichen iphones müssen mit einer t-mobile
Karte aktiviert werden, auch wenn das Gerät keine Vertragsbindung hat.
Anders kann ein Kunde ohne Vertragsbindung das Gerät NICHT in Betrieb
nehmen
Hierzu sind folgende Voraussetzungen notwendig:
1. iphone
2. Demosimkarte des T-shops
3. Kundeneigene Simkarte
4. PC oder Mac Rechner mit itunes und itunes Account im T-shop
5. Verbindungskabel
6. T-shop Mitarbeiter der im Umgang mit itunes geschult ist.
Schritte zur Aktivierung des iphones.
1. Iphone ohne Vertragsbindung kaufen.
2. T-Shop meldet IMEI telefonisch an apple
(Wichtig hierbei: die IMEI sollte auf der Kundenrechnung vermerkt
werden, dies kann handschriftlich geschehen)
3. Gerät im Shop im t-mobile Karte und itunes aktivieren
4. Erst jetzt kann der Endkunde auf die Einstellungen des Telefons
zugreifen !
Ohne diesen Schritt kann das Gerät nicht vom Endkunden bedient werden.!
5. Auf das icon 'Einstellungen' des iphones klicken
6. In Einstellungen auf 'Allgemein' klicken
7. In 'Allgemein' auf 'Zurücksetzen' klicken
8. In 'Zurücksetzen' auf 'Netzwerkeinstellungen' klicken
9. 'Netzwerk zurücksetzen' durch anklicken bestätigen.
10. Nun SIM-KArte des Kunden einlegen.
11. Nach 24h (Apple benötigt mindestens so lange um die IMEI
freizuschalten) das Gerät an die itunes-Installation des Kunden
anschliessen. Hierbei die Frage von itunes bestätigen, dass das Gerät
mit der neuen itunes Datenbank verbunden werden soll.
12. Hat Apple freigeschaltet meldet itunes nun: 'Congratulations your
iphone is unlocked now'
13. Im iphone oben links wird nun der Carrier und die Empfangsstärke
angezeigt.
Der Kunde kann nun telefonieren und alle vom Netz bereitgestellten
Funktionen nutzen.
Hat der Kunde keinen T-Mobile iphone Tarif steht ihm 'Visual Voice Mail'
nicht zur Verfügung, die Mailbox funktion funktioniert wie bei jedem
anderen Handy und kann über den Button 'Voicemail aufgerufen werden.
fixed some tipos

While on this journey, i called both AppleCare and Tkom hotlines several times. A guy at the Tkom hotline, who seemed to have some more experience, told me that i have to bring back the iPhone to the T-Point where i bought it and have it exchanged, because "my phone has a problem". He also told me there were several other iPhones on the way back to Apple. At the T-Point they denied to exchange the phone, of course. So the only option was to send it directly to Apple.
It seems to me that there are two sorts of iPhones out there: one that ignores the fact, that a non-Tkom SIM card is inserted and activates without problems and one that failes to activate due to the same reason.
I blogged the full story here: http://web.mac.com/olliq/Macland/Blog/Blog.html

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