Emergency calls only-restore not work

Today I went to use my phone after having used it only 20 mins earlier and it had the picture of the itunes and the cord saying emergency calls only and to hook the phone to itunes.
I did this and nothing changed, still said no service. So I did a full restore of the settings back to factory. It came up with the service provider again and I loaded everything back on it. Then I went to send a message and it came up with emergency calls again.
I took the sim out and then re inserted it. Same thing.
I don't want to have to send the phone away to be fixed.
Any tips on what I could try?

Maybe, but I prefer this.
I witnessed a bad traffic accident not long ago and when I tried calling 911, there was no answer at that particular time - must have been a lot of calls at that particular time, or a shift change was going on, or a number of operators were taking an extended coffee or bathroom break.
If I was in dire straights and unable to place a call, but I was with someone that could place a call on my behalf who doesn't know my passcode, I would want them to have the ability to dial any number if there was no 911 answer at that particular time.

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i have just changed my sim from vodaphone to tmobile and my new sim wont work it is coming up emergency calls only, the iphone is not a vodaphone phone and as i am awhere it is a unlocked handet, can anyone give me advice pls

You will have to ask Vodafone to do it for you.
Here is a link to their online form http://campaigns.vodafone.co.uk/UnlockCodeRequestForm/

Phone says it needs to be restored and to connect to iTunes to restore. Emergency calls only. But nothing happens when i connect it to iTunes. What's going on?

Why can't I restore my iphone 4. it says to connect to itunes to restore and emergency calls only. But it doesn't restore.

Reboot your computer
Connect the USB end of the cable to a USB port directly on the computer, not a hub
Disable your firewall and antivirus
Launch iTunes
Disconnect the phone from the other end of the cable
Hold the HOME and SLEEP buttons until the screen goes black, then release the SLEEP button but contiune holding the HOME button
Connect the cable to the phone while still holding HOME
Wait for iTunes to recognize a phone in "recovery mode", then release HOME and your phone should restore.

HT1212 My daughter's iPhone 4s is disabled. I've tried restoring it and at the end of the process iTunes on my Mac tells me to enter the passcode but the phone says Emergency Call Only, iPhone disabled, connect to iTunes. It says EMERGENCY CALL ONLY. HELP

IPHONE 4S stuck in emergency call only mode. I got to the end of the restore process and itunes says to enter passcode but the phone still says emergency call only and still tells me to connect to itunes. please help. the link that repondants have been posting does not tell me anything!

myleandra wrote:
tells me to connect to itunes.
See Here > http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1808
You may need to try this More than Once... Be sure to Follow ALL the Steps...
Take your time... Pay particular attention to Steps 3 and 4.
After you have Recovered your Device...
Re-Sync your Content or Restore from the most recent Backup...
Restore from Backup > http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1766

Update software, up all night, emergency calls only, or restore.

Everytime I update the software I'm up all night trying to get my phone to work again. As soon as the software is loaded I get the emergency calls only screen on my phone. It takes hours of playing around, restarting, rebooting, Norton goback, you name it to get my phone to restore which takes hours. Why does a simple "upgrade" set me back so far. I have to plan it for weekends when I can stay up all night.
Help. Apple do something!!!!

Hi and Welcome to the Forums!
While very thorough, the one thing I don't think I see in your list is unlocking your BB from it's original carrier (a prerequisite for using it on a different carrier). See this FAQ.
http://www.blackberryfaq.com/index.php/How_do_I_unlock_my_BlackBerry%3F
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Restored, now emergency calls only

So, I was having software issues with my phone. I figured the best bet would be to restore the phone. Since I wasn't sure what the issue was I decided to restore as a new phone and reload everything manually. After restoring, now I can only make emergency calls. I thought that I might have to re-register my phone since it was seeing it as a new phone, but it's not giving me the option to register it. Any help would be appreciated.

I am haveing the same problem, I did a reset all setting under setting on the Iphone then when it rebooted it was on the emergency calls only screen. I then tried to restore the phone and after it goes through the process it reboots back to th emergence calls only screen?
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HT4623 my voice call services is not working with cellular network...only works fine with wifi..please help?

my voice call services is not working with cellular network...only works fine with wifi..please help?

Since you have already done some sort of reset on your Airport Express, you might as well make sure it was a "hard reset" - follow the instructions for a hard reset found at:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=108044
Since your Mac is running Leopard, you need to configure the Airport Express using the Airport Utility found in the Applictions->Utilities folder. You cannot install the old software that was supplied on the CD you got with the Airport Express.
In future - if you do something bad with network settings on your Mac, do NOT try to fix it with the Airport Utility. The Airport Utility is only used to configure the Airport Express - and since the problem you have created is on the Mac and not the Airport Express, there is no need to be using the Airport Utility and especially there is no need to be resetting the Airport Express.

I just received my i phone 4,inserted Amayim with 4G plan,but showing noservice and bar with emergency calls only screen.Also when i down loaded i tunes to my laptop (windows7) there is an error(9808) message saying i tunes store not supported completely.

i just received my i phone 4,inserted Amayim with 4G plan,but showing noservice and bar with emergency calls only screen.Also when i down loaded i tunes to my laptop (windows7) there is an error(9808) message saying i tunes store not supported completely.

first of all the iphone 4 is not a 4G phone
second it sounds like your iphone could be locked to another operator then the sim you have inserted

TS4006 Did a factory reset now phone wont restore, itunes doesnt recognise phone all i get is emergency calls only

I did a factory reset now i am unable to restore, itunes shows a usb connector but is frozen, phone shows emergency calls only, can ANYONE point me in the right direction

Try rebooting the phone - hold both buttons (top and home) until the apple appears.

Tried to restore iphone 4 back to factory settings now on emergency call only screen?

tried to restore iphone 4 back to factory settings now on emergency call only screen? it also says hook phone up with itunes. well i have an old mac and my itunes isnt up to date and cant be installed up to date because of the old software. what do i do?

You'll need to update your system or fine a system you can use to activate it. There's no way around it.
If you can get to an Apple store and explain the situation to them, they 'may' be able to hook you up with an OS upgrade to Leopard assuming you have a G4 or G5 mac that can handle it.

"emergency calls only" - but only sometimes!

Hi everyone,
I bought the new iphone 4, and it worked just fine. The guy at the store (mobile phones store) inserted microsim, activated the device and everything was fine untill it was turned off by me. Then, when i would power it on, it would present the "emergency calls only" screen, but not allways! if you w8 for some time, try again, you can power it on normally, and again, if you power it down, and try again, guess what: "emergency calls only".
The craziest thing is that it gets the carrier signal once i turn it on successfully, but losses it after a few moments saying "no service".
Any idea on what could be the problem here?
i tried restoring with itunes, but except for losing all the data, it didn't really help....
do you think this is a sim card issue, or some hardware issue with the iphone?
ty for any replies!

y, i forgot to say, that the "emergency calls only" screen, was also "connect to itunes" screen... sry

IPhone 3G stuck on emergency calls only screen. HELP!

Hi everyone, I really need some help.
I bought my jailbroken iPhone 3G from Hong Kong on eBay a few months back. Everything was working fine on iOS 4.2.1, except the battery life was very poor. After getting the battery replaced there was no improvement. So my boyfriend suggested I try restoring the phone with iTunes as it was supposed to improve the battery life.
I plugged my phone in and went through the restore process, only to receive "iTunes Error 1015". After this my iPhone went into recovery mode and stayed put. I tried using a YouTube tutorial and TinyUmbrella to help me out of the error, but it only made my phone go to the "Emergency calls only" screen and now the phone will not appear in iTunes as it says the SIM card that has worked perfectly with iTunes every other time is not supported. I am at a total loss as for what I am meant to do. Any info would be greatly appreciated.
Please help.

Muzzbot wrote:
I bought my jailbroken iPhone 3G from Hong Kong on eBay
I found your problem.
All sorts of things can go wrong with jailbroken phones, it's never a good idea to do so. Not to mention, it means you won't be getting much help on here.

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I have recently got an iPhone 4 out of no where it has decided to think that my headphones are in and they are not but does work with headphones in.
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the same problem but i used it already for 3 years my iphone 4, when i update to ios 6.1.3 version, now is failure like said.
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Is this a language barrier problem or you just don't understand my instructions? The post is very clear.
Download and install JL_Cmder
Backup your device using Desktop manager if there is data on the phone you want to keep.
Use JL_Cmder application to "resettofactory"
Once it's done, if you need the data back, restore the backup file you made back to the device.
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Emergency Call Only

Hi,
My iphone 4 has been playing up for the last couple of weeks, but now it seems a simple turn off or soft reboot won't fix it.
Basically, the phone just drops signal in the middle of something, and when I try and turn it back on, I get the emergency call only window. No matter how many times I try and turn it off, it doesn't go away.
Problem is, I tried to plug it into itunes, but itunes is saying I have a passcode so must enter that first, but cannot do that as it won't get off the emergency call window.
Any suggestions? I can't get to an apple store for another week, and I now have no way of getting in touch with people, and I have some important calls to make. These things seem to happen at the worst time!
Thanks for any help you can provide.

Out of nowhere, my iphone 4 went into emergency call (in every language) and instructed me to plug into itunes. I rushed into the At&t store before closing and they had never seen a message like this. The salesman crashed it and I had to return home to reset to factory on my itunes. After asking me about backing up....it gives other warning not allowing me to continue. I can't even restore to factory. All my updates on phone and itunes are current. More frustrated that Apple support is not available 24/7 considering how huge this company is!

Emergency calls only-restore not work

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