Help! Cannot activate newly purchased Iphone 4

Hi all,
i purchased an Iphone 4 from the singapore Apple store and brought it with me to Shanghai. I did not activate the phone in Singapore as it was delivered on the morning I had to fly back to Shanghai.
Now I cannot activate the phone through Itunes, it said the connected phone may be damaged...
I need to know if i can send the phone to Shanghai's Apple store for servicing etc. and if anybody knows anyway to get around this.
<Edited by Host>

This is dumb, solved the problem just by using a Singapore SIM card.

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