HT1430 the ios 5.1 update froze my i phone 3gs... how do i re activate my phone??

i went to upload IOS 5.1 on my i phone 3s (because it said i had to in order to download certain apps) and now my phone is not recognizing my sd card and it's saying i need to activate my phone... but it wont activate.  does anyone know how to restore it?

Is your phone jailbroken?
Chances are the reason your're receiving this error message is that your phone was hacked to be used with your carrier.  Now that it's updated, it has relocked to the original carrier.  The phone can be activated ONLY with a SIM from the carrier to which it is locked.

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