HT3406 Turning an old iPhone into just an iPod

I was reading this article about turning an iPhone into an iPod, the example that apple gives http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3406 doesn't help because the iPhone 5 chip is smaller then the one in my old iPhone. The old phone just saids (could not activate) and I can't get any further to do anything with it. Even when I have it attached to itunes, it will not allow me to do anything. All I want to do is put my old iphone in a ihome player and listen to music.
Is this even possible?

Thank you but what I keep getting is the phone starts off by asking my language where I live then to set up my wifi and then it tries to activate the phone and then just said it can't be activated then there is no more options.
Not sure what I am missing

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I know it sounds weird, and that is the reason I posted my question. Because my case is not like all the ones I've found online and it's confusing. I added a screen capture of my itunes with my old iphone (the one that houses my playlists) connected to it.
My playlists "ARE" in my iphone 4s. They are still there even though they do not show up when I plug in to itunes in my computer.
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hi all!
because this is my first post, i just want to say that i really like the arch community. didn't need to post anything until now, but since i switched to arch (2-3 years ago), this forum & wiki always helped me. so thanks!
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