HT4623 activation required
Hello,
my phone is currently stuck on activation required,
it says i am not a developer and i cannot activate my phone
Lawrence... it's great that you're all over these forums being so helpful pointing out that the beta expired. I have ios 7 beta on my phone and have the same issue. But mine is through a developer account. I'm in the middle of trying to restore but can't when I connect to iTunes becaue I had Find My Phone activated.
So I guess I'm going into DFU mode. Should that work? And if so then Apple so called security layer of having to put in your Apple ID is dumb because anyone can still steal your phone and just restore through DFU.
Either way... you'd think Apple could do a Beta to Public release OTA update.
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My I phone will no longer turn on all the way or conect with my computer all the way to sinc.... keeps saying "activation required"? How do I activate?
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Auronffx88 wrote:
... when i hook it up to Itunes threw the cable it says it cant read my data restore to factory settings....
Your device is in Recovery Mode. You have no choice but to Restore it.
Auronffx88 wrote:
.. will i lose everything thats on the phone?
Yes.
Once the Device is asking to be Restored with iTunes... it is too late to save anything...
To minimise loss... Connect to iTunes on the computer you Usually Sync with and Restore from the most recent Backup...
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1414
Restore from Backup
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1766 -
I am living in uk at the moment and i have an unlocked iphone 4s. Each time i put a new sim in it a message appears saying ''Activation Required''. When i slide the unlock bar it asks to choose a wifi network or a mobile data network. So far this hasnt been a problem coz i always found a wifi network around me or the mobile data network worked fine. Now the problem is I am moving back to my country Bangladesh in couple of days. And back there wifi isnt a very available thingie. And mobile data network is very hard to connect. So if i put on a Bangladeshi mobile service sim in my phone how do i activate it without the wifi or mobile data network? Please some help asap would be much appreciated.
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Sorry for the rant up there.. Thanks for your quick response. I couldn't get to an Apple store and can't order anything from the States that contains Lithium ION batteries -- no U.S. Postal Services will deliver these to us anymore. Target sold this to me as an unactivated Sprint phone. I never activated it through Sprint in the States and just took it to Germany with me. I updated to vs.6.0 via ITunes and without the Sprint SIM Card installed. The IPhone is now accessible (Apps, Settings, etc., to be able to check firmware, et al., settings. However, I can't tell if it's unlocked (since I upgraded the version without the Sprint SIM Card installed) until I go to the local cell phone shop and stuff in a BASE (provider) SIM card and test it out. Is there a way to tell whether or not the phone is unlocked without a SIM card in it? I don't think there is.... -
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Instructions to get the phone back working temporary.. till there is a real fix.
1. turn off the phone
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