HT5554 1st gen. Iphone Help!!!!!

i have a question can i use my orignal iphone without the sim card? Like to use it for a ipod? If so how can i be able to use it? i cant get anywhere besides the unlock screen becasue it says i need a sim card... Please help!

You need a SIM card to activate the device which then can be removed to use it as an iPod, See this.
Using an iPhone without a wireless service plan

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First impressions: The camera is a little snappier and sharper in photo taking.
Copy and paste: RAD!!!
Voice memos: Can send instantly via e-mail MY LADY LIKES....KINDA KINKY!!!
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Landscape keyboard: nice but should have been there 1st time out.
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1) Drop the Portal, SSO, and their respective _public DB users cascade.
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it continues to give the following error message:
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Camera view and take a very different color than 1st gen iPhone-Pls advise

I'm new to the forum. I just recently purchased a 3GS for my wife as a gift.
I noticed her photos, especially indoor, appears more orange-tinted than my original 1st gen. iPhone. The difference is very noticeable when you put side by side for view and snap photo. Note: both phone is currently running on verion 3.0
Does anyone have sugestions as to adjust the white balance?
I dont want to take it back to iPhone store b/c it was jailbreak phone that I brought from an independent store.
Any help is greatly appreciate.
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Similar experience to Salgw here. On the 3GS photos are markedly less warm and vibrant than my wife's OG iPhone, which gives consistantly great results. On the 3GS using the photoshop app one can adjust values to approach a better image, a cumbersome process.
Still, is there a simple workaround to get images like the OG iPhone produced? Is there even an app that does this w/o much fussing around?
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My iphone will no longer scan for wireless networks. I am running an airport network via my imac and the rest of the computers, as well as two iphone 3GS phones can see it, but my 1st Gen iphone now gives me the error "can not scan for wireless networks". I have done the Home + Power button thing, reset the network settings and no help yet.
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OK. There are reports of bad wifi chips, but lets try some more things first.
I assume your router is set to b/g compatible & not "n" only, correct? The iphone only works on g. Next, try this: Shut down the WiFi, and turn off "Ask to Join Networks". Then turn the iPhone completely off, by holding the top button down until the red slider came up, slid it off, and wait a few moments.
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So, I have a friend who has a 1st gen iPhone... iTunes said to her "there's a new version of iOS available, would you like to download it and upgrade?"... She was feeling particularly good about life and decided, yes! I will upgrade!
The download happened, and the install happened, and her phone became a dead brick. She called 1-800-my-apple, and they told her "1st gen iPhones can't handle the latest OS, there's nothing that can be done and you have to go buy a new phone".
Gee... You'd think Apple engineers might have their OS update installers do a device version check to make sure it can actually support the OS it's asking you to install.. Maybe that's just too much to ask for? I don't know--- Anyway, this was really disturbing for me to hear as I couldn't imagine Apple doing something so irresponsible and short-sighted to their users. I know someone here is going to reply to this with "dude it's a first gen iphone.. get a new phone", but that's not the point. The point is, Apple should know what their devices can and can't handle and not just screw over people who happen to not be in the financial position to upgrade their hardware.
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I thought GPS capability was hardware related?
Will the 2.0 software upgrage next month allow GPS capability on 1st gen iPhones as well?

That's good to know!
I guess Apple should update their website then.
If you go to the iPhone home page and look at the bottom of the screen it says "Current iPhone Owners" learn about the 2.0 upgrade. If you click that link, it takes you to the page that talks about, among other things, the GPS capability, which led me to believe that current iPhone owners (like myself) would get GPS simply with the upgrade!
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Got my new 3GS this morning - now looking to see if I can get any use from the old 1st gen iPhone it replaces.
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See this article: Using an original iPhone without a wireless service plan http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3406

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I just pre-ordered my 3GS today and was wondering if I could still use my 1st gen iphone for non-phone related tasks? (Still use my apps, iphone, camera, and other stuff on my home wifi network?) Also will itunes handle more than one iphone profile?

Coreyrich22: some small conditions on this--see the official statement here:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3406
iona64: presumably the article above will also be true for the 3G, but I haven't seen confirmation of that yet.
You should avoid the issue by upgrading your iPhone 3G to OS 3.0 before passing it on and activating your new iPhone 3GS. Re future versions, I don't think anybody knows, possibly not even Apple.
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HT4528 One external app on 1st gen iPhone 5. Cellular Network Data Sent = 1.2GB. What could cause such a high usage?

One external app on 1st gen iPhone 5. Cellular Network Data Sent = 1.2GB. What could cause such a high usage?

I had the same issue, whilst my IPhone 5 iOS 7.0.2 was in my pocket all morning, I checked the usage on traffic monitor and it said data usage 1.1 GB. My setting are:
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My 1st gen iphone shows a pic of puug and itunes but itunes will not acknowledge phone. How do i make phone work again

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I just got a new iPhone 4S and gave my first generation iPhone to my kid to use as an iPod. I transferred the phone number so now the new iPhone works as my phone and the old iphone did not connect to AT&T but did work as an iPod (or through wireless). Rather than just sync'ing to his computer, he erased the iPhone somehow while it was not connected to a computer. This apparently erased everything including activation. Now when he hooks up to iTunes on a Mac or PC, he automatically goes to iTunes Store and gets a page asking for him to activate. The iphone has multiple languages on the screen and window for making emergency call so it looks like he wiped the old iphone "clean". From reading discussions, my impression is that iPhone needs to be activated before you can use even as an iPod. So my question is how can I get this old iPhone to work as an iPod?
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More inof:
I saw an old post that said: "Does original iPhone work without phone service -- Yes, but you won't be able to install future firmware updates or restore the iPhone with iTunes if wanted or needed.. Both require the iPhone being activated."
Not knowing this limitation, we did a full restore/reset on an old 1st gen iphone, so is there anyway to get it working like an ipod. Per above, I get a screen asking me to activate.
AT&T even obliged me by allowing this phone to be reactivated (for a few days) and gave me a new sim card to put in the phone, but it wouldn't reactivate probably since it's so old: AT&T didn't know what to do and Apple wouldn't deal with a product out of warranty.
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Cannot download photos from original 1st gen iphone

An aunt passed on her old 1st gen iphone (16GB) to my son for Christmas as a starter phone. We cannot get the photos he shot Christmas to download to our Windows vista computer. The only way we can get a photo off this phone seems to be by email - one at a time -Surely there is some better way!
I've downloaded iTunes and it will back-up the phone, but I can't find any way to see the photos. Following an old discussion we tried to look at the phone files without iTunes (clicking on it in My computer ) and it wants to format the disk.
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When there are photos in the Camera Roll, the iPhone is also detected as a digital camera when connected to a compatible computer. Photos in the Camera Roll can be imported by the computer as with any other digital camera, which is not handled by iTunes.
Try the Windoze scanner and camera wizard, which works with every iPhone and iOS version beginning with the first - 1.0.

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I Like to have all my apple stuff registerd and visible on my Apple profile page. But it doesn't show my 1st gen iPhone, which my kids still use as gaming device.
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