HT5654 how to restore and activate iphone 3gs
how to activate and restore iphone 3gs with no active sim card
Hello James
If that was the SIM card that came with it or was using it last when it had service, it should still go through the motions of getting passed the activation screen. Check out the article below for more information.
Using an iPhone without a wireless service plan
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3406
Regards,
-Norm G.
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Did you check the security software settings? iTunes has to be able to contact Apple during the update process: iTunes for Windows: Troubleshooting security software issues
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See this support document for information about update and restore errors. Resolve iOS update and restore errors
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When you say activate what do you see?
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"We're sorry, we are unable to continue with your activation at this time."You phone was hacked. You can not get help with it here. Hacking / Jailbreaking voids any warraty and forfeits your right to support. Discussing jailbroken / hacked devices is forbidden by the terms of service here.
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Itunes displays a message saying "there is no SIM installed in the phone you're trying to activate" even if there is the same SIM that was working minutes before.
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Any ideas?? TKS Sandro“Could Not Activate EDGE” error message Update ...
Well it’s going on day 6 and still sporadic to no EDGE on my iPhone. At one time, it was thought to be a defective iPhone – since my partner’s iPhone works just fine.
After over three hours on the land line with AT&T and Apple, I was sent to the local Apple store for a replacement. Of course, as soon as I walked into the Apple store my iPhone worked just fine. ;-( The local store replaced my iPhone and suggested I go home and activate the phone as a NEW iPhone, that way if there was a bug in my data it would not carry over to the new phone. Did that and well… still sporadic to no EDGE. By the way, I have the Big White “E” to the right of the 5 bars and AT&T .
AT&T said last week they has “Software” issues in my area, but the CSR I talked to did not know what the issues were or if they were the cause of my problems. He did say they would call me back today to see how my iPhone was doing, but alas, no call back.
When I’m next to my partner, trying to access the same feature, his iPhone is just so fast. Mine hangs up, draws out and finally I get the error message, “Could Not Activate EDGE”. I am updated to version “1.1.4(4A102)”. New (refurbished) iPhone direct from Apple.
I remember reading a while back about some problems others had when they upgraded to from 1.1.3 to 1.1.4. I never had those problems, but it sure looks like they may have started. Does anyone remember what the problems with 1.1.4 were, what was done if anything to correct them, and best of all any suggestions?
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I am trying to restore my jailbroken iPhone 3GS having iOS 4.
I am getting an error message 1015 every time.
Unable to restore, please help.You can try restoring the latest version in iTunes. Be aware that the jailbreak may have altered how your Mac works so you may want to make a clean install of OS X (on a spare disk) & retry installing the newest iOS from Apple onto the device via iTunes.
You can try all the usual steps to restore iOS onto a device.
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You also cannot install older OS's from iTunes so you have little choice but to update the 3GS to iOS 6 (or perform more hacks). If it keeps failing I'd suspect something is altered on the Mac to allow the original jailbreak.
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"You have to change your router's IP address to be able to access it. It will not give you the internet."
I'm not sure what that means Richard, but I did change the router's IP address from 192.168.1.1 to 192.168.5.1- isn't that what you meant in your first post. I know that isn't reflected in my screen capture that I took last night, but I did do that this morning after I read your post.
"Log on to your router and change two settings.
Change the setting in Setup from PPPoE to Automatic Configuration-DHCP and click on save.
Click on Advance Routing and change the setting from Gateway to Router then click on save."
I did this and still same results as far as I can tell. Can't get online through the router.
"Click on MAC address clone under setup tab ... click enable & click clone ...click save settings ... Check the IPaddress under WAN page ....
If getting IP in public range .... try going online ...."
I tried this- at least to the part about checking the IP address under WAN. I assume you mean the WAN page in the modem setup- nothing looked any different after trying what you suggested, and I'm not really sure where I would be "getting IP in public range" or what that means.
I'm about to give up and just buy a new router to see if I can get the same lack of results with a different one. My ISP maintains that everything is set up correctly on their end and really can't do anything more for me. The Modem works and is set up correctly and they can give tech support for a router.
Here's what my basic setup looks like now:
http://i490.photobucket.com/albums/rr270/SukarUDL/BasicSetup.png
Here's what the advanced tab looks like now:
http://i490.photobucket.com/albums/rr270/SukarUDL/AdvancedRouting.png
Modem setup looks the same
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some i get are
sha**anhall@sha**anhall.com
m**t_uniQue.apple.com
s**[email protected]
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Ask your brother if the iPhone was jailbroken or hacked?
Do you remember if the app Cydia appeared on the iPhone?
Google may provide some assistance.
Server temporarily unavailable generally means the iPhone was
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