I erased my phone with the icloud now i can't activate it please help me

it says something about activation server unavailable

When you erase the phone via Settings/General/Erase All Content and Settings or using Find My iPhone/Erase in iCloud and you then attempt to reactivate it again, as part of the activation process it has to contact an Apple server (called the "activation server") and from it receive the OK to activate the phone after checking your Apple ID and password are valid, the software installed on the phone is correctly signed and so forth. If it cannot contact the Apple activation server for some reason (it's down or you don't have internet connectivity, etc.) then you will get this message and the activation process cannot proceed.
First thing to check is that you have a working internet connection, WiFi is okay, etc. If that is all okay then maybe the Apple activation server is down or unreachable because of issues at Apple's end, in that case simply wait a while and try the activation again, hopefully it will now work.

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