I've erased all my iphone 4s's data via icloud and now I am unable to reactivate my phone
Recently I had a new screen fitted onto my iPhone 4S. After having it fitted, my phone has not regained satellite. After looking on forums, I found I needed to reset my phone and remove iOS 7, but first, I had to sign out of Find My Phone. I did this by erasing the phone off iCloud which brings me to my next issue:
My phone now says "Your iPhone cannot be activated because the activation server is temporarily unavailable. Try connecting your iPhone to iTunes to activate it, or try again in a few minutes."
I've tried both and neither work, I don't know what else to do!
Any suggestions?? Thanks.
There are four primary causes of the activation error:
The activation server is unavailable. Rare, but it happens. Usually fixed within minutes.
Your antivirus or firewall (or your router's firewall) is blocking access to the domain gs.apple.com on ports 80 and 443.
Your phone is jailbroken.
Your phone isn't jailbroken, but the computer you are connected to during the restore or update was used to hack or jailbreak some other iOS device, and its network database was corrupted in the process.
Perhaps this will provide you some clues as to how to proceed. If your iPhone has not been jailbroken, Apple has some troubleshooting suggestions here:
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3424
If your iPhone has been jailbroken, you're on your own. We can provide no assistance for jailbroken devices in these forums.
Regards.
(part of the above information quoted with gratitude from Lawrence Finch)
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