My iphone 5 keeps asking me activation required
I live in Michigan and went to Canada for the weekend at Windsor Casino.
While there, my iphone 5 stopped working and showed the following on the screen:
! Activation Required
I had to put in my icloud login and password to use my phone.
This has happened 6 times since returning to the states.
T-mobile replaced the SIM card, but it's still happening.
T-Mobile rep said I needed a new phone.
Not an option.
I've upgraded to the latest version and am waiting to see if it happens again.
I traveled to the U.S. east coast from the west and I had the same problem. It would go into activation required every 5-10 mins. I tried all the iCloud tricks and reset, restore, hard reset to bare phone and none of it worked. I think I finally figured out a workaround. I'm on Verizon and I turned off cellular data. I have access to wifi at the time so I used that for data. It worked for a few hours and then I had to go somewhere. I enabled cellular, but disabled LTE. Its been good so far and its been half a day now without activation required.
Try it out and let me know if this works for you too.
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