My phone turned off and now has a message on screen Activation Requiered

hi
last night my phone turned itself off, then on again and started to display " Activation Required" on the screen. I cant to anything with it. it wants me to go into developer mode on the PC but i haven't got a clue what i am doing. it doesn't have the latest updated software as it never and has never let me download it normally it has to manually be downloaded which someone else normally dose for me, Please help im desperate

Any chance your device was part of the iOS Beta Program? Then plug it to iTunes and restore as new, then restore the backup.
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The following Knowledge Base article offers up some great troubleshooting steps for unexpected power off of your iOS device:
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http://support.apple.com/kb/ts2802
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