Second hand unlocked jailbroken Iphone not activated.

Help!!! I have just brought a second hand 3gs for my wife as a birthday! The seller listed it as unlocked and jailbroken! I know nothing about this sort of thing, but I was told the original carrier was T mobile. This is the same as my wife's network so I thought it should be ok. Reading through some blogs I found out that if you connect to I tunes this would remove the phones unlock ability. BUT after doing this now the phone seems to have reset and the sentence " your iphone could not be activated because the server is unavailable" it allows you to try again but it just repeats the same message again. It just a nightmare!!!! At least the phone turned on before she connected it to itunedsand allowed you to connect to the internet and browse!!! Please can anyone help!!

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>What do you mean about JB activity??? Sorry but I dont understand!!
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I mean 'JailBreaking' activities.. it may happen that in some of this operations you made changes to your laptop in order to by-pass apple servers ( :-( ) and this may match you simphoms ("..because the server is unavailable") .
If not shure try the operation from a trusted clean laptop. hopefully a Mac (as said).
ciao.

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