'Sim locked' message

New phone three days old. Every time I start the phone up and try to do anything I get a blue box up telling me the sim is locked and the option to click 'OK' or 'Unlock'. Anyone any ideas?

Sounds like you have a PIN code on your SIM card?
Mine has, once the iPhone has booted it says this, then prompts for the PIN code

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If you bought the iphone in the US and it is locked to a specific carrier, then you can't use a different sim (from another carrier). Is this your situation?
Otherwise I'm not sure what you mean by "trying to unlock my SIM". In which country did you buy the iphone? Who's your carrier?

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1. Power your phone off, wait ~30 seconds, then power your phone back on.
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Try resetting the phone. Hold the home and power lock button until the Apple logo appears.If that does not work, turn the phone off and take the SIM out and then put it back in.
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Try this article http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1316 It should help you get up and running again.

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I bought from Orange Romania an neverlocked Iphone. Worked fine with Vodafone Romania SIM until now. Without any message I've got sim error message.
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I bought an neverlocked device! What happened if I was away and my phone locked, an emergency happening?

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Thanks for that
You are at least the second poster with similar good news
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Just updated my old iphone4, it as no sim card in, as i use it mainly for playing music.updated it to ios7 and when i intially open it up, it asked for a sim lock code.was'nt sure of this. i put the passlock code in. now its asking for a PUK code.

***.are Apple doing? why offer an update without warning people about the consequences!
I've just updated my old iphone4 to ios7. this phone as no sim card, as i use it more like an ipod..after the update it ask for a code, i put in the passlock code.
Unbeknown to me the sim lock and the passlock codes were different! as the sim as been deactiavted by my carrier they cant give me a PUK code!
I'm now stuck with a phone i cant use
any suggestions please!

Plug your phone into the wall charger for at least 30 minutes...make sure you have a sim card in the phone...then:
Leave the USB cable connected to your computer, but NOT your phone, iTunes running, press & hold the home button while connecting the USB cable to your dock connector, continue holding the home button until you see “Connect to iTunes” on the screen. You may now release the home button. iTunes should now display that it has detected your phone in recovery mode, if not quit and reopen iTunes. If you still don’t see the recovery message repeat these steps again. iTunes will give you the option to restore from a backup or set up as new.
Make sure you have no anti-virus software running or any firewalls...turn all of that stuff off.

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Ok. I called Turkcell and problem solved.
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I've upgraded my iPhone 4 (8 GB model - GSM) to the new iOS 7.0.2 version yesterday evening and strangely enough he restarted fine, but with the "no SIM card" message. After having pulled out and put back in the micro SIM card several times without success, I've restored the iPhone completely to the 7.0.2 update, but the problem still lasted.
I've personally solved the issue by downloading the original 7.0.0 IPSW file and forcing iTunes to restore it: push on Option/Command key while clicking on the restore button in iTunes after putting the iPhone in DFU mode by pressing the Home button when powering on . After the restore everything works fine again and I had just to unlock my Sim Card the regular way in order to activate.
Therefore I'm wondering if anyone else has also encountered this problem and if someone could explain me the origin of this issue.
I'm living in Belgium (Europe) and using Belgacom Proximus as carrier.
Best regards,
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Hi MajorChipHazard,
Did my solution work for you ?
Best regards,
Amaury Vaernewyck

I baked up my iphone and when i had issues with sim lock i got it to finally work isynced my phone with i tunes and lost all apps recently downloaded how do i get it back

i had to get an internet conection from a friend to download akll my apps evrytime i sync with my pc wich already had itunes all apps except statup are gone only thing left was an i tunes song i brought from itunes each time i use my apple id pass word it tells me to retry i do this 4 to 5 times and some times have no success my latest issue was my sim locking buy itself then asking me to put in a sim without a lock , i only have 1 sim i brought 2 phones and have had no issues with the other phone and when i do have the original startup apps i can not move or arange them thru itunes apps and i cannot use sim from other iphone pls help evry1 i ask wouldnt have a clue because there having there own dificulties

If you also backed up to your computer - you can restore from that backup - to retrieve the files. As far as I know- that should have no bearing on deleting them from iCloud - they should still be in that backup.
If you used iOS file sharing with your computer - and saved the files to your computer - you can retrieve them from there.
if the only place that the files were saved to was iCloud, I know of no way to get them back.

I accidentally erased my phone from Find my Iphone App and I have a sim lock on my phone - now it wont let me restore. any ideas? Thanks

I accidentally erased my phone from Find my Iphone App and I have a sim lock on my phone - now it wont let me restore. any ideas?
When I try to connect to itunes, It states ''The sim card of this phone is PIN locked - please enter the PIN code of your SIM card and connect again to iTunes" however I don't have the option to enter the Pin code on my phone as on my phone screen it states "your iphone could not be activated because the activation server is temporaily unavailable"
PLEASE HELP AND THANK YOU

With a sim lock,
you'll have to contact your carrier for the PUK code, as described here:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1316

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I have also tried everything. I took the sim card out and put it back in again. And I have also left it out. And I have tried connecting it to itunes but I need to unlock. (some of these were suggested by the seller)
Please help me.
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My guess - and this is completely a guess - is that the SIM in that phone has a PIN that was added to it by the previous owner. Whomever you bought it from didn't bother to check for this (or didn't care) before they got it from the previous owner.
You need to get a new AT&T SIM for that phone - you could even borrow one from a friend if they have one that will fit the phone. You would only need the SIM to activate it.
There is no way to activate an iPhone without a SIM in it, even if you don't plan to use it as anything other than an iPod.
~Lyssa

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I don't know if Orange contract iPads are locked or not, but I would like to know as well. I don't know whether to get my iPad from Orange on a contract, or to buy it outright and get a cheaper data plan.
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