Urgent help needed!

Hi everyone,

I had an old iPhone 4 which I was planning on selling to my friend. Trouble is that it is locked to Vodafone and he is on T-Mobile. So I said I would unlock it for him. I had stupidly restored the phone and no longer had the micro sim (upgraded to iPhone 5 so have a nano sim) so could not activate the phone to get the IMEI code. So I decided to hacktivate the phone. This was going well until it finished and it took me back the the set up screen. However when I try to activate the phone I get a message saying "We're sorry, we are unable to continue with your activation at this time. Please try again later, or contact customer care."

I tried plugging it into iTunes did multiple restores but the same message still appears. Has anyone had this problem before? Or know how I can fix it?

Any help would be unbelievably appreciated!

Many thanks,
James

Thanks for the IMEI location. I'll have a look for it.

At the moment the only way I have been able to restore the phone is in DFU so that hasn't worked. Any other ideas?

Many thanks,
James

Thanks for the replies! I had not yet got to the stage of unlocking the phone I was only hacktivating it at that point. The error is occurring at the end of the activation process, even after restoring the phone, but it does allow me to connect to a WiFi network when going through the activation process.

Totally agree with you PNutts I would never usually even consider hacking an iPhone but I was in a rush and thought it looked like an easy solution. Stupid me! If I can get this fixed I'll take it to a store in my local town who can unlock it for me so I don't have to deal with this again

Thanks for the idea Baggio. Unfortunately I changed network at the end of my last contract so won't be able to do that. Would have been a great idea though!

I'll post another topic in the hack forum to see if I can reach someone who has had this problem in the past. But if you have any advice please by all means reply.

Many thanks,
James