Activation info

[mreddys10]

Hi,
I was wondering if you can activate an iPhone 3GS with an original SIM that is currently inactive. I paid full price for an iPhone, and started a month-month plan, but then discontinued that connection, and now I am left with an inactive SIM.

I am trying to activate my phone. I can get to the springboard and everything, but on my lockscreen, I get a message saying: 'Waiting for activation' and 'no service' on the top-left.
Isn't activation done through iTunes? I connected it to my iTunes, and I still get the same message. I need the activation to use Spirit.

 

[dhlizard]

Hi,
I was wondering if you can activate an iPhone 3GS with an original SIM that is currently inactive. I paid full price for an iPhone, and started a month-month plan, but then discontinued that connection, and now I am left with an inactive SIM.

I am trying to activate my phone. I can get to the springboard and everything, but on my lockscreen, I get a message saying: 'Waiting for activation' and 'no service' on the top-left.
Isn't activation done through iTunes? I connected it to my iTunes, and I still get the same message. I need the activation to use Spirit.

Put the sim in, connect to iTunes, wait 5 seconds, done, take sim out (if desired).

 

[mreddys10]

Put the sim in, connect to iTunes, wait 5 seconds, done, take sim out (if desired).

That's exactly what I did, and I still get the same message.

 

[mreddys10]

 

[dhlizard]

When you restored, you didn't hacktivate it by chance ?

Do you have an Internet connection ?

Is it the correct sim for phone ?

Could the sim have gone bad during storage ? You do read of this occasionally.

That's all I can think of.

 

[mreddys10]

No hacktivation. Its probably the SIM thats gone bad. But the phone is still recognizing it as the correct SIM (or it won't even let me enter springboard). And yes, I was connected to the net when I did the restore.

This really sucks. My only options are to get a Rogers SIM from Canada, or wait for the next JB and hope there is hacktivation in that.