I currently have my iPhone 4 activated and using it, hwoever, I want to use my iPhone 3gs. I still have the sim card for it. How do i activate it? I was told that I can do it via the AT&T site but when I tried, it said that my iPhone was already activated. Then I heard you can do it through iTunes so I connected my old phone to iTunes and can't see how to activate it.
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how do I activate my oprevious iPhone?
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To actually activate it as a second line on your account you need to dial 611. They will most likely send you a new SIM for the 3GS, so it would probably be faster to just visit an AT&T store.
Not sure what you're trying to do.
You want to activate your 3GS now with the same number as the microsim on your iphone 4 or you just want to activate the old 3GS to be used as an ipod touch or whatever?
You want to activate your 3GS now with the same number as the microsim on your iphone 4 or you just want to activate the old 3GS to be used as an ipod touch or whatever?
I want to use my old one as a working phone. I'm assuming that the card in the iPhone 4 will be deactivated while the card in the older one will be activated.
You want to use your old one with the phone number/account from the iphone 4? You can buy a microsim adapter and then just stick your sim from your iphone 4 to the 3GS and switch back and forth any time.
http://microsim-shop.com/