I have that same sim card too. (or at least the colors). That's interesting because I told the AT&T guy that my phone wasn't "legitimately" activated, and he gave me this card. I just checked w/ my friend's card and it's blue on the back... I feel special =)
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I have a magical SIM card! AT&T!
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Spaz,
Can you post pictures of your AT&T Sim card? Also, http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3406
When it says "If you no longer have the SIM that was used with the original iPhone, and the original iPhone displays the "Connect To iTunes" screen:
Contact your carrier to get a replacement SIM.
If you don't already have a wireless service account/tariff with that carrier, iTunes will help you create one. For more information, see this document.
Note: This article only applies to original iPhone."
If you get a replacement sim card, and put it in the iphone, won't it want you to activate with at&t? Also, will at&t give me a free sim card so I can update/restore with out running into the "Slide For Emergency" screen. I don't want to activate with at&t.
Also, if I get my iPhone replaced, can I stick the de-activated/unactivated sim card that was working with my defeatctive Original iphone and put it into my replacement Original iphone and be able to unbrick it?
Can you get a close up of the sim card.
Take a photo of the front and back.
Can you post pictures of your AT&T Sim card? Also, http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3406
When it says "If you no longer have the SIM that was used with the original iPhone, and the original iPhone displays the "Connect To iTunes" screen:
Contact your carrier to get a replacement SIM.
If you don't already have a wireless service account/tariff with that carrier, iTunes will help you create one. For more information, see this document.
Note: This article only applies to original iPhone."
If you get a replacement sim card, and put it in the iphone, won't it want you to activate with at&t? Also, will at&t give me a free sim card so I can update/restore with out running into the "Slide For Emergency" screen. I don't want to activate with at&t.
Also, if I get my iPhone replaced, can I stick the de-activated/unactivated sim card that was working with my defeatctive Original iphone and put it into my replacement Original iphone and be able to unbrick it?
Can you get a close up of the sim card.
Take a photo of the front and back.
Usually when you get a new SIM card, the iPhone wants to set up a new account and everything. You have to go through the screens to pick your plans and such. This did not happen for me in 3.1. I did a full restore like I said before... and it just said "iPhone is activated" on the iPhone screen so I unplugged it and it was good to go. Like I said, I have NEVER activated this iPhone.
Also, from what I understand, in order to use your iPhone as an iPod (unbrick it) you have to put the unactivated card used to originally activate THAT iPhone back in it. Basically, once you activated an iPhone using a particular card, that card will forever activate that phone no matter what. Getting a new or DIFFERENT card will not activate it without going through the steps of setting up a new account.
I can't get up close without it getting blurry (no auto-focus in the iPhone 3G... hehe)
Can you wait until later? I'll break out my digital SLR and get a macro shot for you.
Actually, I think it's just 3.1 beta software now. Apparently 3.1 beta software allows phone to skip activation if they stick in an ATT sim.
Really? The only reason I am skeptical about this claim is that in previous betas, that wasn't the case.
My old iPhone 3G sim card is the one on the left.
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do a simple search before you make false claims. YES the iphone is still JB'd, anyone who has done ANY coding knows this. ad to think that the SIM card has some power to override activation is absolute asinine
Prove to me that even if an iphone is restored and set up as a new phone, not back up, it is jailbroken. My Cydia and installer Apps are gone, and the phone is now re-locked to AT&T. UNLESS I Quick PWN it AGAIN.
Also, maybe Apple has changed the activation for iphone users, so I they are using the 2G as a developer device, they won't have to keep swapping sim cards and screwing around with everything.
You are completely wrong, sorry. Restoring erases the jailbreak, completely. If after your restore, you still have Cydia/Icy/Installer, then, and only then are you still jailbroken. To my knowledge, this has never happened, ever.
Yes, on an iPhone 3G you can put any AT&T card in it AFTER it's activated with the original card. However, on a first gen iPhone, you can officially activate it using the original sim card that is tied to that phone but you cannot activate it with any other sim card without setting up a new plan.
I activated a first gen iPhone with a sim card that activated an iPhone 3G and has never touched my original iPhone until today.
I work for AT&T there's nothing special with that sim card its just the new one we began implementing like a month ago. just different color thats it.
I work for AT&T there's nothing special with that sim card its just the new one we began implementing like a month ago. just different color thats it.
Okay cool... it must be a 3.1 thing then.
All other firmwares were not like this. I won't complain though... saves me a lot of time and trouble by just poppin' my sim in to activate.
I traded some guy my wife's LG Vu for his iPhone 3G. He switched his SIM to the Vu and did a master reset on the iPhone. When it finished, I put the SIM from my iPhone 3G into the new 3G and connected it to iTunes. I didn't have any problems activating it. It had fw 2.2 on it at the time.
That's a little bit different because you're putting a 3G sim into a 3G. I put a 3G (activated) sim into an un-activated first gen iPhone (supposed to have a different plan) and it still activated. Never in the past has a first gen automatically activated with a sim from a 3G.
From what I can tell with my testing the Original 2G iPhone will only work with one SIM card at a time. Usually this is the one it came with, but it doesn't have to be, it just has to be a valid SIM card it activates successfully with. Once activated with a valid SIM card, it will only work with that one and force to you itunes to setup a new plan if you plug in a different card.
I ran some tests:
2G iPhone jailbroken and unlocked and ran with whatever sim card.
Restored to default 3.0 using itunes with no sim card installed.
The phone complained and wanted me to activate
Plugged in original sim card with no active plan and wanted to connect to iTunes to activate (thus the unlock is gone and not permanent)
Activated fine within seconds
Put in iPhone 3GS sim card and it tries to force me to start a new plan.. again no permanent unlock here
Next I restored again with no sim installed
Plugged in iPhone 3GS sim first and it still wanted me to setup a new plan
Swapped out for the original sim and it activated immediately
This tells me it is likely that the 3.1 beta has changed this behavior. I don't have 3.1 to confirm however.
I ran some tests:
2G iPhone jailbroken and unlocked and ran with whatever sim card.
Restored to default 3.0 using itunes with no sim card installed.
The phone complained and wanted me to activate
Plugged in original sim card with no active plan and wanted to connect to iTunes to activate (thus the unlock is gone and not permanent)
Activated fine within seconds
Put in iPhone 3GS sim card and it tries to force me to start a new plan.. again no permanent unlock here
Next I restored again with no sim installed
Plugged in iPhone 3GS sim first and it still wanted me to setup a new plan
Swapped out for the original sim and it activated immediately
This tells me it is likely that the 3.1 beta has changed this behavior. I don't have 3.1 to confirm however.
WRONG. 1st Gen iPhones are not re-locked anymore. If you are unlocked.. You STAY unlocked.
Then why does mine want to connect to iTunes when any other sim card is inserted other than the originally activated one after restoring?
You should consider following your own advice to keep yourself from looking like a clueless dork. If you restore a firmware version which has an update to the baseband firmware, it will be relocked as well as being non-jailbroken.
That coding comment makes absolutely no sense in this context. I write software for a living but that is neither here nor there for in this situation.
Back away from your computer and go outside for a while.
As for the situation of the original poster, the phone is most likely going to activate even without connecting it to iTunes with these later firmware versions from 2.x onward. Since the SIM in question is an AT&T sim, it will work without an unlock if the phone is an AT&T iPhone.
My 3GS activated when I put in my Fido SIM from my 3G even without connecting it to iTunes.
PS. i speak from experience with unlocking, relocking and unlocking that 3G that I sold recently.
It might be a beta thing as well. For some reason, the 3.1 beta relocks my baseband for iPhone 2G, even though if i DFU mode it back to 3.0 hactivate, it works fine.
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I Have A Question!! Please Help I Have An Apple Iphone 3g Which I Was Using With Tmobile.. But I Also Have An Phone With Att!!!
My Problem Here Is That I Restore My Iphone !!
And I Have The Brillant Idea To Put My Att Sim Connected To Itunes To See What Will Happen?
And The On The Front Screen Of The Iphone It Says Activation Complete Or Something Like That!!!
Soo Att Is Going To Charge Me Now The 30 Dlls For Data Package Oer What Shhould I Doo??
Thank You!!!
I Have A Question!! Please Help I Have An Apple Iphone 3g Which I Was Using With Tmobile.. But I Also Have An Phone With Att!!!
My Problem Here Is That I Restore My Iphone !!
And I Have The Brillant Idea To Put My Att Sim Connected To Itunes To See What Will Happen?
And The On The Front Screen Of The Iphone It Says Activation Complete Or Something Like That!!!
Soo Att Is Going To Charge Me Now The 30 Dlls For Data Package Oer What Shhould I Doo??
Thank You!!!