Is it normal to get "No SIM Card Installed" AT&T

[andrewa74]

When I try to activate I get the message "No SIM Card Installed Insert a valid SIM with PIN lock to activate iPhone."

Is this normal? I have tried to activate many times with no success, and I realize that a lot of people are having that problem, but this message makes me think there may be something wrong with the phone itself.

Thanks.

 

[google]

You might be on ipad baseband and upgraded to 5.0. I have the same issue and i downgraded and am able to use it again.

When you are on the activation screen hit the i and see if you are missing ICCID which indicates bad baseband.

 

[andrewa74]

Yeah, it says my ICCID is "unknown" but I didn't understand the rest of your post.

How did you downgrade? I never upgraded, I just opened the box and turned it on.

BTW, my former phone is and iPhone 4. Thanks.

 

[RafaelT]

Have you checked to make sure they actually put a sim card in your phone?

 

[andrewa74]

For anyone who has had this problem.

I had been trying for several hours to activate but to no avail.

So I took out the old Sim card from my iPhone 4 and put it in the new iPhone 4s (easy to do with a paper-clip). Anyway, this did NOT work. So I put back the SIMs in their original phone.

But then I tried once more to sync and it worked. See I don't know if that did it or if it was just coincidence, but just wanted those of you who are having this problem know that I got it to work.

Best of luck!