My iPhone 4S is on right now but it's not activated and I don't know how to activate it through iTunes or anything this is my first iPhone can anyone help me please thanks!
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No idea how to activate my phone
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Plug into iTunes. Click on your iPhone in the left column. Fill in info, agree to terms. Activation will take a few minutes or may fail if the servers are overloaded. If it fails repeat until successful.
When I first turned on my iPhone it asked me to activate the phone as it was doing that it failed so I triedagain and it totally skipped the process and now I don't know how to reactivate the phone now I want to plug into iTunes asked me nowhere from activation can you help me again please thanks. Also my phone is on, I'm using it now. It's just not activated
I am in the same boat as you. The first time around I tried activating on the phone and it completely skipped any sort of activation process. Then I restored and tried to do it through iTunes, but there's no where to actually activate it. I've activated iPhones dozens of times, but I'm really lost right now.
Yeah I did the same thing. And when I restored it, it shows the activation but then skips it and starts up the iCloud etc instead. Also when I meant I'm on my phone, I'm on wifi but I have no Verizon service so it's still not activated I hope this all makes sense
Im stuck in the same process (ATT though), its been about an hour since I opened it up and set it up. My 3GS is still working with ATT service, but my 4S says no service. Im thinking(hoping) it probably just takes time to start.
I thought I messed mine up setting up as a new phone and then plugging it into iTunes. I have a an old .mac/me acct and once I put that in it pulled my personal info. Then I decided to check AT&T's website to see if I could activate it from my acct and it was pretty effortless and just took a few mins. Calls & txts working fine since!
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If you have Verizon, dial *228 and enter your phone number when prompted (this will dial even if you don't have cel service yet). This is the "activation hotline". Unfortunately, Verizon seems to be having problems porting numbers from other carriers right now. Mine were confirmed earlier in the week to be ported from AT&T, but neither are working on Verizon yet on new iPhone 4S's. And of course their help lines are swamped.
If you have Verizon, dial *228 and enter your phone number when prompted (this will dial even if you don't have cel service yet). This is the "activation hotline". Unfortunately, Verizon seems to be having problems porting numbers from other carriers right now. Mine were confirmed earlier in the week to be ported from AT&T, but neither are working on Verizon yet on new iPhone 4S's. And of course their help lines are swamped.
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If you are with AT&T and having a hard time activating your phone, just take out the SIM card and try it.
If you are with AT&T and having a hard time activating your phone, just take out the SIM card and try it.
I went through the setup on iTunes for my iP4S -- restored from the backup file of my 3GS.
Now I'm sitting here and have no idea what to do. My iP4S has all my apps and configs set up, but my 3GS is still getting the signal and working.
Where do I go to finish the activation and move service over to my new phone?
I'm usually pretty self-sufficient with stuff, but this is just baffling. There's no "activation" option in iTunes that I can find.
Now I'm sitting here and have no idea what to do. My iP4S has all my apps and configs set up, but my 3GS is still getting the signal and working.
Where do I go to finish the activation and move service over to my new phone?
I'm usually pretty self-sufficient with stuff, but this is just baffling. There's no "activation" option in iTunes that I can find.
Top left does it say no service? or is it roaming (frequency bars are there just no 3G/etc)
Apple doesn't include it anymore in the packaging. I didn't get it with my 4S and I don't think they included it with the iPhone 4. I guess they assume you will just use a paper clip.
My phone has full bars and is working fine on WiFi -- it just does not have a number associated to it and I cannot figure out what to do in iTunes to "activate" it.
My 3GS is sitting here, still working and still receiving texts and calls.
Anyone who can offer help as to what step I missed or what I'm supposed to do, please let me know.
I am having issues with porting number to Verizon from T-Mobile. Did you get yours activated, yet? I am on the phone with Verizon for like 3 hours now!
Ah, it's on AT&T. I know for Verizon Wireless there is a trick to getting it to activate.
With AT&T is there a way to do account changes like change the ESN online for it? If not have you put in your sim do a hard reset and activate with iTunes?