Selling old iphone to someone who doesnt want data

[ARF900]

I tried making a thread on this before, but it failed, Im going to be more specific,

What I want to do is sell my old iphone 3g to someone who just wants an ipod touch, I will be doing this after I activate my ip4, so how should I go about doing this? The buyer wants to be able to sync the phone with his itunes library just like an ipod touch out of the box.

Should I restore?
Do I HAVE to jailbreak?
Should I give him the SIM or take it out?

 

[liamkp]

It has to be activated in order to sync to iTunes but im not sure if jailbreaking it will help.

 

[pilotError]

You need to give him the sim that was activated with the phone.

There's some guides around here that discuss it at length.

 

[dukebound85]

You need to give him the sim that was activated with the phone.

There's some guides around here that discuss it at length.

No you don't and I would advise not handing over a sim card, deactivated or not as you may need it down the road.

OP: Either activate it with an active regular sim, get a sim adapter and use your microsim to activate it, or unlock the phone

 

[rumorman69]

No you don't and I would advise not handing over a sim card, deactivated or not as you may need it down the road.

OP: Either activate it with an active regular sim, get a sim adapter and use your microsim to activate it, or unlock the phone

Nonsense. Op, you can just hacktivate the iPhone with something like Pwnagetool. No need for an at&t sim.

 

[ARF900]

No you don't and I would advise not handing over a sim card, deactivated or not as you may need it down the road.

OP: Either activate it with an active regular sim, get a sim adapter and use your microsim to activate it, or unlock the phone

So there is now way for him to use the phone without activating it with AT & T or jailbreaking?

 

[dukebound85]

So there is now way for him to use the phone without activating it with AT & T or jailbreaking?

correct as far as I know

I was in a similar situation a few weeks back. Irritating as hell as I paid for the phone, completed the contract, and piad off any subsidy yet it is STILL tied by ATT

Soe related threads
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/746150/

and

https://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=10436829&#post10436829

 

[ARF900]

correct as far as I know

I was in a similar situation a few weeks back. Irritating as hell as I paid for the phone, completed the contract, and piad off any subsidy yet it is STILL tied by ATT

Soe related threads
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/746150/

and

https://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=10436829&#post10436829

Yeah pretty frustrating, If you pay out the contract it shouldnt have to be activated...

 

[dukebound85]

Nonsense. Op, you can just hacktivate the iPhone with something like Pwnagetool. No need for an at&t sim.

Nonsense? lol, wasn't your suggestion one I also suggested when I said unlock the phone?

 

[Applejuiced]

You can give him an old inactive AT&T so he can activate it at any time and use it as an ipod touch.
It wont unlock it or anything.
Unless you want to JB and unlock it to use with any carrier.
Up to you.

 

[dukebound85]

You can give him an old inactive AT&T so he can activate it at any time and use it as an ipod touch.
It wont unlock it or anything.
Unless you want to JB and unlock it to use with any carrier.
Up to you.

I was unable to use my ATT sim that was inactivated to activate my old iphone 3g when I got the ip4 and the mini sim

 

[Applejuiced]

I was unable to use my ATT sim that was inactivated to activate my old iphone 3g when I got the ip4 and the mini sim

I did it yesterday.
All you do is leave the old inactive sim in and plug it to itunes after the restore.
It will let the phone boot up to the homescreen and out of that emergency call screen with the itunes logo.
It will then display waiting for activation but you can do everything else with it like use it as an ipod touch etc....

 

[dukebound85]

I did it yesterday.
All you do is leave the old inactive sim in and plug it to itunes after the restore.
It will let the phone boot up to the homescreen and out of that emergency call screen with the itunes logo.
It will then display waiting for activation but you can do everything else with it like use it as an ipod touch etc....

Interesting. Mine had a screen (on itunes) saying I needed to insert a sim before I could do anything in itunes in terms of syncing music and whatnot

Granted, I took out the sim while it was restoring. Perhaps that is what caused that mishap?

 

[rumorman69]

Nonsense? lol, wasn't your suggestion one I also suggested when I said unlock the phone?

Not really. Hactivation != unlocking. I'm sorry for being a bit of an arrogant d.ick with my reply though I just wasn't in a good mood

 

[detroit1]

i feel like hes lying to you. hes gonna use it as a phone i think. why wouldnt he buy an ipod touch if all he wanted to do was listen to music? idk if you have tried or not but it seems like it would be easier to just sell it as a phone via craigslist

 

[Applejuiced]

Granted, I took out the sim while it was restoring. Perhaps that is what caused that mishap?

Yes, that was the problem.
You didnt let it activate after the restore. When if first starts up leave the old simcard in while its still plugged into itunes.
It will let you into the homescreen after that and let you sync your phone thru itunes etc.

 

[JayLenochiniMac]

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3406