I'm trying to jailbreak my phone, but I have a used iPhone 4 with an unactivated SIM card. All I get is the emergency call screen. Thanks for any help 
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you have to go wireless www.jailbreakme.com fallow the instructions. after cydia is installed add repo www.repo666.ultrasn0w.com install your ultrasn0w it will reboot and your set!
I'm trying to jailbreak my phone, but I have a used iPhone 4 with an unactivated SIM card. All I get is the emergency call screen. Thanks for any help
You need to activate the phone with a sim belonging to the carrier the phone is locked to
So it can be with any AT&T SIM, as long as it's activated?
Is this the only option?
If you got it in USA, yes, The phone is LOCKED to AT&T, you need an AT&T sim to activate the phone, the iPhone 4 use a MIcroSIM card, so if you have a "old" sim you need to cut it (so you cannot just borrow one from a friend unless you got a MIcroSim Adapter to give back to them and they accept)
i remember reading an article about this guy named "sherif hashem"
supposedly he found a way to activate an iphone 4 with some card you can buy
from radioshack for $20
google his name and see what you come up with
supposedly he found a way to activate an iphone 4 with some card you can buy
from radioshack for $20
google his name and see what you come up with
It's sherif_hashim and it's a bookmark sim card. I don't think any Radio Shack in the US carries those. You can get them from the Internet.
Besides, if the OP does a little searching, there is a way to activate the iPhone 4
(Hint: research sherif_hashim's older tweets for the link) Won't post it here due some possible copyright infringement arguements
I never heard of that.
Activate the iphone 4 without a sim?
Post it up bro, there's nothing to worry about.