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Current version by: Ron Davis

Title:

Why can't I activate my iPhone 3GS

Text:

-Tried quite alot of techniques to recover/format my Iphone 3GS, but it just isn't working, keeps popping up with a message saying "Could not activate iphone, try connecting your Iphone to Itunes to activate it" but when the iphone is in power with itunes it reads the phone and asks for a sim card, but doesn't read the sim cards.
+I've tried several techniques to recover/format my iPhone 3GS, but it just isn't working. The phone keeps popping up with a message saying, "Could not activate iPhone, try connecting your iPhone to iTunes to activate it." When the iPhone is connected to iTunes, it reads the phone and asks for a SIM card, but doesn't read the SIM cards.
-Also tried alot of software updates and resetting the Iphone itself, but it keeps failing on me and doesn't allow me to proceed to anything else
+I've also tried a lot of software updates and resetting the iPhone itself, but it keeps failing on me and doesn't allow me to proceed to anything else.

Device:

iPhone 3GS

Status:

open

Accepted Answer:

87111

Edit by: Pavel

Title:

Why can't I activate my iPhone 3GS

Text:

Tried quite alot of techniques to recover/format my Iphone 3GS, but it just isn't working, keeps popping up with a message saying "Could not activate iphone, try connecting your Iphone to Itunes to activate it" but when the iphone is in power with itunes it reads the phone and asks for a sim card, but doesn't read the sim cards.

Also tried alot of software updates and resetting the Iphone itself, but it keeps failing on me and doesn't allow me to proceed to anything else

Device:

iPhone 3GS

Status:

open

Accepted Answer:

+87111

Original post by: Pavel

Title:

Why can't I activate my iPhone 3GS

Text:

Tried quite alot of techniques to recover/format my Iphone 3GS, but it just isn't working, keeps popping up with a message saying "Could not activate iphone, try connecting your Iphone to Itunes to activate it" but when the iphone is in power with itunes it reads the phone and asks for a sim card, but doesn't read the sim cards.

Also tried alot of software updates and resetting the Iphone itself, but it keeps failing on me and doesn't allow me to proceed to anything else

Device:

iPhone 3GS

Status:

open