my iphone is not activated
I have upgraded my Iphone 3gs but now its not activated and ituned and iphone give error for activation
iPhone 3GS, iOS 5.1.1
What is the exact error that you are receiving?
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"We're Sorry, Activation Server Temporarily Unavailable, contact Customer Care?"
99.9% of the time, the cause of this issue is the fact the phone was jailbroken/hacked to unlock it for use on networks other than the network the phone was originally locked to. Apple maintains a database of officially unlocked iPhones, and when Apple's servers detect phones such as yours, activation stops & you get the message you got.
So, either get a sim card from the carrier your phone was originally locked to, or get it officially unlocked, if you want to activate it. Because it appears that it was not officially unlocked.
The pervious person had jailbroken/ hacked my phone. I was doing a factory restore to delete all that stuff when this happened.
My wife is the original owner of the phone, and we called the locked provider (telus canada) and they unlocked the phone but said that I needed to do a factory restore to make sure it worked, but I can't do that because of this!
I tried to use the orginal providers sim card that is valid and had no luck. Is there anything else I can do?
my iphone is not activated