I have an iPhone 4S bought in May through O2 UK. In August, O2 unlocked the phone. I am now living in Africa where I want to use my iphone on the local network. I connected the phone with no SIM inside to iTunes and restored it. This involved downloading a 912MB file which took me more than a month on my slow connection here. After the restore was complete I received a message saying that the 'phone has been restored to factory settings'. I put in my new SIM and I get the message 'No SIM' on the phone and iTunes says 'There is No SIM in the iphone you are attempting to active'. The new SIM works in another phone so I know its OK. At no point during the restore process did I receive a message saying your iphone has been unlocked. I have tried the restore twice now, once with no SIM inside and once with the new SIM inside. I am very frustrated with this, as my $1000 phone is currently useless unless I can unlock it. Please help.
