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Q: phone decided activation required, won't activate

I pulled my phone out of my pocket today and it said Activation Required. This is an iOS 7 iPhone 5 that I upgraded to iOS 7 through the developer program. According to iTunes, I'm running the latest version of iOS and there is no upgrade.

 

The activation process keeps failing ("Activation servers unavailable"). Has been like that for over an hour. I'm able to login with Apple ID every where else just fine (Laptop, online, etc), but the phone is just dead.

 

Been trying to reach Apple support but they only take or make calls. They keep emailing me back with "tried to reach you, blah blah", even though in my service request description it says "my phone is dead and I cannot take calls".

 

Tried to restore via iTunes, but it said "cannot restore because Find My iPhone is on".

 

No idea how any of this happened while my phone was just sitting in my pocket. Logged into iCloud.com and checked out Find My Phone but my phone is not listed, just my laptop.

 

This is really lame.

iPhone 5, iOS 7, activation required, won't activate

Posted on Oct 5, 2013 6:57 PM

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