Anyway to activate old 2G iPhone with dummy SIM card?

Hello all, I just had a quick question that I can't seem to find the answer to. Currently, I have an old 2G iphone that is in "Emergency Mode Only." I was wondering, I have plenty of dummy sim cards lying around (used to be an RSA rep, ended up collecting several old, un-activated sim's) and was wondering if there was anyway to use one of these sim cards to at least get to the home screen of the iPhone so I could use it for music, movies and when I enter wifi. When I try and do this, all I get is the "Activate your iPhone" screen in iTunes. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Macbook Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.6), iPhone 3G 16gb (White)

Posted on Jul 18, 2009 4:55 PM

36 replies

Jul 18, 2009 5:19 PM in response to nickgeno

Simple answer is YES you can. Just use the sim card you had in the phone prior to getting the 3G if you still have it.

Tamara

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Jul 18, 2009 6:18 PM in response to PTBoater

Apple actually changed it in one of the firmware updates. As long as you have the original SIM in the phone, you can apply updates and use a deactivated iPhone as a Touch.

Tamara

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Jul 18, 2009 6:44 PM in response to PTBoater

You don't need to stay with ATT. You just need the ATT iPhone SIM in the deactivated phone to use it as a Touch. You didn't need to even mess around with Google and the dubious methods there.

Tamara

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Jul 18, 2009 6:45 PM in response to Allan Sampson

People seem to be having a hard time understanding this tonight 😟.

PTBoater

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Jul 18, 2009 6:59 PM in response to Tamara

Tamara wrote:
People seem to be having a hard time understanding this tonight 😟.

I learned something new today! So today was a good day! 🙂

Jul 19, 2009 1:47 PM in response to Allan Sampson

I use my iPhone with out a sim card as a iPod touch. When I need to update, I borrow my brothers at&t sim card. but it will be de-activated soon, as he will be switching to tmobile.

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Anyway to activate old 2G iPhone with dummy SIM card?