When I connect this phone to iTunes, it tells me it connect upgrade the phone. It will not go to the home screen on the phone, only to emergency calls or tells me to install a SIM card. I need to know which carrier it is locked by so I can maybe update the phone. HELP please.
ALL of the first gen iPhones are locked to AT&T. AT&T didn't unlock them.
The 2G (EDGE) network is now gone. Has been for a while as has already been pointed out.
That device is effectively worthless as anything other than a paper-weight, and I honestly wouldn't want something with a Lithium-ion battery in it sitting around unused like that for any significant amount of time... Those batteries do bad things when they fail.
Recycle it.
ALL of the first gen iPhones are locked to AT&T. AT&T didn't unlock them.
The 2G (EDGE) network is now gone. Has been for a while as has already been pointed out.
That device is effectively worthless as anything other than a paper-weight, and I honestly wouldn't want something with a Lithium-ion battery in it sitting around unused like that for any significant amount of time... Those batteries do bad things when they fail.
Recycle it.
If you bought it in the U.S., it is probably locked to AT&T. If you did manage to get it to function, it can only update up to iOS 3.1.3. You're not going to find much in the App Store that will run on iOS 3. When iOS 6 was released, developers lost the ability to make their apps compatible with anything older than iOS 4.3.
My original iPhone is sitting here on my desk, still with its inactive AT&T SIM. Takes several hours to charge and will run for about 4 minutes on battery. AT&T shut down their 2G network in 2016.
You're most likely never going to get that phone to work. Most, if not all carriers have dropped 2G service and there are literally no apps that will run on that phone.
iPhone 1st Gen 2G
