iPhone 4S Self-Deactivated and activation server is always unavailable

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iPhone 4S Self-Deactivated and activation server is always unavailable

Last night I opened up an Application on my iPhone 4S. Suddenly it just restarted then the Activation Screen popped up.

I tried to re-activate on my iPhone through Wifi in numerous Wifi networks but an error message always comes up:

"Could Not Activate iPhone:

Your iPhone could not be activated because the activation server is temporarily unavailable. Try Connecting iPhone to iTunes to activate it. or try again in a cuple of minutes.

If this problem persiss, contact Apple Support at apple.com/support"

I tried connecting to iTunes via USB but it always says:

"(!) The Software on the iPhone 4S has expired and must be updated to a newer version."

I tried restoring it from iTunes but it always says:

"(!) There was a problem downloading the software for the iPhone 4S. The requested resrource was not found."

I've been doing all of these re-activation processess for the past 12 hours. With no Success.

Please Help.

my iPhone 4S was running perfectly fine with IOS 6.0 since June.

Macbook Pro 15" Late 2008, Mac OS X (10.5.6)

Posted on Oct 1, 2012 2:00 PM

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Answer 1

Oct 1, 2012 4:02 PM in response to NewMacnbookguy

Fixed Solution

Manual Factory Restore:

Step 1 — Unplug USB iPhone from iTunes.

Step 2 — Turn off iPhone (Hold down power button, slide to turn off)

Step 3 — When iPhone is off, hold down home button and connect to iTunes via USB.

Step 4 — Keep holding home button until "Connect to iTunes" Screen pops up.

Step 5 — Click restore on iTunes.

Step 6 — Factory Restore, software update & backup memory in process.

Lost all my photo data though. 😟

iPhones aren't supposed to restart and de-activate by itself unexpectedly. What happened Apple!

Issue Specs:

iPhone 4S - IOS 6.0

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