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I just restored my iphone 3GS, now it's asking me for...

Hi. I just restored my iphone 3GS in order to deleting all its old data. I did this because this actually was my cousin's iphone (He gave me it to me), so I had to erase all the data. Now I am very confused and so mad because it's asking me for something called "Sim card", and it's not giving me the option to just skip it. I don't have a sim card, my cousin either. So wath should I do in order to get this thing working ? I can't use it! there's no button to skip the activation of the sim card. I don't need a sim card because I just want to use the iphone as an ipod, playing multimedia content and surfing and installing soft through wifi. What should I do ? I have no option getting sim cards, I don't have it and I don't need it. What should I do ? is it now a useless brick ? What should I do now ? Will it blend ? it's a beautiful iphone, it does not has any scrats, looks like new.

iPhone 3GS

Posted on Dec 4, 2012 10:33 PM

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Posted on Dec 4, 2012 10:37 PM

I'm afraid there is no other way to activate the phone than inserting a valid SIM card, check this article:

Learn how to set up your old iPhone to be like an iPod touch (without a carrier plan).

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Dec 5, 2012 4:17 PM in response to Ingo2711

"Using modified software can make your device useless:"


Are you serious ? 😠, don't play with me 😁. The device is actually useless right now because of that annoying sim activation process. It's asking me for something I could not do, and there's no button/option to just skip the process. So if there's no option for me, of course I am gonna use modified software, I have no option. The developers did not put a skip button, so I have to use software developed from unknow people that apparently wants to help people suffering with these bad developed things.

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