how to activate iphone 5 without sim card

thanks for your reply.

i heard you cant unlock a cdma phone.

i cant find anyone to unlock cdma china telecom either.

at the moment the phone is a brick. help appreciated

thanks

spirogrinder wrote:

thanks for your reply.

i heard you cant unlock a cdma phone.

A CDMA phone will only work on the network it was originally configured for. You can't unlock it. Unless you are using that network, the phone is useless. Sell it and buy one that you can use.

either that or ill just replace the motherboard... i have one trick up my sleeve... let you know how i go!

spirogrinder wrote:

either that or ill just replace the motherboard... i have one trick up my sleeve... let you know how i go!

We cannot discuss unauthorized modifications here.

Best of luck.

thanks. i cant think what else to do. i dont know how to sell it on china ebay... its all in chinese.. so what else are my options really ... apple wouldnt help me.

buddy, i had the same question

i on bell network (canada)

i went to them, they put in a dumy sim and it SIM DEADLOCK IT, and than took it out

now i can use it as an ipod, hope this works

i think everyone understands that you need a sim, but what kind of a sim? if your phone is locked, can you just use any sim to get it activated or do you need the providers sim?

If the iPhone is locked to a wireless provider, the sim must be from that wireless

provider but it does not have to be from an active account.

If the phone is carrier locked, it can ONLY be activated (and used) with a SIM from the carrier it's locked to.

in Europe you can buy an unlocked retail iphone.

The apple shop can activate the phone for you. Then you can setup and use the phone. For example, you may need to order a nano sim card from your carrier or have a sim card with a pin code, things that keep you from activating the phone.

If the shop activates the phone, this solves the problem.

In theory, any non-pin-locked nano sim card can unlock the phone in this circumstance.

This was my problem with a new iphone 5s and the apple shop fixed it.

None of which is relevant in ANY way to the question that was asked.

One, as others have noted, you need a sim card and cannot get around it.

Two, this is one way that a user can activate their iphone if they want to use it without a sim card which is exactly the original question.

OK?

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okay first find a sim just in general even just a sim that you cant even use is find then if you are using iphone 5s you know the little yellow box thing in the sim cut just around it and put it in the sim slot and push the sim slot in the iphone then TADAA it was say try again a few times but it WILL work okay 😀

Not quite.

Older CDMA only devices from Verizon that didn't equipped a sim card could be unlocked to be used with secondary (rebranded) carriers that use Verizon's towers (under leasing agreements)

Newer LTE Verizon devices are CDMA/GSM hydrids that equip both a CDMA and GSM radio, and can be unlocked to used with other GSM carriers (though as of mid 2013, most Verizon LTE devices were unlocked to be used with non-US GSM services out-of-box; devices such as Samsung GS4, Note 3, Apple iPhone 5, 5c, and 5s)

Older LTE devices (S3 for example) are not unlocked out-of-box, but can be unlocked to use other sims the same way the phones listed above can.