Q: phone wont connect to apple server when setting up

Did you already try these steps?

• If you get an error message, find out how to fix most update and restore errors.
• If your iOS device with cellular service doesn’t activate after restoring, find out how to fix activation issues.
• If your iOS device restarts repeatedly or isn’t responding, for example if you see a stopped progress bar or no progress bar, put the device into recovery mode and restore it again.

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