My iPhone 5 keeps on asking for activation....

Me tooay

My iPhone 5 also started doing this since updating to IOS 8.0.0, it asks for activation at least three times a day and says "searching" for signal A LOT, it even drops my calls. This is ridiculous! I can only use WiFi to activate, it will not allow me to use my LTE to activate, if I'm not around WiFi I can't activate my phone. Please fix this issue I've been on the phone with Verizon seems to be an iPhone issue not a Verizon issue.

ARMartinez0984USN wrote:

My iPhone 5 also started doing this since updating to IOS 8.0.0, it asks for activation at least three times a day and says "searching" for signal A LOT, it even drops my calls. This is ridiculous! I can only use WiFi to activate, it will not allow me to use my LTE to activate, if I'm not around WiFi I can't activate my phone. Please fix this issue I've been on the phone with Verizon seems to be an iPhone issue not a Verizon issue.

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I did this twice at the Apple Store with the guys there and several times at home, still no fix for it.

Any updates on how to fix this issue nothing I've tried has worked.

I'm having the same issue: iphone 5s (model ME297LL/A), iOS 8.1. Once a day (frequently early in the morning) I have to re-activate the phone. Tried to clean it up and reinstall iOS with no success. It is obviously not an isolated case, so what is Apple doing about this problem?

I am also having this issue on my iphone5, started recently while i was in the states, took about 6 or 7 times to finally activate, all OK then this morning back at home, 3 days later, needs activating again, always giving an error message, finally activate the phone, and 10 minutes later needs activating again,

this is useless!!

i was thinking of buying an iphone 6, but over the last 2 years, i find my iphone getting consistently worse and worse, right now, i have a wonderful iphone5 that i can't use - thankfully during the 10 minute window of the phone working i backed up the phone, so at least there is hope that nothing is lost - phew 🙂

I too have the same issue from the time I updated the IOS. Additionally whenever i unlock the phone I get the message of activation required, which says " Update Completed: Your IPhone was successfully updated, There are just a few more steps to follow, and then you are done. ", After which if I am in WiFi zone I can activate my IPhone by pressing "CONTINUE" to the message and if not in WiFi zone, then I am asked to connect to iTunes or else am not allowed to enter the phone and can not even use the basic phone functions of accessing the contacts and calling/messaging anybody.This is really annoying as the phone is of no use at this stage. Its a long pending issue and should be addressed.

is apple going to do something about it or shall i buy someother phone???

Hello all,

I am having the same problem with iphone 5 & ios 8.1.

I tried many everything (restore, DFU restore, setup as new, .....) nothing worked.

I cannot say that I have a cellular phone anymore. 😟

I have to carry my pc with me for itunes or I have to stay at home for wifi to reactivate my iphone.

APPLE please help...

John.

It is hard to believe that Apple is not contacting us directly to solve this issue, taking in account the cost of the equipment... Still trying to find a moment at the official stores (basically impossible in Madrid) to find a solution. This is an extremely serious issue, aren't they going to say anything? Really? This company is changing so fast...

Ok I spoke to Apple support today, the issue apparently is Find My iPhone. So if you log into your iCloud account through iCloud.com this is what i was told to do.

Go to iCloud.com>Find My iPhone>All Devices

Once you are there Choose your device

Turn off your phone

once your phone is off remove your device from Find My iPhone

So far this has worked, now don't get me wrong i just did this today so hopefully its a fix.

Got to have my iPhone replace at the Apple Store. They said the problem is not comprehensible, and they preferred to simply replace my phone. And the new one works well, probably it's a hardware issue.

I said screw it and after talking to Verizon I just bought a new iPhone 6