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

An iPhone ASP is an Apple Authorised iPhone Service Provider ,an ASP but ALSO authorised for iPhones

Since The service in SA is Carried out by the Carriers

The carrier, not Apple, provides technical support for iPhone in this region.

You have allowed an unauthorised UNTRAINED servicer to open the iPhone

iPhones are NOT repaired they are exchanged for a Out of Warranty exchange unit ,the give away in your post

Nothing anyone here can do to help since they likely broke something

Since Vodacom - my cellphone service provider, has no idea what the problem is - I went to them first. I suspect it is IOS8 as the problems have been ongoing since October 2014, Since Vodacom would not help, I went to the official Apple store for help. If they are not authorized to assist then I don't know who is. I never had problems with my iPhone 4 and looked forward to upgrading to the 5. I do not like the size of the 6. Maybe Apple has built in obsolescence as this is not helping me solve my problem - I have backed up and erased the phone and restored and the problem is ongoing

By the way the person at the iStore did not open the phone - he just did what I have done - erased and told me to restore when I got home with my back up from my Mac. The phone is now 2 years old

I'm guessing its the ios8 update flaw. I'm on ios8.1.3 and still having the searching problem each day since the ios8 update. It drops reception and searches and goes back up. Ocassionaly activation is required.

Sherebanu wrote:

By the way the person at the iStore did not open the phone - he just did what I have done - erased and told me to restore when I got home with my back up from my Mac. The phone is now 2 years old

In which case you are lucky

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f they are not authorized to assist then I don't know who is.

In your case Vodacom .end of

restore when I got home with my back up from my Mac.

restore as new ,don't use the backup and test as is ,it may be something in the backup that is causing the issue

did anyone find a solution for this problem? I have the same problem with my iPhone 5.

do you know if there is any way that I can fix the back up? I really don't want to lose all my stuff 😢

Try backing up your phone and then erase everything then start as a new phone and restore from back up - it seems to work

I did a full restore with iTunes, then I restored in DFU mode but still the same problem, is this an ios 8 problem or an hardware,

Personally I do think it is definitely an IOS8 issue but no one from Apple seems to be responding!

my issues only started in October 2014 - can't be the phone itself must be the software

my brother has an iPhone 5 with ios 8 he has no problems, I hope there will be a fix soon, it randomly searches for network than crashes in to apple logo asking for activation, the last time a restored I didn't even log in to my icloud or apple id just to see what happens, but same issue, if im not connected to wifi to activate than I can't use my iPhone. Hope there will be a fix with the next ios update.

same here - you've described exactly what happens with me - what network are you on. is your brother on another network? I was told that if the wifi reception drops whilst the update is getting downloaded this could be the problem so I went to the Apple store but the problem persists and now someone on this forum said that my back up could be the cause of the problem - I don't know how to fix the back up and neither can I afford to lose the info on the back up.

omg, exactly the same here. Randomly searches for signal and ask for activation. Tried dfu, restored and remove icloud. Still no use.