How To Activate Iphone Reported Stolen

i need your advice on how to fix iphone activationerror messages. apple’s first suggestion in this case isto wait for it to finish activating. i’ve already waited too long. i’ve heard of this issue being caused byios 8 beta 5 expiring. i don’t do beta os editions. i’ll letother people be volunteer software testers.

How To Activate Iphone Reported Stolen, then the solution for you clearly isn’tgoing to be updating from the beta version to the public release of the os. what can i do? the activation error could still be due toproblems with your update. it could even be

due to problems with apple’s servers. apple doesn’t have those problems like microsoft,which is why i own nearly i-everything. if you try to activate a sim card on a lockediphone, you may not be able to activate it unless the cell phone service let you unlockthat iphone previously. the phone has worked before, so it isn’ta matter of trying to turn on a possibly stolen phone off the internet. you could still see if the problem is withthe phone company. no one else on the family plan is complainingthat i forgot to pay the bill. the error can happen when itunes can’t verifythe device.

it is a little hard to update itunes wheni can’t do anything with the device. the default solution for that is restartingthe iphone. when in doubt reboot is supposed to be thestandard solution for microsoft, not apple. you can still try it with the iphone. i know how to do that. hold the power buttonuntil the slider appears, slide the slider until it turns off. wait a while, then turnit back on. the problem may actually be your network,not apple’s. it isn’t like i’m standing next to someoneelse using their cell phone as a wi-fi hot spot, interfering with my network connection.

your phone still may connect and activateif you try a different wi-fi connection. what else could it be? your network may be blocking gs dot appledot com. i have no idea how to fix that. if you’re in itunes, launch the terminal.you’ll want to enter the sudo command to nano, the private subfolder, hosts. you want me to bring up the hosts file. itwill want me to verify my identity. if you see the gs dot apple dot com file there,comment it out or delete it altogether. isn’t it supposed to be there?

sure, but if it is corrupted, the next timethe device tries to activate, it won’t see the messed up file and runs you through anew set up instead. at which point, you hope it is activated. if the file isn’t there, you can try toupdate itunes after connecting to a computer. then hopefully a working version of the fileis added. and if that doesn’t work, try to do a restoreand plead ignorance and forgiveness of the people at the apple store genius bar. that’s why the activation error after areset outright tells you many times to contact customer care. but before you call them, hitthe home button and select start over to try

to activate it again.