iPhone 3G S Activation Fix - Hopefully
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Last year, and the year before, the iPhone launch meant that AT&T activations overloaded the network. New iPhone owners were stuck staring at No Service instead of the AT&T carrier name and "more bars, in more places."
This year is no different, all over the land, iPhones are being shunned by the AT&T network. An iPhone activation is an elusive thing of splendor. AT&T told Will Smith at MaximumPC that they were experiencing massive activations and the bandwidth reserved for this type of traffic was overloaded nationwide.
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The Mac|Life and MaximumPC staff aren't immune to the activation woes. But, we think we may have a solution. Since the iPhone 3G S ships with 3G enabled, well you might already see where we are going with this.
We tried this on two iPhone 3G Ss and both activated afterwards. Hopefully, it'll work for everyone else.
Turn off 3G:
Navigate to Settings > General > Network. There you'll see "Enable 3G" Slide it to OFF.
Hard reset your iPhone:
Hold down both until you see the Apple logo
Hold down the Home button and Top button until the iPhone begins to restart. You'll know it's restarting when you see the Apple logo.
BOOM! Activation!
Both iPhones we tried this on worked. Like we said, your milage may vary, but we hope this helps.
Good luck!
Drop your experience in the comments below.
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Danarus
January 30, 2011 at 9:52pm
You are a legend! It worked. I had the problem with 3 here in Australia. Did exactly what you said but also disabled 'cellular data' and then did the hard reset! It worked 100%
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Loup407
June 21, 2009 at 4:32pm
My phone activated 10 minutes ago, (I started the activation process 9:30am Friday) something a bit longer than 48 hours, but at least it's now working!
acobas
June 20, 2009 at 1:20am
Of course! Turn 3G off AND restart. When I did, the activation came through immediately after my 3GS finished booting. Thanks a lot for the tip :-) I wish I had seen this earlier!
tapinc5
June 19, 2009 at 9:38pm
I didn't know that many people were having trouble! Lucky for me, I have the same situation as aamojp.
clean86
June 19, 2009 at 8:34pm
AT&T Shoots itself in the foot again. When will Apple get their phone on all networks?
aamojp
June 19, 2009 at 4:03pm
that sucks for people. i got mine in the mail and was up and running in less than 5-10 minutes.
Loup407
June 19, 2009 at 2:20pm
I've been waiting for activation for 6 hours. Tried this, didn't work...sorry.
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