Comments on: iPhone 3G S Activation: How Long is “Some Time?”

By: andrea

andrea — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 23:50:59 +0000

hi, i recently purchased a new iphone 3gs on 3.1 at best buy without contract. is there any other way to activate the phone in my case? im worried it won’t activate without a contract at AT&T. i just wanna use wifi and wait until someone is able to unlock 3gs on 3.1. please help!

By: Harry

Harry — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 04:30:18 +0000

I purchased iphone 3G S from ebay. But when i connected to itunes, it asked me to enter billing zip code and last 4 digits of SSN. I do not have that info. So i am not able to proceed beyond this. Can someone help me out.

By: david

david — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 17:26:54 +0000

Will, i got a iphone and im in the UK, it is definitely not AT&T because in the UK, the iphone is on the best possible network and i am having this problem (02-UK)

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:49:04 +0000

After 30 minutes I gave up on my phone activating after trying the tricks above. I called att and spoke to a very good CSR.

They took the sim card info and manually activated it. It took 20 min. I had a nice chat with the CSR during and my phone works great.

The number to call
1-800-331-0500

By: John Shiffler

John Shiffler — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 06:58:56 +0000

Thank you! After steps 1) & 2) my 3 G S activated immediately. Please teach AT&T this.

By: mike

mike — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 21:38:17 +0000

Thanks Jason! #3 worked for me! Even ATT customer support couldn’t help me…

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 18:26:52 +0000

Jason, thanks so much! I got my 3GS today and was stuck in the activation loop. 1 and 2 didn’t work for me but suggestion 3, the AT&T website activation, took about 5 minutes. I’m golden.

By: Griffon

Griffon — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 02:32:47 +0000

So… what happens if you instead just pop out your old sim and put in a new 3gs phone?

By: sam

sam — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 16:15:32 +0000

hey
After new phone activation process, once your old iphone indicates ‘no service’, just turn off the new iphone and turn it on. It will detect the service.

By: Susan

Susan — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 13:29:27 +0000

An update on my Apple bluetooth headset nonpairing problem: I synced the new iPhone and the headset to my iMac and charged overnight. This morning they pair! Yay!!

By: Dave Zatz

Dave Zatz — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 02:18:20 +0000

You upload any videos to YouTube yet? That might be the killer features that moves me to purchase.

By: Susan

Susan — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 00:40:48 +0000

I bought the 3GS at the Apple store today. It activated with no problem. However, my Apple bluetooth headset won’t pair with my new iPhone. Looks like a trip to the Genius bar for me tomorrow.

By: David

David — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 00:39:01 +0000

No one actually knows what happened behind this 3.0 upgrade. The promised push notification didn’t roll out as promised for key programs leveraging this 3.0 feature yet.

It leads to one wondering what went wrong when Jobs is not there…

see these discussions:

http://www.beejive.com/support/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=1631&start=80

By: Scotty

Scotty — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 22:38:49 +0000

I confronted the staff at the Apple store about the activations and their line was “We’re doing this to make sure people leave with activated phones.”

Well we all waited in line extra long for our “activations” and we didn’t leave with activated phones. But each time a “consumer unit” left I’m sure Apple’s computers had confirmed with at&t’s computers that Apple was credited $400.

And as people that pre-ordered phones from the Apple store discovered: their iPhone 3Gs’ came with their IMEI’s locked to the specific phone number they’d been purchased for. (a buddy of mine pre-ordered)

I was able to get home, start the restore and pump 14GB of goodness into my 3Gs before at&t finished activating it. (about 2 hours)

I do enjoy my touch to focus camera and voice control though: I feel like Captain Kirk making phone calls with it.

By: Kevin C. Tofel

Kevin C. Tofel — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 21:36:53 +0000

I got tired of waiting and even though I was hoping for no AT&T intervention, I called them up. My CSR had me read through the IMEI and SIM card numbers and she manually activated them for me. I’m glad she was able to help because going to an AT&T store is a bit of a hike for us in the sticks. Plus it would have defeated the purpose of ordering online!

By: MPJ

MPJ — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 21:34:29 +0000

Lol…