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iPhone 3GS in strange unlocked state.

  • 01-06-2013 4:31pm
    #1
    culabula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,213 ✭✭✭


    I wonder if any of you knowledgable people can assist me with an acquired iPhone 3GS which demonstrates odd behaviour.

    I got this model from a friend who had replaced it with the then latest model; it was in a terrible state physically but still working. I had its back and front screen replaced and it is now as new.

    She cannot answer any of my questions but the phone is not jailbroken (as I have brought it up to the latest firmware) and neither is it locked. Yet, while it takes every SIM I throw at it, it necessitates activating each and every time. Why is this?

    I have several factory-unlocked iPhones already and none of them behaves like this. Put in any SIM domestic or foreign and away it goes, yet this model requires OTA activating each and every time I SIM-swap (and therefore an adjacent wifi network).

    Thoughts, anyone?


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  • #2
    guil
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,534 ✭✭✭✭guil


    Only time I had a 3GS it was on 3.1.3 and it took ages for activation. I sold it when the 4 came out and can't remember if it had to be activated after I got it unlocked by 02.

    Surely it has to be unlocked if any sim is working in it


  • #3
    culabula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,213 ✭✭✭culabula


    guil wrote: »
    Only time I had a 3GS it was on 3.1.3 and it took ages for activation. I sold it when the 4 came out and can't remember if it had to be activated after I got it unlocked by 02.

    Surely it has to be unlocked if any sim is working in it

    It is unlocked. That's the strange thing.


  • #4
    culabula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,213 ✭✭✭culabula


    guil wrote: »
    Only time I had a 3GS it was on 3.1.3 and it took ages for activation. I sold it when the 4 came out and can't remember if it had to be activated after I got it unlocked by 02.

    Surely it has to be unlocked if any sim is working in it

    Sorry, I made an error in my description. The phone IS unlocked. It just requires a bit of a rigmarole when sim-swapping.


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