Other Can’t activate OG iPhone after DFU

[Jim Lahey]

Hi. In thinking about preparing my pristine 2007 OG iPhone for sale, I decided to first restore it to factory defaults. It was previously unlocked and jailbroken, so I should probably have known better. In doing so, I killed it. Managed to bring it back to life using DFU but I’m now unable to activate it with a current O2 UK SIM. Finder says that the inserted SIM card is not supported for activation, or some such similar messaging. Currently cannot get past the plug-in to iTunes screen.

I am guessing that the handset is now locked as per original factory spec. Probably to AT&T? (it was a grey import). Does anyone have any ideas on how to move forward? I imagine I will need to unlock and jailbreak again but I’ve been out of that space for many years so any thoughts would be appreciated. I just need to get it activated and up-to-date with the latest supported iOS. Ideally unlocked.

 

[Banglazed]

You can buy an IMEI check on eBay to get the status of carrier and see if it is unlocked. If you are sure it is an AT&T iPhone, you can submit an unlock request https://www.att.com/deviceunlock/
Else, you’ll need to jailbreak it and if it support the device and current iOS version.

 

[eyoungren]

Hi. In thinking about preparing my pristine 2007 OG iPhone for sale, I decided to first restore it to factory defaults. It was previously unlocked and jailbroken, so I should probably have known better. In doing so, I killed it. Managed to bring it back to life using DFU but I’m now unable to activate it with a current O2 UK SIM. Finder says that the inserted SIM card is not supported for activation, or some such similar messaging. Currently cannot get past the plug-in to iTunes screen.

I am guessing that the handset is now locked as per original factory spec. Probably to AT&T? (it was a grey import). Does anyone have any ideas on how to move forward? I imagine I will need to unlock and jailbreak again but I’ve been out of that space for many years so any thoughts would be appreciated. I just need to get it activated and up-to-date with the latest supported iOS. Ideally unlocked.

Way back then, jailbreaking was used to unlock the iPhone. These were multi-step jailbreaks involving other physical tools to get the job done. No idea what the max iOS would be for the original iPhone but I'm fairly confident that tracking down the jailbreak for that version of iOS is going to involve a lot of digging on your part.

But yeah, once you removed the jailbreak you killed the unlock.

PS. There was a massive change in the jailbreaking world around the time of iOS 6. So if all you are familiar with is pre-iOS 6 jailbreaks you are in for some learning.

 

[Jim Lahey]

Way back then, jailbreaking was used to unlock the iPhone. These were multi-step jailbreaks involving other physical tools to get the job done. No idea what the max iOS would be for the original iPhone but I'm fairly confident that tracking down the jailbreak for that version of iOS is going to involve a lot of digging on your part.

But yeah, once you removed the jailbreak you killed the unlock.

PS. There was a massive change in the jailbreaking world around the time of iOS 6. So if all you are familiar with is pre-iOS 6 jailbreaks you are in for some learning.

Thanks for your reply. On further investigation it seems if I have even a small chance of doing it I'm going to need a Windows XP laptop running an older version of iTunes to even make a start with any jailbreaking. Think I'll just put it down to experience and forget about it for now.

 

[chrisdazzo]

Thanks for your reply. On further investigation it seems if I have even a small chance of doing it I'm going to need a Windows XP laptop running an older version of iTunes to even make a start with any jailbreaking. Think I'll just put it down to experience and forget about it for now.

You could try a trial version of Parallels/VMWare and find XP somewhere, I'm sure. Though, if you have an M1 Mac you may not be able to run non-ARM Windows versions atm. You could probably find an old jailbreak that works if you have an Intel Mac (also, hi Bootcamp). I had the same issue with one I purchased in the US, and jailbreaking was the solution.

 

[jav6454]

Hi. In thinking about preparing my pristine 2007 OG iPhone for sale, I decided to first restore it to factory defaults. It was previously unlocked and jailbroken, so I should probably have known better. In doing so, I killed it. Managed to bring it back to life using DFU but I’m now unable to activate it with a current O2 UK SIM. Finder says that the inserted SIM card is not supported for activation, or some such similar messaging. Currently cannot get past the plug-in to iTunes screen.

I am guessing that the handset is now locked as per original factory spec. Probably to AT&T? (it was a grey import). Does anyone have any ideas on how to move forward? I imagine I will need to unlock and jailbreak again but I’ve been out of that space for many years so any thoughts would be appreciated. I just need to get it activated and up-to-date with the latest supported iOS. Ideally unlocked.

Two things, you need to do it thru iTunes. However, if you sell it, it won't be off use to anyone as AT&T and T-Mo have shutdown 2G networks.

That said, try using ZiPhone to create a custom .ipsw and then install Boot Neuter.