iPhone Did I just ruin my phone?

[c.james]

I was having issues with iMessage and was trying to re-activate it.. so using SAM, I followed a tutorial to de-activate my phone and re-activate it.. except, I can't reactivate it now. When I plug it into iTunes, it says "There is a problem with your iPhone". I didn't realize that Apple had blocked SAM from working recently.

I'm on Verizon so I have no SIM card. I have no idea how to get my phone activated again. Am I totally screwed?

 

[MDTyKe]

Can you just restore the phone?

 

[ixodes]

You're wasting your time here, call or take it to Verizon.

I'm sure they will sort it out for you.

 

[c.james]

I can't restore it because iTunes isn't recognizing it now.

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I'm able to send/receive texts.. and I'm pretty sure I can make calls and get them as well. So I'm not really sure what I did... all I know is that my iTunes isn't recognizing my phone anymore and I can't activate iMessage.

 

[mankar4]

Just take it to verizon or the apple store.

 

[LandonDonovan]

Try the deactivate iPhone and Attempt Activation in the SAMPrefs. If that doesn't work, you have to put your iPhone in DFU and restore.

 

[phoqcey]

Why bother and stress out? Just go to verizon or to the apple store. They'll do it for you for free

 

[c.james]

Try the deactivate iPhone and Attempt Activation in the SAMPrefs. If that doesn't work, you have to put your iPhone in DFU and restore.

Problem is SAMprefs doesn't work anymore... Apple blocked it.

Thankfully I was able to wipe and restore from a backup I made 2 days ago. I actually did it by accident while I was trying to put it into DFU mode.

A little dumb luck on my part but it worked and it's all good now.

 

[LandonDonovan]

Apple never blocked SAMPrefs. How'd you Restore from Backup if your iPhone wasn't detected in iTunes? Wasn't that the original problem?

 

[iabacus]

Interesting