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my friend sold me hes old iphone 2g
and i clean it up and resore to new
but its asking me to activate it
how do i by pass this?

You will need to jailbreak it and be sure to "hacktivate" it when you do so. Read the info in the sticky thread and then find a tutorial for the 2G on iClarified.
 
Since he gave u the 2G iPhone, what FW is on it?
If its 3.0.1, then all you need to do is shift restore it to 3.0.1, then when the activation pops up, just unplug the phone.

Then use redsn0w to jailbreak and unlock.
Simple.
 
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