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iPhone 2G not responding
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Still saying it's locked. May I ask what the springboard is? Because even after I apparently installed Cydia successfully, all I got was the screen telling me to plug in to itunes and the emergency call option. Nothing else.
This is easily fixed. I personally never hacktivate phones anyways. You want push notifications to work right? Then you should just borrow a friends active AT&T sim and use it to activate the phone, and then you will be good to go. When I jailbreak, I will get the phone, restore it to a fresh state, legitimately activate it, and then once I have access to the phone, I will run redsn0w and it will work just fine. That will ensure that push will not be broken.
Still saying it's locked. May I ask what the springboard is? Because even after I apparently installed Cydia successfully, all I got was the screen telling me to plug in to itunes and the emergency call option. Nothing else.
OP, the springboard is your home screen on your iPhone (where all your icons are). It looks like jmann is getting you fixed up.
He's good like that.
He just said AT&T by mistake (I think). The sim card for Australia should be fine.
Don't you have any friends with an AT&T phone? It doesn't do anything to their account/sim.
Why not just use an Australian sim (sorry IDK the network for the iPhone over there).
No, I have no friends with an AT&T simcard because AT&T is not in Australia.
I've been trying it with my own simcard (active Optus pre-paid) and it just won't work so I don't know why it would work with any other Australian one. I will try the whole process again tonight, but I have no idea why it's not working so far even though it seems to get through redsn0w fine.
I've been trying it with my own simcard (active Optus pre-paid) and it just won't work so I don't know why it would work with any other Australian one. I will try the whole process again tonight, but I have no idea why it's not working so far even though it seems to get through redsn0w fine.
No, I have no friends with an AT&T simcard because AT&T is not in Australia.
I've been trying it with my own simcard (active Optus pre-paid) and it just won't work so I don't know why it would work with any other Australian one. I will try the whole process again tonight, but I have no idea why it's not working so far even though it seems to get through redsn0w fine.
Well, I'm not even sure why jmann was asking about the AT&T sim.
Well, I'm not even sure why jmann was asking about the AT&T sim.
Because the iPhone 2G is locked to AT&T.
The iPhone 2G was only sold in the U.S. and U.K. (and only much later) so most likely his iPhone is locked to AT&T.
I'm a she, not a he, by the way.
I've just done the restore and jb again, because today (after giving up trying to get it to work) I stuck my sim in an old Motorola razr I had lying around, and I got a message from my carrier saying "Thank you for choosing us with your iphone!", which I found really odd. So I've since attempted to get it working again - itunes is asking me to restore the phone again unfortunately, but strangely enough it is now coming up with the IMEI and serial numbers of the iphone in itunes, when before it just said "n/a" in that field. Does anyone know why this might be? I am not sure if I should restore it again, because obviously I will then have to go through redsn0w again.
I've just done the restore and jb again, because today (after giving up trying to get it to work) I stuck my sim in an old Motorola razr I had lying around, and I got a message from my carrier saying "Thank you for choosing us with your iphone!", which I found really odd. So I've since attempted to get it working again - itunes is asking me to restore the phone again unfortunately, but strangely enough it is now coming up with the IMEI and serial numbers of the iphone in itunes, when before it just said "n/a" in that field. Does anyone know why this might be? I am not sure if I should restore it again, because obviously I will then have to go through redsn0w again.
I'm a she, not a he, by the way.
I've just done the restore and jb again, because today (after giving up trying to get it to work) I stuck my sim in an old Motorola razr I had lying around, and I got a message from my carrier saying "Thank you for choosing us with your iphone!", which I found really odd. So I've since attempted to get it working again - itunes is asking me to restore the phone again unfortunately, but strangely enough it is now coming up with the IMEI and serial numbers of the iphone in itunes, when before it just said "n/a" in that field. Does anyone know why this might be? I am not sure if I should restore it again, because obviously I will then have to go through redsn0w again.
But is it working? If so. Who cares!? Use it.