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put in your email address and password
choose find my iphone
click on all devices
you will see your phone, pess remove from account
and then say, You're a firkin legend hugh
iPhone 4s - Lost Mode Help
I bought a second hand iPhone 4s which was advertised as excellent working order (less a cracked screen)
I received it in an unactivated restored state.
I activated it thru my home wifi. It required a simcard to be activated.
Once active, it remained in "searching" mode and it at no time could find a cellular signal.
I tried numerous different provider simcards with the same problem.
I tried to restore thru iTunes. To do this, I had to turn off "Find my iPhone" which was logged in to my Apple ID.
I attempted to turn off "Find my iPhone" but the iPhone would not recognise my Apple password therefore not allowing me to turn it off.
I gave up after numerous attempts and checks on my password which hasn't changed.
I then made a fatal error I think. I used iCloud to erase the phone in the hope that I could do a fresh restore this way. This seemed to work.
I then clicked lost mode for unknown reasons and entered my phone number.
The phone now displays the message "This iPhone has been lost. Please call me. 04xx xxxxxx"
The phone doesn't have a passcode and it is in an unactivated state.
When I try to activate it, I can't get past the connecting the phone to my wifi. It just simply fails to activate stating the server is unavailable.
iTunes refuses to recognise the phone.
What could be wrong ?
Can this be fixed ?
The seller doesn't want to know me anymore saying that the phone was fine before he sent it.
Can I kiss my $200 goodbye ?
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put in your email address and password
choose find my iphone
click on all devices
you will see your phone, pess remove from account
and then say, You're a firkin legend hugh
Tried that already mate. The phone is not listed in my devices. It was removed when I did the erase and clicked lost mode.
ok I don't think find my iphone is on the phone
Last edited by hughdman; 27-08-14 at 03:59 PM.
ITunes has to detect your phone and it will always detect it even if there is a passcode of icloud is on the phone, even if it's erased or in lost mode
If you can't get your iTunes to detect it, try another pc, if not available remove all the apple programs from your pc about 3-5 IIRC
Then reinstall from Apple Site
Last edited by hughdman; 27-08-14 at 03:52 PM.
Managed to get it into recovery mode. Clicked on restore. It's now going through the motions to restore and update. Fingers crossed see how it goes.
He might say that based on your 3 minute response time to his threadOriginally Posted by hughdman
You're all legendsHe might say that based on your 3 minute response time to his thread
Its about now that an iPhone user wishes he had an Android
We're sorry, we are unable to continue with your activation at this time. Same result every time.
There is a ton of results for that error on Google ( and the odd Youtube video) if hughdman cant fix it with his legendary skills
I've got a feeling it's not a software issue but rather a hardware issue. I was suspicious when it couldn't get a cellular signal and was stuck in the searching status.
The imei isn't blocked which is a good thing
I've done an enquiry on the imei and I'm just checking to see if its network locked
All imei checks are taking a while now a days, farkin apple patching there software.
The seller has "assured" me that it's not network locked. He claims he called Optus to double check. I tried an Optus sim card but it still stayed in searching mode.
Did you follow his instructions to the letter?
Including the above?
Last edited by ol' boy; 27-08-14 at 04:51 PM.
and here I thought you were going to post something stupid, that doesn't help anyone.
Never 1 to disappoint.
I'm just trying to help, may of been a bit quick.
You're a firkin legend hugh whatever the outcome. Thanx for all your help mate
Still no luck.
Might be just a wild guess but anyway:
First, don't buy Apple
Secondly I think the phone might have been still registered in the sellers account when you did the reset.
Apple is a real pain in that matter.
If that is the case the phone won't accept your cedentials and refuse to work.
I don't know how trusting the seller is but ask him to either give you his account details (maybe he does not like that idea very much though...),
aks him to check if the phone is still listed in his account and if so to transfer ownership into your name,
or as a last resort if he has it still listed and can't won't do any of the above to remove the phone from his account permanently.
Once the thing is officially in your name it sould accept your credentials and appear in your Itunes.
Absolute last resort would be to connect Apple, give them copies of the transaction and to ask them to put the phone into your account and to remove the lock from the system.
Sadly Apple puts safety over user concerns or usablility.
Last edited by Downunder35m; 27-08-14 at 09:27 PM.
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The phone isn't linked to sellers account.
The phone is also unlocked.
The weird thing is it's showing 7.02 as the ios version
I'm pretty sure this is futile but trying putting your phone in dfu mode
youtube videos may help
how I do it is run iTunes and connect iPhone, it will detect and come up in the top right corner
power down iPhone and wait 15 seconds
keep the phone connected to usb and computer
hold down the power button and count to 5 like 1 cat dog 2 cat dog etc
when you get to 5 keep the power button pressed and press the home for 10 seconds, same 1 cat dog etc
the screen should go black at about 7 cat dog when you get to 10 release the power only
in about 20 seconds you should get a beep from the computer and maybe some drivers loading, iTunes will tell you its detected a phone in recovery mode, then restore.
Fingers crossed
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