New 3g iphone not recognised in iTunes

Mr_Wistles · 03-01-2009, 8:52 PM

Evening all.

I have just bought a new 16gb 3g on PAYG.

Done the various bits to unlock and get it on Vodafone.

However when I plug it into itunes it says that it is not valid as it does not have an 02 sim in it, thus I can't put any music on it!!!

The answer is undoubtedly in the huge thread but I have read and searched but cannot find an answer.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

My firmware is 2.1 and my itunes is 8.0.2.20, I am using a Gevey-3g.

whitestar96 · 03-01-2009, 9:37 PM

I believe that you have to put the iPhone into airplane mode if using a turbo sim then sync. If I was you I'd update to 2.2 jailbreak then use the iPhone Dev Team's unlock via Cydia, much easier than the turbo sim

envy1985 · 03-01-2009, 10:27 PM

Well the iPhone will not activate on any other sim but an 02 one.

So, you either need to:

Activate via a PAYG 02 SIM - But this is pointless, as you wont be staying on 02.
Jailbreak to Activate

On the second point, you should have already 'Jailbreak'ed the iPhone to install yellowsn0w. Therefore if you havent you will need to use QuickPwn 2.2.

If not, i would re-QuickPwn as this should activate the phone, without iTunes.

envy1985 · 03-01-2009, 10:28 PM

Oh, from your post you will be using a SIM Loader of some sort? Im not too sure on that front, but Jailbreaking should correct the problem.

Mr_Wistles · 04-01-2009, 4:47 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by envy1985

[/LIST]On the second point, you should have already 'Jailbreak'ed the iPhone to install yellowsn0w. Therefore if you havent you will need to use QuickPwn 2.2.

If not, i would re-QuickPwn as this should activate the phone, without iTunes.

Thanks, I did this and binned the quick loader. Working fine, thanks for your help.