After jailbreaking and reactivating, I encountered problems with the phone picking up AT&T. It continues searching for a network and the settings say no carrier. It doesn't make or receive calls. I jailbroke it with Redsn0w, and activated it with SAM.
In SAM Prefs, the activation state says wildcardactivated.
I have a 3Gs, firmware 4.1, baseband 05.16
I followed jailbreaking and SAM steps accurately, but did I do something wrong, and is there anything that I can do to restore service to the device?
You are using atnt , why are you hactivating with redsnow and using redundant Sam to activate. Restore to 4.1 again and use your sim to activate and get signal , definitely solve your issue.