Stuck on activation with no AT&T Sim

[downradio]

Hi,

I hope someone can help me. It seems I did something quite stupid. I just got my iPhone from eBay. It's an American iPhone hence locked to AT&T. It was jailbroken and I used it a bit with the turbsim and it worked fine (I'm in Hong Kong).

Anyway, I decided to return it to factory settings so I can start clean and didn't realize this whole activation thing had to be done with an AT&T SIM card which I obviously don't have.

So I'm stuck on emergency call mode and can't do anything. Is there any way to activate the phone without an AT&T sim card?

Please help!

Thank you very much.

[Eurisko]

It doesn't need an AT&T SIM. Pwn it using the Activate feature and you'll be fine.

[downradio]

Thank you for the quick reply. I'm a newbie so please help me out - is there a thread that details how to do this? I've downloaded all the quickpwn software and the firmare but the only instructions I have are to do it through iTunes which is isn't an option since it won't let me do anything but "eject" my phone..

[Poseidon79]

Open quickpwn, plug in your iphone... follow the on screen instructions by quickpwn, not iTunes.

[downradio]

It worked. Thank you!!!

[littledanish0713]

[COLOR="DarkOrange"]DFU Restore Mode:
1. Power phone OFF. 2. Hold power + home for 10 seconds. 3. Let go of power and continue to hold home until iTunes finds the phone.

I keep getting a "UNKNOWN ERROR" when I try to restore the iphone. What should I do?

[drkmoon]

I have two problems, first off itunes will not recognise or see my iphone.
i've done everything i can think of, restarted process, reinstalled itunes, did a system restore but to no avail. windows can see the iphone as a camera but that is as far as it gets.

second in trying to fix this problem i restored my iphone to its factory settings via itunes on another pc - now for the good part........... my iphone was purchased jaulbroken and activated which of course all dissapeared when i did the factory restore.

I have downloaded QuickPwn2.1.1 but it will not work as it cannot detect the iphone, when i use another PC it crashes the program.

now i'm stuck with a phone that can only make emergency calls and cannot be seen by my computer

(the iphone was origionall locked to att&t and purchased early last year may 2008

any help would be greatly appreciated
Jerry

[tuyen]

Open quickpwn, plug in your iphone... follow the on screen instructions by quickpwn, not iTunes.

I downloaded firmware iPhone1,1_2.2_5G77_Restore.ipsw and used quickpwn to restore but I received a message:"The IPSW file you selected( iphone1,2_2.1) does not match the firmware version of your device(iphone1,2_2.2).Please note that QuickPwn doesnot upgrade your firmware, it only jailbreak whatever firmware you currently have on your device." Does it means my iphone is ver 2.2? I couldn't check it because I don't have the original sim card with it, the phone stuck at emergency call screen, are there any way I can do, I can't use itune since I don't have the original sim card. Thanks