iPhone 4s won’t activate says it requires a SIM card and then says failed to activate. I collect old phones and I really like this one I factory reset it and now it’s doing this, and I can’t get into the phone go to the home screen and then pops back out of the home screen.
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Earlier iPhone models
Do you have a SIM card installed? You have to have on installed in order to complete the activation. As I recall, the card doesn't have to be tied to any active line. The problem may be finding a micro-SIM card.
Do you have a SIM card installed? You have to have on installed in order to complete the activation. As I recall, the card doesn't have to be tied to any active line. The problem may be finding a micro-SIM card.
From my memory, the iPhone 4S is 3G capable and that service has been discontinued.
You are invited to visit an Apple retail store to discuss your iPhone upgrade options.
Your iPhone 4S is eligible for free recycling. ♻️
Good luck! 👋🏼😉
Computer_5555 wrote:
Cannot find a micro sim
That iPhone 4s will be of limited usefulness.
Pretty much no third-party apps will be available.
Problems and blocks exist when using a version of Safari and network security that far back.
That’s assuming you can even find 3G coverage to go with a hard-to-find microSIM:
Computer_5555 wrote:
Cannot find a micro sim
Amazon? eBay? The little phone repair shop in the mall? Ask your friends and family members if they have any really old phones sitting around. Have them check to see if there is a micro SIM you can use. It's going to be hard though. Apple stopped using them in 2012. Even the cheap flip and candy bar phones have long since moved on from them.
There was a time when phone stores would have had old ones sitting around in drawers for just this purpose but I'd expect even the messiest of them would have cleaned out those drawers a long time ago.
Computer_5555 wrote:
Good idea, but does the iPhone 5s use micro Sim? I know my grandparents have both have old iPhone 5s. I play around sometimes.
I know they do have US cellular Sim in them
if you find yourself asking about the tech specs of Apple gear, get yourself the (free) MacTracker app.
iPhone 5s gets you to iOS 12, nano-SIM, and to LTE, and VoLTE. In aggregate, workable, some but fewer third-party apps, and with other limits.
All unlike iPhone 4s. Which won’t be particularly useful.
No I can’t find one but I think I have reset it be for an I activated fine but I’ll look around my house. I might have an old one
Cannot find a micro sim
I don’t want to use want to have it working? I don’t want it to work as a phone. I just wanna be able to get into iOS.
Computer_5555 wrote:
Cannot find a micro sim
Bummer.
Computer_5555 wrote:
I don’t want to use want to have it working? I don’t want it to work as a phone. I just wanna be able to get into iOS.
You can’t.
You sure this is my only device that when iOS 9 that works right now I don’t need to fix and I really wanna play an older version of temple run Ip
that’s not full of ads
Good idea, but does the iPhone 5s use micro Sim? I know my grandparents have both have old iPhone 5s. I play around sometimes.
I know they do have US cellular Sim in them
As I discovered by googling "first iPhone to use nano SIM, the iPhone 5 was the first phone to use it. So, the answer is no, the iPhone 5S doesn't use a micro Sim.
How to activate iPhone 4s
