Let me first say I am a rookie and I may have made a rookie mistake.
I have a 3s, A1241. My wife had this phone on AT&T. I wanted to use it on straight talk. In order to do that I had to unlock it and install a straight talk sim. First she wanted me to save her photos to my pc, which I did, it also said so 4.2 was available, so I updated, or at least attempted to. A window popped up that said backing up, which took about 4 hrs after which a window in iTunes opened that said, we're sorry, we are unable to continue with your activation at this time. The phone has no app icons on it except for an I tunes icon. Which won't do anything, there is also a window that says. No SIM card installed, insert a valid sim with no pin lock to activate iPhone.
So have I killed it?
If it really was backing up the phone for 4 hours, where is it on my PCM and how do I reload it?
Or can that even be done?
Will installing a straight talk sim allow the phone to complete an update?
Evasion worked great on my iPad as long as you stay away from 6.1.3 , but apparently it won't do anything with 4.2
I could use some help, this is very new to me so a step by step would be very helpful.
Thanks
Keith
I have a 3s, A1241. My wife had this phone on AT&T. I wanted to use it on straight talk. In order to do that I had to unlock it and install a straight talk sim. First she wanted me to save her photos to my pc, which I did, it also said so 4.2 was available, so I updated, or at least attempted to. A window popped up that said backing up, which took about 4 hrs after which a window in iTunes opened that said, we're sorry, we are unable to continue with your activation at this time. The phone has no app icons on it except for an I tunes icon. Which won't do anything, there is also a window that says. No SIM card installed, insert a valid sim with no pin lock to activate iPhone.
So have I killed it?
If it really was backing up the phone for 4 hours, where is it on my PCM and how do I reload it?
Or can that even be done?
Will installing a straight talk sim allow the phone to complete an update?
Evasion worked great on my iPad as long as you stay away from 6.1.3 , but apparently it won't do anything with 4.2
I could use some help, this is very new to me so a step by step would be very helpful.
Thanks
Keith