Generation 1 iPhone Not loading or being seen by itunes?

[Stormsniper]

Bought this this morning as I've fancied a mk1 iPhone for a while, on powering it up all i get is this, so far its been up for over 2 hours, on looking round forums later ones can be opened with recovery mode, however itunes does not see the device at all, is it a dead-un or can this be sorted?


pic seems small but should come up bigger as its a 1024x768 image

 

[Gregoris]

old school, rocking an iPhone 1, I like it

what have you tried so far? hard reset could help if you have not done so already http://www.wikihow.com/Hard-Reset-an-iPhone

 

[Stormsniper]

hiya, ended up taking into a shop in the local town to see if they sort it, i got to the screen saying plug into itunes with a valid sim but managed to JB my way into it, sadly the sim is not reading, its defo a hardware issue so back into town methinks, got two more 2gs coming tho

 

[Gregoris]

sounds as though the phone is locked to a carrier and needs unlocking if it is not accepting your sim card.