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Need help with iPhone 2g (alien.top)
submitted 2 years ago by CapitalDrop7584@alien.top to c/apple@hardware.watch
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I bought this device yesterday, I would like to say I'm not very good at English neither on old phones. I just thought it was a very cool tech product but when I turned on for the first time it said something like put a SIM card, so I did, I grabbed mine and it worked. I put my pin and then, nothing, it just let me make emergency calls. I read that 2g is not available on Europe and that may be the cause but I called myself and I received the call. I really want to avoid jailbreak and that kind of stuff just to keep it as original as I can. I may be wrong, maybe there's no other way but I would prefer keep like that.

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[–] fraksken 2 points 2 years ago

other than jailbreaking it, there will be no way of getting it to work.

[–] mashirabbit@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

Install and open iTunes in your computer, plugin iPhone to your computer, then activate the iPhone with your computer’s iTunes.

[–] 90212Poor@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

She gone

[–] matratin@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

You can see what it says? In the first years of the iPhone, you had to activate it with a PC/Mac with iTunes.

[–] ElihDW@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

What’s an iPhone 2g? Never hear of it before

[–] vabello@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

Assuming the original iPhone? There was only one model before the 3G.

[–] d0or-tabl3-w1ndoWz_9@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The first ever iPhone released in 2007 that only supported 2G signals

The 2G name was only given after Apple released the iPhone 3G and the 3GS

[–] Krystalline01@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

The 2G name was never official

[–] Dubai80@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I still have my 3gs in my store cant sell it. Its history

[–] akrazyho@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

Like unopened because if so, you can sell that for a whole lotta money

[–] PrivatePilot9@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

I had an original iPhone 1 4 gig model. One sold for hundreds of thousands of dollars recently, unused in the sealed box.

If I'd just left that box sealed and could have looked into the future a litlte, I could have been a solid 5 years closer to retirement right now.

[–] Jmco1@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I am pretty sure that phone is too old and won’t activate. Hope you didn’t pay to much

[–] quantitative101@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

Even if activation servers were down, any iPhone from the 4 and under can easily be hacktivated offline fully untethered. And A5 devices can too if you use the arduino checkm8 exploit. But regardless, activation servers are still up and running and have been so for 16 years.

[–] weewooPE@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

wow this brings back memories

[–] PrivatePilot9@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

Not all of them good. But yeah, memories.

[–] Basti-Schweinsteiger@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Just do Notruf and I’m sure it will work

[–] MaccasLad@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

Notruf = Emergency call

[–] blanktaken@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Judging from the carrier name showing while the phone isn’t activated,you’ll need to jailbreak+hacktivate the phone in order to get inside

[–] CapitalDrop7584@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

Yeah, that's what I thought, but I decided I'm not going to do it now.

[–] Chapman8tor@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I feel like we're all being baited with this post. Is it for real?

[–] CapitalDrop7584@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

Sorry, I don't understand very well. What do you mean being baited? Yes it's real.

[–] CapitalDrop7584@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

I tried to connect to iTunes but failed because of the SIM card. I’m pretty sure it’s due to the operator. On the box, it says O2, so I assume it is SIM locked. After looking on the Apple page, I found that my device has never been activated. I found that really weird and I’m not sure if it’s better or not. Meanwhile, I’m keeping on looking into this and I won’t do any kind of jailbreak.