Using an iPhone without the phone...

jedimattk · 11-07-2009, 02:30 PM

I recently inherited my grandma's first-gen iPhone, when she upgraded to the newer 3G. AT&T had disabled that phone's service, so it was no longer connected to their network, but it still had the SIM card in it and everything. When she gave it to me, it worked perfectly fine.

After a day or so, I decided to go into settings and clear the phone (reset all settings and erase all data.) After doing so, it rebooted and displayed a message stating, "No SIM Card installed! Insert a new SIM card with no PIN lock to activate iPhone."

It will not sync with iTunes either. Of course, I haven't taken the SIM out or anything; it's still there, but the phone just won't recognize it. I don't want cell service with this phone; I mostly want to use it as an iPod touch with a built-in camera and mic. Please tell me there's some workaround for this!

Thanks,
Matt

juls1585 · 11-07-2009, 02:36 PM

make sure the phone is updated to firmware 3.1.2 and then go to blackra1n.com and download the program. it will jailbreak and hacktivate the phone so you can skip over the sim card situation from what i believe. others can confirm for sure

psylichon · 11-07-2009, 02:36 PM

Just take the SIM card out and replace the empty tray. It will show NO SIM as the carrier and you will of course get no phone service. But wifi and everything else will work fine. I think this is what you're looking for.

jedimattk · 11-07-2009, 02:55 PM

I took the SIM card out, but it's still stuck on the locked "No SIM" screen. Ditto for trying to jailbreak it - I ran blackra1n and it said it was done, but after the iPhone rebooted, it still gave me the hopeless error message.

Ideas?

juls1585 · 11-07-2009, 03:00 PM

error 2001?

jedimattk · 11-07-2009, 03:04 PM

Come again?

juls1585 · 11-07-2009, 03:06 PM

What was the error number

jedimattk · 11-07-2009, 03:08 PM

Blackra1n said it was done, it just didn't load after rebooting like it was meant to. I don't believe it gave me an error number, unless there's somewhere specific I'm supposed to look to find one.

juls1585 · 11-07-2009, 03:10 PM

restart your phone?

jedimattk · 11-07-2009, 04:04 PM

Never mind, I made it work. I used iTunes to update it to the latest firmware, THEN used blackra1n. It consistently gives me a "No SIM Card" error when I turn it on, but otherwise it works perfectly.