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Free iPad iPhone iPod Touch Jailbreak Support > How do I get passed the activation screen on iPhone 3g?

I just want to use my old iPhone like an iTouch.
October 29, 2012 | Unregistered CommenterJasmine
What activation screen exactly? I have an old 3gs that I deactivated, and it still works just fine, I just get "no signal" for the cell portion now.
October 29, 2012 | Unregistered CommenterTerry
google also mentioned this:

I'd recommend leaving the deactivated sim in the phone. You can't update or restore any GSM iPhone without a sim card installed. The sim card need not be activated, but it must bre valid & present.
October 29, 2012 | Unregistered CommenterTerry
You should be able to just follow the steps on the activation screen. From what I recall it doesn't ask you questions about your cell provider, just other settings like wifi & icloud. If you aren't able to: what step of the activation app is leaving you stuck?

Another idea, if you do run into a snag with the activation app: restore from an old itunes backup instead of letting itunes treat it like a new phone. You can always delete all the stuff you don't want after you're able to use the phone normally.
November 2, 2012 | Unregistered CommenterTerry
The actual activation part. It says the activation server is temporally down.
I also forgot to mention that I had jail broken it the first time to "hacktivate/activate" and then some idiot took my iPhone and tried to update it to the iTunes ios 6. Redsn0w doesn't recognize my device in DFU mode when I tried to jailbreak it again.

Thank you for helping and responding fast though!
November 3, 2012 | Unregistered CommenterJasmine
ah. you never mentioned ios 6; that makes more sense then. redsn0w can revert from any 5.x version to any other 5.x version, but downgrading from 6.x back to 5.x - not so much. However: it's supposed to be able to jailbreak any A4 device running iOS 6, including the 3gs. If it were me, I'd do a complete firmware upgrade and restore in itunes (to wipe any previous jailbreaks and settings) and then try a fresh jailbreak on redsn0w 0.9.15b1.

You've moved beyond my realm of expertise though, honestly. Luke may have an answer, but I guess he doesn't read these posts anymore. You might try the "contact" form on this site, though - he might check that.
November 4, 2012 | Unregistered CommenterTerry
Thanks ! I'll try that
November 8, 2012 | Unregistered CommenterJasmine