The Unofficial Speak Out Wireless Canada Consumer Page - Topic: I Phone Questions... A long-ish and sad tale... https://www.speakoutwireless.ca/speak/phone-features/i-phone-questions-a-long-ish-and-sad-tale/ Simple:Press Version 5.7.5.3 andreww on I Phone Questions... A long-ish and sad tale... https://www.speakoutwireless.ca/speak/phone-features/i-phone-questions-a-long-ish-and-sad-tale/#p27346 Phone/Device Issues and Features https://www.speakoutwireless.ca/speak/phone-features/i-phone-questions-a-long-ish-and-sad-tale/#p27346 Surely Rogers will sell you a microsim???

]]> Tue, 31 Jul 2012 07:16:13 -0700 chimpanzee on I Phone Questions... A long-ish and sad tale... https://www.speakoutwireless.ca/speak/phone-features/i-phone-questions-a-long-ish-and-sad-tale/#p27345 Phone/Device Issues and Features https://www.speakoutwireless.ca/speak/phone-features/i-phone-questions-a-long-ish-and-sad-tale/#p27345 bobbyvancouver said:

Yeah, thanks, i'll just have to do that. I went to the rogers store today and they were too paranoid to put one of their sims in it... Sims don't ever get locked to certain phones do they? The employees were nice, but I was hoping they'd have a little more knowledge...

Walk into an apple store and told them you bought a second hand phone locked to rogers and ask them to give you a rogers micro SIM, I tried twice and each time they are happy to do that, free.

]]> Tue, 31 Jul 2012 07:11:55 -0700 TinHatter on I Phone Questions... A long-ish and sad tale... https://www.speakoutwireless.ca/speak/phone-features/i-phone-questions-a-long-ish-and-sad-tale/#p27343 Phone/Device Issues and Features https://www.speakoutwireless.ca/speak/phone-features/i-phone-questions-a-long-ish-and-sad-tale/#p27343 Google can be your friend for this. (I wont say more than "pre-fix with H", in case it's against forum rules!)

]]> Tue, 31 Jul 2012 00:34:53 -0700 bobbyvancouver on I Phone Questions... A long-ish and sad tale... https://www.speakoutwireless.ca/speak/phone-features/i-phone-questions-a-long-ish-and-sad-tale/#p27342 Phone/Device Issues and Features https://www.speakoutwireless.ca/speak/phone-features/i-phone-questions-a-long-ish-and-sad-tale/#p27342 Yeah, thanks, i'll just have to do that. I went to the rogers store today and they were too paranoid to put one of their sims in it... Sims don't ever get locked to certain phones do they? The employees were nice, but I was hoping they'd have a little more knowledge...

]]> Mon, 30 Jul 2012 23:30:46 -0700 chimpanzee on I Phone Questions... A long-ish and sad tale... https://www.speakoutwireless.ca/speak/phone-features/i-phone-questions-a-long-ish-and-sad-tale/#p27341 Phone/Device Issues and Features https://www.speakoutwireless.ca/speak/phone-features/i-phone-questions-a-long-ish-and-sad-tale/#p27341 it needs a sim to activate, borrow one.

]]> Mon, 30 Jul 2012 23:17:02 -0700 bobbyvancouver on I Phone Questions... A long-ish and sad tale... https://www.speakoutwireless.ca/speak/phone-features/i-phone-questions-a-long-ish-and-sad-tale/#p27338 Phone/Device Issues and Features https://www.speakoutwireless.ca/speak/phone-features/i-phone-questions-a-long-ish-and-sad-tale/#p27338 Thanks for the reply! I'm curious to hear about answer #3 if you have time... It just won't do anything and says it needs a SIM...

]]> Mon, 30 Jul 2012 21:51:32 -0700 TinHatter on I Phone Questions... A long-ish and sad tale... https://www.speakoutwireless.ca/speak/phone-features/i-phone-questions-a-long-ish-and-sad-tale/#p27337 Phone/Device Issues and Features https://www.speakoutwireless.ca/speak/phone-features/i-phone-questions-a-long-ish-and-sad-tale/#p27337 1. No
2. Probably
3. Yes
4. No
5. You already researched it suffiiently then...

(P.S. Wish I had your seemingly legit dilemma!)

]]> Mon, 30 Jul 2012 21:42:22 -0700 bobbyvancouver on I Phone Questions... A long-ish and sad tale... https://www.speakoutwireless.ca/speak/phone-features/i-phone-questions-a-long-ish-and-sad-tale/#p27329 Phone/Device Issues and Features https://www.speakoutwireless.ca/speak/phone-features/i-phone-questions-a-long-ish-and-sad-tale/#p27329 Haha, thanks for the vote of confidence! It's very smashed up and she already bought a replacement phone, but yeah, 5 bucks was oddly cheap! I really should have turned her messages into a book or something, but I was trying to do the honest thing but honesty ruined everything...

]]> Mon, 30 Jul 2012 11:55:20 -0700 andreww on I Phone Questions... A long-ish and sad tale... https://www.speakoutwireless.ca/speak/phone-features/i-phone-questions-a-long-ish-and-sad-tale/#p27327 Phone/Device Issues and Features https://www.speakoutwireless.ca/speak/phone-features/i-phone-questions-a-long-ish-and-sad-tale/#p27327 Are you the dumbest person on the planet? No, the previous owner was for selling it to you for $5.

]]> Mon, 30 Jul 2012 04:00:53 -0700 chimpanzee on I Phone Questions... A long-ish and sad tale... https://www.speakoutwireless.ca/speak/phone-features/i-phone-questions-a-long-ish-and-sad-tale/#p27319 Phone/Device Issues and Features https://www.speakoutwireless.ca/speak/phone-features/i-phone-questions-a-long-ish-and-sad-tale/#p27319 if it is rogers locked, you are fine. just activate it again with a cut down SO sim.

also, get a cutter so you can reuse the original big SIM. I do it so my SIM is usuable in both my Galaxy Gio and iphone 4/4s.

you must put in a rogers SIM(or SO) to activate the iphone, otherwise it won't work. you can also bring it into apple store to have them activate it for you, if they believe that it is your phone.

after activation, you don't need a SIM inside.

]]> Sat, 28 Jul 2012 23:10:56 -0700 bobbyvancouver on I Phone Questions... A long-ish and sad tale... https://www.speakoutwireless.ca/speak/phone-features/i-phone-questions-a-long-ish-and-sad-tale/#p27318 Phone/Device Issues and Features https://www.speakoutwireless.ca/speak/phone-features/i-phone-questions-a-long-ish-and-sad-tale/#p27318 Hi there, sorry if this has been covered to death, but I can't find this exact info anywhere... I got an I phone 4 GSM at a garage sale for 5 bucks!! It has a very cracked screen, but she promised that it works. Get it home and charge it up and sure enough it seems to work quite well. My 7-11 SIM doesn't fit of course, but I used my home network and a whole bunch of things were working without a SIM installed. She said it was Rogers, but it was "unlocked anyway, so would work on whatever." The first thing that happen was that it asked to be updated, so I thought, what the heck and updated it. I now know this may have been a mistake?? It also still had a whole bunch of her private info on it. Tons of messages and Facebook autologin and the like, so I thought (mistake number 2. I'm very dumb!) I should just reset it all and start from scratch. But of course, resetting it has made it unusable. It won't work without a SIM. I don't want to cut my 7-11 SIM in case it won't work... So does anyone know if

1. Has my updating ruined the unlocked nature of the phone somehow?
2. Will my 7-11 SIM still just work if I cut it correctly?
3. Is there a way to make the thing work again without a SIM because it was nice just as a wireless device for a while there...
4. Am I the dumbest person on the planet?
5. Please don't answer #4 because I actually already know the answer...
Thanks!

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