Restoring...what to do after?

[Ironbutterfly]

Good morning all, I have a new iphone 4 locked to Telus. I restored the phone and upgraded to 4.3.5 versionware. Now all I get is "no sim installed". My question is do I have to have an activated Telus sim to go any further with setting up the phone? I am in a remote area and won't be getting to a Telus shop any time soon, so I'm wanting to just use the phone for everything else until I can get a new micro-sim. Is this possible or do I have to have the sim card? Thanks in advance and have a great day!

 

[Gubro]

Well, you should have a Telus sim to activate the phone anyway.

 

[OJsakila]

Phone was working before u upgraded?
Now it doesnt? Strange...Maybe a bad file? Re-do?




if all else fails, restore.

 

[Ironbutterfly]

Hi and thank you for your replies, I bought the phone off of Ebay from a good seller, there was no micro-sim because he had two iphones and kept the sim card for himself. It was working fine when I got it and there never was anything wrong. I restored it because of all the files I was downloading trying to unlock it. I wanted to just start from a fresh slate and wait until I got to a retailer for a sim card.....all I wanna know is do I have to have the sim in order to set up the phone just to use, say...as an ipod and games????

 

[Ironbutterfly]

@OJ

I did restore.....more than once.

 

[samuelarnold]

iPhones do not store contacts to the SIM card, so that's a non-issue. I set mine to sync with Yahoo! Mail so they're always backed up whether I remember to use iTunes or not.

As for the apps/music/ringtones, official policy is something along the lines of "you bought & downloaded it, and now it's your responsibility to back it up".

I have heard of some folks getting a bit of help from iTunes the first time they learn this lesson the hard way. try Apple - Support - iTunes, the downloading section, any question, fill out the form, and I think it says "I have another issue".

g'luck!