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Replacement iPhone. How to activate?
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Posted by: Phreakish

Hey guys and gals,

I'm having issues with something and need a bit of help.
I spent a better part of last night trying to figure it out and searching here as well as everywhere else without finding an answer.

I have a back-up 8gig running 1.1.1 and wish to activate it to replace my current 4gig model for service reasons.
The phone has been jailbroken and activated in Europe for a few days.

I bought this iPhone for a very good friend of mine, as a gift, and sent it to him in Germany.
Problem is that I didn't test the phone prior to shipping and didn't notice that the screen/sensors have issues.
The problem is that the phone doesn't rotate at all; neither pictures nor Safari. Restore doesn't help nor does anything I've tried with it.

What I need to do is activate the phone on my account, bring it to Apple and have it serviced under warranty. As I payed for this phone and I'm and ATT customer, I'm perfectly entitled to do this, according to the contract.

However, when I plug it in, iTunes wants to activate it as a new phone and extend my contract for another 2 years. The only way for me to bypass this, that I know of, is to jailbreak it. This obviously is a no go as I need to service it.

Does anyone know a way of getting around the new 2 year contract issue?

This question is mainly directed at people who have received loaners of have upgraded iPhones. How did you replace your existing iPhone with the loaner/upgrade or was it done at the store for you?

If nothing, I'll extend the contract, get it serviced and somehow switch back to my own phone, but you can see why I'd wish to avoid this.

Thanks for all the help, it's greatly appreciated.

Posted by: cingular#1

http://iphone.ranova.org/21.shtml

Posted by: Phreakish

Quote:

Originally Posted by cingular#1

http://iphone.ranova.org/21.shtml

I guess you didn't bother to read my post.

I CAN NOT jailbreak the phone as the device needs to be serviced. If I jailbreak to activate and take it to Apple, it will void the service agreement.

I appreciate the attempted help though.

Posted by: LiquidSmooth

You could always take it back before you activate it and say you didnt need to activate it till your 4GB went down or something. Only thing is you wouldnt be able to show them that rotating issue so i dont know how useful that is

Posted by: cingular#1

Ok then dont activate it... just say I restored it and....it wouldn't activate, so i decided to leave it the way it was