Mobile phones and personal computers are as much an integral part of the life of a modern person as twenty years ago cassette recorders or radios. Of course, in terms of complexity and functional diversity, the technique of those times and the current cannot be compared, but analogies can be drawn. And as music lovers once cherished audio tapes, glued them themselves, repaired the tape of their tape recorders, now master craftsmen reanimate cell phones, reflash them, rarely when they turn to specialized service centers for help.
IPhones are one of the first places in popularity among smartphones of the latest generations. Therefore, it ’s useful to find out how to activate an iPhone both for its current owners and those who plan to become a happy owner in the near future.
Activation is the process of connecting the phone to the appropriate cellular network and using the full variety of its operations and capabilities. Usually done once. Activation is carried out either when buying a phone, or when the iphone firmware changes - instead of its “native”, factory installed another, more suitable for the owner. You need to activate the mobile phone so that it “sees” the inserted SIM card, and is able to recognize the mobile operator. Before activating an iPhone, you can only call emergency service subscribers from it - fire, ambulance, etc.
Step-by-step instruction
Activate the cell yourself without improvised means will not work. In order to start the process and bring it to the desired result, you need to have a computer with Internet access, an operating system based on Windows ("seven", "pig" or "whist" - whoever has it), a special Apple application downloaded from the Internet for iPhone (called iTunes). The application is free, downloads without problems. True, the antivirus program on your computer may not let it through, therefore it is better to disable the antivirus program at the time of work.
So how to activate an iPhone:
- charge the phone, insert a SIM card into it and enter a PIN code, if required;
- A USB cable should go with the phone (if there is no "native" cable, you need to select it in advance with a suitable input connector). This cable connects the phone and the computer. iTunes and the smartphone connect automatically, the corresponding message on the phone screen will inform about the connection;
- Next is the activation process, the program does everything by itself. It remains only to follow the inscriptions and pictures flickering on the screen. The end of the procedure will also accordingly be indicated by an inscription, then the phone screen will display the desktop. Then it will be possible to disconnect the computer and the mobile phone by disconnecting the cable.
If not everything works ...
Not always the process goes perfectly smoothly. Then an error message appears, the picture of the desktop does not appear on the screen, and, alas, it will not work. The reasons for this “lack of control” can be different. For example, a mobile operator is not allowed in this territory or the mobile phone itself is “imprisoned” for a specific network provider. Similar overlays happen if you buy not the original, but a cheaper fake, for example, a Chinese iphone. And even if such an instance is activated, it does not always work correctly and not with all mobile operators in the Russian Federation.
There is such an option: the phone turned on, it seems to be activated, but there is no cellular network. The way out is unlocking, after which the SIM cards of Russian operators get access to the iPhone.
Clarification to the instructions
If you are a happy owner of iPhone 4S, then activation for phones of this model is even easier and even without a computer. How to activate an iPhone of this type? Well...
- a SIM card is inserted and the phone is turned on by pressing the corresponding button on the side panel;
- It is proposed to choose the language of the telephone interface - naturally, Russian is selected
- auto-selection of your location on maps in Google and Yandex - you can answer either positively or negatively, if desired;
- Internet connection, wireless, wi-fi. You can connect immediately, or later. In any case, the Internet will be needed to activate the phone in the Apple application, as well as to work with various online services of this company;
- registering the phone on the network of the mobile operator to which the iPhone is connected. SMS notifications about connection parameters, information about the settings for mms, sms, etc .;
- the final touches - the option "configure a new device", all recommendations are best implemented;
- on the phone screen there is a proposal to enter the Internet via wi-fi, always under your Apple ID;
- an agreement on the obligations and rights of the user is accepted and, by clicking on the button, we begin work with our iPhone!
As you can see, everything is quite simple!