IPhone 3GS: Waiting for activation and availability

How do you use the Bluetooth to stream music through your car stereo? Do you have to set your radio to a certain frequency? I cannot get mine to work at all with the new Ford Fiesta! Please help.

I got my iphone at 1pm EST yesterday and I am still waiting for my phone to activate. This is bull.

I have had my phone connected since 6 o’clock Friday night and the message “waiting for activation this may take some time is still up”. It is 10:45 saturday morning this is getting ridiculous! ANY SUGGESTIONS OR TIPS?!?!? HELP!!!!!!

I’ve been waiting 18 hours so far… no activation.

it’s been 12 hours here.. still waiting for activation

I’ve been waiting about 30 hours — about 3 hours ago my cell phone became un-useable, giving me an ‘Unregistered SIM’ message — thanks AT&T.

haha. a couple hours? try 30 hours and counting.

It’s true! I waited for about three hours before my iphone 3gs was activated. All around me people’s phones were activated instantly, and had me worried my phone was faulty. It’s all good now though, I’m enjoying my 3g speeds

Forgot to mention; I just walked into an apple store after visiting best buy and an att store and after about ten minutes in line (during which apple gave us snacks) I was in the store purchasing

After waiting about an hour for phone to activate, I called my carrier and found out that phone would not activate until agreeing to the new contract via automated system. After doing this the phone activated within 5 minutes.

Got my 3g s activated in less than 30 minutes on release date

42 hours and still not activated!

I am seeing the same message. It has been over 32 hours now. I restarted the phone several times since in some forums they seemed to suggest that might help but to no avail.
Now I guess I’ll have to wait till monday. I an in switzerland and subscribed to orange.

Your new sim card has to be activated by your carrier before your iPhone will be activated. I was advised this when I called o2 about the “waiting for activation” problem.

I got phone on Friday and still waiting, has any of you gotten activated yet, this is awful, I will never try and activate a phone on the day it comes out.
Bummed in Iowa

I got mine today.
It’s been hours and stillnot activating.
I phoned O2 and they said to out in the sim that came with the phone, but I didn’t get on. I’ve only got my old (none 3G) sim.
I’m going to the O2 shop to throw it at them tomorrow.

From an email I received from AT&T:

To activate your wireless device & service, you must follow these steps IN ORDER:

Step 1 – Charge your phone – for best results, leave your phone OFF

Step 2 – Activate New iPhone using iTunes
• Download and install iTunes
• Connect your iPhone 3G to your PC or Mac
• Follow the instructions in iTunes

Step 3– Check for unheard voicemail messages and write down any important information.
• Once activated, all messages and greetings will be lost.

Step 4 – Activate Your Service

Learn how

or call 1-866-895-1099 from another phone
• Be Ready to give the wireless number you want to activate, the account holder’s SSN and shipping zip code

Step 5 – Turn New iPhone ON & Make a Test Call
• If your test call is not successful, call 1-866-391-0749 from another phone

I hope this is helpful to some.

After receiving my iPhone on Friday I’ve been waiting for my iPhone to activate for a whole weekend!

full day and sill nothing.

Hiya, this is sooooo frustrating! I ought mine on a Sunday and it wasn’t till tuesday that I got mine working. I tried the lot: leaving it off/ on, removing sim etc etc.
What I did to get mine working was ridicuously simple: dismiss the message n go into Settings, General Settings, scroll down to the bottom and choose Reset. At the top choose the Reset All button. Says are you sure about this etc keep going and it will turn itself off then start up again n just leave it to do it. It should then search for a signal and once found a message pops up saying iPhone activated I then got texts through from my network but this may differ depending on your network.
It’s worth a try as it worked for mine, I’m writing this on my iPhone ironically lol. It is definately worth the wait as it’s an awesome gadget!!
Good luck hope it works out xxx

I bought this on Ebay this week. Had the same error "Waiting for Activation". Took it to Apple Store and they could not resolve it. They have replaced the phone immediately without asking any proof of purchase. Also they gave me a receipt for the new phone. They are helpful. Try visiting Apple store.

I bought a iPhone 3gs today on pay as you go. I set it up on itunes and then inserted my sim card and activated it. So I thought. I did this round about 13.00. It is now 20.30 – and there is still no difference. It still states waiting for activation, this make time some time. There is the option to dimiss but i'm like what?
I phoned up orange (that's the sim card i've got) and the woman said that it can take up to 24hours to recieve texts, read them, delete them, turn your phone off and then back on again and it should be ready to go? I was like ok then, she then said on her end that my account was active. I'm so not used to new gadgets like the iPhone 3gs, but I guess i'm just on of the unlucky ones.

SOLUTION FOR " WAITING FOR ACTIVATION " FACETIME

i had waited FOR THIS ISSUE – ABOUT 39 HOURS FINALLY FIXED IT
THE PROBLEM IS NOT WITH THE DEVICE
- IF YOU DONT HAVE TXT MSG SERVICE YOUR FACETIME WILL NOT WORK
CALL YOU SERVICE PROVIDER AND ADD TEXT MSG SERVICE !

ive been waiting 36 long hours for the thing to work.