1 iPhone 6 no service/ searching with or without SIM
So I'm very new in microsoldering and learning stuff just from YouTube/ ifixit forum.
I bought an iPhone 6 (64gb) which didn't charge. Replaced TriStar , turned on, it was charging, everything works.
As this was used iPhone I did factory reset. Since then I can't activate the iPhone , it says servers are down.
It is not showing NO SIM when there is no SIM card, and just keeps searching/ no service. I tried to restore it via iTunes , but after the update I get a message on iTunes that it failed to restore because iTunes was unable to read activation data, and I have to ensure SIM card is correctly in the phone.
I did replace every antenna in the phone, tried different dock with no luck.
I'm stuck here.
ANY help will be more than appreciated. Thank you
Edit:
After couple of hard resets and slight smack against the desk it ask for a SIM card during the activation process, I entered the pin code but it keep saying Unlocking please wait . But it never did.
Tried to change for SIM without lock but it keeps asking me for pin code. Like it read the SIM card for a second and then got stuck on it.
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is the phone unlocked to all networks or on a certain network as the code it is maybe asking for is the unlocking code for the phone to accept any sim
door daniel
No this is unlocked for all networks.As I said to me it looks like it recognise the SIM for a nano second at the very beginning of the boot and then it lost connection to it or something. I can't unlock the SIM / can't get service, iTunes does say there is no SIM, I just don't get it .
door bazos bazos
I can't dial as I can't activate the phone .
door bazos bazos
I have this issue too, here is how did i fix it and what happened after: mine is iphone 7, it all happened one day there is an error message pop up : "Cellular Update Failed - Your iPhone cannot make and receive calls or access cellular data until it has been updated "; i thought iOS update will fix it which it did ( like the original post saying, you need to be extremely careful when factory reset it, as you might facing phone can't be activated, i guess i was lucky, I only tried like 5 times ... somehow it gets activated ) ... same message pop up again after couple days ... so, according to above , i think i can make a logical assumption: it's the hardware issue, the chips in charge of controlling cellular signal/data is having problems ( somehow it lost its firmware at certain condition , i guess might be high temperature or sudden heavy vibration ) ...anyway, that chip is basically broken ...
When iOS has new update, it is your chance to bring the phone back to work... but only for couple days.
door PJ Peng
It’s not a broken chip it could be baseband ic needs reballed or the baseband power ic is going bad
door daniel