Howdy folks....I found a good deal on a 3GS refurb and my goal was to get it to work on my T-mobile sim card. I've gotten stuck at just activating the phone "no sim card installed". I've googled this quite a bit but keep running into dead ends such as the "redsnow" or such, download recommended is not there anymore etc. My brain's about ready to give it up but I would like to get it done.

I'm pretty much a nube at this and would appreciate any guidance on just getting the phone activated and then seeing if I can jailbreak, unlock anf get it on T-Mobile.

I don't wish to do anything that would preclude me from being able to return the phone unless it was pretty certain I could get done what I want to get done.

Thanks.

Without a supported sim card the only solution is to hactivate with a program like redsnow. Download redsn0w 0.9.9b8 from the devteam blog and jailbreak with it,then unlock with ultrasn0w from cydia

Thanks....I'll see what I can do.

Alrighty.....I got the hactivate done easily but no success so far with "unlock with ultrasn0w from cydia". When I click on ultrasnow in cydia I continually get "unable to load" [certificate for server invalid] I'm also now getting the same message for cydia.

Let me know if there's a way around this.

Thanks again for your help.