Hi, In this situation, the unlock won't have been because of the jailbreak as a software unlock for the 5 hasn't been released yet. The answer to your question depends on the version of iOs that the phones are running. If they are running anything other than 6.1.3, you may be able to use redsn0w to hactivate the phones and essentially turn them into iPod touches until you restore them through iTunes, at which point they would ask for a sim again. Unfortunately I haven't attempted hactivation for about 8 months so I can't be sure that it will work on the iPhone 5. If the phones are running 6.1.3 then I'm afraid you're out of luck. In the UK we have what are known as pay as you go (Or paig) sims that are extremely cheap to obtain and this would probably be the root that I would take if I just wanted to use the phones as touches - E.G. buy 2 sims and install them in the phones but never use them. Having said this, if the eventual goal is to have an iPod touch, from a profitability point of view, it would probably make sense to simply sell the 2 phones and buy a single touch.
Cheers, Ben. On 4/9/13, Keith Bundy <kb5...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, list. I have someone who just received to iPhone fives that have been > "unlock" I assume that this means they have been jailbroken. > > When he tries to set up the phone, you get a message that says that it will > not work without a Sim card. Is there a way to run such a phone without a > Sim card? > > Thanks for your thoughts. > > Keith > > Sent from my iPhone > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
