Home > Android > Activate android mobile without activation key

Activate android mobile without activation key

April 21st, 2009
Goto comments Leave a comment

You can activate Android mobile without activation key. After that you can easily access Internet or can
insert your sim card. Just follow the steps given:

1. You need android SDK first. You can get android SDK zip easily: http://developer.android.com/sdk/1.1_r1/index.html

2. Connect your android mobile phone to PC.

3. Get a driver for android mobile from site: http://modmygphone.com/wiki/index.php/Setting_up_ADB. Install this driver.

4. Open DOS prompt, goto android mobile SDK’s tool folder.

5. Enter a command: adb -d shell

6. In the shell, become root and modify settings.db to remove the “no sim card found” screen lock:
$ su
$ sqlite3 /data/data/com.android.providers.settings/databases/settings.db
sqlite> INSERT INTO system (name, value) VALUES (‘device_provisioned’, 1);
sqlite> .quit
#

7. Reboot the phone.

8. Reconnect with the adb shell and launch the settings activity (does not require root):
$ adb shell
$ am start -a android.intent.action.MAIN -n com.android.settings/.Settings

9. Using the settings activity that you’ve launched on the phone’s screen, enable wifi.

10. Activate the phone with a gmail account. You can insert your SIM card now.

Join the forum discussion on this post - (1) Posts

Android

  1. arnouf
    May 12th, 2009 at 06:27 | #1
    Reply | Quote

    This method doesn’t work on G1 or G2 and a standard ROM because you can’t be root…so you can’t do “su” command or sqlite access to database…

  2. Turing Machine
    May 29th, 2009 at 13:16 | #2
    Reply | Quote

    Works fine, thanks! The only thing to watch out for is that you’ll need to replace the ‘curly’ single quotes in the INSERT statement with plain ASCII straight quotes if you’re copying and pasting.

  3. Viswanath
    June 8th, 2009 at 05:26 | #3
    Reply | Quote

    Thanks a lot. It worked :)

  1. No trackbacks yet.