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:: My $1100 iPhone 4 Sad Story ::<<Solved!>>

So I am taking the liberty of troubling you guys with this problem of mine.

I bought this iPhone 4 on Aug 8'th from S'pore.Its a Singtel handset and is Unlocked(Ps: Locking a handset is illegal in S'pore).I am in India and on Airtel.

I first cut my Sim to Micro Sim size perfectly(Using sim cutter),then I connected it to iTunes(Latest Version), then the activation process went on but displayed an error which i dismissed in the spur of the moment but the whole process went on i got a "Waiting for activation" message, though iTunes carried on with syncing data and finished fine.And of course "No Service" at the top.

2 Hours into the process I was still waiting at the "Waiting for activation" pop up.I started getting restless so I began using my "precious".Beautiful device I must say(Wont say phone as I still cant make calls with it:), Funnily, WIFI was working perfectly(all other features were working fine actually except the network ones) Then I ended up opening Jailbreakme.com and successfully jailbroke the handset and followed it by unlocking it with Ultrasn0w 1.1-1.

All this before I completed activation.Then after about 5 hours(Post syncing with iTunes for the first time) I got the "Your iPhone is activated" message.But guess what?, still "No Service" at the top left of the screen(And I cannot make calls,texts,data etc so its not the makeitmine issue").

I tried switching off the handset,"Reset all settings","Reset Network Settings","Airplane mode On/Off" restoring handset to 4.0.1(holding shift and selecting downloaded 4.0.1 firmware as apple was providing restore only to 4.0.2).

Jailbroke and Unlocked again,Between all of this I also managed to save my blobs in Cydia(Just so that I can restore back to 4.0.1 from 4.0.2 if I upgraded).But No..My phone simply shows "No Service". :confused:

It reads my number fine(Airtel India), It shows my carrier name and one signal bar every time it activates(For about 2-3 seconds) and goes into Searching..and then "No Service".:confused:

It has been 3 frustrating days now, and as a final try, I upgraded my phone to 4.0.2(Something is better than Nothing) but same issue."No Service":confused:

Now comes the most cliched line of every apple user "Can somebody please help Me ?":)