A mysterious diagnostic screen has apparently been discovered on the iPhone 3G as reported by a poster on the Hakint0sh forums. While it it still unknown what exactly is going on here, after taking it to an Apple store, the device was successfully activated.
The forum poster notes that:
“The guy at the counter couldn’t figure out how to do anything with it but he did try and activate it and apparently it worked. He told me that it did activate, and we have that sim card back in my wife’s phone. Well needless to say we didn’t take it. We spent an hour and a half in the store trying to figure it out and he was on the phone with Apple. Finally we decided that we didn’t want it, there were some other things that were wrong with it too.”
The images below reveal what the screen is showing.
This screen is displaying “iPhone OS” with a version number. It is also showing “Drag to Unlock” and “Shut Down.”
Here we see a lonely Gear icon.
This last screen is showing three buttons, “Start Burning,” “Restart Test Environment,” and “Quit.”
