Restore problem with emergency call display all time

have you tried to reinstall itunes on your pc? it will be the iphone driver that is missing from your pc if you make a bacup of your itunes files in the itunes folder and then re install the most recent itunes from apple this will re install the driver needed to find the phone through itunes.

I had the same problem - I was using the Iphone the other day, had never dropped it, unlocked it or downloaded any weird app to it, nor was it behaving weirdly at all prior to this. Right in the middle of reading a Google Reader article, normal connectivity, it starts saying "NO SERVICE" in the upper left hand corner, then "Repair Needed - Iphone cannot make or receive calls" txt message in blue with the apple support website.

Well, I tried resetting, powering on and off and then got nothing but picture of white Apple synch usb cable with arrow pointing up at Itunes symbol and "Restore Needed". Further, Itunes wouldn't synch with it because I have a passcode, yet Iphone wouldn't let me enter the passcode. Clusterf**k.

I called the other evening and spent an hour and a half on the phone, wound up with Level 2 tech who could not do anything to fix and sent me to the Iphone store, whose "GENIUSES" couldn't fix it either and gave me a new phone.

Both phone-based Apple tech and "Geniuses" at store could not tell me why or how this happened and said it was rare, but I am seeing postings about this all over the internet. When I pressed the "Genius" about it and threatened to make a scene and get the store manager, he relented and told me it was an issue of corruption of the sim card and they have no idea what causes it, but told me it wasn't something I did.

So basically if you get this error message, whether you have unlocked your phone or not, and resetting or power cycling doesn't fix, nor does synching with Itunes and restoring, you should get a new phone.

Apple should be ashamed letting such a major problem go on without clarifying on their page why this is happening or how to prevent it, especially as busy business people like myself are depending on this phone for business, and now it is unreliable - this can happen at any time, without notice, for no apparent reason.

I warned the "Genius" if this happens again I will sue Apple and AT&T to get out of the contract - nobody should have to worry about this and get stuck trading I-Turds - I only had this phone for 30 days and then it happened.