This is going to quickly go off-topic into smartphone talk, but I did power it up; there's no sim card in there, and I can't get to a point where I can hook it up to any wifi or do anything at all really. I tried temporarily slipping in the sim from my $10 tracfone pay-as-you-go I bought from 7-11 to keep in my seatbag for emergencies, but didn't get much further.

I'm thinking my best option is to go to a T-mobile shop and get the cheapest pay-as-you-go activation possible, never make a single call, and let it expire, just so I can use the wifi. I'm hoping that would be $20 or under.

Anyways, people probably don't want to read this sidetrack here on BF, if you have advice I'd welcome it, you can PM me or email me (gmail name same as BF name)