A different SIM to unlock my Iphone 4 didn't work. How can I bypass activation?

My sister brought home an Iphone 4 from work a couple years ago after no one claimed it. I never touched it until now just looking through it because my phone got stolen so I wanted to play games and stuff until I get a new one. ANYWAYS, haha, I couldn't play any games or use most apps so I removed the SIM card. After removing the SIM card, I had to update from IOS 4.0.1 or whatever to IOS 7.0.4 because I had to update in order to download games from the app store, so ofcourse I downloaded the newest version. Well it factory set my phone and I didn't realize when that happens, you can't use it without a SIM. I took someone else's SIM and it didn't work. It then hit me that when I was going through the phone when I first got it, the phone was from Quebec. (I know it is; text messages, phone settings, her account).So returning to my question, is there ANY way I can bypass activation? The little hactivation where you dial 112 didn't work because it sent me to a 911 operator.Reply any ideas please as soon as possible:/

Sims don't have anything to do with unlocking. You can't use your stolen phone because the IMEA, which can't be changed, tells Apple and the phone company who it belongs to. Lots of scam companies will take your money to unlock it, but none of them will do the job.
Locking status is something that's stored on Apple's servers, not in the phone.

What carrier?

FI, Verizon won't work in swapping SIMS and won't work on a non-Verizon phone. Depends on who the crafted the phone for some of them. Pinpoint that and narrow your search field a little.

Hello before you have update it to ios 7 you have must read something on google. But you are lucky watch this video tutorial and your screen will be activated but you just can use it like ipod for games etc sim card not working:;)