How to re-activate an iPhone that I somehow accidently un-activated?

I'm not the best at explaining things, but hopefully someone will understand my poor word choices. As I'd find it easier to start from the beginning, here it goes. My iPhone stopped working as a defect with a chip in it, causing the Wi-Fi in it to dim out, where I was unable to turn it back on. With that problem, I had to just get a completely new iPhone. So when my new iPhone 4S was delivered, I plugged it in to charge it to turn it on, but after I did that, a chat bubble thing popped up and said that it was activated and became my new phone, which I didn't want. Now I have the new iPhone that gets all my texts and stuff, which isn't good as I haven't gotten to load my backup onto the new iPhone, but my old iPhone isn't working now and I can't text or call with it, access iTunes or the App Store, things like that. I was just wondering if someone knew how I could be able to re-activate my old iPhone, somehow like I activated the new iPhone? Just in case you missed it, it's an iPhone 4S if that effects anything, 32 GB. Thanks.

Added (1). I forgot to mention, if it effects anything too, it's with Verizon.

If you used icloud, I would just activate it on the new phone and you should be able to backup from there, otherwise connect it to itunes and it will give you an option to load from backup, just make sure you don't "backup" the new phone before you load it.

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