The second iPad mini is behaving the same way. Have not tried to re-activate it yet as we are trying to remember what my wife's iCloud password is.
I suspect this is related to it having been a beta of iOS 7 (was using the devices to test apps and to familiarize myself with iOS 7 for my app dev work). On Oct 6, 2013, at 1:33 PM, objectwerks inc <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have an iPhone 4 and 2 iPad minis that were running iOS 7 beta 6. I had > not yet updated to the release because, unlike earlier beta releases, there > were no OTA updates from beta6 to GM/release iOS 7 and I have been busy and > have not had a chance to figure out what I need to do to make this work. > > Last night, the iPhone 4 (which is SIMless) said I had to activate my phone > and won't let me do it unless I insert a SIM. Well, ok, I can worry about > this later. I have a few other devices I can use to test my apps until I can > find my SIM adapters and can spend a few minutes of time worrying about this. > Whatever, though I find it strange that I have to re-activate a phone that > has been activated for weeks. > > Then, this morning I went to use one of the iPad mini devices I have that > also had beta6 iOS7 on it and it says I have to re-activate. Ok, I start and > it says I have to log in to the iCloud account used with this iPad. OK, I go > to log in and it just flashes the screen and asks me the same thing about > iCloud username and password. I go through this a few times and it says it > cannot reach the activation-servers and to try again in a few minutes. This > has been going on for about 5 hours today and I see no news reports about > activation server issues at Apple this morning. I know the password is > correct since if I mistype the password it tells me that the username or > password is incorrect. When I type the password correctly it just flashes > and leaves me at the same screen. > > Any idea of what is going on? > _______________________________________________ iPhone-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/iphone-talk
