Like you, we have had numerous SIMless iPhones (4S's and 5's) and iPads that we 
used for development purposes and had them loaded with the various iOS 7 betas. 
But unlike you, there was no issue with upgrading them to the iOS 7 GM. I 
suspect the activation messages are due to your still having iOS 7 beta on the 
devices. I remember having this issue with running iOS 6 beta on the devices 
after the iOS 6 GM was released. After upgrading to the GM there were no such 
issues.

HTH,
Carl


On Oct 6, 2013, at 3:45 PM, objectwerks inc <[email protected]> wrote:

> 
> 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?
>> 
> 
> 
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