Today my iPad and iPhone 5 say activation required?
Just now, my iPad locked and had a message saying Activation required, so I went along with it and unlocked my ipad and it said to choose a Wi-Fi network (which was already chosen), so I clicked next and then it said Activation Error. Your device is not registered as part of the iPad Apple Developer Program, etc. Then a few seconds later, my iPhone locks as well and again, the same thing happens. They are both running iOS 7.By the way I don't know if this matters or not, but I downloaded iOS 7 from the internet a month before it was released to the public and it worked just fine. But I researched it and apparently this is happening to some other people who got iOS 7 the day it came out. So what do I do?
Also, when I hooked my iPad up to the computer and tried to back it up and sync it, it said it didn't work (this never happened before, it even worked after I downloaded iOS 7, it just isn't working today).
I just had the exact same thing happen to me around the same time frame. It happened on my wife's iPad 2 and my iPhone 4S. Both are running iOS 7 and are both registered to my Apple iOS Developer account.
Just looked around because i had the same issue and found this solution from this website. Hope it helps you too! Http://geekindisguise.wordpress.com/2009/07/16/how-to-put-ipod-touch-iphone-into-dfu-mode/
i followed this and it put my iphone into recovery mode and reset it for me.
Same thing happened to me I just put in DFU mode restored my iphone 5 and then in itunes downloaded 7.0.2 and updated my iphone. It works now
Same problem happened to me around 9 pm yesterday. It won't let me restore from back up or restore it back to factory settings. I'm stumped and don't know what to do…
It's pretty simple actually, but kind of a long process. Put your ipad and phone into recovery mode (which you already did), then what I also found out was that many of people's problems with it not working was because their iTunes wasn't updated. I just updated mine and everything worked fine. So basically when it's done updating, it'll recognize your device in recovery mode and and ask you if you want to restore it (basically the only option you have). Before, if your iTunes wasn't updated, the restore process wouldn't work and it would give you an error, but if you have the latest version, it should give you a restore option to RESTORE AND UPDATE and it will give you the option of restoring the device and updating to iOS 7.0.2 since anything which was received from the internet is usually just iOS 7, you'll update and restore and everything will be fine (and yes you can restore from a backup).
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