iPad could not be activated

Dude your freaking awsome man, I bypassed the non activation error but I'm not sure if the 3g connection works on my ipad because I never used it and after it get any more errors I really would like to sell it. Does your 3g connection work on yours, what seemed to be the problem? Anyways thanks, I'm up and running again. 😎

You arean absolute superstar. Tried your fix and it worked!!!!!! 🙂

I have a very happy son again.

Many many thanks

I'm having the exact same issue with activation. The next next next solution doesn't seem to work for me though. After start up, I slide the slider to the right, and imeediatly begin hitting next. First the langauge screen. Then at the country screen I must choose a country first in order to for the next button to be available. Then at the Wifi screen I hit next immediatly. (my ipad was already conencted to my wifi). Alas, I continure to recieve the smae error message. " activation server unavailable....etc"

Any other ideas?

Thank you

I've been having the exact same problem with my 1st generation iPad. It was working fine until last week and then it started to turn off occassionally and asking for activation. On top of that, after trying to activate for 1-2 minutes, it turns off again.

Any ideas?

I removed my sim card from the iPad, tried again and it worked!

Thank God! haha

I'm having the same problem with my iPad1 with 3G. I removed the SIM, installed it, different WiFi networks, and it still won't activate!!!

thanks a lot, it works for me as well for iOS 7 activation, awesome

I had been pondering for hours today and I finally got the solution. D F U mode.
The steps:

1. Turn off the idevice.

2. Connect to the PC with the USB cable.

3. Press the power On button and the Home button TOGATHER for some time. It would turn on the DFU mode.

4. Press restore Idevice.

"TADAA ! "

Incase that doesnt help, u need to download a firmware, it might be ios 6 or 7, and pres SHIFT + Restore and select the file.

i am facing the same problem here. i tried the next next next and doesnt work. i tried the DFU and doenst work either. i contacted apple support and they couldnt find a solution for the problem. they said they can replace my device with 249$ .... i am so disappointed. my device is almost new and never had any problem. my only mistake is that i tried to update it to IOS 7 ...

IOS 7 is a real pain

did any body find any other solution for this issue ?

So I tired the next,next,next fix and no luck. The next button just wasn't avialable unless I was connected to the wi-fi. THEN I turn it off, removed the sim card and tired the same thing again but this time the next button was there I clicked it and pow! IT WORK. I was in the apple store of hours, on the phone with apple support for many hours and they could not fix it. But we got it!! Thanks every body.

I was working on mine for 2 days straight with no luck. Tried everything, reset it, iTunes, different wifi, dfu mode the quick hitting next option but nothing worked. After reading and reading I finally tried taking out the SIM card and it worked immediately!! I made sure the ipad was off when I took it out I don't know if it matters but I am so happy something finally worked!

Removing the sim card restarting shutting down reinserting the sim card and restarting worked for me - many thanks saved me a 3 hour trip to the Apple Store

No next for me...

Hi ReVeras,

This method worked for me eventually: http://www.macworld.com/article/1165828/cure_for_an_incomplete_ios_update.html

It worked maybe on the 2nd or 3rd attempt, where I could actually see the removal of software and reinstallation of software and firmware occurring which I think is what the Apple Store team would do. When the recovery finished, I was able to activate as a new iPad. I hope it helps you.

Thanks