I bought a new IPad 4 and now unable to activate it. Its a 16GB, Wifi only. Its says "Please retry activation", I retried it 100th time but no use. I tried to connect it to Itunes. Itunes recognizes IPad as it shows IPAD on screen when I connect it. But after few seconds it says that Device not recognizable. Please help
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Can you provide information as to what happens when you first turn on the iPad? What messages are displayed?
first it asks for language, then it asks for region, then it asks to join a network and I did. then it says "Activating your Ipad"....Then I get this message that "please retry activation"...Button "Try Again". I try again and same loop.
thanks for your help.
Ok, thanks for the info - you've mentioned that the iPad is showing up in iTunes which may well be a good thing, as a starting point for you I'd suggest connecting iPad to your PC/Mac and running iTunes, select your iPad - link will be in the top-right corner if using latest version of iTunes or in the list on the left if you have Show Sidebar selected from the View Menu.
From there select the Summary tab if not already listed and click on the 'Restore' button and iTunes will download the software and may prompt you to Backup - under the circumstances I'd assume there is nothing there to backup so you can ignore that - if prompted to Restore once software is downloaded select this and try going through setup again.
Good luck and let us know how you get on.
Steve
July 25th 2013 starting at least 8 am EST the activation servers have been down. I went to apple store after trying to activate every which way. It's now 11am and servers are still down. I'm hoping this will save someone else from going to the store.
What Matts1 said. Just reloaded a company ipad to have activation failed. :\
(As of July 25 2013 0815pst)
Apple announced today that the activation servers are down. No word on how long.
The message mentioned trying to activate by connecting to your computer and then activating through iTunes.
IPad 4, Activation Failed.
