New issues setting up iOS 7 devices in Apple Configurator?

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New issues setting up iOS 7 devices in Apple Configurator?

I have 1,200 iPad 4's that all game with iOS 6... Now configurator wants to automatically upgrade the iOS to 7 for any device I plug in...

The issues:

Will not restore a backup with a Wifi network already joined and connected.
Lock-Screen wallpaper is not scaled to proper size.
Cannot bypass setup assistant. It forces you to go through it.

Does anyone else have these issues or a remedy for these issues? Major headaches!!!

iPad, iOS 7, Using Configurator 1.3.1

Posted on Sep 19, 2013 9:00 AM

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Answer 1

nsdjoey

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Sep 19, 2013 9:18 AM in response to MrMeansMTA

Hi MrMeansMTA,

I've been hearing the same thing on other forums during the past 24 hours. Yeah, major headaches!!! I'm going to try my best to keep them at iOS 6 for as long as I can. We've got most of our iPads as "unsupervised" so we aren't forced to update them. The ones we have as "supervised" I am worried about...

~Joe

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Answer 2

Sep 19, 2013 10:27 AM in response to MrMeansMTA

We had some students who updated our shared iPad cart iPads to iOS 7. It currently isn't working well with Apple Configurator for us. I used this article and the following website to download iOS 6.1.3 to restore these iPads to a functioning state. Our MDM is currently not updated to work with iOS 7 and I am having activation problems with Apple Configurator so it looks like we will be sticking with 6.1.3 until things get updated.

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5782

http://www.ipswdownloader.com

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Answer 3

Sep 23, 2013 6:12 AM in response to MrMeansMTA

Configurator seems to force new and unsupervised iPads to download the latest update. If your iPads are already in Supervised mode, you can set them to not update.

We also went into our MDM and blocked the sites

appldnld.com

appldnld.apple.com

and mesu.apple.com

to prevent the updates from being delivered.

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