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Hey all! Hoping someone can drop some insight for me.
Had an issue with an iPad 7th gen being braindead. When I removed its CPU, seems I didn't quite get it hot enough and caused an internal short. So I pulled another CPU from an iP7, reballed it, tossed it on, restored the ipad, Changed the SN through Purple back to the Original SN (no reason to have a different SN), restored again through DFU and am where I am now.
Boots fine, is locked to the owners iCloud, but when connecting to wifi I am getting Unable to activate
This ipad connot be activated without an internect connection...
Do I need to generate or change the BT and WIFI mac addresses as well? If so, it seems I do not have the originals to just program on through purple again. Is there something somewhere that can generate them based on the systems SN?
Hope someone knows this and can help!
Thanks - and Pics for fun.
Damaged :(
Ist dies eine gute Frage?
You did move the EEPROM and Baseband as well as CPU didn't you?
von Chris Stables
Hey @chris, so took ages to get back to you. I pulled over the eeprom - this is a wifi only version of the ipad 7 so no baseband to pull over. When i did move the eeprom over, something went wrong... and it turned into a no boot, no dfu system. Had to wait to get some donor ip7 boards with good a10s on them. Just pulled another CPU and the eeprom over, purpled it, re-wrote the sn, bt, wifi, and emac - restored again - and still no activation. Gets stuck at the same step :( This is going to be a super dumb question - but to confirm, on the ip7 the EEPROM for the CPU is U1101?
von La Clinica de la Manzana
Have you tried plugging it in to a computer like it is asking?
von Valmartman
Wow, yeah? I did man. I kind of went through and explained what I did in my post and question - in detail, including things like "restored the ipad, Changed the SN through Purple back to the Original SN (no reason to have a different SN), restored again through DFU and am where I am now." all of which are plugging it into a computer.
von La Clinica de la Manzana