iOS 7 Activation Error FIX. STEP BY STEP GUIDE

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Disclaimer:
If you are receiving any errors when trying to restore your iDevice (Ex: This device is not eligible for this requested build) then you must follow the guide at the end of this tutorial. This guide is currently for Mac users only.​

PLEASE FOLLOW CAREFULLY


Step 1: Download the IPSW for your SPECIFIC device here: http://www.ipswdownloader.com/

Step 2: Back-up your iDevice

Step 3: Put your iDevice in recovery mode.
(Plug into computer)
1- Have your phone unlocked and the Activation screen opened.
2- Hold down the power button and the home button TOGETHER for 10 seconds
3- Let go of the power button, but keep the home button pressed down.
4- You should be alerted via iTunes that you're in Recovery mode

Step 4: Option Click(Mac) or Shift click(PC) on "Restore iPhone"

Step 5: Select your downloaded IPSW


HOW TO BYPASS ERROR(s)(MAC):
So the case for me is that I kept getting the error, "This requested build is not eligible for your device." This is how you fix this error:

Step 1: Open a finder window, or click on your desktop so your task bar shows up.

Step 2: In your task bar, go to the "Go" section and then select, "Go To Folder".

Step 3: Delete everything in that window and type in: /private

Step 4: Find the folder "ETC"

Step 5: Go into ETC and find a file named "Hosts"

Step 6: Drag this file onto your desktop, open it, and delete any lines containing "gs.apple.com"

Final Step: Replace this file with the original one, then proceed back to iTunes and Option-click Restore iPhone. (Backup first if wanted.)

It should work now.

Hope this helps

 

[blimp]

Great guide! iOS 7 is worth all of the work, in my opinion. It's a really nice update.

 

[frost]

This shit happened to my iPad last night. all I had to do was update iTunes and then put my iPad in DFU and restored and updated to iOS 7.0.2 or whatever

 

[SNIPER]

Great guide! iOS 7 is worth all of the work, in my opinion. It's a really nice update.

Thanks! I posted this because many iOS 7 beta users (like me) got kicked off and were forced to activate their account via developer program. This is how to get rid of that.

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This shit happened to my iPad last night. all I had to do was update iTunes and then put my iPad in DFU and restored and updated to iOS 7.0.2 or whatever

Some people got it lucky. :/
For me, I had a crap load of errors.

 

[blimp]

Yeah, I had a weird time when I tried to update from the beta (without a dev account). I don't remember exactly how I got it to work, though. I think I did what Frost did and just updated iTunes (after like an hour of messing around with the old version :|)

 

[Gor]

This happened to me last night what I did was download ios7 and kept restoring it on my sisters laptop not my comp and after 2 hours it worked