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I think a lot of you are failing to read the part where if you clone Ids, it needs to be from an INACTIVE system. so many users posting "i cloned my ID and used it on two machines and now message delivery fails". Please read through original post and other posts in this thread to figure out why this is happening to you. even if you sign out of that system, before doing it. You probably have to wait a while for it's token to expire before booting up clone with it, or as far as apple system will be concerned, it still has two registered machines using those values and it'll trigger the block. This is why old unused systems are the ideal ones. It's just a shame my old macbook pro is a 1,1 model from 2006. DOH!
I have yet to call apple back with my generated values to see if they'll pass the bill or not. I probably will at some point because i think they will work, at least until they tighten it up and find rom was generated from non apple interface. I thought about fixing that too but the thing is, they already whitelisted my rom in past so i figure i'm getting off calling back with same rom that is already whitelisted and just act dumb on why the whitelist stopped working (i know why it did, 17 char serial with a 3,1 instead of 13, which i have fixed now).
This is not strictly true. I cloned my macbook air ID's including serial no and model id and used it with imessages flawlessly throughout October, December, December and Jan.... I used both machines alot and at times had them both on to the same network logged in... The one thing I avoided was logging in and out of imessages. I guess I just got lucky!?
I have recently changed my hac i.d. now as I was worried about losing imessage functionality and getting blacklisted numbers. I've cloned an old work (my business) imac which is still on Lion and won't ever be upgraded to use imessage (back office invoice workhorse). That needed one phone call to apple to reg the machine to my apple id and it worked straight away... the apple lady even explained they'd tightened up user security and they now had to link machine id's to apple users id's the first time Imessage is used on an older machine.
I've been cloning the MLB, ROM Serial numbers model ID and uuid code....infact all the info i could easily find and change. Seemed safer to make everything as identical as i could to avoid future issues.
I'd much prefer not to clone id..... but until there's no easily generated codes solution it seems the easiest way to maintain full functionality .. i've only used i.d from machines i own...so any fallout would be on my own head and affect my user ID.