How to Fix iMessage

[jonnykg]

Hi Guys i cannot for the life of me get imessage to work! ive tried all the guides and fixes i even tried a few different apple id's all i get is i have to contact customer support.... i know for a fact that ive followed every single tutorial perfectly! any help would be appreciated

 

[jonnykg]

Hi Guys i cannot for the life of me get imessage to work! ive tried all the guides and fixes i even tried a few different apple id's all i get is i have to contact customer support.... i know for a fact that ive followed every single tutorial perfectly! any help would be appreciated

ive now gone from getting a contact apple support with code to activation error? any help guys?

 

[zee2]

Just wanted to add my thanks. This guide made it work. I used a shortcut guide based on yours prior and the MLB/ROM were not touched on. They were automatically generated by the board and were consistent upon reboots but I would get the red names saying they're not registered with iMessage or something to that nature.

I did the reset procedure, turned off network adapter as instructed. Network adapter is en0 always on reboots.

I then used Clover generator to get a 12,2 iMac, pressed generate under serial number several times, tried it, got the right error message. I then followed Manual Injection under 7.1 (ROM = last 6 bytes of SmUUID & MLB = S/N with random chars). I rebooted twice, shut down once to check for persistence, and once it all checked out I turned on the network, logged into iCloud first, then opened Messages which was already configured. It worked like a charm.

So thanks a bunch for putting this together!

This system is only missing the GTX 670 card (otherwise same as specs under my name), only running the HD 4000 (ivy processor GPU), and I have Mojave installed.

 

[zee2]

ive now gone from getting a contact apple support with code to activation error? any help guys?

You gotta be patient. Do your best to follow the guide all while keeping network offline. Only when you're confident you should have the right thing enable the network and try to login once. If it fails, reset everything and try again until you get it. It helps to keep a log of each step you took so you can double-check your steps against the tutorial.

Since you've probably tried to log in so many times I wouldn't be surprised if you triggered some kind of auto-lock on your apple id or IP. Here's a little trick for those of us with dynamic IPs and routers connected to ISP modems: change the WAN interface Mac Address, restart your modem and you'll get a different IP. Every time you make that change.

 

[tluck]

very odd. after 2 years of iMessage working, it just stopped???
EDIT: config.plist/DSDT error - my ethernet on en0 was not showing up as built-in. fixed that and all was fine

 

[uniqe15]

Anyone with a progress on newer Apple ID's with returning a message to contact customer support.

No matter how many times i try, it has always been the same for my Apple IDs.
I test my father, mother, sisters Apple IDs and their Apple IDs are all working with every setup that i test.
Luckily their Apple IDs are older and are working.

For me im using MLB & Rom from real macbooks that are never used anymore, at least it's some sort of a fix for me.
I just generated my own Serial, UUID and use the MLB and Rom that i took, it works perfect.

I have a macbook pro and a hackintosh (which acts as an imac), please tell me if I'm correct, you are using a non valid serial number and a random uuid number, and ROM & MLB from a different mac?

 

[Sniki]

I have a macbook pro and a hackintosh (which acts as an imac), please tell me if I'm correct, you are using a non valid serial number and a random uuid number, and ROM & MLB from a different mac?

yes, it works, doesn't even matter the SMBIOS that you pick, simply generate all id's as you would by following iMessage guides, but before rebooting, instead delete the generated rom & mlb and put the ones you got from your macbook pro.

Reboot, enjoy iMessage.

Luckily for me, the two apple devices i got the id's from, one is broken and will never work anymore (dmged motherboard) and the other is outdated and never used anymore (2009 macbook pro).

 

[wenw]

Upgraded Stork's GA-68X-UD3H-B3 I7 build to Sierra. Using iMessage debug, all variables (SmUIID, OS X s/n, MLB, and ROM) are exactly same on three SSD's, but the 3rd line under board s/n is different on each one. The clover config.plist is identical on each SSD. One of the SSD's is Mavericks, and two of them are Sierra.

What else could possibly be changing, or what makes up this third line of the iMessage Debug 2? Not sure what is happening.

 

[uniqe15]

yes, it works, doesn't even matter the SMBIOS that you pick, simply generate all id's as you would by following iMessage guides, but before rebooting, instead delete the generated rom & mlb and put the ones you got from your macbook pro.

Reboot, enjoy iMessage.

Luckily for me, the two apple devices i got the id's from, one is broken and will never work anymore (dmged motherboard) and the other is outdated and never used anymore (2009 macbook pro).

Wow, it worked! thanks Apple support wouldn't want to fix my issue

 

[wenw]

Upgraded Stork's GA-68X-UD3H-B3 I7 build to Sierra. Using iMessage debug, all variables (SmUIID, OS X s/n, MLB, and ROM) are exactly same on three SSD's, but the 3rd line under board s/n is different on each one. The clover config.plist is identical on each SSD. One of the SSD's is Mavericks, and two of them are Sierra.

What else could possibly be changing, or what makes up this third line of the iMessage Debug 2? Not sure what is happening.

Would appreciate any help on this matter. I copied the contents of my boot drive to another ssd drive and then copied the clover plist and got a new value for the third line under board s/n using iMessage2. Should I post this in a different thread? It seems like you could duplicate your installation and get identical outputs from iMessage Debug2.