Thanks Jaymonkey for the reply. Ive tried all those things and still can't log in. Hopefully we won't have this issue when 10.10 comes out.
Albert
Tried the above with no luck. Everything worked until I got to iMessage, which logged in then the contacts turned red again after I tried to send a message. It told me to sign in again, then gave me another code. I could go back to my old AppleID and try to contact Apple again with the new S/N and try again with the new code? (Remember, last time they didn't even take my code, don't know why.)
@Albertsw & @Garetty
I'm really surprised that changing your AppleID and Hacks identity has not worked for you, at this point if you have both tried all of the fixes in the guide plus the suggestions in my last post I'm at a loss to explain what could be going on. As a test this morning I created a new AppleID and a new S/N and SystemId UUID for one of my hacks and it worked fine .... ?
I would suggest you both do some trawling through your system logs using the console application, look for authentication and/or packet rejection. Its quite possible that Apple have changed something at their end with the beta releases of OSX 10.10 and IOS 8 although i would expect that these would be confined to development/beta servers at the moment.
Have you tried a clean install ?
Are you using Chimera 3.0.1 + FileNVRAM V1.1.3 ?
As for it magical fixing itself when OSX Yosemite rolls out later this year, I don't think so .... it would not surprise me if it stops iMessage functionality completely and we all go back to square one ... lets hope thats not the case, I'm really looking forward to the new iMessage features especially being able to send SMS & MMS to any phone and being able to make and take calls on the via OSX.
For me I keep getting the message: "An error occurred during activation. Try again." whenever I try to login to iMessage. I have tried all of the fixes and know that iMessage is communicating with apple because when I type in a wrong password it tells me so.
Any ideas on what else I can do? I started having the issue in Mavericks.
@cmgerard
I think your issue is different to what the two guys above are seeing, I would carefully work through part 1 of the guide, try updating to Chimera 3.0.1 and FileNVRAM 1.1.3 if your not already running them. Check your AppleID is verified, try changing your AppleID password.
Can you use any of the other iCloud services such as AppStore, iTunes .... Notes .. etc, if not i suspect that the problem lies with your configuration (see below).
@All
Those of you who have not had any success with iMessage could try the following :-
Install DPCIManager 1.5, you can download it from here:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/dpcimanager/files/
Once installed run it and make sure your on the 'Status' tab, the top part of the Status screen will identify all your network interfaces and display their BCD names, as explained in Step 2 of Part 1 of the guide the BCD names should start at 'en0', more important though is the 'Builtin' check box next to each interface, it must be checked for iMessage to work on each network interface.
If it is not checked then click on the 'eye' icon for the appropriate interface (at the right hand side of each entry), you will be given an EFI string that you can add to your boot.chameleon.org.plist in /Extra, this string is required for correct iMessage operation, for most users the Boot-Loader will identify the correct EFI string and automatically inject it as long as you have the following key and string in your plist:-
Code:
<key>EthernetBuiltIn</key>
<string>Yes</string>
However in some instances it does not work in which case you should manually inject the NIC(s) EFI string(s) identified by DPCIManager (if your using Clover boot-loader please see the clover documentation on how to inject EFI strings)
I've added this tip to Step 3 of Part 1 of guide and I would be interested if this works for any of you, if it does not work straight away, you may have to try one or two of the other steps in the guide such as deleting all previous iMessage setup data (see Part-1, Step-3), reset AppleID password, delete nvram.uuid.plist in /extra ... etc.
I hope that this helps you guys.
Good Luck
Cheers
Jay