How to Fix iMessage

Alright! So this is weird. I followed the iMessage Guide to the end and called Apple Support. She said she validated my "Customer Code" which activates iMessage on my account. She also said that there was a ban on my account that she lifted for me. 48 hours later, iMessage still says "You can't sign into iMessage on this Mac at this Time" and gives me the SAME code (It isn't changing at least). Now I don't know what to do.

Few extra details,
My family owns a real iMac and it is registered on our Apple ID (NOT my Apple ID that I am signing in with). When I sign into that account on my hackintosh, it works without any problem. Does this mean anything?

She did briefly mention there are a few banned devices on my account (Probably the Hackintosh). Since I have already validated the code, could I change the SN, UUID, BSN, etc. so it would appear as a different, unbanned, Mac?

The message I receive from iMessage is attached

Thanks in Advance,
Tyler

TheTrollCaptain said:

My family owns a real iMac and it is registered on our Apple ID (NOT my Apple ID that I am signing in with). When I sign into that account on my hackintosh, it works without any problem. Does this mean anything?

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This is essentially my situation. It suggests that Apple has more than one "level" of authentication for Apple IDs and that they can flag IDs and subject them to this stricter authentication process. It would at least explain why some IDs work and other do not.

Like you I also had my code validated and block removed and like you, it didn't change anything for the Apple ID or hack in question. The Apple ID I am trying to use no longer works on multiple hacks in my home - all of which work fine for other Apple IDs.

Habsfan67 said:

This is essentially my situation. It suggests that Apple has more than one "level" of authentication for Apple IDs and that they can flag IDs and subject them to this stricter authentication process. It would at least explain why some IDs work and other do not.

Like you I also had my code validated and block removed and like you, it didn't change anything for the Apple ID or hack in question. The Apple ID I am trying to use no longer works on multiple hacks in my home - all of which work fine for other Apple IDs.

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Confirmed. 100% an Apple ID situation. Just cloned every Identifier possible from my real iMac, turned off the real iMac, booted the Hackintosh and I STILL GET THE DAMN CODES. Only works when I sign back in on the real iMac.

I have driven to this conclusion, since we bought the Mac awhile ago and our Apple ID is old, we do not have the same security checks that newer models/accounts have. OR since we have a real Mac attached to our account, it doesn't need to jump through the security hoops anymore.

Sir,
I fixed up imessage, facetime,Siri working tommorow using the guide and it worked for tommorow ,but today it threw a error that

"To use imessage with this mac ,contact Apple Support and provide the below code."

The code is not changing after restart remain persistent as other rt variables remains constant.
Siri is working fine .
I haven't used my Apple Id before on any mac to do anything.
Many users have reported with no working at all,but for me it worked for tommorow ,i have no contacts but chat screen is in front of me.

gino86 said:

Hi,
I've installed macOS Sierra successfully and everything works. The last thing to do was to fix iMessage and FaceTime, so I followed the guide of the site, but it doesn't work and I've received every time I tried the same error that says to contact Apple with a code. How can I fix it?

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Same problem...
I called apple two hours ago. They connected my hack and try a lot of things to get iMessage work. But it didn't work.
They spoke about some kind of block. And 1 business day. I am waiting for now. I will write about any development about this situation.

jnozzi said:

All:

I'm still having trouble with Messages logging in successfully and receiving messages successfully but randomly not sending. Again: I can log in and receive messages just fine, but randomly, I can't send.

I watched the console log closely and signed out / back in and made an interesting discovery:

IMDMessageServicesAgent: IORegistry entry 'IODeviceTree:/efi/platform' does not contain the key 'apple-coprocessor-version'​

See attached image for messages debug output (masked for privacy), which seems healthy and normal. Given that IMDMessageServicesAgent is Messages and that it's looking for some platform identification in the IORegistry, I'm pretty sure this is what's been plaguing me. A search on both this site and by Google doesn't reveal anything that looks helpful to me.

Any ideas?

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any luck with this?

I seem to have the same issue, iCloud is working, facetime is working, imessages logs in and receives messages but all contacts are red (instead of blue) and messages won't go through. Funny enough, group conversations seem to receive messages..

I have logged out of all iMessage devices, waited and logged in on my iOS devices first but to no avail.

edit: I did not have Trust set, i've set it, rebooted and I can't still send messages.

None so far.

Any thoughts? I tried following the idiots guide a couple times but still ran into this. Failed on the last 5 sections.

krytikul said:

Any thoughts? I tried following the idiots guide a couple times but still ran into this. Failed on the last 5 sections.

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The Rules said:

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Probably the lack of native NVRAM support - Try emulating it :

If I may, also open your config.plist using Clover Configurator, tick this box and save to your config.plist.