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- Dec 31, 2010
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- GA-Z97X-UD3H
- CPU
- i5-4690K
- Graphics
- GTX 950
I am locked out as well. It would seem there is something wrong with the server? It sucks because I never even got to use it.
Thats definitely a new one on me. I have been following Jay's work religiously enough to know that Unique MLB+UniqueROM+Unique SmUUID+UniqueSerial=working iMessage (or code to unlock iMessage Apple ID). The kicker being that upon reboot all of those things mentioned above must stay them same otherwise an error message will absolutely occur.
That being said, I've never heard of an Apple ID being locked again, with valid MLB,ROM, SmUUID and Serial No.
Is it possible that someone else used the same serial? Yes of course. And that may be the issue. Can't imagine someone getting the same SmUUID.
Now with the now invalid serial, I do not believe you can utilize your current MLB, ROM and SmUUID with another generated serial. I have tried that in the past to get the dreaded, "Unable to activate iMessage at this time, please try again." message. It required me to redo everything. Once I got a new unlock code, and reviewed that my variables were constant. I recontacted Apple and was registered.
Been all set for about 7 days now. I have signed out of iMessage and back in a few times to satisfy my own curiously about maintaining my registration.
Regards,
So I've tried using iMac 14,2 definition for my X79 build, but still no luckSo for the moment, no real solution for MacPro 6,1, such a shame
Except the fact that my build was stable for now almost 1 year with MacPro6,1 I don't know for iMac14,2.
I have to try and I'll let you know.
But I've build this computer for being as close as possible to a MacPro, so deep inside me, I would prefer to use MacPro definition ;-)
@All,
To those of you that are experiencing login/authentication issues even after applying all the fixes, you have persistent MLB, ROM and valid OSX S/N and SmUUID.
I've been looking in to this by following the route one use used to get to the contact customer code ...
In this particular case, the user had multiple attempts at fixing each issue, i think it possible that one or more of the ID's have been black-listed whist the other are ok
Example ..
After going through the guide It possible that some users had valid MLB & ROM values .... but the OSX S/N is not valid (either black-listed or incorrect for system type) ... Subsequently the user discovers issue with OSX S/N and generate new ... this time they get Contact Apple Message.
After Activation iMessage works until new logout/login ...
On next login the ROM and/or MLB value have been to found to match more than one S/N ... so MLB & ROM are flagged or black-listed.
It's only a theory but i think it's quite possible....
To resolve you could generate a completely new identity for your system :-
- Run iMessage Debug and make sure to have a copy of the output
- Logout of all iMessage Apps
- Disconnect from network
- Mount EFI Partition and load Clover config file into Clover Configurator
- Goto SMBIOS page and click on Magic Wand, Click a few times on the two 'shake' buttons
- Check the new OS X S/N using the method described in Part-1, Step-3 of the guide
- Keep generating new S/N until you get a valid but un-registered S/N
- Run terminal and generate new SmUUID via 'uuidgen' command (See Part2, Step-7)
- Copy and paste new value from terminal to SmUUID
- Complete the new identity by injecting MLB & ROM via one of the methods in Part-1, Step-5d
- Save the Config file and exit Clover Configurator
- Reset the OSX Network setting plists - See Part-1, Step-2
- Clear iMessage Config Data - Part-1, Step-4
- Restart - keep disconnected form network
- Run iMessage Debug
- Check the output against your old values, ensure that Hardware(Platform) UUID, S/N, MLB. ROM are completely different, if it looks ok - shut down and restart
- Run iMessage Debug again.
- If all ID's are new and persistent then shut down, re-connect to network
- Run DPCI Manager and check BSD names en0...etc and ae flagged as 'built-in'
- If all ok login into iCloud first then iMessage
- You may get the contact Apple Msg .... if so then its Part-2, Step-8 again ....
Let me know if this works ... and i'll expand the method a bit and put it in the guide ..
Cheers
Jay