tried again. cant jailbreak until phone is activated. reset macbook and phone date before restore to 1/15. when itunes comes up, says software is out of date. trying to activate phone using wi-fi, says apple activation server is temporarily unavailable. same thing happened yesterday.
make sure 7.0.4 is activated before updating to 7.1b3
i did both times. still didnt work
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i did notice both times, after activation, the date and clock went to the correct time and the setting was switched back to auto set.
I believe the activation server uses its own date/time when activating.
try with 7.1b2. and unplug the phone while its restarting