IPad Mini cannot activate

I was playing on my iPad Mini, when all the sudden it reboots. It is on iOS 7.0, and upon startup acts like it is being set up as a brand new iPad. I followed the on screen instructions, until it says "It mat take a few minutes to activate your iPad" with a spinning circle above. After about 30 seconds it says
Your iPad could not be activated because the activation server is temporarily unavailable. Try connecting your iPad to iTunes to activate it, or try again in a couple of minutes.
If this problem persists, contact apple support at apple.com/support
So I plug it into my computer and open up itunes. Itunes acts completely normally, just like it has already been setup, and I can choose between backing it up, or restoring it. So I try restore from a backup, and an error pops up.
Itunes could not restore the iPad "Masons iPad" because a session could not be started with the iPad.
Then I try to do a full on restore.
There was a problem downloading the software for the iPad "Masons iPad". The requested resource was not found.
I am stumped, and I can't access my iPad! Thank you for any help!

If you were on iOS7 beta, then it looks like the beta version has expired on you. You have to upgrade to the latest release version to get it working again.
Go here: https://developer.apple.com/devcenter/ios/index.action
Once there, download the latest version for your device and install the update the iPad. iTunes will not do this automatically, but if you do the following steps (after downloading) you should be good.
Plug iPad into your computer where you downloaded the latest release (7.0.2 at time of this post)
Open iTunes and click on the button in the upper right of the app for your iPad
Hold option (mac) or shift (windows) and click on Check for Updates. This will bring up a browse dialog.
Find the .ipsw file named something like this: iPad2,5_7.0.2_11A501_Restore.ipsw
Follow prompts to update and activate your iPad.
You should be back to normal at that point.
Apple will expire developer versions to make sure people are not using old versions for testing or development.
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