Ipad mini not activating

My ipad mini which was working fine until yesterday has stopped working this morning. It says it cannot connect to server and activate. My apple id and password I entered are correct. I had upgraded to ios 7 a week ago. How do I fix this? The ipad is not usable now.

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.
Hope this helps!

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