This iPad 7 came in for Bootlooping/Error 9 after battery replacement.
Error 9 is really common after battery replacement. The theory is that a fully dead battery will kill the NAND when it's stuck bootlooping for a long time.
Although I can't say for sure that's why. But almost every Error 9 I see, has a history of a battery replacement right before it happened.
Error 9 requires a NAND replacement. In this case, the NAND was fully dead. I could not read it on my P14 Pro. (My JC P7 wasn't working at all either).
But I was able to at least get the original Serial Number when it was stuck in Recovery Mode.
I replaced the NAND with a 32GB NAND from an iPhone 7. I wrote a generic SYSCFG from an iPad 6 (2018) due to the P14 Pro software not having iPad 7 for some reasons. And I made sure to edit the junk SN it created & write the original SN, even though I didn't have the original WiFi/BT Address.
I then soldered the NAND onto the board, restored it & it was successfully booting, but No Touch & would not activate (due to wrong WiFi/BT Address).
I then used Purple Mode to "Query original factory code" which gave me the correct SN, WiFi, BT for this device within seconds. Maybe like 30 sec or so.
I also noticed in Purple Mode, the P14 Pro software had iPad 7 generic SYSCFG option. So I also clicked "Write standard bottom layer", then edit in the correct SN, Wifi/BT Address, also edited the Model from "CH/A" to "LL/A" for USA region. Wrote all that in and then restored the iPad one more time.
Then the iPad had touch & was able to activate. Unfortunately, I am currently waiting to hear from the customer for their iCloud info. But it should be fully functional now.
This was the first time ever I've seen a bad SYSCFG cause no touch. I was certain it was actually a CPU issue, as I had tested another known good digitizer & these iPad 7 are notorious for touch problems due to CPU.
I hope you found this helpful!
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