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My Brother has a 1st iPad mini 16gb wifi+ cellular in silver on iOS 9.3.5 and when him or me turn it off and turn it back on, it shows the startup for a slate iPad and it also shows up on find my iPad as a silver iPad as well so I don’t know why it’s doing this.
Sounds like the logic board for another machine was put into this case. This one was probably built from spare parts. What was your source for the buying the machine?