Bought a second hand iphone cant activate it
BOught a second hand iphone 4 i cant activate it
Or, you can take the proof of purchase or proof of ownership to an Apple Retail store or call AppleCare at 800-APL-CARE to have them deactivate the lockout. You will need absolute proof that you own the device or purchased it from the owner.
Really? Are you sure? There is no mention of being able to do that on Apple's site I can find. It strikes me as being very easy to fake having purchased something from somebody. How is Apple supposed to verify you really purchased it and didn't just write out a receipt yourself?
Find My iPhone Activation Lock - Apple Support:
When purchasing an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch from someone other than Apple or an authorized Apple reseller, it is up to you to ensure that the device has been erased and is no longer linked to the previous owner’s account.
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Hi few days ago I bought a second hand iphone 5 white 64 gb, and when I try to activate it I see the following message: "This iPhone can not be activated for service.please contact your carrier or AppleCare"
So then do what it says...contact Apple or your wireless carrier.
However your phone is probably locked to another carrier and cannot be used on yours. -
hi, I bought a second hand iphone 4s and seller has blocked it and reset it know the iphone is asking for a email and password that the seller was using, I can't contact him know and i'm left with an Iphone that is useless, can you help ma please?
Sorry, there is nothing you can do until the device is removed from the sellers Apple ID.
Without that, your device can't be used, check these articles:
iCloud: Find My iPhone Activation Lock in iOS 7
Find My iPhone Activation Lock: Removing a device from a previous owner’s account -
I am unable to install apps from the istore. i bought a second hand iphone 5s. can anyone help me??
i am unable to install apps from the istore. i bought a second hand iphone 5s. can anyone help me with this please??
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lesson learnt. thanks. i'll make sure he wont be able to hold another phone again. my money is lost for now. could you please let me know how i can seapnd this phone back to its original owner with apple support help??
Apple will not give you information about the original owner. Take it back to whoever you bought it from. -
Hi , I have recently bought an second hand iPhone 4 , Now most of the thing on the iPhone you need iCloud ,i try logging on to it but when i do it say The maximum number of free account have been activated on this iPhone, i don't know what to do. Help
When you have kernel panics, the pertinent information is in the panic report.
These instructions must be carried out as an administrator. If you have only one user account, you are the administrator.
Launch the Console application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad and start typing the name.
In the Console window, select
DIAGNOSTIC AND USAGE INFORMATION ▹ System Diagnostic Reports
(not Diagnostic and Usage Messages) from the log list on the left. If you don't see that list, select
View ▹ Show Log List
from the menu bar.
There is a disclosure triangle to the left of the list item. If the triangle is pointing to the right, click it so that it points down. You'll see a list of reports. A panic report has a name that begins with "Kernel" and ends in ".panic". Select the most recent one. The contents of the report will appear on the right. Use copy and paste to post the entire contents—the text, not a screenshot.
If you don't see any reports listed, but you know there was a panic, you may have chosen Diagnostic and Usage Messages from the log list. Choose DIAGNOSTIC AND USAGE INFORMATION instead.
In the interest of privacy, I suggest that, before posting, you edit out the “Anonymous UUID,” a long string of letters, numbers, and dashes in the header of the report, if it’s present (it may not be.)
Please don’t post other kinds of diagnostic report.
I know the report is long, maybe several hundred lines. Please post all of it anyway. -
I had lost my iPhone and bought a second hand iphone , how
To transfer contact to my second hand iphone ?Do you have a backup of your contacts in iCloud or iTunes? If yes, you can sign in or sync from either one.
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I just bought a second hand iPhone 5, but the sim tray seems to be for a sim sized ~14x8mm, thinner but longer than a nano SIM (~12x9mm). Can anyone explain why, and how to get a SIM to fit?
You would have to ask the person you bought the phone from to explain why.
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i have bought a second hand iphone 4S which is locked on at&t how can i use other network sim on it as i have shifted from US
Call AT&T and see if you meet their requirements for unlocking the phone. If you don't, then you'll have to purchase a different phone entirely.
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I cannot activatea second hand iphone 4s as i don't have previous owners itunes ID. I can't get anything on the phone after setting the language as its asking for activation. Please can anyone help ???? Ideally i would like to get it back to factory settings and start afresh but right now i would settle for anything. Should say i only have the phone and charger, no box so no details
Unfortunately, the only one who can help is the previous owner. Otherwise you will not be able to activate and use the phone. Apple can't/won't help you with this either.
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please help anyone asap bought a iphone 5 of this guy but cant activate my iphone cause the previous owner forgot to delete his old apple account and now i cant activate my iphone 5 and i cant get in touch with the previous owner cause i dont know him haha
Sorry, but you can't use that iPhone. The activation lock is an anti-theft measure; Apple won't unlock that device for you.
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Read the title
Called Activation Lock. Read here:
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH13695
Without this info, you won't be able to re-activate the phone, & Apple can't/won't help you. So, if you can't get this info, return the phone for a refund. This is what needs to be done:
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht5661 -
can iphone 3gs that has been jail broken but will not find service or is searching be unlocked offically?
It's against the forum term of service to provide help for jailbroken phones. You will need to use google to resolve your issue.
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I reset my second hand iphone and it will not activate.
i bought a second hand iPhone, and just recently found out it was jailbroken, i reset it and now it will not activate. i try to sync it with iTunes and says i have not inserted a sim, when i have. would anybody please be able to help me?
You restored the iPhone.
If the iPhone was hacked to be unlocked, restoring a hacked iPhone re-locks the iPhone to the carrier the iPhone was sold as carrier locked with then new. -
I bought an Ipad 4 for my wife and iPad Air 2 for my daughter and I have just bought a Macbook Pro with retina display for me. The whole family is an Apple products fan due to its reliability and security. Never know that it could be a disadvantage also. I bought a second hand iPhone 4s from a friend as he is short in caash, and I've been using it for awhile. I "restore and upgrade it" without thinking or checking the Find my iPhone settings, unfortuately it is turned ON. Although the previous owner removed the phone lock, I never asked for his icloud account as I intend to use the phone only for calling. I cannot contact him as his contacts and email address were erased when I restore the iPhone.
I have learned a hard lesson since Apple security is impregnable, my iPhone 4S will just be an expensive paper weight.no.
without the previous owners credentials the phone is useless to you. -
Hi all, I have bought a second hand iphone 5s and have found it is still activated to the last user... i can't get hold of them anymore, how can i get the phone activated in my name?
If iOs 7 is installed on that iPhone, you will not be able to activate it without
the requested information. It is called Activation Lock and is a security
feature built into iOS 7. There is no workaround.
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