HT201407 I am unable to activate my phone since putting in recovery and restoring it. Its still logged to prev owner for some reason. HELP

I am without a phone after restoring it. Apple told me in order to get rid of the previous owners link to this phone i had to put it in recovery mode and restore the phone. WellI've done that and now i get a message that says this iphone is currently linke to an apple id. Sign in with the apple id that was used to set up this phone. I cant sign in with that id as i dont have the username and password. I bought this phone second hand and now i cant even use it. Can anyone tell me how to activate it and or delete the previous owner?

wendelfromab wrote:
i get a message that says this iphone is currently linke to an apple id. Sign in with the apple id that was used to set up this phone.
That's a feature of iOS 7.0 Beta, which cannot be discussed here.
Can anyone tell me how to activate it and or delete the previous owner?
Without knowing the Apple ID & Password, you can't. There is no workaround.
Good luck.

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