HT201441 Hi i bought a phone off of Craigslist and the phone was never deactivated by the previous owner. I cant contact the previous owner. How do I unlock it?
Hi i bought a phone off of Craigslist and the phone was never deactivated by the previous owner. I cant contact the previous owner. How do I unlock it?
Not sure. It may also have never been reported to AT&T as stolen.
It won't really matter. The hardware ID of the phone is associated with the Apple ID and password of the person who originally activated it. That is association is stored on Apple's activation servers and only the original owner can remove the association as discussed in the article you were reading. Until that happens, the activation server will not reactivate the phone without the proper Apple ID and password being entered.
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I AM STUCK AND FEEL ROBBED BY APPLE'S NEW POLICY IN THEIR UPDATE!! I bought this phone off of Craigslist, as i've done before, and when I restored it, could not activate it becuase I don't have the previous users iCloud information! I can't contact him, can't find him, and I am Stuck!!!! If I don't have a solution, I will be totally sold off on Apple Products Totally! This ***** and I need a fix to this. I can't use my phone for all types of business I use it for!!!!!
This is not Apple's fault AT ALL. You've been ROBBED by the seller - not Apple.
This is a security feature designed to prevent stolen iOS devices from being used by thieves.
Presumably the device you bought is stolen which is why the person you bought from has magically vanished as soon as he got your money.
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what should i do if i cant contact the owner of the old iphone that i bought. the phone is not stolen. he just forget to remove his account on the iphone?
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HT201441 I CANT CONTACT THE PREVIOUS OWNER IS THERE ANY OTHER WAY TO WIPE THE ICLOUD OFF?
I just bought an i phone 5 second hand its been wiped but when you try to set up asks for icloud username and password does any one know how i can by pass or get rid of this i cant contact the previous owner
No, unfortunately there is no other way.
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i have just updated my phone its iphone 4 and when it was updated it demanded something like to restore an d mobile went off ,i dont wanna lose all my data so help me out what to do ,Thanks
yeah its really like that you mentined , so what to do now .
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This is a picture of what it looks like now:
http://tinypic.com/r/107quxu/7
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If you have a tablet that runs full Windows 8 - not Windows 8 RT, which is limited.
And if you install the full Adobe Reader for Windows, not the special Adobe Reader Touch for Windows 8.
Then you will have the same features as a desktop.
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My wife is having the exact same issue after updating to the new iOS 8.1.1 and we've tried all the same steps even restoring the phone as a new phone. We've contacted our service provider and they've told us to go to apple to potentially "remove" her serial number from their servers to allow it to work properly on the service we have. We are desperate as purchasing a new phone right now is not an option and she desperately needs her phone for work and life.
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Use iPhone as designed. Like any digital camera, download your photos to your computer and delete from the iPhone to create space required for iOS upgrade.
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From a previous post:
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Thanks!A similar thread here that should answer your query - http://forums.adobe.com/message/5551805.
Thanks,
Vinayak
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