ios7 activation lock,previous owner,apple id,

You are right Jassim.almutairi .. facing similar situation as my x owner of phone tried but failed to access his icloud account, even he has no more access to his backup email. Now he has travelled to other country and is out of touch. He's not reported his phone lost or stolen, then why I am unable to use this brick, as it is now for me. A precious brick you don't like to just through away. O apple, if x owner has not reported phone as lost or stolen then who are YOU guys to enforce deactivate? Someone paid you for this phone, you can't just interfere with people's personal dealings. If you still want to be a police, then you have right to block phones those are reported stolen or lost, but not the phone which are never reported stolen or lost. When first owner is not claiming his phone be stolen or lost then why Apple is blocking those devices. We people expect and hope Apple to be more wise in this regard.

That's right. The original owner paid for the phone. The original owner placed a lock on it. The original owner is the only one with the right to remove that lock. You should have checked before you bought it.

Apple is NOT a law enforcement agency. They can not and will not remove the lock without proper verification or documentation, neither of which you can provide.

If you think it will be better on another platform, guess again. Kill switches like Activation lock are fast becoming legally required.

mnaeemsattar wrote:

You are right Jassim.almutairi .. facing similar situation as my x owner of phone tried but failed to access his icloud account, even he has no more access to his backup email. Now he has travelled to other country and is out of touch. He's not reported his phone lost or stolen, then why I am unable to use this brick, as it is now for me. A precious brick you don't like to just through away. O apple, if x owner has not reported phone as lost or stolen then who are YOU guys to enforce deactivate? Someone paid you for this phone, you can't just interfere with people's personal dealings. If you still want to be a police, then you have right to block phones those are reported stolen or lost, but not the phone which are never reported stolen or lost. When first owner is not claiming his phone be stolen or lost then why Apple is blocking those devices. We people expect and hope Apple to be more wise in this regard.

WE ARE the People and expect Apple to NEVER EVER unlock our stolen devices for those "people".

The only way you can get rid of this iCloud Problem is by having you ORIGINAL RECEIPT when the phone was sold or ask for a reprint if you can obtain it. Talk to an Apple Customer Service and ask for a supervisor because you lost your apple id and that there is no way to recover it etc etc. Thats going to be your golden ticket, your original receipt purchase or a reprint.

repairshop831 wrote:

The only way you can get rid of this iCloud Problem is by having you ORIGINAL RECEIPT when the phone was sold or ask for a reprint if you can obtain it. Talk to an Apple Customer Service and ask for a supervisor because you lost your apple id and that there is no way to recover it etc etc. Thats going to be your golden ticket, your original receipt purchase or a reprint.

Not your, but original owner's original receipt. Your receipt for second hand owner has no value.