iPhone still linked to old Apple ID

i tried to do watch all the videos from youtube.reset..lalallala.. too much.. i turn off ann On, what should i have to do? Should i throw it? lol getting crazy.. anyway is there anything that i need to download or Software.. Pls.HELP.. PLEASE... PLEASE ..PLEASE.

I'm way ahead of you. I already tried to contact the owners of 3 of the 98 phones I have. I haven't been able to get a response. Who's to say that the emails linked to these phones are still active. I don't think this feature was thought through properly. In this case the manufacturer and the carrier are 2 different things. Not sure if you read in my last post that the phone's esn is checked for lost, stolen and active. If the phones are NOT lost, stolen or active then the phones should be ready to be resold and reactivate onto another person's account. If the phone is still linked to the previous owner and I am unable to contact them, then what? What would you call the phone in this case? We dont deal with lost, stolen and active phones. Apple makes a great product don't get me wrong. This is a huge snag in the Wireless Wholesale Industry. I'm just frustrated. What do I do with all these phones? Parts them out?

hello everybody m also facing the same problem m not able to use my iphone 4s from 6 oct . same problem asking apple id and password .. plz help me if some one know the solution plz suggest me..

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"You have a very expensive piece of paper weight."

People who work for or are deeply in love with apple will not admit the flaws with this ios.

So just dig deep in your pockets and buy another one.

I've done all the research i could. This is the only solution i've come up with.

What do you mean "nothing from Apple?" You need to put in the original Apple ID and corresponding password that was used to set up the phone originally. Apple ID are not "deactivated". If that ID and password are not working, then they are not the ones that were used to activate the phone originally.

There is nothing more...

That is the same id which I used to setup an iphone, when I am trying to enter any other id it gives me error that id cannot be used, but if I enter my original id whose initials it is displaying, it is still giving error that this id cannot be used to unlock this phone. I don't have any other id, I have only one email address since past 7 years and I am using that one everywhere, there is no chance of any other id and this is the new phone I bought from Apple store directly, I am the first owner and I set it up.

it is the same id it wasn't at i cloud it was at yahoo.com which never used for more than 12 mounths so its recycled i have the id also the password but yahoo server doesn't have that id anymore tried million times called apple and her i am all i remember the id and the password but the question issues i don't so when i reset password thing it send an email to yahoo which is recycled >>>>>>>by the way apple which make us goes to jailbreakers help if its stolen block it if its not stolen just let us use our devices so simple

It doesn't actually matter that the yahoo email address has been lost, you would still be able to sign into iCloud if you had the correct password for your Apple account. Of course, now that you've reset the password you have a real problem since you can't access the link to create a new password.

Have you explained to Apple over the phone that your Yahoo email account has been recycled and lost?

Hello,
I update my iphone 5s and after booted phone asked to setup a new iphone or backup i select set a new iphone but while entering the new apple id phone's shows the error "Credit Limited can't create account"

Now tell me what can i do ?

This is a problem for us.

Up to now we would simply issue our salesmen company provided iPhones. We setup a new apple id and password, and use this to activate the phone.

Problem is that it is somewhat common for these guys to then take it and change the phone to use their personal apple id. Of course they can do that because they have all the info they need to have full control of the phone.

All is well and good until we have employee turnover. Then we must re-issue the phone under a new user’s apple id.

Previous to this new security feature, this wasn’t a problem. We would simply use iTunes and factory reset the phone, then set it up as new for the next guy.

Now we can’t do that. This is a problem because not all employee terminations are on good terms.

The company is the original and current owner. Now what can we do? Is this phone a brick?

What are our options going forward? Do we now need an expensive MDM solution because of this? We were doing fine without one up until now.

Mr. Senior Geek wrote:

The company is the original and current owner. Now what can we do? Is this phone a brick?

What are our options going forward? Do we now need an expensive MDM solution because of this? We were doing fine without one up until now.

If the company can prove that they are the original owner, Apple may be willing to remove the lock.

You could simply not give the employees the iCloud password. They could still use their own Apple ID for things like buying apps.

HOW CAN I REMOVE THE OLD OWNERS APPLE ACCOUNT AND FIND MY IPHONE? I BOUGHT THE PHONE THROUGH EBAY AND THE OLD OWNER COULD HAVE RESET IT BEORE SENDING IT BUT DIDNT.
THE EBAY ITEM NUMBER IS 321444438716 SO YOU KNOW IT WAS NOT STOLEN.. THE OLD OWNER WILL NOT ANSWER ME

yesfearme wrote:

It is not considered yelling and it is not rude.

I'm sorry, but yes, typing in all caps is considered both yelling and rude. It has almost since the beginning of the internet. It's also very hard to read.

yesfearme wrote:

So can you provide the link to the Apple buy back site?

There is no such site. Do you mean Apple's trade-in program? See: iPhone Trade-up - Apple

Or do you mean Apple's recycling program? See: Renew and Recycling - Apple

You seem to be running iOS 7 beta. Are you? If you are a developer, then go to the developer site for help.

If not you cannot get help here.