i bought used iPad mini and after retoring it..it asks for activation...and i don't know the previous owner...i bought it online

trying this on my iPad (not a mini).

Here's what you need to do. First plug the iPad mini into your computer. When you get the message about iTunes not being able to access the iPad because it's password protected, press and hold the power button and home button at the same time. Hold these buttons down all the way through the reboot until the apple goes away. After that you should a graphic of a USB cable and the iTunes symbol. When you see that release the buttons. Close out of the error message in iTunes. You should now be able to restore and update your iPad mini and set it up as a new device, or even restore it from your backup if you have one.

I just did this 5 minutes ago. I do this roughly 200 per week. Unless the iPad is reported as stolen you will have no problems. Thanks snozdop for all your help guy...

ypu have to have their appleid and password. sorry

Peace, Clyde

you may do that with however many on ios6 but you havent done any with ios7 and a icloud find my device still signed in.

Peace, Clyde

iv done this and it loads then the apple sign will show up on the ipad and goes back to where it sais i need to put the last persons apple ID and password

To anyone wanting to start the what is right or wrong<>I don't care<>These are expensive devices and sometimes, it is ridiculous the extent to which this Apple's security BS gets to. So, to anyone buying devices in eBay or Amazon, finding out the previous owners forgot to remove their id and password, specially since one can not reach the previous owners afterwards, or the Auction House selling Police goods will not cooperate, I considered and decided to forget trying to find out where the previous owner was. I just Jailbreak the darn thing and worked fine. I reset it again, and did not remove the jailbreak either and worked fine. I am not advising you to do it, I a just saying what I did. Before I did though, I must have read like 60 reviews about jailbreaking, and some were negative, mostly from Apple employees and knuckled heads, and those who were positive, did ended up working done for me. Again, whatever you consider, (this) do it at your own discretion.

agreed....I have been trying as well, and it's the same thing....my apple id won't work cause it's still stuck in the other owners id....and I have done all the button holding, itunes using way i can and it's still wanting the other persons id,

I have restored and updated it, and it started working like it would go, but after I put in the language and country and wifi it then wants apple id that isn't mine.....I get that apple wants to be safe and stuff, but if me or anyone with this issue goes in and tries to remedy it, they will probably try and say we stole it. even if it's not been reported stolen.

So basically, waste of money, time, and energy.

if anyone figures this out tho, please let me know. thank you

if anyone figures this out tho, please let me know. thank you

No one is saying you stole anything. However, there is still nothing to figure out. The device is working as intended. There is no way around the activation lock.