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first time I've really been ripped off on CL

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holden j caufield

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feels lame, it's been so long since I've used an iphone/ipad. Traded my LCD for an ipad, seemed nice enough and showed me it was factory reset. Of course we met at a place with no wifi so I thought it was all good until I got home. Luckily it was a TV I didn't use and not cash but damn I gave him a free bluray player cause I felt nice. Oh well, most of this was my stupidity.
 
dougp said:
Seriously? It's an iPad.
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he handed it to me and said he did a factory reset. Most people I've met are pretty cool and I thought a factory reset meant just that and that it's all good to use on my end. Got home connected it to wifi and it says I need an apple id to sign in. Of course he was super responsive on texts before and after I asked him for the login info he's non responsive. It's just a reminder to be more careful. It's a small lesson and it's really my fault for not checking further.
 
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umm, yeah, All apple ios products are now locked to the apple id. You have to make them log into icloud and delete the device.
 
yeah dummy me, such a bonehead move on my part it's laughable. My old TV was only worth a few hundred anyways and I wasn't using it so I'm going to try and not lose any sleep over it. I feel like donkey over something so easy to check.
 
holden j caufield said:
he handed it to me and said he did a factory reset. Most people I've met are pretty cool and I thought a factory reset meant just that and that it's all good to use on my end. Got home connected it to wifi and it says I need an apple id to sign in. Of course he was super responsive on texts before and after I asked him for the login info he's non responsive. It's just a reminder to be more careful. It's a small lesson and it's really my fault for not checking further.
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According to Apple, a factory reset should remove the device from the account.

If you're using iOS 7 or later and have Find My iPhone turned on, your Apple ID and password will be required. After you provide your password, the device will be erased and removed from your account so that the next owner can activate it.
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So, you suspect it's stolen? Can't that be verified through Apple?
 
Carson Dyle said:
According to Apple, a factory reset should remove the device from the account.



So, you suspect it's stolen? Can't that be verified through Apple?
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Restoring firmware from a computer running iTunes without first removing your iCloud account or turning-off the "Find My iPad" feature will leave the device locked to the previous Apple ID. During initial setup, it will require you to log-in with the ID that was last used.

mnewsham said:
If its a newer ipad with the thunderbolt connector you can easily get a thunderbolt to ethernet adapter for $30.
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No. Lightning != Thunderbolt
 
holden j caufield said:
feels lame, it's been so long since I've used an iphone/ipad. Traded my LCD for an ipad, seemed nice enough and showed me it was factory reset. Of course we met at a place with no wifi so I thought it was all good until I got home. Luckily it was a TV I didn't use and not cash but damn I gave him a free bluray player cause I felt nice. Oh well, most of this was my stupidity.
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Wait you don't have a smartphone with wifi hotspot?
 
LTC8K6 said:
Go to the police. These crooks need to be stopped, and somebody needs their iPad back.
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I agree. If you can't use it anyway, at least contact Apple/Police to see if it's stolen. Then turn in contact info of the seller to police.
 
holden j caufield said:
he handed it to me and said he did a factory reset. Most people I've met are pretty cool and I thought a factory reset meant just that and that it's all good to use on my end. Got home connected it to wifi and it says I need an apple id to sign in. Of course he was super responsive on texts before and after I asked him for the login info he's non responsive. It's just a reminder to be more careful. It's a small lesson and it's really my fault for not checking further.
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Oh yeah, you got scammed. Buying an electronic device without turning it on it like buying a car without test driving it.
 
I like that it's almost completely pointless to steal iPads now. Unfortunately, people like the OP still make it viable, but not nearly as lucrative as it would be otherwise.
 
mnewsham said:
http://9to5mac.com/2014/01/10/video...ernet-via-ethernet-cable-with-this-easy-hack/


fuck off, lightning and thunderbolt are the same thing, thunderbolt(intel) is the interface, and lightning is the specific apple connector.


Now connecting over ethernet isn't SUPER simple, but it works often enough with an ipad that it can be done.
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What are you blathering on about? Thunderbolt has nothing to do with Lightning. All lightning cable are USB. I don't even know if Lightning supports higher speeds with USB 3.0/3.1 because the current cables/devices do not. So far, Lightning has been nothing more than a reversible replacement for the old 30-pin dock connector with some chip in it that keeps knock-offs from supporting all functions (digital audio output to car stereos over USB, for example). That's it.

As far as I know there is absolutely no way to connect an iPad, iPod, or iPhone to a Thunderbolt/Lightpeak port. If there is it's because someone made a USB hub for Thunderbolt or something irrelevant.
 
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mnewsham said:
http://9to5mac.com/2014/01/10/video...ernet-via-ethernet-cable-with-this-easy-hack/


fuck off, lightning and thunderbolt are the same thing, thunderbolt(intel) is the interface, and lightning is the specific apple connector.


Now connecting over ethernet isn't SUPER simple, but it works often enough with an ipad that it can be done.
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Lightning and Thunderbolt are not the same thing at all. Lightning is completely proprietary and not based on any Intel standard other than USB (and not even USB 3.x).

Thunderbolt is an Intel standard based on Lightpeak with a completely different connectors. Apple was using Intel Thunderbolt/Lightpeak long before Apple developed Lightning.

In your example, he's using an iPad with Lightning, a Lightning-to-30-pin-dock-connector adapter, then a 30-pin-dock-connector-to-USB adapter (meant for USB mass storage devices like thumb drives and flash readers), then a powered USB hub, then an Apple USB-to-Ethernet adapter (whew!).

Quite a setup, and I'm amazed that it works because Apple only sells the USB adapter for importing pictures, as far as I've heard. I think the combination of adapters somehow tricks the iPad into thinking it's an Apple device that Apple only supports for testing in their own R&D labs. Very cool...but impractical.
 
Rakehellion said:
That iPad has neither Lightning nor Thunderbolt. :awe:
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That iPad has Lightning (meaning it's 4th gen or newer). The videographer didn't have a Lightning-to-USB photo adapter, so he used a Lightning-to-30-pin adapter with a 30-pin-to-USB adapter.
 
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