REPLACE THE BATTERIES you idiots

there is nothing on the market that comes even 50% as good as the dyson

The design on these devises are simply cutting edge. Why do you think that ALL the others try and copy the design?

When you have 3 times the power suprisingly enough, you also require more battery use and as outstanding as the technology Dyson use in the power packs, there is simply nothing newer than the nickle cavdium tech’ that they use that will last longer than (for example) a couple of hundered recharges before requireing replacement.

I suppose you brought a Dyson hand vac and pretty much use it all the time rather than drag your old corded vac around the house? then you wonder why it didn’t last so long. Go get A REPLACEMENT BATTERY PACK.

Quality costs & black and decker is cheap because it ‘s crap that dosent work anywhere near as good as the D-suck

My Dyson DC58 hand vac wiould suck start a Harley and for that plus the reeduced timne spent getting a job done well is wort the cost all day long

I ended up finding out it’s a bad board. I called for a RMA and the new board arrived. Once I replaced the new board I was able to get some lights to flash which was white and green. I pluggedin the a USB with the latest firmware downloaded from the sony site and it took about 30 mins for the update to take place and a few restarts.

It restarted into the Welcome screen and everything started working perfectly afterwards.

you will need to contact the previous owner and have them login to the icloud account and remove the association, either on the phone itself, or via either www.icloud.com or appleid.apple.com.

beyond that there is no permanent solution.

yes, you will find services and software offering to remove icloud accounts, it's all BS. these "solutions" involve jailbreaking the phone then installing a "bypass". but the phone will not behave like a normal phone (if i'm misstating some of these items, i welcome correction as a am not a jailbreaking expert). you will likely have issues with downloading and installing apps, you may have issues trying to use the only on you cellular service account, you cannot do auto upgrades the IOS, your device becomes more vulnerable to malware/hacking, battery drain/usage increases dramatically, it makes the overall IOS environment less stable meaning more crashes, and if you do upgrade the IOS or reset the phone, you have to re-jailbreak it again.

using jailbreaking to "fix" an icloud account is like (you may be too young to actually relate to this) watching TV before they had remote controls. you want to change the channel or change the volume or adjust the rabbit ears, you had to get out out of your chair, walk to the tv and do so manually - every time. sure it all worked, but it was horribly inconvenient compared to what a modern day TV remote can do for you.

if anyone has a better analogy, i welcome input on that regard as well. :)

bottom line, the only way to properly remove it is to have the icloud account owner do it