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Hi Ok do I had a mint condition iPhone 4 which had an activation lock . I changed the board for one in an old iPhone 4 I had which I knew the iCloud details All went well the phone powered up , I disabled FMI and signed out if iCloud I then erased all content and settings and to my horror was greeted with the activation lock screen bound still to the iCloud of the logic board I removed ? How is this possible ? Is there another component aside from the logic board that stores the phones serial number etc ? I’m baffled and have never seen this before in countless others I have done Any help greatly appreciated
No this doesn’t sound possible, unless it was somehow cloned many years ago. The serial and IMEI number are programmed into the CPU of the motherboard. A housing and screen swap can have no influence on the serial number or IMEI number.
