The company I work for supports Apple mobile devices. When users upgrade their phones, the old ones get tossed in a box in the old server room. They were about to shred literally 300-400 phones (iPhone 4, 5, 6) I convinced them to let me have them. IMEI numbers are all clean. The problem I have is most end users do not follow instruction and did not turn off "Find my iPhone" before trading them out, and alot of these phones are iCloud locked. I am staring at a sea of perfectly functional iPhones that are bricked. I have done a metric fuck ton of research on getting past this, and so far it is beyond my skillset. I turn to you. Please halp.
Tl:dr I have a bunch of phones locked with iCloud. Any of you clever bastards know how to bypass/clear that?
What was the last version of IOS on them? some of them have exploits that allow you to bypass the lock
Hunter Rodriguez
you can buy an icloud bypasser thingy machine from china, but god only knows what it installs there as well so i wouldnt really recommend thath.
Charles Gray
Does it not tell you the Apple ID or the person the phone is locked to?
Send them an email asking them nicely to de-register them.
Grayson Murphy
no way around it sell it to parts hoarders as bricked
Nolan Mitchell
I doubt it. It'll get locked again as goon as it connects to the internet.
Hunter Rivera
Use doulci
Joshua Brown
Pretty sure it was 10 in most cases. We were not supporting the upgrade to 11 until very recently, but again end users do what the hell they want most of the time.
Thomas Martin
Give em back tyrone
Justin Howard
Do what said, Mass email everyone instructions on how to de-register them and send us some
Liam Sullivan
I heard of this, as well as accessing the ROM and using some Chinese software to manipulate it, but I do not know Chinese, obviously.
Tyler Cook
TYRONE Y R O N E
Angel Fisher
>doulci What in sweet heaven?? Have you used this before?
Justin Murphy
Pretty sure most of the ID is partially blocked at the home screen. I would have to check. That's a reasonable option, but mother of god that's a lot of email!
Luke Moore
You scored a pretty big hit this time Jamal, but that just puts more heat on you. I would highly suggest you return your stolen goods to their owners.
Easton Cook
Haha nice try, Phillip. I have a great job and too much to lose for some stolen phones. The REAL crime would have been letting these phones go to some e-scrap company!
Robert Clark
if you are stoping the real crime, mail them to us
Jonathan Cook
Find the original owners and have them turn it off.
I mean, it's not like they're stolen or anything, right?
Hunter Stewart
>company isn't using MDM to ensure this cockup doesn't happen in the first place nice try Tyrone
Grayson Clark
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Jaxon Adams
>Tyrone breaks into an Apple store's back room >to steal old phones >Tyrone just loves stealing things that have had some kind of owner before and therefore won't steal new phones
Tyrone is growing evermore cunning in his iPhone stealing methods. Had he directed such dedication and tenacity in something actually useful he'd be making a respectable amount of money, legally.
