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I spent 3 hours in an Apple Store last night, working with mutliple techs and managers. I brought my cell in due to overheating. The genius suggested I do a complete restore, to factory settings. It seemed to load the operating system fine, but is now stuck on the activation screen. We have tired multiple wifi networks and iTunes and I did the restore again, through iTunes this morning. Still getting the same message, "Your iPhone could not be activated because the activation server is temporarily unavailable. Try connecting your iPhone to iTunes to activate it, or try again in a couple of minutes. If this problem persists, contact Apple Support.." On iTunes, I get this error message, "Your request could not be processed. We're sorry, but there was an error processing your request. Please try again later". I bought my phone from Apple, never messed with any features, didn't have many apps on it, etc. I spoke with Sprint Customer Service and their Technical Reps last night too. Everybody seems to be as perlexed as I am. Could there be a possibility, that Find my iPhone's Activation Lock, is preventing my cell from activating? Should that feature been shut off, prior to the restore? Is there anyway to shut it off now and see if activation will go through?

I am having my suggestion deleted by somebody, only trying to help, because I couldn't find any help here and stumped both Apple and Sprint Techs..... YES, Activation Lock, does prevent you from activating your own iPhone. I worked on mine forever and had it looked at by many Apple Geniuses. I removed my device from Find my iPhone and it activated perfectly! Does make complete sense though.. Activation Lock does its job, so you just need to make sure Find my iPhone is completely off BEFORE doing a complete restore. It was very simple to add my device back, after completely the full backup. If you did the restore, without turning off Find my iPhone, you still can get past the activation "road block", by removing your device on icloud. Sincerely hope this information helps somebody and doesn't insult or frustrate anybody.

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