Unable to unlink iphone from icloud

My brother destroyed the screen on his iphone 5, so i'm trying to clear it off to sell it for parts on ebay. When I plugged in the phone it just vibrates (like it's supposed to if it's stolen or on a different computer), then it asked me to enter my brother's apple ID and password, which I did. This allowed me to erase the phone. However, once it rebooted, it started vibrating again. I cant get it to stop - if there is some sort of error on the screen, I have no way of seeing it. Any ideas?

For any future readers of this thread, the thread provide a perfect reason why you should never purchase any parts for Apple devices on eBay.

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