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The article linked to a 34 minute YouTube video which demonstrated one unlock method: they replaced a locked iPhone's CPU, baseband CPU, baseband EPROM, NAND Fl

The article linked to a 34 minute YouTube video which demonstrated one unlock method: they replaced a locked iPhone's CPU, baseband CPU, baseband EPROM, NAND Flash (reprogrammed), and touch ID sensor with ones from a donor iPhone and were able to restore iOS.

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rasz 7y ago
except its cheaper to just fix donor iphone that already has all the listed components working
- londons_explore 7y ago
  Labour is cheap in Vietnam...
  - knd775 7y ago
    But the parts aren't. It simply does not make sense to go that route.
    - londons_explore 7y ago
      The parts are if you buy water damaged devices. Water tends to kill the PCB (due to corrosion), but all the individual chips will usually survive.