I want to pass my iPhone on to a friend. I backed up his old phone and restored it to the new one. After restarting it I see this:

![Activate iPhone][1]

This is the case, because I had "find my iphone" activated and did not deactivate it before restoring my friends backup.

I followed the instructions of [Find My iPhone Activation Lock: Removing a device from a previous owner’s account][2] and removed the phone from my account, by open icloud.com/#find and delete and remove it. 

The problem is, I can still not activate it. Neither with my nor with the Apple id of my friend. I hoped that the deletion and removal from my account would just might take some minutes or even hours, but 12 hours later, the problem still exists.

Anything else I can try?

  [1]: https://i.sstatic.net/QmVBJ.png
  [2]: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS4515