My ipod touch set its own passcode?!

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My ipod touch set its own passcode?!

I've had my itouch for about a year (it came with the mac- back to school deal). Last night, I plugged it into my ihome and charged it over night and then left it there pretty much all day today. Then, in the late afternoon or so I took it off and tried to turn it on but instead of letting me in without a passcode (I had previously turned off my four digit passcode) it shows up with a fancy keyboard and asks for a passcode. I put in my four-digit (it didn't work) and now I have no idea what to do! I know no one stole it and changed the passcode and I didn't forget it- my itouch just suddenly locked on me.

I plugged it into my itunes but that didn't help at all, it just synced it. I also held down the button on the top to reset it but it's still locked. I know you can restore it to its original settings but that will delete everything and I don't want to lose all the information in my apps as well as my contacts.

If this has happened to anyone else (I know at least it has to one person- yahoo answers) and they have figured out what is wrong, please let me know!! Thanks!

iPod touch

Posted on Jun 30, 2011 9:20 PM

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Ingo2711

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Jul 1, 2011 12:06 PM in response to whatever19

There is no other way than connecting in recovery mode to your computer, shown here iPhone and iPod touch: Unable to restore If you're lucky, your last backup does not contain the passcode and you will be able to restore your data and settings without a problem. Your contacts should also be part of the backup of your Mac, if you use Time Machine you can easily restore one of the older iphone backups. More info here: iPhone and iPod touch: About backups

If you cannot remember the passcode, you will need to restore your device using the computer with which you last synced it. This allows you to reset your passcode and resync the data from the device (or restore from a backup). If you restore on a different computer that was never synced with the device, you will be able to unlock the device for use and remove the passcode, but your data will not be present. Refer to Updating and restoring iPhone and iPod touch software.

If the issue continues after updating and restoring your device, refer to this document.

copied from iPhone and iPod touch: Wrong passcode results in red disabled screen