Restoring in recovery mode still asking the passcode. What to do after?

I ran into the same problem. Someone on the forum mentioned DFU, after googling it little bit, here is what I found and it works!

Seems there are two modes - a DFU mode and a recovery mode. There is a different combination of steps how to get into each of them. Follows the step by step how to get into DFU mode, which will recover iPad and will not ask for the Passcode.

1. Plug your iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad into your Mac or Windows PC and make sure iTunes is running.
2. Hold down both the Sleep Button (on top of your device) and the Home Button (on the front underneath the screen).
3. Keep them both held down from about 10 seconds. (If you see the Apple logo, you've held them too long and will need to start again.)
4. Let go of the Sleep Button but keep holding the Home Button for about 5 seconds. (If you see the "Plus into iTunes" screen than you held it too long and will need to start again.)
5. If the screen stays black, that's it! Your iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad should now be in DFU mode.

At this point iTunes will show you an alert saying it's detected your iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad and it needs to be restored.

From here it is all straight forward. Hope it helps.

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Placing your device into recovery (DFU) mode:

Follow these steps to place your iOS device into recovery mode. If your iOS device is already in recovery mode, you can proceed immediately to step 6.

If you don't see the "Connect to iTunes" screen, try these steps again. If you see the "Connect to iTunes" screen but the device does not appear in iTunes, see this article and its related links.

Additional Information:

Note: When using recovery mode, you can only restore the device. All user content on the device will be erased, but if you had previously synced with iTunes on this computer, you can restore from a previous backup. See this article for more information.

If it's still asking for the passcode, then you didn't do it right.

Do as Kappy already advised. Put it in DFU mode, not recovery mode.

I wouldn't help you now if you paid me. You are rude and inconsiderate.

This is a USER forum. You are not talking to Apple.

"Placing your device into recovery (DFU) mode".... From what I understand, you're stating that these are two different modes but this heading from the response makes it seem like its one in the same. I'm confused there.

I, too, have this problem. I restored to factory settings, requested an ulock from AT&T, and now (post request) it requires some passcode I don't have. Per the recommendation, I followed the instructions above for recovery mode reset (step by step, most of this worked), as I was told this would eliminate the passcose restriction. Wrong. It took 15 minutes to work through the recovery mode nonsense, and after that an iTunes notification popped up saying "iTunes could not connect to the iPhone “iPhone” because it is locked with a passcode. You must enter your passcode on the iPhone before it can be used with iTunes" What now?

Thank you so much.

None of the other solutions I could see from Support or the internet worked but your one did.

Thanks again.

Thank you for describing the subtle differences, I have been able to place in DFU mode.

Thanks for explaining the difference. I finally after 4 hours of trying, got my phone restored without having to enter a passcode.

Thank you so much. After all else failed, this was the solution that worked.