ipad is disabled

You have to force the iPad into Recovery Mode. May have to try it many times.

http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1808

Try it again and make sure that you are performing the steps properly. It can take a few tries to get it to work.

• Disconnect the USB cable from the iPad, but leave the other end of the cable connected to your computer's USB port.
• Turn off iPad: Press and hold the Sleep/Wake button for a few seconds until the red slider appears, then slide the slider. Wait for iPad to turn off.
• If you cannot turn off iPad using the slider, press and hold the Sleep/Wake and Home buttons at the same time. When the iPad turns off, release the Sleep/Wake and Home buttons.
• While pressing and holding the Home button, reconnect the USB cable to iPad. When you reconnect the USB cable, iPad should power on.
• Continue holding the Home button until you see the "Connect to iTunes" screen. When this screen appears you can release the Home button.
• If necessary, open iTunes. You should see the recovery mode alert that iTunes has detected an iPad in recovery mode.
• Use iTunes to restore iPad.

iOS: Device disabled after entering wrong passcode

http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1212

Using iPhone/iPad Recovery Mode

http://ipod.about.com/od/iphonetroubleshooting/a/Iphone-Recovery-Mode.htm

Saw this solution on another post about an iPad in a school enviroment. Might work on your iPad so you won't lose everything.

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‘iPad is disabled’ fix without resetting using iTunes

Today I met my match with an iPad that had a passcode entered too many times, resulting in it displaying the message ‘iPad is disabled – Connect to iTunes’. This was a student iPad and since they use Notability for most of their work there was a chance that her files were not all backed up to the cloud. I really wanted to just re-activate the iPad instead of totally resetting it back to our default image.

I reached out to my PLN on Twitter and had some help from a few people through retweets and a couple of clarification tweets. I love that so many are willing to help out so quickly. Through this I also learned that I look like Lt. Riker from Star Trek (thanks @FillineMachine).

Through some trial and error (and a little sheer luck), I was able to reactivate the iPad without loosing any data. Note, this will only work on the computer it last synced with. Here’s how:

1. Configurator is useless in reactivating a locked iPad. You will only be able to completely reformat the iPad using Configurator. If that’s ok with you, go for it – otherwise don’t waste your time trying to figure it out.

2. Open iTunes with the iPad disconnected.

3. Connect the iPad to the computer and wait for it to show up in the devices section in iTunes.

4. Click on the iPad name when it appears and you will be given the option to restore a backup or setup as a new iPad (since it is locked).

5. Click ‘Setup as new iPad’ and then click restore.

6. The iPad will start backing up before it does the full restore and sync. CANCEL THE BACKUP IMMEDIATELY. You do this by clicking the small x in the status window in iTunes.

7. When the backup cancels, it immediately starts syncing – cancel this as well using the same small x in the iTunes status window.

8. The first stage in the restore process unlocks the iPad, you are basically just cancelling out the restore process as soon as it reactivates the iPad.

If done correctly, you will experience no data loss and the result will be a reactivated iPad. I have now tried this with about 5 iPads that were locked identically by students and each time it worked like a charm.

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Try it and good luck. You have nothing more to lose if it doesn't work for you.

 Cheers, Tom 😉

please help me , my ipad says it is disabled. connect to itunes ( that happened because of entering wrong passwords by kids)

and when i connet itunes it says ' itunes could not connect to the ipad because it is locked with a passcode. you must enter your passcode on the ipad before it can be used with itunes"