Restoring an IPod touch bought from a pawnshop?

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Restoring an IPod touch bought from a pawnshop?

Ok so my mom's old iPod battery has been bad so when I was at the pawn shop I saw and decided to buy her one of the newer iPod touch 5th gen. As soon as I got home I put it to charge only to find out it has a passcode needed. I called the pawnshop to see if they by chance knew it and they didn't. Good news is they said I could get a refund. I looked online to see if I could somehow keep it and I read some posts talking about restoring it and it should be fine. Now I'm not very technological person but I followed the directions and a few minutes into restoring and update, my computer made a noise and there was a window that popped up saying 'iPod touch needs passcode' however it is still shows downloading 'IPod software update' so do I have to wait for the software update to be done to restore it and it will work or is it not going to work and I should tak

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Posted on Mar 27, 2015 7:46 PM

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bobjbkln

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Mar 27, 2015 8:52 PM in response to dsant93

Return it to the pawnshop. You cannot get it to work. See: Find My iPhone Activation Lock - Apple Support

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Mar 28, 2015 6:53 AM in response to bobjbkln

I appreciate you trying to help, so thank you 🙂

I actually managed to get it to work! It wasn't with the normal restore I had to follow the DFU restore steps, hold power button 3 secs as you connect the iPod to iTunes, then continue to hold power and home button ten seconds, let go of power an hold home for 20 secs. Next thing I know I get it downloading ipod software again but I don't get a pop up asking for passcode again. Long wait but it was worth it, iPod started up in factory settings 🙂

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lllaass

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Mar 28, 2015 9:12 AM in response to dsant93

That means that either is was not activation locked or the previous owner removed the device from their account. Restoring via DFU mode does NOT bypass the activation lock.

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