iPod is disabled, try again in 24,004,148 minutes

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iPod is disabled, try again in 24,004,148 minutes

Hey all....

My friends daughter woke up over the weekend to find that her iPod touch was disabled along with a very strange TRY AGAIN message on the lock screen.... has anyone ever seen this issue before... is there any quick fix.

I have tried a "force restart" but that did nothing.... they don't have any backups and she's got lots of her favourite photos and video from her summer vacation on there.... so I wanna try and help them to see if there' any way to log back in and get the iPod working again.

The only thing I can think of is to hook up to their iTunes and restore the phone to factory settings.... but that is the absolute last resort.

Any help or assistance would be a great help to this 8year old girl and really make her day!! 🙂

Mac Pro, OS X Yosemite (10.10), 64GB Ram with 512GB SSD Drive

Posted on Oct 5, 2015 6:56 AM

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Answer 1

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Macbookbook pro guy

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Oct 5, 2015 7:01 AM in response to Anthony MacCarthy

Hi there, I think that you should just restore it because there no other way to go on it again as it is on ios 6 or 5 and also the iPods are so old that they arent compatible with the latest release of ios.

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Answer 2

lllaass

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Oct 5, 2015 7:07 AM in response to Anthony MacCarthy

Disabled

Place the iOS device in Recovery Mode and then connect to your computer and restore via iTunes. The iPod will be erased.

iOS: Forgot passcode or device disabled

If recovery mode does not work try DFU mode.

How to put iPod touch / iPhone into DFU mode « Karthik's scribblings

For how to restore:

iTunes: Restoring iOS software

To restore from backup see:

Restore your device from an iCloud or iTunes backup - Apple Support

If you restore from iCloud backup the apps will be automatically downloaded. If you restore from iTunes backup the apps and music have to be in the iTunes library since synced media like apps and music are not included in the backup of the iOS device that iTunes makes.

You can redownload most iTunes purchases by:

Downloading past purchases from the App Store, iBookstore, and iTunes Store

If problem what happens or does not happen and when in the instructions? When you successfully get the iPod in recovery mode and connect to computer iTunes should say it found an iPod in recovery mode.

If you previously synced to the computer then you may be able to recover use of the iPod without erasing the iPod by following the instructions here:

Disabled Recovery-must use syncing computer.

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