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| Raised Hands Surround Us Three Nails To Protect Us  |
We had an old iPhone no SIM card we let the kids use so if it got dropped in he toilet Ohh well. It has been missing for months and just found it. Tried all the passcodes we usually use and no dice. Anyway to unlock it. There is nothing on there but a couple apps so if I have to do some sort of complete wipe that is cool. ———————————————— The world's not perfect, but it's not that bad. If we got each other, and that's all we have. I will be your brother, and I'll hold your hand. You should know I'll be there for you! | ||
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Was it backed up on iTunes? | |||
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Try wiping it first, then sync it with your iTunes account. If that doesn't work I'd try giving Apple a call. There is a serial number embedded in the hardware that should be tied to your account, so they could remotely wipe it for you. I know they have a procedure, just can't quite remember. ---------- “Nobody can ever take your integrity away from you. Only you can give up your integrity.” H. Norman Schwarzkopf | |||
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Wait! What? Apple claimed they couldn’t help break into the San Bernardino terrorist’s iPhone. Now you’re telling me there’s a procedure?? ———- Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for thou art crunchy and taste good with catsup. | |||
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| I'd rather be hated for who I am than loved for who I am not |
yeah for a legal registered owner! | |||
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Don't Panic |
And, to be fair, wiping is different from decrypting, which is what the Feds wanted help with re: the terrorist's iPhone. | |||
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Apple didn’t claim that they couldn’t, they just flat out wouldn’t do it. There are companies out there that can, but it’ll cost you a pretty penny. | |||
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Too clever by half |
If you didn't buy the phone from Apple, you'll need to come up with proof of purchase. "We have a system that increasingly taxes work, and increasingly subsidizes non-work" - Milton Friedman | |||
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His Royal Hiney |
Don't you just have to keep entering the wrong password (I think 20 times) and then it will reset itself to factory? That's what I remember. "It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life – daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual." Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, 1946. | |||
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Lost |
Mine (iPhone 8 running 11.0.1) says 10 times, but only if "Erase Data" is enabled under "Touch ID & Passcode" in Settings. | |||
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Depending on the IOS version Try: https://www.computerworld.com/...s-running-ios-9.html https://ios.gadgethacks.com/ho...ing-ios-6-1-0142518/ https://threatpost.com/passcod...-1-and-later/116624/ I should be tall and rich too; That ain't gonna happen either | |||
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Bought a password locked iPhone 5s from the pawn shop a while back for cheap. Went on youtube and searched. Restored to original then restored to my old phone through iTunes. Only took a few minutes. | |||
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| Little ray of sunshine  |
Wiping it so you can start from scratch are different than helping the government hack into it and get access to all the stuff. As I understand it, if they wipe it, you are getting a blank iPhone. The fish is mute, expressionless. The fish doesn't think because the fish knows everything. | |||
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| Raised Hands Surround Us Three Nails To Protect Us |
No dice with the Siri hack. It is older and is still Voice Command and not Siri. Needs a passcode for iTunes to recognize it. ———————————————— The world's not perfect, but it's not that bad. If we got each other, and that's all we have. I will be your brother, and I'll hold your hand. You should know I'll be there for you! | |||
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| Junior Member |
The way around it is to restore your device to factory setting so that you can access your iPhone even though you can't remember iPhone passcode. Either using iTunes restore via recovery mode or iCloud erase feature is OK. | |||
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Ammoholic |
Signs up for gun forum, first post is to one year old iPhone thread. Interesting. Jesse Sic Semper Tyrannis | |||
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| Just for the hell of it  |
Black is willing to wipe all the data if needed. I don't think that was an option in the other case. _____________________________________ Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain. Jack Kerouac | |||
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