AFAIR, the lockout period doubles (or thereabouts) each time you get the passcode wrong (after the first 5 attempts or so). So he'd have had to wait 6 years for the previous lockout before getting the passcode wrong again :)
H On 4 October 2012 17:55, objectwerks inc <[email protected]> wrote: > > My son uses my old 2G iPhone as a "touch" to play games. It is not activated > as a phone. I had a passcode on it to keep him from playing 24/7. He had > not used it for several weeks and plugged it in today. The phone comes up > with red banner and says something like "iPhone disabled -- try again in > 6,606,860 Minutes" which is like 12.5+ years from now. He says he wasn't > trying to unlock it by guessing, which is probably true as it had been "dead" > the last few weeks, uncharged, and it just got plugged in a short while ago > and he has been busy doing other stuff. But even if he did, it usually is > just a short lock of 1/4 hour or so. (It is county the minutes down, when I > first looked, it was 6,606,867) > > Luckily, plugging it into my Mac to iTunes, where I had backed it up > previously and was the "known registered" iTunes for the phone, cleared it. > > I just thought it was funny. > > > Chad > > > > > _______________________________________________ > iPhone-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/iphone-talk _______________________________________________ iPhone-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/iphone-talk
