Forgot your iPhone Passcode? Learn to bypass it.
If you’re like me who eventually forget passcodes and passwords, you may have been in a situation where you confidently changed your password and you cant seem to remember what is it.
here’s the steps.
- Prepare a custom iPhone RAM disk. There are numerous How-To’s out there to do this. Your custom RAM disk will need to mount /dev/rdisk0s2 (say, /mnt) and simply delete the file /mnt/mobile/Library/Preferences/com.apple.springboard.plist. This is the config file that tells springboard “passcode: on”
- Use the iPhone Utility Client to place the device into recovery mode and then boot the RAM disk using something like:
- (iPHUC Recovery) #: filecopytophone Bypass_Passcode.bin
- filecopytophone: 0
- (iPHUC Recovery) #: cmd setenv\ boot-args\ rd=md0\ -x\ -s\ pmd0=0×9340000.0xA00000
- (iPHUC Recovery) #: cmd saveenv
- (iPHUC Recovery) #: cmd bootx
- After your custom RAM disk blows away the springboard config, reboot the phone and the passcode will be circumvented, because SpringBoard’s default is “no passcode”
If you’re savvy enough and have knowledge of iphone hacking tools and stuff, you can try it but if you’re lazy or just too busy like me i’ll just open up itunes and hit “restore” this will restore everything and you can now use your iphone.
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i need help i totally lost that disk RAM thing that your talking about and i forgot my passcode on my iphone how do i unlock it pleeaaase help?!
same as above and i have no idea how to do what you said… sorry i have unlocked a bunch of phones and i would just do that but the person that owns the phone needs her notes off the phone and they are not saved any were else…
please email me with any advice or a step by step walk through i’m ok with computers just don’t know what to do with this problem…
thanks,
Kamran
i loss the passcode to my iphone i cant remeber it how can i retrieve it please i need hel i have all of my customers info in that phone please help
you just need to sync it to your mac.. you can restore it and use a backup created by itunes.
hi i lost my passcode and cant find away past it how would i get past it plz email me details as i am not very good with computers and that didnt make any sense to me i havent got itunes as my friend used to do it for me so is there any other way
Very well organized web. easy to understand, which is what I was looking for. It really helped!!!!! Compare to another webs I could not understand anything. Good job and thank you! I almost gave up, and I was ready to pay someone to fix something so simple. Thanks to you ……………..
You people don’t “Lose” your passcode to your iphones; you FORGET them.
Next time think very carefully before you enter a passcode in the first place; preferably make it some sort of 4-digit number you’ll REMEMBER in the event that you have a brain-fart. Ie: dont set it to some RANDOM number, make it last four of your social; birthdate, an easy-to-remember sequence, etc.
For those of you who are blaming the user for “forgetting” their passcode, YOU ARE NOT HELPING.
This post is designed to help those who need it, not to berate them for making a mistake, or being put into a situation they did not cause themselves.
whats the first step to your instructions above on how to reboot ur iphone and byepass the passcaode??
hello all.i need your help.i was realy lucky to find an iPhone 2g 8gb.how can i use it ?it is need to be known the pass which unlocks device…plz i need an answert
@SPP: Hey.. just restore it using itunes, you don’t need the previous owners info.. however before you do it and treat the iPhone as your own keep in mind that someone out there must be so lonely right now looking for his iphone
wow thats exactly what you shouldn’t do. lets make it something easy so people can break into it. do you leave a spar key under your doormat?? Its pretty easy to obtain someones birthday. Anyone who wants to crack your phone wants to do it for a reason they either know you personally or if they dont they will find out that info through passive recon. DO NOT MAKE IT YOUR BIRTHDAY OR THE LAST FOUR OF YOU SOCIAL. think about how many pieces of mail you recieve with those two things printed on them. But hey i get paid well being a network security specialist because some retards do this sort of thing. Bet you right down your password on a stick-it note and stick it right t the monitor too. The nubers on the key pad are associated with letters spell something if you cant think of a number.
oooh waaaaaait!i had it open 24 hours and noone called !!!!!! i can buy one but i got no call men ://///
btw thnx for the answert
Just restoring it using iTunes doesn’t work on a passcode locked iPhone. Not if the computer and phone are strangers anyway.
I found iphone 3G 8gb on train.The phone had no sim card in it, so finding it hard 2 trace owner. The phone has a bad crack wich makes me think it was used as a ipod only.The iphone is disabled and needs a passcode 2 sync with iTunes.Security is all well and good! but! it wont get this phone back 2 owner.I took it 2 a store 2c if it could be unlocked, they said no! its dead…But if you put it on ebay your get £100 for it
if thats true some one must no how 2 unlock it. im honest but im not prepared 2 pay 2 have unlocked without guarentes…Help.
You can unlock the iPhone using a free Software, check em here
http://www.machoe.com/1360/iphone-3gs-jailbreak-for-mac-download-now.html
hey i was lucky enouph to find a 16gb iphone in a taxi last nite is there any way off getting around the passcode ?
have u guy try plug ur iphone in to ur computer. open itune. press and hold power and home botton for 30sec-1min while ur iphone plug to itune. it will show an itune and usb icon on ur phone. and on ur itune ( computer) it will ask u to restore and update, and accept it. just follow the instruction on itune.
Please someone help me!!!! I have an iPhone 3G 8 GBs and my little son put a password on it!! When I turn the iphone on it actually goes to my apps and the only thing I can open is the phone. I tried going to my contacts, I can see them but nothing else works from there, not the urls, text messaging,nothing….PLEASE HELP!!! I have so much stuff on my phone and I havent backed up my data like in 2 months!! I dont wanna lose everything I have on here…thanks so much!!!
Why don’t you fools keep your opinions to yourselves, maybe he did steal an iPhone, it’s irrelevant. If you can’t answer the question about how one can bypass the passcode lock, then shut your pie hole.
I tried your method but it at the end of the restore is still asks for the pass code
Does starting the process to unlock reset and bypass a passcode in place? I can’t find anywhere that says that and I know you cannot jailbreak without knowing your passcode if the phone is passcoded.
i know my passcode but my classmates try to unlock my iphone and its disabled…and after 60 minutes..i try to put my code..but it doesnt work…haaya…help please!!!!
i forgot my iphone passcode nd wen i plug it into the computer it doesnt recognize the iphone all the restore methods dont work wat should i do should i jus throw away the phone nd get a new 1 plz help
I jailbroke a 4.0 3g I got as a hand-me-down. Anyways, decided to try out the complex password feature, didn’t like it and put it back to keypad password. It now won’t accept the password I put. Kinda annoying, but since I have my laptop I last synced it with, I’ll just restore. Bookmarking this for future reference, though.
i am tryin to figure that out but when i do u will be the first one i tell…
i have the same problem,
i dont have the disk anymore,
and i have forgot my password.
can you help????
kodie.