Can anyone help me with this?
I saw on the internet how someone was showing how to get more guesses on an iphone.
I let the ipad update to 8.03 or something and it has locked me out by asking for a pass code which I don't remember ever using. The person that set it up at the version store may have set it not to need it for me, now I can not get back in. I took it back to verizon and all my guesses have been used and I am locked out. The ipad has not been connected to the computer by itunes so I do not have a way of getting the ipad back by my computer.
I have business photos that I have downloaded and hate the thought of loosing them. From what I have read, the only choice I have is to wipe the ipad clean and start over as if it is new. It looks like someone at the apple store could take it into the back room and use a secret code to unlock my ipad like you see on TV where the computer programmers leave a backdoor for getting back into the computer program. What I hate also is having to setup the apps that I was using.
TIA
Ed Killough, NCPLS
My son was playing with the finger print reader on my Samsung S5 and I got locked out.
There is no back door unless you have done it after getting your phone. The back door is that missing password and in my case whatever was actually scanned for a fingerprint. Not any of my son's or my fingerprints would open the phone.
Called Tech Support and they completely cleared all the existing data on the phone without any means to back it up or copy of the data and then reinstalled the software and afterwards all my Google Play apps automatically reloaded onto my phone and it was ready to go.
About 2mos ago it updated to lollipop and it took about 37mins and it was up and running again with most of my settings intact.
A Harris, post: 329723, member: 81 wrote: My son was playing with the finger print reader on my Samsung S5 and I got locked out.
There is no back door unless you have done it after getting your phone. The back door is that missing password and in my case whatever was actually scanned for a fingerprint. Not any of my son's or my fingerprints would open the phone.
Called Tech Support and they completely cleared all the existing data on the phone without any means to back it up or copy of the data and then reinstalled the software and afterwards all my Google Play apps automatically reloaded onto my phone and it was ready to go.
About 2mos ago it updated to lollipop and it took about 37mins and it was up and running again with most of my settings intact.
This is my first experience with Apple and I do not understand about all this security stuff, if I have to wipe it clean and start over and it is mine what prevents a thief from doing the same thing?
Ed
ekillo, post: 329727, member: 773 wrote: This is my first experience with Apple and I do not understand about all this security stuff, if I have to wipe it clean and start over and it is mine what prevents a thief from doing the same thing?
Ed
It's simple, if you have a backup. Wipe it; restore from the backup (that you made using iTunes).
You DO have a backup, don't you?
As for stealing the unit, nothing prevents a thief from stealing an iPad and wiping it clean unless you have IOS 7 with "Activation Lock" enabled. Then they're out of luck.
rfc, post: 329737, member: 8882 wrote: It's simple, if you have a backup. Wipe it; restore from the backup (that you made using iTunes).
You DO have a backup, don't you?As for stealing the unit, nothing prevents a thief from stealing an iPad and wiping it clean. But they can't get your data.
No I do not have a backup and I think it is a poor operating system if the developer can not get it back.
Ed
ekillo, post: 329738, member: 773 wrote: No I do not have a backup and I think it is a poor operating system if the developer can not get it back.
Ed
It's like that for a reason. If there were security holes they would most likely be discovered and exploited. Would you rather lose your data all together (preventable if you do backups), or have it fall into the wrong hands? Are OS back doors really a good thing if companies share them with big brother or the highest bidder to facilitate spying on you or your data? I'll take a secure device thank you very much!
Precision-geo-inc, post: 329758, member: 9801 wrote: It's like that for a reason. If there were security holes they would most likely be discovered and exploited. Would you rather lose your data all together (preventable if you do backups), or have it fall into the wrong hands? Are OS back doors really a good thing if companies share them with big brother or the highest bidder to facilitate spying on you or your data? I'll take a secure device thank you very much!
Like I said I am new to the OS and did not understand what it meant to connect to itunes, I thought it was for downloading music and I was not interested in putting music on my work device. If there is a backup, I don't know how to get to it, I have tried to connect to itunes and the computer says that this device has not been connected to itunes on it.
Right now all I have is an expensive paper weight and with my work load I do not have the time to figure out what needs to be done.
Ed
Precision-geo-inc, post: 329758, member: 9801 wrote: It's like that for a reason. If there were security holes they would most likely be discovered and exploited. Would you rather lose your data all together (preventable if you do backups), or have it fall into the wrong hands? Are OS back doors really a good thing if companies share them with big brother or the highest bidder to facilitate spying on you or your data? I'll take a secure device thank you very much!
Don't kid yourself - there IS a back door on the iPad/iPhone. You just have to work for the correct employer to access it.
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