today we're going to bypass the iPod
disabled screen without restoring the
iPod this will work with iPhones up to 4
4s as long as it's running 5.01 hasn't
been grid operated to 5.1 so what we're
going to do is first prepare the iPod
ahead of time by putting it into DFU
mode in order to do that we're going to
go ahead and power it down and we can do
this now we can actually do it later on
if we want to I'm gonna go ahead and do
it beforehand it's already plugged into
the computer go ahead and turn the
device off and wait till that little
spinning wheel comes on the center of
the screen and then we know it's
completely powered down what we're going
to do is press the power button until
the Apple shows up then we're going to
also press the home button at the same
time keep them both depressed until the
screen blacks out and then we'll release
the power button continue holding the
home so there's power home go ahead and
hold on to a screen blacks out and then
release the power button go ahead and
keep on holding the home button until
you see the device appear in DFU mode on
your computer you should have a dialog
or if iTunes hasn't already opened it
probably will and tell you that you need
a restore and once you close out of that
we're going to go ahead and open up the
Gecko toolkit here and this will take a
couple seconds to process and I have
black bars on the sides of my screen
because I thought this screen capture
software well it's new so I'll have to
live with that for now
now the toolkit will open up here and
what we're going to do is select the
bypass iTunes or iPhone disabled tab so
the second one from the left and once we
do that we can use the drop-down to
select our device in this case it's
going to be an iPod 2nd generation you
can see there's some other options there
go ahead and click on the bypass button
and you'll have a prompt here that says
to put the device into DFU mode but
remember we've already done that
beforehand so you don't have to worry
about that now although you have the
option of putting it into DFU mode at
this point once we do that we're going
to go ahead and click on OK and we'll
have another dialog that opens up here
and
what we're looking for down here at the
bottom is the prompt that says the the
root password has been or the password
has been set to alpine and you'll see
that show up shortly this is a
relatively short process meanwhile on
the device what you're going to see as
the screen will flash white for a second
and then we'll have a little spinning
wheel at the bottom momentarily and then
what we're looking for is an apple with
the progress bar that does not move
so there's your spinning wheel now we're
going to see a progress bar with an
apple but it's not going to go anywhere
it's just going to stay there on the
screen this is going to prompt us to go
back to the dialog and this one on the
top left-hand corner here you see we've
got root and Alpine here we're going to
go ahead and close this screen and at
this point you'll have a little message
here that says if a dialog pops up
asking you to click Y or n for yes or no
go ahead and type in N and then click
enter keep that in mind we'll see that
show up here in just a second go ahead
and click on OK and let's see if we can
make some room here and here's the
pop-up dialog I was talking about down
here you're going to see it you've got
an option for yes or no just go ahead
and click in n for no and then hit enter
and that will disappear go back on the
iPod and what we're looking for here is
it's going to reboot and when it does we
won't have the iPod disabled to connect
to itunes message anymore what we'll be
able to do is enter our password if we
know what it is if you don't know your
password you will still have to perform
this to bypass the iPod disabled screen
and then you can go to the other video
that I have which will actually show you
how to read the password but as long as
you're an iPod disabled connect to
itunes you cannot read the password you
have to bypass the screen first and as
you'll see here shortly the device is
going to reboot and when it does you'll
have the option to enter your password
and now the disabled message as you can
see is gone and you have your password
prompt