I had to manually kill a windows process tcprela圓2.exe in order to restart Gecko.ĩ) SO when its successful you a get message up with your passcode detailed on about the 9th line. If it doesn’t then I suspect you will wait forever and have messed up the earlier steps. But if the bottom of the screen on the iphone is flashing as its scrolling the same message up over and over I would say leave it for a while.Ĩ) Now i tried several times before success and never saw the iphone scrolling messages. there are 9999 combinations so this will take a while. When complete press ‘cancel’ and go back to the first Gecko screen.ħ) Your iphone should start scrolling the same message over and over until the screen is full. Ipod should load some custom firmware and flash stuff up and down. Shut your ipod down while the cable is still connected.ĥ) Enter DFU mode by holding down the power on button and the centre home button for SEVEN seconds and then release the power button and hold the centre/home button down for 10 seconds. Select the image just downloaded in the pop up. Select device of ipod touch 4th Gen and hit boot. It suggests iPod4,1_5.0.1_9A405_Restore.ipsw I found a copy of this here and othersģ) Unpack Gecko and run the iphone toolkit exe. Like all shareware I would run in a virtual machine just in case there are any nasties in the code… these seem ok and the links are where I got the code from.Ģ) Download a firmware image. To be honest the software will do iphones and other ipod version. Well they do and below is my instructions on how to recover the password for an ipod 4th Gen. So lots of digging and I found several sets of partial instructions that say they work. Gecko iPhone Toolkit version 3: iPhone 4 (IPHONE3,1), iOS 7.0 and 7.0.4 (maybe other 7. Restore the device and loose things is the only solution offered on most pages. Devices: iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPad 1, iPod Touch 3G, iPod touch 4G Gecko iPhone Toolkit version 2: iPhone 3Gs, iPhone 4, iPad 1, iPod Touch 3G, iPod touch 4G. OK re-attach to Itunes and you can remove the block and start guessing the password again, but there is no supported way to just to reset the password. How to Reset a Forgotten Password for an iOS DeviceĪ little off topic for Poppit Sands, but I had one of the girls saying they had forgotten the password to their ipod and locked themselves out.