Disabled 21+ million minutes?

"John Pinheiro, here is my answer from a similar question: How to I fix my disabled iPod Touch? Apple says, ""If you cannot turn off the device using the slider, press and hold the Sleep/Wake and Home buttons at the same time. When the device turns off, release the Sleep/Wake and Home buttons."" Now there is a way to erase the password, but I am not sure if this would work when you are already disabled. I guess you can always try and hope you have a Windows computer :-) Anyhow, you plug in your iPod. Open My Computer (or Computer for Vista). Click on Folder options and enable to view hidden files. Next, go to iPod_control and click on the folder named Device. If your iPod is locked, there will be a file _locked. Rename the file to _unlocked. Remove your iPod and it will be cleared. Again, not sure if it works for a disabled one. Just thought of something else. Make sure you have your library backed up.

Also, check what Apple has to say about that on here: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1808

You can also try to use recboot available here which possibly gets your device into recovery mode.

How to restore iPod touch? another answer similar to yours. Let us know what works and how it is going.

Good Luck"

"If you guys want a good and works really well answer, here it goes.

Step 1: Take the Apple USB device and plug it in your iPod but not in the computer.

Step 2: Turn the iPod off.

Step 3: (difficult ;) hehe) Hold down the home button and don't let go! Plug in the USB device into the computer. Don't release the home button until you see iTunes pop up or an Apple on your screen.

Step 4: It will turn to DFU mode. It will tell you to restore.

Hope this works for you!!!

;) Good Luck.

Bizz-out!!!"

the same thing happened to me alls i did was plug in my ipod after restarting my computer and it went to the slide unlock screen:) GOOD LUCK:)

"I had a similar problem with my phone about 6 mths ago. i didnt want to have to restore factory settings because it was before the icloud and i wasnt sure how long it had been since i had backed it up.

i searched and found a program called recboot it is great (esp with windows) to easily put it back in recovery mode without requiring any altering.

my daughters ipod has just done this 22mill minutes thing as it has been off for a few weeks. i started searching again, everyone was saying the same as before.i did try plugging it in to itunes, but it kept sating it couldnt recognise it as it was locked, but there was no opportunity to put the password in, then i remembered i had this software on my laptop. I plugged it in and within seconds, it was back to just asking for the password, en voila... back to normal.

its so worth having on the computer. RecBoot, look it up. Its gold!"

Ok, we had the same problem. Basically, what we did was plug the device in and let it charge for about 10 minutes. Then we unplugged the device after we read the post that told us what to do by going through "my computer". But by doing that, we realized that the computer was not recognizing the device. So we unplugged it from the computer, at the USB port, and then plugged it back in. ( We were hoping that this would make the computer recognize the device). As soon as we plugged it back in, the 22 million second message went away and we were able to enter the password and use the device. I think the problem was really just a low battery charge.

Same thing happened to my sons, what worked for me was plugging the iPod into the computer, opening up itunes and doing a diagnostics test. It fixed the problem!