Changing Time & Date settings to Jan 1, 1970 will permanently brick 64-bit iOS device

jmke · 11th February 2016, 14:25

- Settings
- General
- Date & Time
- "Set Automatically" off
- Change date to Jan 1, 1970 (Scroll up to get to year 2000, then go back, into date settings again, repeat until it reaches 1970)
- Reboot.

The iOS device will fail to boot, stuck at display of Apple logo.

DON'T DO THIS!!!!!!!!! A DFU restore or Recovery mode restore will NOT put the device back into working order.

A physical repair (either a Genius Bar appointment or physically disconnecting battery and connecting again) is required for the device to function again.

Quote:

it was originally done by a Chinese guy because there's a bug that prevented the time from displaying in iOS 9.3 Beta 3.

He tried to work around that problem through self-troubleshooting, then tried to set the date and time way back and see if the bug goes away.

Instead, when he rebooted, the device was bricked. He posted this on the internet, thinking it was a bug in iOS 9.3 Beta 3. Then random people on older firmware tested it, believing it would either not affect them, or would be resolved through a DFU restore.

Then those people realized that a DFU restore does absolutely no good. Others fail to believe that and tried. Then they got that problem too.

Heck, one report suggests this - An Apple Store Genius Bar employee did not believe the validity when a customer sends his iPhone in for repair. He tried to replicate the issue on his own phone. As a result, he sent both his own phone and that customer's phone into repair...

https://www.reddit.com/r/jailbreak/c...ings_to_jan_1/

jmke · 15th February 2016, 14:44

if you leave the device's running and let the battery go completely flat, it will reset itself and you get to recover your phone... good to know!

15th February 2016, 14:44	#2
jmke Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium Posts: 79,022	if you leave the device's running and let the battery go completely flat, it will reset itself and you get to recover your phone... good to know! __________________

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