PLEASE HELP!! My phone wants me to enter a passcode to use

[jasperk99]

I have version 3.1.2 jailbroken with blackrain Iphone 3GS ; it has been jailbroken since blackrain came out; today out of know where my phone is asking for a passcode. I can't do anything except emergency calls; what should I do

Please help

[Roessnakhan]

Somehow I doubt the validity of your story. Passcodes just don't set themselves.

[IgnatiusTheKing]

Enter the passcode.

(It should be noted here that you can't set up the iPhone to demand a passcode without first creating one.)

[jasperk99]

I have no reason to not tell the truth; I have never created a passcode; I don't know how to create a passcode

[Bakakage]

Well might as well restore then, or you can try stuff like 12345, etc.

[jasperk99]

When I plugged my phone in; it automatically did a backup; if I restore from that backup will it still have that passcode in there or will I have to set back to the default settings? I do have a previous backup from August I can try that too. What do you recommend

[thelatinist]

Either you or someone with physical access to your phone set up a passcode. You're locked out unless you can figure out the passcode. DFU restore is the next step.

[tryppy]

I have no reason to not tell the truth; I have never created a passcode; I don't know how to create a passcode

Someone may have put one on behind your back. Did you lend your phone to anyone recently to make a call or anything?

[jasperk99]

Its weird, because I just did a regular itunes restore and restored the backup that it had just made when I had plugged it in before; and it seems to work now; Also weird is that my voicemail and wifi passwords were gone; but once I reentered them they now work. I thought a regular restore would not work if a passcode was on there? Could someone have possibly hacked into my phone with SSH without me knowing it; I never changed the SSH password......

[-aggie-]

Its weird, because I just did a regular itunes restore and restored the backup that it had just made when I had plugged it in before; and it seems to work now; Also weird is that my voicemail and wifi passwords were gone; but once I reentered them they now work. I thought a regular restore would not work if a passcode was on there? Could someone have possibly hacked into my phone with SSH without me knowing it; I never changed the SSH password......

Well, restoring from a backup shouldn't have removed your voicemail and wifi passwords (unless, I guess, you didn't have the passwords set when you backed up).

[jasperk99]

Well, restoring from a backup shouldn't have removed your voicemail and wifi passwords (unless, I guess, you didn't have the passwords set when you backed up).

They did reset though; and my exchange has reset as well it asking for that password too

[jasperk99]

Everything on my phone that required a password has reset; facebook, tweetie,slingbox, exchange, voicemail, wifi. Is it possible for someone to steal my passwords via ssh? If it is even possible that this happened through SSH I wonder if it is safe to re jailbreak

[Bakakage]

Did you connect your iphone to any public wifispots recently or ever?

[jasperk99]

Did you connect your iphone to any public wifispots recently or ever?

I have

[iPhone-power]

I have

Unfortunately this is just another example of how important it is to change the SSH passwords.

[Bakakage]

Yeah, well its pretty much safe to jailbreak, but you gotta change your shh passwords if you use ssh. Heres how you do it (http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=813580)

[darngooddesign]

I never changed the SSH password......

You might want to do this from now on.