passcode -- useless???

I just recently...

started utilizing the passcode feature, so I'm afraid to take that leap of testing it, as you've described.

But, I'll give it a shot.

 

Perhaps the 1 minute delay expired while the phone was rebooting?

 

This reminds me of when my friend took my phone and was messing around. He got into settings without me seeing, and he changed my passcode. Then he refused to tell me, so i didn't have a phone all day. All i did was basically a restore and bam, it works. Thank god for this too.

The passcode does it's part for the most part.

 

ha ha nick, i cant believe you didn't beat your friend up , i definitely would.

 

That's weird. I've tried the exact same thing before and it didn't reset the timer nor bypass the lock.

The odd thing is that it should always lock again automatically whenever you turn it on or reset it.

 

If the passcode is anything like in the iPods then it's kinda useless anyway. To reset it, you should have to take it to Apple/O2, not just plug it in - or am I missing something? Does it have to be plugged into the comp it's synced to?

Kinda random question, I know.

 

When it is reset by plugging it in, the data on the phone is wiped and resynced from the last backup in iTunes. So they would have to have access to both your iPhone and the computer you sync to I think. Otherwise they would just get a new iPhone with no data on it.

 

It's not useless. You need to plug the iphone into the exact computer it was synced to. Plugging it anywhere else will not unlock it. If you get your iphone stolen or lose it, there is no way the other person would be able to get into your iphone...at least not the data on it. This is clever enough, it would suck to have to take the phone into Apple.

It seems what the OP experienced is probably a bug which doesn't seem to be repeatable.

Kan-O-Z