iPhone is disabled for 24 million minutes

iPhone is disabled for 24 million minutes I just pulled out my old iPhone 5 from its box to see in my horror to be disabled for 24 million minutes (4 decades) and its stuck in airplane mode. I tried methods with putting a working sim in there in rebooting 2 times to no avail. I also heard about restoring it but I don't want to lose all my info on it so can anyone help?
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"Smartfone NI

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"Only by restoring you can have your phone back. If you have an itunes or icloud backup you can retrieve the info you saved, but all the info you haven't backup will be lost.

To recover you phone turn it off and plug into a pc or mac while holding the home button and follow Itunes indications"

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"I had the same issue here on an iPhone6. Had a broken screen from which the touch functionality only worked on half the screen. Due to this, couldn't enter the passcode properly and had several wrong tries. If that happens it tells you to retry after 5 minutes. The next time, you have to wait 15 minutes, then 60 minutes etc.

So I ordered a new screen and replaced it. In the process I disconnected the battery and reconnected during reassambly. This causes the date to revert to 1st of Jan 1970. Which, yesterday, was 25359778 minutes ago.

I didn't want to restore the phone as we didn't have a recent backup. Also I didn't feel like waiting 48 years to retry.

Finally I just connected to the mac and opened iTunes (not sure if that's necessary). I waited a bit and apparently the phone synced time with the computer. Now I could enter the passcode."

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Restore on 3uTools: http://www.3u.com/tutorial/articles/5970...

Guest [Entry]

I had this exact same problem with the iPhone 6. I tried Erik127's method and it didn't work but we put in a new SIM card and it fixed it (by resetting the date from Jan 1970 to 2018)..