Why is my phone saying its disabled for 21 million minutes?

"The most reason is date and time settings. It happens to me a lot since i remove the battery from iphone 4 while doing repairs.

When you remove battery date goes back to 1960's or 1980's. and time becomes 6:00pm. That doesnt match the information on your iphone and it becomes disabled.

Because of that phone disable itself for more than million minutes.

The best way is to put a working sim card in it and reboot 2 times. While your sim register to network it sets your date and time automaticly to today. And you can use your phone without erasing it.

It worked for me more than 100 times."

Here is a similar question with a few good answers. Check it out and see if it helps!

"I can fully accept that the phone is disabled because the time and date are wrong, I had this following a repair on a 5s and then it found a signal with the appropriate SIM card and was back in action. I now have the same issue with an iPhone 4 that I'm repairing and testing.

Regards,

Steve..."

Its several reasons why an iphone would be disabled, (1) the most common reason is to many failed attempts on the pass code screen. (2) If someone accesses your I-Cloud account from another device & change your security settings. (3) If your phone is connected to a computer with out-dated software ( I-tunes) this could disable your phone as well. You have two options re-connect your phone to i-tunes that you usually back up your phone on & press restore, or wait the allotted time & enter in the correct pass code on your mobile device.

"I figured it out.

resintall the iOS and it solved the issue. to install the ios start the ipad in restore mode by following the below steps.

Disconnect the USB cable from the device, but leave the other end of the cable connected to your computer's USB port.

Turn off the device: Press and hold the Sleep/Wake button for a few seconds until the red slider appears, then slide the slider. Wait for the device to shut down.

While pressing and holding the Home button, reconnect the USB cable to the device. The device should turn on.

Continue holding the Home button until you see the Connect to iTunes screen.

iTunes will alert you that it has detected a device in recovery mode. Click OK, and then restore the device."

"i just had the same problem and found a solution :

just put a sim card on your iphone and call it with another phone.

if iphone receives the call, waiting time will be gone"