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Model No. A1367 / 8, 16, 32, or 64 GB capacity

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touch sensors and disabled for 23,541,381

My iPod says it's disabled for 23,541,381 minutes and the touch sensors don't work. Is there any way I could fix it?

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The disabled part is caused because an incorrect passcode was entered too many times and then the iPod was left uncharged until the battery completely drained. When the battery completely drains the internal clock resets to Unix Time 0 - which is midnight January 1, 1970 - and then the iPod doesn't properly calculate the wait time so that you can re-enter the passcode (normally it would say 5 minutes or 60 minutes or whatnot).

If you don't mind losing what's on the iPod you can restore the iPod and that will clear the lock. Turn the iPod off, get a computer and open iTunes, and hold down the home button while connecting the iPod to the computer. iTunes will detect a device in recovery mode and offer to restore it. Choose to restore, wait for iOS to be downloaded from Apple and it will restore the device to factory settings. If you have a backup of your iPod you can restore that to the iPod at this point.

Just as an FYI for anyone who comes here in the future looking for info on this issue: For the time issue there's not much that can be done. You can try connecting it to a computer with iTunes that you previously synced the iPod with and sync as the iPod would normally sync time at that point, but because it's locked it may refuse to do so. If it were a phone you could put in a SIM and repeatedly reset the phone to get it to pull time from the cellular towers, but that won't work here either obviously.

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