I forgot my iphone password, and everytime i try to restore it, it begins downloading ios all over again, which takes up to 5 hours. But my iphone software is completely up to date. Why is it doing this?

So basically i set a passcode and forgot it.. I want to restore my iphone. It's an iphone five and currently the software is all up to date. However whenever I try to restore it, I get this message that it's contacting the apple software server and then it begins downloading i.os which takes up to 5 hours. Why is it doing this?

The only way to deal with a forgotten passcode is to restore the phone.
iOS: Forgotten passcode or device disabled after entering wrong passcode

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Thank you for posting in the Apple Support Communities. I found an article that has information about Error 29:
Error 20, 21, 23, 26, 28, 29, 34, 36, 37, 40
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http://support.apple.com/kb/ts3694
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