How to Reset iPhone and iPod Touch (Hard Reset or Reboot)
iPod Touch and iPhone froze and locked up? The iPhone may be popular, but it has its fair share of problems too. The iPhone and iPod Touch may become completely unresponsive with LCD screen fading away to blank or black. And the gadget device may also does not accept nor respond to any screen taps, and ignoring or not responding to any external buttons pressed. In this total lockout situation, a possible quick solution is to reset the iPhone or iPod.
Apple Support documented how to perform a reset. However, note that resetting the iPhone or iPod is not the same with restoring the iPhone or iPod. Restore will erase and wipe out completely all information and data that contained inside the device, including musics, songs, videos, contacts, photos, calendar information, call lists, maps, applications installed and any other data. All iPhone or iPod Touch settings are restored to their factory condition. Meanwhile, reset is more about hard reset, for those familiar with terms associated with PDA, Palm or Windows Mobile. In other word, reset is simply a forced reboot, where power is cut off from iPhone or iPod Touch to restart the device from fresh.
To reset the iPhone or iPod Touch, press and hold down the Sleep/Wake button and the Home button simultaneously at the same time for at least ten seconds, then the LCD display will clear and the Apple logo appears on the black background. When Apple logo appears, reset is done.
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October 4th, 2007 01:24
[...] turn on and does not respond to tap or button press? If the problem still persists after you have reseted the iPhone, or tried various iPhone troubleshooting, it may be worthwhile to invoke recovery mode to restore [...]
October 4th, 2007 12:06
[...] stuck iPhone, try the following steps to quit and exit from hanged program may avoid the need to reset the phone. To terminate a frozen and unresponsive iPhone program, hold down the Home button when in the [...]
April 5th, 2008 17:53
“Simultaneously” means “at the same time”. You don’t need both! That said, thanks for the tip - very helpful!!
May 12th, 2008 07:15
THANKS A TON!!!
June 17th, 2008 05:13
My iPhone froze while checking email–
i am able to rebout to the Apple logo, but that doesn’t get it running.
Any ideas?????????
June 26th, 2008 02:00
Gostaria de saber como eu poderia ajeitar o meu ipod touch, pois apareceu o erro do BSD root: md0, major 2, minor 0, assim que eu instalei o Ziphone 3.0. A versao do meu ipod touch e 1.1.4. e ele é de 8gb
Pois eu comprei ele nos Estados Unidos, e fica muito complicado de manda ele pra lá
Gostaria que vc min ajudase
Estou esperando a sua resposta
Vlw…
July 11th, 2008 23:16
Pues podrían poner a alguien a traducir, y no usar este tipo de máquinas que a veces nos complican más la lectura que el propio inglés.
“Mi saludar ustedes, tener suerte mucha amigo.”