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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November 12th, 2009 06:31
my ipod is locked up i think.. my screen has a usb cord goin to itunes and it wont let me on itunes because i have to set my password… i read on here it happend to devin on nov 6th. need help.
November 10th, 2009 09:10
So, my friend gave me her ipod touch to put music on it and kept giving me the wrong passcode!!!! so now it says ipod is diabled connect to itunes
But it wont!! it says i need to enter the passcode when it wont let me and its wrong!!!
How do I get it working again!?!?!
I tried the reset thing and it said it was an ipod in the middle of recovery
HIS DID NOT HELP ME ( ON HER IPOD.. ON MINE IT DID)
November 8th, 2009 00:47
Thanks a ton man!! .. I had got my iPod about a week ago and it froze up right now.. and nothing that i did was making it work.. Thanks a million!!
November 7th, 2009 23:58
thank you so much! My itouch screen had been black and unresponsive for 2 days until i finally found you advice.thank you!thank you! thank you!
November 7th, 2009 08:10
Forgot the lock code now its disabled
November 6th, 2009 05:21
yea i have done this 3 times, but no matter what, every single time, the apple thing comes back up, like its sapost to, then it keeps bringing up this picture of a USB cord with an arrow going into itunes, but when i plug my ipod into itunes, it says i must first unlock my ipod, but it wont let me, so idk what to do
November 5th, 2009 22:38
Thanks a lot man! My iTouch froze up out of nowhere and what you said helped me reset it!
November 1st, 2009 00:00
fucking love you
October 31st, 2009 07:02
u are awesome
October 28th, 2009 17:46
I’m so happy, worked for me and took less than 10 seconds before the apple logo appeared but then took a while to reboot itself and nothing was wiped out. Thanks.xxx
October 25th, 2009 07:47
THANK YOU IT WORKED
October 21st, 2009 21:26
Works in under 10 sec… sometimes it hangs at the apple logo is the battery is almost dead… it’ll wait until there’s enough juice and then will start (considering you have it plugged to your charger or USB cable) those of you who are stuck… do the restore with iTunes… only make sure you’re holding down shift when clicking restore so it actually does that.
October 12th, 2009 14:15
this like saved my life if my mom and dad found out man i would be a gone er lol : )
October 8th, 2009 04:24
Okay so I bought an itouch of my buddy so I wanted 2 start from scratch so I had tha itouch wipe out afta it finish loadin all it does now its stay wit tha apple sign n won’t load jus stays there…any help!
September 19th, 2009 16:39
sorry, it didnt worked for me, can any one tell how to reset the iphone 3g
September 18th, 2009 06:17
Got a second-gen iPod Touch, bought the 3.1.1 update. After several attempts at updating it (all failures), it freezes, showing the apple logo and what looks like an empty LOADING bar, minus the word LOADING. I reset it, and now it won’t turn on. I connect it to iTunes, and it says it needs to be restored. Does it? NO.
September 8th, 2009 05:12
thanks!-the screen on my ipod touch froze so i tried to do this and it worked in less then 10 seconds and it didnt delete anything!-im just happy i read this and that its fixed
THANK YOU!
September 7th, 2009 14:20
Didn’t work for me. Looks like it was caused by a corrupted mail database – every time I got a pushed e-mail, the iPhone bricked itself!
Pressing the sleep and home keys didn’t do anything – kept them pressed for 2 minutes. It would generally wake itself up after a couple of hours, but the iPhone was offline at that time (not trackable by MobileMe, no incoming calls etc.).
This was a real “remove the battery, count to 10 and replace” type crash… Unfortunately, with the sealed battery, that wasn’t an option.
As the iPhone was less than 3 days old (after waiting 5 weeks for delivery!), I took it back, it was returned unrepaired, then it bricked itself within 2 hours!
The next time it was returned, unrepaired, I rebuilt the iPhone – entered all the settings manually – as opposed to restoring from the last backup. Fingers crossed, it hasn’t had any problems since.
September 3rd, 2009 15:33
worked for me
August 28th, 2009 20:52
yea my ipod is jailbroken and it froe while setting a theme, i reset it and when the apple symbol came up the macintosh loading wheel thing froze?? what do i do
August 22nd, 2009 17:25
Thanks a million!!
August 14th, 2009 18:00
Tnx m8e!!!!!