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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December 17th, 2008 05:58
How I can I restart an ipod touch. I tried a lot of things but stil doesn’t work.
December 17th, 2008 03:59
brypalmero@yahoo.com
if ANYONE can help me
please
December 17th, 2008 03:39
I;m having the same problem as Sam Mc
After the apple logo i get a lot of white text, and then it stops at:
BSD root: md0, major 2, minor0
what’s wrong?
Please Help Me Too.
December 7th, 2008 15:27
thnx a TTON…..
December 7th, 2008 12:00
my ipod touch suddenly went from regular resolution to a faded red and white resolution. i have done everything. please help
December 4th, 2008 12:35
I’m having the same problem at Rutger
After the apple logo i get a lot of white text, and then it stops at:
BSD root: md0, major 2, minor0
what’s wrong?
Please Help Me.
December 1st, 2008 06:20
THANK YOU SOOOO MUCH!!! I thought I tried everything and I was freaking out b/c I haven’t even had my phone for a week!
November 7th, 2008 21:55
my ipod touch is messed up. i click a song and it returns immediatly to the home screen. the song doesnt even play. Can anyone help me out?
October 26th, 2008 13:00
oh my gosh thank you guys so much. I have a second generation ipod touch and i was in an app and it froze up i did the sleep/home button 10 sec. press and it rebooted. The device was unresponsive for a good ten minutes and the screen was faded until i did this. THX SO MUCH GUYS. and by the way i didnt lose absolutely any data.
October 22nd, 2008 02:28
thank you, but after the apple logo i get a lot of white text, and then it stops at: BSD root: md0, major 2, minor0
what’s wrong?
October 14th, 2008 06:09
FINALLY..
Thanks alot
September 23rd, 2008 04:50
alright Karen
But its still not working and music is not coming out of it now
not reseting
September 18th, 2008 17:00
Merci vous m’avez sauvé =)
September 13th, 2008 08:12
i just bought my itouch but I coudnt open it everytime I pressed the main menu or the button at the top left it apears the battery is full already like that..can anyone help me here.
August 27th, 2008 07:54
Try the steps suggested in this article – it just worked for me!
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1414?viewlocale=en_US
August 23rd, 2008 05:39
my touch is not restarting even when I try it no working
advice
Also, my music is messed up the sound is not coming out properly and the background is wrong advice
August 21st, 2008 04:56
when i put my ipod into shuffle it will only play a little bit of a song then goes back to the home menu can anyone help me?
July 24th, 2008 19:57
thank you!
was frozen and could not figure how to get my phone running again!
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.”
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…
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?????????
May 12th, 2008 07:15
THANKS A TON!!!
April 5th, 2008 17:53
“Simultaneously” means “at the same time”. You don’t need both! That said, thanks for the tip – very helpful!!
October 4th, 2007 12:06
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