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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February 20th, 2009 07:48
my ipod touch froze and has a picture of a usb and itunes logo. when i connect to itunes it says i must first unlock the ipod, but the screen never appears for me to enter it… what can i do?
February 19th, 2009 14:18
thanks alot, god bless you people, you made my frozen iphone3g working!!!!!!!!
these steps are really helpful!!!!!
February 19th, 2009 10:07
Thanks a lot! I was that close to reboot my iphone
February 17th, 2009 03:26
Thankyou! Always wonderd how to do a reset!
February 15th, 2009 12:22
thank you so much you have no idea how much headache you saved me
P.S the apple logo may stay on the screen for 30 seconds to a minutes but it’s entirely normal.
February 13th, 2009 17:53
Thanks Man!!!
May God bless you
February 12th, 2009 08:02
my ipod was jailbroken and i unjailbroke it cuz it was screwing up and now it wont come off the jailbreak screen whenever i turn it on! i need help
February 12th, 2009 07:23
I love Micheal Phelps!! <<<33333333
February 12th, 2009 07:20
U are no help I will not recomend u to any1!!!!!! ): YOu should be ashamed.
February 11th, 2009 04:08
I was browsing a Microsoft website when the screen went blank. To be more accurate, I clicked to sign up for a Microsoft service. My IPod Touch saved me from Microsoft? Either way, I had to find this page and do a hard reset. It worked. …some of the longest ten seconds of my life.
February 10th, 2009 14:53
OMG, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR FIXING MY IPOD TOUCH
I LOVE YOU I LOVE YOU I LOVE YOU
i totally thought i broke it or something, but how could i! I had a case on it, never dropped it or anything!
I’ve heard that the screen is nearly impossible to break since its glass and such so that couldn’t be the case
I seriously thought i lost my ipod touch forever =[ so sad
but i tried resetting it, i held it and BAM APPLE LOGO APPEARED
I totally jumped up and cheered literally, you don’t know how much I appreciate this blog now haha
much love!
-aaron
February 9th, 2009 15:23
thank you soooo much i was freaking out
February 9th, 2009 06:26
Sheeeit thanks for this bro, I was about to throw my touch against the wall, cause the mofo had a black screen and wouldn’t respond. May I add apple support is completely useless, all they ever suggest is plug into itunes and restore
February 5th, 2009 11:42
THANK YOU I GOT SCARED THERE FOR A MOMENT
February 3rd, 2009 08:57
i lost my pass code and when i start my ipod it says enter passcode and i dont have it
January 30th, 2009 11:41
I lost my restrictions pass………..now i cant have ANY games on it!!!!!! Ipod touch
January 29th, 2009 18:00
my ipod got stolen by an old friend and I finally got it back and she’s put a passcode on it and I can unlock it.
I resetted it but it still has the passcode.
anyway to get past this?
January 15th, 2009 10:41
Lucky i found this. my screen stuck black and wouldnt work. now to fix my broken xbox.
January 13th, 2009 03:36
i tried to earse my iphone 3g from reset option, after that my iphone turned on only upto apple logo – not moving + not detecting at itune etc.
please please help
January 12th, 2009 02:54
i have the exact same problems with mori!!! please help me!!!
January 5th, 2009 04:40
that completely helpe thank you
December 26th, 2008 04:51
mine is stupid. i hate it i reset it and the dumb itunes logo and the usb poped up i plugged the ipod into the computer and it says it’s on some stupid mode and to restore i’ve tried several times i download it then with the last 56 seconds or so of downloading. it says i timed out. this is pissing me right off! HELPPP!
December 26th, 2008 04:00
My son tried to update his software on the itouch and it has locked up much like described above but it will not restore and the hard reset does not work. What should he do?
thanks,
Scott
December 19th, 2008 01:10
I have just bought an iPod Touch 2nd generation. It was working ok but suddenly the screen freezed and I am unable to restore it from iTunes site I receive a message Restore error 1604 and when I try to turn it on I just received the screen with iTunes logo and the white USB cable underneath . I tried the reboot described here with no success. Please Help!!
December 19th, 2008 00:44
I reset my iPod Touch as described (after a terminal hang) and it worked as described.
Mega-bonus: It’s at least 2X faster with page loads in Safari, updating web feeds, etc.
1K thanks!