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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May 13th, 2009 09:06
ok my screen is jstu white and the logo wont even appear?
May 10th, 2009 05:55
my apps arent responding on my 8gb ipod touch, i reset the unit, and still nothing, i tap the app and it goes black then back to the main menu,, what should i do?
May 9th, 2009 19:09
THANKSS
May 7th, 2009 14:07
only apple logo is thr and it is not working…
May 3rd, 2009 00:49
OMG thank you it froze at like lunchtime and i was just going to wait for it to go flat but this worked thanks
May 1st, 2009 09:30
Thank you soooooooooooo much. If it weren’t for you thatn I would be in huge trouble. Thank you sooo much . You are my hero
April 27th, 2009 07:24
i need to get pass my password cuz i forgott it do u no how
April 25th, 2009 18:38
It didnt work 4 me…poxy piece of crap!!! screen is totally locked and has no reponse to it.
April 24th, 2009 10:22
thank u so much i wouldnt be alive today without you
April 22nd, 2009 14:55
I own a iPhone 3g 8gig. I bought off a co worker who sat next to me and never had a problem with it. I used it for a full day before buying it.
I activated it today and wanted to start from scratch so I did a complete wipem rest all setting and content of the phone. I did it @ 7pm its almost 12am midnight now and the wiping ended when the bar was completed, and then the apple logo came up white with a black screen. It ha stayed this way for 3 hours.
It flahes in intervals of about 3minutes and a ring of lines under the apple logo that go away and re appear, i tired connectting it to itunes, hard resetting it,, and nothing..
Any advice? is 5 hours the usual time? the phone barely had alot of memory built up , it had maybe 10 added programs, 3 gigs of music and 100 pix @ most.
Any ideas or help?
April 21st, 2009 22:06
thanks alot saved my day!
April 20th, 2009 13:15
i did wat it said to do to reset it, but it went back to doin wat it was doin be4. wat should I do?
April 20th, 2009 05:32
Guy! Thank u so much! I saved my life!
April 11th, 2009 04:12
ohmygod thank youu soo much
you just about saved my life!
April 4th, 2009 03:31
dosent fuckin work for wat should i do noyjin works im totally fucked off
March 27th, 2009 02:30
thx u sooooooooooo much
March 24th, 2009 10:36
ehmagawd!
thank you soooo muchh
March 22nd, 2009 21:31
omg it worked! thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
March 14th, 2009 12:33
can u help me how does this work
March 14th, 2009 12:31
can u please help me i need help my ipod touch say ipod is disabled so if u can help me thank u
March 13th, 2009 11:09
I tried to download the new update on my iPod Touch… the new update was 2.2. When i started downloading, restoring, etc… it said there was an unknown error on it. Now, every time i try to turn on my iPod it shows the connect to iTunes icon and every time I do that it goes to the same thing over and over again… what shall I do to fix it!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
March 6th, 2009 06:20
i lost my passcode and i got a new computer so if i connect it, its on my old computer!! Anyone now how to completly reset it?
March 4th, 2009 05:36
To Tasha
Try Deleting some of the Apps. Maybe You Simply Just Have 2 Many. Hope Its Helpful.
February 27th, 2009 08:45
I have an ipod touch 8Gb …I downloaded many games on it..ive played them all many time..just today i started having problems..my games wont play any more, when i press a game to play tt goes on it then goes back to the page before, i am unable to play any games?, ive tried turning off and turning back on my ipod but that still hasent worked, ive tried charging it, but that hasent worker ether, ive tried everythinbg i can think of..???
February 21st, 2009 16:05
I have a iphone 8GB and carried the erase all contents and settings and it never started up again. When switched on the apple sign comes up and stays there for hours without doing anything. Can anybody please help.
Thanks