How To Restart Your iPod

Written by Dave

Wednesday, 18 June 2008

Has your iPod ever crashed or froze leaving you without your music (this has just happened to me)? You may try to drain the battery until it dies out, try to wait it out or you can reset your iPod. This should also work if your iPod won't turn on, and you know that it still has battery.

First, check to make sure that your hold switch isn't in the locked position. If it is, unlock the switch and try your controls again, or try to turn on your iPod.

** UPDATE **

To restart your iPhone:

Press and hold the Home button and the button on the top right of your phone. Hold until it restarts and then let go.

Now, this reset is only for iPods with the Click wheel. These include:

Fifth Generation iPod / iPod Video
All iPod Nanos
iPod with color display / iPod Photo
iPod with click wheel
All iPod Minis

Here are the instructions on how to reset your iPod.

Move the Hold switch to locked and then unlocked.
Press and hold the menu and middle buttons together for about 6 to 10 seconds until the Apple Logo appears.

For iPods with scroll wheel or touch wheel

Move the Hold switch to locked and then unlocked.
Press and hold the Play/Pause and Menu buttons together for about 6 to 10 seconds until the Apple Logo appears.

If this isn't working for you, plug your iPod into a power adapter and try again.

Note: I found that my iPod wouldn't charge properly on my computer, for some strange reason, so I used a car charger or a wall charger to charge my iPod first, until it removed that black and white charging screen.

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thank you it works

AJ (208.102.2.xxx) 2008-02-24 15:28:03

Oh my gosh, thank you. I knew how to restart it but it didnt work, i thought it
was broken. Then i used this, it didnt work but then i plugged it in and it
worked.

it works

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sucka bleed (83.229.103.xxx) 2008-07-13 10:30:44

we said ipod

Help mee :(

Dana (82.148.96.xxx) 2008-07-23 17:37:00

What about nano

the nano

Dave (24.86.149.xxx) 2008-08-09 00:44:32

hi Dana

Here are the instructions on how to reset your iPod.

Move the
Hold switch to locked and then unlocked.
Press and hold the menu and middle
buttons together for about 6 to 10 seconds until the Apple Logo appears.

This should work for you. I used to have a Nano, and it worked for me. Which
generation Nano do you have?

Nikki Levy (76.169.88.xxx) 2008-08-05 10:39:05

This worked great! You are amazing. I spent so many days not going to the gym
because my ipod was frozen.

Pressing menu and middle button for 6 seconds
worked perfectly.

Thank you!!!