How to restart your Apple iPod when it crashes / hangs

19. April 2007, 19:46 UhrHow TosFrancis Lee52 comments

You and I both know that ipods sometimes crash, as great a product as it is, it still has its cons. The bad side of the ipod crashing or hanging is that there is no way to remove the battery for a hard reboot of the ipod’s internal software. So, I had a search on the internet on “How to restart the ipod when it hangs“, and boy was it hard to get a straight answer. I don’t even think the guys at Apple know how to restart their ipods, I mean other than the engineers. It would be funny if Steve Jobs fires an engineer, everytime an ipod Hangs.

Anyways, below are the steps to recovering your ipod after it hangs or crashes.

  1. Make sure you ipod has actually hanged or crashed, you will know if it is non responsive (pushing buttons with no key lock) and it doesn’t play any music.
  2. Press and hold both the Menu key and the middle button.
  3. Hold both these keys under your ipod gets forced into a reboot.
  4. If all else fails, call Apple and abuse the customer service representative.

If you know of a better way, or the OFFICIAL way to do it, do let me know, so that I can publish it for everyone’s benefit. I am 100% sure everyone will be happy to know that there is a way to restart an ipod.

52 comments:

  1. rishi, 11. May 2008, 4:50

    thank u sir it worked thank uuuu

     
  2. Rasmeet, 20. May 2008, 18:34

    thank u sir u r awesome gr8 no word dat can describe u keep up da gud work

     
  3. Emma Brie, 24. May 2008, 1:16

    thank u =D

     
  4. Unique, 30. May 2008, 3:04

    works like a charm….. thanks

     
  5. pawan, 30. July 2008, 0:01

    thanks dudue

     
  6. justin, 13. August 2008, 0:00

    thanx man this really works….. u saved my life…

     
  7. zzzzzzz, 13. August 2008, 2:09

    100% correct it actually works

     
  8. Bob, 15. August 2008, 5:12

    Thank you. You are great. It works

     
  9. jessica, 3. September 2008, 7:23

    tnx…

    whew!!!

     
  10. zoe, 23. September 2008, 21:55

    That is the official reboot, its in the manual

     
  11. Rian, 12. October 2008, 18:45

    yey it worked!!! thank youuuu ssoo much! i guess i wasn’t looking at the manual. wwoohhh! i though i had to wait for the battery to drain, and i wouldn’t want that, i just charged it.

     
  12. Bridget Yarbro, 6. November 2008, 23:45

    Thank you so much for your help. My son is gratful.

     
  13. cheeku, 16. November 2008, 21:15

    brother u are great it is really 100 % correct and working on ipod nano 2g-

     
  14. Imran Suhail, 4. December 2008, 6:54

    Thanks man.Really helped me out.Screw apple engineers for being so stupid and not providind a restart/reboot button/pinhole.

     
  15. Nahid, 17. January 2009, 21:15

    Thanx alot dude……

     
  16. Sriram, 25. January 2009, 0:26

    Thanks man – it worked.

     
  17. belay, 27. January 2009, 1:09

    thanks! whew!

     
  18. katzzz, 2. February 2009, 17:56

    hehehe tnx…funnny… id insuly them for sure if it didnt work out ryt.!

     
  19. Bala, 9. February 2009, 3:45

    Thank u very much.now its working fine…

     
  20. Sarah, 9. February 2009, 16:05

    thanks it really worked

     
  21. brandon, 16. February 2009, 17:29

    mine didnt work but i have dont it before but thanks any way

     
  22. Nitesh, 16. February 2009, 21:05

    thak you so much frend, i was very uspset thanks a lot……

     
  23. Farukh, 18. February 2009, 16:58

    you are genious, it worked thanks alot

     
  24. stacebase, 10. March 2009, 21:52

    cheers thought my ipod broke :)

     
  25. Kiran, 21. March 2009, 4:34

    Thanks, it works now,
    this is really good and usefull information
    many many thanks again

     
  26. Anthony, 27. March 2009, 20:12

    Sir, You are a Leg-End

     
  27. Cristal*, 30. March 2009, 23:52

    Thanks. Awesome!

     
  28. meryl Castelino, 5. April 2009, 23:39

    thanks a ton when my IPOD stopped working my herat came to my mouth but thanks to you it started work………..thnkx a ton……

     
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  30. Joginder poswal, 8. April 2009, 3:07

    its working

    Press and hold both the Menu key and the middle button.

    thanku very much

     
  31. cosa, 1. May 2009, 20:26

    yahooooo it works!thanks man! no need for me to wait until the battery of my ipod will drain.

     
  32. Vishal, 31. May 2009, 23:28

    Thanks dear

     
  33. santz, 12. June 2009, 10:46

    omg i actually thought my ipod was gone:| THANKYU!!!!!!

     
  34. Balaji, 15. June 2009, 0:00

    thanks its really very useful……..

     
  35. Mamta, 18. June 2009, 1:19

    yipee..it works…Thanks lot

     
  36. Jingle, 1. July 2009, 4:49

    Thanks a ton

     
  37. John, 6. July 2009, 2:05

    Thank you Sir,
    It works

     
  38. maggge, 15. July 2009, 21:36

    Cool! it works… THANKS

     
  39. gaurav, 19. July 2009, 18:12

    thanks mate… it really did wonders!Yieeehowwwww!

     
  40. Delphine, 2. August 2009, 23:51

    Thanks .. I got a shock when it hangs and was helpless even when I pluck it into my laptop as it couldn’t even connect to itunes. & there I found this site!! Thanks Francis… You Rocks!!

     
  41. dharmesh, 19. August 2009, 2:12

    thanks buddy it helps me great

     
  42. Jason, 24. August 2009, 12:45

    Thank you very much! Was a big help!

     
  43. Mika, 15. September 2009, 15:13

    Thanks..mr. Lee it works :)

     
  44. Yadnya, 7. October 2009, 5:23

    Thanks……it worked. God Bless You…

     
  45. vassia, 14. October 2009, 23:09

    thanks!!! Big help!!!

     
  46. Zak, 7. December 2009, 6:21

    Mine’s still not working. Looks like it won’t work even after a battery drain but I’ll give it a try.

     
  47. cc, 23. December 2009, 12:58

    thanks mate!!! you’re the star!! yeah

     
  48. Jamyang Tashi, 15. January 2010, 2:36

    hi sir actually i m Jamyang Tashi a student of ugyen academy from Bhutan n i am very happy with your way since i tried a lot of way but it didnt work a at all as yours.so thanks to you :)

     
  49. Anshul, 25. January 2010, 8:19

    thanks a lot!!
    it really helped!
    :D

     
  50. sbpf, 29. January 2010, 19:37

    Thank you thank you thank you !!!

     
  51. prerna, 27. February 2010, 15:35

    yeah it wrks….
    thnx a lot!!!!!
    u rock man!!!

     
  52. Manjunath.V.T, 18. March 2010, 7:03

    thanks a lot, it worked….. :)

     

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