Rebooting the iPhone

If your iPhone is unresponsive, try the Home/On/Off trick—and be patient.

Update: That “generous” crack in the first paragraph depends on how you use the phone. generous) my iPhone’s battery was good and drained. Finally, after about 10 seconds the Apple logo arised.

I thereupon tried pressing and holding Home and On/Off—and holding and holding and holding. Pushing the On/Off button did nothing. that quits any application that may have locked up the iPhone.

iPhone.jpgAfter conducting a music playtime pop quiz on my iPhone (hint: at least on my iPhone, Apple’s 24-hour estimate is a little, erm… Yet iTunes saw that the phone was connected.

I tried Apple’s first reset tip, which is pressing and




holding the Home button for about six seconds. No go. However, whether you switch the iPhone into Airplane Mode, thus disabling its communication features, you’ll likely get better than 24 hours of audio playtime from it. Pushing Home did nothing. checking in progress. I plugged it back in and after checking on it a couple of hours later, I found an unresponsive iPhone. Stay tuned.

whether you use the iPhone as you normally would—ready to receive calls unimpeded, for example—you won’t get the 24 hours of music playtime Apple suggests. that surprised me as an iPod reboots after about four seconds of holding down choose and Menu.

So now you know.

Original post by Christopher Breen



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