iPhone Tips: How to Reset Your iPhone When it’s hung

by Simon Ng on April 27, 2009



Reset iPhoneYou may have already experienced this…

Open up an iPhone application, it just freezes and hangs there. You probably try to press and hold the POWER button to turn off the iPhone, but it doesn’t respond.

This is not uncommon for you to encounter the above hang problem as you install more iPhone applications. A friend of mine, who have bought the iPhone 3G for around 2 weeks, gave me a call and asked for resolution.

So, what can you do to resolve this problem and bring your iPhone back to normal? For experienced iPhone user, you may know what to know. But for iPhone beginner, this hang may scare you.

Don’t worry. The solution is trivial and simple. What you have to do is to do a Hard Reset on the iPhone. To reset the iPhone, simply press the POWER/SLEEP button and Home button together. Hold them until you can see the boot screen, which is with black background and Apple logo. One point to note is you have to release both buttons at the same time.

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1 Dj Croatian Sensation April 27, 2009 at 7:24 am

yea this is a perfect way to do it
has happened to me before
guess cause i got a ton my apps from cydia
so it can happen but use this and its all good =]

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2 Slah R April 27, 2009 at 11:10 am

my phone is jailbroken. and i have to do this 3-4 times a day. :(

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3 diba April 27, 2009 at 3:19 pm

Mine is also jailbroken and I had to do it twice since Februrary

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4 lynn May 1, 2009 at 1:32 pm

i tried to reset it and when i press on the power button it just froze. what do i do about that?

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5 sam May 9, 2009 at 7:46 am

hi

I tried the above mentioned options, but after that the little apple icon comes, and its struck

i tried to do reset many times and its no use ?
mine is a jail broke one
any help

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6 Eric July 11, 2009 at 9:04 am

I’m having the same problem as Sam, I have a 2G on 3.0 i jailbreak/unlock with redsnow it’s been fine after like 3wks my phone got stuck on the apple i’ve tried the hard re-boot i tried connecting it to itune to sync it and itunes would not reconized it.
It stays with the apple and black background anter a few minutes it flashes and the little circle comes on like it’s powering down and it goes back to the apple.

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7 green69 July 30, 2009 at 1:33 am

i cannot open my iphone after a reset all the setting when the icon apple appears its automatical rebooting and i wont open can some one help me?

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8 green69 July 30, 2009 at 1:45 pm

we have the same problem eric

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