How to Hard Reset Your iPhone

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Posted November 20, 2007 at 10:37pm by iClarified

To perform a hard reset on your iPhone you can follow these steps:

Step One
Press and hold the Home button and the Sleep/Wake button at the same time.

Step Two
The iPhone screen will go black after a few seconds. Release both buttons once the Apple logo appears on the screen.

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Saed2006 - January 28, 2012 at 3:22am

Saed2006ii@me.com

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Limon - December 8, 2011 at 5:29am

Awsome

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MJF - October 4, 2010 at 11:17pm

I had a problem with my jailbroken 3G I phone not turning on. It shut off one day and everytime i tried to restart it the apple logo would pop up and stay up for 30 sec or so then the screen would just go black and shut off. I tried everything and finally i just held the top power button forever until finally it turned back on, I probably held it for over a minute beefore it turned back on but thankfullly it did, i wasnt happy about the idea of paying $200 for another I phone.

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praveen kv - February 20, 2013 at 4:18am

My iphone 4 ,32gb is not turning on. when i changed the brightness of my phone it suddenly got switched off automatically and then it is not turning on back. i tried to reset the phone by holding the power button and home button, but apple logo appears and after 5 to 10 sec it will go off and a black screen.. iam not able to turn on my phone? can any one hep me to solve this problem. my mail id praveenkvrockon@live.com. Thank you. waiting for your reply sir..

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franklin - October 14, 2008 at 12:39am

Hi, my iphone is stick in the apple logo. what can i do to fix it?

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siraj - January 26, 2011 at 10:59am

mine aswell

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Grimes - July 21, 2008 at 10:42am

That's NOT a Hard Reset, that's a Soft Reset. A Hard Reset is much more drastic, much more rarely called for, and leaves your iPhone/iPod Touch in an unusable state until it is connected to iTunes. Apple store employees generally won't tell customers how to perform a Hard Reset, as it is such a drastic step and would likely cause more customer-service calls than it solved. http://www.notebooks.com/2007/07/02/how-to-reset-an-iphone/ (Not my website, just a helpful one) Just want to, um, Clarify. You've got great site design, please make sure to get your facts.

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