How to: Force Restore your screwed iPod Touch

January 27, 2008 at 3:11 am (How to, Technical Stuffs, iPhone, iPod Touch) (, , )

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15 Comments

  1. Kurt said,

    February 26, 2008 at 5:09 am

    YOU ARE A GENIOUS!! thank you sir your a true hero thanks so much!!!

  2. dermapthera said,

    February 26, 2008 at 8:44 am

    LOLx.

    I’m just merely helping. And I’m glad it helped you.

    Cheers.

  3. Ed said,

    February 26, 2008 at 10:52 pm

    You are great! Man!
    But I have questions:
    when I hold “Home” button and hold “standby”
    it does not say “slide to turn off” but instead blank screen appears. after there is “apple” icon which is followed by this message:
    BSD root: md0, major 2, minor 0
    and this error message copies itself many times.

    please please help me…?

  4. dermapthera said,

    February 27, 2008 at 1:07 am

    Hi Ed

    I’m sorry but I don’t think there’s a “slide to turn off” slider if you’re attempting the ZiPhone’s jailbreak.

    Anyway, keep holding down both the Home and Standby button until it restarts. Do not let go even after the Apple logo. After a while (while still at holding both the buttons), you should reach to the Recovery Screen. If you’re seeing the BSD root loop, perform the “Home+Standby” combination again.

    I hope this helps.

    Good luck.

  5. Ed said,

    February 27, 2008 at 1:45 am

    i did it ppl look here:
    http://www.oscot.com/apple/how-to-make-an-itouch-with-bsd-root-md0-major-2-minor-0-work-again.html

  6. Ed said,

    February 27, 2008 at 1:55 am

    Man thanks alot for the help it worked and quite well :-)

  7. ngen said,

    February 28, 2008 at 2:24 am

    There is a far easier way to enter recovery mode. Turn your itouch/iphone off then HOLD the Home button and plug in your cable connector, and you’ll get into recovery mode. This way I found far easier than timing the home and sleep button trick, but I guess they both work just as well.

    Heres a video of how its done as well.
    http://youtube.com/watch?v=kguaW0doMWM

  8. cman said,

    March 2, 2008 at 10:01 am

    after i hit restore it wont let me download it says “ipod can not be restored. An unkown error has occured(1603).”

  9. dermapthera said,

    March 2, 2008 at 10:07 am

    Hi cman

    Try making your iPod into DFU mode/Recovery mode prior to restoring.

    If still getting the same error message, uninstall iTunes, and install a latest version. Then try again.

    Cheers.

  10. Patrick said,

    March 5, 2008 at 10:26 am

    i have tried all of this and my touch will still not restore it keeps saying there is still an error and it wont restore

  11. dermapthera said,

    March 5, 2008 at 5:09 pm

    Hi Patrick

    Common mistake involves not going into DFU mode. Please search my site on instructions on how to do that.

    Cheers.

  12. Andrew said,

    March 11, 2008 at 5:18 am

    Wow, this is amazing, it is simple and works perfectly, thanks so much!

  13. chya said,

    March 13, 2008 at 3:08 am

    thanks god for this information omg allmost cryed over the dos on my ipod screen

  14. Luke said,

    March 13, 2008 at 3:56 am

    u absolute legend
    i thought i was shitted when it happened
    thanks for the help

  15. dermapthera said,

    March 13, 2008 at 4:08 am

    Sure no problem.

    =)