The MacTrack – iPhone, iPod, iPod Touch and Mac News

This is a tale of a crashed iPod Touch and it’s subsequent painless restore:

A few days ago my iPod Touch (16GB) crashed and went into restore / recovery mode, or perhaps I put it into restore / recovery mode accidentally. At boot-up it showed the restore / recovery screen: a USB cable being plugged into iTunes (see image on the right).

In case you don’t know:

• to quit a hung application you press and hold the home button, for 5 to 10 seconds
• to force a complete device restart you press and hold the lock/unlock button along with the home button for about 5 to 10 seconds

I’d been having a few problems with it, prior to the crash: it wouldn’t stay connected to my home wi-fi network and had started behaving strangely. I forced a device restart (maybe 2 or 3 times) and it then showed the ‘restore-me’ icon (as described above).

Maybe it ‘decided’ it needed a restore (as system problems were apparent) or maybe I didn’t let go of the home button – I was distracted reading a web page at the time about the upcoming Apple event ( New  MacBooks look amazing BTW).

I re-connected it to iTunes which detected an iPod Touch in restore/recovery mode and offered to re-flash/reload the firmware and operating system and I accepted – the firmware and OS were loaded, verified and the iPod Touch rebooted (took about up 30 mins up until the reboot I think).

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If you ever suffer a disastrous system crash or, even worse, a hard disk drive failure then Time Machine can spring into action and rescue you.

I thought I’d post a link to an excellent article detailing how-to achieve a restore via Time Machine. I’ve done this for purely selfish reasons – it may come to my rescue at some point in the future.

Hopefully if you are unlucky enough to suffer with either of these problems this link, and article, will help you out too

The article, ‘Restoring From Time Machine’ can be found here by Duncan Davidson