Key Combinations

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Contents 1 Combinations 1.1 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Generations 1.2 Mini, 4th, Photo, Nano, and 5G Generations 2 Descriptions 2.1 Reboot iPod 2.2 Disk Mode 2.3 Diagnostic Mode 2.4 DFU Mode

Combinations

1st, 2nd, and 3rd Generations

• Reboot iPod: Hold down the menu and play buttons.
  • You might have to hold both buttons for a very long time (~30 seconds) in occasionally cases.
  • If that still doesn't work, flip the hold switch on and off and try again.
• Disk Mode: Immediately hold down the rewind and fast forward buttons as the iPod reboots. ¹
• Diagnostic Mode: Hold Rewind, Fast Forward, and Select buttons as the iPod reboots.
• Non-default Firmware (only when the old ipodloader is installed): Hold Rewind after rebooting the iPod

Mini, 4th, Photo, Nano, and 5G Generations

• Reboot iPod: Hold down the Menu and Select buttons.
  • You might have to hold both buttons for a very long time (~30 seconds) in occasionally cases.
  • If that still doesn't work, flip the hold switch on and off and try again.
• Disk Mode: Immediately hold down the Play and Select buttons as the iPod reboots. ¹
• Diagnostic Mode: Hold Rewind and Select buttons as the iPod reboots.
• DFU Mode: Hold Rewind and Play buttons as the iPod reboots. (Works on 2G Nano, but not on 5G, DFU protocol not explored yet)
• Non-default Firmware (only when the old ipodloader is installed): Hold Rewind after rebooting the iPod. (Alternatively, switch the hold switch to 'lock position' after rebooting)

The Select button is the one in the Center of the click/scroll wheel.

¹ To reach disk mode, connect the iPod to your PC/Mac before starting. Then press and hold the 'Reboot iPod' combination above until the iPod reboots (you'll notice a change on the screen). Quickly move your hand so you are now holding the 'Disk Mode' combination above. You have to do this before the apple logo comes back (or perhaps within 1 second afterwards).

Or see here for an other handy picture

Descriptions

Reboot iPod

Forces a power cycle. Use this whenever your iPod freezes, or if you want to switch between iPodLinux and Apple's firmware.

Important: Do not reboot the iPod while it says do not disconnect, because that might have the bad effect that the modifications you made from your PC to the iPod might get lost. Make sure you eject the iPod so that it says ready to disconnect before you reboot it!

Also, do not reboot your iPod while it's booting for the first time after a firmware update (using the Apple updater). This will abort the ROM flashing, and WILL RENDER YOUR iPod USELESS.

See also this Apple support document on resetting the iPod

Disk Mode

Forces the iPod to wait for a Firewire/USB connection to a computer. If your iPod will not boot up, you can boot into Disk Mode and reload Apple's firmware.

See also this Apple support document on disk mode

Diagnostic Mode

Presents a menu of diagnostic utilities to check your iPod's hardware. Use this menu to check if your iPod is working properly. Note the wheel doesn't work on older generations - you have to use the forward and rewind buttons to move around the menu. For more information see this iPoding article on diagnostic mode or this other article. iPodlounge has an article on the photo's diagnostic mode

DFU Mode

Nano 5G: Plug in USB cable and press Menu+Select until it reboots. When screen turns off, QUICKLY release and again hold Menu+Select until iTunes shows "Contacting server" dialog (it downloads the WTF.x1231.RELEASE.dfu, sends it to Nano and then asks user for permission to download a file called "FIRMWARE.x1246.RELEASE.dfu")

TBD