By alex wallis, 12 March, 2014
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iOS and iPadOS
Hi all, just thought I would post a tip for those of you who like me sometimes have to forcibly shut your phone off with the home and power buttons held down together.
I am sure like me you frequently have problems working out when you have held the buttons down for long enough, and either you release them two quickly, or even worse hold the buttons down for two long and put the phone into recovery mode which I have no idea how you would get out of without sighted help.
Anyway I recently discovered a nice trick for working out when you have held the buttons enough and can release them without doing either of the above putting the phone into recovery or not turning it off.
The trick if you can do it is to put on a pair of in ear headphones when you hold the buttons, I have found that when you do this you hear a very audible pop when the phone powers off and you can then release the buttons safe in the knowledge that the phone has shut down and not gone into recovery mode.
I have tried with over the ear headphones but have found it hard if not impossible to hear the pop sound, but I guess other people might have more luck.
I have only been able to test this on a 5s but don't see why this trick couldn't work on other phones.
Just thought I would share in case people find it useful.
Comments
I can confirm this
Hello. Just giving some
Rebooting
confusion
Interesting I can't hear my
is it safe to do this reset on a jailbroaken device?
Hi, yes that's right you
I normally count to 15 then
I normally count to 15 then let up on the buttons. it normal works. and as for getting out of DFU mode, I just restart the device and it gets out of it just fine.
Thanks for the tip though. I'll remember that if I have a pair of headphones on me.
another thing to try
popping sound on iPhone 4s and iPod 5
The only problem with that idea