How do I restore an iPod to factory settings?

Hi-
Where do I go and how do I do it?
Thanks so mcuh!

Connect your iPod to the computer and launch iTunes. The iPod will appear in the left-hand side bar under the rubric: Devices. Click on the name of your iPod and you will see a Summary page in the main portion of the window. Follow down on that page to where you have the option to (1) Check for Updates or (2) Restore. Click on Restore and follow the prompts.

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How do I restore my ipod to factory settings, but I have a passcode lock, and my screen is broken so I can't type in my password when I connect to itunes?

Okay so I have had my ipod 4th gen for almost 2 years buy the screen has fallen out of the back casing, (I bought it as refurbished) and I am trying to reset it to factory settings, so when I get a new one I can register my device on apps/games since some apps require that you can only register on one device, but I think the thing that connects to the screen is ripped so the screen won't turn on and I can't physically touch it. What I want to know is how can I restore it with me not being able to type in the password lock since the screen is broken?
or is there a way to disable the passcode lock through the computer?

Place the iOS device in Recovery Mode and then connect to your computer and restore via iTunes. The iPod will be erased.
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If recovery mode does not work try DFU mode.
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For how to restore:
iTunes: Restoring iOS software
To restore from backup see:
iOS: How to back up
If you restore from iCloud backup the apps will be automatically downloaded. If you restore from iTunes backup the apps and music have to be in the iTunes library since synced media like apps and music are not included in the backup of the iOS device that iTunes makes.
You can redownload most iTunes purchases by:
Downloading past purchases from the App Store, iBookstore, and iTunes Store

If I restore my iPod to factory settings, will I lose my music that has been added from other computers, even if I've backed up my iPod?

I'm trying to clean out my iTunes and iPod, and in doing so I've realized that I have over a gig of "other" material taking up space on my iPod. One solution I was told about was to restore my iPod back to it's facotry settings (after you've backed it up) in order to help eliminate or help make the "other" section take up less space. I'm worried about doing this however seeing as my iPod has music from three or four other computers on it seeing as I manually sync music to my ipod rather than have it sync on it's own. I'm worried that even if I back the iPod Touch on my computer, that all the other music from the three or four other computers and iTunes' will be erased and only music left on my iTunes, on my laptop will be left over after words. This wouldn't be such an issue if I didn't have litterally THOUSANDS of music to sort through between these four computers.
Also, does anyone have any other solutions on how to reduce the amount that "other" takes up on your iPod? Thanks in advance! Any help is greatly appreciated.

I'm not sure if you will loose your music or not, but I have a suggestion. If you sinc your ipod to your itunes, all the music from it should transfer to your itunes, it shouldn't matter whether it was downloaded on that computer or not. If you do this and then restore your ipod to factory settings and you do loose your music, then you can just sinc your ipod to your computer, or itunes account and then you will get your music back. I hope this helps. :)

"Itunes cannot read the contents of ipod. Go to the summary tab in Ipod preferences and click Restore to restore this ipod to factory settings." What is this?

I have been getting this error message since about the end of June when I updated to the latest version of iTunes. It's pretty annoying. Let me lay out how this has been happening for the past month, the best I can. I have a 32GB 4th gen iPod Touch
I load content up to my iPod. Music, Apps, Videos, pictures, etc.
My iPod works well for a little while, days sometimes a week is the longest I went without seeing this message.
I connect iPod back to my laptop through the standard pack in Apple USB connector.
I get the "Itunes cannot read the contents of ipod. Go to the summary tab in Ipod preferences and click Restore to restore this ipod to factory settings." message. When I go to the preferences tab, I click restore and iTunes gets stuck trying to restore my iPod. Then I have to uplug my iPod. And Shutdown/Restart my PC reconnect my iPod, and go through the restore process again.
I have been doing this for as I said, a month. It's getting pretty grueling to keep havomh putting cotent on my iPod after these restores.
I've tried everything.
I've stopped autosync, it still happens.
I tried to reinstall iTunes(be it I didn't full uninstall before trying to install again and got the option to fix corrupted files and such
I've deleted all old back up, and it still happens
Today is the fist time I'm fully uninstalling iTunes, and then reinstalling to see if this works.
But do you guys have any otehr solutions for this? As I said, this didn't start happening until I installed the lastest version of iTunes 10.6.3

- Have you tried another cable?
- Another USB port?
- When you have the problem, connect it to another computer to help determine if you have an iPod or computer problem.
- Try just restoring the iPod to factory settings/new iPod. Do not restore from backup. If you still have the problem with this and all computer that indicates a hardware problem and an appointment at the Genius Bar of an Apple store is in order.

On my ipod touch, i can't seem to get the imessage app.. I have updated my itunes and even restored the ipod to factory settings with the latest update. Maybe the ipod is too old? Help

On my ipod touch, i can't seem to get the imessage app.. I have updated my itunes and even restored the ipod to factory settings with the latest update. Maybe the ipod is too old? Is that even a thing? Is there another app I can download to have access to my contacts with imessage?

That comes with iOS 5 (Settings>General>About>Version) and only the 3G abd later iPods can go to iOS 5 or later
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I bought a mac 2 days ago and transferred some files on there using migration assist which I did not want to. How do I restore my imac to factory settings so I can start again?

I bought a mac 2 days ago and transferred some files on there using migration assist which I did not want to. How do I restore my imac to factory settings so I can start again?

Look in /Users folder. You can go to System Preferences > Users & Groups, open the lock and "-" delete the account it created.
This is a problem whenever you use migration assistant after the initial install. The proper way to run Migration Assistant is in Setup Assistant when you first boot your Mac. I don't know why Apple isn't clearer about this issue.

Hi there, i have just had to restore my ipod to factory settings wiping all my music. how do i download back to my ipod from the computer. thanks

Hi there,
I have just updated my ipod to the latest upgrade but then had to restore it to the factory settings wiping all my music, could you tell me how to download it from my laptop to the ipod,a m not having much luck figuring it out.
Many thanks

To synce media from your iTunes library see:
iTunes: Syncing media content to iOS devices and iPod
Unless you restored the iPod on this computer/iTunes library yoo may not be able to sync music and videos using the manual method.
You can redownload most iTunes purchases by:
Downloading past purchases from the App Store, iBookstore, and iTunes Store

Help please! Urgent! How do I restore my computer to factory settings?

I got a potential buyer for my macbook pro because I'm selling to buy a Mac Pro. Anyway, he wants to pick up the computer in an hour and a half. I need to restore the computer to factory settings WHILE ALSO getting Windows XP off of this computer and making it one big Mac OSX hard drive as if someone just bought it. How do I do that? Please help! THANK YOU!

First, use the Boot Camp software to restore the drive to one partition (although I don't think you need to do this, it can also be done with what I'm about to say). Then, boot up using the system software the computer came with (the grey OS X discs), and open up the Disk Utility program. Format the hard drives you want to format, and if you didn't do the first step I said, I think you can format the Windows drive then format the Mac drive, then merge the two.
Then, restart and re-install the OS (Mac), and everything should be the way it was.
Just make sure to backup any data you want to save!
Hope that helps.

Restoring mini ipod to factory settings

please tell me how to restore factory settings so i can clear all music off my ipod.

Follow the instructions in this article. Before beginning, ensure that you have either a car adaptor, the iPod's power adaptor, or access to a computer with a 6-pin FireWire port. In some cases, an iPod mini will need to be charged with any of these three things before it can complete the restoration process, and you can't use it while the process is partially completed.
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How can I restore my stystem to factory settings if I replaced the internal hard drive

My computers been runing slow and its time for a factory reset. I only use the computer really as a media center hooked up to my tv since I built my desktop a year or so ago. I already copyied everything I wanted to keep off the laptop. A year or so ago I had to replace the internal hard drive because there was a problem with it. i don't have a restore disk and the partictian didn't get copied to this hard drive. how can i restore to factory settings? the computer is a toshibia qosmio x 505 q885.

Qosmio X505-Q885
If you failed to burn recovery discs, you can obtain them from Toshiba at Get Recovery Media here.
For instructions, see the section Restoring from recovery DVDs/media, which begins on p. 70 of the User's Guide.
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How do i restore phone back to factory settings if there is no sim card and no internet connection

There is no sim card in my phone and no internet connection. How do i restore the phone back to the factory settings?

That is about all a user can do
One last thing ,try this thread
how to put iOS 7 into DFU mode
and try that although not an Apple supported process and read the posts carefully
but it does look as if it now is a hardware issue .....sorry
Did you not clear it before sending to the online Co
just a thought was it carrier locked ?if so I would guess the online Selling Co may have hacked it to remove the lock to sell it as a not carrier locked device

Randomly forced to restore my iPod to factory settings

I'm just about ready to give up on iTunes or iPod - whichever is responsible for my problems.
Two weeks ago I bought a 60GB Video iPod. After just a few days I had to take it back, as iTunes would randomly stop being able to read its contents. Of course, the only way to rectify the problem was to restore it to factory settings, meaning that I had to spend hours transferring my music back each time. It seemed to happen about every 4-5 times I connected the iPod to add more music.
Apple's tech support agreed that this was a hardware issue, and that my computer met the requirements, so I took it back to be replaced. I've owned my new one for about a week, and I've run into the same problem. I've just been forced to restore it so I have a blank iPod again.
I simply cannot work this way, as I use my iPod for teaching and need to be able to add files without having to start from scratch. I can't understand why this is happening, as I have reinstalled iTunes and the iPod updater to ensure I have the latest versions.
Please help, I'm going insane.
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Just as a follow-up to this...
I spent an hour on the phone with Apple's tech support yesterday. The person I spoke to was very helpful, and suggested that the cause of the problem might be that my computer's hard drives used the NTFS file system, while my iPod was FAT32. He helped me to reformat my iPod to NTFS and then restore it once more. He was convinced this would solve my problems.
While I agree that his suggestion was logical and may prevent future issues, plugging my iPod in today caused the same error message. Simply plugging it in has deleted much of my music (or at least rendered it inaccessable from my iPod's menu - I suspect it's still there as not enough time passed for it to delete that much music) and I can't add more until I restore it again.
Surely somebody's experienced this before? Bear in mind that this is the second iPod in less than 3 weeks to present these symptoms.

I restored my Ipod to factory settings but and am getting error when I sync

I have a U2 Ipod that I'm using with Windows. I rstored it to factory settings using iTunes. When it starts to sync my library after awhile it stops and I get this error message.
"Attempting to copy the disk "Josh's Ipod" failed. The disk could not be read from or written to."
Someone please help me!!! Thanks!

Have you had a chance to look at this troubleshooting page? It may be of some help: "Disk cannot be read from or written to" when syncing iPod

How do I restore my iMac to factory settings?

I am sadly parting with my iMac but would like to remove everything off it and restore it to factory settings. What is the easiest way to go about this?

Most commonly used backup methods
Reset your Mac
If your files are going on a PC, then use a regular external drive (not TimeMachine) and right click format it exFAT on the PC, then use it on the Mac to transfer files too.
Don't format exFAT on the Mac.

Gday i erased my imac from my ipad using the find iphone app,how do i restore it back 2 factory settings

gday i erased my imac from my ipad using the find iphone app,how do i restore it so it can b used again

What OS did the Mac come pre-installed with, or have you upgraded it to Lion or Mountain Lion? You should be able to re-install using Internet Recovery, if you were on either of those OS's.
Restart holding down Command + Alt (Option) + r
You'll probably prompted for your Apple ID and you'll need to have the Mac connected to the internet - ideally via ethernet cable, although wifi should be OK if you have a reliable connection.
More details here: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4718
If you're on an earlier OS you'll need to use the grey restore disk that came with the Mac. Post back if you need more info.
P.S. Pleased to hear you got your Mac back.

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