Soft reset without sleep/awake button?

My iTunes music player has been frozen for a few days and I can't get it working again. I would like to try a soft reset but my sleep/awake button also isn't working. Any ideas how to get around this?
Thanks

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and to restart just keep on charging your phone would start.
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My question is what if I have troubleshooted with holding the sleep/awake button and power and it's not changing to any other screen what should I do? It doesn't even show the battery strength wheither its completely dead or charging at all.

- If you did not charge the iPod for a couple of hours before you did the reset then charege and reset:
Reset iPod touch: Hold down the On/Off button and the Home button at the same time for at
least ten seconds, until the Apple logo appears.
- Then connect to your computer and if iTunes sees the iPod restore via iTunes.
- Next see if recovery mode will allow iTunes to see the iPod so you can restore the iPod. For recovery mode:
iPhone and iPod touch: Unable to update or restore
- Last, make an appointment at the Genius Bar of an Apple store.

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I have an Ipod Nano 6th Generation. The sleep/awake button no longer works. I have reset my Ipod and no change. Any Ideas?

Get it serviced.

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I just bought my iPhone 3G S and I used it for a while ( 2 weeks ) and I was shocked today when I saw that the sleep/awake button is shrinking toward the left. Any one experienced the same issue? is it an issue to worry about? because I have heard that some people are having their phone to hang up calls because of the sleep/awake button.
This pic shows my situation
http://i25.tinypic.com/1gniue.jpg
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Hello,
Oh yeah? Well I have been reading about this issue for a bit now and I saw that many users complain about this issue while still no proper replay from Apple yet. I'm a bit concerned with the case which the phone goes to sleep randomly " which happened with the iPhone 1st Gen" and I guess that maybe this is the actual case. Well, to be on the safe side, I have downloaded 3rd party application which allow me to reboot, sleep, shutdown my iPhone without the actual need to the sleep awake button at least for know until I assure that this case is completely normal.
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My iphone 4 suddenly died on me. It had a good amount of battery life left. I cannot soft reset because my home button does not work. Is there a way to reboot without the method of holding the two buttons? I am thinking that letting the battery die will work but I assume it will take a long time since the phone is off. Any other way to get it to turn back on/rest?

Plug it into the wall charger or to your computer with iTunes.

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My Sleep/Awake button has stopped functioning completely. Any suggestions?

Well turning off and on really isn't "turning off". Turning off is really like "hibernation" on a laptop, I would normally "reboot" it with the two button approach before it stopped working.
But that is besides the point. I never see a need to "turn it off" so not really a big deal. I have had to set the autolock to 1 min (use to have it higher as I would lock it manually when I was done with phone before). So that is a bit annoying. I also cannot tell the phone to ignore call or silence ring (press once when a call comes in to silence, press twice to drop them to voice mail at that moment). But at least I can flip the silent switch and just let it vibrate if I don't want to answer. I also cannot do a screen shot.
All no big deal, but I hate I cannot "reboot" the phone. When things start to get sluggish or an app(s) acts up, a reboot is the cure all 99% of the time. For me, I cannot. So either I have to live with it until eventually if there is an app issue that compounds, it will reboot itself eventually, or I have to do a restore (really doesn't take that long). Those the current version of the OS is better than earlier ones about getting messed up that a reboot is needed (I have had iPhone since day one of original so went through all versions of the OS).

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Crap. That's what I was afraid of...Well, since I'm away from home and not near my pc, it sounds like I'm out of luck. The problem is that I need my phone to be at least functional for making and receiving calls. There's an apple store nearby. Perhaps I can go there and have them restore it and at least I'll be able to make and receive calls until I get home and restore from my backup. Does that sound feasible, or am I missing something?
P.s. I tried to click "correct answer" and accidentally hit "helpful". Sorry about that...

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By the slide to unlock screen, are you talking about the slider at the bottom of the screen after taking out of sleep mode?
And by trying the sleep/wake button and home button, are you talking about a reboot by holding both the power/sleep button and the home button until the apple logo appears and it reboots? And that does not help release the issue with the slider?
Are you sure the iPhone is well charged?
If none if this helps, have you tried syncing/backing up to a compter and then restore by iTunes on a computer?
If you cannot do any of this it would be good to schedule a visit to an Apple store genius bar and have the techs try their hand and diagnostics.

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Have you looked at the previous discussions listed on the right side of this page under the heading "More Like This"?
- Make an appointment at the Genius Bar of an Apple store.
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My Sleep awake button is moving side to side and it's so annoying right now I am in Oman and there is no services available I need online support using my email.
Is there any way I can fix this while I am here in Oman because I am very busy most of the time also the home button is starting to not work properly too..
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as far as the physical button is concerned there is nothing you can do to fix it period you will have to take it into an apple store in the country you purchased the phone in for service if its a problem..
as far as the home button not working
to be honest these are the solutions that may or may not work..
first thing I would try is rebooting the phone by holding the sleep/wake button and home button for 15 seconds until you see the white apple logo
if that doesn't work I would restore from backup and if that doesn't work I would restore as new if all else fails take it to your closest apple store they may replace the phone for a working one..

My iPod nano will go into the sleep mode while a song is playing a second after the screen goes blank; the song will stop and I will then have to press the sleep/awake button to pick up where the song left off. How do I fix this?

My iPod nano will go into the sleep mode while a song is playing a second after the screen goes blank; the song will stop and I will then have to press the sleep/awake button to pick up where the song left off. How do I fix this?

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Insert it fully. This will fix it for most of you. Press that thing in there all the way. You should feel and hear a full click when it is fully seated. If you can see ANY silver of the headset jack, it is not fully inserted.
Debris inside the headset port. If you are totally unable to push the headset jack all the way, the most likely problem is that you have crud inside your headphone jack. Try blowing it out or slapping it against your palm with the headset port facing your palm to try and get the stuff out. If you look into he jack with a light, you should be able to see to the bottom. The entire inside of the headset port is white, so if it looks dark at the bottom, that is the crud that is keeping your nano from working.
Headset jack or plug issue. If you cannot solve the problem with 1 or 2, then there is likely something physically wrong with either the headset jack on your headphones or the headset port on the nano.
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Is there a way to do a soft reset when the power button does not work?

After needing to enact my replacement repair warranty, I received a device (smae one and same serial) but the screen had unresponsive spoots, and dim spots, I decided to turn right around and send it back again. I got a replaced screen again, but this time my power button doesn't work. Now, this isn't too inconvenient for me except that I cant do a soft reset or power off/on in order to clear the cobwebs from time to time. Does anyone know of an app, or another way to do this? I'm simply afraaid of what iddues it may come back with if I send it in a 4th time.
So, App?
Or, maybe a special keybaord combo I can put in like on phones? (IE ##XXXXX#

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Soft reset without sleep/awake button?

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