hold the sleep button
Hold the home button and the sleep button at the same time until the ipod restarts
hold down the button with a square on it until it turns on!
Hold down the pause play button
IPOD NANO- Hold the pause button down until the screen turns on. ( if it is not working, then it must be locked, unlock using the lick switch on top of the ipod.) IPOD TOUCH- There is a button on the top of the IPOD- hold it down and it will turn on.
hold down the power button the mean button and the volume down button
with an ipod touch you press the hold button at the top and the middle exit button at the same time. No that takes a picture
The iPod Touch sleep/wake button is the button, when pressed once, puts your iPod to sleep. It also awakens your iPod Touch from that sleep and turns on and off your iPod Touch.
ANSWER: in general, - Turn the HOLD switch on and then off then - hold down the menu button and the center button for about 5 seconds This will reset the ipod, but no data will be lost.
To reset iPod touch, press and hold the Sleep/Wake button and the Home button at the same time until you see the Apple logo show up on the screen:
double tap the button, it would turn blue
if you hit the top button of the ipod touch it will go to sleep,not turn off, you can hit it once to "wake it up" OR while the ipod is on press And Hold the top button to turn it off and the same to turn it on.