IPHONE is frozen

[shadow343]

Help!!!

My IPhone is wont' start up. Last week when my phone "rang" (had it on ring and vibrate) when I slid to answer the slide got stuck and the phone kept vibrating for about 10-15 minutes. Finally, after pressing every button I could find, the phone shut down. Unfortunately, I was unable to restart the phone. I got online and read about the hard restart (holding down the sleep and start buttons simultaneously) didn't work.

I called Apple for help and removed the simcard and did lots of other things too numerous to say and finally it restarted sort of on its own. Haven't had any problems since.

Today while my phone was charging it shut down and I can't restart it again. Tried the hard restart and again it didn't work. Called Apple and they want me to return the phone for a "new" one.

My phone is only a few months old. I haven't even been able to find the time to download one song. Just using it as a phone and calendar so far.

Can anyone help me to restart this thing?

Thanks so much.

 

[Resist]

You have to hold down the sleep and home buttons longer than you did to get the iPhone to unfreeze. We found that having large picture files associated to the incoming ring is what froze our iPhone. Once we removed or replaced them with a smaller picture file, all was fine.

 

[shadow343]

I held the buttons down for over a minute on several occassions and it still doesn't start up.

I will check the photo sizes if I can get the phone to work.

Any other suggestions?

Thanks

 

[Moi un Mouton]

Yes, I'd send it back and get a new one, like they have offered

 

[shadow343]

thanks

 

[jamie00]

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