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iPhone won't turn on... Please help!

Why the hell is everybody saying to reset the phone

this is a bug in the 3.1 update!

GET THAT!

But hey if you wanna keep resetting your phone....

PUT THIS 3.1 PROBLEM ON THE FRONT PAGE TO MANY PEOPLE HAVE PROBLEMS YOU CAN"T COVER THIS UP!
 
Waking up Dead!

My iphone was working fine (1st Gen) it went to 10% battery life, then I went to bed, put it on the charger, pulled it off to check latenight emails, and putit back on, for some sleepy time. Woke up 5 hours later, and it's D-E-D DEad! no low battery scene, no scene life at all.. no response to usual efforts to power on/off, and reset. Pulled it into a second base charger, a Laptop via USB, my Mac Mini via usb, and finally the iphone wall socket charger. NOTHING!!!!
She's not responding to anything. home/power for 10 seconds? Nothing. alt. between the two for any life, Nothing! shaking it around like a bluefaced baby, whacking it on it's back to dislodge whatever is stuck?? NOTHING!

Granted it did take a swim in a bucket of water a few months back (drunk wife got clumbsy)
I'm thinking about to Pop the back off and go all ifixit.com on it. Anything else I should try before I dig in?

MOre importantly... anyone know how to retrieve the data?
 
Restarting computer with iphone connected... did the trick

sm86 said:
I had the same exact problem and I was able to fix it! No need to take it to Apple.

(specifically convenient for those of us that got the iphone 3g on ebay)

This is how it happened:

I was talking on the iphone when it said that my battery had less than 10% so, I went ahead and connected it to the wall charger I have for it and continued to talk. 30 mins later the iphone just turned off completely. I was pretty upset to say the least. I went to turn it on again and found the same exact picture being described. I figured I just had to let it be for a few hours on the wall charger.

The next day in the morning I find out that the iphone had the same picture and had not charged 1 bit!

I restarted it (pressed the power and home buttons to force it to shut down and turned it on again) and nothing, same picture. I took out the charger and put it back, nothing, same picture (it would even turn off if I didn't put the charger back in right away).

I then used my USB dock (a dock actually for the old iphone version, but that still works for the 3g, if you force it in). And nothing my computer would not recognize it.

Finally I thought of something:

I placed in the dock and turned it on, once again giving me the annoying battery screen. However, this time I actually restarted my computer. My rational was that if the device was connected while it was booting up the computer had to recognize it somehow.

During my computer's boot sequence the iphone appeared to had turned off, I didn't touch anything though. After windows loaded, I noticed that still the iphone was black as if it was turned off. Thinking that it probably ran out battery once again, I went to turn on the iphone while still having it on the dock (during this whole time I had not removed it from the dock).

And alas! I saw the apple symbol and my springboard showed up!

It is now currently charging (I can see the charge increase on the screen, when I lock the screen, it is now halfway and green) on my usb dock.

I went to place it back on the wall charger though and it seems that it doesn't work. I will be buying a new wall charger soon.

I am thinking when I was talking on the iphone and connected it to the wall it simply never charged and thus the battery completely drained. As soon as I placed it on something that wasn't broken (ie: my iphone usb dock) it started to charge but still was frozen on that (stupid) battery screen. Restarting my computer while connected did something to the iphone so that now it is fully operational. All without having to resort to apple's communist ways of trying to control all aspects of your life.

Personally I'm not an apple fan. I "gave into" the whole iphone thing when I figured out there was a generation of people my age committed into fighting back the apple empire while still using its technology.

Cheers
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Very strange scenario... my iphone had full charge
but having it connected to computer and powering off the on...
did the trick.. thanks for your post... and your time of tinkering around.
 
Thanks iphone turned on.

My iphone would not turn on... I pressed home and power and the same time intil the silver apple showed up. Waited about 15 sec. and pushed power again and it turned on...
 
Dumb Luck

OK, so I've been having the same problem both on my iphone and my husbands. I have tried all suggestions given on this forum and none of them have worked on either phone. I am beginning to think that maybe you all just got lucky and your phone just randomly happened to turn on when you tried these things and it had nothing to do with what you were actually doing. So even though it seemed that what you did was the solution, I think maybe it was dumb luck. Good luck to anyone else with this problem. I'm taking mine back to get a new one. I've only had it for a month and my husband only 2 months. If Apple is supposed to have the best technology, then why is half the world in possession of iPhones that don't work. It doesn't seem to matter what version you have. Some have speculated that it is all being caused because of the 3.1 update. There was supposed to be something in there that prolonged battery life and instead it just killed everyones phones. I don't know about the rest of you but I believe it. My phone and my husbands phone worked just fine before we downloaded the update and then like a week later they both just quit working. Thanks Apple for selling me a pretty black paperweight.
 
this has happened a few times for me. Plugging my phone into my computer verses the wall charger usually solves it.
 
iphone fxing

Please please please!!!!

Take a look at my thread on how to fix an iphone with water damage, I might have killed it and I'm not sure, I posted a thread today, please help me.

It was a gift and it's my #1 tool, I'l get in so much trouble if it dies....

Even if it died do you know where to take it?
 
Minimoose 360 said:
I had this same thin happen to me for about 3 days.

Then I took it to the Apple Store and they gave me a new one...which is good because my old one had some dents from getting smushed in a carry-on luggage bag. :rolleyes:
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what if you didn't buy it from the apple store? Would they still give you a new one?
 
Iphone's not opening

I unlocked/jailbreaked my iphone & accidentally i updated it so it got locked .. & ever since then my iphone wouldn't open even with the right sim. What should i do? Would the apple store help me repair it? & i've tried all the solutions it still doesn't work..
 
You might try holding down the power and home buttons at the same time. Wait until you see the silver apple. Thats what I did when mine wouldn't turn back on.
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Works++! Saved me too.

If this isn't working for you, you might try doing it while the iPhone is plugged in, as it may not have enough juice to restart without it.
 
Iphone is working

Bravo to the person who schooled on connecting iphone cord to mac, opening itunes... and big up's to the person who told me to hold both keys and then connect- and can't forget the person who said let it charge for 5 minutes first. Used those tactics -- phone is now back up and charging!

THANK YOU!
 
sm86 said:
I had the same exact problem and I was able to fix it! No need to take it to Apple.

(specifically convenient for those of us that got the iphone 3g on ebay)

This is how it happened:

I was talking on the iphone when it said that my battery had less than 10% so, I went ahead and connected it to the wall charger I have for it and continued to talk. 30 mins later the iphone just turned off completely. I was pretty upset to say the least. I went to turn it on again and found the same exact picture being described. I figured I just had to let it be for a few hours on the wall charger.

The next day in the morning I find out that the iphone had the same picture and had not charged 1 bit!

I restarted it (pressed the power and home buttons to force it to shut down and turned it on again) and nothing, same picture. I took out the charger and put it back, nothing, same picture (it would even turn off if I didn't put the charger back in right away).

I then used my USB dock (a dock actually for the old iphone version, but that still works for the 3g, if you force it in). And nothing my computer would not recognize it.

Finally I thought of something:

I placed in the dock and turned it on, once again giving me the annoying battery screen. However, this time I actually restarted my computer. My rational was that if the device was connected while it was booting up the computer had to recognize it somehow.

During my computer's boot sequence the iphone appeared to had turned off, I didn't touch anything though. After windows loaded, I noticed that still the iphone was black as if it was turned off. Thinking that it probably ran out battery once again, I went to turn on the iphone while still having it on the dock (during this whole time I had not removed it from the dock).

And alas! I saw the apple symbol and my springboard showed up!

It is now currently charging (I can see the charge increase on the screen, when I lock the screen, it is now halfway and green) on my usb dock.

I went to place it back on the wall charger though and it seems that it doesn't work. I will be buying a new wall charger soon.

I am thinking when I was talking on the iphone and connected it to the wall it simply never charged and thus the battery completely drained. As soon as I placed it on something that wasn't broken (ie: my iphone usb dock) it started to charge but still was frozen on that (stupid) battery screen. Restarting my computer while connected did something to the iphone so that now it is fully operational. All without having to resort to apple's communist ways of trying to control all aspects of your life.

Personally I'm not an apple fan. I "gave into" the whole iphone thing when I figured out there was a generation of people my age committed into fighting back the apple empire while still using its technology.

Cheers
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hey that worked perfectly....i let my phone die over night..too tired to charge, woke up went to charge it, lightning bolt sign comes on...this had happened to me before but after about 10mins the phone turned on, so i figured it was too low of a charge to turn on, well this time it didnt turn on after hours, i came across this forum tried all, it would do the same thing no matter where i charged it, finnally restarted the pc with the iphone plug into it via usb cable, and everything was good to go.............i believe its a firmware glitch as my wall charger is fine and if i dont let the phone die this problem will not happen....my wall charger is charging my phone and has been fine since i had this problem.....thanks for your help bud
 
Hello!

I have problem with my iPhone 3G S! When i turn it on, first appers silver logo, then after a few minutes it appers savescreen and after few seconds it's reseting by itself and that is just keep going and going till I turn it of!!! Can anybody help me???? Plz?
 
elainecheng said:
I unlocked/jailbreaked my iphone & accidentally i updated it so it got locked .. & ever since then my iphone wouldn't open even with the right sim. What should i do? Would the apple store help me repair it? & i've tried all the solutions it still doesn't work..
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What generation do you have? The apple store is not going to help you unlock it...
 
sm86 said:
... I "gave into" the whole iphone thing when I figured out there was a generation of people my age committed into fighting back the apple empire while still using its technology.
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OK, I don't want to hijack this thread, and it looks as if you have solved several people's problems, so good on you for that, but ... what? Can you amplify on what you mean by this quote? :confused:
 
This is weird

Phones a couple of months old and died this morning after halfway through sending a txt. Tried charging it and only the red battery indicator coming up. No response at all. Found you guys and tried doing everything everybody said to try (holding both buttons down while connecting the cord to the computer while doing a headstand was a challenge). Gave up and went to swap sim cards to back up phone. Plugged it into the mac AFTER removing the sim card (don't know why) and blow me down, the thing turned on! Fully charged and telling me I need a sim inserted. Lucky because I was about to insert something else into to it! Didn't lose a thing.

Hope this one helps someone out there.
 
The secret to avoiding all this is keeping it old-school. iPhone 2G is the way to go. 2 years running and never had a single issue!
 
profipix said:
I'm glad I found this forum.
Guys, I have similar problem.
I connect my iphone (2nd generation) to comp, it says right away that it's connected to itunes. Itunes does not find the phone.
Then the phone start blinking, restarting, starting from the silver apple screen, turns off, then starts again, with that apple screen, then turns off again, and just cycles like that.
I have no clue what could be the cause. I've tried holding those 2 buttons, and played w/ them, no luck. Itunes is the latest version. Runnig WinXP SP2. Drivers are good.
check out the attached zip for info...
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The exact same things happening to mine. Any solutions?
 
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