iPhone 4 Black Screen But Phone Works

i"ve already tried . the logo appears just for a second and goes back to black screen . tried even restoring and updating , seting it as a new iphone. could this be because of the ios 9.0.2 . the device is heating on the right upper side when it is on .

Thank you @shareholder pressing down the power button and home button worked!!!!

Thank you. That seems to have worked!

My phone first stopped responding (home button or virtual home button). I turned it off, and it would not turn on again with either button, or with connecting to my computer. I could call my iPhone from another phone - it rang.

So I backed it up to my computer and tried the suggestion of holding down on/off and home buttons simultaneously until apple appeared. Hey presto. Seems to have revived it. Hope it's not time to retire the poor "old" phone.

Thank you big time Vattem, my iPhone 4 just all of a sudden went black... Googled and found this site and your answer...

Travelling to Manchester from Lincs tomorrow so I was in a real panic...

So relieved now working using your method...

Cheers...

Thanks nemipk! Your solution was the only one that worked to get my 4S back on! First time it has ever gone black (and it was fully charged). For me, the screen was black, but Siri would still randomly say she "didn't understand that". She couldn't respond or do anything else though. The circumstance when mine went black was that I had been taking a lot of photos and messing with the flash setting and deleting pics. I did notice that the phone got very warm in the corner where the camera lens is. After I got the phone to come back on and swiped it went right to camera mode and screen went black again. I got it to come back on the same way as the first time and this time I noticed the my wallpaper/swipe screen wavered & faded a little and it just looked oddish. Then I noticed it was actually a photo of my screen, not the real deal. I hit the trash can and deleted it, then I could see I was back (or still) in camera mode. I clicked on all the flash settings......on...off...auto, left it on auto, then hit the home button and got back to all my apps screen. All has been well since then. Knock on wood. Totally weird to me....I'm not a phone guru and totally don't get how the image of my swipe screen became a photo in my photo stream file, but nemipk's solution was the only thing that worked to get my phone running again.

nemipk's solution worked on my iPhone 5s. Thanks nemipk!

[[[*** SOLUTION ***]]]

i was having the same problem, but i get my iphone screen lightening once again 🙂

all you have to do is just

** Press/Hold is HOME button and POWER/LOCK (on/off) button for 10-15 seconds, you'll get the iphone RESTART,

the apple logo will appear, i hope it helps 🙂

I Love U Dudeee!!!!!!! U r a Life Saver <3 Seriously.....

thank you this helped !!!

I had the same situation this morning when the screen on my IPhone 4 went black. It wasn't the battery because it had been charging all night. I called the phone and it rang so I knew it worked. It appears to be just the screen.

So I googled " what is wrong when the IPhone 4 screen goes black?". The instructions were to hold down the power button ( top right hand side on the IPhone 4) and the Home button ( at the center bottom front of the IPhone 4). Hold down both buttons for 10 seconds and the Apple logo appears. Wait a minute + more and the screen re-appears.

Why this happened I don't know..... but the process fixed the issue. I hope it works for you as well.

yes is goes for little reboot condition so please hold power button and home button for 30 seconds and apple logo appears and it works

I have the same issue, on my 4S unit.

Black Screen.

Worked at 4pm then at 7pm I got the black screen.

The mute button vibrates the phone.

I tried calling, that works. Even the swipe works, but I know where that is on the screen.

Screen is still black.

Plug the phone in, computer recognizes it.

Power button works.

I have done the Home + Power countless times. But I got the black screen so I dont know what happens there.

So I thought the Digitizer was toast, but its the LCD screen that is toast. I was going to buy a digitizer, but I thought the digitizer and the LCD are the same thing. Maybe they are not.

Its very odd.

Any help with that, Digitizer and LCD screen, 2 seperate things or what?

Iam also having the same problem. Do u know how to fix it

its very helpful. my iphone is now screen on. thank you very much

what if the home button is not functioning anymore. How will you do a reset?