iPhone screen turns on every 15 seconds

I've been looking through various forums, I've also been experiencing this as of today.

The iPhone turns on, the pinwheel turns for a while then the screen goes back to sleep. It's running down my battery VERY quickly...

Please help. (I've rebooted multiple times.)

You both say restarted or rebooted but have you tried a reset like this... press the home and sleep buttons until you see the Apple logo, ignoring the slider. Takes about 5-15 secs of button holding and you won't lose any data or settings.

If that doesn't work, try restoring as new or from a backup.

The method you describe is the only way I reset/reboot.


I am on the latest Beta 3. I don't have access to my home machine currently where I backup all my apps including the one I'm beta testing, but for this to randomly begin occurring out of the blue is very weird.

I will restore once home, but I am rather interested into why this has begun to happen. As of this morning (4 hours ago) my battery was fully charged but as this has happened every so often that the original poster describes (the phone stops responding when this happens, I assume 100% cpu utilization), it's draining my battery incredibly fast.

I've got the same problem. So do many other people on the forums both here on Apple's site and all over the web. I've tried doing a factory restore on my iPhone, no luck. Apple store was useless -- they just offered to sell me a new one. Contact the Better Business Bureau and see if we can't get some attention to this matter.

Go to Settings and turn off Notifications. If this fixes it you have an errant 3rd party app. If you don't have Notifications in Settings then you don't have any apps that use Push, so an app is not the problem.

I have the exact same problem, except the cycle is around 15 seconds.

The phone goes from standby to the 'slide to unlock' screen and then goes back to standby all on its own, and it does this continuously until it bleeds the battery dry - it's killing me as it keeps catching my eye when the phone's on my desk.

The following scenarios stop this happening.

- I switch the phone to silent (I'm using this as a stop gap solution).
- I'm playing music through the phone's speakers.
- I'm playing music through headphones.
- It's charging.
- It's connected to my laptop.

I've tried all the usual stuff, rebooting, restoring, airport mode, no wifi, switching off all notifications, removing all 3rd party apps, turning of all push/email related programs etc...

I'm pretty stumped to think what's causing this, when it started happening I'd done nothing new/different to the phone (no new apps installed, I'd not synced it, knowingly dropped it, had a issue plugging in the charger or headphones).

I'm at the point where I think I'm going to need to go to the O2 shop (one of my least favourite things to do) and experience customer service...there must be some clever dick out there that knows how to resolve this....?????

TIS (hopefully)

I'm also having the same problem. Just started a couple of days ago so I am wondering if it is being caused by one of the apps rather than OS 3 itself.

Did you ever figure this out... I am experiencing the exact same issue.