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Help Iphone 3GS screen is just black won't turn on!?

My Iphone won't turn on it just has a black screen I have got it on charge at the moment had it there overnight it has done this once before and came back on from leaving it on charge overnight just wondering why it has done this and if anyone else has had the same problem. Really annoying as it is worth so much. Help 🙂 any ideas i have also try to reset it by holding the on switch and button but nothing happened.... It has however now just turned on now randomly anyone know what is up with it and should I take it into and apple shop?

Iphone 3gs, iPhone OS 3.1.3

Posted on Jun 3, 2010 8:10 AM

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Jun 3, 2010 2:42 PM in response to sidwid

First Reset your iPhone... 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.

Second, fully discharge and fully recharge the battery to reset the battery meter.

If those don't work, Restore your iPhone via iTunes with your backup.

If you still have problems, Restore as new, i.e, don't install your backup when requested.

Jun 10, 2010 8:17 AM in response to sidwid

My screen just went black too. Second time in the same day. The first time it took a while but it found the phone and all was well for about an hour.

Then I got a call. After I hung up it went black. It will not turn on at all. I have held down the home, on/off as well as home, on/off and volume buttons at the same time, and did each for 10 seconds. It had a full battery.

I also have uninstalled and reinstalled iTunes 9.1.1 and was thinking I was alone till I found this thread. So does anyone have any ideas? I am also running the latest iphone software...

Any thoughts would be helpful at this point.

Jun 10, 2010 1:21 PM in response to Pixel Witch, Inc.

I have let the iphone charge in the cradle for a while. Then I took it to the mac and connected via DFU mode
http://www.iclarified.com/entry/index.php?enid=1034 prepared for restore and got error, "The "iPhone" could not be restored. An unknown error occurred (1601)" So it's not a hardware LCD error, and I have found another thread that has this issue as well.

Jun 10, 2010 1:43 PM in response to sidwid

I have the same problem... and I have tried to press the shutdown button and the home button, while / and before connected to Itunes. But the phone just get stuck in "waiting for Iphone" Aarghh.... What kind of **** is this, I been trying to solve this for 16 hours now!!

Does anybody have an idea on how to solve this??

Help Iphone 3GS screen is just black won't turn on!?

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