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Iphone 4 keeps freezing up

This could be the New IOS4 but I have had several instances where someone was trying to call me and it would not let me answer the call. Screens keep freezing on me and the synchronization of when it turns off the screen is all messed up.

Anyone else having this issue?

Dell Studio, Windows 7

Posted on Jun 25, 2010 4:34 AM

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Jun 25, 2010 10:47 AM in response to cynnical

I'm also getting a frozen screen. It wont let me move the slider to unlock the phone, or once I get past that the screen wont recognize me touching it to enter my pass-code. Hitting the home button does nothing. I showed it to an AT&T rep (apple store is too far from work, and they said I needed to bring it back to apple.

Jul 2, 2010 2:04 PM in response to johnjahn

Piling on here in hopes Apple recognizes the problem and fixes it. Zoom off; proximity sensor not blocked, phone reset, phone restored, push off, fetch off, all email accounts set to manual, iTunes re-installed... etc., etc. Same problem as described by others-- unable to answer call, screen frozen, can't even turn off because of frozen screen. Eventually it resets, works OK for a time, then for no apparent reason, it freezes again.

Jul 26, 2010 8:37 PM in response to rledit3

the 3 finger trick actually worked, but really imagine if you had a car problem and the mechanic told you to honk the horn three times while you open and close the trunk of the car to fix that particular problem, what would you think of that car.

Again thanks for posting this weird repair fix, I did also remove the cover that I purchased for the Iphone 4.

Apple please tell me that you will fix this glitch, and don't let those glitches be the tipping point of why apple stock went down the drain.

Nov 22, 2010 10:01 AM in response to hawkflight

My phone freezes everytime I arrive at work and every time I arrive home. I have concluded its freezing after attempting to switch towers, therefore there is a problem with the phone's signal reception. I am sure this could be easily fixed by apple with ajustments in programing and a new OS. So I am hoping they do actually read these threads. My symptoms are that after I have arrived either home or at work, my screen either remains black when waking it up, freezes in the middle of me doing anything on the phone (doesn't matter what), or sometimes I can tell its rebooted itself if I don't use my phone right when I get home or to work because my homescreen's last position is changed. I went to the apple store and they don't do any trouble shooting, they just gave me a new phone but this new one does exactly the same thing. A tip that has helped me cope is when it freezes, if you want to speed up the reboot process just hold the home butting and the power button down together until the apple appears. I have the Iphone 4g 16GB, interstingly my boyfriend has the 32GB and his has never frozen and we live and work in the same areas so his phone is somehow able to handle switching towers. Maybe its got more memory to handle it...

Mar 22, 2011 7:58 PM in response to cynnical

My iPhone 4G 16G keeps freezing up intermittently in any screen. Once it's in a screen/app/call anything I can't get it to unfreeze or come out of that without shutting it off completely and then it freezes when I restart again. It will stop doing it for weeks or days and then start up againUser uploaded file Really frustrating! The Apple store Genius Bar said to restore it to new but then what about my apps? Won't those just mess it up again unless I completely dump all of them and re-purchase and re-load absolutely new ones rather than the ones that are backed up on my computer? This issue is soooo frustrating please help/advise me...

Apr 5, 2011 4:18 PM in response to cynnical

Hi There,

I have had a similar issue with my Iphone 4 32gb. it has frozen from me just trying to open my phone with the slider through to just being in the home screen. I didn't know how to do a hard reset so left my phone to run out of battery life and after it reset it was fine again.... Then it happened the next day. My phone has never frozen up on me up until I have updated it to the new IOS4.

Iphone 4 keeps freezing up

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