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Iphone 4 Turned off and wont turn on

I was playing with my iphone, put it in my pocket for 5 minutes, took it out and it had turned off and wont turn back on, ive tried starting it with the power and menu buttons and itunes wont pick it up

iphone 4, iOS 4

Posted on Nov 21, 2010 7:38 AM

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Posted on Nov 21, 2010 10:08 AM

as i said in my first post i tried it, held it down for about a minute, tried nearly eveything i can find on the internet to do with this problem
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Aug 30, 2011 8:50 AM in response to MLovell

happened to me for first time. only have phone 2 weeks. must be a problem with the phone because other people are reporting same problem. i plugged it into the computer and held the sleep and return home buttons down simultaneously for about 10-15 seconds and it re-booted. apple needs to know to correct this or i'm going back to blackberry.

Sep 11, 2011 10:13 PM in response to MLovell

I hope it wokred out foe you. After nearly a year of flawless performance my iPhone 4 began to shut itself down with only a charging cable making it start up again. Most of the time the date and clock was set to 01.01.1970. A call to Apple support made me restore it and it worked for teo weeks without a problem. Then in started again and now my warranty period is over. I can't help thinking this might be a software thing because it is remedied for a short period with factory reset. Maybe iOS 5 will solve it.


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Johan

Sep 12, 2011 3:03 AM in response to apple1616

Make sure you hold down sleep/off and return to desktop buttons for 15 seconds with phone plugged into computer. May have to try it twice. I suspect it shuts down without notice if you have two many programs open in the background. My phone so far only shut down once; maybe because I get in the habit of shutting down programs when not using them. I suspect if you do not then the phone may get cluttered, overwhelmed and can no longer "think" so it goes into a coma. I may be wrong but Apple hasn't been right yet about delivering a healthy phone.

Oct 8, 2011 4:21 PM in response to MLovell

My iphone turned off 5minutes ago after i was just playing a game and then i put it in my pocket and went to check the time a minute later and it wouldnt turn on! So i tried connecting it to the charger and pressing the top button but nothing is turning it on! And i checked no red dot inside of the phone of water damage! What do I do??

Iphone 4 Turned off and wont turn on

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