iPhone 4 blacked out...
eventually, i held the home and power button and the phone powered on. this has happened to me twice since the 4.2 upgrade. anyone else had this happen to them?
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OMG...The samething happened to me just now. I wanted to cry as it is my first iphone. The solution works- hold the home and lock button till the apple appears...
Rajshree
Hello Everyone,
I apologize but I had a specific question for merged content 1 and have no idea of another way to contact this person. I have spent hours with apple tech support to no avail. I read an old blog he was posting in and seemed to be "the man" or "woman" (MC1 just sounds like a male name.. haha) on ATVs (apple tvs). I cannot get my ipad mini or iphone 5 to mirror of even airplay with my ATV 3 after just taking it to the family room of my house and hooking it up down there for just a few minutes. No matter what we have tried, I mean every thing, I have a pretty extensive network of multimeda equipment, but i have taken it down to just the ATV and router....to luck. I cannot get that icon to appear and we have tried it all. I can however use it as and audio output source... If you or anyone else (just PM me or send me to the propler spot please!). feel free can offer any assistance in finding a solution I would be very appreciative. I know I can just trade it in for a new one but it might not fix the problem. Once again my aplogies to everyone on this blog. If there is a way to PM a specific bloggist, please let me know this is the first time I have done this and hopefully the last!
Good Luck with your troubleshooting everyone,
Russ
I had the same problem. One night I was charging my phone, as usual, when my iphone 4S suddenly started beeping. The screen was blacked out and no matter what I did, I could not access the home screen, any apps or the phone. I did the same and finally held down the power + home buttons and my phone began to power up showing the apple icon. I turned my phone off for the night to give it a rest.
The next morning I woke to a text message SMS from my brother, but his name was not visible, only his mobile number. I then checked my contacts to find there were only 37 of more than 900 listed. I updated my iOS to 6.3.1 and then called apple suppor. We tried everything they could think of for two and a half hours, only to discover my phone was not accessing my wi-fi and nothing had been backed up to the cloud since December 2012!
The apple senior advisor told me to take my iphone to the apple store and swap it for a new one. I did so and had backed up what was remaining on my phone to my laptop computer, but I lost all my new contacts from December of last year through July 3rd. I checked the cloud from my laptop and discovered this weekend that my new iphone IS backing up to the cloud, but the it still reads it has "never" been backed up. When I initiate a manual backup from the iphone, it says it could not be completed. No explanation, no error code, just never backed up.
iPhone 4 blacked out...