Iphone 3G wont turn on past apple logo! Please help!

I left out one key step (in bold)

I had the same problem.

This is what you need to do.

Do as what wjosten has said in the previous thread.

When the iphone goes blank... this is what you need to do.

1. Unhook your iphone

2. Plug your iphone into a wall charger --> this will bring up the apple logo

3. Unplug from the wall charger

4. Wait until the Apple logo goes away (not sure if this is necessary..but this is what I did)

5. Reconnect to your computer while holding down the "home" button

6. It will ask the same question about how you need to "restore"... just say yes...since iTunes is already downloading, it won't do much.

7. You may have to repeat steps 2-6 if the screen goes blank before the update is fully downloaded.

8. When the update software is full downloaded, just click update...

9.. The rest...you just click away...

I have some porblems with my iPhone 3g. When I turn it on, it just shows the apple logo and a black background. How am I gonna fix this? Please reply as soon as possbile. Thanks 🙂

Thank you very much..! you're a genius, it works. Thanks.

Thanks very much. This solved my question.

My friend showed up at my door this afternoon and handed me her phone with the apple logo frozen on the screen. She couldn't do anything and didn't know what to do. So what else do I do but google it. We tried everything we could find - including everything in this post. Nothing worked. We finally got it to connect to itunes but the only option was to restore it to the factory settings, but she had never backed up her information and didn't really want to lose all of her contacts and some 600 photos and videos. But nothing else was working and without apple care, she would have to go buy a brand new phone (or they would reset it) and she would still lose the info. In a last ditch resort before restoring it, we wondered if her sim card would work in my old iPhone 3. (Not understanding what all the sim card does, we gave it a shot.) We pulled her sim card out and while I was trying it in my phone, within just a couple of minutes her phone lit up with a message saying "no sim card inserted" and in the background was her regular screen. I put the sim card back in and everything had reset itself and was back to normal! Not sure why this worked, or if it would work for anyone else, but if nothing else works, give it a try!

my iphone not responding already it only show the apple logo i cant even use it and its suck

i have the same problem.

my iphone is a 16gb and jailbroken and i deleted all the data and settings and when it finished loading.. my iphone stayed on the apple black screen and does not move.. i have plugged it in to a charger and it will charge but still stays on the apple screen.. i tried the master reset.... and when i take the phone off the charger it dies...

help please!

Hello, Ive never had this problem for 3 years with my iphone 3gs (16gb) until a couple of weeks and the same thing... it wont start cause its stuck on the apple logo, I wasnt restarting anything, i just ran out of battery and so now ive tried to restore it more than 4 times but unfortunatly its not working... i found your comment different and also other people's iphones got fixed by this... so i thought that i will give it a try but still not working, tried what you said and right now im just normaly restoring it without recovery mode, and really hope that it works. This is a software problem and so i think taht i can fix it but has anyone else got and other formulas that i can try to get my iphone back?... please help, i really hope that i can get it to work by doing this, tell you later what happens. Also i have a really good experience with iphone and thats why i have 3 and really hope that i can get it to work... please Help!!!

thanks a lot! I can restore it now =)

Had a same prob bro but after reviewing ur the details u mentioned my problem is solved now thanx.😉

Thanks for mentioning the 30 seconds! I was about to give up until I tried that and now restoring. I had even taking my 3G into the Apple store and was told to junk it, possible water damage.

This is what I did and it worked for me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOKu0DxQbiA

i have the same issue, my friend was playing with it and i got it back and now it won't turn on. it doesn't go past the apple logo. and im not anywhere near my home computer im at school and don't know how to make it work. please help

Try a Reset... press the home and sleep/lock 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. You may need to hold the buttons for as long as a minute.

please help

i updated my iphones 3gs software and now my wont turn on it just keeps flashing the apple logo then a black screen.

can u please giv me some advice as soon as u can plz