my iphone is frozen

Same thing happened to my 3GS. Froze on me at the splash screen, doesn't load. Uninstalling and reinstalling froze the app before installation could complete. After that i tried a hard restart. Hung at logo. Tried again. Hung at logo. On the third time I left the iphone alone for I think close to ten minutes... and much to my relief, it completed the reboot.

No facebook app on my 3GS now, but at least I got my 3GS back.

Did you plug it into the computer or anything? Mine is plugged into my macbook, but every ten minutes exactly it restarts, never getting past the apple screen.

Ok y'all: I don't know if it was just the waiting or what. I downloaded iExplorer and after a while of nothing I pressed refresh a few times. Then I closed and quit iTunes. My phone actually died while it was plugged in. I reopened iTunes. After a minute or so the phone came back on and is now showing up in both iTunes and iExplorer. It's even backing up as we speak. My phone was restarting every ten minutes, on the dot, for an hour and a half before it died. Hope this helps some of y'all.

Plug into iTunes then hold home and lock buttons, let go of lock when you see the apple logo and continue holding the home button. This takes it into restore mode. This is the only thing that worked for me.

When we get iCloud presumably we would still have to restore from iTunes if the phone is frozen - not actually PC free then?

Thankfully I came here last night before going totally insane. Plugging it into iTunes and letting it just sit there worked for whatever reason. I had to wait about 30 minutes but then I had that magical sound of the computer recognizing the iPhone. It then came back to life, but I wasn't done with my problem. I tried to reinstall the Facebook app and it did the same **** thing again, it locked up on "installing". So rather than wait this out, I deleted Facebook from iTunes entirely and resynced so it removed it from my phone. I then "purchased" Facebook right from iTunes on my PC and then synced again and it finally added it to my iPhone and I could use the app once I logged in again.

What a nightmare over one app.... And the ironic part is while all this was happening, Apple e-mailed me the tracking info for my iPhone 4S which just left Alaska and is due to arrive to me Friday!

So, for those of us waiting for our iPhones, should we NOT download FB app? What is general concensus? I hate to go thru this nightmare with a phone I don't even know how to use yet!

Frig! I am in the same boat. It took 3 hard resets, plugging in, and about 10 minutes after the 3rd reset it finally turned on. This literally just happened so we'll see if it works here once it connects... Ugh

Marc, your method worked for me! I backed up my 3GS on my laptop, downloaded the FB app from iTunes, then synced it to my iPhone. Thank you! The app works and is truly a beautiful experience!

In answer to a previous question, when my 3GS hanged on the logo, I did not plug it into any machine/iTunes. I kept restarting it, on the third try I left the phone for about ten mins and it finally rebooted successfully.

Ok. So. After the above mess, it still didn't work. The ONLY way I got it to work was to completely remove it not only from the phone but also my computer, reinstall it on my computer, and then drag and drop it from my computer to the phone. (This is what MarcGoldie suggested. Thanks Marc!)

This worked! Thank you!

Just plug it in to itunes and keep trying to do the the reboot pressing the home button and the power button... Worked for me after 1,5 hrs, my iPhone is synching right now - it now says "deleting facebook" (you'll have to delete the app on your computer first)... Hope it works for you, too! Good luck!

Same problem. I am at work and can't access Itunes, so I guess I am just screwed for the time being. I am really wary about the apps I download, but would never imagine FACEBOOK of all things would be dangerous. Just really upset right now. I have done numerous hard resets.

I am at work, so do not have iTunes. I did a hard reset & plugged into work PC. Apple logo appeared & stayed for 10min then iPhone reset & displayed Apple logo again. After another 10min, phone vibrated & PC pinged. Went to iPhone folder on my PC & I am good again.

Mine started working agian just now. Very scary. Not going to download the fb app though!

I spoke to an Apple iPhone Tech Representative. He said the issue is that the Facebook App is for iOS 5, which will not be released until tomorrow (via iTunes). So, that is what is causing all of the phones to freeze and lockup because they cannot process that App's data on the current OS (iOS 4.3). He told me to let mine continue to sit on the Apple Logo screen and that it will eventually come back on (still waiting). Here's hoping...