iOS 5.0.1 Crashing iPhone 3GS

goofbear, i'm still waiting on that battery to arrive but i just ran into another issue completely...

i was attempting to do another restore and hopefully get a few more functional days but this time i keep getting error 1611 which is apparently a hardware error? do you think this is related to the battery? i've tried putting it in dfu mode, using different computers, everything and it remains stuck on the "connect to itunes" screen. what to do now?!

My iPhone 3GS with iOS 5.0.1 also crashes quite frequently. I found one and only one solution: keep the iPhone connected to a power supply. With this, my iPhone does not crash at all. But it is quite useless as a cell phone if it requires a continuous power supply. I suspect that the problem is the source code of battery monitoring program. The system is mistakenly reporting the battery is low, I guess.

oh no. It's no software glitch. Your's is the classic case of "bad battery" syndrome. Believe me, (read my threads) -- I'll save you a ton of time with false diagnoses: get a new battery, and do it now!

oof. so you're dead in the water. Hmmm. That *****. You know, weird **** can happen when the battery goes. It's like the phone goes insane and nothing makes sense. Hopefully all the starts will align when the new battery is installed. Got my fingers crossed for you!

Hi Goofbear. I bought 2 iphone 3GS from ebay - both locked to O2UK - after getting them officially unlocked through O2 my wife and I have been merrily using them with our Virgin UK sims with no problems whatsoever. That is until however I decided to turn mine off one night AAAARRRGGGGHHHH!!!!!

The next morning when I turned it on, at first everything was fine, then after a couple of minutes it started the dreaded reboot sequence over and over. The battery level was fairly high so I assumed that it was some kind of incompatability between the iphone 3GS running IOS 5.0.1 and my Virgin Sim. So eventually I managed to reset the phone using I-Tunes and all has been well since but I have never since let the battery run down or turned it off.

Now last night my wife let her Phone battery run down completely so it could receive a complete recharge as advised by apple to prolong the battery life. After connecting the charger and charging commencing, to my horror this phone started to do exactly the same thing - reboot reboot reboot etc.etc. - even whilst connected to the power!! eventually I turned it off completely to allow it to charge. Turned it on again this morning and yes it started to reboot again after about 20 mins.

So I took out her Virgin sim and restarted it with a O2 payg sim but the same thing occured. Then I happened upon these postings and tried our man Mohammad's little trick and up till now it is working a treat but I think that if I turn off the phone again the problem will return. The odd thing is that both phones have exactly the same problem and both are 3GS running IOS5.0.1

Can I ask you what the part number of the battery was? I might try to replace the battery in one of the phones and see if it makes any difference.

I just went on google and looked for "batteries for iphone 3gs." There are tons of sources to get the batteres from. I think I picked one called "ipodbatterydepot.com".

Was not hard to find a battery at all. If you're not comfortable opening up the phone, I'm sure you can find a service in your area that will do it for you.

My experience with the battery is that when it faulty or old, nothing makes sense. You cannot trust the battery meter any more, so my first thought was the software was glitchy. But that was just a crazy symptom. Good luck with it!

I am having precisely this issue, with a 3GS 16GB since iOS5 update. About 2-3 minutes into a call, suddenly i am talking to the void. look at phone and voila the magic silver apple. On one occasion my iPhone had decided in the middle of a job interview over the phone that it would reboot.

however haven't noticed a flashing battery when in call unlike some?

Apple, please help!

No one on this board has heard from Apple ever, so don't go holding your breath. What we have figured out, I think, is that if you do the Mohammad trick, restore your software, and replace your battery, you'll fix the prob. Some of us found relief by just doing the Mohammad trick. I don't think anyone found relief by just restoring. I found relief by doing all three. Try this: if you do the mohammad trick alone, do all your issues go away? If not, plug the phone in and use as a plug-in for a while. Do all your probls go away? If yes, you've ALSO got a bad battery.

I started having the same (or at least a similar) problem with very frequent crashes, reboots, and freezes on my iPhone 3GS yesterday after I activated iCloud. Since I turned iCloud off again earlier today (by deleting the iCloud account) the problem seems to have disappeared. I did a Google search afterwards and found that someone else had experienced the same thing (see http://www.bayanimills.com/2011/11/26/iphone-3gs-constantly-crashingclosing-apps -while-running-ios-5/ ). I don't know if this helps anyone else, but I guess it's worth a try. I reckon one might confuse it with a general iOS5 problem since both were released this summer (I think).

Hi guys..,,, this is Mohammed from abu dhabi again

Im so happy that my trick worked out for thousands of whome have crash after ios 5.01 application

And im so happy for all thanks sent 4 me from u guys. Its my pleasure to help

Any way for update about this issue again:-

Apple knows every thing we said here but the update is sachuled for next March. So wr have to wait

Anther important issue that worth mentioning: u dont have to take sim out every time ? If ur iphone turned off or ur signal went off for even one second ..,,,or if u wanna put ur iphonr in airplane mode? All u have to do to avoid crash is to turn in ur 3g and celluar data for few minutes and than turn it off if u dont need it? If u need ur 3g its not a problem at all. But in all times use 3g for couples of minutes when iphone start?

Hope pleasent day for all? Plssss pray for my mother soul if u ever find my info helps u?

Thanks

After I got mine to work using Mohammed's solution it acted up again after 2 days with its same problem and the trick didn't work anymore.

Now I tried madsric solution and for 2 hours now no reboot yet. I just completely deleted my iCloud account as described in the link BUT did not add the account again ( I dont use it anyway ) ..

I hope this will be it .

Thanks again

what have you tried so far?

Mohammed's solution worked for me: ejecting the SIM, deactivating 3G & cellular data then reinserting SIM and reactivating 3G & cellular data. No more reboots after that.

I had the same problem and apparently it's solved now. My 3Gs is 1.5 yo and a new 4s is shipping now, so I'll have 2 toys as phones. 🙂

My phone, after 5.0.1 started to randomly power off and black screen. So I spent the last 3 weeks trying diferent configs and today's config seems to be working fine, with no hangs until now. (I hope stays)

I just went to Settings>Location Services and switched off almost all apps but maps and Find My iPhone.

It's working now, no problems at all.

If something happens, I'll post again.

If some of You guys try this, please, let me know if it's also working.

Regards

Jun

I have done every tip and idea mentioned here to fix my problem. Nothing worked. I bought a brand new battery and replaced my old one thinking that would finally solve it. It didn't. My only conclusion is that it's a nasty bug and I hope it gets resolved in the next update to 5.1. Fingers crossed.

My 3Gs with IOS 5.0.1 only autoreboots during phonecalls which exceed 4-5 minutes. When I bought it with IOS 3.5.1 everything worked like a charm! After upgrading my iPhone basically became an expensive iPod.

FYI this is what I've tried on many occaisions. Neither one of these helped:

- Changed the simcard

- Full restore and started from scratch

- Reinstalled and tested with every available update

- Used a simcard from a different provider

- Disabled 3G

- Enabled 3G

The store where I bought my phone advised me to spend €262 ⚠ to have my phone replaced with a refurbished one. Is this a solution?

Is Apple working on this issue and if so, when will a solution become available for their annoyed users?

Mr/Mrs Apple moderator, can you please comment on this?