iOS 5.0.1 Crashing iPhone 3GS

Hi Karly Rose,

I had similar problems after installing 5.01. I didn't notice missing texts or calls, but the phone would sometimes "crash" with a full charge almost immediately.

Right after I installed iOS5, I began experiencing weird problems. I noticed battery life was drastically reduced: whereas I used to go all day on a charge with iOS4, after the upgrade the phone would "crash" at about 1/2 full. If I could restart, the battery would generally show that it was on fumes. Or it would show a half-charge and crash immediatly again. I never would get a "warning," low battery" message. So things were bad. But after the iOS5.01 upgrade, all **** broke loose. I didn't really suspect the battery at first, because no one on the forums was implicating batteries, and the battery indicator always showed "full" when the phone would shut down. Over time though, I observed that ALL OF MY PROBLEMS WENT AWAY WHEN THE PHONE WAS PLUGGED IN. They only happened when operating on battery power. So try that. If it works fine when plugged in, it's definately your battery.

In hindsite, I don't believe the phone was "crashing." I think it was shutting down like it does when the battery is totally drained.

After iOS5.01, the phone would "crash" randomly. Usually when I was using an app. Sometimes while I was talking. Again, it would happen with what appeard to be a "full charge," so I still didn't suspect the battery.

I tried many of the tips on this forum, for example, the tip from Mohammed from Abu Dhabi. And I restored three times. Truthfully, after doing all that, I felt like the phone returned to "pre 5.01" behaviour. That is, iOS5 behavior, which was bad, but not as horrible as 5.01 behaviour. The shut down's would generally occur when the battery meter showed about 50%. So there was an improvement. I DO think the restores and the Mohammad trick helped with whatever 5.01 was doing. But the BIG problem was the battery.

Now that I've replaced the battery, done the Mohammad trick and restored 3 times, I'm problem-free. I considered the downgrade option, and would have done it if the new battery hadn't helped. But when I went to the mac store, the "genius" was emphatic that iOS5 IS supported on the 3gs. And I have a lot of friends who are using iOS5 just fine on their 3gs's. So the problem seemed to be MY 3gs, not ALL 3gs's. And all this pointed to the battery.

UPDATE

Since I applied my soluation for crashing IOS 5.0.1 several weeks ago.....all problems are gone...except if u turn your iphone off or turn on Airplane mode on...........in this case you have again to activiate your 3g for 5 minutes and turn it off after that.........no crashing or restart will happen.

wish all the best..............till we hear anything from Apple to slove it out?

Mohammad - Abu dhabi

Hi all,

So my 3GS is still working great after the fix from Mohammed. (thanks again).....but like he said, I have not turned the phone of at all or used the camera... (too scared)

The reason for my post today is more to give a great big thank you, long distance hug and kiss to Apple for all the great support they gave us all on our problems! As always it was fast, ingenious and solved the issue. NOT!!!

Next thing you will know, you will give us the Bill Gates solution......oh just reboot.......

It is possible that no one from Apple is even monitoring this forum? Or are they just letting us dangle on purpos? Either way, it would have been a great help to us, Apple, if you would occassionally weigh-in on our discussions with your deeper knowledge and experience base.

Just like to say a big up thank you to mr Mohamed for the solution to this ever so frustrating issue. In my case I was flying to France from the UK and had switched my 3GS to Airplane mode during the flight. When landed I switched off airplane mode and disabled Cellular Data and disabled 3G network. My phone then would not connect to a carrier and started resetting every 3 to 4 minutes. I read about the software restores but was dreading to do this. So once again mr Mohamed. You are the man!

I am so happy that my soluation had helpped a lot of you guys in here..............after all ....this is the reason why we are all in here........helping each other...............and belive me nothing give me such a sense of joy as the word ( thank you).

Regards all

Just wanted to add my Thanks to Mohammed. My daughter's 3GS was crashing every two minutes today and when I got home I read this post, tried Mohammed's suggestion and now everything is OK.

Thanks again Mohammed.

Hi,

i bought my wife a few weeks ago an iphone 3GS and i discovered that the phone crashes randomly after i upgraded it to IOS 5.0.1.

does your fix helps with this issue?

and theres one more thing i dont understand,at step 5 you say to "turn off 3G and cellular data",should i leave it turned off or should i enable it after a while?doest it stay turned off all the time?isnt that a problem?

can you please reply with your answer to the next e-mail address:

ronensv@gmail.com

Thanks.

Hello everybody....i want you all to know that in Romania, the Iphones 3gs with OS 5.0.1 does the same crashing and rebooting and...al the stuff...

How i fixed it? I didn't, actually...it happened twice till now...and every time i did this...from the Configurationsmenu, i choose the General and the last on the list...Reset. And from there, i choose Reset all the configurations....and the phone come back to its very beginning...and not crashing at all...for a period...i think that it is possible to happen again if i let the battery on a low level...because when i had only 20% from battery it was still working and after a while it started crashing...

Anyway, i will let the time to speak...what else can we do?

But Apple...if you really care about us, the ones which give you money, very hard worked money, and if you still want to be in this business with mobile phones, you really need to do something...Samsung Galaxy's are less expensive and better....I already take care not to advice anybody to buy a Iphone and i surely am not the onl one....please, make me change the way i see you, dear Apple....

Bless you all, merry Christmas or Chag Chanukha Sameach !

I HAVE A IPOD TOUCH 4G BUT IT DOES THE SAME THING BUT ITS NOT LIKE EVERY 2 MINUTES BUT WHEN ITS LOCKED IT WILL JUST SHUT OFF AND NOT EVEN TRY TO TURN BACK ON ILL TAKE IT OUT OF MY POCKET AND ITS JUST OFF AND I HAVE TO TURN IT ON MYSELF AND THE BATT IS FULL THEN NOT MUCH LONGER AFTER IT WILL DO THE SAME THING JUST SHUT OFF I HAVE RESTORED IT A FEW TIMES BUT I STILL END UP WIHT THE SAME PROBLEM ANY HELP

just try remove sim ,wish it will work, hope apple can come out an update as soon as possible...

Yep, same problem here with my wife's 3GS after upgrading to 5.0.1. Unfortunately, non of the solutions here have helped. The only thing different I have noticed is that this only happens to my wife's phone when the batter gets low or when I reset it. If she never lets it get below 20% battery life and never has to "restart" we never have the problem. If the batter does die or phone gets reset, it goes into the restart loop until it has charged above 60%, then it magically stops restarting. Hopefully the next update will fix this because my wife always forgets to charge her phone 😟

it's the battery. it's the battery. it's the battery! :-)

It seems that everyone is finding a different solution for this almost universal problem. I upgraded to iOS 5.0.1 on my 3GS to find that it crashes every 2 minutes, and it doesn't receive calls or texts. I could:

1. Reset all data on the iPhone?

2. Take out the sim card, activate 3G and cellular data, put the sim card back in, and after a while, disable 3G again.

3. Restore my iPhone?

4. Downgrade to an older iOS.

5. Remove iCloud?

What has worked for you, and what would you suggest for me?

Also, I don't believe it's my battery, as it's a complete full charge. If it was my battery, it wouldn't crash while I'm charging it, am I correct?