My iphone 5 suddenly died.

Worked! I had to toggle the silence button several more times and hold the the two buttons down a bit longer. And it worked! Thank you!

omg... that actually worked... i don't know if that's what made it worked but thanks !!

Dear RJM,

My phone is back on thanks to you! I toggled the silent button, then pressed the on/off and home buttons together and my phone started up. THANK YOU!

bonnieg907

thanks, its works well.

wish you best luck..

Iskender Merza

RJM - thank you so much for this post !!! saved my day. it didn't work the first 3 or 4 times, but I kept trying -- and exactly as you said -- toggle 2 times (1 or 3 didn't work) ... then hold home+sleep buttons down and it booted!!

I never had problems with an iphone until I started using the silent button ... going to go back to DoNotDisturb setting instead.

I had this problem just now and I am grateful for the fix. I am just curious if others have started using a non-Apple power cord recently? I have and am wondering if that could be the problem??

It's June of 2014 and I just had this problem.

I'd been reading about the use of unauthorized lightening cables perhaps frying the phone, but this fix (toggle the mute button etc.) worked for me.

Scary scary moments though until I found you all!!

Hi RJM,

Its Worked to mine too !!!

Thank you so much, back online .... 🙂

Have a nice day further. Kind Regards, Dipesh

🙂🙂🙂

Thanks a lot it really helps me.. I'm so scared I thought it wont open forever but again thanks to your advice.. it helps me a lot..

Hello,

I am using iphone5 and it always going in to a restore mode and showing that connect to itunes and when i connected to the itunes and did with restore and update then it is showing showing some "error 3194" and i am fed up with this problem. So anybody could you please help me out from this issue.And i stays in india and i could not find any technician in india.

Looking forward to hear from you soon.

Glad to know this. This scared the heck out of me.

Error 3194 is described here: Error 3194, Error 17, or "This device isn't eligible for the requested build"

It means one of the following:

• You are attempting to restore a version of iOS other than the current version (7.1.1), Downgrading is not supported.
• Your phone was hacked or jailbroken to unlock it or for other purposes.
• You have used your computer to hack or jailbreak this or some other iOS device, and the hacking program corrupted the network database on your computer.
• Your firewall or antivirus is blocking access to Apple's servers

Thankyou so much for this comment. My phone just died, took your advice and it is now working again :-)

This just happened to me today. Phone was 80% charged. Went totally dead. . I was on a hike and using the camera feature from the lock screen (without logging in first)... a bit unusual for me. That's it. Thought it might have been the screen, so tried to call it (nothing happened), and tried to plug in to iTunes.. (phone didn't even register). Read the solutions here and they worked: Toggled "silence" button 4 times or so, then pressed Home and Power buttons at the same time and Apple icon appeared. Very scary. Apple, please deal with this, thank you ~

iPhone 5s

32g

Ver 7.1.1

mauisal wrote:

Very scary. Apple, please deal with this, thank you ~

There's nothing for Apple to deal with. And Apple doesn't read these forums. iOS crashed, and you rebooted the phone. Are you surprised that computers sometimes crash?