My iphone 5 suddenly died.

Worked well with my 5S after battery being completely discharged.

Plugged iPhone into known working charger.

Turned my ringer function button to "on"

Toggled volume + and - buttons 3 times alternatively.

Held power and home button for 10 seconds.

Let go of both buttons and hey presto iPhone jumps back to life !!

Many thanks for all contributions.

This helped me as well. Thanks a lot. Fantastic job.

the toggling and messing with buttons finally worked for me.

thanks, phone working again.

but very strange.

Thanks for the info. I got the same problem and tried the toggles and it brought back the phone.

After having a 'sudden death' incident i actually loaded my SIM into an old flip phone. Strange nostalgia, no idea how i would cope as even an SMS would take way me 5 minutes with the old keys!

Found this post so panic over now!

Great fix, the interesting thing is the original post was 2 years ago and the 'sudden death' problem still happens on ios8.3 after 2 years of further development.

Ill take a guess that the button combo must reset whatever firmware boots the (i)OS, thereby solving a million possible scenarios in one go.

Thanks!

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ThankYou so much, RJM! 🙂 I'm so glad that worked! What a relief.

Thanks. My Iphone5 was 50% charged, I left it on my bedside table for 30 min, and then it was dead. I was doubtful about your suggestion, but tried it and it worked !!!. Thank you. Very strange. RdM

My iPhone 5s totally died overnight. I did the instruction above and it works!

Very strange... Does it happen with all iPhones? and Why? Does anyone know?

Thank you very much for the help!!

Hi aleps,

It probably happens with most phones. It is no different than rebooting a computer. It's an electronic device with electronic parts. Sometimes it needs to be reset just like any electronic item. Have you ever had to turn a printer off and back on to get it working? Reboot a computer? Flip the switch on your router? All the same thing. "Clearing the circuits"....

Cheers,

GB

I am having the same problem as most of the people here but holding down the home button and power button at the same time is doing nothing. It just shows the battery icon saying that it is charging

My iPhone 5s experienced the sudden death syndrome today. Your solution worked. Thanks!

Just happened to me now, i followed your steps. i had a pentagon and walked three times backwards and held both keys and voila it worked thanks finch.

😁

It must have been the walking backwards that did it!!!

GB

THank you very much RJM, it worked! first time it happened to me and was totally clueless coz my iphone was perfectly fine, it saved a trip to a repair shop!🙂