My iphone 5 suddenly died.

Mine dies today in mid conversation. It was at 21% battery and plugged in. I keep my open apps at a minimaI and I have had it plugged up to 3 different cords and sources and nothing is bringing it back to life. Sigh.. Have appointment tomorrow with genius bar.. It is 3 months old..

Thanks to RJM and Lawrence Finch for the fix. My iPhone 5 also just died. Before finding this thread I tried just holding down the power button on its own for a while, which did nothing. I then tried holding down the home button, also nothing. It would have taken me a while to think of holding down both at the same time 😉

Thanks, RJM- your fix worked perfectly! Was a little scared there for a moment!

RJM thanks worked for me. Did not try reboot without toggling the silent button so I don't know if that would have also worked.

Sudden death brought back to life with the vibrate/ring toggle and the it just spontaneously turned on. Fantastic save techique.

RJM,

THANK YOU! Your suggestion fixed my phone.

SM

Thx!! This worked!!

Thanks, it solved my iPhone 5 problem as well!

Thanks for your help, just happened to me.

I had the same issue this morning - My phone was chareged last night - I woke up and it was unresponsive. I plugged it into the computer, and then the wall, would not charge.

The solution I found was to hold down the 'Home' and 'Power' button until it reset (You'll see the Apple logo).

Once it restarted, it worked as normal.

Hope that helps.

Yes, standard procedure, prominently described in the manual. Which no one reads. When in doubt, reboot.

Yes standard proceedure I agree kinda like "Cntl Alt Del" on a PC. The NEW wrinkle here was the toggling of the "Silent" switch which was RJM's orginal suggestion. A lot of folks included that step as did I. Was it necessary, who knows? Apparently it didn't hurt the recovery process.

Well, it doesn't hurt, but it is unnecessary. You could also put it on the floor, draw a pentagram around it, walk 3 times around it widdershins, then pick it up and hold the HOME and SLEEP buttons until an Apple logo appears and it will restart.

Hmm. My phone just died and I tried HOME and SLEEP for 10 seconds, no logo, then 20 seconds, no logo. 30 seconds, no logo, and I have steady hands buttons were definitely pressed. Then I tried RJM's method with the toggle silent switch and my phone is alive again. Not so sure it's unnecessary.

I'm with robdubious

My iPhone 5 today has been acting rather weird all day. Firstly with iMessage failing and going to green instead of blue.

Anyways it not only died once but twice - 2nd time with battery power of 22%

First time - I applied the default reboot method of pressing not power and home button together until apple logo appears. This worked...

Second time - I again was surprised to see it dead and tried the default reboot. It did not reboot...To no avail. Thus to the iPad to research and investigate possible answers...reading through this thread...I discovered the toggle silent switch method and behold!!! It is now back up and operational.

I will add that I always close out fully on any apps as much as possible to save them sitting in the background at any given time.

Important questions are: why does the iPhone 5 randomly crash all of a sudden - this is a newish iPhone on plan from March 2013...