My iPhone 4s will not charge

Jayson,

I didn't update my last post but.. the phone was not fixable. I was told that the motherboard was fried. It was beyond any issue with the charging port, or the battery on the phone. The actual main motherboard on the iphone was fried, it would take a serious tech to "sauter" parts together. Luckily, I was able to trade in my phone for credit/cash towards an used iPhone4s. The phone should charge hopefully when you plug it in, and turning it off for several hours. Everyone is kind of S.O.L if its beyond the "charging port" or the "battery" on the phone. For the time being, try charging the phone with it turned off.

Hi All

I am in South Africa and have the exact same problem with iPhone 4s

It is about 2 years old and has literally just this morning stopped charging properly.

It turns off because battery is flat, and then charges up a bit, turns on - shows about 4% charge and then stops charging, and battery drains until it turns off. This has been happening for the last 5 hours.

I updated iOS v7 about 2 months back, and it hasnt done this before. I am wondering if there is -

A) a bug that Apple built into the updates to get people to replace their iPhones after a few years

B) a fault with the iPhone4s that no-one is talking about from Apple as it will be too costly to admit that??

This is BEYOND ridiculous...HELP

I have exactly the same problem it started failing a 2 days ago *** 😠

I have an iPhone 4 too; ...also about 2 years old. Stopped charging suddenly last night: first time I've seen this issue.

Tried a restart of the device; tried a reset too - neither worked: I only get the "plug your device in, you are nearly out of power" screen.

Tried multiple (authentic Apple brand) cords, connected to both the wall outlet and as a USB directly into my macbook pro. Nothing.

iTunes doesn't show that my device has mounted, either. What's up, Apple?

Same thing happened today! Its been on and off for the past month or less, trying to get it on the right time so it doesnt move a centimeter and unplug. But today, i'm at 10 percent and i cant do anything! Please reply

I too am having this problem as of this morning. My phone charged fine overnight, and then wouldn't charge today. I had actually thought the charger I keep in my car (the cord that came with the 4s I carry for work), but then it wouldn't charge on any of the cords I have at home either.

Has anyone also had a problem leading up to this, where their phone would randomly run down to 0% when the battery was well over 50% and then when you plugged the phone in to charge it would jump right back up to the level it was at before?

I find it suspicious that the majority of people who are having this problem are a month or so away from an upgrade being available.

Has anyone tried to contact apple about this problem, we all have the same issue , so there's definitely a problem

with an update that apple did.

Also in the same boat. Never had a problem until I updated yesterday. Only charged on a computer first and now it won't charge on anything. Would love to hear any info/help!

Hi

I am currently facing the same problem...Any luck on ur mobile ??

I turned the phone off, plugged it into my MBPro and it started charging. When it turned on, I turned it off again me it charged overnight just fine. I haven't had any problems since then.

Another victim here. Phone randomly stopped charging a few days ago. Got suckered into upgrading by my local at$t representative. I definitely have some suspicion after stumbling upon this thread.

With over 25,000 views on this thread I would have to assume this is a pretty widespread issue.

Same issue here, yesterday just bought iphone 4s barely used updated to ios 7 was charging ok.
In the evening i was charging my phone not to 100% i was playing with it and then i put it on charge it just wouldnt work! wouldnt charge anymore! im on 10% or less now and the wall or pc doesnt charge it i cant turn it off or anything !?

This has just happened to my phone. It won't charge, connect or reset. I have 3% battery left. What can we do?

I found that someone else's fix worked for me. I turned my phone off completely and then connected it to my charger. It started charging then, and once it started charging and tried to turn itself on, I turned it off again. I had to turn it off a total of three times, but the phone charged. I did this right before I went to bed, so when I woke up, I had a fully charged phone, and I haven't had a problem since.