My iPhone 4s will not charge

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.

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 !?

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.

I held the home screen and off button down, nothing happened. I've plugged it in to the PC, waited 20 mins and then the PC found it. The PC then said software update required, it updated and not it seems to be charging ok. Fingers crossed its done the trick.

Same problem. I think that I must have just became upgrade eligible, so I have an option, but I didn't want to get rid of the phone. I started having a few issues with the ringer recently, but nothing I couldn't work around. But, it charged to 100% night before last, I brought it into work, plugged into the PC. Deleted some photos as I was running out of space, and then noticed it wasn't charging. Have iOS 7.xx, was thinking of going to latest rev, but won't now. I am trying the trick with turning off the phone after plugging in. I am not getting a charging indicator when turned off, but each of the three times I turned it on, and back off, noticed that the percentage went up 1% each time when I could see the home screen before turning back off. I am going to leave it plugged in for awhile and see what happens, otherwise will upgrade.

Just an FYI, being my impatient self, I just turned the phone back on and it is up to 33%, from 25%, in 7 minutes. So, it looks like it is charging while being turned off, though there is no charging indicator as there used to be.

Again, I did boot up and turn off multiple times prior, so I dont know if that had anything to do with it or not. I thought that I had tried charging it while turned off yesterday to no avail, but not I cannot recall specifically as I was trying multiple processes.

Good luck.

I posted yesterday, I believe, about the same problem. I simply plugged the phone into a wall charger, turned the phone off, powered on, and off again, about three times, then I left it off and charging.

It then fully charged, and now charges again when powered on. It also connects to my laptop again, whereas it had quit being recognized by my computer. Seems to be OK at the moment.

I have had the same issue as most people here, phone would'nt charge with 3 genuine apple chargers/cables etc.., the solution appears to be a charging point replacement within the iphone, I have just had it replaced and now the phone is 100%. Cost was €40 from a phone repair shop and it took 5 mins. If you want to send it to apple you wont see your phone for min 10 days plus and I can imagine the cost will be substantially higher if it's not under warrenty anymore.Hope this helps.

I pulled my hair out with this problem. did not recognize the charger, except when battery was completely dead, then it would power up to 5% and stop charging.

It did charge powered off.

What seems to work is if I power off and then hold down the home key, power cord plugged in, when it is turning on. So far so good. Keeping fingers crossed since other "fixes" worked for a bit but didn't last. This one has worked consistently for a half dozen times, so I am optinmistic.

Same problem. 4s almost 2 y/o, recently updated 7.0.6. No problems before, goes to 4-5% then runs till it dies. Phone batt dead. Will not recharge. Tried numerous Apple cables and chargers that charge my iPad just fine.

No es bueno. =\

My unit will charge when powered off. To get it to charge while the phone is on, The only thing that works for me is to close all apps, power off. When completely powered off, power on holding home key. Sometimes it takes two attempts.

Howzit Gautengm

I'm from SA as well, I have the same issues. I really think it is a software issue that caused this. Take your phone to an iFix store for assistment . I'm gonna do the same this weekend

Hello, I just had this issue, my iphone 4s would not charge. To fix the problem I got a very fine needle and put the needle in the docking hole at the bottom and worked out the fluff with a needle. Fingers crossed, this has seemed to work and it is now charging! Hope this helps.

I tried doing this and I tried everything, but my iphone still would not charge! So, in the end I booked an apointment for the genius bar at the apple store and took my phone in. They took my phone off and opened it up to see what the problem was. The lady said she tried changing the battery as well as many other things, but the actual dock was broken. This meant that it could not be fixed and there was nothing they could do. The only option I was left with was to get a new iphone 4S and as mine was out of warrenty (by about 3 years) I had to pay, but it was very discounted as they took the old phone off so it all worked out for the best in the end, although it was completely broken and the whole phone had to be fully replaced.