screen is black, siri works but lock button is dead

My iphone5 suddenly froze and then all of a sudden went black. Now only siri and any sounds work. Unfortunately I cannot reset my phone because my lock button doesnt work!

Please help asap!

iPhone 5

Posted on Mar 3, 2014 1:56 PM

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Mar 5, 2014 12:21 PM in response to musk24

Hi musk24,


If your screen is black but Siri and sounds still work, you may have inadvertently activated a feature known as Screen Curtains (part of the Accessibility functions). You may find the following information from the iOS manual helpful (pg 126):

Turn the screen curtain on or off. Triple-tap with three fingers. When the screen curtain is on, the screen contents are active even though the display is turned off.


iPhone User Guide For iOS 7 (October 2013)

http://manuals.info.apple.com/MANUALS/1000/MA1565/en_US/iphone_user_guide.pdf


Regards,

- Brenden

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