iPhone won't charge or turn on

RachelZ3 · Jan 3, 2012

I posted at the top of page 4 in June, now it's January and I don't know why it went to red/empty but it did. I plugged it into AC after it wouldn't charge on my mac. Then I re-read these pages and tried turning it on and holding the black round button. It gave me a new screen... its a picture of a USB plug with an arrow pointing to the iTunes icon. Weird eh? I will keep messing about with it.

RachelZ3 · Jan 3, 2012

Hum, I unplugged it from AC and plugged it into my computer, iTunes started itself and a message comes up saying it must check with the "iPhone software update server to identify this device". Weird. This is not a jailbroken iPhone, but I don't want to update to the latest software.
I let it check and it says that it has found an iphone in Recovery Mode and it must be restored before it can be used with iTunes.
Dang, when I try to restore, it only wants to check for new software updates.
Ha, ha... I shut it off instead. Turned back on. Stuck on Apple logo. Unplugged from Mac. Still apple logo. Plugged back into Mac. Still Apple logo. Was just about to shut down iTunes and pop- my battery icon shows up half charged.

Muahahahaha.

Evangelos Tripatzis · Apr 17, 2012

Hi every one. Another different problem i believe ...
I have a 3GS and it's in original firmware in recent 5.1 now. Before three months about i had to go somewhere for all day. At the end of the day my phone full discharged and when i went at home after two hours and i placed to the charger won't be open again. No icon of battery, nothing !! I took another 3GS and open it and placed the mainboard to my case and it started recharge again and when it was full i paced again my mainboard. The phone after 5 hours got discharged again and won't be charged again, same phenomenon like before. I made again the above charging again to full state and let it in flight mode. After four hours i had the 50% of the power !! I charged full and i turned off the phone. After 5 hours had the 50% of the power. If i'm charging repeatedly it's working (i have it for a month now like this) but it is frustrating !! What it happened? What shall i do? Is the mainboard problem (i can't see the icon like other above problems)? My basic problem is that can't recharge after goes off. Please help. Thank you in advance.

abcmkey · May 26, 2012

I've just signup to thank.
I have same problem and now it fixed!
Thanks to all. Good people, great Website! Many Thanks!

MoneyMaker79 · May 26, 2012

abcmkey said: ↑

I've just signup to thank.
I have same problem and now it fixed!
Thanks to all. Good people, great Website! Many Thanks!

Hope you stick around with us. We have lots of fun here.

moriahhdawn · May 27, 2012

Thank you for this!!! I had to do this too...I restarted mine twice with no luck, read more into the forum and saw yours so, with nothing else to really lose, I unplugged and plugged back in on the phone end and VOILA, my iPhone is now charging

renewkir said: ↑

works

thanks to all those who added little twists to the trick. here's what i had to do:

plug my phone into my laptop (USB).
turn my laptop completely off, so that my phone's screen went black
restart the computer
still nothing at that point, so i unplugged from the phone end, waited for it to go black and plugged it back in. finally, the apple screen. then, making me a little mad, my phone showed that it was 97 percent charged. does this problem only happen to jailbroken phones, or have the rest of you not hacked into yours?

Zane · Jun 6, 2012

Wow Thank everyone soo much! didnt work restarting on my macbook, but on the pc desktop it turned back on. try every computer you have! ipad 2g.

Zane · Jun 6, 2012

Wow Thank everyone soo much! didnt work restarting on my macbook, but on the pc desktop it turned back on. try every computer you have! ipad 2g.

jkab · Jun 14, 2012

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sanaz · Jun 17, 2012

I just registered to say thank a alot all who share their experience in fixing this problem i had exactly same problem with my 3G today, and i planned to take it to some where for fixing it , but my brother suggest me to check this forum for a solution and i did exactly same what every one suggest here
first i tried on my laptop and also my husband's laptop but nothing happen , then try on pc , again after rebooting, nothing happen and that annoying screen appear again !! so i tried adding new hardware from control panel , first it does not work , i disconnect the cable let it rest for 2 min and connect the iphone to cable again , push the black bottom and then leave it for some minute , suddenly i noticed the apple logo apear and that it ,
thanks a alot for your forum and suggestions

sm86 said: ↑

Same Problem - FIXED

I had the same exact problem and I was able to fix it! No need to take it to Apple.

(specifically convinient for those of us that got the iphone 3g on ebay)

This is how it happened:

I was talking on the iphone when it said that my battery had less than 10% so, I went ahead and connected it to the wall charger I have for it and continued to talk. 30 mins later the iphone just turned off completely. I was pretty upset to say the least. I went to turn it on again and found the same exact picture being described. I figured I just had to let it be for a few hours on the wall charger.

The next day in the morning I find out that the iphone had the same picture and had not charged 1 bit!

I restarted it (pressed the power and home buttons to force it to shut down and turned it on again) and nothing, same picture. I took out the charger and put it back, nothing, same picture (it would even turn off if I didn't put the charger back in right away).

I then used my USB dock (a dock actually for the old iphone version, but that still works for the 3g, if you force it in). And nothing my computer would not recognize it.

Finally I thought of something:

I placed in the dock and turned it on, once again giving me the annoying battery screen. However, this time I actually restarted my computer. My rational was that if the device was connected while it was booting up the computer had to recognize it somehow.

During my computer's boot sequence the iphone appeared to had turned off, I didn't touch anything though. After windows loaded, I noticed that still the iphone was black as if it was turned off. Thinking that it probably ran out battery once again, I went to turn on the iphone while still having it on the dock (during this whole time I had not removed it from the dock).

And alas! I saw the apple symbol and my springboard showed up!

It is now currently charging (I can see the charge increase on the screen, when I lock the screen, it is now halfway and green) on my usb dock.

I went to place it back on the wall charger though and it seems that it doesn't work. I will be buying a new wall charger soon.

I am thinking when I was talking on the iphone and connected it to the wall it simply never charged and thus the battery completely drained. As soon as I placed it on something that wasn't broken (ie: my iphone usb dock) it started to charge but still was frozen on that (stupid) battery screen. Restarting my computer while connected did something to the iphone so that now it is fully operational. All without having to resort to apple's communist ways of trying to control all aspects of your life.

Personally I'm not an apple fan. I "gave into" the whole iphone thing when I figured out there was a generation of people my age committed into fighting back the apple empire while still using its technology.

Cheers

ricky2011 · Aug 30, 2012

damstr said: ↑

Well I left to go somewhere for the weekend and forgot the wall charger for my iPhone and it eventually died on me a couple hours before I got home.

At this point if I pressed any buttons on the iPhone, a battery with a very small amount of red on the left side of the battery would flash and underneath the battery would be 2 symbols which read in symbols; charger plug > electricity.

I obvioulsy knew what this meant but after sitting plugged into my computer for 3 hours it hadn't charged at all and wouldn't even turn on. I tried doing a hard reset and it would keep going back to the battery screen.

So I thought maybe it needed a wall charger to charge it when it was this low. Plugged it in for a couple hours and nothing.

When it's plugged in, the screen stays illuminated showing the battery and the electricity symbol below. If I take it off the charger it shows the plug symbol > electricity symbol like before.

Hope this made sense.

Like I said before I've tried resetting it. Doesn't show up in my computer when I plug it in so I don't know what to do.

Hello friend! You can follow the below steps to bring back your iPhone to life again: 1.Turn it On/Restart 2.Press Hold and Home button together 3.Change your phone 4.Restore to factory settings

martinamonet · Sep 5, 2012

i was so excited to try this & fix my moms iphonne & then i remembred her power button is broken ;c

daasebre · Sep 9, 2012

Wooooooooooooooooow,it worked like magic. Thanks man.

Jmh12 · Sep 9, 2012

Does the rebooting of the computer only work for the iPhone 3 and 3GS?

BrunoBarradas · Sep 26, 2012

Hello People!
Well, I got the same problem as Jonatious, I was resetting my phone and when it asked for charge I plugged in into pc and the phone doesn't charge or appear in Itunes. Now it only shows a red battery sign without charge. I've tried different charges and different pc's and nothing. Need Help guys
Cheers

GratefulDeadiPhoneOwner · Oct 12, 2012

Bless you, sm86 and everyone you know!!! The rebooting my Mac with the phone plugged in worked. I depend on my iPhone 3G for ALL my business and home communications and I was in a serious panic after my car, computer, wall charger and two different cables failed to work.

One note... it did take a minute or two after rebooting my Mac before my phone bleeped back to life and the computer recognized it. Longest couple of minutes of my life.

Thierbox · Dec 19, 2012

Ok fantastic this it is working.
BUT, only on the pc of my wife!!! I don't understand why!!!
Someone can try to explain us what is it happening here. If it is a bug of the iphone because this it is not normal for a phone cost new 800 box.
Nobody can give a real solution of this problem.

RoofMonkey · Dec 19, 2012

Thierbox said: ↑

Ok fantastic this it is working.
BUT, only on the pc of my wife!!! I don't understand why!!!
Someone can try to explain us what is it happening here. If it is a bug of the iphone because this it is not normal for a phone cost new 800 box.
Nobody can give a real solution of this problem.

??? You having the same issue as the OP in this thread? Last post before yours was a few months ago

reggie(tethered mode) · Apr 2, 2013

I just had to register too and sign on to thank you all guys.

I had a same problem on my Iphone 3g, and it feels me going crazy about this issue
I just googled and follow this threads, read/follow all your instructions

I totally shut down my pc (Windows XP) with USB cable (without unplugging my phone)
and wait for a while, then suddenly Apple logo appeared.
Turn on my PC, then I put my phone to wall charger.

nothing to buy new charger or any device.

I already bookmarked iEverythingCafe ! ! ! Cheers!!!

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