My iPhone Doesnt want to boot up! (Please Help)

You can't force it to restore mode? (hold power and home, then when apple logo appears just hold home)?

Or you can't do that until you get home?

yep, i have the same issue with mine. exact same model you hae

basically the app store (iTunes) said i had an update to install for Cro-Mag Rally last night.
During installation i got an error, then it said my iPhone was not connected and could not sync. Then as i reconnected it started reinstalling applications which i thought was wierd. So after it finished that, i went to some of the apps it reinstalled, AIM was one of them. AIM would not work.

So i did a force-restart (held both buttons down), and now it just stays at the apple screen.

I have an appointment with the idiot bar at my local Apple Store in a couple hours, i'll post back when i return.

yep, took it into the Genius Bar and they gave me a brand new 1st gen 8gb iPhone, right there in the store.

They checked the water damage indicator inside the headphone jack, and it was white, so i was clear for take off.
I'm still under the 1st year warranty, but i'm definitely going to extend it with Applecare to 2 years. You can do this if its still in the first year of warranty.

I suggest that anyone with an iPhone not restoring should schedule an appointment at your nearest apple store asap.

Just take your phone in, they only exchange that, none of the included accessories (unless they too are defective). They even installed 2.0 on it for me in the store. In all, it only took about 20 minutes.

ejrizo said:

i was installing Bubble Wrap from the mobile app store and went back to the app store and it was being very glitchy ... nothing was loading and everything had a little delay...

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This happens to me all the time when I d/l from the App Store over 3G. I just get everything from itunes and sync but I shouldn't have to.

well my iPhone replacement went south as well. and it was almost the exact same sequence of events. i had some updates available to app store apps, i downloaded them, sync'd them. then the iphone became unresponsive, then crashed, then wouldn't boot up.

apple gave me another (3rd) iPhone. we'll see how long this one lasts.

i just love how when i check for app updates on iTunes i get a different rundown of available updates than i do on the mobile AppStore. And then when i download one on the AppStore, it doesn't sync back as an update to my Applications in iTunes.

WTF, Apple ?

i gotta say, apple really needs to get their s#i+ together. and i've never had to say that. No issues with my past macs (G4 12" 867mhz, G4 12" 1.5ghz, G4 15" 400mhz, G4 400mhz Tower, G5 1.8ghz iMac), but ever since this Intel and iPhone thing and Apple's sudden popularity, their quality has gone to the crapper, at least in my own personal experience. My Rev A MBP 2ghz tanked its logic board and HD controller after 13 months of ownership (see above, i've owned mostly RevA's and never a problem), and now i'm on my THIRD IPHONE?? c'mon!

I'm amazed my Black MacBook (RevA) doesnt have random shutdown syndrome, but the iSight did bite the dust 3 months ago. so far my iMac 2.4ghz (Aluminum RevA) has been problem free. So that's 1 out of 5 "modern" Apple products i've owned that hasn't experienced a hardware problem.

Oh and the refurbed iPhone they gave me, i take it home to sync and its got a 3/4" line of pixels at the very bottom completely out. If the Apple store wasn't a half hour drive i'd take it back tomorrow, but sadly, i already know that this iPhone, like the two before it, will eventually stop working so i'll just get the pixel issue sorted out once it (inevitably) tanks.


edit: almost forgot, my 2 year old 23" Cinema HD fried a PSU, and a logic board 2 months ago.
They ought to know me by name at the Genius Bar by now.