Last night, I was surfing facebook and then I put my iPhone 3G on charge and fell asleep. I randomly woke up in the middle of the night, and found that my iPhone had that red battery and lightning bolt underneath. In a state of half-sleepy-awareness I made sure the plug was in the iPhone and went back to sleep. The next day I come back to my phone, unplug it from the charger and press the home button. No response. Repeatedly pressed home button.. No response. I REALLY need some help. The issue is that I don't have a sleep/lock button.. It broke off. So please HELP!!!
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iPhone 3G not responding to anything!!!
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As far as i know theres no way to turn off or reset the device without the power lock button, if your dock connector is still in tact i would recommend plugging it into your computer and backing up then restoring in itunes, that should fix any issue as it sounds like it could be software related.
I just realized that my phone might be shut off!!! If it is, how the heck am I supposed to turn it back on without a power button?!?!
Plug it to usb and it should turn on if something else didnt go wrong with it.
But again its an iphone 3G on its last leg with a broken power button. Maybe a good opportunity to finally upgrade to something newer.
Too true..
But it seems as though I have a solution! But this will probably apply to me only
Apparently the wire was a tad bit screwed up!!
I went over to a friend's house and thankfully the fellow had an iDock for his iPod Classic. I plugged in my iPhone and the phone turned on!