iPhone 3GS 4.2.1 Crashes, Other Symptoms

[Geekstra]

So my iPhone 3GS on 4.2.1 crashes constantly. I will be sending a text, or playing a game and it crashes to a black screen instantly, with the image of what I was doing burned into the screen for a few moments (kind of like turning off a CRT monitor). When attempting to turn it on afterwards it shows the Apple logo but crashes during bootup, or else it will simply tell me my battery is dead, and I will proceed to plugging it in and then it says that the battery is at 50-100%. I did a full restore last night and when it was at 100% battery I played a game to cause it to crash (takes minutes), and then when it booted back up after plugging it in, it says the battery was at 56%!

Anyone ever heard of these symptoms? I haven't seen anything on the net of the OS just crashing to a black screen with the image burned in, and then saying the battery is dead when it isn't.

Any help would be appreciated, btw this has been going on for like 3 months and it has crippled my iPhone to be solely just an SMS machine.

 

[stefanwa]

I have exactly the same problem with my 3GS! You are not alone, but I have no solution yet. Maybe just a battery replacement would fix it? I think I will send it in to Apple next week. Any users here with the same problem sent it to Apple? What was replaced?

Steve

 

[oakie]

well, it's obviously power related and swapping out the battery is the easiest first step in troubleshooting this issue.

 

[unidjay]

I have the same issue

Any one that could share some info on this its getting annoying.

 

[JamesMB]

Any one that could share some info on this its getting annoying.

Did you swap your battery yet?

 

[detroitslim]

I'm having the exact same problem & just posted in another thread as well.

Is there any confirmation that it's a battery problem? I'm going to take a run at replacing my battery & see how that works.'

EDIT: after a little more digging, I feel fairly certain that it's a dead battery issue. I've ordered a replacement and will see how that fixes things.

 

[BlankStar]

Same problem here, any updates? Someone tried replacing the battery?

 

[stefanwa]

To report back on this issue...
I solved the problem entirely by replacing the battery! I did it by myself as my phone was already out of warranty. It was not such of a great deal actually. I watched some youtube videos showing the process.

Try to replace the battery, at least it worked for my phone!
Good luck!