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Iphone 5s killed itself

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digitalfailure

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Sep 24, 2012
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Apologies if this is covered somewhere else in a thread.

Has anyone else's 5s killed itself and needed to be plugged into iTunes to recover it?

I was closing apps down and got a blue screen before the phone turned off and then displayed the iTunes screen.

Quite concerned over this as I'm finding the 5s to be a bit pants compared to other iphones Ive owned. 3G signal terrible and it spends most of it's time on gprs where my old 4s was stable on 3G in the same location and call quality sounds bad to the recipient.
 
No, it didn't loop it just froze for a split second and then blue screened. After a couple of seconds a black screen with the white apple logo came on before changing to the "connect to iTunes" screen.

I'm thinking that despite iOS 7 being tested for months , it's got way too many serious bugs in it.
 
Nah, I'm going with bugs in iOS , just been chatting with a friend who's 5 did the same thing and there's a guy on my Facebook who's iPad crashed in a similar manner.
 
The phone blue screened again earlier when opening safari, no other apps were open at the time. Luckily the phone came back to life after the blue screen without needing iTunes.
 
Happened here too. I turned on Airplane mode and before the toggle clicked it was showing a blue screen then restarting.
 
My 5s did the same thing while I was updating it to iOS 7.0.2. I thought it was odd since I do not sync my iPhone with iTunes; it's backed up to iCloud. Anyways, iTunes downloaded the iOS update and set the phone up as if it was brand new, and for a moment I thought I had lost my backup. I called Apple and was instructed to 'Erase All Content and Settings'. It then restored my iCloud backup. All in all, it took about 5 hours to correct.

Quite an annoying bug that would have been really debilitating had I not been near my laptop to access iTunes.
 
The 5 s came with 7.0 on and the .1 and .2 updates were both done over wifi.

It seems to have been stable today since iTunes recovered it but 3G signal is still erratic.
 
My 5s has spontaneously rebooted when I was using it at least 4 times since I got it on September 25th. That is something I don't recall ever happening with my 4S in the nearly 2 years I used it. Hopefully Apple will have a fix coming soon.

From looking at my Settings-->General-->About-->Diagnostics and Usage-->Diagnostics and Usage Data The crashes seems to be from "Low Memory".
 
One crash while in Safari Apple logo screen on reboot, but everything was fine. I don't remember if there was a blue screen flash prior to the reboot. Definetly some bugs in iOS 7/Safari (7.0.1).
 
This just happened to me tonight for the first time. I attempted to open a pic in the Facebook app...the screen went completely blue, then the phone restarted. It didn't go to the iTunes screen, it just restarted.
 
It looks like a defective ddr3 ram module, bring it to the store and get it replaced. If possible, demonstrate it at the store.
 
Ouch, that is crazy! I have only had probs with the airplane toggle glitching, but never the blue screen of death! Sounds like a windows problem..ha
 
iAlphard said:
It looks like a defective ddr3 ram module, bring it to the store and get it replaced. If possible, demonstrate it at the store.
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It's far to random to recreate in a store visit :(

I've had 3 or 4 blue screens now (but no crash) but it's never from doing the same things with the phone.
I often work away from home and if it dies when I can't get to iTunes I'm screwed :0
 
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