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Phone suddenly bricked?

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ajt1995

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I left my phone sitting on the desk with Beta 3 running on it... I went to go pick it up and... nothing. Nothing. I plugged it in, nothing. Is it bricked? What can I try? :confused:

The battery was NOT low.
 
ajt1995 said:
I left my phone sitting on the desk with Beta 3 running on it... I went to go pick it up and... nothing. Nothing. I plugged it in, nothing. Is it bricked? What can I try? :confused:

The battery was NOT low.
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hold sleep/power button + home button until white apple logo..let go..
 
zmagik said:
A phone can't be bricked but I think it's in dfu mode search up google how to get out of DFU mode see if that helps
http://bit.ly/15udeIn
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Oh my gosh! Thanks so much! I was aware of DFU, but when my Mac didn't register "iPhone in recovery" I kind-of panicked..

I'm back with my beloved iPhone... ;)

Why would it go into DFU by itself?
 
Don't know happend to me once then searched up google how to get out of dfu it worked
 
ajt1995 said:
Oh my gosh! Thanks so much! I was aware of DFU, but when my Mac didn't register "iPhone in recovery" I kind-of panicked..

I'm back with my beloved iPhone... ;)

Why would it go into DFU by itself?
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It's possible something went critically wrong and the phone's natural response was to enter DFU mode rather than try to reboot itself.
 
Armen said:
It's possible something went critically wrong and the phone's natural response was to enter DFU mode rather than try to reboot itself.
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Maybe... I've had no problems with beta 3 thus far. No reboots, no resprings. so, that was very out of character... Thanks guys, again.
 
Jeebus help me, my iPhone 5 is bricked too. I had it on the night stand with Fitbit Sleep app on, picked it up in the morning and nothing was working. It was on charge all night so the batt was full. I did a reboot but after the Apple symbol it gets the spinning thingy, spins half a cycle then hangs. I tried restoring via iTunes but all it did was hang at Gathering data and then it would turn off, turn on, ge the Apple symbol, then the spinning thing and hang. After a minute or so it will repeat this process.

Thoughts?

OH, and the DFU sequence of home button and power button did nothing to fix it.

Defo a visit to Apple when I get home to Oz.

Gav
 
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Gav183 said:
Jeebus help me, my iPhone 5 is bricked too. I had it on the night stand with Fitbit Sleep app on, picked it up in the morning and nothing was working. It was on charge all night so the batt was full. I did a reboot but after the Apple symbol it gets the spinning thingy, spins half a cycle then hangs. I tried restoring via iTunes but all it did was hang at Gathering data and then it would turn off, turn on, ge the Apple symbol, then the spinning thing and hang. After a minute or so it will repeat this process.

Thoughts?

Defo a visit to Apple when I get home to Oz.

Gav
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Does your phone have iOS 7 on it?
 
Gav183 said:
Yes, I have a paid Apple developer "subscription" and a registered UDID and iOS7 on the phone with the 2nd Beta update.

Gav
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He's about to tell you Apple won't help you with iOS 7 betas. It will be a nice surprise for them if they get it working.
 
Good news, at least for me.
I put my iP5 in DFU mode and then iTunes said the phone needs to restore. Well I'd tried before and couldn't go back to iOS 6 so thought I'd play along to the point where the phone would eventually say it can't downgrade blah blah blah. WELL, it reloaded iOS 6 and now my phone works again. Happy days. I reckon it might have been the crappy internet in Nauru, cos when I got home to Oz all was good.

Gav
 
Mine did the same the other night. I guess I got it out of DFU mode without realizing. I remember thinking it took about 4 times as long to reboot. Weird.
 
This happened to me 4 times yesterday, would go to pick up the phone and nothing - black screen as if the phone is turned off yet you can't turn it back on. Each time I would just hold the power and home button simultaneously and eventually the phone would turn back on.

Not sure what the deal was yesterday as I've been on ios 7 for about a week and it had never happened prior to yesterday.

Now that I think back, this has happened to me randomly on each of my iPhones over the years. I remember when I first got my iphone 5 last year that it did this same thing just a few days after I got it. It never happened again so I didn't worry about it.
 
james92se said:
This happened to me 4 times yesterday, would go to pick up the phone and nothing - black screen as if the phone is turned off yet you can't turn it back on. Each time I would just hold the power and home button simultaneously and eventually the phone would turn back on.

Not sure what the deal was yesterday as I've been on ios 7 for about a week and it had never happened prior to yesterday.

Now that I think back, this has happened to me randomly on each of my iPhones over the years. I remember when I first got my iphone 5 last year that it did this same thing just a few days after I got it. It never happened again so I didn't worry about it.
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Just wanted to say that I have had this problem with being greeted with nothing but a black screen every now and then when I try to unlock my phone..I've never had this issue with any other iPhone or version of iOS..only now with iOS7 Beta 3 on my iPhone 5. Hoping it will be sorted in beta 4 but glad I'm not the only one it's happening too as I was starting to think my phone was on its way out!
 
I have the same problem on an iPhone 4 with iOS 7 beta 3.
So far I can only
1) enter DFU mode but restoring via iTunes causes errors or
2) attach the USB power cord to a charger and the phone boots up but asks me to connect it to iTunes. If I disconnect the phone from the charger, screen goes black (I guess it panics).

Didn't find a way to make the phone boot while connected to a computer. It only boots up when attached to the charger.
Hope beta 4 can be restore in DFU successfully and solves the problem.

Update: After leaving the device attached to the charger for hours, it does not show the connect to iTunes option anymore and allows me to complete the wizard and set it up as a new phone. Works now (an I'm happy).
Wonder if this is related to the Apple dev site issue...
 
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