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hagar24
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Why does my iphone keep restarting?
My iPhone won't startup and the computer won't see it. It was sitting for a few months and then started doing this.
What could be wrong?
Edited by: ABCellars, Richdave, and oldturkey03 ( ) , Kyle Wiens ( )
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Skippy722
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OPK
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You need to do a DFU Restore,
1. Connect the device to your computer
2. Shut down the device
3. Press the Power and the Home buttons at the same time
4. After 10 seconds release the Power button but continue holding the Home button
until you see a popup from iTunes saying "iTunes has detected an iPhone in recovery mode"
5. If you have been successful your device screen will be completely black/blank (this is 'DFU Mode')
6. You can now proceed and restore to the latest firmware using iTunes
This should fix your problem
Your computer will see the device when it enters DFU, DFU is burnt into hardware you will always be able to use DFU Mode to recover your device. I suggest you try it instead of discounting things you obviously know nothing about. peace :)
OPK,
yes, to comment would be good except > "You need at least 30 reputation to comment!" which is as ridiculous as hagar24 not listening. YOUR COMPUTER WILL SEE THE DEVICE WHEN IT ENTERS DFU MODE I am an iPhone developer and have done this many times ;)
OPK,
@OPK Tried the restore, and it looked really promising for a good while. I got the connect to itunes graphics on the phone, and itunes recogniced it and I went throught the option. Then it started to go bad. It tried to restore over and over, the phone went blank on each try then displayed the apple logo. After several tries itunes gave up, outputting unknown error 1611, and saying that the iPhone could not be restored. Tried it again, same result.
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Ptr702
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Something else must have happened to it. What you should do is plug it into your computer, hold down the power and home button and as soon as the screen goes black just hold down the home button for up to 30 seconds, your itunes should finally give you a message and enter restore mode where you can update through itunes and fix any software issues that might be causing this glitch...
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Tyler Bly
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I was having a very similar problem with my ipod classic a few months back. I had no idea what the problem was and nothing really seemed to be making sense. After some extensive testing and switching out of parts, I found out that it was the hard drive cable that was causing my ipod to continuously restart itself. I think the problem occurred because I left my ipod in my car for a few days and it got excessively hot in there. I imagine your problem is something similar to this.
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metricwoma
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I have a son who decided to jump in the pool with his iphone 4 in his pocked. He put it in the rice for a few days and the phone turned on, but it would not charge past 4% and it kept shutting down after a few minutes. I managed to do a backup in itunes, because it will resume after the phone restarts and starts up again (you have to have a lot of patients for this) but it would not restore anything because it kept restarting. Well I ordered a new battery from ipod Battery Depot for $22.94 plus shipping of $5.96, I installed the battery then went into itunes and did a restore from backup and everythings works great now. I am a 69 year old lady, and if I can do it anybody can. Good luck.
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David Iwanicki
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using a flashlight, inspect the dock connector and headphone jack. There are liquid immersion indicators in both areas, which will turn pink/red if the device has been exposed to excessive moisture. Also look for greenish corrosion on the dock connector pins.
If the battery was the only issue, it would at least give you a low battery indication when connect to power.
If the immersion indicators are still white, try cleaning the dock connector of debris with a SOFT toothbrush and a little compressed air.
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nick
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hagar24
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I don't think you guys are reading the previous post before you put your suggestions up, you cannot restore a phone if it is not showing up on the computer unless you know something I don't and I am willing to learn so if there is way to get the phone to see the phone that I haven't tried as yet please let me know.
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markus weiher
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woohooo - who dug that up ?? ;-)
one question to mortenskogly - are you hagar24 ??
(only to figure your initial problem out)
so i try to pick up the pieces and also try to understand the problem:
the phone was longer not in use and when you tried to charge it - it restarted always - thats a typical charging problem: the usb gives only enough power that the phone could start - but not enough to fully boot up, so the battery die within the boot process and the whole problem starts again - this happend with maaaaaany motorola phones in the past - i used a aa battery emergency charger to help normal phones to skip this point and the were able to normally charge within 1h
but the iPhone is different - there is no normal "emergency charger" for it - so i desolder the battery and charge it external, resolder it and everything works.
next point:
restore didn't work
did you tried different software versions for the restoring ?
what software did you have had and what did you try to install ?
there are some "solutions" for the 16xx errors - one that i never tried is this - maybe i should try it on my error 1604/1601 iPod touch
@markus weiher How do you charge the battery when you've removed it? What do you connect to what? I've tried measureing the battery while the phone was connected to a wall charger, but the strange thing is that I get zero volts when measuring between the black and red wire, and about 2.2 volts when measuring between black and white or white and red. Actually, when I measure between white and red the multimeter says -2.2, which is even stranger, as if the battery has "reversed" its polarity. I'm fixing the phone (or trying to) for a collegue, who got it from a guy who had it heat up and die on him, and who swapped the battery himself. Perhaps hi screwed up the soldering. My plan is to find some way to test the battery by trying to charge it outside the iPhone, but I don't know how to do it.
Ps, how can I comment on someone elses answer? I only see that option on my own answers. I can't comment on someone elses answer. And no, I am not hagar24.
as far as i know - commenting on other postings is possible if your reputation hits a score of 30. do me a favour and open a new topic - that would make it easier to sort out - this one is full and almost to complex to follow - ask your question and we'll find an answer - btw - i think your battery is wrong connected - but that w will find out in the new one
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mobileease
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As you stated the phone has been sitting around, the battery has most probably completely discharged. If its still under warranty, take it to an apple store for a replacement.
If not its pretty easy to replace your battery yourself.
Or there are companies out there that will do this for you for a fairly small fee.
I would agree with you except that I had mine in the house at room temperature all the time and then put it on the computer to update it and the computer could not see it, I also just learned something interesting, my daughter said that she pressed erase all contents and settings,so now I have a new problem because I don't know what that does.
hagar24,
I suggest making this a comment instead of an answer.
Nat Welch,
I'm facing the same issue with my iPhone, I've restored several times. once I restore my iPhone, it works fine for few hours, but again get restart and so on. anybody can help me to setup???
tanveer,
it sounds like the battery..as most of these answers say. Links for parts and guides are under the photo of the phone. You need to make sure you order the right parts for the right phone!
pollytintop,
i have the same problem of auto restating my phone. it started when i tried to jailbreak it. i think this "iphone auto restarting"problem have some connection with the crashed ios or crashed baseband.
nafees69,
Had some problem, finally to break the cycle I waited for recovery to finish, a window pops up telling you not to unplug the phone and it will show-up in itunes in 5 seconds... 4 seconds... 3 seconds... etc, I unplugged it at 2 seconds, then pressed the home button for about 5 seconds, then the phone booted up finally! yeah!
gary,
is it still under warrenty? if it is, take it in and see what they can do
Skippy722,
The battery discharges quickly because it keeps restarting and when I put it on the dock it recharges but still won"t start and you can't turn it off but you can put it in restore mode.
hagar24,
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