My iPhone stopped working, and was fixed with a technical solution
I land in SFO after the fun flight from London which I luckily didn’t miss (Mark Reinhold, also). What do I do after I land? Why turn on my iPhone of course. There is an obvious desire to check email and voice mail as SOON as you land a plane. Just look around.
The problem was that I couldn’t hear any voice mail. Hmm. I try to call, and no cigar. When I got to the car I could use the bluetooth integration, and it worked fine.
So, I did what I normally do, and I setup an appointment at the Stanford shopping mall store. I just got here, and after a lot of testing they realised that some lint fell into the mic line, and the sensor there told the phone “oh, the headset is on, so pump all AV out through that”.
So, if you don’t hear anything out of your phone, and it wasn’t the speaker setting, or audio sources, give this a try: blow into your mic input.
December 15th, 2007 at 6:27 pm
What an easy solution :P
December 15th, 2007 at 8:46 pm
I’ve been having the same problem lately. Really annoying, especially when I call someone and then can’t hear anything since audio is being sent to the headphone jack. My fix has been to re-insert and remove the headphone connector, which has been doing the trick today. But I’ll have to try to figure out if there’s some lint jammed down in there.
April 11th, 2008 at 11:11 am
I have a big problem with my iphone. After I received the “low disk space” msg many times, I restarted the iphone then suddenly it couldn’t start again!!
Pls help.
thx
April 16th, 2008 at 2:07 am
just bought an iphone from saudi arabia,i used it for around 2 months,then it started switching off alon after i stop playing the music,i restarted it multipul times,but it just dont seem to work,then today i tried to restart it ,i could not,so my iphone is standered with a black screen,,,,,please any one out there ,help me if you know the solution….thanks
June 14th, 2008 at 1:18 am
Thanks for the tip, as soon as I blew into the mike I cant sound back in the ear piece. Tremendous… Thanks for saving my iPhone
June 28th, 2008 at 9:25 pm
very good.thank you!
June 29th, 2008 at 1:01 am
Hey ahmed,
This ones for u..same thing as u described happened with me. The same EXACT thing..and so what I did was hold the Home button and the power button at the top together for about 10 seconds and I kept doing that on and off for a while..I read that somwhere..Do it for 10 secs, let go, then do it again, then let go..and so on..Do it 4-5 times and then I read the first kalimah and turned it on. It worked..InshAllah I hope yrs works too…:)
July 12th, 2008 at 5:29 am
ya thanks,,,but i allready bought a new iphone by then,,,anyway i realy upreciate your concern,,,Id like to know if your a saudi who live in saudi arabia,this is my Email abuyabisahmedms@hotmail.com..:)
July 18th, 2008 at 5:38 pm
Wow!! I had the same problem today, and you were spot on! Blow into the port and it’s fine – amazing. Thanks heaps!
September 22nd, 2008 at 11:25 pm
Hi Sana K,
I had the same problem. Your suggestion helped me switching on the iphone.
Thank you very much. Have a good day.
Munusamy
October 3rd, 2008 at 4:51 pm
Hi Sana
Thanks so much. I knew holding both buttons for ten seconds should normally turn the phone back on, but when it didn’t I kept giving up! After reading your instructions I did it a second time immediately after the first 10 second hold and hey presto, my lovely iphone back in the land of the living. Can’t thank you enough.
October 15th, 2008 at 5:57 pm
Thanks so much for helping me with my problem.
John
October 27th, 2008 at 10:53 am
wow thanks Sana it helped bring my iphone back to life..
November 19th, 2008 at 2:18 pm
hi Sana
thx warda ur method helped me :D
i thought it will never work again then after i do what u said its back on thaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaanks
November 22nd, 2008 at 3:27 pm
my iphone fell home button is not working and now it doesnt open too..wot should i do?
November 24th, 2008 at 11:30 am
Wow, Sana you Rock! It totally worked!!! Kudos on you, you’re my savior. ;P
January 13th, 2009 at 8:00 am
Holding both buttons down for several times worked perfectly and saved me much time. Thanks for the help!
February 1st, 2009 at 11:17 am
Very nice
I write a blog about stoping the fixed microphone
and i tested also in linux
This is the link
http://stopmicrophone.blogspot.com/
thank you and nice work
master
February 9th, 2009 at 3:28 am
Holding down both buttons worked for me too! I almost freaked out without a phone to use! Try it if your screen goes black. IT really works!
February 17th, 2009 at 7:10 am
please help
August 3rd, 2009 at 8:35 pm
Hi…!
i tried to jailbreak my iphone 2.2.1..with so much attempt..i couldnt..then i update my iphone to 3.0.1..again i tried to jailbreak…later i thought to restore/back up my iphone..it did..but now my iphone dont work..when i press home button it says to connect in i tunes…though my network status is displayed..when i slide the bar it goes to emergency call only..and when i open the itunes it says: “”The sim card inserted in this phone does not appear to be supported..
only compatible SIM cards from a supported carrier may be used to activate iphone. Please insert the SIM card that came with yor iphone or visit a supported Carrier store to receive a replacement SIM card”"”
Now that i bought this iphone when i was in US and i dont have that SIM…and now i’m using Aussie optus SIM…
i dont know what to do..Please help
September 16th, 2009 at 10:16 am
hello, my iphone was perfectly fine last nite, so i connected to my pc n i was doing my updates for itunes on my laptop, after that i only see a black screen which it says connected to itunes, eventhough its not connected to pc anymore, n im only allowed to call 911, i connected my iphone to my pc again, n i could see all my pics but nothings, i dont see my applications, n itunes on my pc says this iphone can not be reconized
September 16th, 2009 at 11:59 am
I just put my iPhone down on the desk while I ran to the shop and five minutes later I pick it back up and it’s turned itself off and will not restart. So I go on here and read how I must hold the top and home buttons on together for ten seconds and … yippy it’s back to normal … wonder why it went like that though .. I have it three months and this is the first time anything went weird on it . Still love it ..
September 24th, 2009 at 4:28 am
Ditto – phone on the desk switches off for no reason – I followed the above advice held the home and the on/off button down for just over 10 seconds and it worked!
Thank you
September 28th, 2009 at 12:34 am
Yes it works thank you hold down buttons! This phone is given me static!
October 12th, 2009 at 9:52 am
hey Sana, thank you man all the way from Africa. I iphone did the same exactly thing, which is, turned out over night and never turned on again, so I did what you suggested and bam, it´s working again, you rock man, I wish I knew you man so I could worship you, GOD BLESS YOU MY LORD
October 30th, 2009 at 8:56 am
I did following way , my phone started working…thanks
Thanks so much. I knew holding both buttons for ten seconds should normally turn the phone back on, but when it didn’t I kept giving up! After reading your instructions I did it a second time immediately after the first 10 second hold and hey presto, my lovely iphone back in the land of the living. Can’t thank you enough.
November 13th, 2009 at 11:02 am
My iphone stopped working and I read the ‘press two buttons at once’ advice – did it and hey presto it worked again! Brilliant, thanks.
January 3rd, 2010 at 4:38 pm
Hi Sana K,
Thanks for your advice. My iphone stopped working and your solution did the job! phew! Was worried for a moment!
January 6th, 2010 at 5:52 pm
Hi Sana K,
My iPhone wouldn’t switch on from this morning and I was getting panicky. The phone is less than a month old! I was frantically making calls to my service provider, to friends etc. Logged on this forum, tried your solution and Presto! the baby is working just fine now! Thank You!! Thank You!!!
January 18th, 2010 at 9:22 am
My wife’s phone was having this issue for about a month. We tried everything (restarts, continuous restarts) to no avail. After reading this thread and talking to my wife she remembered something spilling in her purse around the time the problem began. I cleaned the mic area, vacuumed and then blew air using a hair blow dryer. Afterwards all seems to be working fine now. She is using the headset to make calls now. THANKS FOR THE TIP–it really works.
January 31st, 2010 at 7:20 am
Brilliant tip re turning on the iphone. I too panicked when I couldn’t switch mine on. Pressed both buttons and it worked. Many thanks.
February 4th, 2010 at 7:40 pm
Oh thanks Sana, it worked again!!
February 20th, 2010 at 10:45 pm
Hi
Thank you very much.My Iphone shut down and I coudn’t turn on. Is brand new and have no insurance. I pressed the power and home button together for about 10 seconds and it stated working again. Thank you guys
March 5th, 2010 at 6:46 pm
Thanks, people. My brand new 32GB I-phone shut down. I tried to charge it but couldn’t. My night was almost ruined until I thought about googling for a solution. I held the home & power button for about ten seconds and it turned back on. God bless you.
March 10th, 2010 at 5:49 pm
Just had same problem as Robbie – 32GB shutdown for no reason and I couldn’t get it to respond. Holding the 2 buttons worked. Thank YOU!!!!
March 11th, 2010 at 9:42 pm
My husbands phone did the same thing… I read this and the two button thing worked…thank god the phone is only 2 months old…any one know what causes it to shut down like that to begin with? He swears he didnt do anything to the phone, just went to use it and it wouldnt work. weird.