AHHHHHHH!!!!!!! frozen screen and reset loop of death.....

Question

ok so my iphone froze the other day...i hit all kinds of buttons and nothing would work until i used the slee/home button reset...it worked but then a few mins later i pushed the sleep button to wake up the phone and the screen flashed many multicolored vertical lines (sort of like when your tv loses reception)and then proceeded to fully reset the phone bringing up the apple icon and finally to the home screen...when i use the phone from there everything works fine, or even if i hit the sleep button to turn it off and then i hit it again to turn it right back on im fine, however if i leave it "asleep" for about a minute or so and then try and wake it up...the whole process repeats with the horrible screen and reset...i've tried all the resets in the phone with and without erasing content, and i even tried the restore once but still it's jacked up....any thoughts? has anyone heard of this?

Answer 1

I managed to give my phone these symptoms, but as I'd just made a settings change, I managed to switch it back and the problem went away:
I set Mail to automatically check for messages, rather than only manually.
As soon as I exited the system preferences, the phone froze. It would then come back for a few seconds, then freeze again.
I couldn't switch the phone off, and when the unlock screen appeared, the "slide to unlock" text didn't "pulse" like it normally does.
The on-off button took me to the home screen (for some reason) and, by waiting after each "button" press for 10secs for it to take effect, i managed to switch back to manual email checking.
As soon as I did this, the problem disappeared.
I don't know if this relates in any way to your problem, but you never know...
good luck.
Message was edited by: Tim van Someren