Broken sleep button, frozen iphone.

The sleep button recently broke on my iphone 4, and it is now frozen... how can I reset it?
I have already plugged it into the computer and the iphone displays no change, and the computer does not detect the device.

Try resetting it;
Simply hold the home and power buttons
until it turns off and release when the Apple boot/start up logo appears. If this doesn't work try putting it into DFU mode and resstoring it. To put your iPhone into DFU mode:
1. First, Open up iTunes, plug in your iPod Touch/iPhone to the CPU's USB port. Turn on your CPU's speaker and make sure it is loud enough to hear.
2. Hold down the Power button and the home button
simutaneously, until the screen goes black and the device turns off.
3. Now let go of the Power button, but continue to hold the Home button.
Your iPod Touch/iPhone should have turned off and the screen should not be on.
4. After around ~10-20 seconds, you will hear a noise (beep/ding) from your CPU as if it had just recognized a new hardware device, now iTunes should recognize it in DFU mode.
5. After iTunes recognizes the iPod Touch/iPhone, let go of the Home button otherwise it will go into recovery mode and you will have to do the entire DFU process over again.
6. You will know when you have put your iPod Touch/iPhone correctly into DFU mode when the display is blank and that you do not have anything on your device.
7. Click restore in iTunes and it should restore your iPhone.
Hope this helps, email me at [email protected] for more help

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