Help? Black Screen? Panicking!

I was out for the day and had no internet connection on my iphone 4; but i was sending messages to a friend via app and they weren't connecting because obviously no internet connection. My phone was working perfectly fine until I got home; where wifi connected and my phone started freezing and I think that was because of all the messages that weren't connecting were going through. And a friend was calling me via app and I was trying to press answer but my whole phone froze and didnt work until minutes later where I could hear my friend talk and i can talk back but i couldnt press anything nor could i turn off my phone. And then it suddenly shut down and black screened and not I can't turn it back on. It's been at least an hour and 20 minutes and i left it charging. i tried resetting it with home/shut down button, i tried the itunes connect which also brings up another problem - I tried connecting my phone to my laptop to bring up itunes and it usually does and within seconds but this time - nothing came up; no itunes or anything like that. And it wasnt because my device was unrecognizable. I know it wasn't dying since I still had roughly 30%? and it doesnt die until it reaches 10%.
Help please? I'm really worried that it might have died permenately.

OMG! The same thing just happened to me tonight. I don't know what to do. I bought mine on December 23rd. I hooked it up to my computer and itunes syncs with it fine. I can hear it ring, but I can't answer it. This *****! I guess I'll have to go to the Apple store tomorrow. Did you figure it out?

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Brand new 24" imac purchased yesterday from the apple store with a 4 gig ram upgrade (i.e. all the newest stuff/versions). All updates installed & current.
Brand new (clean & scratchless) copy of Windows XP Home with SP2.
I ran the bootcamp assistant and made a 20 gig windows parition (so its under the 32 gig limit of fat32).
Following the installation procedure the windows disk is inserted, the machine reboots and then it just sits there with a black screen and a blinking cursor. The CD drive stops spinning and no progress from that point forward.
I then read on here some had better lucky with a "copy" of the original windows disk so I duplicated it in this Mac (i.e. burned with its own drive) but exactly the same problem with the burned copy (which also opens fine from within OSX).
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If any of this helps:
OS X Version 10.5.2
2.8 Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo
4 GB 667 Mhz DDR2 SDRAM
Model name: iMac
Model id: iMac8,1
Boot Rom Version: IM81.00C1.B00
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Rickie Hall wrote:
Brand new 24" imac purchased yesterday from the apple store with a 4 gig ram upgrade (i.e. all the newest stuff/versions). All updates installed & current.
Brand new (clean & scratchless) copy of Windows XP Home with SP2.
I ran the bootcamp assistant and made a 20 gig windows parition (so its under the 32 gig limit of fat32).
Following the installation procedure the windows disk is inserted, the machine reboots and then it just sits there with a black screen and a blinking cursor. The CD drive stops spinning and no progress from that point forward.
I then read on here some had better lucky with a "copy" of the original windows disk so I duplicated it in this Mac (i.e. burned with its own drive) but exactly the same problem with the burned copy (which also opens fine from within OSX).
I'm at a loss... where to go from here?
Welcome to the Apple forums:
Be sure your XP disk had SP2 embedded into XP, and not a separate file or patch.
Also be sure your disk is not an ISO image but a real disk, with files on it. You can look at them using your Mac. Insert the CD or DVD and doubleclick the disk icon.
You should see most or all of the following files and folders:
(HOMEWITHSP2)
AUTORUN.INF
DOCS
DOTNETFX
I386
README.HTM
SETUP.EXE
SETUPXP.HTM
SUPPORT
VALUEADD
WIN51
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very desperate.
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Message was edited by: osmophilia

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Hello fellow techs,
I have been tearing my hair out for the past 12hrs on this issue.
About 3 weeks ago, one of our clients reported that they were experiencing
issues on the network so one of the staff went into the server room and noticed
the screen was black with only the cursor. As they couldn't reboot, they
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Windows Server 2008 black screen
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