HT201412 iphone 4 died and will not charge to turn it back on
My iPhone4S died earlier today and I have been trying to charge it for quite some time now, but it wont seem to charge up. Nothing happens whenever I press the button on the face of the phone and when I press the on/off button on the top of the phone, the battery symbol appears on the screen, but only with three faint lines of red on the battery symbol blinking and then the screen goes black again. Can someone please helpme with this problem? My phone is not old at all, I have only been having it less than a year. Thanks.
My iPhone 4S did the same thing. I was using it, it showed the low battery warning, I used it a little longer, and it shut down in the normal way. I plugged it in for several hours to recharge, and it didn't charge at all. When I unplugged it from the charger, the screen showed a battery symbol with three red lines in the bottom of the battery. Now it also showed the charger connector symbol and a lightening bolt and then screen went to black. The charger was not warm, but the charger worked on my iPad. Still I tried a new charger cord and many outlets, because I was on vacation and desperately needed the iPhone.
In the month before this happened, several times my iPhone 4S showed I had 1% battery life after it was charged and had just showed a higher percentage like 40%. I could continue using it as if it were 40% charged. I read several Apple discussions, finding others had had this issue, but there seemed to be no consensus on what caused it or how it could be corrected. The problem didn't happen often or consistently, so I continued to use iPhone as usual.
After the three red lines appeared, I tried solutions as follows: I tried turning the phone off. It didn't seem to work. I tried holding down the power and Home buttons simultaneously. Nothing happened. I tried turning it on. No change.
I don't want to Restore my iPhone, because two days of vacation photos are on it but aren't in iCloud. We had very weak wifi in the hotel, although my first day's photos made it to iCloud. (I should have been paying more attention to this! Oops.)
Has anyone resolved this issue? I recently upgraded to iOS 7.0.1, but had the 1% issue before and after the upgrade. Thanks.
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