I have tried a hard reset, plugged into my imac, and into the wall. The iphone 4 will not turn on.

Question

I seriously need my phone.  I did the hard reset.  Didn't work.  I waited longer.  Didn't work.  I plugged the phone into the wall.  Didn't work. I tried hard resetting while plugged into my computer with iTunes on.  Didn't work  Anymore ideas?  I really need my phone.  iPhone 4.  I hate this phone.  My blackberry never caused me this much grief!

Answer 1

Paul's suggestion may work, but if the Hard Drive was writing when the power was cut abruptly, there may be data corruption, file index corruption or even physical damage to the drive as the read/write heads clash.
If the SMC reset doesn't work, first see if the installation DVD can be inserted. If it can, start up with the C key held down. OK the language screen, ignore the installer and select the Utilities menu at the top of the screen, open Disk Utility. Select the HD in te left pane and click repair (not repair permissions).
If you get a message that repairs were carried out, run the repair again until you either get "the volume xxxxx appears to be OK" or a message that repair can't be carried out.
If it won't boot to the disc, or the disc can't be inserted, try a single-user mode boot - hold down ⌘ and S on start up until the Unix prompt appears.
Type carefully this command
fsck -fy
then press return.
As before, if the prompt reappears with the message that repairs were carried out, run the check again until you either get "the volume xxxxx appears to be OK" or a message that repair can't be carried out (and assume the latter if it hasn't given an OK within 4 tries).
Type
reboot
and press return to attempt to start up normally.
If it still won't start, it's fair to say the HD is dead.