IPhone 3GS freezes randomly and left with black screen with stripes
Hi
Have an iPhone 3GS currently running on ios 6.
It was freezing a few times a day (or more) while under ios 4 so I upgraded and did a full clean restore and have only downloadded a few apps since.
But the issue still happens. I have lots of battery life and I can be playing a game (without wifi), or web browsing, or downloading something from iTunesU and it just decides to stop working - although it hasn't happened while on a call if that helps. Screen goes black and usually has stripes on it. Resetting doesn't work, although I try, but have found if left alone for 20 mins I can then restart it again. I have no apps running in the background, and have follwoed the usual steps to get it started again. Very annoying and neither a clean restore nor software upgrade has fixed the problem.
Any ideas on what I can do - or if this is a hardware problem??
thanks in advance for any help.
I am not sure what you mean by "white strips" but have you tried to pull the firmware file and place it in DFU Mode and restore as new?
Skip Step #2 in this article, TS1813 - Support - Apple and change all the word "iPod" to "iPhone" then use this, iClarified - iPhone - How to Put an iPhone Into DFU Mode to place in DFU Mode. If this does not fix it, the iOS needs to be serviced.
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