IPhone 4 shutting itself off at night and only comes on by force reboot
Having a serious issue with my new iPhone 4, every night it shuts down completely and won't start up unless you force reboot it.
The weird thing is, first night it did it I thought it ran out of juice, so I plugged it in to charge (by wall and computer) and it wouldn't show any charging status. Left it for about an hour, still nothing, still won't just turn on by the power button. Finally I got it up and running by force rebooting it (all buttons pressed) and the strange thing is the phone doesn't have a higher charge despite being plugged in for about an hour, still the same as when I went to sleep, 20%.
So it works for the rest of the day without a hiccup...
Then same thing happens last night, shuts down while I'm sleeping, have to force reboot it this morning and the battery shows it's still about 80% charge.
Anyone else experience this?
Short version: My solution was going to the Apple store and getting a replacement.
I didn't want to deal with the same issue for a third day and be a QC experiment for Apple so I got the new 32gb home, restored all my data from my backup (not set up as a new phone, same as I did the first iPhone4) and voila the new phone was still alive this morning.
Obviously there's been some manufacturing defeats (swapped buttons, screen issues, reception, now this) so my advice is don't waste your time trying to solve it for Apple, get a new replacement and let them figure it out. My Apple advisor told me that the stores get limited replacement stock everyday just for these types of issues, you just need to make a genius appointment to deal with it.
Good luck!
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