IPHONE WON'T CHARGE OR START UP

my phone 3gs today will not charge, is now dead, and will not turn on

I had a similar thing happen. I had it on a USB charger all night on my PC. It was still dead in the morning, whereas it usually charges in an hour. It's not like I noticed charge times take longer or shorter lately. It's not like the phone hasn't been holding a charge lately. Just last night BAM and it's dead and won't charge.
I brought the phone to work and had it on a different cable charging from my work computer. Several hours of this and nothing. I looked online. I found your post and a few others. And now, I've got it working. Here's what I did.
1.) From the screen where it was a red line on a dead battery, I held the power button down until it officially shut down.
2.) I unplugged the charging cable and took the case off the phone.
3.) I found a paper clip and used it to remove the SIM card, and left it out for a few seconds.
4.) I put the SIM card back in, plugged the cable back in, and powered it up - in that order.
After it started up it showed it was fully charged! Just a minute before it showed as fully drained of charge. I think that the problem was not with the battery itself but the charge detector. When you let the charge get too low, it can't even tell how much power is there like when a person has hypothermia and looses simple brain fuction and can't even process sugar as fuel.
If you usually charge in a cradle type charging station, go to Best Buy and get the iPod USB charging cable. Pop the SIM card out for good luck, and then see if it turns on with the cable plugged in.
By the way, if problems continue you should check the power scheme of your computer's USB ports. Some have a function that puts to sleep USB ports that are not in use (Windows 7).

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Sounds like it is time to take it back to Apple and ask them to repair it for you.
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(SOLVED)
After 10+ hours, Since it works in the BIOS screens, I decided to wipe the drivers.
Plugged my phone into a driverless windows and it works fine.
The reinstalled drivers did not work for me because I didn't manually wipe the driver files
Plugged my plugged my iPhone in and everything suddenly works
Next I have to go to war with my malfunctioning windows update
Thanks zelous for the suggestion, though it didn't work because my iPhone wouldn't connect at all. it did point me in the right direction. Thanks!

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Hello All:
I just took some video with my iPhoto 3GS, and connected my iPhone to my iMac only to find that:
iPhone is not recognized by either iTunes, iPhoto or iMovie and what's more it won't charge. That is, my iMAC can't detect iPhone as a connected device. I went to the Apple support page and ran through all of the troubleshooting steps (except clean uninstall and reinstall of iTunes.)
As a control, I connected iPhone to my MacBook and all fine: it charges, iTunes recognizes it as a connected device, as do iPhoto and iMovie.
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The ONLY new software I have loaded since I last used iPhone and iMAC together is Snapz Pro X (trial), so I did a thorough (and I mean thorough) uninstall of that...no change.
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Isn't it always the last place you look for something is where you'll find it?
Last night when I made the post I was just too tired to delete iTunes and go through the Libraries to scrub out the files.
This morning, with a Cappuccino I did it.
Reloaded a fresh copy of iTunes...all better now.
Perhaps Apple support on this topic should change "on rare occasions you will need to reinstall iTunes" to "you will need to reinstall".
Anyway, better now.
BTW: the reason all this happened is because I wanted to transfer iPhone videos to my Mac to work on them in iMovie. iMovie won't recognise the iPhone, but, Image Capture does!! Just offloaded the 10 vids from iPhone in .mov format. I'm good to go.
Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night!

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The battery started to drop very fast some month ago. When it is fully charged then i plug it out, and it dies in like 1 or 2 hours, when I'm only listening to music and nothing else. I turned the bluetooth and 3g off and only turned wifi.
Actually i listen to music for 10 to 20 min at the morning and the phone is fully charged. Then it rest for 4-5hours then i listen to music for 45mins or an hour during the lunchtime. After that, it rest for about 2 hours and i listen to music for 10 to 20 mins. When i get home, the battery percentage is like 20 something or 30.
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Hi there HM00,
You may find the troubleshooting steps in the article below helpful.
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http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1476
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