Issues with my iPhone 3G
My wireless seems to have died a few days ago. It stopped finding wifi signals completely. My girlfriends iPhone still picked them up fine and so did her laptop so that ruled out a signal/router issue.
I tried it at multiple public locations but it didn't find those either.
I reset my network settings to see if that would help, but it did not. I restored it to my last back up (when the WiFi worked) in case it was some software related issue. That didn't work.
So I decided to do the full reset (hour long one) and update it again to see if that does anything.
Well, I did the reset, and it completed, but it will no longer load the springboard. It keeps looping the apple icon (booting up) then shuts off and on, and loops the apple icon again. It keeps doing this over and over without ever going into the operating system (I let it sit there for a few hours while I went to do some chores in case that was normal, but when I got back it was still looping)
So now my phone is a brick. My carrier is utterly useless when it comes to troubleshooting this issue and they tell me my phone is out of warranty.
I made an appointment with an Apple tech to contact me this afternoon to see what my options are.
Has anyone had any issue like this? If so, how do I stop it from looping? Also, I bought this phone from a friend of mine so I don't have a store receipt for it, but what are the chances of bringing it into an Apple store and having one of their geniuses exchange it for me? Or am I basically SOL?
Thanks in advance.
Message was edited by: Cpl599
try this:
Plug into computer hold the top power button then the home button together waiting for the phone to turn on and the apple logo to show. Continue to hold. Fend off the temptation to release the buttons and wait for the phone to power down. Continue holding until it boots up again. Continue to hold until it eventually boots to the "plug into itunes" screen. iTunes will then be able to see the phone but will say "your iphone is in recovery mode. Restore phone" Restore the phone and you're good to go."
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