Overheating iPhone 3GS

I haven't been paying too close of attention to my battery; it may be a shorter life span. I just always seem to be close to an adaptor and keep it charged.
But I have noticed the phone getting pretty hot at odd times. Anybody else have a pattern of overheating on theirs?

A phone that gets warm when not being used has a problem, usually a program trying to send or receive data unsuccessfully. This can be a corrupt mail file or mail settings. First try to isolate the problem. Is it an installed app, mail, or Safari? To check for an app go into settings. If you have a Notifications setting try turning it off. If this fixes the problem one of your "push" apps is running out of control. If it isn't an app look at mail next. If you have push email (Exchange, ME or Yahoo) try turning the account off, then cycle power on the phone. If this fixes it delete the push account, reboot, and add it back. If you still have problems post back and we'll try to find other possibilities.

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My iPhone 3GS displayed a message saying it was over heating and to turn it off.
I turned it off and the next day that I turned it back on, it wont go passed the main Apple screen.
It had a message to re-connect to iTunes, then that the IMEI and SIM were unknown.
Now it wont turn on at all!!

The terms of service of the Apple Support Communities prevent us from helping anyone with a jailbroken phone.
You're on your own. Good luck.

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Firmware is 4.3 and no they are not Jailbroken.
would thos cause the phone to get hot?

Anybody else just really disappointed with iPhone 3GS?

so i just traded up my 3 year old sanyo katana (sprint) flip-phone (which worked perfectly, without a hitch, ever) for a new iphone 3GS (at&t) and frankly i'm pretty dissatisfied with the switch. yeah, it's a fun toy, but phone service and coverage is poor and i'm experiencing most of the problems/issues posted on this forum: ridiculously poor battery life, overheating, app icons going haywire, car charger not working, crappy compass performance, inexplicable crashes and reboots/restarts etc.
if this thing worked precisely as advertised it'd be the best electronic/consumer product i've ever purchased, but as it stand now it's just sort of a nuisance. why advertise a revolutionary product, with revolutionary capabilities if everybody (including the manufacturer, apple) is telling you to turn off all it's revolutionary functions and capabilities just to keep the battery charged more than 6 hours?
weak. just weak.
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Message was edited by: d.c.1

Well, I also have had no problems with mine. But, comparing this to small flip phone is really unfair. We have to remember that this phone is a small computer and has many uses and functions that it dose over your basic small flip cell phone.
Compare it properly against another touch screen smart samsung phone and you will see that it is much more stable and easy to use.
I have compared it to nearly every other smart phone and it always shines brighter. The more a device can do the more that can go wrong with it.
I father just recently bought one of those sit down and drive lawnmowers and it has had many problems, while he still loves that his old push rotor lawn mower works like a charm.
Check yours out at apple and see if there's something that can be done, and peroidicaly power off and on your phone.

Iphone 3GS keeps shutting down.

I know there are lots of topics in here about this, but I just wanted to explain my own situation and see if it's any different.
As of late my Iphone 3Gs has been shutting down. I will be using the phone as normal, and it will have a decent amount of battery life left, but it was just crash. I'll be in an app, playing a game/chatting or safari and the phone will suddenly return to the home screen. The little battery will go red and show 0% (when my battery life was 80% just seconds ago) and then shut down.
I will have to turn it back on normally and everything will be fine again and my battery life will return to what it was previously.
This used to happen just once or twice a day but now it is happening frequently and it's really starting to frustrate me. I thought maybe it was my phone overheating because I had too many applications open and so I now make sure to keep all of my applications closed but the problem is STILL happening.
I have 4.2.1 software and I am always making sure to keep it updated.
I haven't dropped it or gotten it wet or anything.
I am going to do a reset and see if that fixes the problem, but does anyone have any other suggestions or are you experiencing the same problems?
It frustrates me that I pay all this money for a phone that is now barely serving it's purpose. I shouldn't have to worry that it's going to shut down on me in the middle of a call or while I am doing something important.
Help!

phillycheez wrote:
4.2.1 is bad.
I have an iPhone 4; I just upgraded to 4.2.1, then my phone started doing the same thing. I noticed first with the iPod app, it would play a couple min then go to the home screen. Then Pandora, play a couple min then go to homescreen; I had it on a dock at work and it would stop, then a couple min later turn on and start playing the iPod song from the beginning, same cycle over and over. Next with texts and Safari. I don't make a lot of calls, but went to get a # from my contacts and the phone app would not open.
I tried soft reboot, hard reboot, resetting the stuff in settings. The people at the AT&T store said they hadn't seen it yet. They put me on the phone with Apple; I guess I had way too many 'multitasking apps' open. I shut them all down, but it would still not allow me to access the phone.
Apple said to restore to factory settings, and then try to use phone app. I just did and it allowed me to call someone. I'm now loading it with the back-up just before 4.2.1- wish me luck.
1) Ideally you should use the device for several days without restoring your backup to prove the issue is truly resolved.
2) If restoring as new corrects the issue it is NOT an iOS 4.2.1 issue, it is a problem with your backup.
3) There is no reason to restore from your backup, you are simply re-introducing the problem that you were trying to correct.

Video out from iPhone 3GS to TV.

Can I use the standard (3 phono plugs on the end) video out lead I already have to view keynote presentations from my iPhone 3GS on my TV/Projector?

Same problem here.
I can't get any video out of my faithful iPhone 3GS running iOS 6.xx.
I have been browsing Apple discussions for solutions and most of them seem to point out to a faulty Video Composite cable. This is not my case.
I can rule that out 100%.
Old iPhone 3G running ios 3.1.2 works just fine as well as does iPhone 4, with the same cable.
I have tried with a friend's TV and cable and iPhone 3GS and we have identical issues.
(different cables and phones, same issue).
Please note all testing has been done with genuine Apple Video composite cables.
So this points out clearly to a iphone iOS issue combined with hardware.
It appears that starting from iOS > 5.0 video output has been disabled on earlier iPhone models prior to 4.
It would be nice if Apple could issue a Knowledge Base document on the issue as that would save many people further testing and waste of time.
This document http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4108? isn't really complete enough as it stops at iphone 4.
Has anybody the ultimate answer on this issue?
Are there any known work-arounds?
Thanks and regards
Pieter

TS1538 I cannot sync my iPhone 3GS after upgrading to a new computer and installing iTunes

i am trying to sync my iPhone 3GS to a new computer. I downloaded and installed iTunes and copied over the iTunes folder into My Music. Unfortunately iTunes on the new computer does not recognize my iPhone.
- The old computer was running windows XP OS 32bit. My new computer is running Windows 7, 64 bit.
- I have installed iTunes on the new computer. Windows OS recognizes the iPhone but iTunes does not. I have uninstalled and reinstall iTunes a few times now. On one reinstall, i recieved the following messages: "an iPhone has been detected, but it could not be identified. Please disconnect and reconnect the iPhone, then try again". Upon trying again, i recieved this message: "iTunes could not connect to the iPhone because an invalid response was received from the device".
every other time, nothing happens other that Windows prompting that the iPhone is detected. Any suggestions appreciated.
thanks, Singletrack200

Made a new folder and that solved my problem

I have a 5 yr. old iPhone 3GS, I can't back it up to my laptop, it's not working, but wondered if i can back it up to her laptop, if I create a new user account name, w/out losing her info?

My 5+ yr. old iPhone 3GS is on it's last legs. I desperatly need to "back it up" ASAP, so I can buy a new iPhone, and I really need to be able to transfer my 5 years worth of info to a new iPhone, (a 4S). The computer I used to back my iPhone on when I first got it no longer works, so I was wondering about being able to back my iPhone up to my daughters laptop, but she also has an iPhone 3GS, that's already backed up to her laptop. I know you couldnt back up two iPhones up to one computer, (at least that's what I was told, years ago), but I was recently told by an "Apple" rep that I could "probably" back my iPhone up to her computer without losing anyone's info, if I created a "Secondary User Name Account" on her computer. I'm not comfortble doing this unless I'm reassured more than being told that it's "probably" safe.
Does anyone know what options I have, and if this idea would result in one or both of us losing our info, if we tried to store two iPhones "back up info" on one laptop?
My phone's barely working at all, but I can still access my info, (for now, at least). I really need to do something now.
Could anyone who knows how this works please give me some info?
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First, you don't have a 5+ year old 3GS. The 3GS has only been around for under 4 years. In fact, 5 years ago there were NO iPhones; the original iPhone (2 generations before the 3GS) came out on June 29, 2007 - not quite 5 years ago. The 3GS was released June 19, 2009.
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Windows 7 pro x64
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Ok! So I just came across this randomly in another thread from user Kempas (thanks a lot!). It totally fixed the problem so I thought I'd repost it!
https://discussions.apple.com/message/10644045#10644045
Ok, I'm assuming everyone who is having trouble with Windows 7 (64-bit? mine is) has tried the following solution I found over at en.kioskea.net posted by a guy called Steve78545 (hey, you got to give a dude his due).
It's maybe because Windows 7 uses a MTP driver instead of the USBAAPL by default, and what you need is an 'Apple Mobile Device USB Driver' which you might not have in 'Universal Serial Bus Controllers' (check it and see). If you haven't got it, as good ol' Steve78545 suggested:
Update the driver by expanding 'Portable Devices' from the list, right click Apple iPhone/iPhone and select 'Update Driver Software'. Then select 'Browse My computer...'
Copy the following path and paste it in - C:\Program Files\Common Files\Apple\Mobile Device Support\Drivers - then hit 'Next'.
Let the thing do it's...thing an it should work. At least it did for me, so I hope it helps a few people out!
K

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Try deleting what is called the iPod Photo Cache.
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1314

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I having the same issue about the and iTunes says "The iPhone cannot be restored at this time because the iPhone software update server could not be contacted or is temporarily unavailable.". I've had the iPhone 3GS since it came out. It was working fine until I just tried to update it. It has NEVER been hacked or jailbroken. WE AND A FEW OTHERS are having the same issue then it is more than likely that this is an update issue. I took mine to the Apple store and the tech tried to update it and he came to the same problem and told me he couldn't update it. My assumption is that we are not the only one's with this issue and that if there was a way to update it to the update before this last one it might be a solution. I don't know how to get the previous update. Apple probably is aware of the problem, and hasn't come up with a solution yet. Or, enough people haven't complained yet. The tech suggested that there might be something wrong with the phone itself, but that couldn't be since it was working perfectly before I updated it and others are having the same issue. It is highly unlikely that a lot of people are having the same hardware issue all of a sudden at the same time. Apple/iTunes needs to fix this... and hopefully soon
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Hi gofroggy08,
Welcome to the Support Communities!
It's possible that the iTunes software didn't update properly. Try the specific steps below for the iPhone first:
iOS: Device not recognized in iTunes for Windows
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1538
If the issue is not resolved, you may need to uninstall iTunes and all of it's components, and reinstall the latest version as explained in this article:
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http://support.apple.com/kb/TS5376
I hope this information helps ....
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