Why does my iphone 4s not turn off?

Question

When i press the power down button and slide it to turn off it initially will power down, but then about 5 seconds later the phone will turn itself back on again. Why won't it stay off I tried holding the home button and it won't do anything. I don't want it to die by staying on all day and night when i'm not using it but i also don't want to deteriorate it by charging it too long. I was wondering if anyone had this same problem with the phone turning off but then turning itself on

Answer 1

I may be experiencing a similar problem. My scenario is that the phone (4s) is 2 weeks old and won't power off. I hold down the button on the upper right for a few seconds, an option comes up to swipe to the right to "power off" the phone. I swipe this to the right and the phone powers off for only a few seconds and then automatically turns itself back on. This is a new problem for this phone. I was able to power it off previously, so I'm confident that it's not "pilot error". Here's something curious; if the phone is plugged into a wall charger it will power off and stay that way until disconnected from the outlet, even if the charger is still connected to the phone. I took this phone to an Apple store and the guy that helped me cleaned out the charging port claiming it was dirty and was successful at getting the phone to power off. However, by the next day the phone would not power off again. I found the dirty port thing a little curious while telling this story to a work mate and seeing his iPhones charging port clogged with plenty of visible dirt, lint and who knows what else, yet his phone works flawlessly. My charging port looks perfectly clean.