You may have already experienced this…
Open up an iPhone application, it just freezes and hangs there. You probably try to press and hold the POWER button to turn off the iPhone, but it doesn’t respond.
This is not uncommon for you to encounter the above hang problem as you install more iPhone applications. A friend of mine, who have bought the iPhone 3G for around 2 weeks, gave me a call and asked for resolution.
So, what can you do to resolve this problem and bring your iPhone back to normal? For experienced iPhone user, you may know what to know. But for iPhone beginner, this hang may scare you.
Don’t worry. The solution is trivial and simple. What you have to do is to do a Hard Reset on the iPhone. To reset the iPhone, simply press the POWER/SLEEP button and Home button together. Hold them until you can see the boot screen, which is with black background and Apple logo. One point to note is you have to release both buttons at the same time.
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yea this is a perfect way to do it
has happened to me before
guess cause i got a ton my apps from cydia
so it can happen but use this and its all good =]
my phone is jailbroken. and i have to do this 3-4 times a day.
Mine is also jailbroken and I had to do it twice since Februrary
i tried to reset it and when i press on the power button it just froze. what do i do about that?
hi
I tried the above mentioned options, but after that the little apple icon comes, and its struck
i tried to do reset many times and its no use ?
mine is a jail broke one
any help
I’m having the same problem as Sam, I have a 2G on 3.0 i jailbreak/unlock with redsnow it’s been fine after like 3wks my phone got stuck on the apple i’ve tried the hard re-boot i tried connecting it to itune to sync it and itunes would not reconized it.
It stays with the apple and black background anter a few minutes it flashes and the little circle comes on like it’s powering down and it goes back to the apple.
i cannot open my iphone after a reset all the setting when the icon apple appears its automatical rebooting and i wont open can some one help me?
we have the same problem eric
my iphone just hanged at 4.49pm this afternoon, tried the above to no avail, what should i do????
Did you try to connect your iPhone back to your computer via USB?
Hey,
This is a perfect way to do it
merC
THANKS!!!
I WILL REMEMBER IT NOW 
:D:D TY!
My Iphone 3gs,legaly unlocked
many times i found it black with no response,at the same time if i tried to call my number thru another phone i heard it ringing on the second phone.
the only way to push the power&home button at same time for 10 seconds
is it normal?
some days it’s happen twice or more…some days it’s not happen at all
oh yes that’s worked, even my new Iphone 16GB 3GS got hanged n i was not able to touch the screen , it was like touch was dead. so i reset the Iphone now what the main prob. is that my Iphone is again locked.So plz send me some info. regarding that. I NEED IT BADLY.
This is really awesome. I was breaking my head to sort it out. It had saved a sleepless night for me. Thanks a lot guys.
Hey Thanks so much! my iphone hung for the first time and i got super depressed. no other forum had this info so clearly and info that worked!
i guess i got too many apps on my phone which i just deleted. could there be another reason? my phone is jailbroken too!
press and hold power button and home button..
Hey Thank you so much for your note on how to reboot.
At first I thought removing the sim card wud help. But even though it gave a message which said no sim card, the phone did not get switched off. I realised unlike regular hand sets, in my iphone 3g i could not jus take out the battery and reboot the whole thing. I was really worried! But I tried your solution and it worked in a jiffy…I was a bot nervous, reading the comments of people who were not successful as well.
Could you pls advise, if its a good idea to download the new iOS4? Some of my frnds hav successfully downloaded it. But after reading the various blogs and reading of the problems some ppl hav had, Im not so sure if I shud. If there was a way to go back to your original settings in case the new upgrade didnt work, would hav been excellent. But from what I have read, there is no solution for a roll back to the old version.
BR
Sapna
I’t works..
Thank you
thank u for ur suggestion it worked
how to uplod aaplication in my iphone
Hi Simon. These really helps alot but i wanted to ask does it bring any harm to my iPhone due to this hanging problem ?
@evonne,
No harm. Don’t worry.
Ok. Thank you
Do you why it will hang whenever I finish taking photo? :/
@evonne,
Are you using the default camera app to take photo?
Yes. I’m using the default camera app.
@evonne,
If the problem persists, I suggest you to restore your iPhone via iTunes (but make sure you backup all your data before that). Hope this can resolve the issue.
Hi all,
my also hang up.
No unlocks,
no external apps
all software unmodified and brand new… phone has about 3weeks.
I see here two possible reasons of such behaviour:
1) apple software has a bug
2) might be a result of some network viri trying hijack iphone
in both we need to escalate to apple i think.
thanks
p.d.
I did but my screen touch is nt working but it was working before it was hung
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