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    This morning my iphone 4 was working perfectly with 85% charge. A couple of hours later my phone would not turn on, dead as a door nail.

    Can anyone guess what it might cost to get it fixed at an Apple store?

    Can anyone guess what the problem might be?

    Ken

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    Before doing that I would take it to one of those mobile phone repairers in malls.
    The usually have the tools to open them up and it might just be a loose contact or something trivial.
    If you take it to Apple they charge premium rates just to look at it.

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    If your on the Telstra network it could be related to the data outage they had yesterday. I also noticed extreme battery usage yesterday, which I’m assuming was caused due to network issues


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    At what age does Old Timer's Disease kick in, or mental constipation? There's nothing more pathetic than a grown man holding back tears, walking around with a dead phone in their pocket trying to nurse it back to life. Well that was me yesterday.

    In the early hours of this morning, not able to sleep worrying about all the lost names and addresses, all my emails, all my Apps, it suddenly occurred to me to try another charger.
    Bingo, up came the flat battery icon, the phone's not dead after all, you bloody beauty, it must be the original charger it seemed.

    I had to celebrate with a glass of cold medicine or three and wait. After 15 minutes the screen lit up like a light at the end of a tunnel.

    I'll swear the battery showed 85% the morning before, so something drained all the life out of the battery in just a few hours. Before tossing the original charger away, I reverted back to it, and it was working again, go figure.

    Maybe it was the Telstra outage, I'll never know.

    Thanks for all your comments, now I can sleep.

    Ken

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    The new updates that Apple seem intent on enforcing upon us seem to play havoc with the older models and battery life. Mine jumps around randomly .... sometimes 60% charge will last a while, other times it drops dramatically and often it drops to about 30% and then off. I think it is Apple trying to encourage upgrading to a new model .... I am seriously thinking about it, but unlikely another Apple

    Always good to back it up to your PC so your contacts etc are saved should your phone die or get lost.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Sir Stinkalot View Post
    The new updates that Apple seem intent on enforcing upon us seem to play havoc with the older models and battery life. Mine jumps around randomly .... sometimes 60% charge will last a while, other times it drops dramatically and often it drops to about 30% and then off. I think it is Apple trying to encourage upgrading to a new model
    a month or so ago, Apple admitted to doing precisely that !!
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    Press and hold the top RH button and the front buttons together (=cold hard reset)
    IPHONE 4 would usually wake up.
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    Quote Originally Posted by neksmerj View Post
    In the early hours of this morning, not able to sleep worrying about all the lost names and addresses, all my emails, all my Apps
    Set up an iCloud account, and back your phone up to it All that stuff (maybe not the apps, but they can be re-downloaded) will be backup to your iCloud account. If your phone dies, you get a new iPhone, load on that account, and hey presto, after a bit, it downloads everything back to your new phone

    Just make sure your first backup is done when you're connected to your home WiFi as opposed to 4G wireless data!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Midnight Man View Post
    Set up an iCloud account, and back your phone up to it All that stuff (maybe not the apps, but they can be re-downloaded) will be backup to your iCloud account. If your phone dies, you get a new iPhone, load on that account, and hey presto, after a bit, it downloads everything back to your new phone

    Just make sure your first backup is done when you're connected to your home WiFi as opposed to 4G wireless data!
    This. Definitely this. I cannot emphasize how strongly I agree with this!

    The Lightning connector on my iPhone gave up, meaning I could no longer charge it. I was able to restore almost everything (except some saved passwords) to a (newer) iPhone SE with little effort. It even backed up some things I thought I may have lost.

    Plus: no more (or fewer) reason to have a sleepless night. If you have WiFi, you can have it back automatically when charging. So mine tends to back up every morning while I charge it.

    Iain

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