Comments on: iPhone Sleep / Power Button Broken? Lock & Shutdown Apps Have Got You Covered

By: Really though...

Really though... — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 16:53:31 +0000

So i have a disabled iPhone 4 and that’s all cool and fine cause i can fix it,problem is the lock button doesn’t work so…what now?

By: dishan

dishan — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 01:28:36 +0000

hei.my friend put my i phone 3g to reset.after that i can only see apple mark in the screen and i cant do any thing.please help me.

By: anon

anon — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 21:35:22 +0000

iphone 3g with broken power button is off..plugging in to computer or wall power supply wont turn it on…helllppp:(

By: Dires

Dires — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 11:28:40 +0000

In reply to joseph. Push HOME button twice

By: Andrew

Andrew — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 07:07:45 +0000

Well after spending an hour researching on the net I finally found the program to fix a frozen iphone with a broken power button. Its called RECBOOT if you have Windows make sure you get version 1.3 and version 2.0 for mac works like a charm kicks your device into recovery mode and then you can kick it back out!

By: Alexandra

Alexandra — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 22:39:52 +0000

OMFG!!! i can’t squeeze!!! damn it hurts:)) my fingers are red :)) and i m afraid not doing some damages, more damages, to my phone, is this possible?:)) i really need help, i lose my patience!

By: Alexandra

Alexandra — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 22:09:48 +0000

hello there! i have a very big problem! i have an iphone too, and his button on/off is dead 😀 and when it’s frozen the phone it’s turning off.
now my problem is how can i turn on my phone without plugging it into a power source because his battery was full before it turns off, and it’s not charging. can anyone help me? some ideas? thanks a lot

By: Kevin

Kevin — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 12:28:46 +0000

Holy sh*t, the squeeze trick worked!!! My power button was dead and not its fixed!

For those who dont know how to do it (it took me some minutes to understand where to sqeeze) , while looking at the front of the phone, hold the phone from top right next to vertical hole where the speaker is above the screen. Put a fair amount of pressure and then see if the power button is fixed 🙂

By: joseph

joseph — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 00:42:41 +0000

In reply to Ryan Beckett. How the crap do I get my iPhone to turn on it only turns on if plugged into wall

By: Skjhfadfhe

Skjhfadfhe — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 02:39:29 +0000

Hey ummm. i have a itouch that i need jailbroken because i broke the top button and how do you just regularly turn of and ipod touch without the sleep/wake button? HELP ME email me with any help at spootrash@gmail.com

By: tiger7070

tiger7070 — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 12:47:48 +0000

I tried holding the home button and connect the iphone to the pc and it worked perfectly.
thanks to DonGus

By: leuname

leuname — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 23:57:34 +0000

hi dudes
my jailbreaked iphone 3gs is stuck in recovery mode and won’t get out of it. the power button doesn’t respond so i can’t get it into dfu mode to restore. can some one please help

By: Jess

Jess — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 20:03:31 +0000

I dropped my phone down a toilet and it broke the lock button, the squeeze mothod didn’t work but I will try the magnet, thanks for your help, hopefully my iPhone will come back to life sooner or later :L

By: steph

steph — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 11:43:49 +0000

so my lock button on my iphone is broken, it has recently just frozen up and now all it is doing is coming up with that spinny loading thing it does when it turns off help !!!

By: fuzzles

fuzzles — Wed, 11 May 2011 02:32:18 +0000

@ Sophie
Try sliding a fairly strong magnet across the bottom part of the phone by the charging port…your phone will reboot. This has been reported to work.

By: Sophie

Sophie — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 13:23:35 +0000

I keep trying the ‘squeeze’ method and I can’t get my sleep/power button to work! I need to turn off/turn back on as I didn’t pay my phone bill on time, after they unblocked my phone I have to restart so that my emails/fb etc work, how can I do this without the top button!!?!

By: Mrs. Chanandler Bong

Mrs. Chanandler Bong — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 08:13:07 +0000

@MicroLao

Dude what an awesome discovery. Who would’ve thought that a magnet would save the day…lol. I spent countless hours scouring the internet for days with no luck until I stumbled upon this lil tidbit of info. Thanks for reviving my iPhone.

By: Fuzzles

Fuzzles — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 17:17:47 +0000

@MicroLao
Wow your a life saver. I just tried the magnet method and it works perfect. My ipod has been froze up for days and trying to wait for the battery to die just to reboot is redundant. Great find MicroLao. This is definitely the safest way for a manual reboot when frozen, unlike some methods on this forum (like squeezing the screen as hard as you can. Thats stupid, and talk about a good way to break you shit even more and/or cause pixel damage as well)

By: fuzzles

fuzzles — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 17:07:50 +0000

By: Thomas

Thomas — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 08:05:22 +0000

In reply to MicroLao.

@MicroLao
that may well work just fine, but it really doesn’t sound like something I’d want to try — esp. if I want the insides of my device staying in one place.

By: MicroLao

MicroLao — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 03:45:20 +0000

I just discovered a very easy alternative method for rebooting without using any buttons or any jailbreak apps / tweaks…and I discovered it purely by accident. Take a metal magnet and place it down by the home button and charging port. This will reboot your iPod instantly (and I assume it will reboot the iPhone as well). Its very fast and very convenient when your froze up and/or in safe mode, whereas all those reboot & respring apps are rendered useless. Make sure to use a fairly strong magnet like a metal one and not one of those weak rubberized refrigerator magnets. It doesn’t have to be a super magnet, just strong enough, because a rubberized refrigerator magnet won’t do anything. So there you go everybody….your welcome!
\(^o^)/

By: Kaka

Kaka — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 13:03:17 +0000

HAHAHAHAAH!!! unbelievable! it worked!

By: Jeff

Jeff — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 14:05:17 +0000

Thank you! THe press method solved it for me also.

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 04:16:17 +0000

i cant belive it – that actually worked.,.. I thought the phone was for the bin and I just followed what that guy said to do; squeese hard just below the power button (hard as you can) and it started working again… this is the best tip I have gotten in a long time and saved me alot of cash… good stuff…

By: jenn

jenn — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 17:04:33 +0000

In reply to tim. this totally fucking worked