iPhone Reboot

Lux23

Ok, my phone was stolen yesterday and a friend has lent me her old phone until I can sort something else out.

So just got a replacement sim card and he told me to reboot the phone in a couple of hours and it should work but power button is broken so I can't do this.

So I have two questions is a reboot the same as a letting your phone die and just plugging it back in?

MiniNukinfuts

Yes, it works the same afaik

Lux23

Cool, why didn't the guy in the 3 shop know that than. Feel like an eegit asking about!

CathalDublin

just knock airplane mode on/off should be enough.
If its jailbroken download sbsettings from cydia and you should be able to reboot from the sbsettings menu/notification centre

Lux23

CathalDublin wrote: »

just knock airplane mode on/off should be enough

Oh cool! Thanks!

MiniNukinfuts

Most of the time, the people in those shops are complete tools. A girl in my local vodafone shop tried to convince my mom that the background applications running were causing her phone to drop wifi and bluetooth connectivity. They chance their arms when it comes to iPhone issues. "Let's try hard reset it", "let's stop the background apps". That's all they try.

Lux23

CathalDublin wrote: »

just knock airplane mode on/off should be enough.
If its jailbroken download sbsettings from cydia and you should be able to reboot from the sbsettings menu/notification centre

Airplane mode thing won't work so I guess I have to wait for it to die. As far as I know it's not jail broken.

CathalDublin

are they just porting your number to a new sim?
if so removing the sim and reinserting/airplane mode should be all you have to do, is the iphone you have a lend of carrier unlocked?

If you need to power it off best open youtube and start streaming a really long high quality video with the volume up full

biko

Lux23 wrote: »

Cool, why didn't the guy in the 3 shop know that than. Feel like an eegit asking about!

He probably only slightly better at iphones than you, and you didn't know at all

This is how you turn it off proper, bit a long way but it beats paying for a repair.
Tap Settings, General, Accessibility, AssistiveTouch (near the bottom) and tap AssistiveTouch to ON. You will now notice a small dark square with a circle in the middle. Tap the dark circult to open the assistiveTouch menu, then tap Device and tap and HOLD the Lock Screen icon. This will bring up the iPhone's Power-Off slider.

For jailbroken phones you can install apps to turn it off for you.

Lux23

CathalDublin wrote: »

are they just porting your number to a new sim?
if so removing the sim and reinserting/airplane mode should be all you have to do, is the iphone you have a lend of carrier unlocked?

If you need to power it off best open youtube and start streaming a really long high quality video with the volume up full

I had to network reset it in the end but it worked so that's all that matters.