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Recently I replaced my iPhone 4s battery using the steps provided in this site. After I was finished reassembling the phone I plugged it in to charge. The Apple logo will appear as if it is restarting normally. But it will only appear for 4-5 seconds before it disappears. It repeats coming and going about every 4-5 seconds. Any suggestions.
This is the problem of only battery. this new battery is after market . Ask you seller to change it becoz these batteries will not work. this is very cheap battery it only shows charging but actually it only discharging slowly slowly. change the battery is the option you have to do for your iphone works normally .
I hate to say it but simran might be right. I just did a battery replacement from ifixit and it wouldn’t charge afterward. The indicator said that the plug was in but the charge symbol didn’t appear. I took the thing apart 6 times and reassembled thinking I missed something. Finally I put the old battery back in and it was charging just like normal(although the battery still runs out quick because it’s old). I think I’m just going to hang in there until the 5 comes out hopefully soon.
This is a problem with ALL Lithium ion batteries… if they have sat on the shelf too long and become completely discharged, it will be very difficult to put a charge on it. Lithium ion batteries should not be completely discharged. I have the same problem now with my iphone 4s - replaced the battery and apple logo is flashing. Tried to restore the iphone but I get an error 21 in iTunes. The problem is during restart of the phone during the restore process - because the battery is completely discharged, the phone shuts off momentarily instead of restarting. That is why itunes fails on the restore process. Don’t fall for the $9 iphone battery trick - the old saying “you get what you pay for”…
I had similar problem, iphone has new original battery. iPhone was not charging, only the small red battery logo, after 1 day on the charger, still nothing. Then the second day, it was full 100% charged and works normally after. i hope you will be lucky too.
Bought new Iphone 4 battery. Didn’t charge. Had to go back to the old battery :/
The charging USB port may have lint or something blocking your charger. I had the same thing happen with my motorola photon, ands there was some lint in the charging port. The battery would not charge, and agree I cleaned the port out, out works fine now. It took a little time to get all the lint out. You may need a magnifying glass to be able to see inside the charging port/jack.
My problem too. Can’t get to charge or turn on - gives me a dead battery symbol when charging but nothing works. going to replace old battery and see if that works I guess.
reinstalled the old one and it works just as before so must be the battery was bad.
I say you look for a better battery or get it changed from apple
Not the battery in my case, I have tried 3 original iPhone 4 batteries and the phone won’t charge, tried hard reset and that doesn’t help
Hi Here’s what I found… The exact same thing happened to me. The problem is with the new battery. If a lithium battery sits on the shelf for too long and it totally drains all of it’s charge, it will be impossible to charge it up again using normal means. My advice is to call your battery supplier and get them to replace the battery with one that they have actually tested. After 3 tries I finally got a battery that worked. Hope this helps!!
Hi I have an iphone 4 its just had a new battery and new charger and has been on charge for 24 hrs and still only showing afew red lines. Do I need a new battery again.
Had this issue after replacing with new ifixit battery. Couldn’t reset the phone at all. Let the phone sit on charger about 15 minutes and it came on with 6% charge showing. Reset the phone to clear the “searching” error and it works normally now.
Same thing happened to me but my old battery just would only last a quarter of what it used to last so i replaced it and the apple logo kept showing up so I put the old battery in and it is fixed
Changed my sons I phone battery it charges but only abit why it’s not charging good I don’t no every thing working on phone any one no what I can do been charging for 4hrs and its on 5% think I might just put in old battery back in
Guys check the contacts on the little metal connector. Mine didn’t come with them wrapped under the connector thus making contact. If I’d noticed that hours ago, I’d have saved myself reading all these notes about all sorts of nonsense that was never a problem. The problem was Chinese mass production, no QA and no real instructions given with the product. It rebooted like fury all night. Would not work without a mains plug. On certain plugs would not boot into iOS , then I bent a few bits of wire and HEY PRESTO! All is good in phone world! My advice. Don’t read all the above until you have looked at your battery. Physically look see if the contacts are sticking out straight from the connector. If so they shouldn’t be. they need to be tucked under to make contact. Bend them under you will be fine…trust me I’m a writer!
I too have same problem. I will try charging for 8 hours and post the result here on 18 Sep before 10:00 AM IST.
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i got battery replaced in iphone 4 it worked and charged to 100 i watched and i saw it but by morning its completely dead no little battery on screen no nothing i kept old battery which was broken so what am i supposed to do i can’t buy a new phone i don’t have enough money 20£ wasted and a still broken phone oh well may as well wait till my contract ends
I had a similar problem just recently. Do the replacement (ifixit parts + tools). Reassemble, slide the back closed, screws. Plug into the charger. You see the apple, then it goes black. Then apple, then goes black (bad). Put the old battery back in, plug in, no problem. When you plug in the charger you see the empty battery and it’s charging (good). My problem ended up being that pressure switch. As soon as that contacted the back of the phone, it would go dead. So new battery in, don’t replace the back of the phone, plug in the charger, phone boots up, 50% charge in the battery. As soon as you put the phone back on and slide it closed, phone goes dead. Plugging in charger gets you the apple-black-apple-black again (phone won’t boot). Pop the phone back off, plug in, phone boots fine. Note the pressure switch worked fine with the old battery and clip. Not sure what’s up with the new one. It might be fine to just leave the pressure switch out or make it so the pressure switch can’t contact the metal part of the phone back which is what I ended up doing with a small piece of the sticky clear battery extraction material (you pulled on the clear tab to get the battery out). Could be the orientation of the pressure switch gold contact. It looks pretty square in the picture but maybe needs to be as far toward the battery and as far to the top of the phone as possible (the range of works/doesn’t may be small). Before blaming the battery, try it without the phone back installed and see if the phone boots up ok. Try not to get zapped. Note: I’m not using this 4s as a phone, just a wifi enabled IPOD with a screen and a web browser.
