How To Make My Iphone Turn On Faster When Charging

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When plugged in, do you get the battery symbol come up on your phone?

iPhone 5 has known battery issues. If the phone registers the cable, I would look to replace the battery (genuine Apple replacement only) AND then also restore the iphone via iTunes, and set it up as a new iphone

If it doesn't register the cable being plugged in, try other cables / charging plugs, then look to replace the charging port.

You can get more help at the iPhone Won't Turn On wiki. Good luck!

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Heat it up with a hairdryer, it will work

--To prevent confusion, this is a reminder that this update was by another person.--

I honestly don't know why this would work, but being that it has helped people, I want to remind everybody: DO NOT HEAT YOUR BATTERY DIRECTLY! This is extremely dangerous. Maybe @philipengel could elaborate more on what he heated and for how long? :)

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I worked thanks sooooo much!!

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In this situation it is always hard to judge exactly where the problem lies. To me, this sounds like a battery failure. You can buy the battery here:

iPhone 5 Battery

And the guide to fix it can be found here:

How to replace your iPhone 5 battery

Hope this helps! And good luck, happy repairs to you :)

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I really thought this was one of those "will stupid people actually try this" things but I tries everything and nothing worked.

I held the blowdryer on high for under a minute and it worked!!

You are a life saver. Thank you.

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IT F**KING WORKED!!!!! OMG!!! THANK YOU TO WHOEVER CAME UP WITH THIS IDEA. I'M LITERALLY QUACKING!!!!!!

It didn't work at first so I tried again for the second time.

First, make sure that you really heat up your phone for 3mins. using a hair dryer.

Second, plug it in as soon as you turn off the heat.

I WAS SHOOKT WHEN THE APPLE LOGO INSTANTLY POPPED OUT. PEACE!!!!!!!!!!

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holy $@$* this does work…. can't believe I found this thread and that it actually fixed my iPhone… thanks so much!

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The hairdryer will help for a short peroid of time, to resolve it permanently we need to work a little while longer :)

How to repair not charging or quckly discharging battery issue in an iPhone 5s

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should i heat while the charger is in or not ?

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I just heated it and plugged it into charge and my phone still won't turn on is this normal? My phone has been dead for five months

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After looking at all of the answers, I was still feeling a bit skeptical, but I decided to pull a "Why The !&&* Not" move. I turned on my radiator and held my iPhone 6s to it for a minute or so, and it booted up right away. Very happy to know that strange things like this work. If you're around the cold a lot or move from one temperature to the next like I do for work, then this method will absolutely help you out. Try cleaning it out frequently to allow for the best charges. Once I plugged my phone in, after it turned on, it charged faster than when I first got it. Since I've started typing this, it's gone from 11% to 24%. Hope this helps!

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I cannot believe this worked, even from seeing all the people it worked for I was sceptical; these things always work for other people and not me. My phone charged all night (from 12am - 7am) and then stayed in a portable charger all morning. It so also an iPhone 6 and the battery is even worse than Akaja's my phone need to be charged constantly and if it comes off charge it turns off.

So as I said, the phone had been off from 10am and stayed on the portable charge till 1pm then I decide to use my plug for a stronger charger, 5 hours later it still hadn't turned, then used my bran new iPhone X charger, 1 hour later it Still. Didn't. Turn. On. Thats when I went onto uncle Google and found this, I put it on the heater for 20 seconds both sides, plugged it in and no less than a second the apple sign came on.. I am amazed!

Whats more irritating after being charged continuously for 18 hours and 57 minutes it turned on at 12%.... Like Stephen said since writing this my phone has charged from 12% to 40% incredible. Keep your iPhone warm people!!

Akaja thank you for this post!!! You saved my phone from destruction and Philip you are a life saver!!

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My phone was dead for an hour, I put it on the radiator for a minute and as soon as I put it back on charge it came on.

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My phone has been dead for like two hours (died at the WORST moment rip me) and hair dryered it for 45 seconds, put it back on the charger and I'm still waiting for results but it's only been like five minutes so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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WOW! Thank you soo much! I didn't have any heater or anything so I resorted to sitting on the thing for like 15 minutes while it charged and BAM! Turned on finally! I never would have thought about heating it up!

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made an account just to say THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE BRILLIANT IDEA!

my working phone was dead and all of my clients' chats & numbers were there, most stupid thing that I haven't got to back it up. so desperate because my ip5s won't turned on after 2 hours of charging and I'm dead for sure if this won't back to life again..

trying to find a clue on google, and came up to this. i'm truly skeptical at first and was like "is this for real or these guys got paid for saying the method is really working?". heated up my ip5s with hair dryer for 1 minute till it gets warm and plugged the charging cable back, then miracle happens!

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I don't have a hair dryer so what other way can I heat my phone up? Its been charging since yesterday 4pm to 8a.m next day

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my iphone 6 is doing this right now!! just turned on the raditators going to give it a try !!!

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mine is still showing the battery symbol... dont know what going on but would love some tips!!!

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So I just did it 3 Times on my iPhone 6s Plus ,I'm giving it ten mins then I'm going to try and boot her up.If I don't update that is because it didn't work at all.

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It is seems that your power supply circuits are fine that means your battery and battery connector are working fine. Battery symbol shown on screen. So display assembly are also fine. Now your iphone wont turn on or not booting up is your problem.

Have you connected to itunes does it recognize by itunes. try to force restart your iphone. or try to enter in dfu mode.

But first i want to know that your iphone is recognize by itunes or computer or not. If it is not find by computer than some basic hardware failure is there or may be os corrupted.

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Was genuinely putting high hopes for this so it'd make my phone turn on again, who made up this utter bullshit? This $@$* doesn't even work wtf tried it like 3/4 times and nothing is happening

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okay so i thought that i'd share my experience since everyone's is different. i tried heating up my phone for the first time after reading this, around 2-3inches away from my phone for about 30 seconds (no luck). then after that i tried again for long still heating up only the back of my phone (still no luck). after reading a comment on how someone did about 1 minute on both sides i decided to try it, i didn't think it was working because people said their phones would re-boot instantly which mine didn't. BUT the last time i tried with heating both sides up, after about a minute it turned on!! thank you to whoever came up with this trick, worked wonders!

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Wtf! My phone has been dead for 2 days. Didn't have Hair dryer so I put my phone on top of a typical water heater until the water comes boiling! Plugged it in, and voila! Thank you!

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Well I didn't have a hairdryer to hand so I went with the next best thing: I put it in the oven on a low heat for a couple of minutes. As soon as it seemed warmer I took it out and plugged it in — it turned on IMMEDIATELY. I am so surprised this works.

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That worked immediately 30 seconds 3 inches away from battery screen down on the grown with blow dryer blowing on back of phone where battery is. Once hot to the touch plug in and watch it turn on right away.

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So I have an iPhone 6plus that won't run and so I was like well it won't hurt to try this and sure enough the Apple logo showed up yay…this worked… thank you so much!!!

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My iphone 6s plus needs a battery replacement. Decided to try this blow dryer method to see if it will do the trick but after heating it up for a minute i charged it immediately. The battery sign isnt showing anymore and the apple logo isn't showing yet. Don't know if it will work. Any tips?

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just tried with my car heater for 3 min and plugged in but no change it still shows that it's charging but won't turn on or show the apple logo

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I must say, after trying it the first time with no result, I tried heating up the back 4 more times and then read the comment saying to heat both sides - I did so and plugged my phone in. Just when I thought all hope was lost… 5 minutes later the apple logo appeared and it turned on!! My phone is ALIVE!!! Thank you so much!!! <3

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…. iT ACTUALLY WORKS….

Im actually floored…. I only registered and commented to tell you guys that somehow heat helps.

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Followed the steps and so far a very hot and black screened IPhone. I'm going to wait 30 mins but I have feeling my phone is past the revival stage. I really hope it works because I'm panicking so much. I can't get easy access to phones and without this one I'm done.

Thanks for the advice anyway.

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so my phone 6s is constantly turning off i know the battery is bad but i cant afford a new phone at the moment but after it being plugged in for 3 hours nothing i have to keep it plugged all day if i am home plugged into the socket if im going out into a portable so after 3 hours tried the blowdryer it didnt work at first but after a few minutes it did go on so THANKS

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Mane this $@$* works lol I was like wtf ….I don't got no hair dryer or nun an the heater is off in the car so I cut the stove on an tried to put the phone to it plugged up den I read sum more of these commentd an so I unplugged it den went by the stove to warm it up mane this ##&&% came on without the plug an I ran to the plug to make sure it came al the way on lmao amen to this post it works ..y'all!

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I thought this was a troll thread, but I didn't know what else to do. But WTF the heat actually works. I held my iPhone SE above my gas stove, on the lowest heat (Be careful not to actually cook your phone lol. Test the heat with your hand and hold the phone where it feels like a hairdryer). After 40 ish seconds i plugged my phone in and BAM! The apple logo appeared and my phone is up and running again. Thank you OP!

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It Worked! Thank you so much!!!!!!! I heated it up for about a min, and keep feeling the phone to make sure that it was not heating up to much and I plugged it in right away and it turned on!!! Thank you!!!!!

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Trying the "sit on it" answer rn lmao

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I just had to say holy crap! I put my phone on my graphics card since i didn't want to wake anybody up with a blowdryer! it booted up instantly!

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uhhhhhh ok soo i've done this TWICE. the first time i did it for two minutes and i didn't work. the second time i did it longer AND did it for like 3 secs with the charger in it and all that came up was the charging logo sooooo we'll see. AND my phone had or still is been charging for 2 hours so yeah that's that. :)

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Nooooo wayyyy whoever said the hairdryer thing is so smart it actually works i did it for like 30 seconds and turned it over and it turned on.

It makes sense tho heat creates resistance, and potential difference (voltage) is the force of how hard the currents are pushed. If the AC current supplied by the mains stays the same then because of Voltage = current x resistance, keeping the current the same, while increasing the current will increase the potential difference and it will push current into your battery.

It's not even deep think about accidentally leaving your phone on the radiator for 30 seconds it's not gonna blow up.

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Wow! I know this thread is older but I thought I should say this worked for me as well.

My Iphone 6 has been off and in a box for a year - I decided to sell it but it wouldn't turn on.

The screen was completely black with no charging symbol.

First I cleaned out the Charging Port, Then I used my blowdryer for about 30 seconds on each side.

I tried the Reboot ( Holding down Home & Power Button for 30 seconds) - nothing happened YET

Then I plugged it in to my laptop - and the charging symbol appeared.

I've had it charging for about 10 mins and it's WORKING

The heat really did help - I had it changing for a full day previously and tried the reboot several times and nothing.

Thanks y'all!

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WOW!!! This was a lifesaver for my phone. My phone battery died when I left youtube on all night. It didn't want to charge after that, the dreaded black screen was in command. Thanks for this tip!! I didn't have a blower so I heated it a bit from the heat coming off my laptop, then when it got some heat, I charged it and it worked!

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My phone died two days ago I've been trying to turn it on for a while but nothing all I keep getting is a need to be charged sign, thing is i had it on charge all night and to be honest its been dying a lot lately so at first it didn't seem like a big deal, I've tried the the reset and stuff and still nothingggg honestly was about to lose hope, so I've spent my morning scrolling though google and i came upon this and I'm very skeptical, but as soon as I get home I'm going to try this. please any advice…. I really need this to work, I cant afford another iphone, my parents are going through a really tough time and things are making me wanna give up on every thing… so tell me how to get this iphone 6 to turn the heck on. please.//// ill give an update tomorrow.

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am looking forward to read more posts. I appreciate your work good writing many Thanks for sharing. Best of luck sir pinoytv

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Liz said: heat creates resistance.

That is, fundamentally, wrong.

Heat doesn't create resistance, it is created by resistance (physics 101: friction causes heat) and it is a form of energy in and of itself (heat loss formula: power = current * current * resistance [power is equivalent to heat in this formula]) which is why this insanely dangerous idea (heating the "dead" battery) works.

it is no different than rubbing a lighter, that won't light, between your hands in order to get it to light…except it's more like leaving a lighter on a radiator (not suggested).

Warming electrons (aka injecting energy) causes them to be capable of moving more freely (aka "waste" more energy) and, depending on the amount of energy provided (and the resistance involved) that "wasting" of energy can be very violent.

e.g. Drop ice in coffee and see the reaction in the ice - which will crack and melt fast the instant heat starts to transfer to it.

or just throw a battery in the microwave (don't - very dangerous) to see an even more violent reaction when to much energy is injected into things that weren't designed to handle it.

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Listen, everyone here seems like bots lol. They aren't. Literally sit on your phone for like 3 minutes and it'll turn on, have the charger in and give it time to heat up a bit. This is actually ridiculous.

-Kole

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My phone shuts down unexpectedly yesterday and I tried charging it overnight but it still isn't turning on. I can't even see the charged sign because the screen is literally "all black". Please help me. Thank you so much!

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it helped so %#*@ much thank you thank you omg &&^&^$^ lord it helpsssssssssssssss!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i love you thank you it made me cry because it workedddddddddddddddd

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I cannot believe this worked!

OMFG!! Mind blown…literally mind blown

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It works!! I have an iphone 6S, the phone was charging for so long and wouldn't turn on.

So I sat on my phone for 10 minutes ( I was too scared to use the hairdryer lol) and it turned on THANKYOU

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it isn't working fr my iphone 7, what do i do ?

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omggggg im not a bot i swear but it wokred i did it about 3-4 times and it didn't com eon at all right away.Then, I waited while it was on the charger and it turned on i'm so excited. just give it time. I also did the blowdrying it on both sides for about 45 sec.

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Literally just made an account to say this works!!! My boyfriends phone died after ice fishing and wouldn't charge or turn back on, this did the trick

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I'm in shock. Like almost everyone here, I too had to make an account to thank you. My iPhone 6 turned off today because its battery was low, but that had happened before so I was not worried until I plugged in my phone and realized that it wouldn't turn on. I tried to force restart the phone and that didn't work, so I started losing hope. Then I stumbled upon this post and I was like this s#%t won't work knowing my luck. However, I took the hair dryer and kept it on the phone for approx 3 or 4 minutes (that's when the phone started to heat up) and then I plugged in the phone. It didn't turn on right away, but after a couple of minutes the Apple logo finally appeared. I was so happy and relieved.

Thank you again so so much!

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