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The same issue is happening to my friend's, and he takes damn good care of it. I did a hard reset and restored everything for him since he thought that might help, but no go, of course (it's hardware).

How it began:
He told me that it was working fine, he turned it off for a while when he was at work, turned it back on, and then the issue started....

He has the $7 insurance plan, so he was told to go into a repair store (he's just outside his 30 day).