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Help won't turn off or on

if you're truly stuck, pull the battery out, put it back in, and hold the power button again until the phone turns on.
 
Thanks, that is exactly what I did, after panicking. I guess everybody has a first time for thinking they've killed their phone.

(I thought I had turned it off but I guess my fumble-fingers somehow restarted it because I came back after awhile to discover it had been trying to activate -- I'm using it wifi-only -- and I stupidly tried to turn it off. Which locked it up with a blank screen but the buttons all still lit up and nothing I did changed this. After calming down, I was trying to pull the back off when it popped back to life, but it wouldn't find my router. But pulling the battery seems to have done the trick.) And I redacted my comment out of embarrassment.

Yeah, I'm new to smartphones.
 
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