Weird: screen blank/white, then charged phone dead, recovery mode?

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Hello iphone experts, My old 3G had drained its battery and needed to be charged--so far nothing unusual. I plugged it into the charger, but later I noticed that the screen had turned white/blank instead of going back to the normal behavior. I tried to turn it off and back on, but it stayed...

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