iPhone apps not working. They close abruptly straight after opening

Zascar · 11-01-2010 02:10PM #1

As the title says something is wrong with my iPhone. All the non-standard apps, just will not work. When I click on any of them, it loads and you sell the welcome screen, but then it just closes immediately and goes back to the home screen

Anyone know why this is or how to fix it?
Thanks

aidan_walsh · 11-01-2010 02:11PM

Remove and redownload an app. Does this fix it?

Jay P · 11-01-2010 02:15PM

That's exactly what I've done when it fails like that.

pieface_ie · 11-01-2010 02:18PM

Try reboot phone,if same problem occurs it's most likely your firmware version is lower than the application is designed for.

faceman · 11-01-2010 02:47PM

Sometimes apps will crash if you dont have enough memory resources available. I use an app called "Free memory" which allows you to free up memory space without having to reboot the iphone.

ratsam · 11-01-2010 02:51PM

Happened me a few times... connect your phone to itunes, back it up and then do a restore. It'll take a while. When finished your phone will be back to normal and running snappier than ever...!

Rats

Stuxnet · 11-01-2010 04:36PM

free memo is a good idea, if you have sbsettings installed, side swipe the top status bar, there is a a free up memory icon, shows you the active and background active apps, could be possible there are still running even tho you dont see them,
does it still happen after a full reboot

Borneo Fnctn · 11-01-2010 04:55PM

If you switch iTunes accounts on your phone this will lock any apps downloaded with the first account. This happened to me.

hshortt · 11-01-2010 05:46PM

It's Jailbroken right? I've seen this problem myself and was trying to narrow it down last night. If you do a firmware restore and then hacktivate/jailbreak again, run snow if needed, setup as new phone in iTunes, then install any of the offending apps, they will work ok.

Only after installing them, then install cydia.

Other fixes mentioned such as remove and then reinstall offending applications didn't work for me, restores didn't work either, this just restored the issue.

Cheers

Zascar · 11-01-2010 05:48PM

Nope. It was jairbroken a while back but when the 3.0 came out I just went back to normal apple software. I tried unintalling and reinstalling the facebook app there and it now works. Thing is it did this a while ago and its happened again, I'm hoping its not a trend

Might try a full backup and restore later
Thanks

fox007 · 11-01-2010 06:43PM

Make sure you have the right firmware I had this trouble when I was on 3.0 but I'm on 3.2.1 now no problems with any apps try that let's know if that helps!

iPhone apps not working. They close abruptly straight after opening

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