I recently moved to an iPhone 4, which I have run into an issue where none of my Apps would open. when I select an App from the home screen, the App would appear to open for a split second before closing and returning to the home screen.
This started happening when I made a series of purchases from the App Store (via the iPhone) resulting in a download queue for each one. One of the Apps was quite large in size, which seemed to get caught during the loading process. It was 'loading' for almost an entire day before i decided to turn it off and back on again. Once it was turned back on, the App that was previously loading was now 'waiting', and the progress bar at 0%. The name of the App was not displayed, and the icon had turned grey (no icon).
I tried syncing the iPhone. This appeared to work, but close to the end of the sync when the apps were being updated, an error message appeared stating that a file could not be found and the sync failed. I tried again, and this time it suggested that the device had an internal error, an again the sync failed. After the second time, the available space jumped from over 15gb free to being 12GB over.
At this point, I decided to see if the phone and apps were still working, or if it was iTunes that was playing up and noticed that none of the installed Apps would open at all. The core applications (mail, iPod, Safari, etc. were all still working). When I selected an app from the home screen, it would start opening, but immediately close and return to the home screen.
From iTunes, I restored a backup from a few hours prior when the phone and apps were working. This resulted in the recently purchased apps to be removed from the phone, and the available space returned to a positive amount. All apps were still not working.
I updated the sync options to re-install the recently downloaded apps and tried another sync. Again, it failed with the same messages as before and the available space was way over. The partially installed app that seemed to cause the problems initially was no longer visible on the phone, and iTunes also detected that it was an pending download. From my iPhone, I then removed the majority of the apps, but this still didn't allow the remaining to open. Turning the phone off and back on didn't help either.
After reading through some similar issues that others were having, I tried downloading a new app via the App Store on the iPhone, which worked. All other apps remaining on the phone were also working again now, but the partially downloaded app had returned.
I did another sync from iTunes to copy all applications back onto the phone, which continued to work after that. I abandoned using the app that i suspect was the cause of the issues. It was over 200mb in size, with gb of additional "Other" data, so the phone didn't like it for some reason even though there should have been ample space available.
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I had the same problem but it happened to me when i synced my phone to my computer. i downloaded an app just like you said and boom! back in business.
ReplyDeletethanks for taking the time to write all this out
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Hi Daniel. I wanted to thank you for spending time to write all this. It was really useful. The same thing happened to my iPhone, and I just did what you have suggested (buy a new App). After that, everything just went back to normal. Million thanks :)))
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