[scaught]

I'm trying to figure out if my phone is out of the ordinary in terms of number of crashes. The iphone keeps logs and stores them on your mac in Library\Logs\CrashReporter\MobileDevice\<iPhoneNam e>\

Today I had 15. Yesterday I had 7. I did a full restore yesterday and seemed to have lost a bunch but those numbers seem about average. Sometimes this is an app quitting, sometimes this is the phone just randomly resetting. It was sitting on my desk next to me and just reset a few minutes ago.

[frdmfghtr]

Did you update the firmware to 1.0.2? Have you tried doing a full restore from within iTunes?

If I read things right, mail crashed every 10 or 11 days, Safari about once every 8 days.

[icruise]

It's hard to say, but if I use Safari heavily, I might get a couple of crashes in a day. The iPod app hardly ever crashes unless I'm using Safari at the same time, in which case it rarely lasts more than 10 or 15 mintes. I basically never have crashes of the phone itself, but I did get an odd thing yesterday when it refused to wake up. After a minute or two of increasingly frantic button pressing, it came back on as if it had been completely powered off. I've also been having an issue in the last couple of days where I'm not getting any sound from the iPhone speakers at all. I'd think it was the recent update, but it happened for the first time just before I updated. I think it has something to do with the iPhone not recognizing that the headphones have been removed, since plugging in the headphones again will solve it.

[Cadaver]

I have only 8 entries in there total.

[scaught]

Ya. I'm up to 1.0.2. I did that when I did the "full restore" to try and fix it. It's really weird. I think I'm going to make a genius appt.

[scaught]

Since I made my genius appt it's gone from bad to worse. Now it just says "connect to itunes". This sucks.

[-Q-]

I see two. The 1.01 update seemed to fix the constant Safari crashes I got. Before that I'm sure I had a couple crashes a day.

[SEkker]

There is a big difference between an app crashing and the whole iPhone crashing.

The latter has happened 3 times to me since June 30.

The former has all but disappeared after the two updates.

[jtrwallace]

mine has three in there...

[scaught]

Originally Posted by SEkker 

There is a big difference between an app crashing and the whole iPhone crashing.

The latter has happened 3 times to me since June 30.

The former has all but disappeared after the two updates.

Well. Both were happening far too often for me.

I took it in today. Mike @ Somerset in Troy MI was super helpful. He did the basic restore, it didn't seem to help much. He did another restore, maybe a bit better but it was still crapping out. Then he said he could put it in a target disc mode like thing and completely wipe it. After this, it's been ok (about 3 hours so far, haha). We'll see what happens tomorrow.

Oh, midway through the convo, he was mentioning that he might have to send it in. They would have it for a few days and either replace it, fix it or just ship it back and say nothings wrong. I was like oh, like my ipod? (my ipod has been doing weird **** for a few months. I sent it into apple and they denied a problem.) He asked about my ipod, I described the problems, and it was replaced. Good dude.

[SEkker]

scaught, if you don't have any third party hacks, your iPhone should not be crashing normally at all. Sounds like your machine is sick; I hope the true full install fixes it.

[xMetal]

I've been using mine for a week now, and have only two entries, both for Safari. Mine's been working great with firmware .1 and .2

[scaught]

For the record, my phone kicked ass all day yesterday (translation: it did what it was fscking supposed to do).

The mac genius guy said something about ensuring I ran disk permissions on my imac before hooking it back up to sync it in case there was some fragged files getting transferred to my phone. It maybe makes sense, and surely wouldn't hurt.

[michaelb]

Originally Posted by scaught 

The mac genius guy said something about ensuring I ran disk permissions on my imac before hooking it back up to sync it in case there was some fragged files getting transferred to my phone.

That's just so... wrong.

Perhaps you should zap the PRAM too in case your MP3s have become voodoo cursed?

[scaught]

It's not that wrong.

[ChasingApple]

had my iPhone for 4 days now and not a single problem. Then again I don't dig into the system folders and stuff either, I just use my iPhone.

[Cadaver]

Originally Posted by scaught 

For the record, my phone kicked ass all day yesterday (translation: it did what it was fscking supposed to do).

The mac genius guy said something about ensuring I ran disk permissions on my imac before hooking it back up to sync it in case there was some fragged files getting transferred to my phone. It maybe makes sense, and surely wouldn't hurt.

Sounds like bunk.
You'd be better off lighting incense and chanting.

While running a permissions repair isn't too bad of an idea after installing large applications or system updates, having to run a repair before each sync is ridiculous.

[scaught]

He/I never said "each sync", just to repair permissions before syncing it again.

Look at it. It's a pretty well closed system. I've not done any hacking at all. Same iphone OS as others that have a perfectly functioning phone. Same computer for syncing as others who have a perfectly functioning phone. The only variable is the software / state of the software on the computer. Running disk permissions isn't insane. What other options do you have?

[scaught]

Yay. Phone crashing again. This sucks. Noone else has a phone with apps that just randomly crash or worse, a phone that just randomly crashes?

[mi_canuck]

iphone crashes per day? zero for me... rock solid... most stable phone i've ever owned... running v 1.0.2... no third party apps

best phone i've ever owned... bar none.

peace

[scaught]

Well. iphone was doing pretty well for a couple days there seemingly out of nowhere. Today, it starts eating **** again. text message app crashed a dozen times in a row for me this morning. Mail app crashed a similar amount of times. Went to make a phone call and it rebooted. I think I have a lemon phone. I went to restore it just now, and now I have the "please connect to itunes" screen and it won't restore. I get a "The iPhone "iPhone" could not be restored. An unknown error occurred (1611)." error. Nice error handling.

[sph]

Ive only had one crash and I bought it the day after it was released (6/30). Its the best phone Ive ever had.

[scaught]

I got my phone replaced today. Wish me better luck. The magic was dying with the problems I had with the other one.

[imemikey]

did they give you a new one on the spot?????

[icruise]

I hope you have better luck with this one. If you have similar problems, it's possible that the cause is in your environment somewhere (something about your computer or the files on it, or even how you use it -- although that seems unlikely).

[scaught]

Originally Posted by imemikey 

did they give you a new one on the spot?????

Well, it was my second time going in to get this phone looked at, but yes. New phone on the spot.

Originally Posted by icruise 

I hope you have better luck with this one. If you have similar problems, it's possible that the cause is in your environment somewhere (something about your computer or the files on it, or even how you use it -- although that seems unlikely).

Thanks, man. Ya. That was the genius bar guy's thoughts, too, which was why he asked me to run disk permissions before syncing it before.

I've put no hacks on it. Only used it for "normal" purposes. I guess a lot of my music files are from torrent sites, but I don't think they would cause any issues. Sooo. We'll see how this one does.

[imemikey]

going to apple tomorrow