iGripe - my iPhone apps quit, tells me I have no music installed
August 24th, 2008 | by amarfresh |While waiting for the PATH train back to NY I was playing Quordy. My second “not free” purchase from the app store. If you like Boggle you’ll love Quordy. Although I can think of a few enhancements. I’ll save that for another post.
I had put my iPhone to sleep by pressing the top button when the train arrived. Upon returning to the game I found that it was slow and non-responsive. I figured restarting my iPhone would solve my problems.
Not exactly.
Restarting my iPhone managed to make all apps quit and make it appear as if my phone did not have the 13GB of music I transferred the other night. [insert expletives]
A reset (holding down the top button and the home button for 10+ seconds) did not seem to have any meaningful affect either. I followed the advice of the Apple support site and reset my settings (Tap Settings > General > Reset > Reset All Settings). This made my songs come back. However I am still stuck with 4 pages of apps which crash.
Is this progress?
UPDATE: Syncing apps seems to have fixed the app crashing…. for now.
2 Responses to “iGripe - my iPhone apps quit, tells me I have no music installed”
By Paul Randall on Sep 2, 2008 | Reply
thanks for the fix amarfresh. It didn’t seem to work for me at first. But it appears that the apps are hampered by DRM and you have to re-activate them by logging into the app store again and re-downloading an app. It’s a bit sad that Apple seem to be using a system akin to windows genuine advantage (snigger) activation with iPhone apps. Apple, whatever happened to trusting your users?
By Paul Randall on Sep 2, 2008 | Reply
Actually I take some of that back. At least you don’t have to beg with someone to reactivate the apps. You just reenter your username and password into the app store. But an explanation as to why Apple felt they had to include this and an apology for the nuisance it has caused people would be nice Apple.