Applications not loading? Probably because too much RAM has been used up by programs you’ve already ran. The solution is very simple. Do a hard reboot. Hold down home and the power button for 10 seconds. Yes, you will even have to hold them down while it asks if you want to turn the power off normally. After the hard reset, everything should work again. No need to reinstall the OS!
I discovered this by reading the description of Billy Frontier which says, “Technical note: if this game (or any other iPhone app) exhibits crashing, simply reboot your iPhone (hold down power + home button for 10 seconds) to fix it.” Nice game btw. Now I can play Blue Skies and Asphalt 4 Elite Racing again. Unbelieveable games, I’d like to add…
To keep your iPhone more stable, I’d also recommend having no more than three pages of apps. The Apple Logo of Death comes because when you install a new program, the OS has to do something called application remapping. There’s a watchdog process that shuts down any process that takes longer than 2 minutes. Thus, if this application remapping takes more than 2 minutes, it’ll reboot. Then on boot, it will do the application remapping, longer than 2 minutes, reboot ad infinitum. Found on iphonefreakz.
It’s been rumored that iTunes 8 will be released on Sep 9 and I hope iPhone OS 2.1 will be as well, so I can start using the full power of my iPhone and stop having to handle it with baby gloves.