Curiously, some of us are not having any of these problems. Is this happening only to the 3G phones? I have the 16gb model that came out in January, and thus far everything works smoothly, 50 apps and all.
Do you seriously believe Apple will provide a detailed explanation of the problem? Besides, Jobs' reply was regarding the crashing of applications, not "failing to launch at all" and media disappearing. Mind you, the problem has NOT come back to those who downgraded.Actually, I thought that message attributed to him did refer applications "failing to launch at all." They do begin to load, but then I am dropped immediately back to the home screen. The screen does change to the beginning of what the application start screen would look like if it continued to run. So the programs actually are crashing, not just failing to begin at all. Maybe my experience is different from others' in this regard. But I read a post someplace from a developer who has some kind of trace mode running on the phone who said that the logs show the applications are actually crashing.
No surprise at all.
Search the web. We are not in the minority. Many folks just don't debate to no end and would rather try a viable solutions instead of keeping their "fingers crossed" and refraining from touching their phones before an "official solution" is found
I will not reply to this thread anymore, everything was already said.
If you don't want to hear about anything but the solution you've found--which I'm sure is a fine option for those who accept it--then this thread won't serve you anymore. But there's no need to complain when other people choose to discuss things that don't interest you.I downgraded iTunes to 7.7 this morning, and I have had no troubles with Wi-Fi.
Yesterday morning, after having been the victim of the all-third-party-apps-crash bug for something like the sixth time, in despair and desperation I downgraded iTunes to version 7.7 using the directions in this post by darkfiber in this thread. Note that this is a simpler procedure than some have recommended; it does not require restoring from DFU or cleaning out a bunch of supporting iTunes stuff from the hard disk. The downgraded iTunes just comes up with all apps and media intact and in the right places. Since doing this I have downloaded and installed apps at will, both directly to the phone and to iTunes. I have synced the iPhone to iTunes repeatedly. I wanted to give it every chance to return to its bad behavior.
It has been working flawlessly, under conditions that predictably led to crashing in the past. I realize 36 hours of trouble-free service isn't all that long, but given how cavalier I have been about downloading and syncing apps since I did it, I must say I'm beginning to feel pretty good about it.
If the rumors are correct, we'll have new firmware on Tuesday and we won't any longer be constructing long threads about such frustrating misbehavior.