Lockups on iPhone4!

[mcvaughan]

My iPhone 4 seems to lockup every so often, and it only comes alive again if I do a hard reset. I've tried doing a restore, but it has not helped. Not sure if it's related to a particular app running in the background or not.

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks.

 

[Irish Rose]

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It could be a problem with one of the Apps. that you installed. Do you recall a starting point that would help narrow it down to any app?

 

[mcvaughan]

No, I can't say since it only started when moving to iPhone 4 from my 3GS. I just did a restore from backup when I got the new phone.

 

[SophiaLee]

Maybe try setting it up as a new phone?

 

[mcvaughan]

SophiaLee, I thought of that, but would loose all my txt msgs. I rely heavily on these. Any way to backup them and restore?

 

[MacModMachine]

SophiaLee, I thought of that, but would loose all my txt msgs. I rely heavily on these. Any way to backup them and restore?

by any chance is in texting ? or email ?


i have had mine freeze on both those programs.

 

[mcvaughan]

Could have been txt, not sure. I noticed a lot if camera.app was running, but can't say for certain that's the culprit.

 

[threezero]

SophiaLee, I thought of that, but would loose all my txt msgs. I rely heavily on these. Any way to backup them and restore?

The only way I know of is if u jb. I was having sum problem restoring from backup too and I restore and setup as new. Before I did that I back up individual apps via choronus from cydia. Than I ssh into the phone and save the backup from the app. After setting up as new I restore the apps 1 by 1. Problem free so far except that it cannot restore camera roll.

 

[mcvaughan]

I think it may be related to SMS. Just had a lockup this morning when I left it running. It always happens when I try to wake up the phone again.

 

[urbanj]

I have the phone lock up if im in the task manager and close either the phone app or the messeges app. Don't know if this relates but I see it too.

 

[OCSpersonel]

glad to hear im not the only one with this problem, Iv had several instances where it locks up in the multitasking toolbar, and just had a case where it froze in SMS today

 

[mcvaughan]

Well, I tried something today that a Genius recommended. I had previously tried setting up the phone as new, but still had problems. It was told to me that if I setup a new profile (use a different name for the phone) that that was the only way to do a completely clean wipe. So far, so good.

I will report back when it's been a few days.

 

[mcvaughan]

It took a couple days but it locked up again in SMS.

 

[rans0m00]

Was at the Apple store today with the same complaint as the OP. What they said was a hard reset does not clear the memory fully so its not good to hard reset when these things happen. Let them work themselves out(the handset will restart itself eventually) Do a restore and set it up as a new phone. If you use a backup to set it up they said the exact same problems will be happening. Also shut off your phone daily he described it as a computer the longer it goes between a proper shutdown and start-up the more issues you will have. I have no idea if any of this is even true but its what they said today and so thought I would pass it on.

 

[mcvaughan]

Yup already tried setting up as new phone but it has been better. Only 1 lockup since doing the reset. I imagine it's a software bug that will be sorted out by Apple shortly.