Apps crashing? Free up some memory by force quitting.

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  1. mcdj, Jul 18, 2008

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    Super Monkey Ball crashes to the home screen immediately after the splash screen, unless I reboot the phone, nearly every time I try to play it. Rebooting the phone just to play a game is of course tedious.

    I discovered something interesting today. Super Monkey crashed as usual. Instead of rebooting the phone, I opened the iPod and force quit it (hold home button until it closes). Super Monkey then opened, and got as far as the Sega screen, then crashed. It didn't go as far as the Sega screen previously. Then I opened and force quit Safari. Super Monkey then opened up completely and I was ready to play.

    Seems pretty obvi that there's some memory allocation issues at work here. That would also explain laggy typing in certain apps (lag in SMS goes away when I force quit SMS).

    The bright side of this is that it shouldn't be a huge deal for Apple to patch it up toot sweet.

    Ok Apple, we're ready for 2.01. Bring it.
     
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  2. ruinfx, Jul 18, 2008

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    and this is why other mobile operating systems have task managers. genius.
     
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  3. Luigi239, Jul 18, 2008

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    True, but the average user should never have to deal with that on a mobile device. The OS should handle and allocate memory automatically, which is what Apple is trying to do. Obviously there are a few bugs which is why there is the upcoming 2.0.1 update.
     
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  4. Nicolecat, Jul 18, 2008

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    holy wow. was that the only app you had running? :eek:
     
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  5. jecapaga, Jul 18, 2008

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    Good catch. I was just having the same issue on another game. Force quit out of ipod that I had launched and listened to some yesterday and I no longer have the game crash on launch.
     
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  6. ruinfx, Jul 18, 2008

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    yea and OS X on my MBP should handle and allocate memory automatically too but it still has a task manager. its just nice to be able to have that control for more tech savvy users.
     
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  7. Archie-, Jul 18, 2008

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    "This is nuts." Huge applause for that one.

    Oh how they laughed.

    [​IMG]
     
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  8. bentonm, Jul 18, 2008

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    I had a similar issue but...

    I had a similar issue with apps crashing, however it was AOL. It was one of the first ones I installed. I found that completely deleting it from my MAC and iPhone, and re-installing corrected the issue... I hope this helps..
     
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  9. bc008, Jul 18, 2008

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    i cant seem to get SMB to stay open for more than 30-45 minutes
     
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  10. cgingrich, Jul 18, 2008

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    I've been having the same issues with more than just SMB. Perhaps this was why Apple was hesitant about allowing 3rd party apps.
     
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  11. ruinfx, Jul 18, 2008

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    priceless
     
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