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JetsamEvent errors

I have 63 screens of JetsamEvent errors since Oct 25th, when I did a DFU clean install on my new iPhone 6 Plus (128 GB, iOS 8.1) downloading apps instead of using my iTunes backup. I also have 9 pages of Springboard crashes. A few aerogram. A few awdd. My phone is set to send reports ti Apple.

Today and yesterday I've been stuck in extended boot loops that eventually resolve on their own or with my catching it between crashes and holding the Home and power buttons to reset.

I did the initial DFU because I started getting stuck in boot loops with lots of JetsamEvents after selecting about 400 apps to install OTA at once, while also moving apps into folders to make space on the screens. I figured it was too many commands for the memory to handle and took it as a learning experience.

After the DFU, I was careful to install no more than 50 apps at a time and to not organize the apps into folders at the same time as downloads were being done. That worked for a few days, but now my phone is wholly unstable. Today when I've tried to add even 1 app at a time, I'm put into a boot loop.

So when I go home tonight, I will do another DFU and start from scratch again. This time I will be careful not to download/install more than 20 apps at a time. I'm really at a loss for understanding why this is happening. And it's frustrating to spend hours over several days reinstalling apps just to find myself in the same bind and having to DFU again.

Any suggestions for a better approach to reinstalling my apps that will help me get this phone loaded up and reliably working? Do you think I need to install fewer at a time than 20? Should I soft reset after each set of 20 apps? Is it possible for this much crashing to damage the phone?

Thanks for any suggestions.
 
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I have 63 screens of JetsamEvent errors since Oct 25th, when I did a DFU clean install on my new iPhone 6 Plus (128 GB, iOS 8.1) downloading apps instead of using my iTunes backup. I also have 9 pages of Springboard crashes. A few aerogram. A few awdd. My phone is set to send reports ti Apple.

Today and yesterday I've been stuck in extended boot loops that eventually resolve on their own or with my catching it between crashes and holding the Home and power buttons to reset.

I did the initial DFU because I started getting stuck in boot loops with lots of JetsamEvents after selecting about 400 apps to install OTA at once, while also moving apps into folders to make space on the screens. I figured it was too many commands for the memory to handle and took it as a learning experience.

After the DFU, I was careful to install no more than 50 apps at a time and to not organize the apps into folders at the same time as downloads were being done. That worked for a few days, but now my phone is wholly unstable. Today when I've tried to add even 1 app at a time, I'm put into a boot loop.

So when I go home tonight, I will do another DFU and start from scratch again. This time I will be careful not to download/install more than 20 apps at a time. I'm really at a loss for understanding why this is happening. And it's frustrating to spend hours over several days reinstalling apps just to find myself in the same bind and having to DFU again.

Any suggestions for a better approach to reinstalling my apps that will help me get this phone loaded up and reliably working? Do you think I need to install fewer at a time than 20? Should I soft reset after each set of 20 apps? Is it possible for this much crashing to damage the phone?

Thanks for any suggestions.

If I were you, I would DFU and start from scratch. I would then only set up mail and other native iOS configurations. I would use the phone like that for a day to see if you get any crashes. If you do, maybe there's a hardware issue. If the log is clean then I would install some apps (maybe 10 of your highly used apps). Use the phone like that for a half day or so.. And keep going from there. I think you need to isolate whether or not your issue is hardware related or the result of one or more apps that have problems running on iOS 8.1 or if it's related to the sheer volume of apps you have.

Good luck.
 
If I were you, I would DFU and start from scratch. I would then only set up mail and other native iOS configurations. I would use the phone like that for a day to see if you get any crashes. If you do, maybe there's a hardware issue. If the log is clean then I would install some apps (maybe 10 of your highly used apps). Use the phone like that for a half day or so.. And keep going from there. I think you need to isolate whether or not your issue is hardware related or the result of one or more apps that have problems running on iOS 8.1 or if it's related to the sheer volume of apps you have.

Good luck.

Good advice.

I had a terrible time with crashes and random rebooting when I first downloaded iOS 7. Turned out I had one app that had been pulled from the App Store and was no longer supported. It was a data manager that I used to track my cellular data usage. Once I deleted that my phone was rock stable.
 
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