iphone glitch help please

[matsu]

just tried to open a few games on my phone and they just shut straight back down again. the texts/ebay/notes calculator etc all work ok just the games.
does it make any differnece that i havent connected the iphone to my itunes to update it for ages make any difference?

anyone got a solution pretttty please???

matsu

[Jules86]

Maybe just needs rebooting, low on ram?

[vRS Carl]

Press and hold the home button (the big round one at the bottom of the screen) and the on/off button UNTIL you see the white apple symbol then let go.

It will cycle through the "slide to turn off" and then switch off and then the Apple symbol comes up. Then you let go.

This forces the device to do a Reset and will clear the RAM Cache etc. Will normally solve most running probs. You really need to upgrade as well  

[Jules86]

Upgrade is not necessary, I'm still running 3.2 

[matsu]

thanks for the comments guys
my laptop is nackered and therfore so is my itunes.
if i connect to my sons itunes will it erase everything or just downloaded stuff?
i dont want to lose contacts/pics etc but im not bothered by games and stuff i can reload them no prob?

thanks
matsu

[rich83]

Make sure your signed in correctly on you iphone via itunes.... ive had this problem a few times!

[vRS Carl]

thanks for the comments guys
my laptop is nackered and therfore so is my itunes.
if i connect to my sons itunes will it erase everything or just downloaded stuff?
i dont want to lose contacts/pics etc but im not bothered by games and stuff i can reload them no prob?

thanks
matsu

You can update from his computer but you will be left with a blank iPhone as the updates wipe the phone.

[matsu]

blank as in no contacts and pics?
eek ....i mean boll##

matsu

[vRS Carl]

Unfortunately yes mate until you can resync with your computer 

[PDT]

I get this a lot, just download any free app from the app store and the problem goes away!

[xxx_mojo_xxx]

I thought Apple stuff never crashed? 

[Jules86]

My girlfriends mac crashed more than my vaio ever did!

[vRS Carl]

In the near 3 years i've owned Apple products not one has ever crashed.

The only thing that has ever had a problem was Office For Mac which was eventually sorted by an update.

I think on average my Windows based computers (and i've had top end ones including Alienware) crashed or had to be rebooted once every 3-4 months.

Maybe im just lucky with Apple & unlucky with Windows.

[stealthwolf]

^^^I must be the opposite. I used to use Macs in a lab and pretty much everyday it would crash. At the time, my Win-based laptop would do it once a week, on average.

Ditto with iPhone. I have to do a hard-reset every two-three days or so. Maybe I'm Mac-incompatible?