QOTD: The last crash?

Posted on April 30, 2011 by Shaun

When was the last time your smartphone crashed and what caused it? My iPhone 4 crashed last week and I had to leave it attached to my Mac for 20 minutes to bring it back to life. Made me think twice about jailbreaking…

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13 Responses to QOTD: The last crash?

  1. gavinfabl says:
    April 30, 2011 at 7:28 am

    My iPhone 4 is not jail broken. It hasn’t ever crashed either.

  2. Graham says:
    April 30, 2011 at 9:05 am

    I think that there are some bugs with the latest iOS update. My bro-in-law’s iPhone 4 needed rebooting the other day and he had no problems up til then. My iPod kept getting very hot and apps were crashing. I thought it might be to do with jailbreaking so I reinstalled from scratch but problem was still there. Browsing the forums it seems that these are not isolated cases. It seems to be a problem with memory management and changes to springboard. I re-jailbroke and installed two apps. One tells you how much memory is free. The other allows you to close all apps with one tap when memory gets low. This has made my iPod stable again.

  3. jah says:
    April 30, 2011 at 9:44 am

    @Gavin, your iPhone has been stable because you’re being a sensible user and using it the way it was intended – but is the the real Gavin I ask :-)

    My Nokia E7 crashed because I tried to make Opera the default browser, otherwise as with most Symbian devices it is rock solid.

  4. gavinfabl says:
    April 30, 2011 at 11:14 am

    Jah – I enjoy trying out new apps and games. That is my tweaking experience satisfied. Amazed how stable the phone is.

    As a point of interest my wife has the original iPad and never closes running apps and games. The other day I checked what was in the springboard. She had over 35 apps running there.

  5. Teabag says:
    April 30, 2011 at 11:18 am

    I have a WM6.5 phone…….it crashes……often……!

  6. chris says:
    April 30, 2011 at 1:41 pm

    my wildfire crashes quite often as does my hero.im getting quite fed up with the touch screen way of life. now on the other hand both my e63 and 71 are crash free atm. and nokia wanna eventually ditch symbian . make some more none touch symbian phones please nokia.

  7. bobbd says:
    April 30, 2011 at 2:18 pm

    I don’t think my iPhone or my iPad have ever crashed. I’ve had Apps crash or abort back to the Home screen and I’ve had Apps freeze. Usually the problem is memory. In spite of everyone saying that you don’t need to clear out all the multitasking Apps in the background, I’ve found that it usually does the trick. Maybe it’s that memory gets too fragmented.

    There has been the odd time when I’ve decided to reboot the device just to clear it. But I can’t think of a time when iOS crashed.

    Bob

  8. Mr. Fatuous says:
    April 30, 2011 at 5:33 pm

    I can’t remember the last time the pre crashed. The closest I had was a few weeks ago when for some reason it thought the battery was far lower than it should have been and shut down. It’s the first time it’s done that.

  9. jaamgans says:
    May 1, 2011 at 8:39 am

    Ad my HTC Desire HD for 5 months and no crashes. I have about 165 apps and am running special lock screens but am not rooted. Android is pretty stable unless you are rooted, but you also have to be careful with the apps you download.

  10. Joel L says:
    May 1, 2011 at 1:03 pm

    I am with jaamgans on this. I have a Defy and love the phone. I rooted my old one about 2 weeks before the speaker mysteriously started to break up. Even resetting the phone didn’t work. I was a little anxious because I had to make a warranty claim. Thankfully, I unrooted and restored just in time for the warranty to ship. I want more control but after that ordeal, I will not root my phone again. It does seem to put way more at risk.

  11. Steve says:
    May 1, 2011 at 8:10 pm

    My 16 year-old has my older iPhone 3GS that he has jailbroken. He’s totally enjoying the freedom to play with all sorts of software and approaches his parents are not willing to risk! Works for me – I keep a clean iPhone 4 and I get to see what the JB community has to offer.

  12. Statto says:
    May 1, 2011 at 9:32 pm

    I can’t recall my iPhone ever crashing. A couple – literally a couple – of apps have occasionally flipped me back to the home screen – does that count?. But in almost year of use nothing worse than that.

  13. jaamgans says:
    May 3, 2011 at 1:43 pm

    @Statto – don’t think that counts that is just a bad app – I think a reboot of the phone counts. Gosh remember those WinMo days when you where lucky if you could reboot the phone, most of the time you had to remove the battery to get the phone to work again.