iPhone 3G stuck at the Apple logo screen; will not boot!

Just popping in to stand and be counted as another repeated victim of this problem.

I don't personally find the "just don't use apps" argument too compelling because I think Apple needs to own up and fix the problem, not simply have me not use the OS as intended. I'd rather see more people boiling with rage than suggest that they just use the iPhone like it were still at OS 1.0. It's not... we should expect more.

Count me in too.

iPhone stuck (17th time) on the Apple logo.
I went to a lot of blogs, forums, topics and found that iPhone will not support any event while synching applications. I knew that and started to always switch to Airplane Mode before synching. But today, i forgot. And during the sync, someone called my number... => Dead iPhone.
That's not fun anymore. 17 restores (count 1.5 to 2 hours) and i have to start over again.

APPLE, STOP THAT AND FIX THE ISSUE !

Unfortunately I too have been a long suffering (over 40 restores) victim of this Apple logo screen of death. I have to restore my phone on a daily basis and it is so far beyond the point of annoying that I actually feel like I am being robbed by crapple. I have to carry two phones around with me now everywhere I go because it is guaranteed that at some point in the day my phone will lock up and go into that lovely ALoD. It blows my mind how Apple could overlook such a huge and widespread problem. Hey Apple take a look at your forums I think you might see a thread that sticks out a bit more than the rest in terms of posts. Most threads have around 200 to 300 posts. This thread has over 27,000!!! And please stop with the Steve Jobs email BS regarding this problem. That email couldn't have been more vague if it had to be. Was he even talking about this issue? Even worse are some of the suggestions on here on how to fix it...dont download apps, limit your apps to no more than two pages...*** did I get this phone for if I can't have the freedom to download as much as I want. This should be priority number 1 or Apple. I am tired of hearing how they are working to correct the 3G reception issues and the that POS Mobile ME...how about addressing the real issue here the one that leaves you customers without a working phone. What is it going to take to get them to actually come out and acknowledge they are aware of the ALoD problem and they are working on a fix? Does someone have die b/c they were in a life threating situation and were unable to contact anyone b/c their phone was frozen for millionth time for Apple to wake up and do something about this?
ATTENTION APPLE WAKE THE .... UP AND FIX THIS MAJOR ISSUE ALREADY!!!!!!

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That EXACT SAME scenario hit me, and I started a different thread at the time to focus on the interruption of the sync.

Come to find out (or discern) that it isn't so much the interruption with a phone call, but any interruption.

However, a few restores later, I've had interruptions and phone calls during sync, and it didn't crash but picked right back up as normal.

The difference? NOW I RUN 10 APPS (not the 50+ I wanted before).

So what's really happened to me since then, is that I can't use all the apps I paid for. I can only use a handful of them. I can't get my money back without spending even MORE hours running around in circles with God-knows how many vendors. How would have the time to DO ALL THAT?

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I understand what you're saying. And trust me.... I am, as I'm sure other are, BOILING WITH RAGE. Apple tends to delete most anything where we tend to show emotion as a result of their failure. I've got plenty of posts and have screenshot'ed them as proof.

To clarify, all that most of us are saying is that, to dodge the elephant-sized bullet of a problem that this is, try to limit your apps to 10-15 (at least from my experience, everything works a little more smoothly at that number).

Then don't update, don't install, don't remove, don't TOUCH them, other than to use them. Pick the ones you want and just live with those apps until Apple releases a fix.

And whatever you do, try not to complain too much in this form, cause Apple will just delete the post.

After talking with Apple tier 2 yesterday I deleted all iPhone apps and re-downloaded all again (about 3 hours of work). Then plugged my iPhone and synced and within 2 minutes Apple logo screen of Death!!!!!!!!! Restored iPhone for the billionth time this time absolutely no third party apps zero nada zip...I also reverted back to iTunes 7.7, I'll keep all posted on the results! I will say this is getting way past old, my new life revolves around keeping these 5 iphones functional and it is a full time job. If this works I'm duct taping my Nintendo DS to the back of this iPhone and calling this thread answered!!!!