iPhone 3gs 3.0.1 Apps Crash on startup

My advice would have been to do a reset before restoring but you've already restored. If you restored from a backup, try restoring as new - that should solve the problem. Then add apps on one at a time and see what happens.

Contacts are designed to be synced with a supported application on your computer. Which OS is your computer running?

Restoring as a new iPhone or not from your iPhone's backup will require setting up your Favorites again, but doing so should not require having to manually re-enter all contacts.

I have the exact same issue, all of the apps are crashing when I attempt to start any of them. I can't find anything about it.

I tried to restore from the backup and its the same thing, Im not sure what to do at this point.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I was able to fix this problem, I just uninstall 1 app and reinstalled it from the app store, then all of my other apps started to work again. (you dont need to uninstall all of your apps, just 1 app is enough)

Thanks for posting this. It really helped fix this issue on my phone.

Hello everyone...

I seem to be the victim of the same problem and i can assure you i have personally tried all the advice on this page and my situation has not improved, luckily for me all my apps werre free apps, if i had to pay for them i would be ****** right about now..

When i syn with my pc i get the message that reads "some of the apps installed will not be installed on your iphoine because you do not have authorization on this pc"....so i loose the apps i had on the iphone in the first place and loose apps on my pc too, i believe it is problems with the new software upgrade i did, btw it also mised up my iphone app icons too which was annoying..

1)does anyone with specific problems know a solution apart from restoruing to default??
2)if this is a software update prob y is it being allowed?
3)are all update users having this prob of apps not starting up?

I've been having this problem too. I read somewhere that installing any new app (not even reinstalling one you already have) fixes the bug, and it works for me. Unfortunately, it's now happened five times in the last three days on my brand new iPhone, and I'm getting really sick of having to do this almost every time I want to use Twitterrific or open up Stanza.

Any word of a more permanent fix?

I forgot to mention I did a restore before fixing this issue, so I believe I went back the 3.0.0 software.

Im still having the problem though with a few apps, out of nowhere, so its definitely weird, I hope they release a fix soon.

same thing happens here.

Updated to 3.0.1 and no apps work anymore except Apples built in ones. I have restored, reset, installed and unisntalled apps in many combination, but they all crash at startup and never work.

I'm trying to find the 3.0 software update so that maybe i can roll back to 3.0, any ideas how to do that?

I posted about this in a few other threads, go into iTunes and authorize your computer. If its already authorized, de-authorize and re-authorize it. Then plug the phone in and it should be fixed. report back if it works. Was happening to me and that was the fix.

Add me to the list of people with this problem. The phone was working fine before the update but afterward, not one non-Apple application would launch. I tried uninstalling one program and reinstalling it - no dice. I'm currently in the middle of a restore and from what I read in this thread, this will be a huge waste of time, keeping me up late on a work night. **** it, Apple.

Nothing fixed this problem for me.

32GB 3GS.
Tried a Restore (went back to 3.0.1).
Tried removing and adding an app back.
Tried removing and re-downloading an app.
Tried a hard reset of the phone (power and home. keep holding until it turns off).
Tried to remove ALL third party apps and then installed one.
Tried to de-authorize and then reauthorize the Mac.

Has anyone got a new phone and then successfully restored from a 3.0.1 backup? I would prefer to keep my phone then to go and get a new one.

I too am having the same issue. However I thought it was my fault. When taking pictures (before the update) the camera would not save them. You could see the picture in the icon but you could not view it. This lead me to update my phone. During the update my computer crashed (Thanks Wondows) causing me to have to restore my iPhone. After the update was installed I could not restore it from my backup and instead it did a full manufacturer restore. So 3 hours later I started the synch to get my apps back on already knowing that I would have to reorganize them since they are now in alphabetical order. Only when I went to open one it would not open. My phone had the complete restore (not by choice) and I have tried the suggestions of uninstalling one app AND I downwloaded a free one and still no luck. Looks like this is not just a flaw but a HUGE screwup and it needs to be fixed soon. Perhaps version 3.0.2 should be developped and released