iOS4 settings crash

Same same for meeee tooo. Sure it works perfectly when I choose to config it as a new phone...but why should I? I want my settings att applications! 🙂
Certainly hope Apple will release a fix for this.

This is ridiculous. I can't turn bluetooth on because it's in general settings and there is a hands free law where I live. And my **** phone is now completely unsecured without a pass. Just great Apple. Why am I not surprised?

Same here! Everytime I hit General (in Settings) it takes about 5-10 sec's and I'm back at the springboard.
I had the same kind of issues when updating to OS 3, back then I had same special setting to get Tethering working. When I restored from DFU and as a new iPhone it worked but I had to do all the settings again.
I don't want to do this again! Isn't there a way to reset those Tethering profiles?

I'm also having this problem. It means I have no access to work email. Very bad.

Okay, after upgrading to iOS 4 and not being able to use my exchange accounts, I messed around for several hours trying to remove the existing mail accounts. Here are the steps that I did to solve the problem that everyone here seems to be reporting:

1. Plug your iPhone into the computer where you have it synced with iTunes.
2. Do a hard reset by continuously pressing home and power buttons together until the phone screen goes blank (past the power down slider). Let go when you see the Apple logo.
3. Let the phone finish rebooting.
4. Go into mail settings and completely remove all existing exchange mail accounts.
5. Go to your passcode settings under general and completely remove the passcode from the phone.
6. Go back to mail settings and re-enter the pertinent information to connect to your exchange mail account.
7. Once done, go back to home screen and try to go into mail.
8. The phone should prompt you to pick a new passcode.

After doing this, my phone is good to go now.

Hope this helps,

Andypeppa

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I'm in the same situation like everybody else here.

I tried following your advice, but the second I attempt to select the Exchange account from the mail settings, the app is crashing.

Just in case an Apple dev is reading this thread, I am pasting some of the debug info I could pull out using the "iPhone Configuration Utility". This happens when I select Settings/General:

Tue Jun 22 20:46:46 cooperPhone Preferences[239] <Warning>: MC|Profile MCConfigurationProfile 0x19d600, version 1:
Is Stub : No
Locked : No
Encrypted : No
Trusted : 0
Signed : No
Can't parse profile: NSError 0x1a8e40:
Desc : The profile “Profile” is invalid.
Sugg : The required field “PayloadIdentifier” is missing.
US Desc: The profile “Profile” is invalid.
US Sugg: The required field “PayloadIdentifier” is missing.
Domain : MCProfileErrorDomain
Code : 1000
Type : MCFatalError
Params : (
Profile
)

When I try to access one of my existent Exchange mail account (which is actually disabled) from Mail Settings (to erase it), no sensible log comes out, just this:


Tue Jun 22 20:54:04 cooperPhone Preferences[253] <Warning>: EAS|EAS Protocol Manager set to ASProtocolUnknown
Tue Jun 22 20:54:06 cooperPhone Preferences[253] <Warning>: re-assigned ID for Default Account <0x1eeae0> from Default Account to Default Account.0
Tue Jun 22 20:54:07 cooperPhone Preferences[253] <Warning>: MC|Profile MCConfigurationProfile 0x1c4f20 has no friendly name.
Tue Jun 22 20:54:10 cooperPhone ReportCrash[256] <Notice>: Formulating crash report for process Preferences[253]

5. Go to your passcode settings under general and completely remove the passcode from the phone.

I cannot get into the general settings area to do this....

Well, I fixed my issues as recommended above. I did a DFU restore, and set up as a new iPhone instead of from a backup. It'll take me a while to re-enter all my options, stocks, locations, etc., but at least it works now. Great way to lose eight hours of my life. ***, Apple?

From the crash logs, it seems like these crashes are related to a bad configuration profile. To everyone who's experiencing the crashing: have you installed a configuration profile at some point, using iPhone Configuration Utility?

I tried to re-install the profile using the configuration utility, but it also caused a crash on the phone, after displaying the following warning:

profiled[602] <Warning>: MC|Removing orphaned profiles...
profiled[602] <Warning>: MC|Profile MCConfigurationProfile 0x114a60 has no friendly name.

Does anyone know of another way to remove or reset the configuration profiles?

This appears to be the fix:

Remove or reset the configuration profiles.

There is no way to do this as the profiles do not appear in the "iPhone Configuration Utility"

"Remove or reset the configuration profiles."

Yes ofcourse! 🙂 Hehe...easier said then done...
Anyone got a clue on how to do this when I can't get into the settings?

I suppose you could load a ipcc-profile into the phone via iTunes, anyone got one for the IOS4?

I have not. Didn't even know I had that utility.

Same errors as cooperz post above for the settings -> general crash.

Can't parse profile: NSError 0x1a64d0:
Desc : The profile Profile is invalid.
Sugg : The required field PayloadIdentifier is missing.
US Desc: The profile Profile is invalid.
US Sugg: The required field PayloadIdentifier is missing.
Domain : MCProfileErrorDomain
Code : 1000
Type : MCFatalError
Params : (
Profile
)
...Underlying error:
NSError 0x1a5bb0:
Desc : The required field PayloadIdentifier is missing.
US Desc: The required field PayloadIdentifier is missing.
Domain : MCProfileErrorDomain
Code : 1002
Type : MCFatalError
Params : (
PayloadIdentifier
)

I have an iPhone 3G, and have tried this several times (airplane mode + regular), and it still crashes when I try to go into general settings, or when I try to go into the settings for the exchange email account.

Yes, it's definitely an issue with configuration profiles. Interestingly however, I have the same configuration profile installed on my 3Gs iOS 4 with no crash. But the same profile crashes my 3G iOS 4. I tried numerous things with iphone configuration utility 2.2 with no success. always get the same error:

<Warning>: MC|Profile MCConfigurationProfile 0x114c90 has no friendly name.