All applications turned to 'waiting' after sync with Itunes?

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All applications turned to 'waiting' after sync with Itunes?

I plugged my Ipad into my Mac and Itunes came on and it started to sync. The only automatic sync function I have ticked is the applications. Everything else is unticked. It said sync completed and then I ejected the ipad in the proper way only to find all of my applications went blank and appeared as 'waiting'. None of them were active anymore.

* I tried both the soft and hard reset methods, but still the same.
* Tried logging out of itunes store. Still no change
* Turned off wi-fi but still no joy.
* Holding figure down on an application - usual snag as only fully downloaded applications wiggle.

I have now had to leave the ipad on for past two days so it is 'loading' all the applications again from the store. Very strange how this happened.

Anyone have a similar problem? Any ideas on how this may have happened? More importantly any ideas on how to get applications back to normal again rather than the 'waiting' to 'loading' exercise.

Lesson Learned: people DO NOT sync your applications in itunes.

Would really appreciate some sound technical advice/suggestions on this issue?

Many thanks
Shane

Macbook, Mac OS X (10.5.1)

Posted on Mar 11, 2011 1:01 PM

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Answer 1

lllaass

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Mar 11, 2011 4:03 PM in response to redshane

It is not uncommon for app updates to be "waiting" . It takes awhile for the update to be downloaded and the apps are queued for downloading. This usually occurs when you update many apps on the iPad. It sounds like you disconnected the iPad from the computer before the app updates were downloaded. When this happens when updating on the iPad one fix that usually works is to reset the iPad. However, sometimes you have to update the apps on the computer and then sync.

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Jul 18, 2011 8:28 PM in response to redshane

I have the same problem and it is not an issue of it "taking a while". I have numorous apple products and have never had something like this.

I noticed it after I updated to 4.3.4 (although, I have not synced it in a few months) and now I have 42 apps that are gray and say waiting. On the apps page in iTunes, i also have 42 apps that I cant move from the last 3 pages, but those pages are not visible on my iPad. The apps do not appear to be related to each other (ie. iPad spacific or size or date). Not sure why they will not sync correctly.

Have tried hard and soft reset, resetting the home screen, restore from backup, removing all my apps and resyncing them, and pretty much everything else I have read in the forums, all to no avail.

Was going to try the time machine to take it back further that the restore from backup will, but i just figured out that I unfortunately never set it up, so cant do that.

I really do not want to restore it in fear of losing all my data that I use for work.

Any help would be greatly appreciated, I have a ton of work stuff on it that I really can not afford to lose.

thanks,

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dudpav

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Oct 15, 2011 1:14 PM in response to redshane

Have you found any solution for the problem. I do face the same issue with my new IPad. Upgraded to IOS 5.

Any help appreciated..

Thanks..

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Answer 4

Oct 15, 2011 3:14 PM in response to redshane

I fixed mine by restoring it to factory and then restoring from backup. fixed the problem and didnt lose any data..

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dudpav

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Oct 16, 2011 7:25 AM in response to redshane

Thanks for the reply blaynerich, in my case restoring from the factory did not work. I had to go to the settings then to the wi-fi tab and had to click the forget the network. Then rejoined the network again. This worked for me.

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Oct 16, 2011 9:18 AM in response to blaynerich

i tried restoring it to factory too... to no avail

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gz30vf

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Apr 8, 2012 4:08 PM in response to redshane

did any of you get the apps out of waiting status successfully ? I tried the sync by downloading the app to my pc but the sync does not work for the one app in waiting status. Any help would be appreciated.

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