App icons are grey on iPhone

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App icons are grey on iPhone

So there's my issue. I have a 64GB iPhone 4S stock, not jailbroken, v5.0.1, iTunes 10.5.3 on iMac7,1 with OSX 10.5.8.

My phone was acting weird, random reboots, screen going dark, and other strangeness. So I did a restore on my phone and after the sync I noticed some icons turned grey. I then did the DFU restore and still no luck. When apps are synched from iTunes they appear grey. However they still function. But if I remove them from the phone and then go into the appstore on the phone to redownload them the icons appear fine. I don't consider this to be a solution because of the number of apps I have this would be a tedious endevour. Also this is an issue that shouldn't have happened and I don't want to go through that kind of effort to have this happen again.

So any suggestions or similar experiences with fixes would be great.

Posted on Feb 5, 2012 8:53 PM

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Answer 1

underdone

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Feb 5, 2012 9:29 PM in response to Alopeke

Try Settings>General>Reset>Reset Home Screen Layout....see if that fixes the issue

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AnaMusic

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Feb 5, 2012 9:30 PM in response to Alopeke

See #3 Here...

Troubleshooting applications purchased from the App Store

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Alopeke Author

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Feb 5, 2012 10:00 PM in response to AnaMusic

They launch fine, just the icons are grey. I did try though and it only fixes the one for the app. So if I remove yelp, which is grey, redownload it, then the icon appears.

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Alopeke Author

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Feb 5, 2012 10:01 PM in response to underdone

Unfortunately that didn't fix the icons.

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Feb 5, 2012 11:29 PM in response to Alopeke

Alopeke wrote:

My phone was acting weird, random reboots, screen going dark, and other strangeness.

Do you have any utility apps to check the available RAM (random access memory) on your iPhone?

Well I used an app called "RAM Doctor lite" on a 4S and used the optimisation option which is simply used to free ram hogged by certain apps, memory leak, RAM overuse etc and it fixed the issue on what I quoted.

No harm but if any of your app contains a game thats paused, it will probably lose the progress when paused but your last saved profile will remain.

An iPhone 4S can usually have up to 270MB RAM free with barely anything running, no memory leak etc as far as I know. Not sure if the insufficient memory could be the cause of the reboots though.

Well for screen going dark, there are many possibilities so I'm not really sure, could be the ambient light sensor not detecting enough light, software issues or whatever.

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