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Originally Posted by sylar
I find this with many different apps (2p2 and camera for example) but if I haven't rebooted my phone in several weeks, the apps grow slower and sometimes exit within seconds of opening. hope that improves people's experience.
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Originally Posted by JamesAt15
You can also try killing off other running apps - I sometimes get crashes of the 2+2 app, but usually after killing off other apps that I am not actively using, the 2+2 app starts and runs correctly.
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Originally Posted by JamesAt15
You should be able to find this via Google.
You double-press the home button to bring up the bar at the bottom showing running apps. Then you can touch and hold on one of those icons, like you want to move it to a new location. Then a little red minus sign should appear on each of the listed icons. Touch that minus sign and it will close the app so it is no longer running in the phone's memory.
This is all correct in practice. Under iOS 4 (which almost all iPhone users are probably using), multitasking is automatic. Every application you've loaded since your last reboot gets loaded into memory, and they don't get completely unloaded so memory gets shorter and shorter over time.
The multitasking bar — the double-tap of the round home button on the bottom part of the front face — is the normal way for a normal user to solve this problem (though of course an occasional reboot works also). There is another set of keystrokes to kill a process you're currently in, but really no reason to use it with the multitasking bar available.
One of the best reason to jailbreak your phone is to install SBSettings, a convenient dropdown menu that gives you a one-button option to kill all background processes at once.
Anyone who sees the app quit unexpectedly, either while working or at the loading screen (it will display the loading screen for a few seconds, then quit) should try one of these methods first. Memory also may be the culprit if you cannot load or refresh a page but know you have a good network signal.