[enderwiggin]

I have been working with Apple techs because one of my apps was corrupting my iphone and causing me to have to restore frequently. It also was causing the iphone backup not to complete. It would get half way through and then stop. So, one at a time I installed my apps and then synced the phone. It turned out that it was omnifocus causing this. It was the only app that would not let the iphone backup finish. This would happen after I sync with my desktop version of omnifocus.

Since discovering this I did not re-install omnifocus and the phone has been fine. It appears that this only started happening since the latest release update of the omnifocus for iphone but I can't be sure that it was not happening before. I just know the iphone didn't start corupting till after the release.

Oh, also.....to make sure that the tests were accurate, I deleted all my apps from the phone and itunes and downloaded fresh clean versions to make sure I wasn't reinstalling corrupt versions.

Thanks

[whpalmer4]

Interesting. How would any app you might install on your iPhone prevent iTunes from backing up the phone, I wonder...sounds like an iTunes bug to me (shock, horror, er, not)...

[enderwiggin]

Originally Posted by whpalmer4

Interesting. How would any app you might install on your iPhone prevent iTunes from backing up the phone, I wonder...sounds like an iTunes bug to me (shock, horror, er, not)...

As a developer myself I totally understand how this is possible. It corrupts that location in the firmware. I was also able to verify this with an apple tech.

Maybe you should stick with replying to threads you understand :rolleyes:

[whpalmer4]

Originally Posted by enderwiggin

As a developer myself I totally understand how this is possible. It corrupts that location in the firmware. I was also able to verify this with an apple tech.

Maybe you should stick with replying to threads you understand :rolleyes:

Thanks for pointing out the error of my ways. Here I thought all those years spent doing microcode, firmware, device drivers and operating systems work might have taught me something.

Maybe you could share some more of your wisdom and explain how the sandboxed OmniFocus app is corrupting "that location in the firmware" such that iTunes can't read the entire state of the device to do a backup?

[Lizard]

enderwiggin: Could you please clarify a couple details? This is 1.0.2 of OmniFocus for iPhone, right? Which iPhone? Which version of the iPhone OS?

(As far as I know, we haven't had any other reports of this. If anyone else is experiencing this particular issue, we'd be very interested to know.)

[enderwiggin]

Originally Posted by Lizard

enderwiggin: Could you please clarify a couple details? This is 1.0.2 of OmniFocus for iPhone, right? Which iPhone? Which version of the iPhone OS?

(As far as I know, we haven't had any other reports of this. If anyone else is experiencing this particular issue, we'd be very interested to know.)

Lizard,

I have an iPhone 3G and using the latest version of Omnifocus for iPhone. I have the desktop version of Omnifocus on my computer at home and at work. The one at home is using the latest alpha version and the one at work is one version behind the latest version.


whpalmer4:
Point taken on your experience. However, I still think it was rude and inappropriate of you to try to immediately try to disqualify me or my post without knowing anything about this situation. As far as I'm concerned if you don't didn't write this app or you're not an apple tech then there was no point for your sarcasm and you should keep it to yourself. I'm sure this forum would be better for it. As far as the technical side of your post..... This is the ONLY app out of over a dozen that would not allow the backup to continue. If it were a hardware or flash problem then it would do this with other apps as well. Also, from what I understand from the Apple techs the "sandboxing" is done to the entire 3rd party side. That's why if one app gets corrupted it CAN corrupt then entire installation and you have to restore with a fresh copy of the iPhone firmware. If you don't believe that call apple and debate with the techs there. One other thing, something you might want to keep in mind, someone who doesn't stop talking long enough to listen to others never learns anything. :cool:

[ptone]

Sounds more likely that you have some bad flash memory or something hardware related. If OF was corrupting iPhones, I think more than a few people would have the problem and be talking about it here ;-)