iPod crash fix for iPhone 3.0 beta 5

By rajeev karamchedu on May 18, 2009

The long standing issue of iPod application crashing on the beta versions of iPhone continues. As the previous link points out, there is more than one way to fix the problem, depending on the circumstances.

My situation was not fixed by either of those tricks. Again, not too surprisingly, my iPhone started having iPod issues soon after I downloaded a Podcast. For now, I connected the phone to iTunes, turned off Podcast syncing and voila!, my iPod works now.

So as a summary and depending upon your specific situation, here are the three possible fixes to the iPod crash

Plug the iPhone into iTunes, start playing music from the iPhone and unplug it
Go to the Search preferences: Settings -> General -> Home -> Search Results and unmark the audio files. After that the iPod works fine.
Plug the iPhone into iTunes and remove the Podcasts from the Sync settings

Posted in Matters Of Interest, Technology | Tagged "iPhone 3.0", iPhone, iPOD | 11 Responses

rajeev karamchedu

Technology and Professional Services Director, currently part of a very exciting and talented team of technology/data management solution provider, IronBrick

11 responses to “iPod crash fix for iPhone 3.0 beta 5”

Roger
June 10, 2009 at 1:29 pm | Permalink

Rajeev, I just received my iPhone. I had Verizon but recently made the move to the iPhone amidst rumors of a new iPhone. Luckily I slipped in the last day to cancel and I am returning my phone to get the new one. I had to kick and scream but its on its way back. Thanks for the blog, now I know a iPhone Guru!
Rich Arredondo
September 22, 2009 at 10:36 am | Permalink

Hey Rajeev!, How are you doing?, I started having issues with my iPhone today, yesterday I was synching up new music when I received a message, I disconnected the phone so I could see the message and received an error in Windows about an iTunes crash, I reconnected the phoned and started synching again, everything seemed to be perfect but today I wanted to listen to some music and I noticed that iPod app crashes after 1 minute song playback, also noticed that podcasts are duplicated and performance is slower, I don’n want to tale extreme measures such as restoring the phone completely, any suggestion?
Rich Arredondo
September 22, 2009 at 10:38 am | Permalink

I forgot to mention my phone is updated to 3.1 and is not jailbroken

Thanks in advance
Flöff
October 17, 2009 at 5:26 am | Permalink

maaaaan… THANK YOU! That worked! I was so annoyed by the ipod.app because it crashed after the first song for the whole last week! Now i’m happy again :-)
Shashwat
October 29, 2009 at 1:44 am | Permalink

Thanks a lot man…it seems to have worked fine for now.
Lonnie Victor Hartley
December 27, 2009 at 5:24 am | Permalink

Can I kiss you? I thought I would have to re-sync everything. That worked great!!!!!
rajeev karamchedu
December 27, 2009 at 11:20 am | Permalink

Glad to be of help..!
Alex
January 11, 2010 at 11:34 am | Permalink

THANK YOU! Works great, the bug/problem still exist on 3.1.2
Peden
February 17, 2010 at 4:56 am | Permalink

you dominate, thanks!
Laser
July 6, 2010 at 5:53 am | Permalink

How do you expect to play music from the iPhone if the iPod is crashing???
deerek
July 24, 2010 at 1:15 am | Permalink

thanks you helped me out !