Aggghhh iphone keeps quiting safari when browsing the net

[Combat squirrel]

As title, I cant read many web pages on my iphone as it randomly boots me out of safari back to the normal 'home' screen at any time, could be 2 mins, usually 5-ish mins, does this happen to anyone ? It usually happens when I scroll down the page, whats point of a web browser if you cant use it

 

[Bengaboy]

Sometimes happens to me aswell - what I thought it might be is that the phone has run out of ram and terminates the application? Might be well, well off with that one though!

Have you upgraded the firmware to the latest? If not, give that a crack

 

[Nymins]

My touch kicks me off Safari if i view very graphically heavy websites. Doesn't boot me off as often as you though.

 

[unknowndomain]

If its happening on all different sites a lot, I would recommend doing a backup and restoring your iphone/ipod touch using itunes and see how it goes after, but unfortunatly its quite common for the safari app to crash on graphics heavy sites, like apple.com lol

 

[iSam]

Never happened to me. Touch wood.

What firmware are you running? Version 2.0 was famously buggy but for most users 2.1 has made an improvement. I would restore the phone and start again.

 

[Combat squirrel]

Yeah have the 2.1 firmware, always done it on any firmware, have already restored it a couple of times as it is, still the same.

 

[iSam]

Only option is to return it to 1.1.4.

Can be done if you downgrade iTunes to 7.5, restore, refurbish the baseband, and then unlock again. There are some good videos on the tube that show you how to do it.

 

[astralcars]

This happens to me too, but not so often that I've bothered downgrading iTunes & firmware. As mentioned, it's more likely to happen when browsing a graphics heavy site or having multiple windows open. Sure I've read that resetting the device (hold sleep & home simultaneously temporarily) can improve stability for a short while.

 

[iSam]

Can only hope that it will be ironed out in 2.2 as Safari is having some changes made to it. Hopefully these will include bug fixes also.

 

[Combat squirrel]

Well its a legit iphone so I dont need to unlock or anything like that, guess wait for 2.2 software

 

[inflynx]

Did you try to switch the phone off and than back on? Helps me all the time.

 

[CGrieves]

I'm sure I read somewhere about a large proportion of crashes back to the home screen being related to folder permissions on phone's OS. There is a Bossprefs (unlocked only) option to "fix" them. I do get the odd crash in Safari, usually when scrolling or zooming, but since 99% of the time starting Safari again takes me back to exactly the same page, I've never really been that bothered.

 

[lmfy2k]

happens to me at least once every 2 days

2.1 FW, legit iphone 3g with legit contract

 

[iSam]

That's a serious bug. Not just limited to unlocked phones either. Hurry up Apple!

 

[J1234]

Happens to me pretty much every time I come on this forum on my phone. Going to restore it later.

 

[Nymins]

Happens to me more frequently now on my touch. Bit annoying.

 

[Spyhop]

The normal Safari bails reasonably often for me as well. Surprisingly it doesn't seem to be Flash's fault when scanning through the crash report.

 

[Deleted member 329]

all the time on my 3G O2 contract

 

[Baldrick1001]

my 3g was quitting unexpectedly from a number of apps, I increased the availabe spare memory by removing some files and now all is ok.

 

[Adrianr]

This is currently a huge problem with my missus' phone. Not so much on mine though it does crash often when viewing very graphically heavy websites. She took it into the Apple store today and they said it was definitely a problem with the actual phone, and will be replacing it under warranty.

I guess Flash certainly won't be appearing then, if it can't even handle normal text and pictures!