Iphone 4 voice memo quits on opening

Verizon iphone 4 6.1.3 Apple Voice Memo has started quitting less than 2 seconds after opening reverting to home screen. Has never happened before and will not stay open now. Re-synced with itunes, turned off and on a number of times now and no relief with issue. I use Voice Memo almost daily to record song ideas .... What is going on? I searched for an answer on Google, Apple and Verizon and no fix is in sight. Help. Thank you.

Please list the iOS version your iPhone 4 is running, since that may have a bearing
on the issue, and perhaps any helpful advice someone may offer in passing.
Voice Memo issues, after upgrading to iOS8? - Was this part of the issue you faced in
upgrading your Mac to Yosemite? (Your post now missing, while I was writing reply.)
If you want to try & recover 'deleted' or lost Voice memos on iPhone 4, this article
at iFixit.com may be helpful; the causes are mentioned as is a path to try:
https://www.ifixit.com/Answers/View/170210/Want+to+recover+deleted+voice+memos+o n+iPhone+4s
Voice Memos Issues After IOS 8 Upgrade - ASC discussion from last year
Had you looked to see if any Voice Memos re-appeared by accident -- in iTunes?
Did you see the Support section where manuals, and some helpful ideas for iPhone appear?
http://www.apple.com/support/iphone/
Frankly, after looking into iPhone support, I am amazed at how lame and wasteful of my
time to try & find information, to help you, has been. The entire site seems dumbed/down.
So one of the other things is to look in search engine results, per example:
iphone 4 voice memo restore:
https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=iPhone+4+voice+memo+restore
restore voice memo iphone 4:
https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=restore+voice+memo+iphone+4
Sorry to not be of much help, as I was looking to see if you'd mentioned the OS X 10.10
issues in another discussion, and saw this instead. You may have to re-state the issue
in regard to that other topic. And I hope these two topics are not related, for your sake.
Good luck & happy computing!

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