3rd party apps close immediately when opened

Hello All,
I saw that this issue: "3rd party apps close immediately when opened" was happening often on older iPAD posts, however, was not able to find a solution. I cannot open any 3rd party apps, but email, photos, etc work fine. thanks for the help!

If it's happening on all the apps that you've downloaded from the App Store, but not the Apple built-in ones, then try downloading any free app from the store (as that appears to reset something) and then re-try them - the free app can then be deleted.

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I have unlocked my iPhone 3G with Vodafone via iTunes, but now the downloaded apps crash immediately when opened. I've tried a Restore, but this didn't help. I've also tried removing all apps and re-installing them, but they still don't work. Any ideas? Thanks.

yep, unfortunately can't reset without the passcode either.
With regards to doing a restore, do you mean:
open itunes on my computer
click on my device on the left
go to the device summary
click restore
it then asks if i want to back up before i restore (to which i say no)
then it asks me if i'm sure I want to restore to factory settings and that all of me media and data will be erased and replaced with the newest version ( to which I say yes)
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Built-in apps are OK, but all my added apps no longer run!
Help!
I have rebooted using the sleep button held down for 10 seconds. No joy.
Now, I was advised to hold down sleep button and home circle button at same time and disregard the red bar... this reboots to Apple circle, but still apps close really fast after I try to open them.
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Jeanne ... You answered my post in a totally different thread but I did read it. If the problem is in the OS, why do the built in Apple apps not cause the iPad to crash? That reasoning makes no sense to me. Did you try closing all of the apps like I suggested and then restart?
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which app mate? or both of them?
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http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2105979&tstart=15
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2101626&start=0&tstart=0
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2111241&tstart=195
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2069632&tstart=285
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I have tried :
- iPhone reboot (several times)
- install a new app through iTunes (several times)
- deauthorize and reauthorize the computer (several times)
- uninstall all apps and reinstall
- reset all iPhone settings
- iPhone restore
- scour all discussion threads for solutions
to no avail. This all started after weeks of needing to reauthorize the computer every sync, then halfway syncing when I was away from an internet connection. I stopped it in attempt to not lose all of the apps, and it didn't delete the apps, but then they would close just after launch. Any more ideas? Thanks.

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It disappeared when I synced it with iTunes.
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after connecting to itunes after a few months now ALL of my 3rd party apps open and close immidiately when i try to open them

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