Installing new apps crashing iPhone

Question

Model: iPhone first gen.
I'm not sure if I'm the only one with this problem but whilst surfing the net for answers I don't think I can be the only one as apparently there's supposed to be a 'fix' in the next Apple iPhone firmware update:
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/08/08/19/stevejobs_vows_iphone_app_crash_fix_forseptember.html
What my problem is and it has happened so many times now I'm short on patience and very close to launching my iPhone at a wall! What my problem is, every time I get a new app from the app store it loads onto my iPhone OK but when I actually go to use it, the app bounces back to the front screen. After that I try again and still no joy. The only way I know or am aware of to correct this is to 'soft re-launch' or whatever the terminology is by holding the power/home buttons until the Apple icon appears. Now when I do this everything should be peachy however it's far from that, when the iPhone relaunches it doesn't open any apps at all, even ones it previously did and not only that it clears out my music and just states 'no music on here' type message - well before all that I had over 2,000 tunes on it!
So in order to get back to basics and get my iPhone working again I have to go to iTunes and do a factory restore which let me tell you takes a FREAKING AGE!!! This works, well until I want to install another app onto my iPhone. I think in the last two weeks I must of had to do a factory restore about seven-eight times
In case you're asking I have tried to do the 'reset' from the iPhone itself but that doesn't do anything in regards to getting the apps to start, hence that's why I have to do the 'soft re-launch'.
Has anyone got any ideas on this or any help? I've actually stopped moving the apps around on my screens because I'm just bored of the time it takes and know that I would have to do it again once my iPhone crashes.
Many thanks for your time good people

Answer 1

I and many others have experienced the same problem you are seeing. There are a number of threads here with user experiences and different ideas about how to avoid the bug occurring and how to fix it. I've been through several crashes and restores and am quite disappointed as well.
I think there is evidence that downloading apps directly onto your iPhone is very likely to cause this problem but that downloading into iTunes and then syncing to your phone may be better. There are a number of fixes for the problem that work sometimes and not others. 2/3 times I've had to do a restore to fix it.
The consensus seems to be that we'll have to wait for a bug fix from Apple (due sometime in September). Per the article you linked Steve Jobs has acknowledged in an email to a customer that this is a known bug that will be fixed.
Good luck.
Message was edited by: Endymion42