Solution if iOS 7.1 keeps rebooting and you have 700+ Apps (4s)

Hi,
The iOS 7.1 update on my iPhone 4s 64GB made it reboot constinuously. I had to put it in recovery mode and restore a previous backup from iCloud; the phone was fine after restoring settings but it went again in its reboot cycle after downloading all Apps. I tried different backups and nothing changed, but I noticed that near the end of downloading Apps, the last ones disappeared! (while still being listed in Settings>General>Usage)
The solution that worked for me:
Recovery mode and restore a previous backup
Once iOS 7.1 and the settings have been restored, remove Apps in excess of 500 before they have been downloaded.
(I managed to keep 660 Apps but the last 160 disappeared before reapparing outside of folders, adding 10 full pages on the Home screen, hence previous crashes)
The "X" to uninstall Apps will take quite some time to appear (maybe 10 minutes for me). If you need time to choose/review which one to uninstall, put your phone in Plane mode. Keep only 500 Apps (maybe 600 or slightly more could work).
The phone will then be in iOS 7.1 and will not reboot continuously.
Notes:
- This solution is only for iPhones that keep rebooting after iOS 7.1 upgrade and with more than 700 Apps installed (and maybe iPhone 4s only).
- If you have more than 500 Apps and haven't updated to iOS 7.1 yet, I advise you to keep only 500 Apps before doing the update.
And if you have more than 700 Apps and the iOS 7.1 update went fine, please tell us (precise the number of Apps and your iPhone model to see if there is a trend or not).
Hope it may help some people.
Olivier

My expirience is similar on iPhone 4 and iOS 7.1/7.1.1
I have cca 550 apps, iPhone is often full, no empty space and because of that some apps are not fully downloaded and had just ghost icons.
In that situation when I drained battery to 0% iPhone after charging started rebooting. Only recovery helped.
Now it happened when iphone somehow rebooted accidentaly. It takes some tme before it restarts again. Its si vissible for some time in Itunes but backup is not possible because it reboots sooner or later.
So I tried iTools app in work on Windows. I was able to export contact, notes and delete some apps. Home on Mac I can not get iTools list apps to delete more of them to get whether 500 apps limit would make difference.
But from iTools I got thatnks to log viewer that there is some king of Springboard crash, icons missing and lot of other stuff I have no cluue off.
Probably recovery will be only solution again. I reported that to Apple but not sure they will listen.
I can not say it would happen under 7.0.x nor 6.x. I may not have so many apps before. Became apps fanatic later :-)

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