Voice memo app not working

On the iphone 5 when I click on the voice memos app it open and closes straight away. When I have had this issues with other apps I can delete and reinstall them, however this is not possible to do with the voice memo app, does anyone have any ideas how to resolve this as I have installed a paid for voice memo app which is not as good. Thanks

I had another breakthrough a couple of days ago.
In iTunes I changed my radio button selection from "Entire Music Library" to "Selected playlists, artists, albums, and genres" and instead chose to sync only a handful of artists and albums. Since I did this I have had no problem using my voice memo app.
I don't know if there was some sort of conflict in the way old saved notes were syncing back onto it or if there is a problem with the voice app in which it malfulctions and crashes when there is low free space on the iPhone. I went from my usual 1 GB or less of free space to around 9 GB of free space.
Anyways, just thought I'd share what I found.

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