To everyone, thanks for the tips and such. The skinny is that my email is back up and running now. I had read enough between Thursday night and parts of Friday and Saturday that I was afraid I was going to have to go nuclear and reset the whole phone to factory defaults (complete HD wipe). I found a site late last night that I didn't bookmark and it doesn't appear to be in my history (maybe I was dreaming). :-) It said some thing similar to Rob's email about tables being used to store all of the settings and such. Apparently, the News article I was working on got too large or just became corrupted and caused my Mail App to crash. Every time, I tried to open the Mail App from that point forward it remembered that I was working on that email. Even deleting that email from my drafts folder using Safari didn't work, so I knew it was a phone issue not a network issue. I found this website that talked about different options to try. http://oreilly.com/iphone/excerpts/iphone-themissingmanual/iphone-troubleshoot-maintenance.html. I had tried all of them but the last 2. I backed up my whole phone and then tried the 2nd to the last option, whcih is resetting the phone's settings. It doesn't wipe your HD clean, but it does restore the phone's settings back to factory default. This took some time and then I had to restart or reboot the phone and finally sync with iTunes. From this point, my Mail App is working again and I was able to keep all my data. I've only spent most of this morning redoing all of my settings back to what I like.
Thanks for all of the replies! I'm glad I was able to start a cell phone war! ;-) To Randy, get an iphone! :-) I love mine. Truthfully, I've had mine for a little over a year. I've got the iphone 4. This is the first time, I've had ANY trouble with it whatsoever. I use it as my computer most of the time. It's wonderful. I don't think I could ever switch back to any thing else. I love the interface and it is so powerful playing HD movies, games, music, etc. It's amazing! I would like to publicly thank JunoGator for bailing me out by posting the Sun's articles the past couple of days. I should have asked him Thursday, the day it crashed, but I thought it would be an easy fix. Thanks SOOO much again, Steve!!!! Take care all, Shane Ford GO GATORS!!!!!! ________________________________ From: Rob Alexander <[email protected]> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Sent: Sun, September 25, 2011 1:28:21 PM Subject: Re: [gatortalk] iPhone Mail App Help? Clearly, that email is corrupted and you'll need some sort of a reset. Since deleting the draft email didn't solve the problem, you'll need to let it rebuild the database. It's possible that you need an actual reset of the phone, but before you go that far, just try deleting and recreating the email account. If you're syncing to the cloud (e.g. Gmail, Google Apps or Exchange), then you can do that on the road. If you sync via iTunes, then you'll have to wait until you get home. (If that's the case, then consider setting yourself up to sync over the air. Gmail is free, after all.) If that doesn't work, then you're in reset territory, but if so you can just restore your last backup from before the trip and you'll be all set. Rob P.S. Don't listen to Randy. He just got that Android phone because he heard the Google GPS service could help him find the bathouse! Sent from my iPad On Sep 25, 2011, at 1:00 PM, Shane Ford <[email protected]> wrote: I have an iPhone 4. I was using the Mail app that comes with your phone. On Thursday night, I was putting together an email of that day's Gainesville Sun articles. I had at least 7 articles in the single email, when all of a sudden the mail app crashed and shut down. I have restarted my phone several times and each time I try to open the Mail app it trys to open to that email and then immediately crashes. I have gone through Safari to my email account and deleted that email out if my drafts folder, but I think this may be an issue locally on my phone and not a network issue. Does any one have any advice on how to fix this. I'm still in the road coming home from my vacation, so I haven't had a chance to sync it using iTunes to my computer. > >Thanks, > >Shane Ford -- >GATORS: ONE VOICE ON SATURDAY - NO VOICE ON SUNDAY! >1996 National Football Champions | 2006 National Basketball Champions >2006 National Football Champions | 2007 National Basketball Champions >2008 National Football Champions | >Three Heisman Trophy winners: Steve Spurrier (1966), Danny Wuerffel (1996), >Tim Tebow (2007) - Visit our website at www.gatornet.us -- GATORS: ONE VOICE ON SATURDAY - NO VOICE ON SUNDAY! 1996 National Football Champions | 2006 National Basketball Champions 2006 National Football Champions | 2007 National Basketball Champions 2008 National Football Champions | Three Heisman Trophy winners: Steve Spurrier (1966), Danny Wuerffel (1996), Tim Tebow (2007) - Visit our website at www.gatornet.us -- GATORS: ONE VOICE ON SATURDAY - NO VOICE ON SUNDAY! 1996 National Football Champions | 2006 National Basketball Champions 2006 National Football Champions | 2007 National Basketball Champions 2008 National Football Champions | Three Heisman Trophy winners: Steve Spurrier (1966), Danny Wuerffel (1996), Tim Tebow (2007) - Visit our website at www.gatornet.us
