So my iPhone has been really buggy recently.
It won’t let me re-install several programs that had disappeared at the last iPhone firmware upgrade.
I even tried deleting them on both the iTunes and iPhone end, even going in and removing the applications from the iTunes folder. However, when I re-download them from iTunes and then try to sync them I get an “Unknown error” message. If I try to install them from the appstore on the phone it appears to download and start to install, the progress bar gets all the way to the end, and then it fails giving a message that the application can’t be installed on the phone and that I have to use iTunes.
So I’ve decided to take the nuclear option and do a full restore of the phone and see if that helps anything. I won’t be surprised if it doesn’t help. I also won’t be surprised if the iPhone doesn’t restore my data properly like after my firmware upgrade.
But I’ve created a duplicate copy of the backup folder to give me some measure of safety (since Time Machine is defective by design and doesn’t back up that folder).
Wish me luck…