Why does my phone/OS crash?

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I posted this as a reply on another thread, but thought it has merit enough to have it's own thread, perhaps help someone understand why things just fail. And not to think too hard about where to point a finger of blame, but just to accept that things just are that way. If you don't set your expectations too high, you're less likely to take it personally when they don't meet your high expectations. Especially with a better perspective on things as a whole.

Originally Posted by grunt

I did a hard reset and everything is ok. Do I have to be careful to what type of apps I download?

Just because a program/app is written for a certain OS, it doesn't mean it will play nicely with all hardware configuration/manufacturer and/or other software/apps. Even when apps are written by the same dev, they may not work in harmony.

As mentioned below, this is an issue even with other OS (i.e. Windows, Windows Mobile, Symbian, MAC OS & Linux);

Originally Posted by ChrisH09

Coming from Windows Mobile, same thing applies...same issues arise...it's just the facts of life with these devices...a quick hard reset or removing the programs generally gets rid of the issue...now the problem is just finding the app that caused it.

Consider this, devs programing for Android OS are not necessarily programming their app to work well with let's say HTC Sense.. David's Compass widget might not like Albert's Pong app, especially if both want access to the accelerometer.. David never met Albert and Albert could give a rat's booty about David's widget.. (lol) And neither knew that ShootMe likes to take snap shots when you shake your phone.. (careful not too hard you may drop it).

Make sense? Hope that helps,

-CC

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Wirelessly posted (Sprint HTC Evo 4G : Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 2.1-update1; en-us; Sprint APA9292KT Build/ERE27) AppleWebKit/530.17 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile Safari/530.17)

Well said... and this fact is the ONLY reason Apple's App store is better than Google's.... iPhone/iPod Touch hardware is relatively similar across the models and identical within each model making easy to develop an app and have it always work or always crash on all iHardware...

You sacrifice better devices and customization for the universal iHaveWhatEveryoneElseHas compatibility.

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Wirelessly posted (Sprint HTC Evo 4G : Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 2.1-update1; en-us; Sprint APA9292KT Build/ERE27) AppleWebKit/530.17 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile Safari/530.17)

How did this just get glossed over?



I almost figured it would be stickied

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Originally Posted by Hex

Wirelessly posted (Sprint HTC Evo 4G : Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 2.1-update1; en-us; Sprint APA9292KT Build/ERE27) AppleWebKit/530.17 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile Safari/530.17)

Well said... and this fact is the ONLY reason Apple's App store is better than Google's.... iPhone/iPod Touch hardware is relatively similar across the models and identical within each model making easy to develop an app and have it always work or always crash on all iHardware...

You sacrifice better devices and customization for the universal iHaveWhatEveryoneElseHas compatibility.

This is also the very reason why MAC/Apple hardware and software work so well, they are made for each other. There used to be other MAC hardware manufacturers, that lost their licences and or were bought off by Apple.

Personally I still have SuperMAC, but it started to work just like PCs and Windows.. Driver, software incompatibility

-CC